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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Absolution"”.
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There is No Absolution for Us Here: An Anthology of Essays
An anthology of creative nonfiction essays, this collection studies the inner workings of the author at her most vulnerable: whether as a child unaware of her parents’ crumbling marriage or as an adolescent struggling against the fetters of her body and her mind, the author renders these subjects …
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Vulgar Moon
… and malignant, and the inherent human need for absolution.
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Living with s(k)in: An analysis of tattoo removal.
… of self in which the tattooed person can attain absolution from a "sinful" tattoo. This paper explores the construction of the confessional act in two parts: the construction of the confessing subject and the construction of the medical clinic as the confessor's listener. Using the texts medical …
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Closed-loop auditory-based representation for robust speech recognition
… algorithm provides 9.7%, 9.1% and 11.4% absolution word error rate reduction on average for three kinds of filter banks respectively.
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Positive aspects of the experience of psychosis: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
… experience), and their implications (e. g. absolution from responsibility, educational and professional opportunities, empowerment through recovery). Only one participant was unable to identify positive aspects of his experience of psychosis.
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The Persistance of National Ideology and Myth: Attempting to Re-Define German National Identity in Post-War Europe
… blame for Germany's situation on Nazi leaders. Absolution of the German people meant denying opportunities for popular self-critique, creating an atmosphere which unwittingly condoned the Romantic national myth. Earlier articulated by the Nazis, this original movement urged Germans to purify and …
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Greedy Hunger and Happy Ruin
… their lives and discover that transformation and absolution come not from a radiant external source but internal shifts of perspective, moment by moment, memory by memory, towards an embrace of the loss and longing (and joy) that make us human.
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The Narrators and Narratees of Kazuo Ishiguro
… offer justification in the hopes of receiving absolution. Ono reveals to his narratee that he used his art to further the Imperialist movement in pre-World War II Japan and caused the arrest of one of his anti-Imperialist students. Stevens, a British butler narrating from 1956, admits to …
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The autobiography of childhood and youth from Fontane to Carossa: Four case studies
… is Arthur Schnitzler's confession and bid for absolution for the hypocrisy and snobbery of his youth; Schnitzler's atheism, however, leaves him no alternative but pretense. As with any literary work, the reader needs to be careful to understand the author's intent, not read his own intent into …
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Space and censorship in Nadine Gordimer : a literary geography
… of certain elements of Patrick Flanery's Absolution (2012) will show that the structure and form of the novel corresponds in interesting ways with the apartheid censors' ideas of what literature should do and be.
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Philip Guston’s Absurd and the Sisyphean Affirmation in the Battle for Existentialism
… reveal an Absurdist rebel seeking painterly absolution.