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The Early Thirties Novels of Erskine Caldwell (Depression, Southern, Grotesque)
Erskine Caldwell wrote his finest novels between 1930 and 1935. The three novels published during this period were perhaps his most unique, and certainly his most popular, contributions to American literature. God's Little Acre, Tobacco Road, and Journeyman described Georgia grotesques whose …
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The Things That Remain: People, Objects, and Anxiety in Thirties British Fiction
… dissertation analyzes the appeal of things in thirties British literature. I argue that in a time in which a catastrophic and world-changing war seemed to be on the way, many writers saw seemingly unshakable material things as a source of comfort. Drawing on thing theory, I explore thirties …
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An IPA exploration of women’s experiences of being undecided about motherhood in their late thirties
… some women find themselves in their late thirties and undecided about motherhood in the face of the relentless ticking of the biological clock. This research explores women’s experiences of being undecided about motherhood between the ages of 35 and 40 when fertility levels begin to …
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English and Welsh Baptists in the nineteen thirties : a study of political, social and religious crisis
This thesis sets out to examine the Baptist denomination in Britain during the 1930s. Its contention is that by this stage of their history Baptists were confused both about their denominational identity and about the role they could best play within contemprary society. From what appeared to be a …
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The Secondary School Principal in Theory: An Examination of Major Theoretical Trends of the Principalship in the United States Between 1917and the Early Thirties
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Inside of Her
… realizes that although she is in her early thirties, she is, in many ways, still a child.
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Figurative art in Soviet Russia circa 1921-1934 : situating the realist-anti-realist debate in the context of changing definitions of proletarian culture
… as it was articulated in the twenties and thirties, which is to ignore the possibility of a critical analysis of the theoretical principles and constraints informing the debates current at that time. Categorising leftists as anti-realist and figurative artists as realist is not satisfactory …
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Moonscape
… 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 masculine. The inspiration for the novel comes from William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!, but the form and …
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Surrealism: the spirit and the letter in twentieth-century English poetry
… the subject, apparently, since the middle of the thirties. This present thesis constitutes an attempt to fill the gap. In examining surrealism both before and after its overt eclat in England, I hope to put it into meaningful historical perspective ; this may help in arriving at the essence of the …
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Thunder without lightning : working class discontent in the United States, 1929-1937
… of the tempest never broke upon America in the thirties. The pages that follow explore the thundering and seek to explain how Franklin D. Roosevelt acted as a lightning rod, helping American capitalism weather the most furious storm of working-class discontent in the twentieth century.</p>
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Dollo & Me (Aftermath with Permutations) and The Relenting
… It specifically looks at my twenties and thirties and tackles the various manifestations of trauma in my life. Two essays frame the manuscript: one as Chapter Zero and one as Chapter Oh. The body of the manuscript is contained in seventeen numerical chapters. The second part of this …
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Constitución y guerra: Una revisión del sistema de derechos fundamentales de Colombia durante el siglo XX
… Days and continued with the regional war in the thirties. Then came La Violencia, the revolutionary war and guerrilla warfare. In the eighties, there were the paramilitary and terrorism related to drug trafficking. Yet the legal system introduced in 1886 enjoyed great stability. In this study we …
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"I don't": A look at attitudes towards delaying marriage in a traditional community
… attitudes of women in their late twenties and thirties about marriage and how geography (physical and sociological) impacts decisions. This research looks at women in a politically and religiously conservative area in the central Midwest. The research is meant to be exploratory in nature in …
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Putting Makeup on Dead People
… in her life from early childhood through her mid-thirties. Because of the author's belief in the circularity of time and of what makes up human identity (what we do, what happens to us, to whom we are related), the stories do not progress chronologically. The collection pays particular attention …
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Subject Matters: The Discourses and Aesthetics of the British Novel, 1900-1939
… Imagism and Vorticism, Marxist tropes of the 'thirties with the New Realism, and the rise of nationalism with the aesthetics of the Scottish Literary Renaissance. My work examines not only the extent to which content imposes formal features but also how certain novelists employ formal …
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Species Sadness: Race, Gender, And Animality In Twentieth-Century Mexico And Central America
… in relation to each other—rising fascism in the thirties, incipient feminism in the sixties, and the Sandinista revolution of the seventies—and argues that during moments of ideological revision, the concept of species is central. Interspecies erotics, domestic intimacy with pets, and animal …
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Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971
… as both an activist and a theorist through the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties, made him an active participant and influential voice for both the American Old Left, and the New Left. Writing for Contemporary Issues, a left wing journal edited by Josef Weber, Bookchin became an important …
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Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971
… as both an activist and a theorist through the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties, made him an active participant and influential voice for both the American Old Left, and the New Left. Writing for Contemporary Issues, a left wing journal edited by Josef Weber, Bookchin became an important …
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An exploration of characteristic elements intrinsic to the matrix of John Steinbeck's fiction and their effect on the critical reception of his work, with particular reference to a God unknown
… from sometimes impercipient critics. !n the thirties, he was branded as a California regionalist of some distinction, but the general consensus among the critics seemed to be that he was unlikely to achieve greatness due to major artistic flaws that were perceived to be present in his work. …
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The Ally Girls: A Portrait of Contemporary Women
… the piece covers, which culminates in my mid-thirties. During that time, I struggle to understand the end of my parents' marriage, my own obsessive compulsive tendencies, depression, pregnancy, childbirth and a chronic health diagnosis. Traditionally, young women come of age in their late …
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