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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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A Continuation of Myth: The Cinematic Representation of Mythic American Innocence in Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris” and “The Dreamers”

Colangelo, Joanna 03 November 2007 (has links)
No description available.
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REPRESENTING THE TRAUMA OF 9/11 IN U.S. FICTION: JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, DON DELILLO AND JESS WALTER

Santin, Bryan Michael 18 August 2011 (has links)
No description available.
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Susan Cooper's heightened reality : how narrative style, metaphor, symbol and myth facilitate the imaginative exploration of moral and ethical issues /

Davies, Lynda Mary. January 2001 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Queensland, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.
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Rodina v moderním americkém dramatu / Family in modern American drama

Hovorka, Jan January 2011 (has links)
This work analyses the American family in context of society and its demands. It focuses on the cannonical works of the Modern American drama, namely plays of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard and David Mamet. The playwrights are analysed in two distinctive groups according to similar themes they share. Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller depict the family under increasing pressure from the outside as well from the inside. The unit disintegrates, members of the family escape and thus the unit loses its funtions. The pressure is imposed by the tenets of the American mythology that governs the society, which, in turn, influences the family. The common theme of the first group of playwrights is the feeling of loss. This comprises of two dimensions - spatial and tempoval. The second group of playwrights share the same theme of loss with its spatial and temporal implications. They are characteristic by their distinctive use of language that depicts the prevalent sense of doom, apocalypse, futility and sterility. The search for identity is also implied by the restlessness of characters. The detrimental effect of harsh business environment on the family is explored with regards to masculinity. The work shows the family in the context of the 1950s, an era when the family was elevated to...

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