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Chassin, de Kergommeaux C. Danielle. "Autofictional practices : self-fashioning in Diana Thorneycroft's self-portraits." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82695.

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This thesis explores autobiographical practices and their relationship to autofiction, by focusing on practices of identity construction and artistic performance, as well as identity construction through performance. Emphasis is given to the ways gender and sexuality enter into, and shape, these practices by examining, in particular, the way they are expressed in Diana Thorneycroft's photographic performances. Chapter 1 discusses the history and key debates in autobiography theory, the ways gender has been introduced into the analysis of autobiography, and non-literary forms of autobiog
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Pei, Yun. "The prophetic Wordsworth : anxiety and self-fashioning." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/58875/.

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The thesis investigates the prophetic in Wordsworth's ‘golden decade' (1798-1808). It establishes the following arguments: the prophetic in Wordsworth should not be treated of only incidental interest; it is a mode of his self-fashioning, as well as a mode of his writing, channelling the poet's anxieties about his authorship, readership, reception and posterity. The thesis contains an introduction and a short conclusion, with two main sections amounting to 7 chapters. Chapter 1 to 3 form Part I, focusing on the prophetic as a mode of self-fashioning. Chapter 1 re-examines The Prelude, arguing
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Maye, Kira. "Artificiality in Mannerism: the Influence of Self-fashioning." Thesis, Boston College, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/495.

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Thesis advisor: Stephanie Leone<br>Despite a surge of scholarly and public interest in the mid-twentieth century, Mannerism remains an ill-defined and problematic period label. The first goal of my thesis is to define the style in its chronology and stylistic attributes. Noting its artificiality and the influence of self-fashioning, I identify its clearest definition in Giorgio Vasari's writing and art. Second, I discuss the use of the sophisticated style by the artist and his patron, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, as a means of social advancement and legitimization. Finally, I analyze the icono
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Kirksey, Cort H. "Shavian Self-Fashioning: Authorized Biography and Shaw's Superman." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2184.

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George Bernard Shaw exercised an above-average level of authorial control, which even extended to his relationship with his biographers. Shaw crafts a persona, with the help of his "authorized" biographer Archibald Henderson, which displays a process of evolutionary development and progress along the lines of the Shavian philosophy of the Life Force and the Superman. In essence, Shaw is casting himself as a prototype for the Superman through the autobiographical manipulation of his biographers and aesthetic modes of self-fashioning.
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Barnes, Emma. "Fashioning a natural self-guides to self-presentation in Victorian England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/271912.

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McHattie, Lynn-Sayers. "The situal self : fashioning identity discourses and loved objects." Thesis, Glasgow School of Art, 2012. http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/3998/.

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That we are what we have... is perhaps the most basic and powerful fact of consumer behaviour’ (Belk 1988 p. 139). Women’s individual identity discourses are encoded socially and culturally through relationships with material objects and practices of dress. Relationships with loved objects yield an emotional and intellectual approach that literally unpicks fashion, exposing its operations, its relations to the body whilst at the same time binding feminine structures. This more expansive view of fashion situates the relationship material objects have to the self and how women relate to the mate
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Redden, Guy Francis. "The new agents : new age ideology and the fashioning of self /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17148.pdf.

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McEwan, Alice. "Bernard Shaw at Shaw's Corner : artefacts, socialism, connoisseurship, and self-fashioning." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/20780.

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This thesis analyses artefacts belonging to the playwright, socialist and critic Bernard Shaw, which form part of the collections at Shaw’s Corner, Hertfordshire, now managed as a National Trust property. My original contribution to knowledge is made by revealing Shaw through the artefacts in new or under-explored roles as socialist-aesthete, art patron, connoisseur, photographer, celebrity, dandy, and self-commemorator. The thesis therefore challenges the stereotypical views expressed in the literature which have tended to focus on Shaw at Shaw’s Corner as a Fabian with ascetic characteristic
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Davison, Jez. "Self-fashioning in the poetry of Robert Lowell and John Ashbery." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323470.

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My thesis focuses on the work of two American poets, John Ashbery and Robert Lowell. I argue that both construct a personality in their work. Lowell's construct is more obviously related to his own personality than Ashbery's is; this is perhaps unsurprising, since writing his autobiography became Lowell's primary poetic practice from Life Studies onwards. Yet despite Ashbery's well-known claim that writing about the particularities of his life does not interest him or other readers, I demonstrate that the personality in his poetry adopts attitudes which are similar to his own. I explore Lowell
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Elder, Lara Frances. "Heinrich Heine in Paris : the poetics and politics of self-fashioning." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a41acb1e-84bd-4687-abc8-331bdacd30e5.

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Drawing on the concept developed in Stephen Greenblatt’s Renaissance Self-fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, this thesis presents Heinrich Heine as an extreme case of the ‘self-fashioning’ writer. I argue that his preoccupation with self-construction determines what and how he writes, how he treats his reading public and, crucially, how he perceives and evaluates his own career. Though self-fashioning occurs in his earliest works, Heine’s decision to move to Paris (1831) was the single biggest self-determining act of his life; he constructs it as a moment of rebirth. Inspired by the July Re
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Ludwig, Amber. "Becoming Emma Hamilton: portraiture and self-fashioning in late enlightenment Europe." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/31587.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>How Emy Lyon became Emma Hamilton (1765-1815) through the creation, display, and circulation of painted portraits, portrait prints, letters, and architectural imagery is the focus of this dissertation. In it,
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Sabitt, Claire. "Wearing the Hat of an Other: Alterity and Self-Fashioning in Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione's Oriental Heads." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20673.

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In the late 1640s, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione produced two series of etchings, which historians have named his Oriental Heads, depicting a variety of figures in exotic headgear. The persistence of Oriental headdresses throughout the series suggests a pervasive interest in costume on the part of both Castiglione and his society. In the seventeenth-century Western European imagination, the turbaned figure represented the epitome of alterity: the Ottoman Turk. Signed “CASTIGLIONE, GENOVESE,” the etchings reveal the artist’s important Genoese origins as a part of his artistic identity. Castigl
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Stearns, Shannon Emily. "The Collection of Queen Christina of Sweden: Repurposing Ancient Iconography to Redefine Modern Queenship." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/403153.

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Art History<br>M.A.<br>In this paper, I analyze the life and collection of Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626-1689), as a complex and shifting performance of gender, authority, and other aspects of identity. I argue that Christina’s education and life experiences actively informed her collecting preferences for certain types of mythological figures, which became an effective tool of her self-fashioning as a ruler who broke away from what she viewed as the confines and expectations of her gender. I will demonstrate how her strategies as an astute patron and collector of the arts were central to h
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Entwistle, Joanne. "Fashioning the self : women, dress, power and situated bodily practice in the workplace." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.287489.

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Chattopadhyay, Sayan. "Foreign selves : Indian self-fashioning as European and twentieth-century Indian English literature." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648897.

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Sheets, Whitney Caitlin. "Acting the Part: Emma Hamilton's Self-Fashioning and the Transgression of Class Boundaries." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/146673.

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Emma Hamilton, an eighteenth‐century British social icon, rose from classless obscurity and an unconventional past to fame and widespread popularity among Britain's elite. Like contemporary eighteenth‐century British actresses who often struggled with associations with immorality, Emma too struggled to progress beyond the public's understanding of her as a prostitute or mistress. Emma can be viewed as similar to actresses, an association which serves to illuminate potential motives in portraits of Emma. Both Emma and actresses recognized the utility of portraiture in the reversal of their nega
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Su, Genxing. "The seduction of culture: Representation and self-fashioning in Anglo-American popular culture." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290379.

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One important means by which a society maintains and reproduces its dominant ideology is through cultural seductions. By creating in its viewers/readers a good feeling about themselves and the world they live in, popular culture entices individuals into approving of, supporting and embracing the dominant social, political and economic orders of our world. What Louis Althusser calls ideological "interpellation," therefore, is frequently a form of seduction involving the use of sweeteners that render certain values, beliefs and social positions enticing and attractive. Among such seducers are mo
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Nichols, Marden Fitzpatrick. "Vitruvius and the rhetoric of display : wall painting, domestic architecture and Roman self-fashioning." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611534.

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Gillott, David James. "Authority, authorship, and Lamarckian self-fashioning in the works of Samuel Butler (1835-1902)." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2013. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/24/.

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The Lamarckian thought of Samuel Butler (1835–1902) has been much observed in relation to his evolutionary works, but my thesis offers a wider ranging examination, and argues for the pervasiveness of Lamarckian ideas across the whole breadth of Butler’s varied oeuvre. In his intervention into evolutionary debate, Butler differentiated between Darwinian luck and Lamarckian cunning, and I show how this distinction informs his notions of authority and authorship, and how he employs Lamarckian concepts in his attempt to fashion for himself an authoritative position as a man of letters. Via an exam
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Igmen, Ali F. "Building Soviet Central Asia, 1920-1939 : Kyrgyz houses of culture and self-fashioning Kyrgyzness /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10385.

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Ring, Freeman Wendy Lynn. "'In Her Own Fashion': Marie de Gournay and the Fabrication of the Writer's Persona." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194459.

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Marie de Gournay (1565-1645) was bold. Following a profound, epiphanic experience while reading Montaigne's Essais, she would turn the despair of a young woman, ambitiously seeking her own voice, into literary performances as part of a continuous exercise of staging herself. Indeed, she would fabricate for herself a mythic persona, a Virgo nobilis, in order to control her own destiny as an author, and as a literary, political and social commentator. She also had some very powerful friends and supporters. Following a prominent fifty-year career, though, she would virtually disappear from the Fr
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Dorsey, Carol G. "Self-fashioning (im)possibilities a literary tapestry of women at work in nineteenth-century America /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2434.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.<br>Thesis research directed by: English Language and Literature. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Atkinson, Anna Louise. "Fruitful in the land of my affliction, narratives of captivity and female self-fashioning, 1666-1824." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63401.pdf.

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Knoell, Stefanie A. "Commemoration and academic 'self-fashioning' : funerary monuments to professors at Oxford, Tübingen, and Leiden, 1580-1700". Thesis, University of Sussex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394252.

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Tocchetti, Sara. "How did DNA become hackable and biology personal? : tracing the self-fashioning of the DIYbio network." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3098/.

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The DIYbio (Do-It-Yourself biology) group was established with the aim of turning biology and biotechnology into a creative practice accessible to everyone. The group is composed of graduate and post-graduate students and drop-out graduate students, but also disenfranchised researchers and professionals who see in the initiative the possibility of reviving their passion for science. Inspired by the analogy of the personal computer as a 'spokes-technology' for a free, egalitarian and decentralized society, that of the free and open-source software movement, and inspired by the image of the Vict
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Mansfield, Jayne D. "The self-fashioning of Oliver Cromwell an analysis of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell." Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2006. http://d-nb.info/989180034/04.

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Clark, Marcella. "A failed performance in self-fashioning: an interpretation of Francis Beaumont's The knight of the burning pestle." Thesis, Kansas State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/9828.

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Weingärtner, Tanja. "Écouen and the patronage of Anne de Montmorency (1493-1567) : politics and self-fashioning in the French Renaissance." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/265433.

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Turner, Catherine Elizabeth. "Self-fashioning, consumption and japonisme : the power of collecting in Tissot's Jeunes femmes regardant des objets japonais, 1869." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003180.

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Merlin, Monica. "The late Ming courtesan Ma Shouzhen (1548-1604) : visual culture, gender and self-fashioning in the Nanjing pleasure quarter." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0da584bf-16fc-4372-8a1b-b97afd3bcf8a.

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Ma Shouzhen (1548-1604) was a cultured courtesan who lived in the famous pleasure quarter along the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, the southern capital of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). She was talented in dance and music, painting and poetry, and surprisingly for her time, she was also a playwright. Although she was a celebrity of the prolific Nanjing cultural milieu and there is a good corpus of extant material by and about her, the particular contribution of Ma Shouzhen - her character and her work - have been marginalised, or even neglected, by the previous scholarship. This thesis is a cross-di
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Caffaro, Geraldo Magela. "The house, the world, and the theatre: self-fashioning and authorial spaces in the prefaces of Hawthorne, Dickens, and James." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECAP-9WJQXR.

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This Dissertation examines self-fashioning processes in prefaces and introductions by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, and Henry James. The general argument is that in these texts authorial identity is constructed through spatial metaphors and authorial figures of ideological and cultural resonance. The readings proposed connect these spatial metaphors and authorial figures - organized according to the groups 'house,' 'world,' and 'theater' - to the specific historical context and to ideologies circulating in the nineteenth-century. The main theoretical perspectives that support these rea
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Smirnova, Daria, and Daria Smirnova. "The Petersburg Text in Russian Literature of the 1990s." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12526.

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The image of Saint Petersburg has influenced the imagination of Russian writers since the establishment of this city in 1703. Today, it is common to speak about the Petersburg Text in Russian literature that has its own mythology, imagery, and stylistics. However, the research in this sphere is predominately concentrated on works written before the second half of the 20th century. This thesis addresses the revival of the Petersburg mythology in the 1990s in works by such authors as Mikhail Veller, Andrei Konstantinov, and Marusia Klimova. It illustrates how the reinvention of traditi
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Turner, Catherine Elizabeth. "Self-fashioning, Consumption, and Japonisme: The Power of Collecting in Tissot’s Jeunes Femmes Regardant des Objets Japonais, 1869." Scholar Commons, 2009. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/58.

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This study examines self-fashioning and the practice of collecting in Second Empire Paris as manifest in James Tissot's Jeunes femmes regardant des objets japonais (1869, Cincinnati Museum of Art). The painting, exhibited in the Salon of 1869, conspicuously portrays Tissot's own collection of exotic Asian collectibles and the artist's private luxe interior. When scholars investigate and interpret Jeunes femmes, it is regularly defined within the prescriptive realm of Tissot's later London paintings, or of his well known series, La Femme à Paris. I argue for a less circumspect engagement with t
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Groom, Angelica. "The role of rare and exotic animals in the self-fashioning of the early modern court : the Medici court in Florence as a case study." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/42399/.

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The principal aim of this study is to investigate the role rare and exotic animals played in the cultural self-fashioning and political imaging of the Medici's Ducal and Grand-ducal Court in Florence (1531-1737). The exclusive focus on this topic will contribute to Medicean scholarship in an area of research that has hitherto received only scant and fragmentary attention. This study will provide the first comprehensive and systematic analysis of the numerous ways in which both real and depicted animals were manipulated to serve the interests of the Medici regime. The thesis is formed of five c
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Ragazzoli, Chloé. "Les Artisans du texte. La culture de scribe en Égypte ancienne d’après les sources du Nouvel Empire." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040171.

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Au Nouvel Empire (1539-1075 av. J.-C.), les scribes – « ceux qui écrivent » en égyptien – prennent le devant de la scène dans les sources littéraires. Ils construisent et promeuvent une image d’eux-mêmes, qui révèle l’existence d’une communauté et d’un « monde social » (A. Strauss), fondés non pas sur la classe mais sur l’appartenance à une profession. Parmi les textes consacrés au métier de scribe, les florilèges appelés « miscellanées » ou « Enseignement par lettres » constituent une sorte de vademecum de la production écrite de l’époque, qui accompagne le scribe dans sa carrière et jusque d
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Weakley, Anne. "Conscious of Her Own Power: Hester Piozzi's Character Creation in Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson LL.D., During the Last Twenty Years of His Life." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/477.

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This project highlights aspects of Hester Piozzi’s approach to biography in Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson LL. D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life in order to analyze her use of accumulated cultural and social capital. I highlight similarities between Anecdotes and Samuel Johnson’s model for biography given in Rambler #60 and show how Piozzi adheres to his advice as she characterizes Johnson as a pious genius, intolerantly opinionated, and self-indulgent, yet unwilling to accept those qualities in others. I analyze how her editorial choices characterize her as a reliable source o
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Pitman, Sophie. "The making of clothing and the making of London, 1560-1660." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269651.

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In recent years, urban historians have established that the period from 1560 to 1660 was a key era for London’s development from a relatively small European urban centre into a large dynamic global capital. This dissertation attempts to intervene in London scholarship by drawing attention to the economic, political, religious and – most significantly – cultural importance of clothing in the city in this period. Using material, visual, literary and archival sources, it explores the ways clothing contributed to the development of early modern London and, in turn, how London’s rapid growth change
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Valk, Karl. "Le projet intellectuel d'un réformateur : Philippe de Mézières (1327-1405)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024SORUL145.

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Cette thèse est consacrée à l'étude de l'activité littéraire de Philippe de Mézières (1327-1405) dans une perspective d'histoire intellectuelle. Elle s'appuie sur des concepts élaborés par l'« École de Cambridge », en mettant l'accent sur l'interaction entre les langages intellectuels - des façons de parler fondées sur des autorités - et les actes de langage - des énoncés réalisés à l'aide de ces langages. Je commence par souligner le rôle de Philippe de Mézières lui-même dans la construction de récits biographiques repris par l'historiographie. Une enquête sur les principales références utili
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Chakrabarti, Ishan. "The venture of self-fashioning in Mughal India." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-1507.

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Individuality – both as a philosophical category and a way of living – forms the focal point of a resonance between our times and the 17th-century. Impelled by this haunting resonance, and in an attempt to understand it, my paper examines the literary history of biographical writing in both Europe and South Asia, from 560 BCE to 1700 CE. What is it about the 17th century that is so specific? Why do only these biographies strike us as records of the lives of true individuals? And why do individuals first appear in 17th century South Asia? To adequately comprehend this nomadic literary genre, w
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Kershner, Stephen M. "Self-fashioning and Horatian allusion in Statius's "Silvae"." 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594494831&sid=11&Fmt=2&clientId=39334&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2008.<br>Title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 21, 2009) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Dugan, John Includes bibliographical references.
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Lodhia, SHEETAL. "Material Self-Fashioning and the Renaissance Culture of Improvement." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1513.

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This dissertation argues that in Renaissance discourses of the body the body is progressively evacuated of the spirit, as we move from texts of the late Medieval period to texts of the Jacobean period. Where New Historicists have suggested that the practice of “self-fashioning,” which dictates behaviour, speech and dress, takes place in the Renaissance, I argue that there was a material self-fashioning of the body occurring simultaneously. Such corporeal fashioning, motivated by desire for physical improvement, frustrates the extent to which the soul shapes the body. My Introduction lays th
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Sloan, Casey Lauren. "Tearing up the nun : Charlotte Brontë's gothic self-fashioning." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22741.

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This report explores the ideological motivations behind Charlotte Brontë's inclusion of and alterations to gothic conventions in Villette (1853). By building on an account of the recent critical conversation concerning the conservative Enlightenment force of the gothic, this report seeks to explain the political significance of a specific, nineteenth-century mutation in the genre: Lucy Snowe as an experiment in the bourgeois paradigm. Lucy Snowe's sophisticated consciousness of genre manifests in her minute attention to dress, but the persistence of her personal gothic history means that Vill
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Buczek, Christopher Richard. "Horatius auctor ideological self-fashioning in the Augustan age /." 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594494821&sid=12&Fmt=2&clientId=39334&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2008.<br>Title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 15, 2009) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Dyson, Stephen, Woodard, Roger Includes bibliographical references.
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Devonshire, Elizabeth-Anne. "Fashioning an academic self: a study of managing and making do." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/985.

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This study investigates how academics are managing and being managed by the demands of their everyday work. Specifically, it sets out to examine how a small cohort of academics located in a former college of advanced education (CAE), now integrated as a Faculty in a traditional Australian university, negotiate the dominant discourses and power relations in this setting. It considers the role played by government policy directives in shaping this particular workplace and its inhabitants. It also explores the tactics and strategies academics employ to manoeuvre the complexities of their day-toda
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Greene, Carlnita Peterson. "Beyond the binaries to self-fashioning: identity as the rhetoric of social style." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3058.

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Nagy, Andrea Ruth. "Dictionaries and linguistic self-fashioning in the English Renaissance : the prehistory of cultural literacy /." 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/9708542.

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Li, Juo-han, and 李卓翰. "Yeats’s Poetics of Oscillation: Self-fashioning and the Construction of Three Identities in The Tower." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14084544373639180232.

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碩士<br>國立東華大學<br>創作與英語文學研究所<br>93<br>This thesis explores Yeats’s characteristic oscillation in The Tower, and tries to illustrate how Yeats exploits oscillation to examine, affirm, and construct three different identities: an aged poet, an old man as a lover, and a poet in troubled times. Chapter one concerns how the poet deals with his own aging, how he struggles in dejection and rage but manages to accept/transcend his age, and finally establish his faith and pride in poetry. The discussion covers “Sailing to Byzantium” and “The Tower” and observes how the poet’s image, after the proces
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Lazzarini, Lisa. "Un po´di sana follia. The process of denegation in shamanic technologies of self-fashioning." Doctoral thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/104275.

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The main purpose of this research is to explore the role of denegation in activating, directing, sustaining and protecting the process of self-fashioning through specific case study of shamanic practicing. The fieldwork has been based mainly in Florence, Italy, and in Lisbon, Portugal, following the transnational circulation of the global and online shamanic field through a snowball sampling that led me to the practitioners and their cosmopolitan networks. Italian and Portuguese practitioners share a willingness to change their lives and intentionally shape themselves through a shamaniza
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Wu, HsiangChun, and 吳香君. "Family- And Self-Fashioning: Tragic Conflict In Romeo And Juliet And The Duchess Of Malfi." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42392777982272220226.

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碩士<br>靜宜大學<br>英國語文學系<br>100<br>William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi abound with a host of accidents and coincidences. There are so many such chance occurrences that critics hold that the Wheel of Fortune must be what controls the protagonists’ fate. This thesis aims to refute the prevailing critical analysis that the tragedies arise under the concept of the Wheel of Fortune. By applying Stephen Greenblatt’s new historicism and his concept of Renaissance Self-Fashioning, the thesis explores the two female protagonists’ strong self-fashioning behavior in
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Dale, James. "Incognitos: Shakespeare’s Uses of Disguise in the Light of New Historicism and Its Legacy." Doctoral thesis, 2021. https://depotuw.ceon.pl/handle/item/4003.

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The dissertation focuses on the interpretative significance of the convention of disguise in Shakespeare’s plays viewed against a wider cultural background of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. The analysis foregrounds the construction of stage disguise as a combination of controlled discourse and sartorial device, a powerful distortion of reality with multiple psychological, social, and political implications. The basic methodological framework derives from New Historicism, and revisits the seminal concept of renaissance self-fashioning by Stephen Greenblatt (1980), both elaborated and resh
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