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Incestuous Wharton: A consideration of the theme
… of human sexuality; In The Reef and Summer, Wharton toys with these scientific ideas about incest; the radically different way that Summer incorporates incestuous tension echoes Freud's more complex assumptions. In The Reef, Anna Leath upholds social order by rejecting her own sexuality. In …
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Irony in the novelettes of Edith Wharton.
… entitled "Irony in the Novelettes of Edith Wharton," is to show that as a conscious stylist Mrs. Wharton imbued with a framework of irony the eight novelettes discussed. The individual works are Sanctuary, Madame de Treymes, The Marne, Ethan Frome, False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark, and …
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Edith Wharton's treatment of marriage.
… and setting and the continuity of theme in Edith Wharton's fiction. Her treatment of marriage and divorce is used as the basis for comparison. Several themes are traced through her work and their possible relation to her own life is indicated. The most important themes are the underlying isolation …
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Edith Wharton: Vision and Perception in Her Short Stories
In Edith Wharton's short stories, vision and perception play key roles in stories pertaining to marriage and divorce, artists and writers, and social and personal values.
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Buried Alive: Gothic Oppression in the Novels of Edith Wharton'
<p>Edith Wharton is undoubtedly one of American literature's foremost critics of society; however, little has been written of her use of the Gothic as part of her social commentary. Within all of Wharton's fiction, ranging from her ghost stories to her more celebrated classics such as The House of …
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A Woman on the Mind: Aspects of Monomaniacal Love (D'annunzio, Flaubert, Wharton)
… sentimentale, G. D'Annunzio's Il Piacere, and E. Wharton's The Age of Innocence. It chronicles the love obsessions of three young men as they search for the female embodiment of the mother-sister-friend-lover image projected by their imaginations.
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A New Man: Masculine Confusion and Struggle in the Works of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton’s male characters offer an important commentary on the evolving situation of the man in American society. Wharton did not wish for women to usurp all social positions from men but rather to claim their rightful position alongside them. Characters such as Lawrence Selden in <i>The …
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HUMAN WHARTON'S JELLY MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (WJ-MSCs): CHARACTERIZATION AND PROPERTIES
… markers expressed by specific UC MSCs named Wharton jelly mesenchymal stem cells (WJ-MSCs). WJ-MSCs are multipotent stem cells with many advantages as a potential source of MSCs; the tissue is readily available, cells are easy to grow in culture, they can be cryopreserved, and have great …
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Silencing and silenced women in Edith Wharton's non-ghost short stories.
… more than fifty years (1885 to 1937), Edith Wharton portrayed American women weathering a tremendous sea change in society's expectations of them. In the 1960s the unsealing of Wharton's personal papers encouraged scholars to assign new value to Wharton's short fiction. Focusing on the ghost …
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Fitzgerald, Lewis, Wharton, Anderson, and individual-community conflict in the 1920 American novel.
… Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, Sherwood Anderson's Poor White, and Sinclair Lewis's Main Street. Characters in these novels are alienated from groups like family, church, class, and village. Such communities are considered intermediate associations …
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The comradeship of the "Happy Few": Henry James, Edith Wharton, and the pederastic tradition
… a need to reexamine James' influence on Edith Wharton and her works. In this dissertation, I explore how James introduced Wharton to a circle of friends (the "Happy Few"), a group of queer men-of-letters who provided the author with both a literal and figurative space for discovering an …
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Enterprising Women in Novels of Manners: The Social Economies of Austen, Thackeray and Wharton
… given more value than they really hold. Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth portrays a society which has gone off the gold standard of virtue, that values its social currencies without that organizing principle of virtue to give them stability. Each novel has some relationship with the codes of …
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Do Undergraduate Business Schools Cultivate Creative Thinking: The Wharton Curriculum As A Case In Point
… schools cultivate creative thinking, using the Wharton undergraduate education as a case in point. To determine this, past course syllabi were analyzed for objective(s) of cultivating creative thinking. This was followed by semi-structured interviews with Wharton students and faculty. The study …
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Edith Wharton's irony : from the short stories to the infinitudes
Although Edith Wharton is finally recognized as a major American novelist, her remarkable canon of short stories has been largely ignored. Such neglect is regrettable, for the diversity of the stories suggests that some common perceptions of Wharton may well be misconceptions: that her works are …
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Serialisation, Settings, Characters: a comparative case study of gender roles in society, as addressed in selected novels by Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and Edith Wharton
… Henry James’s The Europeans (1878) and Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence (1920) succeed in contributing to, or halting, the processes of change in their respective societies of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In combination, these three novels provide a particularly apt …
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Imprisoned and Empowered: The Women of Edith Wharton's Supernatural Fiction.
… in selected supernatural fiction by Edith Wharton, we explore the socio-gender relationships, as well as the gender roles of women in general as they existed in the early part of the twentieth century. These associations are discussed, as is the influence Henry James may have had on …
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Derivative usage by listed companies in Ghana and Nigeria - 2008/2009
… for derivative usage as is commonly done in Wharton Survey Style study.
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