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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Witches"”.
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Defying gravity: queering the witches of Oz
The American theater has long been a venue for social commentary. From shows like South Pacific and Rent to Bye, Bye, Birdie and Hair, stage productions have made significant contributions to the discussions and understandings of American experiences, the ways in which people struggle through their …
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Something Wicked: Witches and Rhetorics of Resistance
… the discourses and rhetoric of contemporary witches doing the same.</p> <p>The supposed eradication of witchcraft and magic is the creation myth of modernity; it has and continues to be the foil for standards of propriety, righteousness, civility, and rationality. The witch has picked up many …
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Wives, Witches, And Warriors: Women In Arabic Popular Epic
This dissertation consolidates the known corpus of the medieval Arabic popular epic (sīrah shaʿbīyah) in order to examine the roles of its female characters and how they relate to power. Borrowing from feminist theory, the study takes as its organizing principle the categories of “power-over,” …
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Witches, Masques and Lutes: Scoring the Magical Within Masques and Plays
The world has been fascinated with witches since the beginning of human society. Witches have been documented about as early as in the Bible. Heavy areas of concentration in human history are in Europe, from the late Middle Ages until the beginning of the eighteenth century, when witch trials and …
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Third person narrator for reader engagement craft paper with Courtesan witches creative writing
… sample that includes 50-pages from Courtesan Witches, an alternative historical fiction about a female courtesan, whose mother burned at the stake and who thwarts King James I of England, an infamous witch hunter.
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WOODLAND CARIBOU AS ECOLOGICAL DRIVERS OF FIR WITCHES' BROOM INFECTIONS ON THE SLATE ISLANDS
<p>Woodland caribou herbivory on The Slate Islands altered the forest landscape and ground flora resulting in the emergence of the rust fungi, <em>Melampsorella caryophyllacearum</em>. This rust alternates between chickweeds and balsam fir, where it causes a broom deformity. My study identified …
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An investigation of the molecular biology and genetics of Witches' Broom disease of Protea cynaroides
… was undertaken into the biology and genetics of Witches' Broom disease on Protea cynaroides. The investigation was approached in two ways: firstly, from a physiological and pathological angle and secondly at the genetic level. As very little is known about the causes of Witches' Broom disease on …
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English Imperial Selfhood and Semiperipheral Witchcraft in The Faerie Queene, Daemonologie, and The Tempest
… of witchcraft. I discuss the ways that witches oppose Protestant patriarchal norms in the first book of Spenser’s 1590 poem The Faerie Queene, James I’s 1597-1603 tract Daemonologie, and Shakespeare’s 1610-11 play The Tempest. The Scottish and Irish witches of these works embody an …
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A Gobber Tooth, A Hairy Lip, A Squint Eye: Concepts of the Witch and the Body in Early Modern Europe
… (Ch. 2), appearance and characteristics of witches (Ch. 3), and the activities and behaviours/actions of witches, (Ch. 4). This study concentrates on the similarities found across Europe, and, as the majority of witches persecuted were female, my thesis emphasizes women as victims of the …
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The monstrous female: monstrosity in the Anglo-Saxon monstrous and early modern witchcraft traditions
… Anglo-Saxon Marvels of the East. An analysis of witches in relation to monsters is justified owing to the consistent tendency in the monsters literature to define as monstrous violations of stereotyped masculine and feminine behaviours. I aim to demonstrate that witchcraft literature displays a …
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Gynocentric Apuleius: Female Agency in 'The Golden Ass'
… theory of the abject, while Apuleius’s female witches behave in horrific and chaotic ways that effectively emasculate their male prey, they do not fall within the same topos as other female witches. Instead, Apuleius’ witches appear to wield their magic in a way that allows them to maneuver …
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Charlotte the Assassin: A Novel
… the French Revolution. It involves murder, witches, and female friendships and romantic relationships.
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Evil No More: The Image of the Witch and Women in the United States From Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries
… United States were impacted by the notions of witches and witchcraft. There was an integral change in witchcraft during the era of growing feminism and equality in political status. In the colonial period, what was once a disguise for women's oppression, has become a tool for women's …
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King James' Daemonologie and Scottish Witchcraft Trials
… of King James’ <em>Daemonologie</em> on how witches were identified, prosecuted, and executed in Scotland during the early modern period. It is an analytical look at how the intervention of King James during the North Berwick trials influenced the writing of <em>Daemonologie</em> and how …
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The Las Vegas phenomenon
… by Luhrmann in the book Persuasions of the Witches Craft that people in modern Britain who engage in witchcraft do so in order to achieving a childlike enchantment of adulthood; Findings are that there are indeed similarities between Luhrmann's British witches and gamblers in Las Vegas, and …
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Haunted spaces: Visualising the witch in expanded comics
… the ways that site-specific stories of folkloric witches can be told using papercut as form of expanded comics, using walking and collaboration as creative process. The two papercut stories in the creative output sit at the intersection of story (the witches), people (the collaborators) and place …
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What Makes a Woman "Pious and Good": The Function of Several Grimm Brothers' Cautionary Fairy Tales
… but also evil stepsisters — are classified as witches who mistreat the child from the man of the home’s first marriage. These witches are portrayed as jealous of beautiful young women who are subservient to men and children, compelling them to compete with the angelic figure. The husband/father …
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