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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Cavell"”.
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Poetry as epistemological inquiry : reading Bernstein reading Cavell reading Wittgenstein
… essay: "The Objects of Meaning: Reading Cavell Reading Wittgenstein" plays an important role in the analysis, it serves as a portal to his work. The essay on Cavell and Wittgenstein focuses on four issues which figure prominently in Bernstein's poetics: the relation between philosophy and …
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Peer Acceptance in the Lunchroom and Children’s Internalizing Symptoms
… (Craig, Gregus, Elledge, Pastrana, & Cavell, 2016; Steggerda et al., in preparation). Although past research has linked children’s peer acceptance to their level of internalizing symptoms, few studies have examined peer acceptance within the lunchroom context. This study extends that …
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Moral perfectionism, infinite responsibility, and the ethical in critical race theory
… contributions of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stanley Cavell, Michel Foucault, and Emmanuel Levinas regarding ethics and the ethical, and I argue that all four thinkers fall under the broad classification of moral perfectionist thought, albeit with distinct core assumptions and approaches. This …
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Investigating Mentors' Perceptions Of The Effectiveness Of Using Resiliency-Building Strategies Within An At-Risk Adolescent Intervention Program
… literature (Converse & Lignugaris, 2008; Cavell, Elledge, Malcolm, & Faith, 2009; Devenport & Lane, 2009) by further identifying the strategies and skills which help mentors form quality relationships and ultimately impact the resilience of at-risk adolescent mentees. Specifically, this …
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A reader-response approach to Susan Sontag's Death Kit
… had a graduate seminar in the work of Stanley Cavell whose critical approach is certainly reader-based. I had also been impressed, and I think influenced, by Jean-Paul Sartre~s essay "Why Write?", which is concerned with the writer~s relationship to the reader, from the writer~s point of view …
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Augustine and the Limits of Memory: Augustine’s Account of Memory and its Contemporary Theological and Ethical Significance
… responsibility, and hope amidst what Stanley Cavell calls the separateness of our human condition.
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Imagination and the affirmation of the ordinary : words and deeds in the films of Frank Capra
… the work of Oakeshott, Taylor, Arendt, and Cavell to develop the relationship between the exercise of imagination, community, and the pursuit of happiness as it appears in a detailed reading of "It's a Wonderful Life." Chapter Three gives broad readings to "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," "Mr. …
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Democracy, subjectivity and voice: Emersonian perfectionism and radical democratic theory
… I suggest that it may be productive to look to Cavell’s work on this topic, to help improve the post-structuralist ability to be attentive to the emergence of voice. Yet, given Cavell’s neglect of constructive social power, it becomes necessary to first bridge the gap between Cavell and the …
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Experiences in a multi-sport parasport program: the female adolescent perspective
This phenomenological study utilized semi-structured interviewing to understand the experiences of adolescent females (N=3) in a multi-sport parasport program. The results of this study revealed several aspects of the parasport program that influenced participants’ experiences, as well as some …
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Developing a Competency-Based Framework to Guide Elementary School Teachers' Efforts in Helping Bullied Children
… Drawing from extant research, Gregus and Cavell (2017) created an initial draft of the framework that contained 25 components representing a mix of knowledge, attitudes, and skills. In Study 1, I obtained input on the framework from practicing elementary school teachers (n = 26) and …
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Science, the Self, and Skepticism: Posthuman Fictions of Post-1960s France
… posthuman pictures of the self to what Stanley Cavell, following Ludwig Wittgenstein, calls skepticism: the desire, both natural and unnatural, to deny and transcend the human and its conditions of sense-making. It asks whether these skeptical visions of the human self can be lived and answers …
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The Difficulty of Homecoming: Film and Philosophy through Monster, A Hidden Life, and Mountains May Depart
… Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Rowan Williams, and Gillian Rose. I begin by introducing the question of homecoming through Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984), characterising it as an inquiry into tragedy. I contend that the tragic dimension of homecoming, along with its …
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The Effects of Errorless Compliance Training Interventions on Compliance Behavior on Students in the Home and Generalization in the School Setting
<p>Errorless Compliance Training (ECT) is a procedure used to lessen disruptive behavior using a gradual and noncorecive approach. In this study, parents of three school-aged children who demonstrated high levels of disruptive behavior in the home and the classroom were trained on the ECT …
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Circulating tumour DNA: A non-invasive biomarker for melanoma
Cutaneous melanoma accounts for 90% of all skin cancer deaths (Balch et al., 2010) and is responsible for 3.6% of deaths from cancer in Australia (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2016). Whilst early detection and successful surgical removal of primary melanomas have improved survival …
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Around Talk: Affect, Triviality, and Possibility in Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Nella Larsen
… the ordinary language philosophy of Stanley Cavell, the weak affect theories of Silvan Tomkins and Eve Sedgwick, the suspensive intimacies of Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips. In a series of case studies from my three authors, the chapters of this thesis explore the uncertain generativeness of …
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The Spirit of Exemplarity: The Role of Example in Lyric Studies
… Turning to Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell, I describe an alternative mode of exemplarity which, as Toril Moi attests, is now largely absent from the discipline of literary studies. The argument for a practice of exemplification in lyric criticism which attends to individual poems …
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Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy: Imagining Alternatives in the Plays
This dissertation is the application of counterfactual criticism to Shakespearean tragedy—supposing we are to ask, for example, “what if” Hamlet had done the deed, or, “what if” we could somehow disinherit our knowledge of Lear’s madness before reading King Lear. Such readings, mirroring critical …