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Callan, Theresa Ellen-Marie. "A study in American Realism." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.238968.

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Stanford, Amanda Theresa. "Outsized reality : how 'magical realism' hijacked modern Latin American fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7847.

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Creative Portion abstract (75%): Literary Fiction Manuscript Souvenirs of the Revolution Against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, betrayal, sexual deviance, rigid morality and a fatal subservience to moral correctness drives the Montelejos clan: complex and self-serving, innocent and deluded, larger than life, an illustrious family line in its final decline. Mariabella Montelejos, who tries to sell her only daughter for the price of a new carriage during the bloodiest part of the Revolution. Her daughter, Portensia Montelejos, who leaves her mother’s body to moulder in the front

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Boyd, Joan. "From realism to magical realism : the American Vietnam War novel." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.551596.

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This thesis argues that changes in the form of the novel in post Second World War America, particularly certain novelists' considerations of realism as a viable mode of expression, have had a profound and lasting effect on Vietnam War literature and have been sustained into the twenty first century by a new generation of writers from ethnic minority groups. It examines prior criticism and points of view concerning the work of a number of established authors and considers the recent opinions on contemporary writers addressing the Vietnam experience for the first time. Where necessary the work w

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Cronin, John Rolfe. "Presidential decision-making in the Middle East : the Eisenhower, Nixon and Carter doctrines as case studies of realism and its variant, fringe realism." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340883.

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Sanchez, Maria Ruth Noriega. "Magic realism in contemporary American women's fiction." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2001. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3502/.

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The aim of the study is to illustrate the importance of magic realism in American women's fiction in the late twentieth century. The term magic realism, which has traditionally been associated with Latin American men's writing, has been known by different, and often contradictory, definitions. It may be argued that, properly defined, it can be a valid term to describe a number of characteristics common to a corpus of work, and can be considered as an aesthetic category different from others such as Surrealism or Fantastic literature, with which it has often been compared. Furthermore, magic re

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Young, Jennifer Maria. "Paradidomi : magical realism and the American South." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2009. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/169817/.

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The thesis is comprised of a novel and a critical reflection. The novel component, entitled The Mathers’ Land, draws on traditions of magical realism, storytelling, memory and metafiction. The framing narrative of the novel follows Luanne Richardson, a librarian who has moved South with her new boyfriend, Kenneth Miers. As soon as they arrive in Peebles, North Carolina, Kenneth disappears. Luanne only knows that he last visited a particular house that belongs to the Mathers, the richest family in Peebles. Luanne forces an encounter with the head of the family, Walter Mathers. Despite her initi

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FERREIRA, DANIEL BRANTES. "AMERICAN LEGAL REALISM: A CONTRIBUTION TO LEGAL EDUCATION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=18690@1.

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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>A tese tem como hipótese a importância do realismo jurídico norteamericano para o desenvolvimento do ensino jurídico e das escolas de direito norte-americanas. Para isto três autores serão abordados: Wesley N. Hohfeld, Walter W. Cook e Karl N. Llewellyn. O primeiro capítulo trará uma introdução sobre as questões metodológicas do trabalho. O segundo capítulo fará uma digressão histórica no direito norte-americano para podermos compreender o contexto de surgimento do realism

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Brindley, Nicola. "Writing complexity : the American novel and systems realism." Thesis, Keele University, 2014. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/3216/.

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Although the relationship between literature and science has been a major focus of research in the last few decades, the influence of complex systems science on recent American fiction has not yet been comprehensively documented. I argue that a significant body of that fiction is systems-aware and thus represents the world as a network of complex systems. In the first section of the thesis, I claim that the origin of systems fiction can be found in the nineteenth-century social novel, which displayed significant knowledge of system function. Despite the narrative challenges posed by the comple

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Geary, James P. "Social Realism in Central America: the Modern Short Story Translated." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1215444512.

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Forrester, Katrina Max. "Liberalism and realism in American political thought, 1950-1990." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283922.

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Bennett, Caroline Jane. "The politics and poetics of Latin American magical realism." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400587.

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Tsank, Stephanie A. "Eating the American dream: food, ethnicity, and assimilation in American literary realism, 1893 - 1918." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6514.

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This project examines how late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century writers used food imagery and scenes of consumption to characterize immigrants in works of American literary realism. I argue that William Dean Howells’s construction of realism—supported by the publishing industry’s elitism—reinforced existing cultural and class hierarchies by perpetuating divisions between narrator and subject, native and immigrant. Tacitly responding to the ideologies of Howellsian realism, writers Stephen Crane, Sarah Orne Jewett, James Weldon Johnson, and Willa Cather used food scenes to promote cultura

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Kavanagh, Matthew. "Second nature: American fiction in the age of capitalist realism." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18440.

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Second Nature: American fiction in the age of capitalist realism During the 1990s the global triumph of capitalism has made it, paradoxically, all the more difficult to see. Not only is capitalism increasingly derealized (e.g. cyber-capital), its very ubiquity renders it unremarkable, to the point that it appears a neutral part of objective reality. This dissertation examines how American writers have responded to the 'spectrality' that results from the mediation of everyday experience through the market. I discuss formal strategies in the work of Bret Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, Don DeLillo, Wil

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Potkalitsky, Nicolas J. "Refracted Realism and the Ethical Dominant in Contemporary American Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563283222402333.

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Spear, Keith. "A genetic model of duality in Latin American magical realism /." View online, 1995. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998781347.pdf.

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Couret, Nilo Fernando. "Peripheral Humor, Critical Realism: Latin American Film Comedy, 1930-1960." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4831.

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Latin American film comedies, from the early sound period until the beginnings of the aesthetic and political New Cinemas (1930-1960), mediated modernity in diverse national contexts through affective and aesthetic tactics that shifted the spectator position in the narrative. These film comedies functioned in a mode of "critical realism" that produced historical self-awareness and foregrounded the geopolitical extension and uneven development of modernity. The comedian comedies of Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno (Mexico), Niní M

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Howat, Tyler Paul. "Scott Pilgrim's Gaming Reality: An Introduction to Gamer Realism." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1343318875.

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Keaney, Brian A. "The Realism of Hans Morgenthau." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001703.

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MILLER, JEFFREY WILLIAM. "NOVEL RESISTANCE: CULTURAL CAPITAL, SOCIAL FICTION, AND AMERICAN REALISM, 1861-1911." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1023305969.

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Choi, Eunha. "Gestured Realism in Julio Ramon Ribeyro| Fiction's Fragmented and Contingent Form." Thesis, New York University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3556985.

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<p> While reconsidering Julio Ramón Ribeyro's short fiction, this dissertation re-examines the discourses about realism that predominated in the 1960s and 1970s, during the eruption of the Latin American literary and cultural phenomenon known as the boom. Situated at the intersection of philosophical reflection and literary criticism, it interrogates the boom's totalizing conception of realism and its equally exhaustive corollaries while arguing that Ribeyro's fractured form of realism forges new models to critique the relations between fiction and the real. </p><p> The first chapte

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Curtin, Tansy. "Contemporary German photography and American realism : is colour the only link? /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARAHM/09arahmc9782.pdf.

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Harker, Ben. "Critical oppositions : realism, postmodernism and the reception of contemporary American fiction." Thesis, University of York, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10885/.

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Miller, Jeffrey W. "Novel resistance cultural capital, social fiction, and American realism, 1861-1911 /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=ucin1023305969.

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Dobozy, Tamas. "Towards a definition of dirty realism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ56533.pdf.

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Deskin, Sean. "Entropy in Two American Road Narratives." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1243.

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Tony Tanner's book City of Words analyzes American literature from 1950-1970; in the chapter entitled "Everything Running Down" the theme of entropy, the second law of thermodynamics, is explored and revealed to be a common motif within many works of American literature. Tanner's analysis does not specifically address the presence of entropy within the genre of the American road narrative; when considering his analysis presented in "Everything Running Down" with Kris Lackey's analysis of American road narratives presented in his book RoadFrames, the presence of entropy and how it is appl

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King, Zachary Harrison. "Comic book realism: sincerity, ethics, and the superhero in contemporary American literature." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6782.

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Comic Book Realism: Sincerity, Ethics, and the Superhero in Contemporary American Literature reads a trio of recent American novels in the context of superhero comics, the influence of which looms large over these texts but has for one reason or another been largely neglected by critics. Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude, and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao feature protagonists whose immersion in their comic book collections translates into their lives by allowing them to comprehend and interact with the wor

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Crider, Ryan. "The Believing Game, a Novella with Critical Introduction| "Character"-izing Hysterical Realism." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163261.

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<p> The dissertation consists of an extended critical essay entitled “‘Character’-izing Hysterical Realism: Postmodernism, 9/11, and the Realistic Aesthetic” and original fiction in the form of a novella, The Believing Game. The critical essay contextualizes the development of the subgenre of hysterical realism in the literary fiction of the 1990s and examines its regression in the years following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. I suggest that hysterical realism can be partly understood as a hybrid of realism and postmodernism and a “bridge” fro

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Eckman, John. "Confronting modernity : urbanization and American fiction, 1880-1930 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9402.

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Armstrong, John Patrick. "Lyric realism to Epic consciousness : poetic subjectivity in the work of Edward Dorn." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/502/.

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This thesis looks at Edward Dorn s work from his early poems in the late 1950 s to Gunslinger, his mock epic of the American West written between 1968 and 1974. The overall background premise to the present study is that, in this period, Dorn s work develops from a form of lyric, in his early work, to the construction of a multiple and epic consciousness within the four books of Gunslinger. Some critics of Dorn see quite radical shifts within this development, which often leads to a periodizing of Dorn s work. But this thesis argues for a strong continuity that runs alongside these shifts, dri

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Webb, Kate. "Christina Stead's I'm dying laughing : Hollywood, history and the politics of Bohemia." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368183.

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Holbo, Christine Louise. "The home-making of Americans : the invention of everyday life in American literary realism and social science. 1866-1911 /." May be available electronically:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.

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Jaynes, Lindsey. "The Authority of Difference: Culturally Effected Realism in Whitman and Henry James." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1309283371.

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Price, Wayne L. "'Where I'm calling from' : Raymond Carver, Richard Ford and the new American realism." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/20121.

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Perhaps the greatest irony of postmodern American fiction has been the ascendency within its broad aegis of the very mode that the early postmoderns of the 1960s so dismissively repudiated, namely realism. This thesis aims to provide both a theoretical reading of this ascendency in relation to the earlier metafictional irrealism and also readings of selected key texts of the 'new realism' on their own post-Modern terms. This initial contextualization of the new American realism is therefore defined very much in relation to the more or less militant epistemic 'ultimism' ('ultimate' in the sense

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Murray, Brian Joseph. "Western versus Chinese realism Soviet-American diplomacy and the Chinese Civil War, 1945-1950 /." online access from Digital dissertation consortium access full-text, 1995. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9533626.

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Prickett, Stacey Lee. "Marxism, modernism and realism : politics and aesthetics in the rise of American modern dance." Thesis, Open University, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304885.

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Oxoby, Marc C. "American literary fiction in a televisual age /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2005. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/dissertations/fullcit/3209131.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2005.<br>"August, 2005." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 217-227). Online version available on the World Wide Web. Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2005]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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Jansen, Anne Mai Yee. "Momentary Magic: Magical Realism as Literary Activism in the Post-Cold War US Ethnic Novel." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365952312.

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Guest, Dorothy Glenda. "Magical Realism and Writing Place: A Novel and Exegesis." Thesis, Griffith University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367538.

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The aim of this thesis is to interrogate, in the exegesis, and amplify, in the creative work, the conjunctions of literary magical realism and writing place. The exegesis is presented in four chapters that examine some aspects of magical realism, with the main focus on the Latin American strand that has as a main influence Alejo Carpentier’s concept of lo real maravilloso americano (the marvellous place of America). The accompanying novel, Siddon Rock, takes the concept of mythology- and place-centred magical realism and places it in the Australian landscape of a small country town just after

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Sexton, Melissa, and Melissa Sexton. ""An Aligned, Transformed, Constructed World": Representing Material Environments in American Literature 1835-1945." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12431.

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This dissertation seeks to avoid two extremes that have polarized literary debate: on the one hand, a strong constructivism that reduces environments to textual effects; and, on the other hand, a strong realism that elides language's constructive power, assuming texts' mimetic transparency. Positioning itself within the ecocritical attempt to reconnect text and environment, my project articulates a constructive vision of material representation that I call "constrained realism." Katherine L. Hayles's "constrained constructivism" emphasizes the constructed nature of scientific knowledge while a

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Marchetto, Faye Nicole. "Lo mágico en Allende: Una investigación mágicorrealista y feminista de “El cuaderno de Maya”." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1430173026.

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Langendorfer, Anne Therese. "Feeling Real: Emotion in the Novels of William Dean Howells and Henry James." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1499858033212105.

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Craggett, Courtney 1986. ""Goodness and Mercy"." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849684/.

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The stories in this collection represent an increasingly transcultural world by exploring the intersection of cultures and identities in border spaces, particularly the Mexican-American border. Characters, regardless of ethnicity, experience the effects of migration and deportation in schools, hometowns, relationships, and elsewhere. The collection as a whole focuses on the issues and themes found in Mexican-American literature, such as loss, separation, and the search for identity.

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Taylor, Patrick. "A Pragmatic Realism: Events, Powers, and Relations in the Metaphysics of Objective Relativism." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12993.

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The early twentieth century witnessed the emergence of "objective relativism," a distinctly American school of metaphysical realism inspired by the works of John Dewey and A.N. Whitehead. Largely forgotten, objective relativism provided a metaphysical framework, based upon an ontology of events and relations rather than substances and discrete properties, that has continued relevance for contemporary metaphysical discussions. In this thesis, I attempt to chart the boundaries and pathways of this ontology, outlining what Dewey calls the "ground-map of the province of criticism." In particula

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Turner, Simon John. "The man in the valley : American literature of the Vietnam war and aesthetics of sceptical realism." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.478934.

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Petraud, Jean-Félix. "The American Foreign Policy with the Middle East : from the earliest days to the Obama’s mandate." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-261957.

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The following dissertation is an attempt of analysis and understanding of the foreign policy of the United States in the Middle East region and its evolution through time. Considering the fact that the Middle East region is or at least used to be a vital region for the United States national interests, the dissertation presents an exhaustive list of major events that have been major shifts in the US foreign policy in the region. The more or less chronological timeline allows the reader to have a better understanding of the evolution of the US foreign policy. The result of the dissertation is t

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Andrade, George Bronzeado de. "O reatamento das relações sino-americanas (1969-1972): um estudo tripartido da maximização do poder rumo à hegemonia norte-americana na Ásia." Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, 2014. http://tede.bc.uepb.edu.br/tede/jspui/handle/tede/2126.

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T12:23:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - George Bronzeado de Andrade.pdf: 1377446 bytes, checksum: 4b1d8f7072c83c9f9139b14bb695d86c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-04-08<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>The end of the 60s and early 70s is marked by the resumption of Sino-US relations under the sign of detente. At this moment in history, the United States Richard Nixon and Communist China of Mao Zedong resume interrupted a relationship for more than twenty years, marked by failure dating back to the victory of the Co

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Lewis, Abby N. "How Disassociating the Past Reassociates the Present: Distilling the Magic out of Magic Realism in Susan Power’s The Grass Dancer." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/421.

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American Indian author Susan Power’s novel The Grass Dancer is often categorized as magical realism, yet Power has stated the novel is a representation of her reality and that it is not a magical realist text. The term magical realism was first applied to the work of Latin American authors such as Gabriel García Márquez whose writing depicts magical events in a matter-of-fact narrative tone. It has since expanded to include other cultures. The question is whether it is a term that can readily be applied to the literary work of all cultures. The closest Wendy B. Faris, one of the most prominent

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Christianson, Frank Q. "Realism and the cult of altruism : philanthropic fiction in nineteeth-century America and Britain /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3174588.

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Chin, Jim Cheung. "Realism and the hierarchy of racial inclusion : representations of African Americans and Chinese Americans in post-Civil War literature and culture /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9403.

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Totten, Gary. "The eyewitness in American specular narrative : empiricism, representation, and the gaze." Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1117105.

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In this dissertation, I investigate American specular narrative which displays a significant level of visual empiricism and examine the implications of the eyewitness perspective such narrative assumes. Based on the epistemological assumption that "to see is to know," specular narrative imagines an empirical access (via visual processes of the gaze) to a knowable reality, and uses the figure of the eyewitness (by way of narration, focalization, and narrative technique) to render a supposedly transparent relation between narrative and reality. This study draws upon theories of narrative, realis

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