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Showing 1 to 20 of 214 for “"sympathy"”.
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Satire and Sympathy in American Psycho
… determine whether or not the novel can provoke sympathy for Patrickfrom the reader. Ultimately, I assert that American Psycho is a satire that attempts to expand traditional boundaries by including sympathy.
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Sympathy for the Devil : American imperialism in film.
While empire-building, and imperialism more broadly, are now generally regarded as unacceptable justifications for military action, the fumes of imperialistic rhetoric that surround military intervention to this day are not so easily dispersed. The post-9/11 age of the War on Terror has reinscribed …
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Neural Sympathy: Towards Interfaces Compatible with Neural Plasticity
… the brain. This fits into a mindset of ‘neural sympathy’: interface design stands to benefit from a more fundamental understanding of how and why representations change during BMI usage.
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Sense, Sensibility, Sympathy, Social Class Upheaval in Jane Austen’s Novels
… concepts of sense, sensibility, and sympathy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, I examine how Austen shifted her beliefs to reflect the changes in social class occurring in England during her lifetime. I will be conducting close readings of the two novels, along with various …
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“Never nearer to the goal”: Wordsworth, Sympathy, and the Wandering Jew
… establishes what one might call an ecosystem of sympathy that joins ideas of man and nature, Jew and Christian, isolation and connectivity, understanding and prejudice, into a work of great compassion. In turn, Wordsworth’s poem calls attention to the anti-Judaic nature of the Wandering Jew …
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Sickly Sentimentalism: Sympathy and Pathology in American Women's Literature, 1866-1900
<p><em>Sickly Sentimentalism: Pathology and Sympathy in American Women’s Literature, 1866-1900</em> examines the work of four American women novelists writing between 1866 and 1900 as responses to a dominant medical discourse that pathologized women’s emotions. The popular fiction of Metta Fuller …
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From Sympathy to Synergy: Humane Activism in the Modern Environmental Movement
… welfare activists capitalized on the widespread sympathy for other animals that Americans exhibited during the post-war years to lobby for legislation to protect animals from systematic cruelties, including those affecting wild animals. They recognized that cruelties to wildlife such as traps and …
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Food for Sympathy: Illness, Nursing, and Affect in Victorian Literature and Culture
… narratives in Victorian texts frequently feature sympathy for physical suffering as a major cultural and literary trope. In a wide variety of texts ranging from social reform writing to autobiographies, from novels to poetry, physical suffering was often closely associated with a specific cultural …
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Sympathetic Observations: Widowhood, Spectatorship, and Sympathy in the Fiction of Henry James
This thesis explores the roles of widowhood and sympathy in Henry James's short and long fiction. By the time James established himself as a writer of fiction, the culture of sentiment and its formation of sympathetic identification had become central to American and British writers. Critically, …
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Tea and Sympathy: The United States and the Sudan Civil War, 1985-2005.
<p>The specters of violence and economic insecurity have haunted the Sudan since its independence in 1956. The United States Congress has held numerous hearings on the Sudan's civil war and U.S. television news outlets have reported on the conflict since 1983. While attempting to engage the Sudan …
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"The Wretched State of My Nerves:" Hysteria and Sympathy in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White
<p>This thesis explores the sympathy shown to disabled characters in Wilkie Collins’s 1860 novel <em>The Woman in White</em> with an emphasis on hysteria. Using disability studies framework and historical context of hysteria in the Victorian era provides a nuanced reading of the novel which …
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Contempt, sympathy and romance': lowland perceptions of the Highlands and the clearances during the famine years, 1845-1855
… divided by three basic perceptions: 'contempt', 'sympathy' and 'romance'. An analysis of the main newspaper files demonstrates that during the Famine years up to the Crimean War, the most prevalent perception was that of contempt, regarding the Gaels as an 'inferior' and often 'useless' race. The …
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From Virtue to Sympathy: Perspectives in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature on the Disintegration of the Social Bond
… the conceptual understanding of benevolence and sympathy that coincide with other significant changes in perspective, particularly a shift in the general understanding of the construction of the world and society. That is, works of the earlier period reflect perspectives and values of a society …
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Narrating anger and sympathy in the condition of england: the role of emotion in mid-nineteenth-century politics and fiction
… to the comnumication of feeling that comprises sympathy. It evolves through the interrogative methodologies of moral philosophy, Romantic idealism, political radicalism, and the cultural assumptions that guide literary production and consumption. Condition-of-England novels, such as Elizabeth …
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The subversion of sympathy in British social realism: uses of laughter in the cinematic representation of the British working-class
The rationale at the core of this research is that the lineage of British social realism has portrayed a gradual departure from an ostentatious and judgmental approach which circumscribed the British New Wave. Bazin successfully highlighted the patronising tendencies inherent in a benevolent …
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Sympathy for the Microbiota: How Changes in Gut Microbial Composition Influence the Immune System and Basic Physiology by Way of the Sympathetic Nervous System
<p>The gastro-intestinal tract is the most extensive mucosal surface in mammals and harbors the most numerous immune cell reservoir as well as a complex and autonomous nervous system. The GI tract is continuously exposed to foreign antigen and potentially toxic chemicals through the ingestion of …
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Humankindness: Illness, Animality, and the Limits of the Human in the Victorian Novel
… allows for a more complex view of the role of sympathy in the Victorian novel. The commonplace in novel criticism is that Victorian authors, whether effectively or not, constructed their novels with a view to the expansion of sympathy. This dissertation intervenes in the discussion of the …
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