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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"burlesque"”.
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Melville and the Art of Burlesque
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Burlesque Natural Philosophers: Eighteenth-Century Satires of Science and Social Innovation
… s emerging cultural of innovation. Thus, burlesque natural philosophers, who strive to topple traditional hierarchies of knowledge, serve as proxies for the dynamic middle orders, who were seen to threaten traditional social hierarchies. The dissertation is composed of five case studies …
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No Sleep 'til Minsky's: A One-Man Tribute to Burlesque and Vaudeville.
… with research into the forms of vaudeville and burlesque, including films of period acts, study of autobiographies and biographies of burlesque performers, and study of historical scripts performed in the time period and stored at the Library of Congress.</p><p>The format of the show consists of …
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Parody and Burlesque in the Work of A. S. Pushkin: A Critical Study
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Creating personas, performing selves – gazing beyond the masks of drag and neo-burlesque performance
… the reader to the performance of drag and neo-burlesque, as these take place in bars and nightclubs in Cape Town. I use the concepts of the gaze and the mask in this research to unpack and understand the feminine and hyper-feminine performances by drag and neo-burlesque performers. I argue that …
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Feminist Perspectives on Liberation and Exploitation: A Phenomenological Study of Performance
… of exploitation and liberation for neo burlesque performers using feminist theory as the context for analysis. The project had the following goals: to identify using phenomenology, the essence of new burlesque participant experiences, to analyze those experiences using feminist theories …
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Gay Boy and Playboy Revues: Constructing U.S. Queer Collectivities in Networks of Peripatetic Burlesque and Nightclub Drag Performers, 1933–1939
… Chest Above a Beaded Brassiere’: Bobby Morris’s Burlesque Drag Striptease,” analyzes the reporting around a burlesque comedian, Bobby Morris. He is an especially interesting agent introducing minoritarian cultural references—a proto-queer form of camp—to the majority culture through his …
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The art of rank: a revaluation of John Dryden's satires
… for their mutual similarities to literature with burlesque elements. Focusing on his greatest satire, "Absalom and Achitophel ," this study shows Dryden's political, intellectual, and literary appropriateness for incorporating in the poem sexual and scatological imagery which is hidden by …
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Byron's Use of Rhetorical Devices for Satire in the Vision of Judgement
… The Vision of Judgment under three headings: 1) burlesque; the poem as a whole is a burlesque of Southey’s Vision of Judgement; 2) irony; the poem is a sustained niece of irony; 3) rhetorical devices; the poem uses a large number of then effectively for satiric ends.</p>
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The Scavenger's daughter
… body. The play draws heavily on traditions of burlesque, travesty, satire, and farce.
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'And Hector laughed': comic treatment of the myth of the Trojan War in early modern England
… of classical mythology became formalised in the burlesque. My thesis thus offers a new detailed pre-history of the English burlesque, demonstrating how the genre originates with the period’s critique of exemplarity and how it heralds the ‘quarrel of ancients and moderns’. The thesis also …
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Mixing the Roman miles: Character Development in Terence's Eunuchus
… how Terence's incorporation of mythological burlesque defies dramatic conventions. The second chapter analyzes key dramatic relationships that suggest a parallel to the historical relationship between Rome and her subjugated territories. The miles gloriosus, Thraso, is cast as a socius miles, …
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Marivaux's <i>La Voiture embourbée</i>: a translation with critical introduction
… of the romanesque and yet had had their fill of burlesque satire of the <em>Berger extravagant</em> tradition.</p> <p><em>La Voiture embourbée</em> in many respects falls into the category of the brief anecdotal novel, thus mirroring one important result of the experimentation of the time, just …
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The Comedies of Opera Seria: Handel’s Post-academy Operas, 1738-1744
… were often generous patrons of operatic burlesque, and considered ridicule, disruption, and laughter an integral part of their operagoing experience. By tracing the points of contact between Italian opera and British theatrical life, this dissertation examines the ways in which the …
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The Comedies of Opera Seria: Handel's Post-Academy Operas, 1738-1744
… were often generous patrons of operatic burlesque, and considered ridicule, disruption, and laughter an integral part of their operagoing experience. By tracing the points of contact between Italian opera and British theatrical life, this dissertation examines the ways in which the …
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'Defragmenting the portrait': Catalina Clara Ramírez De Guzman, extremadura's No Conocida Señora of the golden age. A critical multidisciplinary reappraisal of the work of Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán (Llerena, 1618-c.1684)
… of occasional verse, verse portraiture and burlesque and satirical poetry, all of which will be discussed against the background of their respective traditions.
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Comedy on the Borders: Negotiations of *Class Through Parody on the Nineteenth-Century New York Stage
… in 1839 at Mitchell's Olympic Theatre, the burlesque genre exploded from near-total obscurity to become one of the primary entertainments of nineteenth-century America. Opera parody made the Olympic profitable in a financially and socially strained time in the city's history by bringing …
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Bluebeard's castle of Bela Bartok : an analysis
… been employed in numerous operas and as a ballet-burlesque. The treatments of the characters, the keys, and the doors have been as varied as their many settings, culminating in the intense symbolistic drama, Bluebeard’s Castle, by Bela Balazs. His one-act drama was suggested by the three-act …
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