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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"public readings"”.
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The economic impact of the Writers-in-the-Schools program at UNLV: 2003
… Four nationally recognized writers conducted public readings at UNLV, and those that attended these events were the subject of this study. Through employing the logit and probit methods of estimation in a theoretical Random Utility Model, the mean willingness to pay to attend the events were …
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Collecting Collects: The Family Photograph in the British Newspaper
… aspects of the complex categories of private and public photographs through the study of the usage and treatment of the 'family photograph' in British national newspapers. It draws on an ethnographic approach of finding, collecting and archiving examples of family photographs in the newspaper …
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Dickens and the Making of His Readings
… the prompt copies that Dickens made for his public readings. In many ways, my thesis expands upon the work of Philip Collins and Malcolm Andrews who have offered the most substantial scholarly engagements with Dickens’s readings. The work of these scholars has largely focused on the …
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Dickens' Self-created Literary Brand in Novels and Adaptations
… persona he used in his prefaces, letters, and public appearances. While Pykett mentions the modern Dickens industry, this dissertation primarily focuses on Dickens' works during his lifetime, when Dickens had to contend with other people, such as theatre adapters, publishers, and pirates, for …
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Yummy Mummies, baby bumps and body image : shaping 'Postmodern' pregnancy in Melbourne, Australia
… of body image were located in `private' and `public' readings of informants' bodies and anxieties surrounding the maintenance of an appropriate feminine `self . Focusing primarily on dressing, eating, exercise and discourses of `risk', the study suggests that embodied conceptions of selfhood …