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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Costume Designing for Theatre of the Absurd - Come and Go, Footfalls, and The Dumb Waiter.

Epling, Leslie Rose 18 December 2010 (has links)
In October of 2010, ETSU staged three one-act plays in the Theatre of the Absurd genre--Come and Go and Footfalls by Samuel Beckett and The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter. This thesis gives a brief overview of Theatre of the Absurd and how Beckett and Pinter helped to shape and define the genre. It also gives an analysis of these three plays from the perspective of the costume designer.
302

The Bauhaus: Understanding its History and Relevance to Art Education Today.

Bretschneider, Miette 15 December 2012 (has links)
I am interested in how the ideas of the Bauhaus shaped not only today’s world of art education, but also the outlook of the German nation during the early 20th century and today. It appears that art is not as prevalent as it once was, whereas fields like science and engineering have become popular. However, the ingenuity of the Bauhaus has lasted into this century and continues to have an impact on our American education system, as well as our ideas about art. As part of my thesis, I am comparing the classes I have taken at East Tennessee State University with those courses taught at the Bauhaus. Many of my art pieces are exploration of materials and my subjective artistic outlook. For example these subjects included weaving, metalsmithing, printmaking, and ceramics. I am placing most emphasis on the significance of the famous Bauhaus Preliminary Course, the Vorkurs, and how our education was closely linked to that of 1920s Germany.
303

Escapism, Oblivion, and Process in the Poetry of Charlotte Smith and John Keats.

Hall, Jessica 11 May 2013 (has links)
A thematic comparison of the work of British Romantic poets Charlotte Smith and John Keats, examining their meditations on the use of poetry and the poet's role, shared ambivalence toward the visionary imagination and escapism, and similar approaches to seasonal process and progression.
304

Fantasy Versus Fairy Tale: How Modern Fairy Tale Variants Measure up to One of the Greatest Literary Traditions of All Time.

Lee, Cheryl 14 December 2013 (has links)
This thesis will examine both the history of the fairy tale and the modern adaptations of these popular stories in order to illustrate how fairy tales have evolved into their modern counterparts. The implications and circumstances of several recent variants are questioned and compared to a concise definition of the fairy tale. It is determined that, although the modern versions resemble classic fairy tales, they are not a detriment to the tradition of the tales, and may, in fact, begin their own literary tradition.
305

Beauty and the Beast: Across Cultures and Time.

Johnson, Bridgette 01 May 2013 (has links)
This thesis traces the fairy tale of Beauty and Beast across different cultures in classic versions of the tale to examine social and cultural factors and gender norms and compares those findings to modern retellings while examining the same themes as the classic tales.
306

Skin Story: with critical introduction: “Scars left by the commonplace for women”.

Adkins, Bethany I. 01 December 2013 (has links)
A creative thesis with a story about themes of domestic violence focused particularly on an aspect of rape culture that does not directly involve rape: blamed femaleness. The critical introduction seeks to make this tie explicit to the text of the story.
307

C.I.A.: College (In)Action: An Observation of the Female College Experience.

Alavi, Mithra B. 01 May 2011 (has links)
A film that I have written and directed about females in college and what they experience in one academic year based on the experiences of my friends and myself.
308

Down Elk: A Collection of Poems.

Childress, Catherine Pritchard 07 May 2011 (has links)
This creative thesis is a collection of poems which represent a necessary journey to reconcile my relationship with the people, places, and values of Southern Appalachia, my home that is both stifling and liberating. Growing up in the Appalachian Mountains has influenced my character and my writing in ways that are far-reaching and constantly evolving. At different points in my life I have been equally enamored with the red dirt of my childhood and determined to dig my way out of its clutches. I have spread my wings in large cities and invariably found that I longed to get back to my roots. My experiences of mothering and of being someone’s wife, someone’s daughter, as well as my own self are all bound in my ongoing effort to reconcile my past with my present and to flesh out who I want to be among all I am expected to be. Within this juxtaposition I situate Down Elk: A collection of Poems – poems born not only of a childhood steeped in the love of family and secured in the tradition of growing up in the Appalachian South, but also of a life marked with great loss – too much, too soon – and finally, the ways in which all these experiences continue to shape how I now live and raise children in these mountains. The critical introduction explores not only the personal investment I have in these poems, but also considers poets who have been influential to my perspective, like Mary Karr and Linda Parsons Marion, as well as those with whom I share a common subject matter. This introduction also serves as a means of reflecting on my individual craft.
309

Right Now, the World is Ending: Collected Poems.

Bowman, Brian 07 May 2011 (has links)
A Collection of poems written during 2010-2011, with parallels to the work of Charles Wright, Wislawa Szymborska, and Rusell Edson.
310

Barthian Bliss in the Films of Darren Aronofsky.

Hogstrom, Mark M. 17 December 2011 (has links)
In this essay I argue that the films of director Darren Aronofsky correspond to the Text of Bliss defined in Roland Barthes' The Pleasure of the Text. Using several aspects of audience reception to dissect Aronofsky’s films justifies identifying his oeuvre as texts of bliss: works that disquiet viewers by unsettling their assumptions of the world around them and their own relationships with it. This Barthes-based appropriation of literary theory to audience reception theory in Film Studies serves as an example of how personally-developed classification systems can be used to circumvent relying on popular opinion and corporate aims for guidance in film classification.

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