Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"structure of feeling"”.
-
The ‘Failed’ Detectives: Failure as a Structure of Feeling in American Detective Fiction, 1914-1953
… and mid-twentieth century through the keyword of failure. Using Raymond Williams’s ‘structure of feeling’ to make “a cultural hypothesis” of failure especially prevailing at the turn of the century, I argue that failure as a set of structures of feeling is most distinctly literalized in the …
-
The antihuman unconscious in twenty-first century science fiction cinema: structure of feeling, the political unconscious, and problematising the human in science fiction films produced since 1999
… unconscious present in science fiction cinema of the twenty-first century, which is the result of the tumultuous events of the previous two decades. These events have led many to question if the human species will, or should, survive into the future, and this is reflected in science fiction …
-
"But... the luminous tree!" The Uses of the Imagination in Resistant Cultural Production
… has developed in the United Kingdom as a result of neoliberal austerity measures. This impasse is broadly experienced by political subjects via an affective stasis, the feeling that no meaningful intervention can be made to transform material conditions. I examine the uses of the imagination in …
-
Aesthetic representation and political economy in the beat narrative: Structures of feeling in the post-World War II generation
… studies methodologies, explores the role of the literary text in relation to both Karl Marx's "material conception of history," as well as Raymond William's idea of a "structure of feeling." Using the novels published by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs in the 1950s (specifically, …
-
‘How Does it Feel?’: Masculinity, Transformation and Structures of Feeling in British Television in the 1970s and 1980s
This thesis examines representations of masculinity in British television of the 1970s and 1980s which reveal a structure of feeling around masculine discourses of the period. It questions the ease of transformative change in gender identities and gender relations in terms of masculine performance …
-
Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction
Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction argues that garbage of the post-World War II period can be read as an index of the Cold War cultural landscape and its structure of feeling. This dissertation treats these remainders as archival …
-
The Decades Of Disillusionment: Essays On Indian Literature And Cinema After Nehru
This dissertation is a study of themes of disillusionment and disappointment in modern Indian literature and cinema. The death of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, marks the symbolic starting point for the project. Part I of the dissertation focuses on the period of crisis between …
-
Truffaut Un-Sutured : a psychogeographical reading of The 400 Blows
… required for a spectator to become the subject of a film and also functions to conceal the film’s ideological mechanisms. In a critical survey of existing criticism of Francois Truffaut's films in general, and The 400 Blows in particular, the dissertation argues that the majority of this …
-
The natural and rural world in twentieth century British poetry
During two hundred years of urbanisation and industrialisationg British poetry has often seemed more concerned with the natural and rural world. The thesis uses this paradox to explore two particular aspects of Twentieth Century poetry of the natural azid rural world -'its attitude and orientation …
-
The psychasthenia of deep space: evaluating the ‘reassertion of space in critical social theory’
The aim of this work is to question the notion of space that underlies the claimed ‘spatial turn’ in geographical and social theory. Section 1 examines this theoretical literature, drawing heavily on Soja as the self declared taxonomist of the genre, and also seeks parallels with more populist …
-
Pleasures and Powers of Affective Disorientation: Iconoclastic Ambivalence and Polyvalence in the NDW
… rich affective dynamics characterizing the music of the Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) and its ambivalent critical reception, with a particular focus on gender representation. It argues that NDW music expresses the conflicted structures of feeling (Williams) that characterize the era, so that the works …
-
The Rhythm of Our Lives: Popular Music and Cultural Memory in the Age of the Internet and Retro Culture
… memory through retro culture and the affordances of the internet and mobile listening technologies. The theoretical framework is comprised of a blend of approaches, namely, Hesmondhalgh’s (2005) ‘none of the above’ thesis, Mannheim’s (1928) concept of the ‘generation unit’, Williams’ (1961) …
-
Migritude: Migrant Structures of Feeling in a Minor Literature of Globalization
<p><em>Migritude: Structures of Feeling in a Minor Literature of Globalization </em>examines contemporary postcolonial narratives of migration written by women of color writing in English and in Italian under the rubric of “migritude.” Migritude literature describes the work of a disparate yet …
-
Slippin’: A participatory and psychocultural study of inner city youth, masculinity, race and mental health.
This is a study of youth and urban marginality set in the inner city neighbourhood of St Pauls, Bristol. The study centres on and around a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project undertaken with seven young Black British men aged 15 to 24, over eighteen months in the period immediately before …
-
The company man: colonial agents and the idea of the virtuous empire, 1786-1901
The Company Man argues that corporate ways of organising communities permeated British imperial culture. My point of departure is the obsession shared between Anglo-Indian writers and imperial policymakers with the threat of unmanageable agency, the employee who will not follow orders. By taking up …
-
An analysis of policies, practices and trends in Namibian theatre in the late 20th century, with specific empasis on the work of bricks, Frederick Philander and Aldo Behrens
… and performed from the mid-1980s to the turn of the century, a period spanning two distinct political dispensations: the pre-independence period of apartheid and foreign domination, and the post-independence era of democracy and a professed promotion of cultural diversity in unity. The …
-
The phantom of joy: Emotion, affect, and the problem of persistence in modernist literature
My dissertation, “The Phantom of Joy: Emotion, Affect, and the Problem of Persistence in Modernist Literature,” investigates the potential of positive affects for physical and aesthetic persistence. I expose textual traces of joy within literary modernism and offer a perspective on affective …
-
困厄中的自我修辞： 新中国时期的丰子恺研究 = EXPRESSIONS IN DILEMMA:STUDIES ON FENG ZIKAI IN THE P.R.C. (1949-1975)
During the years of 1949-1975, under the socialist Chinese literary system, the roles and cultural practices of Chinese intellectuals were greatly affected by the immensely changed cultural policies and political environment. This dissertation launches an in-depth study on the competing …
-
Brooklyn Country: Class, Culture and the Politics of "Alternativity"
This text is based on more than two years of ethnographic research among country music fans in New York City. It specifically addresses what I, and many of my interlocutors call the "Brooklyn country music scene" (or sometimes, the "Brooklyn Country music scene"), a particular nexus of country …
-
Such a Deal of Wonder: Structures of Feeling and Performances of The Winter's Tale from 1981 to 2002
Structures of feeling represent the interaction between personal lived experience and fixed social values and meanings, which are found in interpretations of works of art. Studying various interpretations of any play in performance can provide a point of access into a culture because the choices …
Page 1 of 2