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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Sedgwick"”.
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The development of the Atlantic Monthly under the editorship of Ellery Sedgwick
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1948. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Desire And Influence: Male Self-Realization And Film Progression Due To The Influential Women In The Films Of Wes Anderson
… in literature as they are explained by Eve Sedgwick in her book Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. Much of her work builds off of Sigmund Freud and Girard's theories, although they differ in the fact that Freud and Girard see the love triangle as being symmetrical …
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Foucault, Affect, History: On the Art of Feeling
… Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Brian Massumi, in order to understand to what extent the turn to affect—especially for Sedgwick and Massumi—represents an attempt to work through a number of difficulties and tensions in Foucault’s thought and writing. I argue that …
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Escrituras do corpo: leituras de uma poética queer Niterói
… de teóricos como Peter Lamarque e Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, sinaliza-se que a leitura literária pode ser pluralista e reparativa em lugar de monista e paranoica. Uma vez que a prática interpretativa é vista em diálogo com outros campos teóricos, pode-se pensar o corpo como elemento-chave quando …
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C. M. Sedgwick's 'Patient Investigation' of America's Past: An Intertextual Study of Hope Leslie
Since the 1987 republication of Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie ; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (1827), literary-historical interpretations have most often explored its proto-feminist impulses, revisionary history of the Pequod War, and models of American citizenship. Inquiries into …
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The willful wild : nature and survival in early nineteenth-century American literature.
… The Last of the Mohicans, Catherine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie, and Black Hawk's Autobiography all imagine survival stories within which protagonists must strive against a willful, agentic wilderness. Within these stories, the natural world gains an agency that is largely hidden or …
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New Men for New Women: Male Characters in American Women's Writing, 1794--1878
… Next I turn to pioneering fiction by Catharine Sedgwick, including her first two novels, A New England Tale (1822) and Redwood (1824), and her later bestseller, Home (1835). In Sedgwick the new men and the women with whom they are matched achieve an even greater balance in their relationships, …
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Writing to act: developing activist writing curricula for LGBTQQIA community centers
… scholarship of Harriet Malinowitz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Jonathan Alexander, among others, this thesis develops a theoretical framework that can inform curriculum designed for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Ally (LGBTQQIA) activist writing groups. The …
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Just Between Us Girls: Discursive Spaces from America's First Gay Magazine to the World's Last Website for Queer Women, 1947-2019
… queer theorists like Judith Butler, Eve Sedgwick, and Jack Halberstam. Analyzing and contextualizing discursive spaces like <em>Vice Versa</em> (1947-1948), <em>The Ladder</em> (1956-1972), <em>The Furies</em> (1972-1973), <em>AfterEllen</em>, and <em>Autostraddle </em>demonstrates not …
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Medicine and medical authority in three nineteenth-century novels.
… Collins's The Moonstone, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie—join then-contemporary conversations about medical reform. The novels explore the ethical ambiguities inherent in medical practice in the nineteenth century and question the nature of medical authority. In general, all three …
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A Shape for Queerness: Glimpses, Loops, Holes, Language
… Jack Halberstam, Sarah Ahmed, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. It also includes the ideas of post-colonial theorist Édouard Glissant and his investigation of ‘peripheral’ identities. This MFA support paper elucidates a thought process about queerness, time, shapes, holes, orientation, and language.
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Tiny
… Drawing extensively on the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, David Wojnarowicz, and Sara Ahmed, the resulting dissertation does not make light of death. Rather, it lifts up Antigone as a wise, queer youth convinced she can begin to rearrange the world: away from toxic masculinity and late-stage …
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Hermeneutics of Residue: Archival Slime and Queer Literacy
… such as Saidiya Hartman and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the goal is to position the imaginative, reparative intervention within historiography as not only an ethical obligation provoked by the limits of the archive, but also as a tool for dreaming more wildly and freely on the temporal …
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Performing Selves : Distance and Identification in the Experimental Performance Work of Imitating the Dog (ITD), Desperate Optimists and Insomniac Productions.
… quo. These theories could be described in Eve Sedgwick's terms as 'paranoid' practices that necessarily detest the objects they investigate. At the same time, as Sedgwick maintains, they assume a position of absolute knowledge (2003, p. 138). In other words, paranoid practices implicitly claim …
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A Case Study of Financial Suspensions in Wichita: What Factors Keep Drivers Suspended?
… to drive legally in the City of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas. This was done by documenting the system that generates, maintains, and resolves financial driver’s license suspensions. Then, a qualitative case study approach explains how people interact with this system through interviews …
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Reading Through the Doldrums: Engaging Adolescence Reparatively Through Contemporary Coming of Age Comic Texts
… to two ends. First, following the work of Eve Sedgwick, I seek to conduct and model reparative readings, which require the reader’s emotional investment in and vulnerability to her readings. In these readings, the reader stays open to surprise in making her interpretations; forgoing the …
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The Grammar Of Kinship: Black And Native Intimacies In The Nineteenth Century
… to a diverse range of works by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Lydia Maria Child, Dion Bouicault, Harriet Jacobs, and E.Pauline Johnson, “The Grammar of Kinship” examines how enslaved and formerly enslaved Afro-Cherokees, African American and Indigenous writers produced radical responses to the …
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