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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"midcentury"”.
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Midcentury modern: a memoir
<p>Personal essays combine memory and documentary sources to portray an American family re-inventing itself in a prototypical post war suburban community. Interrogates the stories we tell about ourselves, our families, communities and society.</p>
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Reel Guidance: Midcentury Classroom Films and Adolescent Adjustment
This thesis examines the cultural and political messages found in "social guidance" films, a genre of films produced for pedagogical purposes in the United States following the Second World War. Educational film producers relied on social science consultants for legitimacy and employed plots that …
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A prophet unwelcome : motive magazine, the Methodist Student Movement, and midcentury Methodism.
motive magazine (1941-1972) was the official magazine of the Methodist Student Movement and, for several of its final years, for the University Christian Movement as well. Controversial from the beginning, motive stood apart from contemporary campus ministry publications with its featuring of …
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Being aesthetic after the American midcentury: Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, John Ashbery
‘What else is there’, John Ashbery asked Kenneth Koch in 1965, ‘besides matters of taste?’ This thesis seeks to recover a neglected point of encounter between poetry and philosophy in postwar modernity: the crucial yet previously unexplored conjunction between first-generation New York poetry and …
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Reading for Health: Bibliotherapy and the Medicalized Humanities in the United States, 1930-1965
In this dissertation, I tell the story of midcentury attempts to establish, develop, and study bibliotherapy in the US. I follow three groups-hospital librarians, psychologists and psychiatrists, and language arts educators-from the 1930s to the 1960s, when each in its own ways expressed belief in …
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"The Eye Is The Window for the Soul:" Essays on the American Anti-Comics Movement
… books were a profound cultural phenomenon in midcentury America. Millions of Americans read comics, child and adult alike, but comics retained a perception as a medium consumed primarily by children. A powerful anti-comic book movement arose to combat their influence because of perceived …
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Signifying nothing: intelligence and intellectual disability in modern British literature and culture, 1919 – 1969
… this project argues that a significant body of midcentury literature models how competing theories of intelligence, if they were accorded cultural authority, could affect imagined communities. Examining literary works by H.D., Rebecca West, Olive Moore, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Samuel …
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Anti-Poverty Programs, Social Conflict, and Economic Thought in Colombia and the United States, 1948-1980
… The dissertation further illuminates the role of midcentury policymaking in popularizing what became neoliberal practices after 1980, most importantly those of state decentralization, gentrification, and public-private partnership. Finally, midcentury social programs provide a context in which to …
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Building Bagel Beach: An Examination of Jewish Architects and Regional Design in Twentieth Century Miami Beach
… forms of architecture in Miami Beach during the midcentury period of the 1930s through the 1960s. From Tropical Art Deco through Miami Modernism (MiMo), Jewish architects were at the forefront of design in the region. Three Jewish architects are highlighted: Henry Hohauser, Norman Giller, and …
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"Of things related": network assemblages in the longform poems of Muriel Rukeyser, Melvin Tolson, Langston Hughes and Louis Zukofsky
… of the poems speaks to each of these poets’ midcentury concerns related to topics such as the environment, race, class, personhood and the nature of democracy. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Bruno Latour, Manuel DeLanda, Gilles Delueze, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, I explore the …
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Windows on the World: The Aesthetics of Difference in Neoliberal New York
… era. I trace this argument through analyses of midcentury planning’s global spatial imaginings, gentrification and imperial metaphor, transnational encounter in World literature, and the city’s contemporary waste and recourse imaginaries. While I follow the Marxist account of the New York’s …
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Organic Angels: Innocence, Conversion, and Consumption in the Antebellum American Novel
Midcentury American novelists variously reworked the traditional conversion narrative to reflect a marked cultural shift in attitude towards human "nature," newly conceived as innocent and inclined to salvation. This liberalized aesthetic of conversion takes shape through the trope of the "organic …
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Revisioning Popular Narratives of Trans Lives, 1952–1976
… to the historicization of trans identity at midcentury. By extending the trans canon to include pulp and erotic novels and periodicals like Virginia Prince’s magazine <em>Transvestia,</em> which have often been overlooked in trans scholarship because of their status as “low” art or their …
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Systems Engineering for Carbon Capture and Storage
… mission to achieve NetZero carbon emissions by midcentury. By capturing and storing CO2 from large industrial sources and power plants, CCS mitigates the impact of existing industrial activities while maintaining energy security and economic stability. The study underscores the necessity of a …
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Modelling Diarists: Diary-writing and Moral Anxieties in China, 1918–62
… and anxieties at the grassroots in midcentury China.
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Studio of Nature: The Transformation of Artists' Studios, 1845–1910
… that informed artistic movements around midcentury encouraged a direct engagement with reality. While fragments of the natural world could be brought into the studio for study, by and large the studio separated artists from physical nature. This epistemological shift catalyzed numerous …
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'Design with Nature and Culture': The Landscapes of George Erwin Patton
… nature were disassociated from one another in midcentury landscape architecture. Despite the clear influence of Patton’s work on the urban fabric of Philadelphia, his designs have not received the recognition they deserve. Previous scholarship on Patton’s independent career is scarce and has …
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Divine providence and epidemic cholera : a contribution to the study of secularization of thought in nineteenth century England
… investigation of religious change. The midcentury years, ostensibly a period of high religious consciousness, provide an opportunity to explore processes which were eventually to lead to the more secular nature of society apparent by the end of the century. The recurring cholera …
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Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800.
… root in a new market of gardening women in the midcentury, male writers, as Chapter 3 observes, use the rhetoric of the virtuoso to cast aspersions on women who garden as a way to announce their literacy, as exemplified in the writings of Eliza Haywood. Chapter 4 extends these trends into the …
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Science, Practice, and the Reform of American Medical Education
… earlier opponents of less tendentious reforms at midcentury. The eventual outcome of reform battles at Harvard and other medical schools in the late teens and 1920s cannot fairly be characterized as a straight forward victory for the reductionist scientists over practitioners. The basic scientists …
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