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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Allegories"”.
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Allegories of Repair
"Allegories of Repair" explores the complex dynamics of marginalized communities, focusing on West Dallas. Embracing Donna Haraway's "situated knowledges," the thesis proposes a resilient methodology to understand the intertwined context. Utilizing storytelling tools, the narrative unfolds, …
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Hawthorne's Allegories of Composition
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John Baldessari's Later Blasted Allegories
John Baldessari’s Blasted Allegories (1977-1978) represent a concerted reconsideration of the most active and critical pursuits of the 1960s and ‘70s, including structuralism, post-structuralism, systems-based art, constraint-based approaches to composition, chance, and allegory. Thirty-five of the …
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Approximation Algorithms using Allegories and Coq
… theory of relations, i.e., the theory of allegories and various extension thereof. An implementation of various kinds of lattices and the theory of categories is required for the declaration of allegories. The programming language and interactive theorem prover Coq is used for the …
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Towards automated derivation in the theory of allegories
… provable theorems in the equational theory of allegories. This was accomplished by noticing properties of an existing decision algorithm that could be extended to provide a derivation in addition to a decision certificate. We also suggest improvements and corrections to previous research in …
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Allegories of nature, culture, gender : dialogues with Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés-
… informs my other dialogues with Duchamp's allegories of nature, culture and gender. A collision between my givens and those of the artist, the second dialogue exhibits Duchamp's Etant donnés ... as a series of specular games with Western epistemologies and histories that inscribe "woman" …
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Limited possibilities: agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories
This thesis examines the representation of the negotiation of black women's subjectivity in four South African allegorical novels. Using aspects of postmodern discourse, and feminist and postcolonial literary and cultural theories on identity formation and subjectivity, I propose that it is in the …
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Limited possibilities : agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories
This thesis examines the representation of the negotiation of black women's subjectivity in four South African allegorical novels. Using aspects of postmodern discourse, and feminist and postcolonial literary and cultural theories on identity formation and subjectivity, I propose that it is in the …
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The Pastoral Image: Guillaume de Deguileville’s Spiritual Pedagogy in the Pèlerinage Allegories
… monk Guillaume de Deguileville’s three allegories: the Pèlerinage de vie humaine (1330 and 1355), the Pèlerinage de l’âme (1355), and the Pèlerinage de Jesus-Christ (1358). The thesis analyses each of these allegories as dream visions filled with ethical and moral instruction, designed …
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Allegories of Mastery: Sex, Science, and the Making of the Modern Body in Renaissance Utopias
This project argues that the seventeenth-century transition from the humoral body to the modern, anatomical body depended on constructions of gender/sex. I examine this process in The Faerie Queene Book 2, The Legend of Temperance (1596), Phineas Fletcher's The Purple Island (1633), Francis Bacon's …
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Allegories of drought and of gardens in the novels of J.M. Coetzee and Dambudzo Marechera
This thesis examines the trope of Allegory in the work of two Southern African writers, JM Coetzee and Dambudzo Marechera. It discusses the trope's use in redefining the dominant theme of the dialectic between scarcity and plenty. In much of Southern African literature, this dialectic is expressed …
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O, Beastly Jew!: Allegorical Anti-Judaism in Thirteenth Century English Bestiaries
This thesis outlines the traditional anti-Judaic allegories found in the medieval bestiary genre, demonstrates the transformations of these allegories within the English scriptoria, and examines how these allegories reflect contemporary suspicions of the Anglo Jewish population. In the thirteenth …
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Sacred, Sensual and Sublime: An Iconographic Study of the Female Nude in the Murals of Diego Rivera
… illiterate population, Rivera invented diverse allegories which featured the female nude. These allegories glorify the racial and cultural roots of Mexico's indigenous people. This thesis investigates Rivera's murals, the allegorical images and symbols associated with the female nude and the …
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Mystical Relations: A Study of Feminine Relationships with Christ in the High Middle Ages and Beyond
… High Middle Ages: how feminine relationships and allegories have encouraged greater understanding of Christ and influenced the ideas associated with Christ today— the feminine attributes of Christ’s flesh and his nature and the feminine allegories people of both genders have used to heighten …
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Locks
… Marmalade, who has educated her through the allegories of fairy tales. Unaware of an accessible outside world, all references to a world beyond her experience are relegated to the fairytale mythology of knights and slavering wolves.
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When the Earth Breathes: An Anthology of Volcanic Urbanism
… ephemeral, ever changing entities. Through ten allegories, cities are positioned inside of the geological realm, and are de-centered to contextualize them within a volcano’s lifespan. The first five stories describe the current framework, while the other half become allegories through which …
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Perceptions of the Ordinary
… and universal experiences into open-ended visual allegories. These psychological narratives are intended to function ambiguously- allowing the viewer to develop their own ideas and responses to the work. Using the figure paired with symbols and also using mass-produced common objects to function …
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O sentido do espaço na iconografia do aldeamento missionário de São Fidélis
… with the mithology from which, the necessaries allegories were elaborated, and still the theater, the processions and the sermons were done as part of the missionary pedagogy. It was at the functionality of this space that we found the meaning of theatrelization brought from the iconographic …
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Selfsame spaces: Gandhi, architecture and allusions in twentieth century India.
… lived in or considered between 1891 and 1930, as allegories. I also write about how Gandhi systematically infused allegorical meaning into his experiences of places by giving names to those places. Moreover, I consider how, in 1936, Gandhi explicitly emphasized the physical appearance of a hut …
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FROM PICTURE TO SOUND: A CONDUCTOR'S STUDY GUIDE TO THE ST. JOHN PASSION OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach’s music is filled with musical allegories. These musico-theological symbols are often concealed to modern eyes and ears. Scholars have worked diligently to help modern musicians gain a better understanding of this learned musician’s musical allegories, theological symbols, and, in the words of …
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