To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Home Home in popular culture Home in literature.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Home Home in popular culture Home in literature'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 24 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Home Home in popular culture Home in literature.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Tait, Lisa Olsen. "Mormon Culture Meets Popular Fiction: Susa Young Gates and the Cultural Work of Home Literature." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1998. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTNZ,25499.
Full text
2
Hammond, Julia Leanne. "Homelessness and the postmodern home: narratives of cultural change /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1192191901&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 224-233). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
3
Pearson, Wendy G. "Calling home queer responses to discourses of nation and citizenship in contemporary Canadian literary and visual culture /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060123.143327/.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wollongong, 2004.Title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 6, 2006). Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-323). Also issued as a print manuscript. Print manuscript includes ill. omitted from online version.
4
Brock, Stephen. "A travelling colonial architecture Home and nation in selected works by Patrick White, Peter Carey, Xavier Herbert and James Bardon /." Click here for electronic access: http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au/local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070424.101150, 2003. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au/local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070424.101150.
Full textAbstract:
A thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy - Flinders University of South Australia, Faculty of Education Humanities, Law and Theology, June 2003.Title from electronic thesis (viewed 27/7/10)
5
Madary, Sheila. "Home Abroad." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1380.
Full textAbstract:
Comprised of four essays, this collection of creative nonfiction focuses on facets of daily life and culture in Germany. The author recounts her experiences as she and her family assimilate into a foreign culture and adapt to using its language. The first essay tells of the family’s unexpected but rewarding sojourn in Germany after losing everything to Hurricane Katrina. The subsequent essays display a broader range of experiences and cultural observations upon the family’s return to Germany four years later. These include a narrative of the family’s move to a small town in central Germany, an interview with a local asparagus farmer and an account of the author’s children’s efforts to learn German.
6
Fisher, Lydia Indira. "Domesticating the nation : American narratives of home culture /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9325.
Full text
7
Klimasmith, Elizabeth. "At home in the city : urban domesticity in American literature and culture, 1850-1930 /." Durham : University of New Hampshire press, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40052609r.
Full text
8
Byrne, Aoife. "Modern homes? : an analysis of Irish and British women's literary constructions of domestic space, 1929-1946." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/268014.
Full textAbstract:
Cosy aphorisms such as “home is where the heart is” have always suggested a universal understanding of home. But home is a subjective concept that defies any homogenous designation. If, as Walter Benjamin told us, a consequence of modernity is the necessary sequestration of ‘bourgeois’ domestic spaces from an increasingly ‘modern’ outside world, such a spatial binarism is notably absent in the works of Irish and British women authors from 1929-1946. On the contrary, in these texts, domestic space has multiple functions, not least of which is its usefulness in exploring concepts of modernity, including the consequences of industrial scale warfare on civilian life. During this time, women authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O’Brien, Nancy Mitford, Evadne Price and Daphne du Maurier respond to the ways in which the ideas of home were in a continuous state of redefinition. They do this for multiple reasons. Factors changing these authors’ perceptions of d0mestic space vary from material, aesthetic, external, broadly philosophical and political. These issues are also sometimes deeply violent, as is seen, for instance, in the burnings of the houses of the Anglo-Irish Ascendency in the Irish War of Independence, and the destruction of houses by bombing in the London Blitz. This project analyses Irish and British domestic spaces as women authors imagine them after the formal segregation of the two countries with the Anglo-Irish Treaty (1922). As both countries move in different political and cultural directions, so too, these authors perceive, do the meanings of home. This changes the ways in which authors construct both the conceptual ideas of home and the material realities of houses in both countries. Congruently, this cross-cultural analysis complicates our understanding of these women authors’ responses to changing meanings of home, women’s issues, and the experience of modernity in the period.
9
Jenkins, Gregory Kendall. "The Altered Mobile Home: A Stationary Image of Work and Value." TopSCHOLAR®, 1990. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1712.
Full textAbstract:
As the medium cost of conventional housing rises, many people unable to incur such an expense look for alternative forms of adequate housing. In rural areas surrounding Bowling Green, Kentucky, several families have utilized the mobile home as a base to expand, embellish, and personalize, creating a larger more conventional-looking home. Many of these altered homes possess gabled roofs, rock exterior walls, and expansive interior space. Of primary concern is: why have these families undertaken a project of this nature?
As material culture scholars and folklorists examine our built environment, they find relationship between construction and the builders. What can the altered mobile home tell us about these individual builders? A contextual analysis examining the surrounding landscape, economic dilemmas, and personal aesthetics and values help elucidate each altered mobile home. Also, by examining the individual builder’s work technique, materials, and values associated with housing, one can understand how each mobile home is a direct reflection of its owner.
Since the mobile home’s creation, the public’s conception of the form has led to claims that it is not a housing form, but rather an accessory for the automobile. Steadfast values associated with housing have not adhered to the image of the mobile home. Because of this ambiguity, the mobile home is an ideal form for individuals to mold and alter, thereby creating a form imbued with personal aesthetics and personal values concerning housing. These ideas are examined through analysis of four families.
10
Pearson, Wendy Gay. "Calling home queer responses to discourses of nation and citizenship in contemporary Canadian literary and visual culture /." Access electronically, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060123.143327/index.html.
Full text
11
Yost, Kimberly S. "A Search for Home: Navigating Change in Battlestar Galactica." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1347903521.
Full text
12
Robson, Jennifer Margaret. "The role of clothing and fashion in the household budget and popular culture, Britain, 1919-1949." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:af692af1-ce91-4d59-b358-794182015092.
Full textAbstract:
The central theme of the thesis is how clothing and, to a lesser degree, fashion affected the lives of women in the period from 1919 to 1949. The practical impact of clothing on women is rarely assessed to the same degree as other essentials of life such as food and housing, yet obtaining, maintaining and renewing clothing stocks were issues of the utmost importance to women, particularly those from low-income households, in the inter-war period and the Second World War. The first half of the thesis concentrates upon the role of clothing in the home and in popular culture in the inter-war period. Of particular importance is the role of clothing in the household budget, a subject which has received limited attention from social historians. In households with limited incomes, finding the means to purchase clothing was problematic, and women often resorted to unconventional methods of saving and spending. The role of clothing in middle-class households is examined as well, with an emphasis on the many varieties of shops which supplied ready- to-wear clothing, as well as souces of made-to-measure clothing. And, while antiquarian and sociological studies of fashion abound, little has been written on the practical impact of fashion in the lives of ordinary people. With the development of a mass market after the First World War, the influence of fashion was extended to most of the social classes. Rather than re-examining the changing modes themselves, it is useful to study the impact these fashions had upon people: in the way they regarded and treated one another; and in the way they perceived themselves. The study of the inter-war years thus offers a foundation from which to examine the role of clothing in the Second World War. The price of clothing and footwear rose steeply in the early months of the war, but stabilised once rationing and austerity measures took hold. The ways in which women budgeted, saved for and purchased clothing are discussed, with an emphasis on how these methods differed from pre-war habits. Although the development and implementation of government initiatives is described, the latter portion of the thesis concentrates on the practical effects of such schemes in the day-to-day lives of the British people. The role of fashion in the wartime economy is addressed as well. Austerity programmes stalled any extreme changes in fashion, people wore the same clothing year after year, and uniforms were almost universal. Nevertheless, issues of fashion and style remained important to the public, who in any case were encouraged to maintain high standards of dress and appearance as a sign of patriotism.
13
Araújo, Renata Pinto Uchôa de. "A literatura popular escrita do nordeste do Brasil: uma leitura semiótica das significações culturais." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2017. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/9175.
Full textAbstract:
Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2017-07-31T12:38:57Z
No. of bitstreams: 1
arquivototal.pdf: 1858004 bytes, checksum: 431f761d1fa6ca75da926af990fed682 (MD5)Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-31T12:38:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1858004 bytes, checksum: 431f761d1fa6ca75da926af990fed682 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-26
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES
This work deals with cultural meanings present in the popular literature written in Northeast Brazil. The popular cultural expressions represent much more than aesthetic or artistic events. They are the declaration of a cultural practice and a constant renewal of a collective memory, manifested in various literary genres, like the Cordel brochure. With Portuguese origin, the line of genre is the popular literature writing, constituting legitimate documents and extremely valuable in redemption and discovery on human and physical aspects of the northeast of the past. Because of its relevance as Brazilian historical and cultural heritage under the auspices of the theoretical assumptions of semiotics, the theoretical study of the leaflets and their stay in Brazil's Northeast was raised through a sample consisting of twenty-seven leaflets of the Research Program collection in popular literature (PPLP), the Federal University of Paraiba, entered in the bibliographic classification proposed by ALBUQUERQUE (2011) to popular literature. Through qualitative and quantitative research data, it was highlighted subthemes of thematic and figurative nature, with the choice of a representative factsheet for each sub-theme for the analysis of semiotic categories related to the trajectory of textual meaning, comparing the frequency of categorical elements present in the sample, the elements constructed culturally and influences in the building of the northeastern man.
Este trabalho trata das significações culturais presentes na literatura popular escrita do Nordeste brasileiro. As expressões culturais populares representam bem mais do que manifestações estéticas ou artísticas. Elas são declaração de uma prática cultural e uma constante renovação de uma memória coletiva, manifestada em vários gêneros literários, a exemplo do folheto de cordel. Com origem portuguesa, o gênero de cordel é a expressão escrita da literatura popular e constitui documentos legítimos e extremamente valiosos no resgate e na descoberta sobre os aspectos humanos e físicos da região Nordeste de épocas passadas. Devido a sua relevância como patrimônio histórico-cultural brasileiro, sob os auspícios dos pressupostos teóricos da Semiótica, o estudo teórico dos folhetos e de sua permanência no Nordeste do Brasil foi realizado através de uma amostragem com vinte e sete folhetos do acervo do Programa de Pesquisa em Literatura Popular (PPLP), da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), inseridos na classificação bibliográfica proposta por Albuquerque (2011) para a literatura popular. Por meio de pesquisa qualitativa e quantitativa de dados, foram destacados subtemas de natureza temático-figurativa, com a escolha de um folheto representante de cada subtema, para a análise de categorias semióticas referentes à trajetória de significação textual, confrontando-se a frequência de elementos categoriais presentes na amostragem, os elementos construídos culturalmente e as influências na construção da identidade do homem nordestino.
14
Brock, Stephen James Thomas, and brock stephen@saugov sa gov au. "A Travelling Colonial Architecture: Home and Nation in Selected Works by Patrick White, Peter Carey, Xavier Herbert and James Bardon." Flinders University. Australian Studies, 2003. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070424.101150.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis is a study of constructions of home and nation in selected works by Patrick White, Peter Carey, Xavier Herbert and James Bardon. Drawing on the work of postcolonial theorists, it examines ways in which the selected texts engage with national mythologies in the imagining of the Australian nation. It notes the deployment of racial discourses informing constructions of national identity that work to marginalise Indigenous Australians and other cultural minority groups.
The texts are arranged in thematic rather than chronological order. Whites treatment of the overland journey, and his representations of Aboriginality, discussed in Chapter One, are contrasted with Careys revisiting of the overland journey motif in Oscar and Lucinda in Chapter Two. Whereas Whites representations of Indigenous culture in Voss are static and essentialised, as is the case in Riders in the Chariot and A Fringe of Leaves, Careys representation of Australias contact history is characterised by a cultural hybridity. In Whites texts, Indigenous culture is depicted as an anachronism in the contemporary Australian nation, while in Careys, the words of the coloniser are appropriated and employed to subvert the ideological colonial paradigm.
Careys use of heteroglossia is examined further in the analysis of Illywhacker in Chapter Three. Whereas Carey treats Australian types ironically in Illywhackers pet emporium, the protagonist of Xavier Herberts Poor Fellow My Country, Jeremy Delacy, is depicted as an expert on Australian types. The intertextuality between Herberts novel and the work of social Darwinist anthropologists in the 1930s and 1940s is discussed in Chapter Four, providing a historical context to appreciate a shift from modernist to postmodernist narrative strategies in Careys fiction.
James Bardons fictional treatment of the Papunya Tula painting movement in Revolution by Night is seen to continue to frame Indigenous culture in a modernist grammar of representation through its portrayal of the work of Papunya Tula artists in the terms of the fourth dimension. Bardons novel is nevertheless a fascinating postcolonial engagement with Sturts architectural construction of landscape in his maps and journals, a discussion of which leads to Tony Birchs analysis of the politics of name reclamation in contemporary tourism discourses.
15
Weaver, Angela L. "Public Negotiation: Magazine Culture and Female Authorship, 1900-1930." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1259611809.
Full text
16
Hellman, Sona. "Så som bara den som bedragits kan älska : En narratologisk och semiosfärisk undersökning av Per Anders Fogelströms Mina Drömmars Stad." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Litteraturvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-40492.
Full textAbstract:
The aim of this essay, As only the deceived one can love, is to investigate the city character in the book Mina drömmars stad (City of dreams) by swedish author Per Anders Fogelström. I will do this by using narratology and making a narrative analysis of the city as a protagonist, with help from Jimmy Vulovic’s Narrativanalys (”narrative analysis”) and Claes Göran Holmberg’s & Anders Ohlssons Epikanalys – En introduktion (”epic analysis – an introduction”). All of these three theorists use the narratological tool-box of Gérard Genette, and I will use his tools in this essay as well. By doing this I will try to point out what this kind of personification of the city does to the story, and how it affects the readers point of view. One of the steps of the narrative analysis is to seek for information about the protagonist in its own environment, to see if there are any hidden clues about the identity of their character. In his book A universe of the mind – A semiotic theory of culture, Jurij M. Lotman writes about the semiosphere of the home, and how the ultimate place to seek for details about someone’s character is in someone’s home environment or surroundings. He demonstrates his thesis by analyzing the meaning of different homes in Michail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. Even if I try to read the city as a main character in City of dreams, it is inevitable that the city is also a stage, a scene and the environment where the story takes place. In the end of my analysis I will look to the environment of the city to try to draw conclusions about who this city of dreams really is.
17
Zunino-Lecoq, Bérénice. "La littérature illustrée pour enfants à l’époque de la Première Guerre mondiale : origines et évolution de la culture de guerre enfantine allemande." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040196.
Full textAbstract:
Dans une perspective d’histoire culturelle, cette thèse, fondée sur une approche iconologique, se propose de montrer, à partir de l’exemple de la littérature illustrée, que la culture de guerre enfantine allemande n’apparut pas ex nihilo en 1914. Elle avait ses racines dans la culture mémorielle d’avant-guerre. Issu de la peinture historique, un imaginaire héroïque en constituait les fondements. 1914 provoqua une intensification de la culture de guerre. Alors que les éditeurs commercialisèrent des livres patriotiques au moment où la guerre de position était déjà en place, ces ouvrages continuèrent à véhiculer l’image d’une guerre de mouvement. À mesure que les hostilités duraient, des dessins kitsch aux motifs enfantins et des caricatures de l’ennemi permirent de justifier le conflit, stylisé en une guerre défensive. Ces strates ludiques de la culture de guerre enfantine, qui provenaient de l’iconographie politique pour adultes, favorisèrent un élargissement du lectorat, auparavant scolaire, aux jeunes enfants. Les auto-images apologétiques l’emportaient toutefois sur la ridiculisation de l’ennemi. Conjointement aux caricatures, elles renforçaient la communauté nationale et traitaient des liens entre le front et l’arrière, qui devinrent une préoccupation croissante des familles, séparées durablement. Face aux difficultés matérielles, les livres, au ton moralisateur et performatif, cherchèrent à mobiliser matériellement les enfants à l’arrière. Dans ce contexte, des albums furent vendus au profit d’associations patriotiques. D’après les tirages, la littérature patriotique, probablement adressée aux enfants issus des milieux bourgeois, connut un certain succèsIn a cultural history perspective based on the methods of the “visual turn” this thesis deals with the illustrated children’s literature before and during the First World War and shows that the German children’s “war culture” did not appear ex nihilo in 1914. It had its origins in the memorial culture of pre-war time, which glorified the warfare. It relied on a heroic fantasy that came from historical paintings and used emotional reflexes. 1914 provoked an intensification and development of the “war culture”. While publishers put patriotic books on the market when the war of attrition took place, these books continued to convey familiar and reassuring images of a war of movement. As hostilities lasted, kitsch drawings with children’s characters and caricatures of the enemy used to justify the conflict, stylized in a defensive war. These fun strata of the children’s “war culture”, which came from the political iconography for adults, created an expansion of readership: children from the age of three up were concerned as well as school children. However, apologetic self-images were more important than the hatred and jeer of the enemy. Together with caricatures, they reinforced the national community and dealt with the bonds between the soldiers and the home front, which became a growing concern for permanently separated families. Because of deprivations, the books became sanctimonious and aimed at mobilizing children in the home front. In this context, albums were sold to raise funds for patriotic associations. According to the number of books printed, this patriotic literature, probably targeting children from both the middle and upper classes, were a success
18
Tycz, Katherine Marie. "Material prayers : the use of text in early modern Italian domestic devotions." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/276240.
Full textAbstract:
While scholarship often focuses on how early modern Italians used images in their devotions, particularly in the post-Tridentine era, little attention has been placed upon how laypeople engaged with devotional text during times of prayer and in their everyday lives. Studies of early modern devotional texts have explored their literary content, investigated their censorship by the Church, or concentrated upon an elite readership. This thesis, instead, investigates how ordinary devotees interacted with holy words in their material form, which I have termed ‘material prayers’. Since this thesis developed under the aegis of the interdisciplinary research project, Domestic Devotions: The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home, 1400-1600, it focuses primarily on engagement with these material prayers in domestic spaces. Using an interdisciplinary approach drawing from material culture studies, literary history, social and cultural history, and art history, it brings together objects, images and archival sources to illuminate how devotees from across the socio-economic and literacy spectrums accessed and employed devotional text in their prayers and daily life. From holy words, Biblical excerpts, and prayers to textual symbols like the Sacred Monogram of the Name of Jesus, this thesis explores how and why these material prayers were employed for spiritual, apotropaic and intercessory purposes. It analyses material prayers not only in traditional textual formats (printed books and manuscripts), but also those that were printed on single-sheets of paper, inscribed on jewellery, or etched into the structure of the home. To convey how devotees engaged with and relied upon these material prayers, it considers a variety of inscribed objects, including those sanctioned by the Church as well as those which might be questioned or deemed ‘superstitious’ by ecclesiastical authorities. Sermons, Inquisition trial records, and other archival documents have been consulted to further illuminate the material evidence. The first part of the thesis, ‘On the Body’, considers the how devotees came into personal contact with texts by wearing prayers on their bodies. It examines a range of objects including prayers with protective properties, known as brevi, that were meant to be sealed in a pouch and worn around the neck, and more luxurious items of physical adornment inscribed with devotional and apotropaic text, such as necklaces and rings. The second part of the thesis enters the home to explore how the spaces people inhabited and the objects that populated their homes were decorated with material prayers. ‘In the Home’ begins with texts inscribed over the entryways of early modern Italian homes, and then considers how devotees decorated their walls with holy words and how the objects of devotion and household life were imbued with religious significance through the addition of pious inscriptions. By analysing these personal objects and the textual domestic sphere, this thesis argues that these material prayers cut across socio-economic classes, genders, and ages to embody quotidian moments of domestic devotion as well as moments of fear, anxiety and change.
19
Brock, Stephen James Thomas. "A travelling colonial architecture home and nation in selected works by Patrick White, Peter Carey, Xavier Herbert and James Bardon /." 2003. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au/local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070424.101150/index.html.
Full text
20
Fenne, Jennifer J. ""Every woman is a nurse" : domestic nurses in nineteenth-century english popular literature /." Diss., 2000. http://www.library.wisc.edu/databases/connect/dissertations.html.
Full text
21
Moura, Catarina Luís de Carvalho. "A heterotopia do corpo : do Homem Elefante ao Freak Neovitoriano." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/19671.
Full textAbstract:
Joseph Merrick (1862-1890), o Homem Elefante, é mitificado pelo médico Frederick
Treves nas suas memórias The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences (1923).
Enquando freak, Joseph Merrick ilustra bem a relação entre corpos normativos e corpos
disruptivos, assim como a fronteira ténue entre a esfera científica e a esfera popular.
Para compreender o freak show vitoriano é essencial ter em conta que o conceito de
normal é uma construção forjada pelo século XIX e define o que é humano ou animal,
civilizado ou primitivo, belo ou grotesco. A definição e prescrição do normal acontece
no acto de observação dos corpos extraordinários, o que continua a ocorrer actualmente,
quer em obras neovitorianas, quer na televisão do século XXI. A definição do Eu pelo
Outro, sendo o Outro radicalmente diferente e simultaneamente igual, constitui a ideia
de heterotopia, descrita por Michel Foucault, e neste caso particular, aplicada ao corpo.Joseph Merrick (1862-1890), the Elephant Man, is constructed by doctor Frederick Treves in his memoirs The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences (1923). As a freak, Joseph Merrick illustrates the relationship between normative and disruptive body and the fluid line between medical and popular sphere. For a productive analysis of the Victorian freak show, it is crucial to perceive the concept of normalcy (particularly applied to the body) as a constructed one, forged by the 19th century, as it defines the boundaries of what is human or animal, civilized or primitive, beautiful or grotesque. The definition and prescription of normalcy take place in the act of staring at extraordinary bodies, which keeps happening nowadays throughout neo-Victorian texts and 21st century television. The definition of the Self by the Other, being the Other extremely different and simultaneously very much alike, constitutes what Michel Foucault describes as a heterotopia, in this particular case, applied to the human body.
22
Schneider, Pia. "Culture Shock in Travel Literature The literary works of Tiziano Terzani and Nicolas Bouvier." Master's thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/20426.
Full textAbstract:
The dissertation discusses elements of culture shock and re-entry culture shock in travel literature. The study is specifically concerned with the comparison of the effect of culture shock reflected in the works of two authors: Nicolas Bouvier and Tiziano Terzani.
After a short presentation of their biographies, including their motivation to travel and the meaning of leading a nomadic life, the thesis focusses on Terzani and Bouvier as writers and discusses the emergence of culture shock in chosen passages of their texts. Some important topics in this research regard the authors’ identity, their understanding of being at home and the meaning of being the Other.
It was possible to conclude that the two writers suffered from culture shock during their journeys; Terzani mostly during his stay in Japan and Bouvier particularly in Ceylon. The result of the analysis shows that culture shock is not a short event, but a long process that has an enormous impact on the individual’s life.
23
Dodd, Samuel Tommy. "Televising architecture : media, public engagement, and design in America." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/24687.
Full textAbstract:
Starting in the 1940s, the cultural revolution associated with the popularity of television placed new demands on how and where designers communicated the value of their work with the American public. "Televising Architecture" explains how architects, planners, and other design professionals used television as a communication technology and as a cultural platform for shaping public opinion on the built environment. Each of the six chapters describes a specific purpose and context for the application of television to architectural practice. I consider public affairs programs produced by the American Institute of Architects; the use of closed-circuit television for space simulations; public service announcements meant to offset negative coverage on urbanism; interactive television projects that elicited community participation in planning; and PBS mini-series on the history of American architecture. I conclude by discussing Home and Garden Television (HGTV) as a lesson in media convergence for design professionals in the twenty-first century.
"Televising Architecture" provides a new way to understand architecture not as a text, image, or built object, but as a complex system of communication models — including representation, negotiation, mediation, and participation — that occur between design experts and the public at large. I draw from the work of media and technology scholars who treat media as sites of negotiation and convergence. One of my primary methods is to analyze the largely untapped archive of architectural images, texts, and sound-bites found in television programming. I do so by examining programs themselves, including frame-by-frame analysis to identify what the programs communicated through visual tropes and camera and editing techniques, and a textual analysis, drawing on transcripts, program summaries, and press coverage. As a result, Televising Architecture provides historical perspectives— and a series of media lessons— for understanding the practice of architecture in our current digital culture, wherein architects must navigate a new media environment in the pursuit of social relevance.text
24
Shaw, Kirsten Elizabeth. "Neoliberalism and social patterns : constructions of home and community in contemporary New Zealand fiction : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in English at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/736.
Full textAbstract:
Constructions of home, family and community as ways of belonging have been ongoing discourses in New Zealand. This thesis examines constructions of home and family in works of fiction by four contemporary New Zealand authors: Alice Tawhai, Charlotte Grimshaw, Witi Ihimaera and Damien Wilkins. It asks how the main sociological characteristics of the period are presented and performed through fiction. Through these characters and their situations these authors expose the social fantasy of contemporary New Zealand society: that of individual reflexive opportunity. The twentieth century has seen a changing social fabric with loosening of bonds and the increase of individualism. The New Zealand way of life is changing, with increasing interconnectedness of the world through globalisation. Neo-liberal ideology, itself a response to globalising effects, has exacerbated social fragmentation and income disparity. Neoliberalism, a retreat of the state from both financial control and support of individuals, presumes a logic of market-forces and rational choice based on the maximisation of opportunity. This has implications for the individual’s sense of self and ways of belonging as the New Zealand subject is increasingly premised on personal responsibility. This thesis looks at the economic and sociological analyses of neoliberalism and asks if they are confirmed in the fiction.