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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"Revenge"”.
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Revenge Tragedy
This manuscript of poetry attempts a lucid assault on pure affect, its words a formal effort to contain emotional intensity and energy while allowing no particular narrative to be believed. Characters include a lover and beloved, while through constellations of images the manuscript essays a sense …
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Rape, revenge, reclamation: An analysis of female agency in American rape-revenge films
… I will analyze five films that have a rape-revenge narrative: Ms. 45 (1981), M.F.A. (2017), I Spit on Your Grave (1978), I Spit on Your Grave (2010), and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). I will argue that the violent actions taken by the female protagonist during her revenge against …
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Staging Anger in Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy
… a close reading of the key topoi in early modern revenge tragedy, this thesis investigates the ancient philosophical debate about anger in respect of violence and revenge. The through line of the argument is that the Roman philosopher Seneca’s dramatic and philosophical treatment of anger is …
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Payback: The Nature and Morality of Revenge
"The main argument in this dissertation is that revenge can be morally and rationally justified. The notions that revenge is pointless, that ""two wrongs do not make a right"", and commonsense and religious admonitions to ""forgive and forget"" or to forswear revenge and ""turn the other cheek"" …
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Beyond Reason: Madness in the English Revenge Tragedy
… its development as trope of the English revenge tragedy from its Elizabethan conception to its Jacobean advent through a representative engagement of Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi. Madness in these plays selectively …
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A civil liberty or sexual exploitation: revenge porn?
“Revenge porn” is commonly used to describe the distributed digital and print publication of an individual in a nude state without the individual’s consent. Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act is a Federal Act protecting web distributors from legal repercussions if revenge porn materials …
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The Objectification and Blame of Revenge Porn Victims
… objectification and victim blame in cases of revenge porn across cases in which the victim was sexually diverse (i.e., bisexual, lesbian, straight). Participants included in this study were straight, cisgender (i.e., identifying with the gender assigned at birth) men and women ages 18 and …
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Queen Anne's revenge : a systems analysis of Blackbeard's flagship
… life history of the pirate flagship Queen Anne's Revenge using a functional systems approach to observe how the ship affected and was affected by the macrosystems operating around her and the microsystems operating within her. To this end, I examined the archaeological and historical records …
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The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy, ca.1567-1623
… account of dramatic genre. It shows how English revenge tragedies were mediated by the social circumstances of their early modern dramatic production, and how in turn such circumstances found expression in dramatic form. Its method draws on Marxist critical theory, but the work also makes …
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Psychometric And Experimental Investigation Of Impulsivity, Rumination, Revenge, And Forgiveness
<p>Revenge and forgiveness are commonplace aspects of social interaction. Past research has emphasized that rumination is an important cognitive correlate of both revenge and forgiveness. In the present research, we examined whether revenge attitudes and motivations, as well as forgiveness …
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National traits as revealed in the revenge theme in tragedy
<p>In the Renaissance drama, revenge is known as a revenge of blood, generally the “eye for an eye” variety of retaliation. The revenge of late periods deals with the return injury directed not only to the body of the opponent but also to his mental discomfort.</p><p> It is the aim of this thesis …
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Empathy Induction to Reduce Victim Blaming in Revenge Porn Cases
… as well as for preventing the sharing of revenge porn photographs in the future.</p>
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Tocqueville's revenge--dilemmas of institutional reform in post-dirigiste France
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1994.
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Gender and delay in early modern theatre: patience, prodigality and revenge
… early modern society: patience, prodigality and revenge. I proceed with chapters focused on these three thematic foci in turn, analysing a range of domestic comedies and revenge tragedies performed between 1585 and 1622. I argue that these dramatic genres mark fundamental differences in the …
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Revenge of the Radical Right: Why Minority Accommodation Mobilizes Extremist Voting
<p>How can we explain variation in support for radical right parties over time and across post-communist democracies? This project suggests that support for radical right parties is driven by the politics of accommodation, and is aimed at counteracting the political inroads, cultural concessions …
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The impact of personality and self-efficacy on customer revenge behaviour
… fairness. One way to do this is through customer revenge. Customer revenge behaviour has become an increasingly important topic in marketing research, especially with the far reaching impact that online complaining (a form of indirect revenge) has. Revenge behaviour usually takes place after a …
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Conditional Love: Imitation, Inheritance and Violent Relations in Early Modern Revenge Tragedies
… iterations of their very normativity. Examining revenge tragedies by Shakespeare, Marston, Middleton, Tourneur and Kyd, I argue that the metaphors each playwright uses to portray familial emotions reveal the ideologies underpinning both excessive and normative versions of familial relationships. …
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Revenge or Reconciliation? A Rejection-Based Model of Firm-Induced Relationship Termination
… rejected; namely, whether they choose to seek revenge or attempt to reconcile their relationship with the firm. From an academic perspective, this is the first study in the marketing literature to examine the downstream effects of firm-induced termination and, in so doing, to apply the concept …
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Ownership of Images: The Prevalence of Revenge Porn Across a University Population
… Nonconsensual pornography also referred to as “revenge porn,” “cyber rape,” or “involuntary porn,” concerns the creation, acquisition and/or distribution of sexually graphic images or movies of individuals without their consent to the distribution. Simply, it is the nonconsensual distribution of …
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