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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Twentieth-Century Literature"”.
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Eating otherwise : food and being in twentieth-century literature
Eating Otherwise: Food and Being in Twentieth-Century Literature thinks the ‘you are what you eat’ adage otherwise, exploring the entanglement of the ontological with the alimentary in twentieth-century literature. Since its inception more than thirty years ago, the booming field of literary food …
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The sign of the ineffable in twentieth century literature.
… the unique sacramental dynamic inherent to literature and to narrative art more generally, demonstrating how Derrida's deconstructive method leaves room for the particular species of referentiality claimed by the Catholic sacraments—which are said to "accomplish what they signify"—and how …
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Activist Modernisms: Human Rights and Anti-Totalitarianism in Mid-Twentieth Century Literature
… Rights. In the postwar period and throughout the twentieth century, human rights would often be vieas a set of self-evident, monolithic, and timeless values that had merely reached their full realization after the horrors of the war. This study examines a body of literature from the 1930s and 40s, …
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Sex, Labor, And The American Way: Detroit Aesthetic In Mid-Twentieth-Century Literature
… to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr. The primary literature is juxtaposed with a study of visual texts and historic research with a locational and thematic basis in Detroit. Ford Times and early automobile advertisements, Diego Rivera's mural Detroit Industry, photographs of the Sojourner Truth …
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"Of the sky above you must beware": Airspace and airpower in twentieth century literature
… between the military discourse of air war in the twentieth century and the literature that challenged that discourse. Situated within the broader study of war literature, the project moves beyond traditional studies of soldiers fighting ground wars, to explore instead the dynamics of war in the …
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Realism and anti-realism in the work of George Lukács
… polar opposite. anti-realism, in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature. As a Marxist, Lukács's views on literature are closely interwoven with his views of society and and social development. This necessitates first looking at Lukács's theory of society and history as expressed in the …
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Broadcasting modernity: eloquent listening in the early twentieth century
… namely wireless, as a feature of early twentieth century literature. If modernism is a historical-specific movement, and language a repository of time, then the advent of radio broadcasting cannot be ignored - a medium which inscribed itself into the pages of books. The present study is …
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<em>On the Road</em> from Melville to Postmodernism: The Case for Kerouac's Canonization.
… his influences, and his influence on late-twentieth century literature, including the entire postmodern movement.</p>
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"Existential Realism: Modernism and the Ethics of Agency in the Franco-American Existentialist Tradition, 1937-1955"
… in the prevailing modernist accounts of twentieth-century literature in that they allow the reader experience by proxy moral clarity and blindness. By tracing agency through the motif of gratuitous murder, I show that this fiction critiques a notion of authenticity that prizes overweening …
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Desire, Curiosity, and the Search for Truth in Proust, Moreno, and Bechdel
<p>Marcel Proust’s influence on twentieth century literature is broad and has been well documented. This dissertation attempts a comparative reading of <em>À la recherche du temps perdu</em> that places it in contrast with Colombian writer Marvel Moreno’s 1987 novel, <em>En diciembre llegaban las …
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Children of men: the American jeremiad in twentieth and twenty-first century science fiction and film
… and literary mode, on contemporary American literature and culture. It argues that the polemical, dystopian, and apocalyptic narratives so abundant in twentieth-century literature and film participate in an ingrained literary tradition that accounts for society's misfortunes as penalty for …
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Pedagogy and profit: Multiethnic literature, gender and young adult publishing
… major eras within the history of young adult literature, each of which responded to changing notions of citizenship. Chapter Two is a case study of <em>The House on Mango Street</em> (1984) by Sandra Cisneros that examines the effect of texts popularized by young readers on commercial and …
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Innocence and Experience: Figuring the Child in the Fiction of A. L. Barker
… their influence on ideas about the child in mid-twentieth-century culture, Barker’s fiction troubles dominant assumptions about what different identities of age entail, meaning that her oeuvre should be read as a ‘genealogy’ of age. I argue that the central question of Barker’s work is if, and …
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For the First Time - A Phenomenology of Virginity
… an ethics of Eros. My work draws broadly from twentieth-century literature on phenomenology, poststructuralism, and psychoanalysis, including that of Marion, Beauvoir, Irigaray, Derrida, Heidegger, Foucault, and Butler.
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La monja azul : the political and cultural ramifications of a 17th-century mystical transatlantic journey
… (La monja azul). The legend is derived from17th-century religious memoriales (accounts) that narrate the miraculous apparition of a living cloistered Spanish nun, Sor María de Agreda, to the Jumano tribe of western New Mexico between the years 1620-1630. However, the Lady in Blue's conversion of …
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Rewriting the Oeuvre: Raymond Queneau and the Art of Translation
… of translation in the creation of experimental literature, and our understanding of the crucial place of the literary polyglot in the international world of twentieth-century literature.</p>
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Unlived Lives in Twentieth Century Narrative: Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen, Kazuo Ishiguro
… and national history. Those alive at the mid-century, she observed, were consequently more aware than ever before of ‘unlived lives’: the opportunities they might otherwise have had, the people they might have become in a lifetime of peace, and the decades they might have spent with the …
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The Popular party in the Church of Scotland, 1740-1800
The Popular party in the eighteenth century Church of Scotland has received little attention from historians and there has never been a comprehensive analysis of its nature and ideology. This dissertation is an attempt to remedy that defect. It commences by surveying the nineteenth and twentieth …
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Queering the Real: Antisociality and the impossible nothing of queer
This project charts a logic of queer antisociality along literary, cinematic, and theoretical works. Reading across a collection of textual case studies from Gertrude Stein, Herman Melville, and Samuel Beckett, as well as films from Derek Jarman and David Cronenberg, this thesis thinks through …
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Consummatum est: The end of the word in Geoffrey Hill's poetry
This thesis intends to demonstrate that the idea of the end is a crucial motive of Geoffrey Hill’s poetry. It analyses the verbal and formal means by which Hill attempts to have his poems arrive at ends. The ends are, chiefly, the reconciliation of antagonists in word or thought; and the perfect …
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