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This thesis explores how the context and function of clichés have changed over the past two centuries in accordance with socio-cultural changes. The author outlines two versions of the cliché - the first sees clichés as a symptom of deteriorating modern experience, while the second views clichés as a strategy of resistance against that deterioration. The thesis is divided into three chapters that discuss these two versions of the cliché through analyses of theorists like Barthes, Benjamin, Greenberg and Ado

Author

Robin Peckham

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