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Hamido Yahia, Mimunt. "Coda: críticas no tan veladas." Araucaria, no. 41 (2019): 527–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/araucaria.2019.i41.25.

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Hendren, T. George. "Catullus’s Ameana Cycle as Literary Criticism." Mnemosyne 69, no. 2 (February 4, 2016): 262–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-12341769.

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This paper will reevaluate Catullus’s venom in poems 41 and 43 (the so-called ‘Ameana Cycle’) to show that his attacks on Ameana are in fact veiled criticisms of Mamurra’s loathsome poetry. Catullus’s descriptions of Ameana substantiate this reading: her physical features are disproportionate and ill suited to Roman conceptions of beauty, she is entirely without wit, and despite her patent imperfections, she has no idea how hideous she really is. The use of a poetic mistress in this manner has parallels within the Catullan corpus, and is also referenced in the work of Martial.
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Wahidah, Nuryu, and Ezzah Nuranisah. "DISKRIMINASI PEREMPUAN BERCADAR DALAM PERSPEKTIF HEGEMONI." Al-Mada: Jurnal Agama, Sosial, dan Budaya 3, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 39–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.31538/almada.v3i1.530.

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This study aims to determine, describe, and explain people's perspectives on veiled women. The existence of community construction that veiled women are labeled as radicals, seen from the many historical phenomena about terrorism always related to women who use the veil. This study aims to look at discrimination against veiled women with a review of historical phenomenology in the study of hegemony. Through this research it can be seen that veiled women are labeled as radicals and terrorists. The understanding of hegemony emphasizes that hegemony will take place if the way of life, way of thinking and views of the people below and governing are influenced by the elite and the mass media. There should be no discrimination against women of any age, religion, ethnicity and status. All must be treated equally, fairly, and do not distinguish between culture, ethnicity, religion and social status. Discrimination in the use of veils in Indonesia which led to a ban on the use of veils on campus which later arose a criticism of the veil ban through the perspective of hegemony theory
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Sayan-Cengiz, Feyda. "Eroding the symbolic significance of veiling? The Islamic fashion magazineÂlâ, consumerism, and the challenged boundaries of the “Islamic neighborhood”." New Perspectives on Turkey 58 (May 2018): 155–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/npt.2018.9.

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AbstractIslamic fashion and lifestyle magazines enable the global circulation and consumption of newly emerging images of, narratives about, and discourses on Muslim women across the globe. Such magazines also trigger debates by making visible the language of commodification and consumerism that is increasingly shaping Muslim subjectivities. In particular,Âlâ—the pioneering Islamic fashion magazine in Turkey—has been the target of extensive criticism by Islamic intellectuals and columnists. This study contextualizes these criticisms within the broader debate on veiling fashion and Islamic consumerism in the context of 2010s Turkey, a context in which the Islamic bourgeoisie has been strengthened and class cleavages among veiled women have been further sharpened. The study analyzes the opinion columns focusing onÂlâpublished in the Islamic, pro-government newspaperYeni Şafak, as well as the responses ofÂlâ’s editors and producers to such criticisms. The findings demonstrate that the magazine is criticized for making visible the surge of consumerism among the Islamic bourgeoisie, for blurring the boundaries between Islamic and secular identities, and for fragmenting an idealized imagination of Islamic collectivity by emphasizing class cleavages among veiled women. I argue that these criticisms ofÂlâin Islamic circles reflect a concern with the erosion of the symbolic connotations of veiling in Turkey, particularly in terms of marking the boundaries that define the imagination of an Islamic collectivity.
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GILMER, James Michael. "Procopius of Caesarea: A Case Study in Imperial Criticism." BYZANTINA SYMMEIKTA 23 (October 23, 2013): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/byzsym.1091.

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This paper seeks to analyze the methods of Procopius of Caesarea and reconcile the apparent contradictions the historian presents in his treatment of the reign of the Emperor Justinian. To that end, the tone of each work is considered and compared to similar works of Late Antiquity. This paper will endeavor to demonstrate that the attitudes of Procopius toward the Emperor Justinian and many elements of his reign were universally hostile, veiled only by the conventions of the genres in which Procopius chose to write.
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Bogiaris, Guillaume. "MACHIAVELLI’S PHILOSOPHICAL FICTIONS." History of Philosophy Quarterly 37, no. 3 (July 1, 2020): 223–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/48639195.

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Abstract Machiavelli, like other Renaissance authors, weaved philosophy into works of fiction, attacking the notion attributed to Plato’s Diotima that love (eros) is philosophy’s partner. Under veiled criticism, presented in four comic texts bound together by the theme of love, Machiavelli delivers his criticism of Diotima’s eros. He joins a long line of astute manipulators, like Numa and Savonarola, who presented difficult ideas to people unlikely to accept them except under cover of divine authority. My essay rests on the expanding body of scholarship on Machiavelli’s neglected literary works.
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Fitzi, Gregor. "Dialogue. Divergence. Veiled Reception. Criticism: Georg Simmel’s relationship with Émile Durkheim." Journal of Classical Sociology 17, no. 4 (November 2017): 293–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468795x17735994.

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Simmel was the only German sociologist who directly cooperated with Durkheim. After an initial impression of convergence between the sociology of social facts and the sociology of social forms, a break between the two founders of sociology became inevitable. Yet, Durkheim and Simmel went on positioning themselves against one other in the years ahead. Durkheim’s allegation of ‘individual psychologism’ induced Simmel to a veiled reception of Durkheim’s methodological approach that permitted him to refine the sociological epistemology he eventually presented in the Soziologie published in 1908. On this basis, he was able to formulate a final criticism of the sociology of social facts as a social psychology.
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Inayah, Nurul, and Nawal Ika Susanti. "Eksistensi Cadar Ditengah Jilbab Santri." Jurnal Darussalam: Jurnal Pendidikan, Komunikasi dan Pemikiran Hukum Islam 11, no. 1 (September 20, 2019): 182. http://dx.doi.org/10.30739/darussalam.v11i1.457.

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The veil is an advanced version of the use of headscarves, in Islamic interpretation studies the arguments governing whether or not the use of veils is still under debate. However, the use of veils is actually in the community, bringing the consequences of rejection greater than the headscarf. Islamic boarding schools in East Java on average do not advocate and ban their santri from wearing veils. This is an interesting thing to be examined more deeply about how the santri still existed in the midst of his friends who were wearing headscarves. The findings in the field about the existence of veiled santri in the Islamic Boarding School Environment are that the first informant (Nur Aina) and the third Informant (Dewi Rahma) can still use the veil as a cover for the Islamic Shari'a wherever the informant is despite being the only veiled santri among santri veiled. While the second informant (Rahmatus Sholehah) could not exist among his friends due to the lack of support from the immediate family, criticism from the people closest to him, and differences in responses within the surrounding community made him unable to stay for Istiqomah using his veil.
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Jarazo Álvarez, Rubén, and Elena Domínguez Romero. "Critical and Autobiographical Elements in Álvaro Cunqueiro’s Shakespearean Adaptations in Galicia." Linguaculture 2, no. 1 (June 30, 2011): 83–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.47743/lincu-2011-2-1-257.

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Translations, adaptations and reception of William Shakespeare and his works in many literary systems have been successfully analysed over the past two decades. However, there are still peripheral communities such as Galicia that refuse to review the role played by the English bard in the reconfiguration of their literary tradition in the twentieth century. In this article, we will examine the role of two Shakespearean adaptations written by Álvaro Cunqueiro (1911-1981) in the twentieth century. In addition, we will try to prove the value of both works as instances of veiled criticism of the dictatorial regime, while also hinting at the Galician writer’s and adaptor’s own biography.
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Gijón, Pablo Rubio. "Deshonra (Daniel Tinayre, 1952)." Acta Hispanica 22 (January 1, 2017): 113–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/actahisp.2017.22.113-120.

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Within the context of the film industry of the first peronist period (1946-1955) crime films established themselves as a means to disseminate the dominant ideology. Some of the characteristics of this genre were used to leave proof of the pre-eminence of the State as a safeguard of the status quo. However, Deshonra (1952) resorts in its structure to visual features that could be interpreted as a veiled criticism to the very ideology it aims to divulge. The crime film genre, from its constitutive proposals and its supposed ideological rigidity in a political framework such as Peronism, may grant some areas of ambiguity.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Veiled criticism"

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Hong, Kimberly Yuen 1984. "Tear Down the Veils: Francis Bacon's Papal Variations 1946-1971." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9871.

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xiv, 141 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
Twentieth-century British figurative painter Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is perhaps best known for his near-obsessive series of papal paintings inspired by Diego Velazquez' renowned portrait Pope Innocent X (1650) and created over the course of Bacon's entire artistic career. The artist's working process plays a crucial role in understanding this celebrated and varied series. Bacon deliberately avoided Velazquez' "original" portrait, preferring instead to work with photographic reproductions of the piece alongside a large collection of seemingly disparate visual material in his chaotic studio at 7 Reece Mews (South Kensington, London, England). This thesis proposes that Bacon explored issues of mechanization, fragmentation, and repetition through these visual juxtapositions in order to offer a critique of artistic and religious institutions.
Committee in Charge: Dr. Kate Mondloch, Chair; Dr. Lauren G. Kilroy; Dr. Ellen Rees
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Preston, Tamás Károly. "Veiled Criticism in Seneca's Epistulae Morales." Thesis, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2440/134319.

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This thesis aims to illuminate Seneca’s criticisms of Neronian Rome through a novel exploration of the philosopher’s collection of moral letters – the so-called Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium. Noting the glaring absence of court politics in these letters the thesis identifies themes of dissimulation and veiled criticism, penned by Seneca in a concealed manner to ensure his safety during a time of dire political unrest. The first chapter establishes the cultural context of this collection by examining how they fit in with the practice of elite Roman letter writing. This line of inquiry stems from a longstanding question in the scholarship as to whether the Epistulae Morales are letters in the earnest sense, or merely a literary-philosophical exercise contrived by Seneca. The chapter concludes that the letters can be seen as genuine, exchanged with their addressee. They were, however, also written for the wider senatorial class who are clearly the subject of Seneca’s moral discussions. The second chapter examines the circumstances which preceded the writing of these letters in order to identify points of political tension under Nero’s reign. Drawing on the Neronian books of Tacitus’ Annals and earlier Senecan treatises, this chapter identifies themes of political ideology (clemency, libertas, tyranny, superbia) which shaped the ongoing altercations between senate and emperor during Nero’s rule. With the political tensions identified, the third chapter unearths the underhanded ways in which Seneca criticises Nero’s reign throughout the letters. Additionally, this chapter showcases a range of techniques employed by Seneca to disguise his criticisms in order to maintain deniability and avoid persecution. The fourth and final chapter examines Letters 14 and 18 in detail, illustrating the techniques discussed in the preceding chapter and bringing to light Seneca’s veiled criticisms of Nero’s regime. The pair of case studies demonstrates that Senecan criticisms are present throughout the collection, and are apparent in both letters with overt political themes (eg. Letter 14) and those which are, at first glance, seemingly mundane and commonplace (eg. Letter 18).
Thesis (MPhil) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2021
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Therriault, Isabelle. "'Oh! La Que Su Rostro Tapa/No Debe Valer Gran Cosa': Identidad Y Critica Social En La Cultura Transatlantica Hispanica (1520 - 1860) / 'Oh! The one who covers her face / surely is not worth much': Identity and Social Criticism in Transatlantic Hispanic Culture (1520-1860)." 2010. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3412061.

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In 1639, a law prohibiting women any head covering; veil, mantilla, manto for example, is promulgated for the fifth time in the Iberian Peninsula under the penalty of losing the garment, and subsequently incurring more severe punishments. Regardless of these edicts this social practice continued. My dissertation investigates the cultural representation of these covered women (tapadas) in Spain and the New World in a vast array of early modern literary, historical and legal documents (plays, prose, and regal laws, etc.). Overall, critics associate the use of the veil in the Spanish territories with religious tendencies and overlook the social component of women using the veil to simply explain it as a mere fashion practice. In my dissertation, I argue that it is more than just a garment; the veil was used by women to make political statements, thereby challenging the restrictive gender and identity boundaries of their epoch. A critical analysis of early modern historical and legal peninsular texts and close-readings of Golden Age literary works, together with colonial cultural productions, allow me to identify patterns in how the tapadas were represented both artistically and culturally. Accordingly, my project attempts to reassess the significance of the tapadas in Hispanic culture for 350 years and demonstrate how their resilience to stop using the veil publicly is symptomatic of the absolutist monarchy inefficiencies in imposing social control. I move away from the tendency to investigate works including tapadas exclusively, and I conclude by reconstructing more accurately their cultural impact on the social dynamics in Spain as well as the New World.
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Books on the topic "Veiled criticism"

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Schneider, Norbert. Vermeer, 1632-1675: Veiled emotions. Köln: Benedikt Taschen, 1994.

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Naked and veiled: The photographic nudes of Erwin Blumenfeld. London: Thames & Hudson, 1999.

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Discovering the Qurʼan: A contemporary approach to a veiled text. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C: Georgetown University Press, 2003.

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Robinson, Neal. Discovering the Qur'an: A contemporary approach to a veiled text. 2nd ed. London: SCM Press, 2003.

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Discovering the Qur'an: A contemporary approach to a veiled text. London: SCM Press, 1996.

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Anxiety veiled: Euripides and the traffic in women. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.

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Marquis de Sade's veiled social criticism: The depravities of Sodom as the perversities of France. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.

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Abu-Lughod, Lila. Veiled sentiments: Honor and poetry in a Bedouin society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

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Abu-Lughod, Lila. Veiled sentiments: Honor and poetry in a Bedouin society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

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Abu-Lughod, Lila. Veiled sentiments: Honour and poetry in a Bedouin society. Berkeley: Univ.California P., 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Veiled criticism"

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Scott, Joan Wallach. "LA NOUVELLE LAÏCITÉ AND ITS CRITICS: PREFACE TO THE FRENCH TRANSLATION OF THE POLITICS OF THE VEIL." In Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018, edited by Sabine Schmidtke, 546–60. Piscataway, NJ, USA: Gorgias Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-070.

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Zanetti Domingues, Lidia Luisa. "Defining the Complex Relationship between Mercy, Justice, and Revenge." In Confession and Criminal Justice in Late Medieval Italy, 101–21. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192844866.003.0005.

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Chapter 4 analyses religious views of justice in late medieval Siena through the analysis of the sermons of the Dominican Ambrogio Sansedoni and the Franciscan Bindo Scremi. It evaluates the influence of the theology of atonement (as proposed by Anselm of Canterbury) on Sienese pastoral literature, and it concludes that sermons aimed at the laypeople in communal Italy tended to favour the more traditional redemption theology. The main effect of this preference for religious conceptions of divine and human justice was that of conceiving of it as a spectrum going from strict retribution to complete forgiveness, but with a requirement to favour the latter over the former. Religious discourses which compared divine and human justice, moreover, are explored as loci in which criticism, albeit veiled, of local reforms of criminal justice could be expressed.
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Alonso, Alex. "‘Stunt-Reading’." In Paul Muldoon in America, 57–96. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198859659.003.0003.

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Chapter 2 offers the first full-scale treatment of Paul Muldoon as critic. It looks at his major works of literary criticism, from the F. W. Bateson Lecture ‘Getting Round’ and To Ireland, I to the later End of the Poem, and considers what these lecture series from his American years can tell us about Muldoon the reader, as well as the poet. Muldoon announces himself on the critical scene not only as a self-proclaimed ‘stunt reader’ but an extraordinarily Freudian thinker, who is unusually attentive to the kinds of veiled communication and word-association that might reveal a writer’s ulterior motives, resistances, or unconscious desires. But his offbeat, often knowingly mischievous performances in these lectures also suggest a basic distrust of the authority of the critical reader, and in turn raise questions about the kinds of reading his own poems are expected to elicit.
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Isaacs, Samuel Myer. "Fast-Day Sermon." In Jewish Preaching in Times of War, 1800 - 2001, 178–91. Liverpool University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764401.003.0008.

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This chapter discusses another fast-day sermon, this time by Samuel Myer Isaacs. His sermon begins with a series of rhetorical questions about the need for (yet another) day of fasting, prayer, and humiliation. The answer is simple: such days dramatize and emphasize the dependence of human beings upon God and their need for divine help in all of their undertakings. The sermon next presents a general review of the life of King David and then a detailed recapitulation of the biblical narrative in the final chapter of 2 Samuel regarding David's insistence upon taking a census of his people (despite the warnings of his military leader Joab), followed by the condemnation of David by the prophet Gad, who gives the king a choice of one among three possible punishments for the people. From there, the chapter suggests a possible reading of the sermon in which it addresses specific contemporary matters, including a veiled criticism of the president, Abraham Lincoln.
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Vigier, Catherine. "Contesting the press-oppressors of the age: the captivity narrative of William Okeley (1675)." In Radical Voices, Radical Ways. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526106193.003.0009.

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Catherine Vigier discusses the diffusion of radical ideas from the perspective of a captivity narrative, William Okeley’s Ebenezer, published by the radical printer Nathaniel Ponder. Her premise is that this captivity narrative is best apprehended as a literary text constructed in the light of political and ideological debates of its age since if offers a veiled criticism of events nearer home under the guise of a remote setting and plot. The publication of Okeley’s narrative is to be interpreted as an act of militant Protestantism in a culture of dissent at a time which witnessed increased repression against dissenters. She analyses biblical and mythological references in both Okeley’s narrative and Andrew Marvell’s pamphlets to support her claim that the Okeley text carried the polemic around Marvell’s The Rehearsal Transpros’d to a wider public and that publishing this captivity narrative, a popular literary genre, allowed Ponder and his collaborators to make a further case for freedom of speech.
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Luckyj, Christina. "The Querelle des Femmes, the Overbury Scandal, and the Politics of the Swetnam Controversy in Early Modern England." In The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700, 127—C9.P33. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198860631.013.9.

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Abstract Offering a fresh reading of the texts of the so-called ‘Swetnam controversy’ of 1615–1617, this chapter explores both the history of the querelle des femmes and the historical moment in the early seventeenth century that produced an explosion of querelle texts. The first respondent to answer Joseph Swetnam, Rachel Speght, echoes earlier defences representing the female voice as a model of resistance to monarchical abuse. Mingling serious religio-political critique with a playfulness that anticipates Ester Sowernam and Constantia Munda, Speght never refers explicitly to the Overbury affair but taps into the backlash against its misogynist scapegoating of women. The chapter argues that Sowernam and Munda share Speght’s religious and political allegiances, offering a searing anti-court critique in their turn. The Swetnam controversy texts exploit the gendered discourses surrounding contemporary court scandal to offer thinly veiled criticism of the monarch, building on a tradition of real and imagined women speaking truth to power.
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"Meyda Yecenoclu The battle of the veil: woman between orientalism and nationalism,." In Modern Criticism and Theory, 724–46. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315835488-51.

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Henderson, Aneeka Ayanna. "Invocation." In Veil and Vow, 1–31. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651767.003.0001.

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This chapter critically examines how meritocracy, antiblack racism, the Moynihan Report's neoliberal logics, and a growing political nostalgia for the Black Power Movement and the Civil Rights Movement have shaped the ways in which creative artists depict African American romance, marriage, and contemporary notions of Black love in popular fiction, film, and music. It draws on literary studies, Black feminist criticism and theory, cultural studies, visual culture studies, and media studies.
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Ó Donghaile, Deaglán. "Coercion and Resistance: Vera … or the Land War." In Oscar Wilde and the Radical Politics of the Fin de Siécle, 57–87. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474459433.003.0003.

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In the first act of Wilde’s 1880 play, Vera; or, the Nihilists, as Russian radicals discuss the gruesome merits of political violence, a conspirator declares that “(o)ne dagger will do more than a hundred epigrams.” Centred on Wilde’s opposition to the “bloody work” of state repression, his first play represented the contemporary land crisis in Ireland and criticised the anachronistic class system that prevailed there. Wilde’s radical proposal is that terrorism is not the mindless work of apolitical criminals, but a product of political despair. Although ostensibly portraying the more distant phenomenon of Russian state repression, the ongoing deployment of coercion in Ireland is barely encoded in Vera; or the Nihilists. Wilde’s first play veiled the contemporary politics of the Irish Land War.
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Weale, Albert. "Rational Choosers." In Modern Social Contract Theory, 103–28. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198853541.003.0005.

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From some points of view, Harsanyi stands apart from other theorists discussed in this book. He was a utilitarian, and he focuses on the hypothetical choices of a single individual. Nevertheless, his construction has been influential, and he has good claim to be the founder of the device of the veil of ignorance. He uses the orthodox utility theory of rationality to show that behind a veil of ignorance in which a hypothetical individual had an equal chance of being anyone in society, rationality would lead to that person adopting the principle of maximizing average utility. Utilitarianism can be represented as the maximizing choice of a rational individual behind the veil of ignorance. A central element in Harsanyi’s construction is the idea of ethical individualism, which he holds is captured in an axiom of independence defining the rationality of choice. He also revives the idea of the interpersonal comparability of utility. His reliance on interpersonal comparisons is a potential point of criticism, as is the argument that, strictly speaking, he has not shown that utilitarianism is required, as distinct from merely being consistent with, his principles of rational choice. A more fundamental criticism is that the phenomenon of preference reversals, well established in empirical literature, call into question the independence axiom. Preference reversals are intelligible. In relation to some cases, they suggest too an important distinction between rational choice and prudent choice.
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