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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Barrie"”.
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Barrie Kosky's theatre of post-tragic affects
… as its focus the work of auteur theatre director Barrie Kosky. Engaging with Kosky s work in Australia in the 1990s and 2000s, it argues that Kosky s radical reconfigurations of classical tragedy introduced a new mode of performance to the contemporary Australian stage that I call post-tragedy . …
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The Galileo plays of Bertolt Brecht and Barrie Stavis
During the 1940s Bertolt Brecht and Barrie Stavis simultaneously explored the morality of modern science through the dramatization of Galileo's seventeenth century recantation of the truth involving the physical universe. Significant, yet contrasting statements were made about the modern world.
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Sir James Matthew Barrie, Romantic Philosopher in Modern Realistic Drama
The industrial revolution blessed and cursed the English Victorian age. Blessed was the progress of invention and manufacture; cursed was the rugged individualism of selfish men. During this revolution, three great Victorian authors—Arnold, Ruskin, and Carlyle— rose to criticize England’s shallow …
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Second star on the right and straight on 'til morning: The reception of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan
… illuminate the long-standing reception of J.M. Barrie’s most famous story: Peter Pan. There are three distinct mediums for the story, theater, fiction, and film, and I unveil the successes and failures of each category. My research centers on the theories produced by Hans Robert Jauss and …
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Happily Ever After? Ambiguous Closure in Modernist Children's Literature
… Gertrude Stein (The World is Round), and J.M. Barrie (Peter and Wendy) through the lens of literary modernism, this project explicates how these authors adapt modernist techniques, ideologies, and preoccupations in their writing for children. Focusing on themes of alienation, disillusionment, …
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Die representasie van omstrede kwessies in kontemporêre Afrikaanse jeugverhale
… to three youth novels: Skilpoppe (1998) by Barrie Hough, Daar's vis in die punch (2002) by Jackie Nagtegaal and Nie vir kinders nie (2005) by Francois Bloemhof. These three texts were chosen because all three of them have generated public discussion, specifically in the media, about the …
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A qualitative exploration examining the enhancement of students? personal and professional development through an employability focused curriculum
… and needs of the broader student population (Barrie 2007, O'Regan 2009). Understanding the individual needs of students and providing them with the post HE nurturing and support they require will result in them being better prepared to meet the requirements of the working world, which will in …
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Researching with children experience social and emotional and mental health needs: their views on LEGO® based play intervention
Child development and the role that play has in child development are central to my professional role and as such lead me to my choice of research. This research focusses on the concept of pupil voice and gaining children’s views of a play-based intervention - LEGO® Based Therapy (LeGoff et al, …
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The Development of a Semi-Open Refrigeration Cycle for the Crystallisation of Aqueous Salts
The development of a Semi-Open Refrigeration Cycle had been shown to be of economic value to the process of crystallisation. The experimentation took the form of several bench scale experiments to develop the designs of the individual vessels that were to constitute the final pilot …
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A Qualitative Exploration of African American Men's Attitudes Toward Marriage
<p>The decline in the rate of marriage in the African American community has been documented in both the empirical literature and pop culture. Initially researchers postulated that the upward mobility of African American women had diminished their to marry, but studies found opposing evidence to …
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Going Down the 'Wabbit' Hole: A Remediative Approach to the Filmmaking of the Coen Brothers
The Coen brothers are sometimes dismissed as mere parodists or imitators, simply copying images, themes and motifs from a variety of sources. In a postmodern world, however, strict definitions are more complicated. Whilst we may think of this practice as a mode of intertextual practice, what was …
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Mr. Walker's pillow book
This attractive novel is, ostensibly, the English translation of an ancient Japanese manuscript with an introduction and footnoted commentary by the translator. Leonard Walker is an archaeologist who has discovered The Pillow Book of Lady Kasa , a diary-like manuscript dating from the Nara Period …
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Painting the Past: Uncovering Ancestral Contributions to Complex Human Phenotypes in Western Eurasia
The high mutation load within and phenotypic differences between modern human populations remain poorly understood. Understanding these phenomena would lead to a better understanding of the origins of complex phenotypes, including genetically-influenced diseases, and their geographic distributions. …
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Modeling Differential Charging of Composite Spacecraft Bodies Using the Coliseum Framework
The COLISEUM framework is a tool designed for electric propulsion plume interactions. Virginia Tech has been developing a module for COLISEUM called DRACO, a particle-in-cell based code capable of plume modeling for geometrically complex spacecraft. This work integrates a charging module into …
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The Girls Who Had to Grow Up: Reflections on Motherhood and Dual Identity in Lewis Carroll's Wonderland and J.M. Barrie's Neverland
… Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and its connection to the world of the "mundane" experienced by the typical Victorian housewife and mother. Both are intimately connected within the texts, primarily in the characters' dual roles as dictated by the gendered …
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Broken contract : the autobiographical performance or producing 'self' in the act of writing a life
… studies range across literature (including J. M. Barrie, Marcel Proust and W. G. Sebald), performance practice (including Marina Abramovic, Tim Etchells and Zhu Yu), popular culture (including Blind Date, Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe) and philosophy (including Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze …
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The geology of the Khayyam and Stumble-On deposits, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska
The Khayyam and Stumble-On deposits are stratiform copper-zinc-gold-silver massive sulfide deposits within the late Proterozoic(?) to pre-Middle Ordovician Wales Group, a metamorphosed volcanic arc complex within the Alexander tectonostratigraphic terrain. These massive sulfide deposits are …
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Structural design framework for online loyalty programmes
Research into the structural design of online loyalty programmes is conspicuous by its relative novelty. The trend has been to extend traditional offline loyalty programmes into this new environment even though considerable differences exist between the two domains. At the same time web start-up …
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The occult in Rabelais: three supplementary aspects of the Rabelaisian allegory
The Occult in Rabelais concerns itself with all references, explicit or implied, to the systems of contemporary occultism in Rabelais’s work. Although a division may be made between those allusions which seem merely to reflect humanist preoccupation with the occult and those which are functional in …
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The four Mephisto waltzes of Franz Liszt
The four Mephisto Waltzes of Franz Liszt constitute the focus of the present paper. Aside from the fascination they hold as individual works, they form an intriguing group related by title and heritage yet made distinct by important structural differences. Also, the separation of more than 20 years …
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