Browsing W&L University Student Scholarship by Subject "Twentieth century"
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Chinese Behavior Toward Taiwan: Nationalism as Driver of Foreign and Domestic Policy (thesis)
When the Chinese Nationalists [KMT] retreated to Taiwan in 1949 to establish a government in exile, an obvious hostility emerged between the nationalists and the communists [CCP] who had evicted them from the mainland. ... -
Connecticut's Kingmaker: Enlightened Machine Politics in the Era of John Bailey, Democratic Boss
Demonstrating that modem political machines could function effectively and efficiently without harming America's constitutional system, Boss John Bailey returned Madison's trust by creating a responsible, republican, and ... -
Critiques of a Strategist: Jean-Michel Basquiat (thesis)
Jean-Michael Basquiat (1960-1988) was one of the most distinguished artists of the 1980s international art scene. His strategic alliances with the media and major galleries in New York City allowed him to legitimize his ... -
Currents in Twentieth-Century Verse Drama
The general direction of twentieth-century verse drama is clear. While attempting to effect a reaction to realistic prose drama, they have brought their works close to realistic prose (Eliot) while at the same time treating ... -
Death in the Circuit, Life in the Word: Communication Theory as a Governing Metaphor in the Early Work of Thomas Pynchon
I will consider a single aspect of the literature in great depth-specifically, his treatment of communication theory-finally resulting in a better understanding of the basic nature of Pynchon's literary objectives. I will ... -
Division and Radicalization in the German Working Class: A Study of German Socialism from the Revolution to the Halle Congress (thesis)
While class differences and ideological disagreements did play a role in the permanent division of the German working class, the actions of the Ebert government, especially the violence committed by the Freikorps under ... -
Eugene O'Neill: A Long Day's Journey Into Death
It is hard to pin-point what O'Neill's exact hope in life was. We get the feeling in studying his life that he could never be satisfied with anything. But O'Neill's one hope and wish in life was to "belong" to something ... -
From Lexington to the Luxembourg Gardens: An Artist Rediscovered (thesis)
"Modern," as it applies to art, is a convenient catch-all term but hardly descriptive of anyone trend or style. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, innumerable painters, sculptors, and decorative artists emerged ... -
History and the Pendulum: An Application of the Schlesinger Theory of American Politics to Twentieth-Century Mexico
Beginning with the Greeks Parmenides, Errpodocles and Polybius, continuing through unknown Mayan theologians, to the works of Vico and Hegel, cyclical theories are found throughout the historiographical canon. The tradition ... -
La Reformulación de Civilización y Barbarie en la Literatura Que Habla Sobre el Peronismo (thesis)
En el presente trabajo, primero voy a definir el contexto histórico y el proyecto político de Sarmiento durante la publicación de Facundo. Después, voy a analizar el esquema polarizado de Sarmiento y lo que él entiende por ... -
Modernization of China Through Language Reform: Vernacular Language Reform Movement in the 1910-20s and Mao's Language Reform in the 1950s (thesis)
In this paper, we will examine the relationship between language reform and the modernization of China. Before we go into any further details about the two different periods of language reform in the first half of the 20th ... -
Periodicals as Handbooks for Doing Gender and Doing Difference: Racialized Womanhood in Cosmopolitan and Essence Magazines from 1978-2000 (thesis)
. . . This means that, simultaneously, black women in America and white women in America were receiving very different messages from popular and political culture, as both the (black) welfare queen and the (white) feminist ... -
The "Projective" Unconscious: Charles Olson and Carl Jung
Charles Olson ( 1910-1970), writing the bulk of his most influential works in the late forties through mid sixties, is an American poet who gained fame as a teacher in the Black Mountain College, a successor of Ezra Pound, ... -
The Proletarian Novel in America, 1900-1940
In this thesis I have tried to give what I think is an accurate picture of the proletarian novel. I have tried to trace the origins, motives and developments of this form in the years from 1900 to 1940. It has been necessary ... -
Socialism in Early 20th Century American Literature (thesis)
. . . But I needed to know more in order to understand why someone who called himself a communist or a socialist would turn on friends and neighbors who called themselves something else. So I set out to discover what ... -
Ulysses and "Among school children": Encountering, and Encounters in, Joyce and Yeats
Conclusions seem best when tentative, and it is with that frame of mind that I now try to "wrap up" this project. These two essays on Joyce and Yeats do not overlap perfectly, but there are some areas of reasonable concord. ...