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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Social Criticism"”.
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Aspects of Social Criticism in Restoration Comedy
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G.W. Pabst and the New Objectivity: Social Criticism and the Loss of Idealism in the Weimar Republic
… Pabst. However, within the changing artistic and social climate of Weimar Germany, Pabst has received little attention by scholars. This thesis contextualizes G.W. Pabst, one of Weimar's leading film directors, within the artistic transitions and social climate of the era, specifically analyzing …
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Intellectual formations in the Romantic period: a comparative study of cultural politics and social criticism in the British public sphere, 1802-32
… strategies of cultural resistance to the social crises of industrialism. By highlighting the ways in which a central literary genre like periodical social criticism was materially constructed out of distinctive modes of intellectual sociability, we can rethink the comparative political …
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Nostalgia, landscape, and social criticism in Brooklyn Babylon: a contemporary theatrical work by jazz composer Darcy James Argue and media artist Danijel Žeželj
… expressions of nostalgia, landscape, and social criticism. Brooklyn Babylon is a silent animated film with a soundtrack performed by Argue’s Secret Society Big Band. The story is of an old immigrant craftsman caught in a moral dilemma between nostalgia for the ethnic neighborhood he loves …
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Comfort factors, moral fantasy and social criticism in formulaic fiction : a study of literary formulas with particular reference to the 'hard-boiled' detective story
… and/or the unconventional, often in the form of social and political criticism encapsulated within the safe formulas of the text. This adds the necessary spice to the life of the construct.
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Sociological critique and the philosophy of practice
… unstable relationship between the possibility of social science and the possibility of social criticism. More than this, however, sociology, in the context of the present investigations, means not social science which gravitates towards naturalistic anthropological modes of conceptualization of …
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A comparison of leisure theorists
<p>Social scientists express growing concern about man's capacity to achieve a state of existence greater than that of mere survival. "Popularizers" and writers of "social criticism" echo this concern. Obviously, because of scientific and technological changes, man's participation is needed less …
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Samuel Butler’s Way of All Flesh as a Sociological Novel
… who strikes out at society with wide-ranging criticism. After years of studying subjects as varied as music, art, biology, literature, and theology, Butler felt (like many Victorian writers) that he could make valuable social comments with his satires, travelogues, biological studies and one …
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A Comedy for the Rich, a Tragedy for the Poor: Political Satire in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games
… of Collins’s young adult novel, exploring social criticism as it is presented by the author and examining the faults of society through the relationship between democratic deficit and the common people in a totalitarian state. Offering Marxist and post-colonialist perspectives of The Hunger …
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Second Nature and Ethical Life: Habit, Culture, and Critique in Hegel's Science of Right
… also has broader implications for the nature of social criticism. I argue that even reflection of the overtly critical variety emerges from and remains indebted to our habitual comportment and that this is why it must retain a valued place in ethical life.
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A study of the relationships between housing patterns, social class and political attitudes in three Auckland electorates
There is a strain of social criticism, dating back to the fifties and sixties, which alleged that New Zealand was about to become a society more clearly divided by lines related to "class". New Zealand was presented as a society in which a natural egalitarianism of social habits and attitudes had …
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Imagining membership and its obligations : the voice of John Ruskin in Wendell Berry's fiction.
… the ways in which John Ruskin's artistic and social criticism illuminate persuasive elements in Wendell Berry's fiction, primarily his three major novels: A Place on Earth, Hannah Coulter, and Jayber Crow. By attending to Ruskin's voice, readers of Berry learn how ethical formation requires …
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The marriage of Figaro : a comparative study of the theatre play by Beaumarchais and the opera by Mozart and Da Ponte
… banning of the play) is highlighted. Its strong social criticism of the inequality of social classes and the nobility's privileges by right of birth echoed the sentiments of the rising bourgeois class and made it a forerunner to the French Revolution in 1789. Mozart, who was looking for a good …
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Social critique in the major novels of John Wyndham : civilization's secrets and nature's truths
… critical attention, but that there is consistent social criticism inherent in these works. In the four novels in question, Wyndham seems preoccupied with a number of ideas. He attacks the power of Big Business, Government, and the Military, and what I would characterize as their "Cult of Secrecy". …
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Sowing Seeds Of Subversion: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers' Subversive Use Of Fairy Tales And Folklore
… of fairy-tale and folklore motifs to criticize social mores, in particular those surrounding domestic ideology and the institution of marriage. By situating texts within their sociocultural contexts, I explore how nineteenth-century women authors revised and adapted classic fairy tales to …
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An examination of North Carolina community college goals
… to all respondent groups. “Humanism/altruism”, "social criticism," and "cultural/aesthetic awareness" were considered the least important goals.
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