Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>This dissertation focuses on the English-language anarchist periodical press in the United States in the 1890s and early 1900s. Each of the three chapters of this dissertation examines one anarchist paper and its coverage of a specific issue. The first chapter focuses on Prison Blossoms, which was started by Alexander Berkman, Carl Nold, and Henry Bauer and written and circulated in the… more Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Potempski, Jacob, Thesis advisor (ths): Angelova, Emilia, Degree committee member (dgc): Egan, Kelly, Degree committee member (dgc): Penney, James, Degree committee member (dgc): Junyk, Ihor, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>The three projects that make up this dissertation try to articulate an ontological idea of art; which is to say, they all approach art, or the imagination (as in project two), from the standpoint of a philosophical question concerning the sense of being. The ontological question is elaborated in terms of a theory of the spatial-temporal structure of the aesthetic or sensible realm. This… more Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>The 1980s in the United States have come into focus as years of extensive ideological and socioeconomic fracture. A conservative movement arose to counter the progressive gains of previous decades, neoliberalism became the nation's economic mantra, and détente was jettisoned in favour of military build-up. Such developments materialized out of a multitude of conflicts, a cultural… more
