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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"mermaid"”.
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The Mermaid of Champion Mill
Three Missoula misfits stumble upon a mermaid in an abandoned lot. The mermaid becomes the center of a freak show in which the three misfits perform their individual quirks for a constantly growing audience. Gradually, the repeated performances take their toll and the misfits find themselves …
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The Mermaid of Champion Mill
Three Missoula misfits stumble upon a mermaid in an abandoned lot. The mermaid becomes the center of a freak show in which the three misfits perform their individual quirks for a constantly growing audience. Gradually, the repeated performances take their toll and the misfits find themselves …
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Oceans of Literature - The Little Mermaid
<p>Mermaid stories have existed for millennia, stemming back to the ancient cultures of the world. Influenced by the mythos established in books like The Iliad, sirens and mermaids were a part of European culture for centuries. The mermaid as chimera monster that represented the duality of danger …
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Mermaid in the Bathtub: A Speculative Southern Female Gothic Novel
<p>Mermaid in the Bathtub is a Southern female gothic novel set in 1931 rural East Texas. Minnie is a seventeen-year-old woman, married off so her father can find work during the deepening depression and failure of their cotton crop. She is betrothed to Thomas, the Pastor’s son, and doesn’t quite …
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Only Underwater Can We Breathe: The Book of Mermaid Contemplations
<p>In recent years, mermaids have become a cultural zeitgeist. Judging by American women’s ongoing and increasing interest in watching, writing about, and performing as mermaids, many women feel empowered by the mermaid’s hybrid body. Yet there are darker depths to the mermaid myth that continue to …
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Whoring the mermaid: the study of South Korean hostess film (1974-1982)
This dissertation focuses on cinematic representations of prostitute women in South Korean Hostess (ho-sŭ-t'e-sŭ’: a euphemism for prostitutes or bar girls in the Korean context of the 1970s and 1980s) films. This body of films is not only characterized for the exploitive employment of female …
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Making Waves: The Mermaid as Female Muse, with Special Reference to the Writings of H.D and Virginia Woolf
… focus of this dissertation is the exploration of mermaid images in the texts of Virginia Woolf and H.D. The mermaid is a hybrid figure, her space liminal. In her ambiguity she cannot be encompassed within the rigid categories of a world defined by binaries. Her position as an outsider to the …
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Nora's Transformative Journey: From A Doll's House and The Little Mermaid to The Way Home
This critical engagement paper employs the practical work and research conducted for my MFA graduating installation performance The Way Home. For decades, domestic violence researchers analyzed abused women coping with abuse based on their psyche, which portrayed them as having certain needs that …
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Once Upon a Time in a Single-Parent Family: Father and Daughter Relationships in Disney's The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast
… featuring a father and daughter: The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. Both films are adaptations of fairy tales, and they incorporate changes that specifically reflect concerns of the United States in the late-twentieth century. In the original narrative of "The Little Mermaid" the …
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Mermaids and Sirens as Androgynous Figures in Victorian Art and Literature 1870-1915
… project explores the androgynous depictions of mermaids and sirens in Victorian art and literature. It focuses on three Pre-Raphaelite artists – Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919) and John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) – who produced prolific mermaid and siren output, …
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Mar Gur Dream Sí Iad Atá Ag Mairiúint Fén Bhfarraige: ML 4080 the Seal Woman in Its Irish and International Context
… the migratory supernatural legend ML 4080 “The Mermaid Legend” The story is first attested at the end of the eighteenth century, and hundreds of versions of the legend have been collected throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Iceland, the Faroe …
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The mermaids dive for freedom: Voices of feminist community activists plunging through neoliberal times
… to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill‟s poetic imaginary of the mermaid in exile on dry land who must forget about water. Time is a central theme here: the time of „what is‟ is the neutral linear time of closure and endings; the time of „who are you?‟ is a time of beginnings and becomings, where past, present …
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Speculating after the Interregnum: Utopia and Apocalypse in Cape Town
… is examined within the novels of Thirteen Cents, Mermaid Fillet and It Doesn't Have To Be This Way through the usage of tropes such as utopia and apocalypse. I use a few theoretical frameworks that read together explicate the geographies of representation within the novels I examine, from …
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Hakuna Matata! Do Gender Roles Really Matter?: a Feminist Rhetorical Analysis of Walt Disney Cartoons
… White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi, The Little Mermaid and The Lion King are analyzed to determine the relative amount of power that women have vis-a-vis men. The thesis also examines the differences in the portrayal of gender roles of human and animal characters. In addition, a comparison of …
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Formation of Identity from an Outsider Perspective: National and Personal Identities in Films of Fatih Akin and Anna Melikian
… Head-On (2004) and Melikian’s Mars (2004) and Mermaid (2007) and explores how issues of identity and its key categories including gender, sexuality and ethnicity are treated in each of these works. The goal of the thesis is to look into how the historical cataclysms toward the end of the 20th …
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Formation of Identity from an Outsider Perspective: National and Personal Identities in Films of Fatih Akin and Anna Melikian
… Head-On (2004) and Melikian’s Mars (2004) and Mermaid (2007) and explores how issues of identity and its key categories including gender, sexuality and ethnicity are treated in each of these works. The goal of the thesis is to look into how the historical cataclysms toward the end of the 20th …
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Wrestling with Father Shakespeare: Contemporary Revisions of <em>King Lear</em> and <em>The Tempest</em>.
… the children fatherless. In Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Ariel initially disregards her father but ultimately accepts his rule. In Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day, the text itself becomes an orphan as the matriarchy flourishes.</p> <p>Although there appear to be few similarities between these works, the …
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Prinsessur Bluths. Umfjöllun um staðalímynd prinsessunnar í teiknimyndum
… verður notuð Litla hafmeyjan (e. The Little Mermaid) (1989) frá Disney. Þessar myndir verða svo bornar saman við hugmyndina um konuna, stöðu hennar innan samfélagsins, margbreytileika staðalímyndar hennar og þá ímynd sem þessar myndir gefa samfélaginu um konuna.
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A Cauldron of Chaos and Cultivation: Rediscovering Disney Animation of the 1980s
… 1990s successes beginning with <em>The Little Mermaid</em>.</p>
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The head knows what lies near the heart : an anatomy in stories and accompanying essay
… motif of mutilation in “Cinderella”, “The Little Mermaid”, and “The Girl Without Hands”, then through the examination of metamorphosis in contemporary texts of magical realism (Marie Darrieussecq’s Truismes and Karen Russell’s St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves). Each of these chapters is …
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