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Showing 1 to 20 of 230 for “"Trope"”.
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Carefree Black Girl: Trope or Treasure?
<blockquote> Abstract: The writing below is an experimental study on the idea of the “Carefree Black Girl,” a term coined in 2017 to define a way of life for Black women to emulate, focused on self-care and self-love. I write about its popularity and meaning, with parallels to my own life and …
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The Forgotten Trope: Metonymy in Poetic Action
… by developing a theory of metonymy as a literary trope. After a critical assessment of available views on metonymy, the first part of the thesis sets out to explore and analyse the aesthetic status, structure and poetic function of metonymy on the basis of concrete literary material. Premised on …
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Dangers of Credulity: Mary Robinson and the Trope of Victimization
A prodigious professional poet admired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; a courtesan idealized for her unparalleled beauty; a famed actress and mistress to royalty known to live beyond her means in an era of exploding print culture: Mary Robinson found herself portrayed incongruously in motley of …
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Charles Dickens' Trope of Great Gulfs: Irony in Bleak House
… the world, most notably Africa. He also uses the trope of cannibalism in terms of consumption in several different ways to illustrate the Great Gulfs between England and Others outside of England, between social classes, between genders, and between the haves and haves not within England. Dickens …
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Contentious Subjects: Non/violence as Topic and Trope in the Occupy Movement
Why was there such heated disagreement within the Occupy movement around the word nonviolence, and why was this disagreement so generationally marked? Why were the social movements in the 2011 global wave of unrest so suddenly disruptive, even violent, almost always involving riots? What does this …
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Animals-as-Trope in the Selected Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison
… Walker, and Toni Morrison utilize animals-as-trope in order to illustrate the writers' humanity and literary vision. In the texts that I have selected, I have found that animals-as-trope functions in two important ways: the first function of animal as trope is a pragmatic one, which serves to …
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Shaman as Saviour? The Trope of the Amazonian Shaman in Recent Latin American Literature and Film
This dissertation analyzes the trope of the Amazonian shaman in recent Latin American literature and film. References to shamanism have become increasingly popular in recent years. Shamans have gained importance in environmentalism and struggles for Indigenous rights, as well as academic writing …
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The Path to Personal Salvation: The Hermetic Trope of Self-Mastery in Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton
My dissertation examines Renaissance authors investment in the Hermetic tradition. This tradition is based on the Hellenistic Egyptian philosophical-theological writings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, which emerged in parallel with early Christianity, Neoplatonism, and Gnosticism. The Hermetic …
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Trope and taxonomy : an examination of the classification and treatment of illness in traditional Thai medicine
This work is an examination of the classification and treatment of illness in traditional Thai medicine. The study is based on a nineteenth century compilation of Central Thai court medical texts, as published by the Wat Pho Traditional. Medical Association under the title Phaetsat songkhrQ. …
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Trope and taxonomy : an examination of the classification and treatment of illness in traditional Thai medicine
This work is an examination of the classification and treatment of illness in traditional Thai medicine. The study is based on a nineteenth century compilation of Central Thai court medical texts, as published by the Wat Pho Traditional. Medical Association under the title Phaetsat songkhrQ. …
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The Rhetorical Making Of An Illness: Medical Refusal, Trope, And Improvisation In A Somali Women'S Health Center
… literacy, and diagnosis as rhetorical trope--that can theorize health decision-making and can inform policy initiatives toward more accessible medical and social service procedures.
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The Mbokodofication of Black Women: An Autoethnographic Study of Post Dramatic Stress and the ‘Strong Black Woman' Trope
… is, the production of the ‘Strong Black Woman' trope, specifically in the South African context. To this end, the study traces the genealogy of the tropes of Black womanhood that have emerged throughout the history of the South African literary canon, analyzing them critically for their varied …
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Beyond the "Baartman Trope": representations of black women's bodies from early South African proto-nationalisms to postapartheid nationalisms
… African nationalism is imagined through gendered tropes, but also that the intersecting tropes of gender, race and sexuality which underlie postapartheid nation-building discourses propagate many of the same stereotypes about black women’s sexuality first entrenched through colonial …
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Blues Trope as a Cultural Intersection in Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar and Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
… Americans and Native Americans through the blues trope. The blues trope provides an intriguing literary platform for the psychological and physical struggles in finding an identity within such a diverse multiethnic society like the United States. For African American writer Alice Walker and Native …
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Through A Glass Darkly: The Mirror Trope and Female Subjectivity in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor
… argue that these images constitute an important trope in Morrison and Naylor\'s fiction. Although the mirror trope pervades both writers\' bodies of work, it has not garnered significant scholarly attention, particularly with respect to the ways in which the trope highlights an intertextual …
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Out of Order
… and writings. I suggest tenderness relies on the trope of loss, providing a basic historical context to the trope. The meaning of tenderness, it seems, is what it laments. Furthermore, analysing the structures according to which tenderness “disorders” the trope of loss, I suggest tenderness can be …
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Self-Other Differences in Risky Decision Making: An Analysis of Social Values Theory and Construal-Level Theory
… & Allgaier, 2008) and construal-level theory (Trope & Liberman, 2010). Research has demonstrated that in comparison to decisions for the self, individuals tend to be more risk-taking when giving advice or deciding for others in low-impact relationship scenarios (Beisswanger, Stone, Hupp, & …
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Conspiracy, exile, & resistance : planning & narrative in Chelsea, Massachusetts
… in the rhetorical patterns collectively known as tropes, hypothesizing that three specific tropes reflect the institutional dimensions of the conflict at hand: *the trope of conspiracy (causality and motive), *the trope of exile (invisibility and exclusion), and *the trope of resistance (authority …
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El hambre en el cine cubano del Período Especial
This thesis examines the trope of hunger in Cuban cinema produced during the socio-economic context known as the Special Period. Films selected for this discussion are Fresa y chocolate (1993) by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, and El Rey de La Habana (2015) by Agustí Villaronga. …
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