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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"self-fashioning"”.
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Heroic Self-Fashioning in Statius' Thebaid
… greatness that they claim to have in their self-presentations is therefore called into question by the Thebaid’s narrative and its narrator, who condemns the actions of the heroes throughout the poem. Throughout my project, I will be interested in the gap that forms behind the heroic image, …
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Chicana Sartoriality: Self-Fashioning Towards Decolonial Futures
… with multiple colonialities. I use the term “self-fashioning” to highlight an active process in which Chicanas co-construct identities, communities, and politics through fashion and material objects. Chicana sartoriality identifies a distinct gendered realm of coloniality. If coloniality …
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Dress and women's self-fashioning in Makonde, Zimbabwe
This study examines dress and women's self-fashioning in rural Zimbabwe. The main research question relates to how Korekore women experience, understand and interpret their dress choices to express their identities. Deploying social constructionism as theoretical frame, I build on decolonial …
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Royal Self-Fashioning: King James VI and his Demonology
… as it relates to the themes of masculinity and self-fashioning. By analysing James, through his demonological treatise, I illuminate James’s anxiety of the learned man and show his masking of that anxiety through textual self-fashioning as it appears in his Daemonologie.
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Female heroism and self-fashioning in young adult adaptations
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Materialising Power: The Role of looted European Cultural Objects in Nazi Elite Self-fashioning
… objects as tools of power, ideology, and self-fashioning. It argues that looting was not a by-product of war but a deliberate strategy central to Nazi cultural policy, disguising theft as legality while reinforcing the regime’s symbolic authority. Focusing on Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, …
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Problematised History Pedagogy as Narrative Research: Self-Fashioning, Dismantled Voices and Reimaginings in History Education
… participants and me in theorising pedagogies, fashioning pedagogic identities, and engaging critically with curriculum conceptions of history. The PHP sought to reimagine history curriculum and pedagogy and identify pedagogic spaces of possibility. The narrative research was layered as a …
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Self-fashioning (Im)Possibilities: A Literary Tapestry of Women at Work in Nineteenth-Century America
… place in a culture that valorizes women who selflessly devote themselves to family and community. These authors show that while work empowers women who are privileged by race and class, work oppresses women who are defined by the material conditions of their lives. Focusing on working women …
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Self-fashioning, Consumption, and <em>Japonisme</em>: The Power of Collecting in Tissot’s <em>Jeunes Femmes Regardant des Objets Japonais</em>, 1869
This study examines self-fashioning and the practice of collecting in Second Empire Paris as manifest in James Tissot's Jeunes femmes regardant des objets japonais (1869, Cincinnati Museum of Art). The painting, exhibited in the Salon of 1869, conspicuously portrays Tissot's own collection of …
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La auto-modelación y el sujeto femenino en La Celestina de Fermando de Rojas y en La Farsa de la Costança de Cristóbal de Castillejo
This thesis examines the concept of self-fashioning in the Spanish texts La Celestina and Farsa de Costança. Greenblatt's theory of self-fashioning in English Renaissance literature can also be applied to the analysis of these Medieval and Renaissance works of the Iberian Peninsula. Self-fashioning …
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Fashioning Women Under Totalitarian Regimes: "New Women" of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia
… under totalitarian systems by comparing women's fashioning by the state and their self-fashioning in Germany and Russia during the Third Reich and Bolshevik and Stalinist rule respectively. I argue that processes of women's fashioning and self-fashioning were largely influenced by the nineteenth- …
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Female Bildung Before Goethe: An Early Modern Rogue's Endowment
… a confessionary and cunning persona, became a self-fashioning trope, one who transformed from a static character to one who navigated a harsh society, with her own inward, psychological reactions. Daniel Defoe, as a middle-class journalist, was poised to inherit Early Modern Englishwomen’s …
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"A painterly performance of politeness: Jean-Étienne Liotard’s ""Still Life: Tea Set"" and identity in eighteenth-century England"
… to the phenomena of politeness and superficial self-fashioning, or the ancien régime of identity—a concept put forth by Dror Wahrman. When considered within the historically situated themes of eighteenth-century consumerism, the emergence of the Georgian middle-class, and polite society, it …
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The Age of Insects: Gender, Class, Race and the Experience of British Entomology in the Long Nineteenth Century
… these tensions and argue this was done by self-fashioning, managing emotions, and the development of a special, entomological gaze. The moral and emotional economies of entomology were shaped by a dominant streak of middle-class gentility, which upheld an ideal of the ‘true’ entomologist, …
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The City in Mind: Environmental Literacy and Adaptation in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… dissertation argues that a new paradigm of selfhood emerged in nineteenth-century British literature, one that recognized the individual will and environmental influence not as antithetical but as dialectical forces in the formation of the self. The concept of an externally negotiated …
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The mother(land) through narrative and nostalgia : the role stories play in the crafting of imagined (exiled) communities
… widely-applicable insights into the process of self-fashioning. This autoethnographical methodology bridges the gap between the personal and the public, and in the words of Heewon Chang 'transcends mere narration of self to engage in cultural analysis and interpretation'.
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Noble virtues and rich chaines : patronage in the poetry of Amilia Lanyer
… of her struggle to carve out a space for herself as a female writer in an essentially patriarchal realm. Lanyer's portrayal of her prospective patrons, and her own poetic self-fashioning, navigates the essentially masculine patronage system governing both the imaginary and actual realms of …
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The Changing Face of Fortune in Six English Versions of the Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
… identity and what Stephen Greenblatt has called "self-fashioning," so that by 1678 the subject of John Dryden's All for Love is not the quest for the Fortune of Love as its title indicates, but instead the characters are concerned with answering the question "Who am I?" The main change in the …
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