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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Western writers"”.
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"Believe in these things": magical realism's postmodern use of religious language
… to one that includes many non-colonial, Western writers such as Karen Russell and Helen Oyeyemi. Using Russell’s Swamplandia!, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl as representative texts, this thesis extends Frederic Jameson’s theory of “effacement” and …
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Post-Pandemic Theatre: The Transformation of the Literary Form Through the Digital Landscape
… productions on the performance of various Western writers, such as Shakespeare, Euripides, and Strindberg as well as the production considerations of Houston’s own Alley Theatre . Through the use of digital media and multimodal compositions, the digital landscape has enabled the creation of …
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Culture is not your friend: Psychedelic literature of the 20th century and its subversive effect in an industrial world
In the middle of the twentieth century, Western writers, chemists, anthropologists and ethnobotanists introduced a hitherto oblivious Western culture to the peculiar effects of what is now called “psychedelic drugs.” Although many of these substances had been well known outside the Western world, …
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The development of social welfare services in the Transkei from 1963-1983
… Theories examined included those of some Western writers especially British and American. The understanding of social welfare in the Transkei has been outlined and compared with the current western and Third World approaches. Progressive stages in the development of social welfare services …
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Wallace Stegner's Wolf Willow and 1960s Critical Essays: Renarrativizing Western American Literature for the West and for America
As writer, essayist, environmentalist, and westerner, Wallace Earle Stegner (1909-1993) confronted what he understood to be an imagined and literal American West constructed by myths of frontier conquest, pioneer settlement in and transformation of the western landscape, and cowboy exceptionalism …
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Spaces of Japonisme and the Art of Whistler, Van Gogh, and Monet: Collecting, Decoration, and the japanese Other
… conventions. Aspects of Japan held up by Western writers as characteristic included its exquisite handcrafts, its people's alleged closeness to nature, their supposed genuine spirituality, and its extraordinary women, each praised for its difference from Europe. For Whistler, Japan …
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The (De-)Colonial Dynamics of Im-mobility in 21st Century Representations of Migration: An Interdisciplinary Study of (Counter-)Narratives around (North-)African ‘Harga’ to EU-rope
… co-authored by ‘sub-Saharan’ migrants and Western writers (due to publication barriers in Morocco and Algeria) are lauded for contesting media clichés about ‘South-North’ unauthorised migration, this thesis unveils the power asymmetries underpinning these productions, with a specific focus …
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Soviet Gothic-fantastic: a study of Gothic and supernatural themes in early Soviet literature
… themes and motifs, adapted from the fiction of Western writers such as E.T.A. Hoffmann, Ann Radcliffe and Edgar Allen Poe. Writers from Pushkin to Dostoevskii, including the major Symbolists, wrote fiction combining the real with the macabre and supernatural. However, following the inauguration …