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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"cultural materialism"”.
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Raymond Williams : literature, Marxism and cultural materialism
… through to the development of the concept of cultural materialism in Marxism and Literature in 1977.
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Raymond Williams, cultural materialism and the break-up of Britain
… Firstly, it explores Williams's concept of cultural materialism, which theorises the role played by cultural forms in the creation and contestation of a national political order. Secondly, it extrapolates Williams's implicit critique of the unitary British state, and his theory of how …
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Hacks/Müller: Zur Selbstbestimmung der DDR-Dramatik in Bezug auf die literarische Tradition und sozialistische Gegenwart
… literary form), Raymond Williams (including his cultural materialism), as well as Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno (Critical Theory). Furthermore, the dissertation deals with the idea of metatheatre, and it discusses elements of metadrama (Karin Vieweg-Marks) in the selected plays. The symbolic …
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Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction
… period can be read as an index of the Cold War cultural landscape and its structure of feeling. This dissertation treats these remainders as archival materials, documents with a kind of textuality, and suggests that when rendered legible their function as crucial sites of conflicting ideologies …
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Acts of Livelihood: Bodies and Nature in International Garden City Movement Planning, 1898-1937
… affordable, well-built housing and plentiful cultural attractions associated with city life. The book catalyzed an early twentieth-century international movement for the promotion and construction of garden cities. Howard’s garden city remains a highly influential context in the history of …
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On Beauty And Ethics In Shakespeare And His Contemporaries
… part due to the influence of approaches such as cultural materialism and new historicism; as a result, beauty often gets viewed as some kind of ideological mist that distracts us from ethical issues. By taking beauty as seriously as early modern thinkers did, my research underscores the …
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“For you, Tommy, the War is Over… Or is it?” British War Comics 1945 to 1985
… concerns including reader response theory, cultural materialism, adaptation theory, remediation, and representations of national identity and otherness.
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"A Story in an Obscure Corner of the Front Page": Patricia Highsmith, Pamela Moore, Joyce Johnson and the Negotiatory Politics of Sexual and Gender Insubordination in Post-War America
… critically accommodated highly gendered literary-cultural models, namely the lesbian pulp subgenre (The Price of Salt (Carol)), the Freudian interpretation of female juvenile delinquency (Chocolates for Breakfast) and the Beat phenomenon (Come and Join the Dance). To probe into the novels’ …
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Determinants of risky sexual behaviors of Kenyan immigrant men in the US and during visits in Kenya
… for HIV/AIDS among Kenyan males?, 2) What cultural values, beliefs and practices support risky sexual behaviors among Kenyan males?, 3) How do changes in the social and cultural contexts of Kenyan male immigrants affect their thoughts and behaviors about HIV/AIDS risk?, 4) What are the …
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Ignorance and Marital Bliss: Women's Education in the English Novel, 1796-1895
Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) and Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798) demonstrate the futility of educating women, given Britain's law of coverture; they expose the impracticality of ideal women presented in Jean Jacques Rousseau's Émile (1762) and James …