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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"catharsis"”.
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Revisiting "Hapworth": The Catharsis of Buddy Glass
J.D. Salinger's "Hapworth 16, 1924," his last published work, is notorious for the initial critical silence it received, as well as the subsequent general consensus that it was a text to revile if not avoid. This thesis proposes that while "Hapworth" is a difficult and perplexing piece, there is a …
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Good for Her: Catharsis and Empowerment in Contemporary Literature
A recent trend in readership within online discourse communities is the emergence of the genre called “Good for Her,” which contains themes of transgression beyond traditional expectations of socially acceptable feminine behavior by situating revenge arcs to celebrate actions that otherwise would …
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Platform poetry and restorative experience: creator, community and catharsis
… materials, and community participants seek catharsis from disclosing emotional distress, but there are more finely grained details. Platforms vary: Instagram encourages poet-centric linear communication, YouTube facilitates community building but also star treatment, Tumblr prioritises …
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BRITISH WORLD WAR TWO FILMS 1945-65: CATHARSIS OR NATIONAL REGENERATION?
… the Second World War, a recruitment vehicle or a catharsis. Several key findings have emerged from this thesis: Elite masculinity was used, not to devalue the 'People's War', but as exemplar of national identity, regeneration and British leadership. Recognizable through his metamorphosis from …
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Shelley the Tragedian: Differing Modes of Catharsis in Prometheus Unbound and the Cenci
… reflect on Percy B. Shelley’s understanding of catharsis, the most beneficial and sought after purpose of tragedies. Much of this thesis will also consider Shelley as a translator, to help better understand how Shelley viewed and understood the Greek texts. The first chapter will compare the …
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The Anxiety-Reducing Efficacy of Distraction, Catharsis, and Rationalization in Two Personality Types
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Catharsis and Reinforcement in Young Children's Aggression: A Test of the Meaning and Effects of Nondirective Statements
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:07:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412112.pdf: 3258587 bytes, checksum: eb3a6ed7145025530bb29b8099860397 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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The veil
… on bereavement, unmasking the stigma against catharsis, and the overemphasis of positivity.</p> <p>Grief is defined as “deep sorrow, especially that caused by someone's death” (Oxford Collegiate Dictionary, 1992). It is a word that is both familiar and unfamiliar, a state of being that is …
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Growing To Normal Size
… existential crisis and angst, and feelings of catharsis. </p>
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The second beast
… the seed of the book's main theme: frustrated catharsis.
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THEATER AS A MEDIUM OF HEALING: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF COPPER THUNDERBIRD BY MARIE CLEMENTS
… reaches back to Aristotle and his concept of catharsis. Greek philosopher states that tragedy “with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its katharsis of such emotions.” The process of catharsis is interpreted as purification or purging of the audience members’ strong …
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THEATER AS A MEDIUM OF HEALING: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF COPPER THUNDERBIRD BY MARIE CLEMENTS
… reaches back to Aristotle and his concept of catharsis. Greek philosopher states that tragedy “with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its katharsis of such emotions.” The process of catharsis is interpreted as purification or purging of the audience members’ strong …
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La Guérison par le Récit chez Gabrielle Roy
… of Gabrielle Roy's works enables an Aristotelian catharsis to take place for her audience. As her readers plunge into their individual past, they can have an awakening. Upon realizing that the characters in Roy's literary creation hold to a specific definition of elusive happiness and after …
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Corporeal Modification In The Hollywood Musical: New Paradigms For Genre Analysis
… murder, debauchery and cannibalism that act as a catharsis to their audiences' most salient fantasies and desires.</p>
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The Sweet River: A collection of short stories
… through a series of patient complications, catharsis or reversal and double reversal, and epiphany. Thematically, the stories feature a protagonist adrift from conformist society, in search of transcendence amid the age-old dichotomy between the self and the other, and ultimately facing a …
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MAKING MYTH MATTER: INTERROGATING NARRATIVE AND RECONSTRUCTING METANARRATIVE IN CLASSICAL MYTH ADAPTATION
… I see LaBute as engaging the tradition of catharsis without offering its comforting closure, creating a contemporary response to classical work that engages the values of the culture to which it is addressed. I finally provide a set of terms I believe necessary to follow in order to create …
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Seizing the memes of production : political memes in Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Diaspora
… discontent, make calls to action, engage in catharsis, and seek political change. The cases explore critical political meme production under varying circumstances on the island. The first case study, La Junta de Control Fiscal, is a group that uses Facebook to satirize the fiscal control …
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Personal Narratives & Their Unique Personalities
… et al. It also looks at some relevant terms like catharsis, misfit, vulnerability, and rigid gender roles in our world (school and society). On the whole, the essay encourages finding an outlet for one’s emotions instead of pushing them aside.</p>
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Subjectivity And Politics In Pasolini's Bourgeois Tragic Theater
… Logic, and the plays end ambiguously, suspending catharsis. When Pasolini’s dramas are staged through his Word Theater praxis, his complete Bourgeois Tragic Theater looks to realize this Logic itself. It gives spectators the task of creating their own catharsis through its post-performance …
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Triptych 1
… an older man who travels to Mexico in search of catharsis. Organized as a triptych, each story attempts to depict the tension embodied by the prayer, ”Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!”
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