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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"the wasteland"”.
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When Even the Best is Bad: Thomas Pynchon's Alternatives to the Wasteland
… understanding of his larger works; contained in them, in seminal form, is every theme around which "V.," "The Crying of Lot 49" and "Gravity's Rainbos" revolve. In the most important of his nine short works, Pynchon introduces the gamut of alternatives for human action in the face of a …
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Wandering into the Wasteland: White American Masculinities in the Apocalyptic Science Fiction Road Narrative
This thesis examines the portrayal of American white male subjects within the apocalyptic science fiction road narrative, focusing on two visual media in which this genre hybrid features prominently: film and comics. The study builds upon an embryonic body of scholarship addressing several …
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The Evolving American Landscape in Edgar Lee Masters's [Sic] Spoon River Anthology
… Masters's Spoon River Anthology to "revolt from the village" literature causing the deeper cconcerns that Masters addressed in the Anthology to be overlooked, or dismissed. These concerns center on variations of two myths that have powerfully shaped American society: the Garden and the Wasteland. …
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Moonscape
Moonscape is a short novel exploring the interplay of incest and prostitution. The novel is set in Las Vegas in the late seventies, with flashbacks to the thirties when Hoover Dam was built. The thesis relies on first person narratives to incorporate three points of view; two feminine, one …
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Hitchhiking Through the Fire
Ten years after the outbreak of an aggressive, fast-acting virus that kills then reanimates those infected, the world has become a bleak, hostile place. Water and food are scarce, valuable commodities, and survivors cluster together for safety in isolated enclaves where life is cheap and debauchery …
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The reflection of the wastelands of Waiting for Godot and Endgame in electronic media
<p><em>The Reflection of the Wastelands of </em><em>Waiting for Godot</em><em> and </em><em>Endgame </em><em>in Electronic Media</em> is a study of the wasteland settings of <em>Waiting for Godot</em>, <em>Endgame</em>, and the Internet according to the method of play analysis established by Bruce …
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Waste*lands : landscape photography modernity
This is a thesis with two distinct but connected halves. Text and image are applied to the subject of wastelands; the former works to raise the status of wastelands while the latter gathers visual fragments of wastelands to harness a picture of contemporary modernity. The two combine to create a …
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Elizabeth Madox Roberts : Ritual, Selfhood and Sisterhood
… Madox Roberts published her first novel, The Time of Man, a work that plunged her into the literary limelight. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection and hailed by some as the "most beautiful piece of writing to come out of America," the novel established her as a major American writer. …
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T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land", and Yoga Philosophy
… T.S. Eliot put a year into deep study of the <em>Yoga Sutras</em> with renowned scholar James Haughton Woods. Yoga, defined in the <em>Sutras</em> as the practice of stopping “the fluctuations of the mind-stuff” (Patañjali 8), provides the possibility of hope and equanimity in Eliot’s …