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Description:: My dissertation takes as its point of departure the commonly held premise that WWI forever changed the horizon of French literary production. While deemed indescribable, many authors did attempt to represent the battlefields and aftermath of WWI in literature. Distinct from previous heroic accounts of war, these descriptions had to...
Keyword:: Colonialism, French literature, Nationalism, Fascism, French Far-Right, and Masculinity in War
Subject:: French and Italian
Creator:: Jessica Ann Neushwander
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/22/2019
Date Modified:: 02/22/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: In December 1928, Ernst Jünger wrote to his brother Friedrich Georg: “Wir müssen uns […] bemühen, die literarische Tätigkeit als Kriegsmittel zu betrachten.” This project analyzes the result of said activity: viz. text understood as a means of war. That is to say, it does not aim at answering questions...
Keyword:: Subversion, Jünger, Nationalism, Planetary, Weimar, and Breakthrough
Subject:: German Literature and Critical Thought
Creator:: Clemens Börries Ackermann
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 03/12/2018
Date Modified:: 03/12/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation provides the first in-depth comparative study in any language of the female figurations made, viewed, and interpreted in the realm of refashioning modern Chinese painting during the war period of Republican China (1930s-1940s) in the Nationalist government-controlled southwestern inner frontier, with projects by Pang Xunqin (1906–85) and Fu...
Keyword:: National Imagination, Chinese painting, Nationalism, Social Critique, Fu Baoshi, and Pang Xunqin
Subject:: Art History
Creator:: Xiao Yang
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/27/2018
Date Modified:: 01/28/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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