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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"commodity culture"”.
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Artistic (mis)representation and commodity culture in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Mirth
<p>"Artistic (Mis)representation and Commodity Culture in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The House of Mirth" attempts to establish a trans-Atlantic connection between authors Oscar Wilde and Edith Wharton by considering the manner in which each author's respective protagonist relates to art, …
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Dead cars in Westall: a narrative exploration of multicultural migrancy, postcolonial sexuality and commodity culture in cosmopolitan Melbourne
… migrancy, postcolonial sexuality and commodity culture in the cosmopolitan global/local nexus of Melbourne. These narratives are supported by postmodern and poststructuralist theoretical underpinnings pertaining to gender, sexuality, class, race/ethnicity and popular culture. Utilizing …
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The Creative Feud of Andy Warhol: A Philosophy of Communication Ethics
… paradigm of hypermodernity, as consumption and commodity culture, elicits particularity of embedded responsiveness situated within history. Ronald C. Arnett and Pat Arneson contend that communication ethics are “value-laden philosophies of communication” uniting background narratives with …
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The Modernist Imagetext: Embodying Impersonality From Optics to Aesthetics
… not only to science, but also visual art, commodity culture, cinema, and psychoanalysis---allowed modernists to express their critique of humanism and to explore the implications of a subjectivity at once inherently impersonal and embedded in bodily and social constraints. Whereas critics …
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"Consuming the ""authentic"": globalized nostalgia and the politics of hybridity through culinary tourism and heritage foodways. A case study of Galicia, Spain."
… an examination of policy, affect, history, and culture. Presenting Galicia, Spain as a case study, this investigation recognizes the linkages between regional and national identities and global commodity culture. The European Union has been central to realizing the connections between …
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“Automatic obedience, synthetic schizophrenia, mass-produced to order. That is the Russian dream, and America is not far behind” : Fascism as a Reaction to a Crisis of Masculinity in William S. Burroughs’s Queer
… connected to queerness and the novel’s Cold War commodity culture. My aim in this thesis is to push these readings further by analyzing how fascist rhetoric functions in the novel. The guiding framework for my analysis is “Ur-Fascism,” Umberto Eco’s treatise on the fundamental features of …
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Subjectivity In American popular metal: contemporary gothic, the body, the grotesque, and the child
… the subject in Popular American Metal music and culture during the period 1994-2004, concentrating on key artists of the period: Korn, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Tura Satana and My Ruin. Starting from the premise that the subject is consistently portrayed as being at a time of …
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Speculating on architecture : morality, the new real estate, and the bourgeois apartment industry in late nineteenth-century France
The topic of architecture as a commodity-something that can be possessed and traded-has been largely ignored within the discipline of architectural history, or even written off altogether as an inevitable consequence of modem capitalism. But the history of the commodification of architecture is by …
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Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction
… novel and their relation to Marx's concept of commodity fetishism. Victorian recognition scenes often show a hero's self-discovery as a retrospective identification with things. When, for example, in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, Isabel Archer learns the truth about her marriage: "She …
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Mother of the house of no shame: The queer economy of Rupaul’s Drag Race
The student, Ted Faust, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-06-13 at 15:37.