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Showing 1 to 20 of 158 for “"golden age"”.
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Constructing the Artistic Subject in Golden Age Spain
… examine the development of artistic identity in Golden Age Spain by elucidating the cultural, social, and economic contexts which framed notions of the artist during this period. More particularly, I focus on the notion of artistic nobility as it relates to contemporary evolving aristocratic …
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Buried Alive: Hard Science Fiction Since the Golden Age
… of noted sf critics, it may well be that a new golden age of sf is dawning, one with an even truer scientific core as well as a commitment to literary quality. This thesis will expose the curious contradiction between the hard and soft / old and new sf. The introduction will examine the …
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Life Still: A Sequence of Paintings Reimagining Dutch Golden Age Still Life
Abstract This research project refers to a sequence of forty-nine monochrome paintings, made between 2016 and 2020, which took as starting point Dutch 17th century still life painting. The works use an idiosyncratic graphite medium to interpret, appropriate and reposition the genre, resulting in a …
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Competing visions: Women writers and male illustrators in the Golden Age of Illustration
… illustrators during what has been termed the "Golden Age of Illustration" (1880--1920). Due to advances in printing technology and the proliferation of mass-market magazines just before the turn-of-the-last century, novels and short stories were often published with images by illustrators like …
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Picaresque and romance in Golden Age Spain and postcolonial Britain : a comparative study
… two distant but similar multicultural contexts: Golden Age Spain and postmodern Britain. Picaresque and romance are chosen to illustrate how authors question religious oppression, cultural intolerance and thought control within multicultural contexts. Cervantes and Rushdie give voice to …
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Genre Identity in the Golden Age: The Post-Cervantine 'Novela Corta' Andthe 'Comedia'
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South Korean golden-age comedy film: industry, genre, and popular culture (1953-1970)
This dissertation, “South Korean Golden-Age Comedy Film: Industry, Genre, and Popular Culture (1953 -1970),” examines the socio-cultural and political aspects of comedy films made in South Korea in the 1950s and 1960s, the era in which the South Korean nation mobilized in the name of “development” …
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Profession, vocation or duty?: Economic discourses of woman's work in Golden Age Spanish literature.
… or duty?: Economic discourses of woman's work in Golden Age Spanish literature.
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The Golden Heroine: An Analysis of the Domestic Heroine in Golden Age Children's Literature
The Golden Age of children's literature (1860s-1910s) was a period in literary history that saw the publication of many a beloved and, now, classic children's story. It was a time of reinvention for children's literature: writers came down from their moral high-ground and began to address children …
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The Good Old Days: The Concept of the Golden Age in Greek Political Thought
… life? This dissertation investigates why the golden age—the idealized utopia of the past—has been employed so frequently by political thinkers and movements throughout history. By examining how ancient political thinkers utilized the concept of the golden age, I identify the unique power and …
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A Qualitative Analysis of Brigham Young University's Golden Age Theater Production and Outreach Course
… comparative study of Brigham Young University's Golden Age <em>Comedia</em> (GAC) and Golden Age Theater Production (GATP) courses. The two courses cover much of the same academic material, but one of the differences between the two approaches to the teaching of Golden Age literature is that the …
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Bringing Up The Bodies: Golden Age Detective Fiction and the buried past, 1920-1970
Detective fiction of the ‘Golden Age’ begins after the First World War. The sense that this severed the present era from a formerly continuous narrative of history can be seen in the language of the decades after the war: full of gaps and cleavages, of never-healing wounds. I read the popularity of …
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Subjecthood and Sovereignty among the ‘Real’ and ‘Imagined’ Pirates of a ‘Golden Age’, 1690–1705
… among the ‘Real’ and ‘Imagined’ Pirates of a ‘Golden Age’, 1690-1705’, offers a reconceptualisation of European piracy in the Indian Ocean through an exploration of piracy’s relationship with sovereignty and subjecthood. Traditionally interpreted through Euro-Atlantic frameworks, piracy’s …
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A study of the attitudes of Golden Age Club members towards their program, worker, and agency
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University
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The Golden Age And The Age Of Gold: Memory And The Alchemy Of History In California, 1877-1888
… Hubert Howe Bancroft and his assistant Thomas Savage collected a preserved a primary cultural memory of California from the aging populations of Alta California (1769-1846) in the form of dictated oral memoirs. The diversity of the testators included in the project mirrored the diversity of Alta …
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"The Medieval Bestiary In The Golden Age: Allegory And Emblem In Gracian's ""el Criticon"" (physiologus, Carnival, Grotesque, Beast, Mask)"
The perpetual problems of pessimism versus optimism and Christianity versus secularity in El Criticon have always been issues without resolution. Many critics erroneously assume that because Gracian was a Jesuit and Spain a Catholic country that therefore El Criticon was an optimistic, Christian …
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Reinventing the golden age ballpark and the pastoral ideal : a new home for the Boston Red Sox on Fort Point Channel
… found in the ballpark, specifically the "golden age ballparks" (built between 1909-1914), offer valuable lessons in understanding the factors that have shaped and influenced our urban centers. The contribution of the pastoral ideal to the American urban experience, in the form of the …
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