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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Wasteland"”.
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When Even the Best is Bad: Thomas Pynchon's Alternatives to the Wasteland
… for human action in the face of a contemporary Wasteland, the nightmare world of chaos, absurdity and corruption which is reality this twentieth century. The human responses presented in "Mortality and Mercy in Vienna," "Low-lands," "Entropy" and "The Secret Ingegration" are developed and …
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MORE COMPLEX THAN WASTELAND REPARATIVE SITE HISTORY ALONG THE BOSTON-REVERE BORDER
… this place by relying on the rhetorical trope of wasteland, which allowed for human technocratic intervention in the landscape. These interventions, I argue, tended to fail, creating new wastelands that needed improvement. By telling a history of Suffolk Downs, I suggest that, despite the …
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Wandering into the Wasteland: White American Masculinities in the Apocalyptic Science Fiction Road Narrative
This thesis examines the portrayal of American white male subjects within the apocalyptic science fiction road narrative, focusing on two visual media in which this genre hybrid features prominently: film and comics. The study builds upon an embryonic body of scholarship addressing several …
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Miserable hovels and shanties on waterlogged wasteland : political-economy of peri-urban squatting around greater Cape Town, circa 1945-1960
… 'Miserable Hovels and Shanties on Waterlogged Wasteland'; political economy of peri-urban squatting in Cape Town, 1945 - 1960, has been decided on the basis of the following facts: (iv) l(i) Very little has been written on this subject especially during the period I have chosen. As a result, a …
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The high wasteland, scar, form, and monstrosity in the English landscape: what is the function of the monster in representations of the English landscape?
In this thesis, I explore themes and concerns that have arisen in my art practice, namely the relationship between landscape, monstrosity, and subjectivity. The tropes scar and form refer to features analogous in the subject and in the land which take on different specific meanings throughout the …
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The High Wasteland, Scar, Form, and Monstrosity in the English Landscape: What Is the Function of the Monster in Representations of the English Landscape?
In this thesis, I explore themes and concerns that have arisen in my art practice, namely the relationship between landscape, monstrosity, and subjectivity. The tropes scar and form refer to features analogous in the subject and in the land which take on different specific meanings throughout the …
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Waste*lands : landscape photography modernity
… Text and image are applied to the subject of wastelands; the former works to raise the status of wastelands while the latter gathers visual fragments of wastelands to harness a picture of contemporary modernity. The two combine to create a practical and poetic, a social and flaneurial picture …
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The Exile's War
… his home and traverse a dangerous and mysterious wasteland that will lead him directly into an ancient conflict that lost a powerful empire to the sands of time.</p>
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The Evolving American Landscape in Edgar Lee Masters's [Sic] Spoon River Anthology
… shaped American society: the Garden and the Wasteland. A careful reading on the Spoon River Anthology informed by secondary texts on Masters' writing and others that discuss the mythic underpinnings of American society shows that Masters achieves a complex portayal of American culture as the …
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Moonscape
… for the piece follows T. S. Eliot's poem, "The Wasteland". One character is patterned after Eliot's Sweeney, the heathen pragmatist who appears throughout his poetry until 1927, the year of Eliot's conversion to Anglicanism. The themes of sin and forgiveness form the focus of the novel.
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How to build a home for the end of the World
… go on a road trip across a waterless American wasteland, populated by a peculiar cast of angels and ghosts, revolutionaries and academics, performance artists and desert hippies. Formulated as a case history of post apocalyptic times, How To Build a Home for the End of the World investigates …
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Come, Comet
… world," a place portrayed by the media as a wasteland of hardship.
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Hitchhiking Through the Fire
… while being pursued by a ruthless warlord of the wasteland. Through their association, Bracken discovers that he still has the capacity for feeling, emotion, and empathy, something he thought long dead.
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Metaphorically speaking: Putting Las Vegas on the cultural map
… to change Las Vegas from being a "cultural wasteland" to a "cultural frontier."
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The reflection of the wastelands of Waiting for Godot and Endgame in electronic media
<p><em>The Reflection of the Wastelands of </em><em>Waiting for Godot</em><em> and </em><em>Endgame </em><em>in Electronic Media</em> is a study of the wasteland settings of <em>Waiting for Godot</em>, <em>Endgame</em>, and the Internet according to the method of play analysis established by Bruce …
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MEMORIC FORM: POEM AS MEMORY
… frozen nature and attempts to return the frozen wasteland into its former, flourishing environment. The poems take on the <em>memoric form</em> of memory in a wide range of poetic forms from the traditional sonnet, haiku, or villanelle, to a scattered projective verse. In the center of these …
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Virtue in the tragic vision of Cormac McCarthy.
… the virtuous life in opposition to the cultural wasteland of the region by articulating a concept of the logos. I specifically trace the dialectic between McCarthy's cultural critiques and his tragic vision through the virtues of courage and justice—a dialectic that exposes the discontents of …
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Ideological tension in four novels by Saul Bellow
… by one of its offshoots, Existentialism, or by "wasteland" ideologies. Bellow propounds certain ideas about the purpose of the novel in various articles, and these are discussed briefly in the introduction. His dismissal of the prophets of doom, those thinkers and writers who are pessimistic …
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Spaces of arrival : swamp as a terrain of contestation in Cartagena, Colombia
… bordering the Virgen Swamp has been considered wasteland, and thus a place to be reclaimed by immigrants who find no other space in the city.
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Tudor prose satire : the dynamics of a visual mode
… the lower half of the setting while a parched wasteland stretches disjunctively in the background. A conflagration surrounds the entire scene casting an eerie orange glow over the chaos. Center foreground, Mad Meg, an armour- plated witch, strides defiantly to the left lugging the spoils of an …
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