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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Blanche"”.
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"Assia Djebar and ""La Ville Blanche"": Writing in and on the *City"
I demonstrate how Algiers itself, by virtue of its historical double-ness, serves as cipher for the double subject. In addition, the geophysical configuration of Algiers, with its steep streets and stairways, and its ubiquitous view onto the Mediterranean, becomes complicit with the characters' …
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Decaying gentility in A streetcar named Desire: An actress' analysis of Blanche DuBois
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Émission de lumière blanche et physique des dispositifs électroluminescents organiques incorporant des nanocristaux fluroscents
… des nanocristaux afin de générer de la lumière blanche. Nous nous sommes intéressés aux dispositifs où les nanocristaux (Quantum dots) sont incorporés dans la matrice d'un polymère conjugué comme le poly (N-vinylcarbazole). Nous présentons des résultats concernant l'incorporation de nanocristaux …
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Fire and the Sword: the British Army and the Arme Blanche controversy 1871-1921
… war. The generally held view is that the arme blanche charge was obviously obsolete, and that Cavalrymen clung to it for social and sentimental reasons; British military leaders of the First World War are therefore condemned for their belief in Cavalry. This thesis questions that view. It …
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Analyse de populations neurodégénératives et assurance qualité de la tractographie de la matière blanche du cerveau
Le présent mémoire introduit une nouvelle méthode de traitement des données IRMd permettant d’extraire des caractéristiques dans des endroits spécifiques du cerveau. Une méthode d’assurance qualité test-retest est également présentée et est appliquée à la nouvelle méthode de traitement dans le but …
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'The Proust of Painting': Jacques-Émile Blanche, the Neurasthenic Portrait and the Nervous Elite of Paris 1900
Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942) is rarely included in histories of late nineteenth-century French art, despite his prolific career as an artist who produced over 2,000 paintings. A portraitist, Blanche’s upbringing as the son of an eminent psychiatrist provided him with a wealth of sitters …
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Rethinking Tennessee Williams' "Desperate" Women
Although Amanda Wingfield, Blanche DuBois, and Maggie Pollitt are examined frequently in scholarship on Tennessee Williams's plays, many critics assume that the three women's Southern femininity translates to fragility and that their nostalgia for the Confederate past constitutes delusion. …
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Modélisation locale en imagerie par résonance magnétique de diffusion : de l'acquisition comprimée au connectome
… et la géométrie des tissus de la matière blanche. Cette thèse s’intéresse à l’optimisation des métaparamètres utilisés par les modèles locaux. Nous dérivons des paramètres optimaux qui améliorent la qualité des métriques de diffusion locale, de la tractographie de la matière blanche et de …
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INTO THE STRUCTURE OF THE PERMIAN DEEP CONTINENTAL CRUST: A MULTISCALE APPROACH TO RECONSTRUCT MIGMATIZATION IN THE VALPELLINE SERIES (DENT BLANCHE TECTONIC SYSTEM, WESTERN ITALIAN ALPS)
… evolution of the Valpelline Series in the Dent-Blanche Tectonic System (Western Italian Alps) which represents an exceptionally preserved exposure of Permian deep continental crust, despite being involved in the subsequent Alpine-age reworking. It shows migmatitic metapelite with different …
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Tradução e teatro : A Streetcar Named Desire, de Tennessee Williams, em múltiplas traduções para o português do Brasil
… artística do escritor e o discurso da personagem Blanche Dubois. A primeira tradução, de Brutus Pedreira, foi publicada em 1976 pela editora Abril Cultural, em São Paulo. A segunda tradução, de Vadim Nikitin, foi publicada em 2004 pela editora Peixoto Neto, em São Paulo. A terceira tradução, de …
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Vers une histoire sociale des Noirs en natation au Canada (1900-1970)
… et le lien entre la natation et la Condition Blanche (Whiteness) de tradition britannique impériale.
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An Examination of Selected Opera-Comiques of Adrien Boieldieu (France)
… for over twenty years. His masterwork, La dame blanche (1825), is consistently referred to by noted authorities as the apogee of the "classical phase" of opera-comique. Boieldieu's life and compositional career began at the height of the Classical period and witnessed the birth of the Romantic …
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Classical stoicism and romantic passion : the golden mean in Arnold's "Tristram and Iseult".
… demonstrate Romantic passion, and Iseult le Blanche Mains practices Classical Stoicism. Each of the sides receives both Arnold's endorsement and his denunciation. Born between the two worlds of Classicism and Romanticism, Matthew Arnold, the son of the Classicist Dr. Thomas Arnold and the …
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Hope for Vanity Fair: Love as a Solution in Thackeray's Novels
… characters, seen in Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair, Blanche Amory and Sir Francis Clavering in Pendennis, Beatrix and Lord Castlewood in Henry Esmond, Barnes Newcome in The Newcomes, Barry Lyndon in Barry Lyndon, and the Earl of Castlewood in The Virginians. Few critics perceive, however, that these …
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The mezzo-soprano onstage and offstage: a cultural history of the voice-type, singers and roles in the French Third Republic (1870–1918)
… — Célestine Galli-Marié (1840–1905), Blanche Deschamps-Jehin (1857–1923), Meyriane Héglon (1868–1942), Marie Delna (1875–1932) and Lucy Arbell (1879–1947) — I discuss the Third-Republic mezzo-soprano in these state-funded opera companies. I begin by examining the mezzo-sopranos’ …
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Acquisitions d'IRM de diffusion à haute résolution spatiale : nouvelles perspectives grâce au débruitage spatialement adaptatif et angulaire
… technique permet en effet d’étudier la matière blanche du cerveau de façon complètement non invasive. Bien que le défi soit monumental, la résolution d’une image d’IRM se situe à l’échelle macroscopique et est environ 1000 fois inférieure à la taille des axones qu’il faut cartographier. Pour …
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Alain Mabanckou et la pigmentation de l'edition francaise
… towards Gallimard's illustrious Collection Blanche, he is still systematically portrayed above all as an African writer through the use of racialised paratextual elements. The deep-rooted hegemony of France cannot be toppled overnight. After situating Alain Mabanckou's position within the …
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Changing bodies and minds: “Crippled children” and their movement in the United States, 1890-1960
… “crippled children” such as polio survivor Blanche Van Leuven Browne, played essential roles in creating and backing this movement. They claimed authority and promoted movement policies based on their own experiences of “crippled childhood.” In looking at these claims to authority based on …
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