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Journal articles on the topic "Beauty contests in fiction"

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Syunnerberg, Maxim A. ""Beautiful women suffer unhappy fates"? History of beauty pageants in Vietnam. Part I. Category of beauty and the fate of beauties in traditional Vietnam." South East Asia: Actual problems of Development, no. 3 (48) (2020): 242–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.31696/2072-8271-2020-3-3-48-242-255.

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Vietnam, a country of the Confucian cultural area, the sensual side of relations has traditionally not been exposed. Female beauty has not received much attention in fiction, let alone state historical publications. Often the use of this concept had a negative connotation, and the beauties themselves had a hard lot. Fundamental shifts in social thought and social life in Vietnam in the 20th century reflected in the perception of beauty and the ability of women to realize themselves through their appearance, a striking manifestation of which was the scale of various beauty contests held in the country.
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Miswari, Miswari. "THE KITE RUNNER OF KHALED HOSSEINI." At-Tafkir 11, no. 2 (December 31, 2018): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.32505/at.v11i2.738.

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It is necessary for the writer to extract the description upon the contents of character analysis. The result of study might have produced the writer to expose the descriptive of the characters. The writer got starting to dig some advantages of describing the characters in the novel of ‘The Kite Runner’ through the story that is taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, ‘The Kite Runner’ is the unforgettable, beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship, betrayal, and the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of their lies. Written against a history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But with the devastation, Khaled Hosseini also gives us hope: through the novel's faith in the power of reading and storytelling, and in the possibilities he shows for redemption.
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Kahn, Brenda. "DISCRIMINATION IN FINANCIAL BEAUTY CONTESTS." Journal of International Finance and Economics 18, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 75–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.18374/jife-18-2.7.

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Loewen, Peter John, Kelly Hinton, and Lior Sheffer. "Beauty contests and strategic voting." Electoral Studies 38 (June 2015): 38–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2015.01.001.

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Iredale, Mathew. "Why elections are literally beauty contests." Philosophers' Magazine, no. 51 (2010): 33–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/tpm2010518.

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Breitmoser, Yves. "Strategic reasoning in p-beauty contests." Games and Economic Behavior 75, no. 2 (July 2012): 555–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2012.02.010.

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Daley, Caroline. "The body builder and beauty contests." Journal of Australian Studies 25, no. 71 (January 2001): 55–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050109387720.

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Kirstein, Roland. "Scientific Competition: Beauty Contests or Tournaments? (Comment)." Conferences on New Political Economy 25, no. 1 (July 1, 2008): 147–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1628/186183408785112421.

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Huo, Zhen, and Marcelo Pedroni. "A Single-Judge Solution to Beauty Contests." American Economic Review 110, no. 2 (February 1, 2020): 526–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.20170519.

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We show that the equilibrium policy rule in beauty contest models is equivalent to that of a single agent’s forecast of the economic fundamental. This forecast is conditional on a modified information process, which simply discounts the precision of idiosyncratic shocks by the degree of strategic complementarity. The result holds for any linear Gaussian signal process (static or persistent, stationary or nonstationary, exogenous or endogenous), and also extends to network games. Theoretically, this result provides a sharp characterization of the equilibrium and its properties under dynamic information. Practically, it provides a straightforward method to solve models with complicated information structures. (JEL C72, D82, D83, D84)
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Ilomäki, Jukka. "Animal spirits, beauty contests and expected returns." Journal of Economics and Finance 41, no. 3 (June 7, 2016): 474–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12197-016-9364-8.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Beauty contests in fiction"

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Goremusandu, Tania. "Gender possibilities in the African context as explored by Mariama Ba's So long a letter, Neshani Andrea's The purple violet of Oshaantu and Sindiwe Magona's Beauty gift." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/6469.

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Gender oppression has been a significant discussion to the development of gender, cultural and feminist theories. The primary focus of this study is to investigate how patriarchal traditions, colonialism, and religious oppression force women to struggle under constrictions oppositional to empowerment. Thus, the project provides a comparative analysis of three texts from different African postcolonial societies by three African female writers: Mariama Bâ, Neshani Andreas and Sindiwe Magona. The author‟s biographies and historical context of their novels will be analyzed, as well as a summary of their stories will be included in order to provide the context for gender criticism. These writer‟s work; So Long a Letter, The Purple Violet of Oshaantu and Beauty‟s Gift depict patriarchal, cultural and religious laws which exist in Senegal, Namibia and South Africa, respectively, that limit the position of women. Therefore, this study will interrogate the experience of African women as inscribed in these selected texts, uncovering the literary expressions of gender oppression as well as the possibilities of empowerment. The selected texts will be analyzed through the lens of Gender studies, African feminism and Cultural studies. From these theories, the focus of the study is on the struggles of the female characters living in patriarchal societies as well as on the idea that gender is constructed socially and culturally in the African context. In conclusion, the emergence of these renowned female African writers together with the emancipation of African countries from colonial supremacy has opened a space for women to compensate and correct the stereotyped female images in African literature and post- colonial societies. Most contemporary African writers like Buchi Emecheta, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Sindiwe Magona, Mariama Bâ and Neshani Andreas have shown that women are seeking to attain empowerment. As a result, this study can be viewed as an opportunity to highlight such experiences by continuing to interrogate the writings of African women writers and to explore their gender-based themes so as to inform and or inspire the implementation of women empowerment. It will broaden and encourage further academic discussion in the field of Cultural studies and gender criticism of women‟s literature within the African context.
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Rowe, Rochelle. "Imagining Caribbean Womanhood : Racialised Femininities, Colour-blind Nationalisms and Beauty Contests." Thesis, University of Essex, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520113.

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Thompson, Elisabeth Blumer. "Trailer park royalty Southern child beauty pageants, girlhood and power /." Click here to access dissertation, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2007/elisabeth_b_thompson/thompson_elisabeth_b_200708_edd.pdf.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007.
"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." Curriculum Studies, under the direction of William M. Reynolds. ETD. Electronic version approved: December 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-228) and appendices.
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Sebree, Adrien E. "Living Fairy Tales: Science Fiction and Fantasy's Visionary Retellings of "Beauty and the Beast"." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/204.

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This thesis explores how science fiction and fantasy retellings of the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" bring visionary insights to the fairy tale. Stories such as Tanith Lee's science fiction novella "Beauty" and Mercedes Lackey's fantasy novel The Fire Rose constitute living and developing incarnations of "Beauty and the Beast." To better explore the visionary leaps made by these stories, they are placed in contrast with one of the original recordings of the story by Madame Marie Le Prince de Beaumont and the 1991 Disney film version, Beauty and the Beast.
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Hart, Carina. "Fruit, water, ice, glass, gold : images of human beauty in post-1980 Anglophone fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2012. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/42414/.

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The 1960s and 1970s witnessed a critique of the concept of beauty in art and philosophy (McGann 190), with Christopher Janaway characterising aesthetics as the Cinderella of philosophy who “doesn’t make it to the ball” (vii). However, since around 1980 an increasing number of artistic and critical voices have begun to speak about beauty once again. Anglophone novels of this period, from 1980 to 2012, show a particular engagement with the subject through their exploration of human beauty. By figuring the beauty of characters in metaphorical terms, they demonstrate that conceptions of human beauty as either a sinful, fleshly temptation or an abstract ideal can be transformed. Five specific metaphors through which this is achieved form the subject of analysis for this thesis: fruit, water, ice, glass and gold. Ten post-1980 novels are examined in their use of these metaphors to reformulate human beauty. ! The preoccupation with the transformation and rewriting of beauty will be shown to indicate a distinct trend in post-1980 fiction, one which enacts a notable move away from fiction regarded as postmodernist. It will be demonstrated that the present concern with beauty emerges from the emphasis on surfaces in postmodernist fiction (Waugh, Practising Postmodernism 4), but that contemporary novels are characterised by a reconstructive and transformative approach which is less evident in earlier fiction. This transformative approach is directed to the division of beauty into concrete and abstract by philosophers such as Plato, Augustine, Kant and Adorno. In post-1980 fiction and the critical work of Wendy Steiner, Denis Donoghue, James Kirwan and others, this dichotomy is profoundly challenged. This thesis engages with these aesthetic philosophies in close readings of the ten chosen novels, to expound how the relationship between concrete and abstract human beauty is represented and rewritten in post-1980 fiction.
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Pantelia, Maria. "Beauty unblamed : a study on ancient portrayals of Helen of Troy /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487332636477321.

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Gentile, Patrizia. "Searching for "Miss Civil Service" and "Mr. Civil Service"; gender anxiety, beauty contests and fruit machines in the Canadian civil service, 1950-1973." Ottawa, 1996.

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Senguttuvan, Vinoad. "Shutters." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/290.

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Shutters is a fragmented novel that employs various prose and poetic elements to document the life and endeavors of photographer-writer Ishi in present day New York City. The work follows his quest for emotional and physical connection, and his artistic project where he photographs and writes about suicide survivors. The work explores the observer-observed divide that often manifests in fiction and addresses the themes of physical beauty, art, death and the human condition.
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Ullrich-Ferguson, Loretta N. "The beauty of her survival : being Black and female in Meridian, The salt eaters, Kindred, and The bluest eye /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131464907.pdf.

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Li, Mengjun. "In the Name of A Love Story: Scholar-Beauty Novels and the Writing of Genre Fiction in Qing China (1644-1911)." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1406132481.

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Books on the topic "Beauty contests in fiction"

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Zuckerman, Lilla. Beauty queen blowout. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

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Beauty Queens. New York: Scholastic Press, 2011.

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Blair, L. E. Beauty queens. Racine, Wis: Western Pub. Co., 1991.

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Linker, Julie. Crowned. New York: Simon Pulse, 2008.

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Linker, Julie. Crowned. New York: Simon Pulse, 2008.

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Peschke, M. Blueberry queen. Mankato, Minn: Picture Window Books, 2011.

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Peschke, M. Blueberry queen. Mankato, Minn: Picture Window Books, 2011.

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Pascal, Francine. Miss Teen Sweet Valley. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

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O'Clare, Lorie. Island of desire. New York: Aphrodisia/Kensington Pub. Corp., 2012.

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Pascal, Francine. Miss Teen Sweet Valley. New York: Bantam Books, 1991.

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Book chapters on the topic "Beauty contests in fiction"

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Sucher, Laurie. "In Search of Love and Beauty." In The Fiction of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 168–99. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20239-3_9.

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Mallan, Kerry. "The Beauty Dilemma: Gendered Bodies and Aesthetic Judgement." In Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction, 59–92. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230244559_3.

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Hall, Alice. "Foreign Bodies: Disability and Beauty in the Works of Toni Morrison." In Disability and Modern Fiction, 49–91. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230355477_3.

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Hess, Linda M. "Gay Aging After AIDS: Andrew Holleran’s The Beauty of Men (1996)." In Queer Aging in North American Fiction, 123–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03466-5_6.

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Jenkins, Jennifer L. "“Wonderful and Incomparable Beauty”: Adapting Period Aesthetic for The Importance of Being Earnest." In Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama, 103–20. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40928-3_6.

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Barker, Jesse. "No Place Like Home: Gabi Martínez’s Ático (Top-Floor Apartment) and Javier Calvo’s “Una Belleza Rusa” (A Russian Beauty)." In Affect and Belonging in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film, 27–60. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58969-5_2.

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Ghosal, Nilanjana, and Srirupa Chatterjee. "Cultural Assimilation and the Politics of Beauty in Postwar American Fiction by Ethnic Women Writers." In The English Paradigm in India, 139–51. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5332-0_10.

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Miller, Emma V. "“How Much Do You Want to Pay for This Beauty?”: Domestic Noir and the Active Turn in Feminist Crime Fiction." In Domestic Noir, 89–113. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69338-5_6.

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Curtice, John, and Sarinder Hunjan. "Elections as Beauty Contests." In Political Leaders and Democratic Elections, 91–107. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199259007.003.0006.

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Barbas-Rhoden, Laura. "Contests for the Amazon." In Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction, 60–98. University Press of Florida, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813035468.003.0003.

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Conference papers on the topic "Beauty contests in fiction"

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Levy, Priel, David Sarne, and Igor Rochlin. "Contest Design with Uncertain Performance and Costly Participation." In Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/43.

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This paper studies the problem of designing contests for settings where a principal seeks to optimize the quality of the best performance obtained, and potential contestants only strategize about whether to participate in the contest, as participation incurs some cost. This type of contest can be mapped to various real-life settings (e.g., an audition, a beauty pageant, technology crowdsourcing). The paper provides a comparative game-theoretic based solution to two variants of the above underlying model: parallel and sequential contest, enabling a characterization of the equilibrium strategies in each. Special emphasis is placed on the case where the contestants are homogeneous which is often the case in real-life whenever the contestants are basically alike and their ranking in the contest is mostly influenced by some probabilistic factors (e.g., luck). Here, several (somehow counter-intuitive) properties of the equilibrium are proved, in particular for the sequential contest, leading to a comprehensive characterization of the principal preference between the two.
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Reports on the topic "Beauty contests in fiction"

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Angeletos, George-Marios, Guido Lorenzoni, and Alessandro Pavan. Beauty Contests and Irrational Exuberance: A Neoclassical Approach. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w15883.

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