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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Superman"”.
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The Realization of Man and Superman
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Tempering Steel: Reapproaching the Mythos of Superman
This study seeks to answer a question posed in Superman #156 and frequently throughout the history of the DC Comics Universe: Must there be a Superman? In answering this question, this study seeks to seam together over sixty years of Superman to better understand the mythology associated with these …
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Is Superman a Sense or a Superhero?
… as Clark Kent, and (1*) Benito dresses as Superman. While the traditional Frege's puzzle suggests that such substitutions do not change the truth value of a sentence, Saul's puzzle suggests otherwise. My paper explains Saul's proposed solution based on conversational implicatures and argues …
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Supervisory methodology and notation (SUPERMAN) for human-computer system development
… goal of SUPERvisory Methodology And Notation (SUPERMAN) is to enhance productive operation of human-computer system developers by providing easy-to-use concepts and automated tools for developing high-quality (e.g., human-engineered, cost-effective, easy-to-maintain) target systems. The …
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"Sometimes You'Ll Feel Like An Outcast": Using Superman To Interrogate The Closet
… as gay, the popular culture stalwart known as Superman provides a useful exemplar for engaging in such a task. Since his first appearance in the pages of comic books more than seventy years ago, consumers and critics have continually inscribed Superman with meanings other than those presumably …
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The American Way: What Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and the X-Men Reveal About America
… comic book superhero premiered in 1938 when Superman appeared on the cover of the first issue of Action Comics. For almost seventy years his adventures and the adventures of other costumed heroes have been continually published. Batman soon joined Superman as a popular costumed crime-fighter, …
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How to be a hero: a rhetorical analysis of superman's first appearance in Action Comics
… of rhetorical heightening, idiom, and structure, Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster influenced their young American audience with the first appearance of Superman in 1938’s Action Comics no. 1. Superman’s lack of distinguishing characteristics, dual identity, and embodiment of American …
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Michael Daugherty's Red Cape Tango: A Comparative Study of the Original Version for Symphony Orchestra and its Transcription for Wind Orchestra, with Four Recitals of Selected Works by Beethoven, Dvorák, Verdi, Bartók and Daugherty
… the life and times of the comic book character Superman. This movement in particular deals with the death of the superhero through the use of musical elements, most notably the Latin Sequence of the Mass for the Dead, Dies irae. Daugherty's ingenuity in blending profoundly dark subjects with …
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Catastrophic Christianity: an Iconological Study of the Messianic Idea in American Protestant Christianity Circa 1900-1940
… these ideological impulses: The Fundamentals, Superman comic books, Bruce Barton's capitalist Christianity, and The Wizard of Oz film. These iconic figures reflect respectively: a fundamentalist and nostalgic desire for the past; libidinal authoritarianism; commodification of religion; and the …
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Philosophical inheritances : Nietzsche and the twentieth century American novel.
… I uncover archetypal patterns of Nietzsche's superman in Sylvia Plath's writings. In these chapters, I demonstrate the pervasiveness not only of Nietzsche's philosophy in American culture, but also of the questions that revolve around the cultural phenomenon of "the death of God" and the …
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Rebuilding a Culture: Studies in Italian Music after Fascism, 1943-1953
… as institutionally and governmentally-endorsed superman. Integrating stylistic and aesthetic analysis within a historicist framework, its chapters deal with topics such as the collective memory of fascism, internationalism, anti-fascist reaction, the appropriation of serialist aesthetics, the …
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Virtual closed networks: optimised security for autonomous MANETs
… Security Using Pre-Existing Routing for MANETs (SUPERMAN) also secures routing and control data, providing confidentiality, integrity and authentication services as a complete solution the network layer and above. Improvements to the efficiency of communication required by distributed task …