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A secret history of volleyball
Item marked as restricted to the 'Administrator' Group (id=1) by Seth Robbins (srobbins@illinois.edu) on 2013-08-22T16:57:27Z Item is restricted until 2015-08-22T16:57:26Z
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The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800
… a profession to a way of being. At stake in "The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800" is the idea that surveillance, spying, and state secrecy inform and meaningfully intersect with eighteenth century narrative fiction. Through analysis of a variety of surveillance fictions, including spy …
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Morning light : the secret history of the Tagish Lake Fireball
[Spoiler alert:] On January 18, 2000, a meteoroid 4 meters in diameter hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded over the Yukon Territory in northern Canada. The size of the fireball and the contrail that it left behind caught the attention of meteoriticists, who suspected it was a carbonaceous …
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“Light shining from a dead star”: Narratology and Perspective in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
… the narrator of Donna Tartt’s 1992 novel The Secret History, states, “The chronological sorting of memories is an interesting business” (Tartt 79). From the start of the story, Richard orients his reader toward a specific view of his time at Hampden College, the university he attends in …
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White Women as the Abused and the Abusers: Secret History and the Seduction Plot’s Ties to Capitalism, Colonialism, and Slavery
… intersectionality of gender, race, and class in Secret History (1808) by Leonora Sansay. Secret History is situated amongst other early American sentimental fiction like The Coquette (1797), Charlotte Temple (1791), and The Power of Sympathy (1789) to show that the way the novel discusses gender, …
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The Byzantine system from within: a comparison of Procopius' Secret History and Lydus' On the Magistracies, and their presentation of the regime of Justinian
… the calendar, portents and the functioning and history of the civil service. The two works that I shall be considering in the most detail will be Procopius' Secret History (or Anecdota, hereafter S.H.) and Lydus' On the Magistracies (referred to for convenience by its Latin title De …
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Threads of influence: Greek tragedy and its relevance to the contemporary novel, with specific reference to Donna Tartt's 'The secret history', and my novel, 'The first seven years'
This MPhil concerns the contemporary literary novel and how it has been influenced by the Golden Age of Greek tragedy. It comprises of three parts: the thesis and the novel, hereby presented, and the journal of creative experiences, which was observed at viva. My thesis examines the historical …
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Fantasies of Ambivalence: Romance and Historical Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… the relationship between romance and partisan history-writing in Britain following the English Civil War and 1688 Revolution. Considering works of fiction by Delarivier Manley, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Horace Walpole, Ann Yearsley, and Walter Scott alongside works of traditional historical and …
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Examining <em>Wonder Woman</em> through a Feminist Voice: How Patty Jenkins’ 2017 Adaptation Upheaved her Creation, Representation, and 80 Year Legacy
… I look at Jill Lepore’s renowned novel <em>The Secret History of Wonder Woman</em>, Patty Jenkins’s 2017 film <em>Wonder Woman</em>, Signe Bergstrom’s <em>Wonder Woman: Ambassador of Truth</em>, Allison Harvey’s <em>Feminist Media Studies</em> and other scholarship as well as reviews of the film …
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“Better Unmentioned:” An Assessment of Reagan Administration Aid to Pakistan, Panama, and Zaire.
… David Van Reybrouck, <em>Congo: the Epic History of a People </em>(New York: HarperCollins, 2010) 528, Frederick Kempe, <em>Divorcing the Dictator: America’s Bungled Affair with Noriega </em>(New York: G.P Putnam’s Sons, 1990) 195, Steve Coll, <em>Ghost Wars</em>: <em>the Secret History of …
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Choose-your-own-adventure (CYOA): an empathy digital training tool for healthcare workers in maternity settings
… aimed to explore the potential of adapting the Secret History (SH) workshop method to an independent digital learning tool using the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure (CYOA) framework to enhance empathy skills and support continuous healthcare worker education among healthcare workers in maternity …
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At home in Fanon: Queer romance and mixed solidarities in contemporary African fiction
… Omotoso's Bom Boy (2011), and Chris Abani's The Secret History of Las Vegas (2014), I hope to demonstrate that contemporary African literature is concerned with the formation of an identity that estranges the category of blackness from itself through its entanglement with a queer identity …