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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"disgrace"”.
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Disgrace and Agency: Pompeiian Gladiators and Infamia in the Julio-Claudian Period
Roman gladiators have received no shortage of scholarly and public attention over the last few decades. However, many contradictions remain in our understanding of these individuals. More specifically, the legal term infamia has been central to recent scholarship, yet the focus of these studies …
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The making of Disgrace Kelly: Dragging the diva through cabarets, pubs and Into the recital hall
… the Dust. I developed a diva character named Disgrace Kelly, an aggregate of a multitude of divas studied and performed throughout the research. This study informed the structure of Diva Bites the Dust programme and is explored contextually within the exegesis. Diva Bites the Dust was the …
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Between respectability and disgrace: schismogenesis and the regeneration of inequality, stigma and social exclusion in Limerick
The thesis examines cultural processes underpinning the emergence, institutionalisation and reproduction of class boundaries in Limerick city. The research aims to bring a new understanding to the contemporary context of the city’s urban regeneration programme. Acknowledging and recognising other …
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"""A disgrace to her Colours"": the Mediterranean population problem & tactics of governmentality in eighteenth-century Gibraltar"
"This dissertation examines the pervading sense of crisis among Gibraltar's eighteenth-century British governors, caused by the large-scale geopolitical conflicts of the period and the multiethnic inhabitants of the territory, and the commanders' attempts to manage that crisis by embracing …
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Film adaptation of the post-apartheid South African novel: re-examining the aesthetics of creation of disgrace
While many scholarships of the film adaptation of Disgrace have championed the fidelity rhetoric of the film with respect to J.M. Coetzee's novel, and in so doing, have advocated the axiomatic hierarchy of literature over cinema, this dissertation challenges the fidelity discourse about the film …
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Bestiaries the animal and the human in Mila Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace
… Unbearable Lightness of Being and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace in line with Agamben's notion of the fluidity of the human-animal border. The first chapter of this dissertation, 'Behaving like Animals', offers a reading of the biblical tale of Genesis and of the numerous sexual encounters in the novels …
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"Not rape, not quite that" : an exploration of the rape narratives in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and in The Heart of the Country within the South African context
… of the rape narratives in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and In the Heart of the Country within the South African context. Initially, I briefly explore the proposition that the problem of rape in South Africa is perpetuated by the myths about rape which essentially obfuscate the reality of the …
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From race to grace : the other J M Coetzee
… in his 1999 Booker Prize-winning novel, Disgrace, of worlds that often seem bleak and bereft of redemption. In this dissertation I will argue that there is a resonance in Coetzee's writing that goes beyond the political and historical and that adds another dimension to his work. The focus …
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Livingstone's cataract
… painter Thomas Baines returned to Cape Town in disgrace, having been dismissed from David Livingstone's expedition to explore the Kebrabasa rapids on the Zambesi River. Livingstone's Cataract is a historical novel that follows Baines's involvement with the expedition. It is written from Baines's …
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Representations of the East in the poetry of Bryon: A Study in Culture and Identity
… it is depicted in J.M. Coetzee's recent novel. Disgrace
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Representations of the East in the poetry of Byron : a study in culture and identity
… as it is depicted in JM Coetzee's recent novel, Disgrace.
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Thinking through the politics of shame as a contemporary form of colonial discourse : analysing media representations of the Baby Tshepang rape case
… "savage" existence; a town with no future and a disgrace to the country. Essentialist thinking about woman was used to condemn and blame the mother of baby Tshepang, concretizing the myth that rape is always the fault of women.
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Pandangan tokoh masyarakat terhadap pernikahan dini akibat hamil pranikah: Studi di Desa Sengon Agung Kecamatan Purwosari Kabupaten Pasuruan
… parents have no other choices than to cover that disgrace choice to marry someone of her up. Hasten the marriage not only do to cover disgrace and save the status of the child after birth but also to protect a slander. This study is conducted to find out the view of community leaders in the Sengon …
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The Elemental Ideas of Harriet Beecher Stowe Revolutionized: Popular Thought in a Critical Period of American History
… her, the harrowing scenes of cruelty amounted to disgrace; Christian charity and righteousness rose to honor and respect. Then, upon the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a new era of thought was ushered in; and its effects were soon felt not only in America tut also in the Old World.
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Illegitimate Celebrity in the British Long Eighteenth Century
… behavior were often punished by exile, debt, disgrace, and humiliation. Some performers even faced a veritable textual and historical oblivion. Illegitimate Celebrity considers the careers of Dorothy Jordan, William Henry West Betty, Edmund Kean, and Margaret Agnes Bunn, and offers a …
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Limitations and Longing: Sacrifice in Global Anglophone Literature
… used in Salman Rushdie's Shame, J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, and Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in order to explore the links between sacrifice, nation, and narrative. These novels examine the nature of nation, the violence of sacrifice, and also the failures of narrative to …
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Calming The Waves Double Wind Orchestra
… and how the political situation, honor and disgrace, and gain and loss in social life are also insignificant. I used a melodic element of the Chinese folk song “Little Cow Herding” as a main theme of my work, because some of the lyrics of this folk song record hardships or pleasures of …
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Thrownness, Attunement, Attention: A Heideggerian Account of Responsibility
… the examples of the film 'Locke' and the novel 'Disgrace', I propose that attentiveness, with its accent on that which is beyond the subject, is a more appropriate way of conceiving responsibility on a Heideggerian account.
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Monstrative acts and becoming-monster: on identity, bodies, and the feminine other
… M. Butterfly (1986) and J. M. Coetzee’s novel, Disgrace (1999). Western definitions of Being have historically divided body and mind, favouring the mind as formative of subjective experience and denigrating the body as secondary and impure. This thesis demonstrates that this mind/body binary is …
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