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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Twentieth century authors"”.
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Multiple, misaligned subjectivities : how representative twentieth century authors resolve the tension between American individualism and femininity.
Many American women in the twentieth century experienced themselves within a cross-pressured social reality formed by the confluence of American individualism and a socially constructed femininity, and the claim of this project is that this conflicted experience can be found throughout novels …
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Gladstone and the Bank of England: A Study in Mid-Victorian Finance, 1833-1866
… These confrontations have remained a mystery to authors who noted them, but have generally been ignored by others. This thesis demonstrates that Gladstone's measures taken against the Bank were reasonable, intelligent, and important for the development of nineteenth-century British government …
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Authorial Cameos in Post-Romantic Russian Literature
This dissertation examines representations of authorship in Russian literature from a number of perspectives, including the specific Russian cultural context as well as the broader discourses of romanticism, autobiography, and narrative theory. My main focus is a narrative device I call "the …
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Otherwordly modernism: magic, mediums, and coloniality
… interests, practices, and commitments of early twentieth-century authors, artists, and audiences to understand the production of enchantment, meaning, and repair in Anglophone modernism. Through the analysis of the literary, philosophical, and artistic projects of George and William Butler …
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Shades of Gay: Representations of Male Same-Sex Desire in French Literature, Culture, and Ideology from 1789-1926
… in France from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. More specifically, I contend that the emergent nineteenth-century gay subculture influenced not only the way socio-political and medico-juridical sources represented and defined sexual and gender identity but that nineteenth and …
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Der aubenseiter in Heinrich Bolls Epischer kunst : eine typologische untersuchung
… become an anti-hero or outsider. Many well-known twentieth century authors, including Heinrich 8611, are increasingly making use of this figure. In this dissertation the use of the outsider in the epic art of 8611 is subjected to critical analysis in accordance with certain typological models. The …
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Identity, Reality, and Truth in Memoirs from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
… Jonathon Shay work to bring the contemporary war authors examined in this essay into the canonical debate commonly centered on established, twentieth-century authors like Tim O'Brien, Paul Fussell, Wilfred Owen, and Robert Graves. Shoshana Johnson's I'm Still Standing explains how the self created …
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Chinese Spirit, Russian Soul, and American Materialism: Images of America in Twentieth-Century Chinese and Russian Travelogues
… and American Materialism: Images of America in Twentieth-Century Chinese and Russian Travelogues This study is concerned with the process of understanding and representation of the Other in travel narratives and the role of the traveler's cultural tradition and ideological beliefs in this …