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Elizabeth Bowen and the art of visuality
… is the first sustained assessment of Elizabeth Bowen’s writing from a visual perspective. By first compiling a visual biography of the author, I argue that Bowen’s responsiveness to art, her relationships with artists, and her knowledge of modern and traditional aesthetics are formative …
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The “Presence of Movement” in the Works of Elizabeth Bowen
… and the relationship between them in Elizabeth Bowen’s work to examine how she registers the shifting material, social, cultural, and psychological landscapes of the twentieth century. The first chapter examines how a rhetoric of “overflow” permeates Bowen’s interwar writing. By addressing her …
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Spectrophotometry of Bowen resonance fluorescence lines in three planetary nebulae
This thesis studies the Bowen resonance fluorescence mechanism of OIII in three planetary nebulae: NGC 6210, 7027, and 7662. It utilizes the best spectra to date of this phenomena in the wavelength range of 3100 A-3850 A. The data are presented in the form of flux ratios relative to the strong …
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Created Spaces: Domestic Myth-Making in the Novels of Elizabeth Bowen
Twentieth-century author, Elizabeth Bowen writes often of children in her various works, yet her novels and short stories could hardly be considered for the consumption or pleasure of a young audience. Nevertheless, there exists an exception within her oeuvre - The Good Tiger, a colorful and …
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York Bowen's Three Viola and Piano Masterworks for Lionel Tertis
… to promote the viola as a solo instrument. York Bowen (1884-1961) contributed several works to Tertis’s mission and served as one of the violist’s primary piano collaborators from 1904 to around 1920. In addition to several short pieces and the Viola Concerto (1908), Bowen wrote three masterworks …
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Unlived Lives in Twentieth Century Narrative: Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen, Kazuo Ishiguro
In her 1955 novel A World of Love, Elizabeth Bowen considered the effects of a fifty-year period in which the outbreak of two world wars had reconfigured radically the expected course of personal and national history. Those alive at the mid-century, she observed, were consequently more aware than …
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Differentiation of self and marital satisfaction : an exploratory analysis based on the Bowen theory
… significance.Findings1. Contrary to the Bowen theory, there was not a significant relationship between spouses' levels of differentiation of self.2. Consistent with the Bowen theory, there was a statistically significant relationship between levels of DOS and marital satisfaction for …
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A psychoanalytic approach to organizational decline: Bowen theory as a tool for organizational analysis
… with a psychoanalytic model of human behavior, Bowen Theory, which explains how individuals function within relationship systems such as families and organizations. The theory also examines how dysfunction is created within those systems when the relationship process becomes ineffective or …
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Exploring the implicate order in public organizations: the complementarity of Bowen theory and chaos theory
Chaos theory, a philosophical viewpoint from physics, is being adopted by some public organization theorists as a new standpoint for understanding and managing organizations besieged by instability and turbulence. A basic tenet of chaos theory, known as mutual causality, denies that an entity …
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Family Systems Theory in Chekhov’s ‘Big Four’ Plays
This thesis discusses the Bowen family systems theory and its application to character analysis and family relationships in drama. Chekhov’s plays are renowned for their psychological realism. Each character has his or her own unique history, which was a boon to the creation and development of the …
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Axial symmetry and transverse trace-free tensors in numerical relativity
… space tensors, the choice of potentials giving Bowen-York conformal curvatures, are derived. A restriction is found for the potentials which ensure an axially symmetric TT tensor, which is regular at the origin, and conditions on the potentials, which give an axially symmetric TT tensor with a …
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ADOLESCENTS’ ELECTRONIC DEVICE USE MANAGEMENT: EXPLORING PARENTS’ PERCEPTIONS, PERSPECTIVES, AND EXPERIENCES
… behaviours toward adolescents’ screentime (Bowen, 1966). Additionally, devices may be used to differentiate the self from the family system such as privately accessing a personal device to socialize and share ideas (Schnauber-Stockmann et al., 2021). Therefore, a basic qualitative …
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Family Album
A collection of eight nonfiction stories by Missy Bowen about the Minnesota State Fair, owls, winter, summer, stairs, lumber, and the rock and roll life.
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I Don't Know Why You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello: Concepts of Place in Eudora Welty's <i>The Optimist's Daughter</i> and Elizabeth Bowen's <i>The Death of the Heart</i>
… reveal that, for Eudora Welty and Elizabeth Bowen, place is· more than mere landscape. Place is both the scene upon which their novels unfold and the means by which they convey their abstract understandings of the world. Place provides the physical settings of their stories, but it also …
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Reflection/Reflected The Construction of Female Subjectivity in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and The Death of the Heart
As I read Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and The Death of the Heart, questions arose, persisted, and remained unanswered until I undertook the project of applying poststructuralist theories to these novels. Reading The Last September, I puzzled over the female protagonist's relationship to an …
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Barndomstrauma, anknytning och vuxenlivets parförhållanden : Motarbetning av de negativa effekterna
… traumans påverkan på mellanmänskliga relationer. Bowen Familjesystemteorin granskas, och i samband med teorin tas även Bowen Familjesystemterapi upp som en alternativ rehabiliteringsmetod av barndomstrauma. Enligt dessa två teorier är familjerelationerna en central bidragande faktor till …
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Emotional Cutoff In Women Who Abuse Substances
This exploratory study was based upon Bowen Family Systems theory and investigated emotional cutoff in women (n = 168) who entered a substance abuse treatment program. Three questions were explored: First, the degree of emotional cutoff in this sample was compared to a non-clinical sample of women. …
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Measurement of Cover Crop Evapotranspiration and Impacts on Water Management in Crop Production Systems
… of actual evapotranspiration (ETa) using the Bowen-ratio method to calculate crop coefficient curves for a field in eastern South Dakota which in 2011 contained spring wheat followed by a cover crop and in 2012 contained field corn, and (2) utilization of Landsat imagery and the image …
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BEGINNING A TRADITION: IRISH WOMEN'S WRITING, 1800-1984 (EDGEWORTH, JOHNSTONE, KEANE, IRELAND).
… device, as does Molly Keane in 1981. Elizabeth Bowen employs a more subtle narratorial device in The Last September, but one which still distances the author from her text. The re-vision of texts, literary and historical, indeed the re-visioning of history, recurs in Bowen, Keane, Kate O'Brien, …
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Impact of time and spatial averages on the energy balance closure
… the energy balance correction that preserved the Bowen ratio. In the spatial average analysis, two energy balance correction approaches, the buoyancy flux ratio and the Bowen ratio approaches, were applied to the area-averaged fluxes (composite fluxes) in order to include contribution from …
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