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Tinch, Rebecca H. "Locating Modernity: Japonisme, Gender, and Enchantment at the 1893 World’s Fair." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1336132958.

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Schultz, Yvonne R. "Remediating Rhetorical Room at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair: Lucy Stone, Mary Cassatt, and Ida B. Wells." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1292124744.

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O'Leary, Jeffrey M. "Manufacturing Reality: The Display of the Irish at World's Fairs and Exhibitions 1893 to 1965." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1448719627.

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Klein, Irina. "The Literary Reception of the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 /." [Braunschweig, Germany] : Technische Universität Braunschweig, 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/350098646.pdf.

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Canfield, Amy Taipale. "Discovering woman : women's performances at The World's Columbian Exposition Chicago, 1893 /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486402288260419.

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Zimnica, Elizabeth. "Making history, Poland at the 1939 World's Fair in New York." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37993.pdf.

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Zimnica, Elizabeth. "Making history Poland at the 1939 World's Fair in New York." Kingston Queen's University, 2006. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37993.pdf.

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Ruiz, Janette Cynthia, and Janette Cynthia Ruiz. "Los Murales de Osaka: Mexican Modernism at the 1970 World's Fair." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622864.

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In 1969 curator Fernando Gamboa commissioned eleven abstract artists to paint a collective mural to be displayed in the Mexico Pavilion at the 1970 World’s Fair held at Osaka, Japan. He instructed the artists to paint large sized individual paintings on stretched canvases that when joined collectively would form a mural measuring 400 sq ft. The artists selected by Gamboa were working in a style that broke the conventions of traditional Mexican muralism. They were a generation of painters who abandoned the ideologies of José Vasconcelos and the conception that artists should be responsible for
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Pruett, Elizabeth Cornelius. "Kindergarten goes to the fair! How the World's Fair of 1876 advanced the kindergarten movement in the United States." Thesis, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3561307.

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<p> The purpose of this historical narrative study was to discover how the World's Fair of 1876 advanced the kindergarten movement in the United States. Historical documents, photographs, and drawings were used as data sources. The following questions guided this study: "What were the purposes of the kindergarten exhibits at the World's Fair?" "Who were the individuals that demonstrated the kindergarten at the first Centennial World's Fair and how did they influence the kindergarten exhibits at the next fair in 1893?" and "How did commercialism associated with the fair affect the kindergarten
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Cleland, Kat. "Disruptions in the Dream City: Unsettled Ideologies at the 1905 World's Fair in Portland, Oregon." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1019.

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This thesis examines the experiences of fairgoers at the Lewis and Clark Centennial, American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair held in Portland, Oregon from June to October of 1905. Historians have framed world's fairs and international expositions as sites of legitimating narratives and restagings of empire and nationhood. This thesis focuses on women, Asian Americans, and Native Americans who interrupted and disrupted the performance and exhibition of U.S. imperialism in the specific case of Portland, Oregon. It considers who benefitted from or endured loss in the demonstrations of imper
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Walker, Alicia Shannon Wynkoop Mary Ann. "Savage to civilized the imperial agenda on display at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904 /." Diss., UMK access, 2005.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Dept. of History. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2005.<br>"A thesis in history." Typescript. Advisor: Mary Ann Wynkoop. Vita. Description based on contents viewed June 27, 2006; title from "catalog record" of the print edition. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-107). Online version of the print edition.
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Levin, Isabella. "All Roads Lead to the Fair: How a 2022 Los Angeles World's Fair Would Accelerate the Implementation of Sustainable and Innovative Forms of Transportation." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/943.

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This thesis explores the potential impact of a World’s Fair on urban mobility in Los Angeles County by 2022. A brief historical account of World’s Fairs, and their impact on technological innovations in transportation will be given in conjunction with the development of transportation in Los Angeles. These accounts will help to contextualize an analysis of current plans to provide Los Angeles with transportation solutions, in light of the oversaturated automobile landscape in place today. Specifically, my research has revealed that the further development of light-speed rail systems paired alo
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Moss, Zahra Marie. "The Golden Treasures of Monte Alban: Mexican Representation and Exhibition Controversy, 1933-1936." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/242379.

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In 1932, Alfonso Caso, a rising professor of anthropology and employee of the Mexican National Museum of Anthropology and History made a huge archeological discovery; a centuries old tomb in the ancient citadel of Monte Alban located in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. In the months that followed the discovery the find was excavated, cleaned, cataloged and put on display. Altogether the cache consisted of hundreds of objects made of gold, precious stone, sea shells and human remains. Dubbed the Monte Alban Treasure by its discoverer, the find soon became a worldwide sensation. Public inte
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Schuttey, Kirsten C. "Recognition at Last: The Woman's Building and the Advancement of Women at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282049952.

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Takenaka, Akiko. "The construction of a war-time national identity : the Japanese Pavilion at New York's World's Fair, 1939/40." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10403.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1997.<br>Includes bibliographical references.<br>The period between the mid-nineteenth century and World War II was the age of international expositions for the countries of the European and American continents. Events were launched every few years in various cities, in order to demonstrate the level of cultural sophistication or technological advancement. The predominate ways in which these events have been studied are: as stages for the display of technology and design; as sites for the manifestation of imperialism
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Trafford, Emily. "'Where the races meet' : racial framing through live display at the American West Coast World's Fairs, 1894-1916." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2015. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/2045419/.

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This thesis examines the live exhibition of Native American, Chinese, Japanese, Alaskan, Hawaiian, Samoan, and Filipino people on the midways of five West Coast world’s fairs (San Francisco, 1894; Portland, 1905; Seattle, 1909; San Francisco, 1915; San Diego, 1915-1916). I situate the world’s fairs as significant sites of racialisation at a time of intense westward expansion, and recognise the West Coast as a key location at which various processes of expansion occurred, and at which the human relationships associated with these processes were negotiated. Foregrounding conflicting and interrel
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MCGOWAN, NANCY L. "ASPECTS OF FAIRYLAND: AMERICAN PERCEPTIONS OF THE JAPANESE HOODEN, LADY'S BOUDOIR, AND TEA HOUSES AT THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION OF 1893." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179502629.

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McGowan, Nancy L. "Aspects of fairyland American perceptions of the Japanese Hôôden, lady's boudoir, and tea houses at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1179502629.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Cincinnati, 2007.<br>Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed July 12, 2007). Includes abstract. Keywords: World's Columbian Exposition, Japan, the Japanese, exhibits, fairies. Includes bibliographical references.
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Mangipano, John. "Remolding Mexican Identity: The Wax Art of Francisco Vargas in 19th Century New Orleans." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1327.

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In December of 1915, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported on the death of the patriarch of four generations of Mexican wax figure artists whose artworks demonstrated a century of change in the city of New Orleans. The family's artworks included religious sculptures, representations of indigenous and peasant populations of Mexico, and the merchant populations of the French Quarter. Francisco's artworks represented Louisiana's agriculture at two World's Fairs in New Orleans and Buffalo. Francisco received a contract from Mississippi Commissioner R. H. Henry to produce the 30-foot King Cotton
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Doherty, Patrick Donovan. "Fin de rêve: Reactions in the British, French, and American Press to the 1900 Exposition Universelle." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1304983155.

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Gimenes, Gabriela Xabay. "Estados Unidos e América Latina nas páginas do Chicago Tribune: pan-americanismo e Exposição Universal de Chicago (1889-1894)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-10022017-111456/.

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Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar como a primeira experiência pan-americanista (1889-1894) apareceu nas páginas do importante jornal The Chicago Tribune e quais foram as imagens veiculadas sobre as Américas. O diário de Chicago, ligado aos interesses dos empresários e industrialistas do Oeste norte-americano, se posicionou favoravelmente a uma reorientação da política hemisférica, colocada em prática na segunda gestão do Secretário de Estado James Blaine. Para além de sua defesa sobre a ampliação do comércio interamericano, o Tribune se esforçou em construir representações de amizade ent
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Khumon, Prapanpong. "Exploring the link between law and the fair trade movement : how can law be opened to reflect values from a social movement to benefit the world's poor?" Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2010. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1290.

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The fair trade movement has been established to create a mutual equality among people in a global pane to offset a gap of inequality and poverty exacerbated by the effect of globalization. One of the main principles of fair trade is based on the value of fairness and social solidarity to create a tie between business corporations and impoverished producers. While the livelihoods of small-scale producers depend on trading interactions with the business world, the main concern is that the nature of corporations in their profit-seeking behavior might result in abuses of resources, labor malpracti
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Christie, Ross. "'Britain's crisis of confidence' : how Whitehall planned Britain's retreat from the extra-European world, 1959-1968." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2018.

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This thesis attempts to give an account of how Whitehall planned Britain's withdrawal from extra-European commitments in the years 1959-1968, demonstrating that foreign policy development was essentially a cross-departmental process, involving a synthesis of views articulated by the Treasury, Board of Trade, Ministry of Defence, Colonial Office, Commonwealth Relations Office, as well as the Foreign Office. More specifically, the thesis is concerned with the direct effects of the interplay of different departmental policies on British retrenchment from Africa, the Middle East, and the Far East.
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Pfeffer, Miki. "Exhibiting Women: Sectional Confrontation and Reconciliation in the Woman's Department at the World's Exposition, New Orleans, 1884-85." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2006. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/339.

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At the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, the Woman's Department offered women of all regions of the country an opportunity to exhibit what they considered "woman's work." As women came together and attempted sectional reconciliation, controversy persisted, especially over the selection of northern suffragist Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," as the Department's president. However, during the course of the event, which lasted from December 16, 1884 to May 31, 1885, New Orleanians and other southern women learned skills and strategies fro
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Pueppke, Michael. "Awakening a World With Words: How J.R.R. Tolkien Uses Linguistic Narrative Techniques to Take His Readers to Faery in His Short Story Smith of Wootton Major." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3927/.

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J.R.R. Tolkien uses specific linguistic narrative techniques in Smith of Wootton Major to make the world of Wootton Major and the nearby land of Faery come to life for his readers. In this thesis, I examine how Tolkien accomplishes this feat by presenting a linguistic analysis of some parts of the story. My analysis is also informed by Tolkien's own ideas of fairy-stories, and as such, it uniquely shows the symbiotic relationship between Tolkien's theories and his narrative art.
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Tharaud, Marie-Amélie. "L’Art nouveau dans les arts décoratifs et l’architecture à l’Exposition universelle de 1900." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEP036.

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L’Exposition universelle de 1900 à Paris a constitué pour les acteurs du mouvement Art nouveau une rencontre unique par son envergure internationale. Si cet événement a longtemps été déconsidéré, il représente pourtant pour l’Art nouveau – appréhendé dans son acception internationale – un moment de confrontation et l’occasion, pour certains pays, de mettre en valeur leur modernité stylistique. La première partie de la thèse s’attache à comprendre les raisons de la présence de l’Art nouveau à l’Exposition, et donne une vision d’ensemble des édifices et objets d’art se rattachant au mouvement. E
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Chadbourn, Kayte A. "A historical comparative analysis of the Norway and Maine State Buildings from the 1893 Columbian Exposition." Muncie, Ind. : Ball State University, 2009. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/642.

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Hebble, John. "The Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House of 1759: From Colonial America to the Colonial Revival and Beyond." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/603.

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The Longfellow House in Cambridge, Massachusetts is one of America’s best known historic homes. Built in 1759 by Major John Vassall, the grand house exemplified Colonial English tastes and was at the center of a cycle of Colonial Royalist mansions. After the American Revolution, however, the house quickly became a symbol of American patriotism. Occupants ranging from General George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow each added to the legacy of the house. Early in the nineteenth century, the Longfellow House’s distyle portico- pavilion traveled to Canterbury, Connecticut, becoming a coll
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Girard, Max. ""La Grande Emotion". La mise en scène des missions chrétiennes dans les expositions coloniales et universelles : France - Belgique. 1897 - 1958." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE3010.

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La France et la Belgique organisent plusieurs expositions coloniales internationales et universelles de la fin du XIXe siècle à 1958. Ces deux puissances coloniales y développent une propagande multiforme pour justifier leurs « missions civilisatrices ». Les missionnaires catholiques et protestants participent à ces grandes fêtes. La consultation d’archives des congrégations religieuses (Spiritains, Jésuites…), de l’œuvre de la Propagation de la Foi, de fonds publics français, belges, suédois et du Saint-Siège permet de comprendre comment s’organisent les missionnaires pour participer à ces ex
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Forte, Joseph A. ""We Weren't Kidding": Prediction as Ideology in American Pulp Science Fiction, 1938-1949." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42644.

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In 1971, Isaac Asimov observed in humanity, a science-important society. For this he credited the man who had been his editor in the 1940s during the period known as the golden age of American science fiction, John W. Campbell, Jr. Campbell was editor of Astounding Science-Fiction, the magazine that launched both Asimov's career and the golden age, from 1938 until his death in 1971. Campbell and his authors set the foundation for the modern sci-fi, cementing genre distinction by the application of plausible technological speculation. Campbell assumed the science-important society that Asi
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"Mormons and the World's Fair 1893: A Study of Religious and Cultural Agency and Transformation." Doctoral diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14679.

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abstract: My dissertation project, Mormons at the World's Fair: A Study of Religious and Cultural Agency and Transformation looks at a pivotal period of transition within the American religious and political national culture (1880-1907). Using Mormonism as an important focal point of national controversy and cultural change, this dissertation looks at the interconnections between Mormon transitions and the larger national transformations then under way in what historians call the "progressive" era. Prominent scholars have recognized the 1893 World's Fair as an important moment that helped init
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Applegate, Heidi. "Staging Modernism at the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8X63K13.

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Drawing upon theories concerning visuality, spectatorship, consumption, and the institutionalization of culture, this dissertation considers the ways that the art exhibition at the Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) attempted to make modern art accessible and acceptable to a mass audience in America. The story of the exhibition in the Palace of Fine Arts demonstrates how the American artistic establishment incorporated modernism into the conservative idiom of a major international exposition by promoting a definition and understanding of "modern" art that was distinctly national, c
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Schick, Susan Paula. "Making the temporary permanent: A world's fair for Houston (Texas)." Thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/13594.

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Houston is a non-traditional city. It is a unique combination of the artificial and the natural, and to a large degree, very temporary. Buildings in this city last as long as the economy can support them, as evidenced by the great scraping-away of many historic structures downtown during the 60s and 70s. Skyscrapers rest on artificial concrete bedrock floating in the sandy Houston soil. The urban fabric is neither dense nor wide open. Layers and networks--some visible, some invisible--structure the city. Within this temporary environment exist permanent enclaves, in the form of built developme
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Klein, Irina [Verfasser]. "The literary reception of the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 / von Irina Klein." 2002. http://d-nb.info/964802686/34.

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Riley, Caroline M. ""Ambassador of Good Will" The Museum of Modern Art's "Three Centuries of American Art" in 1930s Europe and the United States." Thesis, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/17711.

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This dissertation examines the powerful role that museums played in constructing national art-historical narratives during the 1930s. By concentrating on Three Centuries of American Art—the 1938 exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for viewing in Paris—I argue that the intertwining of art, political diplomacy, and canon formation uncovered by an analysis of the exhibition reveals American art’s unique role in supporting shared 1930s cultural ideologies. MoMA’s curators created the most comprehensive exhibition to date of the history of American art with works from 1590 throu
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Chang, Yu-Chi, and 張郁琪. "Women Exhibiting and Exhibited: A Case Study of Women''s Pavilion at American World''s Fairs, year 1876, 1893 and 1915." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rvbw86.

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碩士<br>國立臺北藝術大學<br>博物館研究所碩士班<br>102<br>Abstract The world’s fairs were arenas which celebrated the glory of the competition and the progress, integrated the competition into products, technologies and inventions between countries. It depicted the world orders by imperialism, capitalism, and visualized to people. In the late 19th century, American women bourgeoisie mobilized funds and various clubs, groups of women to join the world’s fairs and attempted to exhibit their achievement and the vision of an ideal female in this new era. They placed women in the development of country and history,
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Van, der Merwe Philippus Wolrad. "The interdependency between causality, context and history in selected works by E.L. Doctorow / P.W. van der Merwe." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/16240.

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This dissertation focuses on the interdependency between causality, context and history in selected novels by E.L. Doctorow: The Book of Daniel (1971), Ragtime (1974), Loon Lake (1980), World's Fair (1985) and The Waterworks (1995). Doctorow' s fiction is marked by an apparent paradox: while it underscores fictionalization and sometimes distorts late nineteenth and twentieth century American history, it simultaneously purports to be a valid representation of the past. The novelist's implementation of causality which is a significant component of "the power of freedom", constitutes fiction's ab
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Potter, Mary-Anne. "The worlds between, above and below : "growing up" and "falling down" in Alice in Wonderland and Stardust." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/11870.

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The purpose of my dissertation is to conduct an intertextual study of two fantasy texts — Alice in Wonderland by Victorian author Lewis Carroll, and Stardust by postmodern fantasy author Neil Gaiman — and their filmic re-visionings by Tim Burton and Matthew Vaughn respectively. In scrutinising these texts, drawing on insights from feminist, children’s literature and intertextual theorists, the actions of ‘growing up’ and ‘falling down’ are shown to be indicative of a paradoxical becoming of the text’s central female protagonists, Alice and Yvaine. The social mechanisms of the Victorian age tha
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