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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"sentimentality"”.
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Lines of Feeling: Modernist Women's Poetry and the Limits of Sentimentality
… and political aims of nineteenth-century sentimentality. Through a series of detailed textual and historical readings, “Lines of Feeling” demonstrates that this diverse group of modernist women poets reinvented the traditional form of the sentimental lyric in response to modernity. In so …
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I love you to death : the voice of the woman artist : sex, violence, sentimentality
At a dinner party in Durban after the opening of Come, a 2007 exhibition of Michaelis MFA students, a woman asked me about my work. When I told her it was "the bullets", by way of description (One Hundred Bullets With Your Name On Them), she said something along the lines of "oh, that's so …
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VALUING EMOTIONS (QING) AND SENTIMENTALITY: THE AESTHETIC CHANGES OF LYRIC (CI) IN LATE MING AND EARLY QING
… the aesthetic trend of valuing emotions and sentimentality in lyrics, so as to reveal the transformation of aesthetic development that showed the shift from one’s innermost feelings to an object’s allegorical meanings. In this dissertation, textual analysis is based on the use of diction, …
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Sentimentality and digital storytelling: towards a post-conflict pedagogy in pre-service teacher education in South Africa
… - particularly in what I termed a potential sentimentality - in both the digital storytelling process and product. I looked at sentimentality in a specific way: as the tension between the centrality of emotions to establish an affective engagement between a storyteller and the audience, and …
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The ‘Failed’ Detectives: Failure as a Structure of Feeling in American Detective Fiction, 1914-1953
… Rinehart and Chandler to highlight the issue of sentimentality in detective fiction, both despised by the high modernist society of the time being considered as “failure of feeling” in close relation to their feminization of mass culture. These two writers’ works were chosen, however, because …
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Plautus and the Sentimental Ideal of the Roman Family
… historians and also look at modern examples of sentimentality (in literature and in other cultural material), using these as a tool to measure sentimentality in Plautus. My overall contention is that Plautus' metatheatrical plays deliberately explored and exploited the sentimental ideology of …
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Contemporary Kitsch: An examination through creative practice
… research investigates: how the sensory affect of sentimentality imbued in the kitsch experiences, possessions and material objects people covet and collect, offer a way of the individual moving from disembeddedness to a state of being re-embedded; and locates the ways in which the artist can …
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The Sweet River: A collection of short stories
… on the external landscape as a means of avoiding sentimentality while still preserving emotional resonance.
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Obsessive collecting : curiosity of lost objects and unknown narratives, an archive of carte de visites
… a collection, as a fragment which captures the sentimentality of people who have outlived their portraits. The carte de visite is a piece of photo history, an autobiographical trace, a social phenomenon of the past and present. This body of work is a result of a personal process and …
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A comparative analysis in residence design in early American traditional and one of the current revolutionary styles
… to literature, music or art. The danger lies in sentimentality or sentiment carried to the extreme, which should be avoided, as exemplified by period design. A reaction against this sentimentality, along with developments of new materials and processes, gave rise to the completely diametric …
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Primitivism and The Animal in Shakespeare's Macbeth
… opposed to being summoned from a retrospective sentimentality. To illuminate this reading, I look primarily at encounters with figures embodying the primitive sensibilities the early modern subject would have been expected to have surmounted, namely, the ability to reason and act in accordance …
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When the "Unprotected" Body Speaks: The Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Black Females in the Caribbean and the United States
… Prince, Jacobs, Seacole and Wilson incorporate sentimentality, memory, work ethics and even intimacy as literary tropes in their narratives that distinguish them as individuals, in spite of nineteenth century socialized and racialized limitations. In other words, by writing and publishing her …
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In Pursuit of Reason: An Essay on Rationality and Emotion
… their hedonic character and their potential for sentimentality.
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Panography
… a subordinate position, fit merely for terror, sentimentality or pathetic fallacy.
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"The Bellows / of Experience": The Modernist Love Poem and Its Legacy
… poems and culminating in nineteenth-century sentimentality—as well as explicit erotic content, satire, polemic, violence, and anxiety. It is not neatly bounded by nation, gender, race, or aesthetic approach, but nonetheless, this project examines the consistent presence and achievement of …
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Representing Childhood: The Social, Historical, and Theatrical Significance of the Child on Stage
… source of labor and/or income to objects of sentimentality, Western childhood is engaged in a perpetual process of revision. In each my case studies, which are focused on the work of William Shakespeare, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Martin McDonagh, I explore the ways in which each playwright …
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Promises broken: Breach of promise of marriage in England and Wales, 1753-1970
… (for women). They indulged in middle-class sentimentality in their letters and poetry, yet their courting was less formal and unsupervised. This mixture of needs was also reflected in their motives for separating, a combination of ideological, structural and personal difficulties. There was …
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Queer aesthetics of empathy and gothicness in contemporary sculpture
… to notions of modelling, absorption, camp, sentimentality, embarrassment, and popular culture. Prefigured by the past, such referents arouse a queer temporality. Methodologically aligned with Freeman’s notion of temporal drag, through the theories of Muñoz, Dinshaw, and Halberstam, empathy …
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"""I thought of you in her place"": representations of black womanhood in American literary realism, 1868-1900"
… that realism intersects so profoundly with sentimentality and simultaneously becomes more like it. My approach to the role of race in realism is thus informed by an emphasis on literary form and social history, particularly as they interact in these texts’ deployment of African American …
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