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Eriksson, Lina. "Economic man : the last man standing /." Göteborg : Göteborg University, Department of Political Science, 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/479310874.pdf.
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Nyikos, Daniel Arpad. "The Last Honest Man." DigitalCommons@USU, 2009. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/379.
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Born to a Hungarian mother and a father of Hungarian descent, I have spent my life trapped between two worlds, never quite able to be entirely part of either. As such, it seems fitting that for thesis I chose to do a novella, an art form that is neither short story nor novel. The novella is, I argue, a form that is uniquely suited to the task of examining a single theme at length, which I do in my thesis. It is through this little-studied form of fiction that I create a story through which I examine my own identity and world view. "The Last Honest Man" tells the story of Attila Molnár, a Hungarian shoe factory manager who comes to America to reconnect with his estranged wife. Along the way, he meets an old colleague, a former KGB agent who asks for his help in a scam involving the Y2K crisis. The novel explores the interconnected theme of identity and nationality in a world constantly shifting and changing politically and technologically. It addresses values of loyalty, friendship, family, and courage, each altered by time yet fundamentally unchanged.
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Boni, Lorne Vincent. "The Last Act of a Desperate Man." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1155.
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This paper examines the production of the thesis film The Last Act of a Desperate Man. The film's production is explored with respect to writing, directing, production design, cinematography, editing, sound design, technology and workflow. Particular attention is paid to the dynamics of acting and directing simultaneously. The production is examined with regard to major decisions which influenced each area of production, ultimately shaping the final film. The film maker's own analysis is offered in conjunction with feedback from a test screening with a statistical analysis of the test audience's poll responses.
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Matelic, Paul Kevin. "Shelterskinspeed : last bastion for the reclusive brooding man." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68767.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 49-50).
The dream of the twentieth century man is disappearing into the realm of the next millennium. His world is both far -reaching and unreachable. Technological transmission has begun to collapse global distance and scale, creating alternative and deceptive work-home relationships. The middle ground of suburban America, created mostly by the automobility of the common worker, is increasingly evolving into a devoid and meaningless setting . Nowhere is the dreamer or the mystic so alone then within the conformity and uniformity of the social norm. "Shelterskinspeed" describes a design direction based in the study of warehouse/homes for the alternative individual. A large volume architectural space utilizing steel, glass, and concrete in raw industrial bays is the new stage for the old modern man . A homestead setting for work, living and emotional play transcends the notion of the "house as a machine for living" into the "house as static vehicle." The spirit of this thesis lies trapped within the tangled forest of a depressed cynical psyche. His home is his castle and his imaginary defense against the demons of his mind. Reclusive and brooding, the new world man ponders his fate and existence from this last bastion of security. He wears his home as the quest knight resides in his armor.
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Redford, Catherine. "Friendship and community in last man literature, 1806-1833." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633498.
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This thesis argues that the wave of Last Man literature published between 1806 and 1833 paradoxically resists the Romantic privileging of the solitary, and is instead deeply concerned with the themes'offriendship and community. Chapter 1 considers the first two Last Man poems to be written in English and argues that this genre is rooted in the concept of community from its very beginnings. This interest in community is perceptible both on a thematic level and in terms~bf the wide network of interlinking cultural responses to the Last Man theme that these early texts inspired. Chapter 2 explores the Last Man theme within the context of the understanding of time during the Romantic age. Charting the contemporary interest in the growth and decline of communities, I argue that Romantic Last Man texts respond both to the idea of cycles and to a recent shift in the understanding of ruin. Chapter 3 demonstrates how this genre repeatedly displays a deep suspicion of communities located within an urban environment. I show how Romantic Last Man texts respond to the contemporary scientific and theological understanding of city life, ultimately figuring London as a space of deception and corruption. Chapter 4 places the Last Man narrative within the context of the Romantic fascination with posterity, demonstrating how the Romantic ideal of writing for a future audience is inverted in the two Last Man novels written during this period. Chapter 5 examines several satirical approaches to the Last Man theme, arguing that these texts comment upon the problem of competition in a genre so transfixed with originality by providing the Last Man with the companion for whom he has always longed.
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Hendry, Marie. "Boundary and longing : narrative modes in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The last man." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002413.
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Poteat, R. Matthew. ""To the Last Man and the Last Dollar" Governor Henry Toole Clark and Civil War North Carolina, July 1861 to September 1862 /." NCSU, 2005. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07112005-210225/.
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This thesis examines the life and political career of Henry Toole Clark, the second of North Carolina?s three Civil War governors. Clark served one term as the state?s chief executive from July 1861 to September 1862, a crucial period in which North Carolina established itself as a constituent member of the Confederate States and first suffered the hardships of war. As the leader of the state in that formative period, he mobilized thousands of troops for the Southern cause, established the first, and only, Confederate prison in North Carolina, arranged the production of salt for the war effort, created European purchasing connections, and built a successful and important gunpowder mill. Clark, however, found more success as an administrator than as a political figure. The Edgecombe County planter devoted over twenty years to the service of the Democratic Party at the local, state, and national levels, and over ten years as a state senator. As governor, he was unable to maneuver in the new political world ushered in by the Civil War, and he retired abruptly from public service at the end of his term. Clark?s life and career offer insight into the larger world of the antebellum planter-politician, that dominant group of southern leaders who led the region into dependence upon slavery and, ultimately, to war. Though the planter class was diverted from power for a brief time during Reconstruction, the political and racial ideology of that class would shape conservative white southern thought for the next hundred years.
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Zolciak, Olivia T. "Mary Shelley's The Last Man: A Critical Analysis of Anxiety and Authorship." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1479074358312485.
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McGreevey, Morag Veronica. "Reading apocalypse : ruptured temporality and the colonial landscape in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/57594.
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This thesis examines the process of reading in Mary Shelley’s novel The Last Man
(1826). The novel illustrates a limiting conception of reading, as characters become bound to the futures that they consume via literature. However, there is a breach between the type of reading represented in the novel, and the model of reading that Shelley demands of her audience. By analysing the text’s competing aesthetics of ruin and artifice, I argue that Shelley advocates for a system of reading that recognizes the audience’s potential for agency and intervention. Just as Reinhart Kosseleck theorized that the post-French Revolution world marked a new sense of time, Neuzeit, which corresponded with the burgeoning era of modernity, Shelley advocates for a
uniquely modern system of reading.
By reading The Last Man in this way, the novel’s critique of imperialism expansion is
transformed from a prophetic vision of the future into a practically actionable critique. There exists much scholarship concerning the novel’s criticism of England’s early-nineteenth century project of colonial expansion. Notably, critics like Paul Cantor, Alan Bewell and Siobhan Carroll have conceptualized the plague as a cosmopolitan imperial force, spreading disease just as late-Romantic explorers, politicians, and merchants spread ideas, bodies, plants, and consumer goods. Yet, Shelley’s critique of global interconnectivity extends beyond the plague to the world it leaves behind. Ecologically abundant and primed for human occupation, the post-apocalyptic world is deeply reminiscent of the early-nineteenth century ideal of colonial space. However,
while late-Romantic imperialists conceived of these spaces as edenically new, Shelley writes a traumatic history explaining their emptiness. This narrative leaves readers as witnesses to humanity’s apocalyptic end. Only through a new system of critical readership can the audience distance itself from this annihilating future view to envision alternate futures for England.Arts, Faculty of
English, Department of
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Moser, Mical. "The evil is come home to us, domesticity and imperialism in The last man and Jane Eyre." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0020/MQ48362.pdf.
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Hendry, Marie. "Boundary and Longing: Narrative Modes in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and The Last Man." Scholar Commons, 2008. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/289.
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Boundary and desire surround the relationships in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The Last Man. The narrative modes of Captain Robert Walton relate his separation to the rest of the world and his need for companionship. Yet, not any companionship will satisfy his longing for connection with a human being; his search revolves around the need of common understanding. This further separates the character of Lionel in The Last Man from humanity in that he is unable to find anyone left on earth after a series of plague, war, and atmospheric anomalies apparently wipe out the human race. His survival hinges on the desire to find someone, anyone, in which to share any mode of common experience. His struggles with loneliness finally culminate in his autobiography.
Both Frankenstein and The Last Man deal with the issue of narrative and the bounds of human necessity for acceptance and companionship. Though both tales are from a male perspective, the gendered aspects of the stories further separate the characters in each novel. How each character is estranged by forces outside their control, and how they express this relationship between their internal selves and their outer selves, are at the core of each text. Through these ideas of boundary and belonging, this thesis will explore the relationships in Frankenstein and The Last Man.
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Lee, Yongbom. "The Son of Man as the Last Adam : The Early Church Tradition as a Source of Paul's Adam Christology." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.525434.
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Kjellsson, Love. "Can the Act of Destroying Nature be Evil in Itself? : A Virtue Ethical Approach to the Last Man Thought Experiment." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-123172.
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Hallermayer, Evi. "Filme analysieren - Kulturen verstehen über Akira Kurosawas "Yojimbo" und seine beiden Remakes "Per un pugno di dollari" und "Last man standing"." Konstanz UVK-Verl.-Ges, 2007. http://d-nb.info/988911752/04.
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Söderlind, Ulrica. "Den sista måltidens framställning inom den ortodoxa ikonkonsten : - En religionsvetenskaplig och gastronomisk analys." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-24587.
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The focus of the thesis is on the last supper and how that event is depicted on icons within the Eastern Orthodox Church. Two different methods have been used to study the motive: archive studies and literature studies. The motive in itself is studied from a religious perspective as well as from a gastronomical perspective. The composition of Jesus and his disciples and how they are placed around the table, which ones that have halos are studied from the religious perspective and the different kind of food elements and utensils for a meal are studied from the gastronomical perspective. The theoretical perspective combines parts of Eliade's theory of the religious man and Söderlind's theory of the gastronomical man. During the study of the icons it became clear that the food items and utensils that are depicted are markers of identity.
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Wilson, Robyn Joan. "Last Man Hanging This exegisis is submitted to the Auckland University of Technology for the degree of Bachelor in Art & Design, Honours,(Graphic Design). 2005 /." Full dissertation Abstract, 2005.
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Dissertation (BA (Hons)--Bachelor of Art and Design) -- AUT University, 2005.Print copy accompanied by CD. Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (99 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm. + CD (3 in.)) in City Campus Theses Collection (T 707 WIL)
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Castleberry, Garret. "Incorporating Flow for a Comic [Book] Corrective of Rhetcon." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28405/.
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In this essay, I examined the significance of graphic novels as polyvalent texts that hold the potential for creating an aesthetic sense of flow for readers and consumers. In building a justification for the rhetorical examination of comic book culture, I looked at Kenneth Burke's critique of art under capitalism in order to explore the dimensions between comic book creation, distribution, consumption, and reaction from fandom. I also examined Victor Turner's theoretical scope of flow, as an aesthetic related to ritual, communitas, and the liminoid. I analyzed the graphic novels Green Lantern: Rebirth and Y: The Last Man as case studies toward the rhetorical significance of retroactive continuity and the somatic potential of comic books to serve as equipment for living. These conclusions lay groundwork for multiple directions of future research.
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Wilson, Robyn Joan. "Last man hanging a book of pictures : this thesis [exegesis] is submitted to the Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Art and Design, August 2007 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2007. http://repositoryaut.lconz.ac.nz/theses/1359/.
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Exegesis (MA--Art and Design) -- AUT University, 2007.Disk includes covers, a book of pictures, fold-out page, exegesis and Appendix 3 entitled 31 months (Appendix 3 not in print). Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (xv, 75 leaves : ill. ; 27 cm. + CD-ROM) in City Campus Collection (T 707 WIL)
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Keeler, Kyle B. KEELER. ""The earth is a tomb and man a fleeting vapour": The Roots of Climate Change in Early American Literature." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent152327594367199.
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Ortoli, Philippe. "La plaie à vif : le héros tragique à travers l'analyse filmique de quelques westerns américains et italiens." Aix-Marseille 1, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1997AIX10003.
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Pour decouvrir comment se definit le heros tragique dans le western, il nous a semble pertinent de pratiquer une rigoureuse analyse filmique (decoupages "plan par plan", croquis explicatifs) des oeuvres dans lesquelles il s'est le plus illustre. Nous les avons effectivement envisagees comme une mythologie singuliere, ou, sous diverses defroques, apparait notre figure. Loin de toute perspective chronologique, le regroupement des films a donc ete propose par la facon dont s'y presentait l'evolution interne du heros et de sa mission. Qu'y lit-on? en premier lieu (la premiere partie: "l'homme de nulle part", exemple: l'homme des vallees perdues), il s'apparente a un cavalier solitaire aidant une communaute a lutter contre des "mechants" pour creer une societe dont il sera automatiquement rejete, car l'exclusivite de sa fonction lui interdit de se fixer et d'endosser la carapace d'un citoyen. Puis, lorsque les grands espaces se muent en villes (la deuxieme partie: "le retour du banni", exemple: le train sifflera trois fois), il devient un etre soucieux d'une stabilite sociale que viennent lui contester des agresseurs exterieurs, le forcant a constater sa singularite, au moment d'un combat que lui seul peut assumer. C'est tout naturellement qu'il se retrouve ensuite, dans un ouest embourgeoise, vagabond erratique a la recherche d'une action qui ressemble a son identite perdue (la troisieme partie: "l'appel du vide", exemple: la horde sauvage).
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"Shifting Indian Identities in Aravind Adiga's Work: The March from Individual to Communal Power." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.17980.
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abstract: In contemporary Indian literature, the question over which sets of Indian identities are granted access to power is highly contested. Critics such as Kathleen Waller and Sara Schotland align power with the identity of the autonomous individual, whose rights and freedoms are supposedly protected by the state, while others like David Ludden and Sandria Freitag place power with those who become a part of group identities, either on the national or communal level. The work of contemporary Indian author Aravind Adiga attempts to address this question. While Adiga's first novel The White Tiger applies the themes and ideology of the worth of the individual from African American novelists Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin, Adiga's latest novel, Last Man in Tower, shifts towards a study of the consequences of colonialism, national identity, and the place of the individual within India in order to reveal a changing landscape of power and identity. Through a discussion of Adiga's collective writings, postcolonial theory, American literature, South Asian crime novels, contemporary Indian popular fiction, and some of the challenges facing Mumbai, I track Adiga's shifts and moments of growth between his two novels and evaluate Adiga's ultimate message about who holds power in Indian society: the individual or the community.Dissertation/Thesis
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Huang, Li Ling, and 黃麗鈴. "Man Jumping over the Tower." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69848668318145532875.
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Man Jumping over the Tower Summary: The earthquake happening on the 21st of September 1999, attracted the worldwide attention for its tragic result of the death of 2500 people in Taiwan, inspired me to look into the relationship among Earth, it surface and life. Human beings on the earth are no different from the ants. If looking from the outer space, no ants, no human beings, even no whales, the largest mammal on earth are visible. Therefore, the littleness of those lives can only be stood out by the accumulation of time and persistence. The rule of the universe is the never-ceasing change. And since Earth is one of the members in the universe, it should follow this rule as well. In addition to this, the scientists who traced the change of ecological systems on Earth have also came to the conclusion that no stable, unchangeable ecological system exists in Nature. Everything changes in spite of the fact that mankind interferes or not. Since change is the rule which is inevitable, the variation of the geographical and cultural landscape, is consequently the small part of the rule. Comparing to the change of Earth and the universe, the change of the lives on earth is too insignificant to notice. The earthquake, volcano, drastic difference of the climate, melting of the iceberg, one of which happens can take away as many lives as it can. Even though the environmental protection groups emphasize over and over that people should protect the earth and reduce any environmental destruction, the truth is that they obviously overestimate the ability of mankind, for it is impossible for human beings to disobey the rule of the universe and to keep unchangeable. If the earth can treat mankind with tenderness, then the virtual world in “Matrix” may come true. At that time, today’s Great Wall of China will be considered as the mountain, the broken part of the architecture will be the hard rock, the mountain of trash will definitely be the ever-lasting symbol of our civilization, and the lost city will be treated as the fossil in the natural landscape. Based on this, this essay begins from various viewpoint of the universe which developed at different stage of human history, then to explore the changing facets of the geographical and cultural landscape resulting from the inhabitation of mankind, and ends with geographical and digital arts.
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Polakoff, Gregory Ivan. "Japan's "last man" : overcoming a "crisis of ideas"." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11461.
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Due to Mori Ogai's importance not only as a writer, but as one of Japan's leading medical
researchers and cultural critics, his works have always been under the scrutiny of scholars. This is
especially true with respect to the fiction composed during a short segment of his career-from 1909
to 1912-which Richard Bowring has labelled Mori Ogai's "literature of ideas." Ogai's "literature of
ideas" depicts an enormous and heterogeneous array of ideas from a variety of humanistic and
scientific disciplines, and is expressed in a variety of genres and literary styles. They represent
Mori Ogai's keen interest in a variety of Western literary and philosophical discourses, such as
Naturalism, the Bildungsroman, and the cultural criticism of such thinkers as Nietzsche and Ibsen.
Although the importance of Mori Ogai's reception of Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas has been discussed
to a limited degree in several studies, I intend to demonstrate that Nietzsche's ideas actually
constitute a significant influence on the manner in which Ogai fine-tuned the structure, style, and
content of his "literature of ideas." I believe that Ogai's "literature of ideas" is a definitive response
to its author's disapproval of the outright "imitation" of Western ideas, which he perceived
dominated Japan's modernization process. In addition, he was very wary of the consequences of
imitating a discourse which he believed was characterized by a paradoxical union of optimistic and
nihilistic ideologies. Although Mori Ogai expressed envy at the progress-oriented nature of Western
ideas and the philosophies of inspiring and forward-looking thinkers such as Plato and Goethe, he
was also deeply disturbed by the gradual manifestation of pessimistic thought subsequent to the
Renaissance-a phenomenon which he feared could be replicated in Japan. I will argue that
Nietzsche's notion of continuous self-development as depicted in Zarathustra is at the core of Ogai's
"literature of ideas," the primary purpose of which is to depict Ogai's anxiety about Japan's
modernization, and to posit a perspective which might help the Japanese intelligentsia to
"overcome" the many obstacles which Ogai perceived as inherent components in this process.
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Bender, John E. "The last man standing : causes of daimyo survival in sixteenth century Japan." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20636.
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"Outside the Ivory Tower: The Role of Academic Wives in C.P. Snow’s The Masters, Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim, and Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2015-12-2379.
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Academic fiction in its current form—as novels set on university campuses and focused on the lives of faculty—has existed since the mid-twentieth century. The genre explores the purposes and the cultures of universities and the lives of their faculty. Because universities have traditionally been insular communities that interact little with the outside world, the novels contain few non-academic characters. However, one non-academic group does appear consistently throughout the genre—the academic wives. These characters host parties, care for their husbands and children, and remain largely separate from the university structure. Although they appear in nearly all academic fiction, they have escaped notice by critics because they are secondary characters who exist largely in the background. However, a comparison of academic wives and their roles in C. P. Snow's The Masters (published 1951; set 1937), Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (published 1954; set in the early 1950s), and Malcolm Bradbury's The History Man (published 1975; set 1972) shows that these characters contribute significantly to the development of universities' cultures. Their roles both influence and respond to changes within the university structure. The academics' anxiety over the wives' potential influence on university affairs in these novels, and these women’s responses to this anxiety, enable the genre to explore the division between academics and non-academics within the university culture.
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"Mary Shelley's "Reflective Radicalism" in Frankenstein and The Last Man: 建構瑪麗·雪萊在《科學怪人》與《最後一人》中的 "反思型進步政治學"." 2014. http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-1291359.
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Liang, Huiling.Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2014.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-90).
Abstracts also in Chinese.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on 26, September, 2016).
Liang, Huiling.
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Hrybkova, Katsiaryna. "Nietzsche a Dostojevskij. Idea nadčlověka." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-298069.
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Present thesis aims at revealing both touching points and different points of departure in Nietzsche's and Dostoevsky's concept of superman by using so called philosophical- anthropological approach to the questions matter. It takes into account not only complete context of oeuvre of both authors but also wider cultural and historical context of their time. Basic point of departure of this thesis is expectation of crucial position of man in the oeuvre of Nietzsche and Dostoevsky as well, both understanding man as essentially defined as free to choice. Analysis of characteristics defining essence of man leads after to elaboration of idea of superman - conclusion of final judgement of human beings' essential characteristics and visions of future principle of man. Having closely analysed particular landmarks on the way from man to superman in the form of particular types of relations to each person's being and freedom - last man, upper man and superman (or common and exceptional man) - we are arriving to systematic comparison of motif of superman in the thinking of both authors, to associated concepts (negative and positive freedom, suppression of nihilism and so on) and finally to its general meaning. KEY WORDS F. Nietzsche, F. M. Dostoevsky, superman, freedom, nihilism, upper man, last man, will to...
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Svárovská, Nicol. "Zahradníčkovo Znamení moci." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-326649.
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The aim of this thesis is to interpret Jan Zahradnicek's spacious poem The Sign of Power. The interpretation crystallizes around the motifs of dehumanisation (connected with Nietzsche's motif of nihilism and of the last man) of a man, the loss of a word, discontinuity, the loss of time, the human face, nothingness (specific Nothingness) and the possibility of salvation, connected with an awakening of the sight. There are two semantic lines essential for enlightening these motifs: Dante's Divine Comedy and Picard's works of the late 40s. Zahradnicek wrote The Sign of Power during 1950-1951, at the time of his intense work on the translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. The purpose of the first part of this thesis is to illustrate how strongly the Divine Comedy influenced the key motifs of The Sign of Power. The purpose of the second part of the thesis is to uncover a new semantic context for the interpretation of Zahradnicek's poem; the works of Swiss essayist, philosopher and poet Max Picard, which were of great importance for Zahradnicek's poem. I see the exposition of Picard's specific grasp of the key modern phenomena, which penetrated to Zahradnicek's poem, as the further objective of the work. The thesis is guided by the fundamental question of The Sign of Power - "what happened with a man" -,...
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DUDA, Zdeněk. "Člověk, smrt a onen svět v čase baroka." Master's thesis, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-49151.
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The thesis deals the question of the last things of man, so the theme of the death, dying and imagines about the world and the other world, especially in the first and the second third of the 18th century in the South Bohemian town of Písek. The themes of the last things of man are studied on the example of two possible contemporary discourses, namely the semipopular and popular discours. The contemporary popular discours was constructed by the analysis of testaments of town people of Písek from the thirties of the 18th century, as the resources of the semipopular discours books ars moriendi and hymn-books were used. The world and the other world diffused especially in the time of the funeral; the almighty God was usually coming into the world through the death and the ritual of the funeral and manifested his fairness and grace. In the view of the popular discours the reality of baroque world was still confirmed and accepted by the funeral ceremonies again.
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Dyer, Jennifer. "The role of Archaeology in the Jesus industry." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/21003.
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The question leading to this study is whether the facts and theories pertaining to the
Bible and Jesus Story as presented by The Authors (H Schonfield, D Joyce, B Thiering, M
Baigent, R Leigh, H Lincoln; M Starbird, and D Brown) could be verified by the
Archaeology evidence. I have adopted a multidiscipline and holistic approach
considering information gathered from all media sources to ascertain what theories, if
any could replace the traditional Jesus Story of the New Testament. I considered
whether the alternative theories or traditional theories were believable due to the
evidence presented by Biblical Archaeology or by the techniques used by The Authors
in presenting their facts. By using Thouless’ system of Straight and Crooked thinking I
was able to ascertain that the theories used in the novels written by The Authors may
have been persuasive, but lacked substance.Biblical and Ancient Studies
M. Th. (Biblical Archaeology)