Dissertations / Theses: 'History of present illness'

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Wilson, Merna Akram. "Triage Template to Improve Emergency Department Flow." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1622280768033809.

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Perrill, Elizabeth A. "Contemporary Zulu ceramics, 1960s-present." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3330798.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, History of Art, 2008.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 21, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-10, Section: A, page: 3782. Adviser: Patrick R. McNaughton.

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Mascaretti, Giovanni M. "Adorno, Foucault, and the history of the present." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19707/.

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What is the nature of our society? What kinds of power regimes shape our existence? What forms of emancipatory resistance might chart the way towards a better future that responds to the dangers, injustices, and pathologies marking the present? These are just some of the questions my dissertation aims to answer through the help of the conceptual resources that Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault provide us with. Accordingly, whereas the few attempts that have been made been to compare their works remain inadequate, partial, or simply out-dated, my thesis offers a detailed and comprehensive appraisal of both the explanatory and reconstructive potential of Adorno’s and Foucault’s common project of developing a critico-theoretical account of modern Western society, with a view also to showing the often-neglected compatibility of their respective approaches. At issue, is not only the scholarly reconstruction of a possible dialogue beyond their differences, but also, and more importantly, the analysis of the continued relevance of their works for our understanding of the world we inhabit. To this end, Chapters 1 and 2 start with an examination of the historical conditions Adorno and Foucault see at the root of the dangers and pathologies ailing our age. More specifically, Chapter 1 starts with a review of Adorno’s conception of late modern society as a reified totality ruled by the logic of capitalist exchange. I then confront Adorno’s account of social domination with Foucault’s early analytics of power and illustrate the similarities between their pictures of the disciplinary mechanisms at the basis of the constitution of modern individuals. The chapter concludes by presenting their critique of the scientific discourses and ideological procedures that have supported these power mechanisms. After examining the connection they establish between the development of capitalism and modern biopower, Chapter 2 compares Foucault’s and Adorno’s portraits of the political culture of liberalism. Whereas the relevance of Adorno’s insights is manly confined to the processes of socialization characterizing the welfare states in the first half of the 20th century, I argue that Foucault’s later inquiries shed an instructive light on the reconfiguration determined by the rise of neoliberalism in the contemporary technologies of government, whereby the latter are no longer based on the rigid mechanisms of disciplinary power, but rather on the fabrication of the subject as a free and responsible entrepreneur through more indirect and flexible forms of control operating on the social environment. Chapters 3 to 5 explore the anticipatory-utopian dimension of Adorno’s and Foucault’s enterprises. Chapter 3 engages in a largely unprecedented comparison of their critical approaches. Despite their different targets and narratives, I contend that they converge in the project of a critical problematization of the present, which seeks to modify their addressees’ sensibility and experience not only to show the historical contingency of the present, but also to encourage its radical transformation. Contrary to the popular view that they lack normative theorizing, Chapter 4 reviews Adorno’s and Foucault’s accounts of the normativity of critique, while pointing to their common attempt at giving new impetus to the emancipatory thrust of Enlightenment modernity. Chapter 5 elaborates a much overdue evaluation of their responses to the ethico-political challenges of the present through a juxtaposition of Adorno’s minimal ethics of resistance with Foucault’s late ethical reflections on the ancient practices of care of the self, which lie at the source of his more ambitious politics of the governed. The chapter closes by proposing a possible way of integrating Foucault’s call for creative resistance with Adorno’s politics of suffering. In conclusion, my dissertation assesses Adorno’s and Foucault’s merits in the construction of a critical “ontology of the present” that stands opposed to the neo-Idealist turn of much of contemporary critical theory with its separation of normative and empirical claims from the material forms of power shaping individuals’ subjectivity, cultural patterns, and institutional structures, while eventually arguing that Foucault gives us a more effective toolbox not only to comprehend who we are, but also to imagine ourselves otherwise.

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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "Review of Ingratiation from the Renaissance to the Present." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5458.

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Buscemi, Nicole Desiree. "Diagnosing narratives: illness, the case history, and Victorian fiction." Diss., University of Iowa, 2009. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/282.

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“Diagnosing Narratives: Illness, the Case History, and Victorian Fiction” explores how the medical case study competes with patients’ experiential accounts of disease in the development of popular nineteenth-century fictions. During most of the Victorian period, clinical medicine served as the primary producer of medical knowledge. At the same time, its objectification of the sufferer—epitomized by the case narrative, the most prevalent form of nineteenth-century medical writing—led to an increasingly distanced relationship between doctor and patient. I argue that the mid-century novel responds by featuring narrator-sufferers who co-opt aspects of the medical case in order to represent their own subjective experiences and rethink what constitutes medical knowledge. As the century came to a close, however, sciences of the laboratory, rather than the clinic, began to gain epistemological sway. In light of widespread skepticism regarding the possibility of translating discoveries made in the lab into effective bedside practices, I contend that popular novels and short stories now returned full circle to the clinical case approach as a valuable alternative to the laboratory. The result is late-century fiction structurally and thematically driven by the useful yet sometimes callous techniques of the diagnostician and his case method. I chart these shifts through an examination of works by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Arthur Conan Doyle. My project illustrates the responses of these authors to prevailing power dynamics in the world of medicine and offers a new reading of the ways in which the Victorian preoccupation with disease shaped literary narrative.

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Engle, Derek. "Present Arms: Displaying Weapons in Museums." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/492682.

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History
M.A.
Museums have always had and displayed weapons, including firearms. As museums have evolved, so too has exhibit design and practice. However, many weapons displays have not kept up with changing practices, and many of them are now irrelevant, have limited audiences, or are unhelpful to the broader public. Simply displaying weapons by type or as art is not enough anymore, and keeping them in storage does not take advantage of their potential. Also, many museums are increasingly trying to become places for public discourse about current issues. They often create exhibits meant to be relevant to today and promote discussions about controversial topics. Many museums are also trying to make their collections and objects more accessible to the public. Innovative displays of firearms could help them accomplish both these tasks. The battle over gun control and gun rights is often more of a shouting match than reasoned discourse. Museums could use historic firearms as an opportunity to help facilitate a more responsible conversation about the issue. These firearms are typically not as emotionally charged as modern guns, and could be used as a pathway into the gun debate if displayed creatively. Guns, historic or not, are often not very approachable objects for many people. This can be for a variety of reasons, including their associations with masculinity, power, and nationality. Museums should experiment with new ways to display firearms that can make them more approachable and accessible to broader audiences, and ideally to the entire public.
Temple University--Theses

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Christiansen, Jobadiah Truth. "Crucifix of Memory: Community and Identity in Greenville, Pennsylvania 1796-Present." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1429530820.

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Skerritt, David Alan. "Peasant organisation in Veracruz, Mexico : 1920 to the present." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319033.

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Bowdish, Lawrence A. "Invidious Distinctions: Credit Discrimination Against Women, 1960s–Present." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1281925280.

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Raitila, Jyrki. "History of evangelicalism and the present spiritual situation in Estonia." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ26822.pdf.

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Tomkins, John. "Football gazes and spaces : a Foucauldian history of the present." Thesis, University of Brighton, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282916.

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Nolan, Peter W. "Psychiatric nursing past and present : the nurses' viewpoint." Thesis, University of Bath, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328605.

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Wilson, Christopher William. "Mental illness and the British mandate in Palestine, 1920-1948." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285965.

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This thesis examines the ways in which the British mandate conceptualised, encountered, and sought to manage mental illness in Palestine between 1920 and 1948. The subject of mental illness has hitherto received partial consideration by historians interested in the Yishuv, who treat this period as formative for the Israeli mental health service. This thesis shifts the focus from European Jewish psychiatrists to the British mandate's engagements with mental illness, thus contributing to the well-developed literature on colonial psychiatry. Where this thesis departs from many of these institutionally-focussed histories of colonial psychiatry is in its source base; lacking hospital case files or articles in psychiatric journals, this thesis draws on an eclectic range of material from census reports and folklore research to petitions and prison records. In bringing together these strands of the story of psychiatry and mental illness, this thesis seeks to move beyond the continued emphasis in the historiography of Palestine on politics, nationalism, and state-building, and to develop our understanding of state and society by examining how they interacted in relation to the question of mental illness. This thesis thus widens the cast of historical actors from psychiatric experts alone to take in policemen, census officials, and families. In addition, this thesis seeks to situate Palestine within wider mandatory, British imperial, and global contexts, not to elide specificities, but to resist a persistent historiographical tendency to treat Palestine as exceptional. The first part traces the development of British mandatory conceptualisations of mental illness through the census of 1931 and then through a focus on specific causes of mental illness thought to be at work in Palestine. The second part examines two contexts in which the mandate was brought into contact with the mentally ill: the law and petitions. The final part of the thesis explores two distinct therapeutic regimes introduced in this period: patient work and somatic treatments.

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Phelps, Scott Douglas. "Blind to Their Blindness: A History of the Denial of Illness." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11639.

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For many historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of medicine, "disease" and "illness" are not equivalent. Whereas "disease" denotes the physician's ostensibly objective criteria, "illness" emphasizes the patient's subjective experience. This dissertation examines that distinction precisely at a point where it breaks down, in the history of a diagnosis called "anosognosia," also known as the denial of illness.
History of Science

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Eubanks, Elsie Irene. "Lead Poisoning from the Colonial Period to the Present." W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626037.

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Schelle, Karel [Verfasser]. "Competition Law in the Czech Republic (History and Present) / Karel Schelle." München : Verlag Dr. Hut, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1009095307/34.

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Ryburn-LaMonte, Terri Simms L. Moody. "Route 66, 1926 to the present the road as local history /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9960423.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1999.
Title from title page screen, viewed July 28, 2006. Dissertation Committee: L. Moody Simms (chair), M. Paul Holsinger, Dolores Kilgo, Lawrence W. McBride. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 333-346) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Morris, David. "The history of the Welsh Jewish communities : 1750 to the present." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1999. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431760.

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Nestler, Gerald. "The derivative condition : a present inquiry into the history of futures." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2017. http://research.gold.ac.uk/20534/.

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The thesis revisits the innovations that have reshaped financial markets since the 1970s in order to access their contemporary efficacy in shaping the space-time of the market as well as those of politics and social relations. The future emerges today within a derivative paradigm – the implementation of data-intensive, algorithmic processes based on scientific modelling and mathematical equations that allow the dynamic recalibration of contingent claims at present. Financial markets are exposed to volatility, which corresponds to uncertainty. Risk, defined as “measurable uncertainty” (Knight, 10921), is the powerful tool that keeps the complex circulation of leveraged capital operating (primarily by applying probability calculus to random or historic data). The promise of history succumbs to a quantitative archive of data whose “sense” is to produce claims on probable futures at present. The thesis argues that the derivative paradigm by the power given to financial markets has effectively been re-orienting not only market relations but social relations as well. As this derivative condition includes every underlying and derivative (all expectations traded) in their complex and volatile interrelation, the market regime – both embodying and exceeding the neoliberal framework– expands the derivative paradigm into society and the contingent becoming of subjectivities. While the thesis proposes a critique of the derivative condition, the practice part explores the “aesthetics of resolution.” This postdisciplinary project works through the semantic field of the term – from visualization technologies to knowledge-production to decision-making – in order to propose an expanded and radical form of artistic engagement. The question for both the theoretical and the practice part is whether derivatives are a technology and ultimately not confined to capitalism. Can they serve the needs and desires within complex societies? Can they help us decide which risks we should avoid and which risks we can embrace for the common good?

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Gatti, Matthew. "Inside/Outside: Representations of Invisible Illness in The Who's Quadrophenia." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/506758.

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Music Performance
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In The Who’s second rock opera Quadrophenia, a fictitious teenager suffers from a mental illness that gives him four distinct personalities. Its main songwriter, Pete Townshend, uses the disorder and the four personalities as a means to represent the four members of The Who through the teenage protagonist, a young mod named Jimmy. Townshend reveals Jimmy’s disposition at the conclusion of a lament written from Jimmy’s perspective in Quadrophenia’s liner notes, in a harrowing confession: “Schizophrenic? I’m bleeding quadrophenic.” In this monograph, I will examine Quadrophenia for its representations of mental illness through textual, musical, and historical perspectives and how these perspectives provide evidence toward a storyline based around the cultural concept of madness. Mental illness is an invisible illness, for the inflicted does not present noticeable symptoms to others, making it difficult to perceive and accurately diagnose. That is why within popular culture, schizophrenia is oftentimes used interchangeably with multiple personality disorder (now known as dissociative identity disorder), as is the case with Jimmy in Quadrophenia. Although these disorders are not at all similar, both are considered under the broader umbrella of madness, a term which historically was of medical and legal significance but gained political and ideological meanings in our modern society. Quadrophenia was meant as a tribute and celebration of The Who’s beginnings within the mid-60s London mod subculture. The invisible illness aspect of the storyline is worth investigating for its avoidance of treating mental illness within the medical model, in which it is considered to be a deficit of normalcy that is in need of a fix or cure. Though Jimmy struggles with his illness, it is mostly viewed as part of his adolescent character and then further used as a way of musically and textually representing The Who and the musicians’ individual characters. The Who were the epitome of music and madness; their music often spoke in terms of deviance and disobedience, while their live performances were physical and objectionably loud, sometimes concluding with the destruction of instruments. Treating mental illness, as well as physical and developmental impairments, as difference rather than deficit, is a key principle of current disability studies and its cultural model of disability. This is in opposition to the biological model in the medical field. Society has constructed madness as a binary to sanity, and thus a contrast to normalcy. As this binary is still in practice today, society as a whole continues to stigmatize mental illness and forces it to remain invisible. The Who and their embodiment of mental illness in Quadrophenia are meant not merely to arouse sympathy for Jimmy, but also to empower mental illness as a basis of character strength. The following monograph begins with an introduction to music and disability studies regarding mental illness. The next chapter offers a glimpse into the literature on The Who and Quadrophenia, including a survey of a 2013 conference dedicated exclusively to Quadrophenia. Finally, a chapter analyzes representations of mental illness in Quadrophenia within the music, society, and The Who themselves before a brief concluding chapter.
Temple University--Theses

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Maust, Theodore. ""Most Historic Houses Just Sit There"| Activating the Present at Historic House Museums." Thesis, Temple University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10793092.

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Historic house museums (HHMs) are contradictory spaces, private places made public. They (often) combine the real with the reproduction. Drawing from object reverence, taxonomy, and tableaux over a century and a half of practice, the American HHM arrives in the present as a Frankenstein's monster of nostalgia.

Chamounix Mansion has been a youth hostel since 1964. It has also been a historic house museum, though when it became one and when—if—it ever stopped being one is an open question. Chamounix is a space where the past, present, and future all share space, as guests move through historic spaces, have conversations about anything or nothing at all, and plan their next day, their next destination, their next major life move. It is a place that seems fertile for meaning-making. It also provides a fascinating case study of what HHMs have been and what they might become.

The Friends of Chamounix Mansion employed the methods of other HHMs as it tried to achieve recognition as an HHM in the 1960s, but by the 1980s, they began claiming the hostel’s usage as another form of authenticity.

As HHMs face a variety of challenges today, and seek to make meaning with visitors and neighbors alike, the example of Chamounix Mansion offers a case study of how embracing usage might offer new directions for meaning-making.

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Dawson, Peter Colin. "Variability in traditional and non-traditional Inuit architecture, AD. 1000 to present." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ31019.pdf.

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Tembeck, Tamar. "Performative autopathographies: self-representations of physical illness in contemporary art." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40725.

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Performative Autopathographies examines firsthand representations of physical illness produced by selected professional artists since 1980. Through pointed case study analyses, it shows how contemporary autopathographies function beyond therapeutic expression by articulating political, aesthetic, and metaphysical positions (e.g., autothanatography) in relation to lived experience. Notions of pathography, performativity, acting forms, confession, dialogism, and the ethics of response are presented in the Introduction. Chapter 1 reviews the literature relevant to the emergent field of “cultural illness studies,” situated at a disciplinary crossroads between medical humanities and visual / cultural studies. It outlines the research undertaken on pathography thus far, and details the relational, restorative, political and aesthetic stakes that characterize the practice. Chapter 2 examines the “performalist” photography of Hannah Wilke, conducted in response to her mother’s cancer and her own. Wilke’s pathographic works are read with the guidance of Aby Warburg’s Pathosformel, which helps to generate my notion of the “formula of pathos.” Chapter 3 considers Jo Spence’s construction of a living archive through her photographic treatment of illness. Contrasting her production to other circulating images of breast cancer, the chapter details how Spence built a critical visual culture of disease. The performative aspects of Spence’s “phototherapy” are discussed, while her final works are interpreted along the framework of autothanatography. Chapter 4 considers the semiotics of the body in pathographic choreography. The historical associations between disease and dance are retraced before considering works by Jan Bolwell and Bill T. Jones. Critic Arlene Croce’s notorious reaction to Jones’ Still/Here furthers the discussion on the ethics of response and responsibility in receiving pathographic works. Findings from these case studies of autopat
Autopathographies Performatives s’intéresse à une sélection d’autoreprésentations produites par des artistes professionnels depuis 1980 qui traitent de maladie physique. À travers des analyses d’études de cas, la thèse démontre comment les autopathographies contemporaines vont au-delà d’une expression strictement thérapeutique en articulant des positionnements politiques, esthétiques et métaphysiques (cf. autothanatographie) sur leur vécu. Les notions de pathographie, performativité, formes agissantes, confession, dialogisme et de l’éthique de la réception sont présentées dans l’Introduction. Le premier chapitre entreprend l’analyse des documents des études culturelles sur la maladie, au croisement des sciences sociales de la médecine et des visual/cultural studies. La recherche existante sur la pathographie y est résumée, ainsi que les enjeux relationnels, thérapeutiques, politiques et esthétiques qui la caractérisent. Le deuxième chapitre examine la pratique «performaliste» de Hannah Wilke, réalisée autour du cancer de sa mère et du sien. Ses œuvres pathographiques sont analysées à l’aide du Pathosformel d’Aby Warburg, qui nous permet de générer la notion de « formule du pathos ». Le troisième chapitre explore la construction d’une archive vivante par Jo Spence au moyen du traitement photographique de sa maladie. Contrastant sa production avec différentes images du cancer du sein, ce chapitre décrit comment Spence construit une culture visuelle critique de la maladie. Les aspects performatifs de sa « photothérapie » sont abordés, tandis que ses dernières œuvres sont interprétées selon le cadre de l’autothanatographie. Le quatrième chapitre se penche sur la sémiotique du corps dans la chorégraphie pathographique. Les associations historiques entre la danse et la maladie y sont retracées, avant d’aborder des œuvres de Jan Bolwell et Bill T. Jones. La réaction notoire de la critique Arl

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Bennett, Sarah. "The American contexts of Irish poetry, 1950-present." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669957.

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Nichols, Shaun Steven. "Crisis Capital: Industrial Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1865-Present." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493349.

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“Crisis Capital” offers a local history of global capitalism and a global history of local economic development, exploring how the global movements and political struggles of industry, labor, and capital created, destroyed, and repeatedly reconfigured the southeastern industrial core of Massachusetts. By dissecting the succeeding rise and fall of the whaling, textile, garment, electronics, and high-tech industries over the past one-hundred-fifty years, it challenges one of the master narratives of modern economic development: the oft-repeated story of how nineteenth-century industrialization, urbanization, and capitalist expansion collapsed into twentieth-century de-industrialization, globalization, and urban decay. Industrial Massachusetts, it argues, did not simply “rise” in the nineteenth century only to “fall” in the twentieth, but was made and un-made over and over again—besieged and begot by the swirling global movements of migrant labor and mobile capital. From migrating Azorean seamen, British weavers, and Quebecois farmers to globetrotting whalers, New York mobile manufacturers, and Asia-bound garment producers, “Crisis Capital” explores the industrial development of Massachusetts as a function of myriad actors’ attempts to navigate the tempests of economic globalization. In so doing, “Crisis Capital” highlights the seemingly paradoxical ways Massachusetts business, government, and labor leaders discovered they could use economic crisis to reorder the global geography of capitalism to their advantage. From the lure of low rents and free factory space to the appeal of cheap labor and abundant industrial financing, crisis became a crucial means for pulling and pushing both capital and workers across the continents. Moreover, “Crisis Capital” explores how these strategies of crisis exploitation have since been adopted by states and nations around the world. By analyzing the global history of industrial Massachusetts, “Crisis Capital” thus provides not only a new take on the classic “rise-and-fall” narrative of industrialization, but a sense of how global capitalism was historically pulled together: namely, through the meshing of myriad local economies, like Massachusetts, each seeking to use crisis itself to entice capital from competing locales. The so-called “race to the bottom,” it argues, is no contemporary bugaboo, but a structural facet of how industrial capitalism has expanded over the last two centuries.
History

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Mitchell, Margaret T. ""If I Had My Health ": Ideas about Illness and Healing in the Lisle Letters." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625621.

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Szabo, Jason. ""Suffering, shame and the search for succour" : incurable illness in nineteenth-century France." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84870.

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Until now, historians have devoted relatively little attention to the rich field of patients' struggles with chronic progressive disease. This study proposes to begin to fill this lacuna by examining in detail the meaning and implications of one central principle of nineteenth-century clinical medicine: incurability. Though the judgement of incurability is the product of a medical encounter, its significance extended well beyond the clinic. For being incurable in nineteenth-century France was a social event in the broadest sense, putting the individual at the centre of a complex web of people with different expectations and duties. Patients and their farnilies sought relief and solace within the confines of their homes and, frequently enough, in hospital. The physician was expected to prognosticate and to heal, while women, usually members of the immediate family or a religious order, carried out the duties of daily care. Either by choice or institutional diktat, many incurably ill individuals were visited by a priest or some other representative of the Church. Finally, their lives were deeply influenced by the decisions of local and, to an ever increasing degree, national politicians mandated to tackle questions of charity and social policy. Each chapter of this thesis will examine facets of the experience of incurability within the context of existing social structures: medical, religious, economic, and political.

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Hessami, Khaled. "Tectonic History and Present-Day Deformation in the Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2002. http://publications.uu.se/theses/91-554-5285-5/.

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Nicholas, Sheilah Ernestine 1951. "Hopi education: A look at the history, the present, and the future." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291688.

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The dismal national statistics of academic achievement by Native American students in the Anglo-American educational system has long been a source of federal and academic concern. Studies and literature suggest that Native American culture and language highly influence academic achievement. This thesis investigates this influence by analyzing Hopi Indian experiences within the Anglo-American educational system to understand the larger processes of how federal Indian policy has impacted Indian people. Parents and teachers in Hopi Reservation schools were interviewed about their personal educational experiences and perceptions of present Hopi education. The interviews focused on the unique educational situation Hopi students are placed in as a result of their culture and language. The findings confirm the influential role of culture, yet it continues to be tragically undermined and overshadowed by how the bureaucratic processes of the educational system and institutions continue to operate in educating Hopi and other Indian children.

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Ibbetson, H. J. "The environmental history of a south Pennine valley : 1284 A.D. to present." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.557632.

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This thesis is a multidisciplinary landscape history of a South Pennine upland valley. Previous landscape history research in the South Pennines is comparatively slight. Luddenden Dene, West Yorkshire, was chosen because initial investigation showed wel1-preserved landscape archaeology. Fourteen sites were selected for geoarchaeological investigation. Historical context was from primary and secondary sources. An unusually detailed environmental history was reconstructed, enabling identification of influences on landscape formation. Survey work shows this pattern may be widespread in the South Pennines and further afield. Limitations were imposed by the nature and chronological resolution of the sites, nature of the historical record and logistics. The sites provide a paiimpsest of evidence from ea, 1442 AD to present, whilst historical evidence extends discontinuously to 1066 AD. The history of the valley could be divided into a series of phases - Saltonstal1 (1284- ea, 1640 AD), Wade Wood (ca. 1640-1750 AD), Jerusalem Farm (ca.1750-1840 AD), Bilton Pier (ca.1840-1870 AD), Holme House Bridge (ca.1870-present) phases. In the Saltonstall-Jerusalem Farm phases, near-monoculture oak coppice and previously unknown mining, charcoal burning and iron smelting complexes were identified. Impacts included colluviation on hillslopes and fluvial aggradation on the valley floor. During the Bilton Pier Phase, cessation of coppicing caused a rise in oak pollen and iron production was reorganised. Later, beech pollen appears, reflecting ornamental and recreational use of woodlands. Contributions to knowledge include establishment of the first comprehensive landscape history for the period in an area which relatively has been archeological1y and historical1y neglected, and in providing new perspectives on the role of Medieval and post-Medieval activity in shaping South Pennine landscapes.

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Ginelli, Paul. "Will History Repeat Itself? The Spanish Influenza: Its Past, Present, and Future." Thesis, Boston College, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/432.

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Thesis advisor: Kathleen Dunn
Nearly a century ago, a deadly pandemic swept the globe, taking with it over 25 million lives. This pandemic was caused by the elusive Spanish influenza of 1918. Although many decades have passed since this pandemic, research has yet to uncover the exact origin of the Spanish influenza and the cause of its increased virulence. By examining the current research on the Spanish influenza, some of the secrets of this virus can be uncovered. Most of today's research supports the theory that the hemagglutinin receptor of the Spanish influenza was the most likely source of its potency and that it was an amalgamation of swine and human strains created from a common avian strain that created this virus. Based upon the information that has been uncovered, there is a considerable chance that the Spanish influenza or a similar strain could return in the future. The processes of recombination and reassortment create an endless amount of genetic variants of the virus and any one of them has the potential to be lethal. Although a natural emergence of lethal influenza is a potential threat, the artificial reconstruction of the Spanish influenza or another lethal strain for the purposes of bioterrorism may be an even bigger threat. Thus, it is necessary for researchers to press on with their search for the secrets of the Spanish influenza so that a future outbreak can be avoided. As researchers continue to do their job, the government must also take action and develop the most efficient approach to protecting the public from deadly strains of influenza
Thesis (BS) — Boston College, 2003
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Biology
Discipline: College Honors Program

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Aggett, Michael. "Jesus' resurrection : a history of its interpretation from Reimarus to the present." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3563.

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Mitter, Sreemati. "A History of Money in Palestine: From the 1900s to the Present." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11308.

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Harrison, Peter. "Education and the constitution of the subject : a history of the present." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4830/.

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Xu, Mo. "The high finger piano technique in China: past, present, and future." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6342.

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The high finger piano technique is an approach to playing the piano which focuses on training the fingers to have extreme independence. The fingers are required to function in the extreme ranges of motion, lifting high before each strike of the key. This is an outdated technique from nineteenth century Europe, where the Lebert-Stark high finger school successfully promoted this technique in European conservatories. It was introduced to China at the beginning of the twentieth century, shortly after pianos began to be imported. From that point forward, this technique became the standard for Chinese pianists. Meanwhile, the high finger technique was abandoned by most pianists in the West in the twentieth century. Instead, the modern piano technique, which focuses on anatomical and scientific analysis, became the mainstream. In order to establish China’s place in the history of piano playing and technique, I will provide a brief overview of the history and how China developed from it. I will demonstrate evidence for why the high finger school became popular and why it persisted throughout the twentieth century. Finally, I will discuss current trends in Chinese piano pedagogy and provide a guide for how the future development of a healthy, informed technique might look.

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Kokotailo, Philip 1955. "Appreciating the present : Smith, Sutherland, Frye, and Pacey as historians of English-Canadian poetry." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39772.

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This thesis argues that as historians of English-Canadian poetry, A. J. M. Smith, John Sutherland, Northrop Frye, and Desmond Pacey explicitly promote the value of past conflict reconciled into present harmony. They do so by claiming that such reconciliation marks the maturity of English-Canadian culture. This thesis also argues, however, that the interactive progression of their histories implicitly undermines this value. It does so because each critic appreciates a different group of poets for realizing their shared cultural ideal, thereby establishing contradictory representations of what they all claim to be the culmination of English-Canadian literary history. The thesis concludes that while their lingering sense of present cultural maturity should now be fully renounced, the value these critics place on reconciliation is well worth preserving and transforming.

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Martin, Jean Carol Craig. "In memory of Chelsea's historic cemeteries: Community institutions from pioneer times to the present." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/22642.

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Carbery, Matthew. "Acts of extended inquiry : idiosyncrasy and phenomenology in American poetics (1960s-present)." Thesis, University of Kent, 2015. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/54983/.

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The driving ambition of this thesis lies in identifying and disclosing distinct and divergent examples of 20th century American long poems. This task will be carried out with a particular focus on stressing the idiosyncrasies of these practices rather than merely revising previous attempts at constructing a lineage or history of the American long poem. What is crucially at stake in this proposed critical movement is a distinction between ‘The Long Poem’ as an object of literary history as opposed to an ‘act of extended inquiry’ which can be comprehended in and on its own terms. In this task, I employ three key terms: Idiosyncrasy, Extension and Inquiry, which together frame my project as a disclosure of how poetic texts extend idiosyncratically over significant length, breadth and depth. In discussing ‘idiosyncrasy’ I necessarily negotiate questions of subjectivity, perception, intersubjectivity— namely, the questions which are proposed and explored by phenomenology. In this regard, my methodology is informed by a phenomenological taxonomy, developed from the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. The grouping of poets featured in this thesis are all American writers who have published extended works since the 1950s, and each is associated to varying extents with schools of avant-garde, post-Modernist or ‘New’ poetics. George Oppen has been regarded as an ‘Objectivist’ poet and is often discussed alongside his contemporaries Zukofsky, Lorine Niedecker and Charles Reznikoff; James Schuyler’s close association with Frank O’Hara, Barbara Guest and John Ashbery locate him among the New York School in the 1950s; Robin Blaser was instrumental in many of the publications and events which surrounded the San Francisco Renaissance; Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe and Leslie Scalapino all published poems and works of poetics in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E school publications in the 1970s-80s; and Rachel Blau DuPlessis has worked since the 1970s with both Language and Objectivist poetics, though her sustained interest in and engagement with ‘the long poem’ distinguishes her as a leading figure in the discourse of extended poetics in her own right. In each of these readings, significant efforts are made to discuss each poet outside of their conventional place within their ‘school’ or ‘tradition’. The purpose of this is to seek access to the idiosyncrasies of poets and their works as opposed to merely relying on generalised reckonings. In this manner, the specific ways in which individual poets extend their poetics into substantial inquiries will be made apparent using the terms employed by the poets themselves. It is my intention for this thesis to stand as an opening of the discourse of ‘The American Long Poem’ to complex and developed questions of extension in poetry, with a view to framing 20th century American poetics as being particularly oriented towards carrying out intellectual and perceptive inquiries in the form of works of poetic extension.

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Carver, Kathleen C. "Repurposing Industrial Railroad Bridges: Linking the Past to the Present." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1403195362.

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Finnen, Patrick Joseph. ""Strange Times:" The Language of Illness and Malaise in Interwar France." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1398089945.

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YAU, Ka Lo. "From invisible to visible : representations and self-representaions of Hakka women In Hong Kong, 1900s-present." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2016. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/his_etd/8.

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What we perceive as the essential characteristics of Hakka women today are in fact historically constructed and utilized for various purposes by different agents, including Western missionaries, Hakka elites, museum curators and heritage preservationists. This long historical process has made the Hakka women increasingly visible in the public scene. Some scholars argue that it was the men who attempted to manipulate the representations of Hakka women to justify their exploitation of women. As Hung Hsin-lan and Helen Siu have reminded us, the study of Hakka women should be liberated from the lens of exploitation and victimhood and we should position Hakka women in relation to Hakka men to achieve a more balanced analysis. In addition to examining the historical writings about Hakka and Hakka women since the nineteenth century, this thesis focuses on Hong Kong, and also considers the topic through a gender lens, to evaluate the roles that Hakka women have played in the museums and in the surging wave of cultural preservation. The aim of this thesis is to explain how Hakka women have been represented in various media and what has constituted our current perceptions and (mis)understandings toward Hakka women. While the Hakka women have been singled out to represent Hakka culture and have enjoyed the opportunity to create their self-representations, where have the Hakka men gone? What does it mean by a ‘Hakka’ when the Hakka identity is historically constructed in the first place? The present research adopts a combined historical and anthropological approach to rethink the images of Hakka women and review the interactions between the representations and self-representation of Hakka women in the displays and heritage preservation, which point to the broader themes of the interplays between colonialism and ethnicities, the politics of display, gender studies on exhibition and cultural heritage, and the impacts of global cultural trends on local culture formulation.

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Lakshminarasimhan, Suraj. "Cooking “India”: Identities and Ideologies in Indian Cookbooks from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1499672751079546.

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Crane, Aimee Ciara. "Capturing the Present, Engaging the Future: Designing a Social History Network in a Digital Age." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1333727828.

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Moore, Jaimee. "Women in Public Relations: Our Past, Present, and Future." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2560/.

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Since abolition, women have used the media to bring attention to causes and injustices in society. Issues faced by these women are some of the same issues faced by women in public relations today and possibly the future. This paper is the history of the women of pre-professional public relations in relation to their use of the media to bring about change and communicate with an audience. It also discusses the evolution of the public relations profession as it pertains to the parallel issues that the women of the first wave faced in relation to the second wave, or professional era. The paper will then synthesize these two eras in public relations and discuss the future of women in the profession as seen by researchers and women practicing at this time.

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Bria, Benyamin Y. "The development of mixed marriage legislation through missionary law from 1622 to the present." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6685.

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Foster, Gary Alan. "Male rape and the government of bodies : an unnatural history of the present /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://adt.library.uq.edu.au/public/adt-QU20070105.111612/index.html.

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Wigglesworth, Neil. "A social history of rowing in England from 1715 to the present day." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329075.

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PEREIRA, AFFONSO CELSO THOMAZ. "THE IDEA OF HISTORY IN KANT: A PHILOSOPHICAL PROJECT TO THINK THE PRESENT." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=6266@1.

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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
Kant nunca escreveu uma obra de História. Entretanto, é justamente com ele que a História torna-se um problema filosófico, ou seja, ela é revestida de uma dignidade própria e toma parte no sistema crítico. Ao questionar as aporias do conhecimento, Kant impõe novos critérios ao pensamento da ação humana em relação ao tempo, a possibilidade de conhecimento e ao sujeito. A relação entre passado-presente-futuro sofre um transtorno desde dentro, concedendo à História uma temporalidade própria em relação à religião e à política. O conhecimento sobre a História é realizado na mesma medida em que ela pode ser experimentada pelo sujeito, tornando-se seu próprio conhecimento. Em Kant, a humanidade é alçada a sujeito da História, o que reduz o campo de ação do homem e amplia sua responsabilidade. O debate acerca da natureza humana e autonomia moral conduz o sistema crítico por através dessa Idéia. Nesta dialética, Kant estabelece um horizonte formal ético que conduz a ação e o pensamento dos homens em uma tarefa infinita. Como razão crítica, é necessário que o pensamento volte-se sempre contra si próprio, tornando assim o presente o ponto de partida e chegada para a História.
Kant has never written a History work. Nevertheless it is precisely with him that History becomes a philosophical problem, that is, it is covered by a selfdignity and becomes part of the critical system. At inquiring the knowledge principles, Kant imposes new criteria to the thought of human action concerned to time, to the possibility of knowing and to the subject. The relation among pastpresent- future is shaken up from the inside conceding to History a temporality of its own in relation to religion and politics. The knowledge about History is assumed as long as it can be experienced, becoming thus its own knowledge. With Kant, humanity is raised to the condition of subject of History, what, in one hand, reduces the man s action field and, in the other, extends his responsibility. The debate concerning the human nature and the moral autonomy guides the critical system and crosses throughout this Idea. On this dialectics, Kant establishes an ethical formal horizon leading men s action and thought on an endless task. As critical reason, it is necessary that the thought always work against itself making, in this manner, the present the starting and arrival point to History.

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Wang, Han-Chih. "The Profane and Profound: American Road Photography from 1930 to the Present." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/468625.

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This dissertation historicizes the enduring marriage between photography and the American road trip. In considering and proposing the road as a photographic genre with its tradition and transformation, I investigate the ways in which road photography makes artistic statements about the road as a visual form, while providing a range of commentary about American culture over time, such as frontiersmanship and wanderlust, issues and themes of the automobile, highway, and roadside culture, concepts of human intervention in the environment, and reflections of the ordinary and sublime, among others. Based on chronological order, this dissertation focuses on the photographic books or series that depict and engage the American road. The first two chapters focus on road photographs in the 1930s and 1950s, Walker Evans’s American Photographs, 1938; Dorothea Lange’s An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion, 1939; and Robert Frank’s The Americans, 1958/1959. Evans dedicated himself to depicting automobile landscapes and the roadside. Lange concentrated on documenting migrants on the highway traveling westward to California. By examining Frank’s photographs and comparing them with photographs by Evans and Lange, the formal and contextual connections and differences between the photographs in these two decades, the 1930s and the 1950s, become evident. Further analysis of the many automobile and highway images from The Americans manifests Frank’s commentary on postwar America during his cross-country road trip—the drive-in theater, jukebox, highway fatality, segregation, and social inequality. Chapter 3 analyzes Ed Ruscha’s photographic series related to driving and the roadside, including Twentysix Gasoline Stations, 1962 and Royal Road Test, 1967. The chapter also looks at Lee Friedlander’s photographs taken on the road into the mid-1970s. Although both were indebted to the earlier tradition of Evans and Frank, Ruscha and Friedlander took different directions, representing two sets of artistic values and photographic approaches. Ruscha manifested the Pop art and Conceptualist affinity, while Friedlander exemplified the snapshot yet sophisticated formalist style. Chapter 4 reexamines road photographs of the 1970s and 1980s with emphasis on two road trip series by Stephen Shore. The first, American Surfaces, 1972 demonstrates an affinity of Pop art and Frank’s snapshot. Shore’s Uncommon Places, 1982, regenerates the formalist and analytical view exemplified by Evans with a large 8-by-10 camera. Shore’s work not only illustrates the emergence of color photography in the art world but also reconsiders the transformation of the American landscape, particularly evidenced in the seminal exhibition titled New Topographics: A Man-Altered Landscape, 1975. I also compare Shore’s work with the ones by his contemporaries, such as Robert Adams, William Eggleston, and Joel Sternfeld, to demonstrate how their images share common ground but translate nuanced agendas respectively. By reintroducing both Evans’s and Frank’s legacies in his work, Shore more consciously engaged with this photographic road trip tradition. Chapter 5 investigates a selection of photographic series from 1990 to the present to revisit the ways in which the symbolism of the road evolves, as well as how artists represent the driving and roadscapes. These are evident in such works as Catherine Opie’s Freeway Series, 1994–1995; Andrew Bush’s Vector Portraits, 1989–1997; Martha Rosler’s The Rights of Passage, 1995; and Amy Stein’s Stranded, 2010. Furthermore, since the late 1990s, Friedlander developed a series titled America by Car, 2010, incorporating the driving vision taken from the inside seat of a car. His idiosyncratic inclusion of the side-view mirror, reflections, and self-presence is a consistent theme throughout his career, embodying a multilayered sense of time and place: the past, present, and future, as well as the inside space and outside world of a car. Works by artists listed above exemplify that road photography is a complex and ongoing interaction of observation, imagination, and intention. Photographers continue to re-enact and reformulate the photographic tradition of the American road trip.
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Klocke, Sonja E. "Heroines of a different kind reading illness and the fantastic in depictions of the GDR from the 1960s to the present /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3290772.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Germanic Studies, 2007.
Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 28, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4721. Adviser: Claudia Breger.

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