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Showing 1 to 20 of 175 for “"contemporary literature"”.
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On Foot: Pathways Through Contemporary Literature
<p>This dissertation explores contemporary walking narratives – fictions formally organized around and guided by journeys “on foot” – in order to consider the deeply rooted literary-historical, aesthetic, and ethical relationships among practices of walking, writing, remembering, and haunting. By …
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A Study of Locality in Hong Kong Contemporary Literature
… to the study of locality in Hong Kong contemporary literature by illustrating the complexity of its social construction. It also demonstrates the conditionality of the locality constituted by Wong and Dung. By contextualising both writers’ works and their acclaimed representation of …
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Good for Her: Catharsis and Empowerment in Contemporary Literature
… merit despite its newness and composition of contemporary texts.
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Hybridity, border-crossings and the homeland in contemporary literature by women
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Early Puritan Attitudes and Their Influence on Contemporary Literature, Especially the Drama
… which does not leave a mark of some kind on literature. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such a struggle; namely, that between the Renaissance humanistic spirit and the spirit of the reformation seen in its extreme manifestation in Puritanism. |Puritanism, though …
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Putting Place Back Into Displacement: Reevaluating Diaspora In the Contemporary Literature of Migration
<p>In order to improve the engineering properties of soft soils, materials, such as cement and fiber, can be introduced to the soil mass. Currently, design criterion for a cement-soil mixture requires only the measurement of unconfined compressive strength. This simple measurement may not be …
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New Forms of Kinship in Contemporary Literature and Film from the German-Speaking World
This thesis is concerned with the ways in which contemporary German-language literature and film partake in the representation, interrogation, and constitution of kinship as a contested field of social relations in the twenty-first century. In considering kinship, with the philosopher Judith …
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Parodies to the National Canon in Hispanic Contemporary Literature (1978--2000): Examples From Argentina, Spain, and Colombia
… parodies to national canonical texts in four contemporary Hispanic literary works written during the last decades of the 20th Century. Following mainly---but not only---Linda Hutcheon's theory of parody, I analyze how these parodies are constructed and how they read and re-interpret their …
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Parent-Teacher Conference Practices of the Elementary Schools in Chelan and Douglas Counties, Washington
… counties in Washington State; (2) to examine contemporary literature regarding parent-teacher conferences, and (3) to draw implications about current practices in Chelan and Douglas counties.
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The Process of Cultural Appropriation in Literature and How It Can Be Changed
… the ways cultural appropriation has existed in literature from the time of Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy" to the present, with the publication of Jeanine Cummins's novel <em>American Dirt</em>. After dissecting the motives behind the exploitation of traumatic events and acknowledging the …
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Critical Literacy in Literature Instruction: Canonical vs. Young Adult Literature
… becoming increasingly heterogenous. However, ELA literature curriculums remain largely homogenous. This is due to the fact that ELA classrooms typically teach from the traditional literary canon and text exemplars that contain mainly white, male, heterosexual, Christian, and physically- and …
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Authenticity and the problem of human augmentation
… and examine how authenticity is used in the contemporary literature on human augmentation. Each conception, or framework of authenticity in the literature is expounded on and evaluated, and each is found somewhat lacking. Finally, I propose an altemative view of authenticity based on …
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A theoretical re-assessment of the use of the distinction between everyday and acadamic knowledges in Basil Bernstein's theory of educational transmissions
… and academic knowledge/thought. A survey of some contemporary literature within the Bernsteinian subfield was undertaken to generate a question for the project, i.e., whether it is indeed the case that the everyday/academic knowledges distinction is a productive condensation of the major ideas of …
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The history of the viola and an analysis of its literature
… etc., and occasional allusions to them in contemporary literature.
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Artists as Tricksters: Resourceful Artists of the German Renaissance
… of the sixteenth century, using contexts from contemporary literature, religious practices, and folklore to parse the often proclaimed but insufficiently explained “eccentricity” of German art from the period.
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Increasing latino engagement in sustainability and philanthropic efforts of mainstream youth development organizations in the United States
… organizations first requires historical and contemporary analysis of related practices in order to create attractive, relevant and successful strategies. Both historical and contemporary literature is reviewed in this study. New research is focused on two main areas 1) the current engagement …
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"Away with the fairies": the motif of fairy abduction and of the changeling, from Irish mythology to the Irish diaspora
… of fairy abduction and of the changeling in contemporary literature, either Irish or from the Irish diaspora. Studying these motifs as they appear in the folk accounts allows a better understanding of their traditional characteristics, to then be able to compare them with the way the …
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The attitude toward women in the eighteenth century as reflected in English literature.
… caused it--its background. For a long time the literature of this period has been passed as being unimportant and mediocre. Now, however, it is attaining a vast importance. The age is being recognized as a great era of change. Those things which happened between 1702, the accession of Anne, and …
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