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Showing 1 to 20 of 182 for “"late-twentieth century"”.
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Homeward bound : late twentieth century domestic travel writing
This thesis examines the state-of the-art of the domestic travel writing genre. In the introduction the challenges facing domestic travel writers are presented. The conclusion mentions recent criticisms of domestic travel writing and refutes these, maintaining that the genre can still offer ideas …
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Danmarkshistorier: National Imagination and Novel in Late Twentieth Century Denmark
… National Imagination and Novel in Late Twentieth-Century Denmark C.C.Thomson, University of Edinburgh, 2003 This thesis centres on the contemporary Danish novel as a conduit for national imagining. Chapter one begins with a discussion of Benedict Anderson's account of the ability of …
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Collaborations and Resistances Between Writing and Photography in Late Twentieth-Century France
Roland Barthes, Geoffrey Batchen, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Stuart Hall, W. J. T. Mitchell, and Susan Sontag are among the critics who provide useful concepts and theories as a foundation from which to explore encounters between texts and photographs.
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Uncommon work: Utopia, labor, and environment in late twentieth-century American fiction
… impossible for political imagining since the late twentieth century. This obsolescence of utopia has been felt particularly acutely among the environmental movement. After its optimistic emergence in the 1960s and 1970s as a corollary of the New Left, the environmental movement became …
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Relocation narratives 'Made in Italy': self and place in late-twentieth century travel writing
At the intersection of life writing and travel writing, relocation narratives form a distinct subgenre of contemporary travel memoirs concerned with the inter-subjective and intra-subjective experiences of travellers who become settlers in foreign locales. Lured by the dream of the ‘good life’ …
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Transfiguring the female: women and girls engaging the transnational in late twentieth century Japan
… overtly challenged gender and sexual norms in late twentieth century Japan: the women involved in the uman ribu [women’s liberation] movement and the rezubian [lesbian] community, as well as young women artists and girl readers of what I call queer shojo manga [girls’ comics]. The individuals …
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Oedipus' Wake: The (Neo-)Masculinization of the Self in Late Twentieth-Century American Women's Memoir
… this study briefly examines the mid- to late-twentieth-century flowering of western theory and criticism built around autobiographical writing and follows the feminist branch(es) of that theory and criticism through a reading of the following four memoirs: <em>Autobiography of a Face …
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The investigation of scandal from Watergate to Monicagate: the special prosecutor in late twentieth century American politics
… of the mid 1970s to the Lewinsky scandal of the late 1990s. The project will evaluate the role of the Special Prosecutor in the investigation of alleged executive wrongdoing and analyse changing trends in political, judicial, media and popular opinion, regarding the conduct of the Special …
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PASSING AS JEWISH: THE MATERIAL CONSEQUENCES OF RACE AND THE PROPERTY OF WHITENESS IN LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY PASSING NOVELS
… development of American multiracialism as it relates to Jewish identity, and demonstrates the role of Jewish identity in constructions of race, ethnicity, and identity in Caucasia. In Chapter 3, I show that the protagonist’s passing narrative in The Human Stain mirrors the path of the American …
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Sex positionality : a history of the role of gender and race in mid-to-late-twentieth-century evangelical sex literature.
… rigid restrictions on women's ministry in the late 1980s, women firmly claimed sex as ministry in the 1990s and 2000s, along with a heavier emphasis on purity and men's sexual aggression. Finally, I assess the role of race and argue that white evangelicals constructed their ethic against …
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Graphic Politics: A visual history of activism and resistance in the Arab world from the middle to late twentieth century
This doctoral study is situated in the broader context of design for social and political change, exploring the overlap between visual communication design and political engagement in the Arab Middle East and North Africa (the Arab world), with a specific focus on revolutionary uprisings from the …
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My Life as I Remember It: Subjectivities, feeling, and narrative in working-class women’s self-representation from late-twentieth-century England
… a comparative methodology of texts from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with works from the late twentieth century to historicise dominant structures of feeling and examine how working-class women responded to patterns of social change. The following chapters each focus on a …
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The mediation in late twentieth-century English theatres of selected ancient Greek tragedy texts and themes concerned with women and power
… the following chapters examines some aspect of late twentiethcentury English theatre in relation to its reception through performance of a Greek original text or theme. Chapter 2 deals with changes in English theatre over the last three decades, as reflected by versions of the Bacchae. Chapter 3 …
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Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains: Media, Technology, and Native American Music in the Late Twentieth Century
*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: Windows MediaPlayer or RealPlayer.
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Labyrinths : navigating Daedalus' legacy : the role of labyrinths in selected contemporary fiction
… from antiquity through to the beginnings of the twentieth century. The shifting cultural significance of the labyrinth and its deployment in historical documents and literature alike is also evaluated. In particular, it focuses on two distinctive manifestations of the labyrinth: the Egyptian and …
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A cultural history of The Great Book of Ireland – Leabhar Mór na hÉireann
… of Ireland /Leabhar Mór na hÉireann (GBOI), a late-twentieth-century single-volume vellum manuscript created in Dublin between 1989 and 1993. Addressing a gap in both public and critical awareness of this modern manuscript, the thesis situates the GBOI into the wider historical, literary and …
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Domestic faiths, global missions: post-secular science fiction at the millennium
In the late twentieth century, new “post-secular” modes of literary representation emerged that challenged the implicitly Protestant epistemologies of dominant twentieth century American secularism. My dissertation, Domestic Faiths, Global Missions: Post-secular Science Fiction at the Millennium, …
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Phallic/ies and Hi(s)stories: Masculinity and the Black Nationalist Tradition, From Slave Spirituals to Rap Music
… by the male members of an early nineteenth-century urban Black bourgeoisie into a politicized form of oral expression invented by the male members of a late twentieth-century urban Black ""underclass."""
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