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Sarah Across America
… thesis project consists of a novel titled <i>Sarah Across America</i>. The aesthetic purpose of the project is to use the material of North American, as opposed to Western European, history in service of an epic fantasy adventure story exploring themes of racism and imperialism. </p> <p>Sarah …
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Sarah Orne Jewett : Transcendence in Nature
Sarah Orne Jewett wrote about people and things “just as they are” (Silverthorne 35) . Her father had given her this advice and, in a way, she made it her mission in life to acquaint people with each other. Despite her simple language and seemingly simple characters her work is full of wisdom and …
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Sarah Kane's Post-Christian Spirituality in Cleansed
… scholarship on the work of British playwright Sarah Kane mostly focuses on exploring the use of extreme acts of violence in her plays. However, few scholars like Dr. Graham Saunders and Anabelle Singer can trace it back to the rejection of her Christian beliefs during her adolescence. This …
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Sarah T. Hughes: Her Influence in Texas Politics
… dominated Texas politics. In 1930, however, Sarah T. Hughes, a liberal woman from Maryland, began a spectacular career in state politics despite obstacles because of her gender and progressive ideas. First elected to the Texas Legislature in 1930, she remained active in politics for the next …
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A critical analysis of the plays of Sarah Daniels.
… of 'second wave' feminist playwriting, Sarah Daniels has for the past fifteen years been one of Britain's most prolific writers for the stage. This thesis is the first to offer a detailed critical analysis of all her published plays along with a developmental account of her career. My …
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Sarah Palin, Conservative Feminism, and the Politics of Family
… this analysis explores the consequences of Sarah Palin‘s use of maternal appeals related to discourses of family, politics, motherhood, and feminism. The rise of prominent conservative women like Palin engages questions about the feminist potential of maternal appeals. Conservative …
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Sarah Palin, Conservative Feminism, and the Politics of Family
… this analysis explores the consequences of Sarah Palin‘s use of maternal appeals related to discourses of family, politics, motherhood, and feminism. The rise of prominent conservative women like Palin engages questions about the feminist potential of maternal appeals. Conservative …
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A Strong-Minded Southern Woman: Sarah Joe Alston Claiborne
… relatives, John Herbert Claiborne, M.D., and Sarah Joseph Alston Claiborne, from 1852 to 1868 in Petersburg, Virginia. This work tells the story of their courtship, marriage, separation during the Civil War, and life during early Reconstruction. The point-of-view is that of "Joe's" perspective …
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Sarah Bernhardt in America: The Factors in Her Success
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T23:56:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7212387.pdf: 12469380 bytes, checksum: 623fdd8efb6b3992a51e2d275a442806 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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Colonialism, dysfunction and dysjuncture : the historiography of Sarah Bartmann
… is the first book-length study of the history of Sarah Bartmann. Its aim is to contribute to the writing of an Africanist history of an African. The thesis grapples with the question of identity. It approaches the study of Sarah Bartmann unconventionally, by investigating the triple identity …
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Mourning, materiality and the feminine: Sarah Pucill’s films 2004-2010
The writing-up of this PhD has examined experimental films I made between 2004 and 2010, in all five 16mm films: Stages Of Mourning, (17min, 2004), Taking My Skin, (35min, 2006), Blind Light (21min, 2007), Fall In Frame (19min, 2009), Phantom Rhapsody (19min, 2010). As I have been making films that …
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Art at Ashland Farm: the collection of Sarah Avery Key Patten
… works of art in the private collection of Sarah Avery Key Patten at historic Ashland Farm just outside Chattanooga, TN. The study focused on culturally significant artists Helen Hyde, Emma Bell Miles, and Martha Walter. Using the principles of archival theory to inform the study, each piece …
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Selected Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett: A Critical Edition With Commentary
Sarah Orne Jewett once wrote, "I wish some body would invent private telegraphs so we could talk with people at a distance. But perhaps this is a foolish wish for our thoughts would wander frightfully" (Letter 15). This attitude may seem surprising from an author who was such a prolific letter …
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Blackouts made visible : a visual-textual analysis of Sarah Glidden's comics journalism
This thesis studies Sarah Glidden's largely unexamined book Rolling Blackouts as a significant contribution to the genre known as comics journalism. It argues that Glidden's work engages in a material struggle over the nature of journalism by using the comics form to intervene in an ongoing debate …
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Feminist fiction and fictional feminism: Sarah Grand and the new woman novel
This dissertation is a study of the novels of Sarah Grand (1854-1943), a British novelist and feminist activist. Between 1880 and 1920 changes in laws affecting women and in social and scientific beliefs about gender difference led Grand to deromanticize and politicize the most traditional form of …
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Materialist-feminist criticism and selected plays of Sarah Daniels, Liz Lochhead and Claire Dowie.
… genres. In Chapter Three I look at the plays of Sarah Daniels in relation to melodrama; in Chapter Four I look at the plays of Liz Lochhead in relation to adaptation. Chapter Five is my concluding chapter in which I stress the importance of both foregrounding previous genres and questioning …
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The universality of the sounds and silences in the works of Sarah Orne Jewett
… this thesis to offer evidence that the works of Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) have universal application and appeal. Specifically, the thesis explores Jewett's uses of silences, non-verbal communication (gesture), and symbolic sounds in nature as her means of creating in the reader a sense of …
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Digitisation and access to Archives: Case study of Sarah Baartman and Khoi San Collections
… the University of the Western Cape Archive; The Sarah Baartman and Khoi San Collections. The documents with regards to Sarah Baartman are the books of her story and how she became famous, but there is more to the books that we see in the shops or hear of. The collection of documents hold valuable …
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Sarah Livingston Jay, 1756--1802: Dynamics of power, privilege and prestige in the Revolutionary era
Sarah Livingston Jay was a politically astute woman whose contributions to the success of the American Revolution and reconstruction of post-war society have long been underestimated. She understood the complex political and financial dynamics beneath the decision to declare independence from Great …
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"if More Women Knew More Jokes...": The Comic Dramaturgy Of Sarah Ruhl And Sheila Callaghan
… my study giving two remarkable playwrights - Sarah Ruhl and Sheila Callaghan - a chapter dedicated to illuminating each of their respective comic universes, and acknowledging its place in an increasingly complex network of what this contemporary moment may accept as comic. Building on close …
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