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 5 of 5 for “"The New Yorker"”.
-
Lucky's : a novel ; and, Changing voices : a study of narration and arrangement
This thesis consists of a novel and a dissertation. The novel, “Lucky’s”, spans a period of 60 years. “Lucky’s” ties together subjects including immigration, the restaurant business, gameshows, classical scholarship, and journalism. Set in Sydney, “Lucky’s” is a novel about what some people do with …
-
James Thurber's Little Man and the Battle of the Sexes: The Humor of Gender and Conflict
James Thurber, along with others who wrote for The New Yorker magazine, developed the 'little man' comic figure. The little man as a central character was a shift from earlier nineteenth-century traditions in humor. This twentieth-century protagonist was a comic antihero whose function was to …
-
Middlebrow Modernism: Professional Writing, Genre, and the Circulation of Cultural Authority in U.S. Mass Culture, 1913--1932
"This project investigates the role of middlebrow culture in creating an understanding of the term ""modernism"" for its readers. Middlebrow culture consists of those institutions and writers who taught readers the bounds of ""high"" art and literature beginning with the rise of U.S. mass culture …
-
Ethical Vision and Bifocal Writing in the Twentieth Century: Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin
This thesis interprets and connects a group of non-fiction works by Primo Levi (1919-1987), Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), and James Baldwin (1924-1987). It hinges on three key texts: Levi’s I sommersi i salvati, his 1986 work on the significance of the Holocaust in which he theorised the ‘grey zone’; …
-
Lilian Westcott Hale and Nancy Hale: From Victorian to Modern in Art and Text
… in America, as Victorian mores were replaced by new modern freedoms. Greater independence for women had evolved during the preceding century, before the influential cultural factors which occurred during the early twentieth century like urbanization and world war. This interdisciplinary analysis …