Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Social critic"”.
-
Ellen Glasgow: social critic
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture & Applied Science, 1956
-
"Art for Truth's Sake" : James A. Herne as Social Critic and Literary Artist
… States.</p> <p>This paper studies Herne as social critic. The play which Garland saw was about alcohol and its effects on the home, and <em>Margaret Fleming</em> considers the place of women in society. His next play, <em>Shore Acres</em>, deals with land speculation and Darwinism, ideas …
-
Recasting the social critic : social commentary in selected novels of Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett
… in portrayal of key themes that relate to social commentary in selected novels by Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett. Charles Dickens has been considered a social commentator and critic by modern critics as much as his contemporaries. His novels aided in exposing several social problems …
-
'The Sancity Of Womanhood': John Ruskin And The Medieval Madonna
… become one and the same for British art and social critic John Ruskin. His complexly layered rhetoric, most poignantly expressed through the sanctified image of the medieval Madonna, serve as one interesting and much-judged example of many reactions to the tumultuous new social conditions of …
-
Nathan Cohen : the making of a critic
… to Canadian journalism, not only as a theatrical critic, but as a social critic as well.Cohen, who is today primarily remembered as drama critic of the Toronto Star, in fact made his reputation as a critic long before he joined that paper.Beginning as a university newspaper editor, and during a …
-
Intercambio de recursos en la ficción de Percy Wyndham Lewis
… his humorous novel Snooty Baronet (1932), his social satire The VulgarStreak (1941) and his autobiographical work of fiction Self-Condemned (1954). American Resource Theory of social exchange by Uriel G. Foa is the sociological framework proposed to explore the idiosyncratic relationship that …
-
Kitsch in the prose works of Theodor Storm.
… and functions under a variety of political and social regimes and, lastly, the possible dangers of kitsch and the remedies suggested to help counteract it. The second section commences with a survey of prominent trends in Storm research old and new, followed by an exploration of Storm's …
-
Meditations in an emergency : social scientists and the problem of conflict in Cold War America
… of the forms dissent could take within academic social science in the United States from roughly 1945-1970. The concept in question is "conflict." There are many stories one could tell about this concept and its transformations in postwar American social science, but in this dissertation I focus …