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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Chora"”.
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"Purple People": "Sexed" Linguistics, Pleasure, and the "Feminine" Body in the Lyrics of Tori Amos
… Luce Irigaray calls “irruption of the semiotic chora”—moments within language where boundaries in the semiotic chain of signification are “blurred.” Thus, while current feminism has moved strictly away from the idea that there is an exigent “feminine” to which all women must aspire, there exists …
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The relationship between technology and the body in Muriel Rukeyser's poetry
… form and Julia Kristeva‟s theory of the <em>chora</em> stage. My study reveals how Rukeyser conceived of both technology and the body as sustained by one process of vitality and creativity, which is relational form. I will argue that Rukeyser‟s idea of a dynamic human inner self, in which the …
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Sapphic reflections of feminine creative power and male interruption in the works of Virginia Woolf
… Sappho’s themes, motifs, and symbols such as the chora and male interruption, to then argue that literary Sapphism as it exists in the fragments, is also present in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One’s Own, and The Waves. .
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Nadoodse ondersoek
… as Julia Kristeva's definitions of the semiotic chora and the abject are used as theoretic criteria in an investigation of psychoanalytic processes in the creative writing process.
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The Architecture of The Kariye Camii in Istanbul. (Volumes I and Ii)
… Istanbul--originally the Church of Christ in the Chora Monastery--is among the most important and best preserved monuments of Byzantine Constantinople, as well as a pivotal monument for Byzantine architecture in general. This dissertation offers a monographic study of the building and has three …
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Matrices and mavericks: a Kristevan analysis of the poetry of Shelley
… of the otherwise repressed semiotic chora. This thesis involves an analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetic texts in a similar critique. Shelley's poetry, though not as fully as that of avant-garde poets such as Stephane Mallarme, responds to a Kristevan reading. This reading …
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Anti-Oedipus en-procés : a comparative analysis of Kristeva and Deleuze & Guattari
… Other is to be found in Kristeva's notion of the chora -- is something I claim that Deleuze and Guattari simply undervalued.
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Exploring city spaces : an exploration into mapping practices and rule based design
… I started with ideas of Lefebvre and the work of CHORA as a methodology for exploring the 'everyday practices' in the city- and moved through this to an engagement with rule based design and algorithmic architecture. The design chapter loops back to the beginning of the paper, and draws from and …
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'n Herwaardering van Olga Kirsch se oeuvre: Identiteit ,moederskap en ballingskap aan die hand van die psigoanalitiese toeriee van onder andere Sigmund Freud,Jaques Lacan en Julia Kristeva
… longing for wholeness in the safety of the chora, as well as self-actualisation and jouissance through the creative process. Kirsch is reaffmned as an important Afrikaans poet who, with each volume of poetry, shared her life as a sujet en proces with her Afrikaans-speaking readers. Whereas …
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Croidhe Cainnte Chiarraighe Sean Og O Caomhanaigh a thiomsaigh
… ‘Litríocht & Amhránaíocht’; ‘Cnuasach de Chora Cainte’; ‘Polaitíocht & Cogaíocht’; ‘Seanfhocail &Ráite’. Anailís ar an saothar féin atá sa dara cuid den tionscadal. Breathnaítear ann ar shaol SO mar a chuirtear os ár gcomhair é in ábhar an fhoclóra. Déantar staidéar ansin ar na …
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The Disruptive Semiotic: A Kristevan Reading of Thomas Hardy’s Fiction
Avhandlingen analyserar Thomas Hardys romaner med syfte att utröna varför de oftast väcker en känsla av ambivalens i läsaren. Med utgångspunkt ifrån Julia Kristevas teori om det semiotiska, enligt vilken intertextualitet uppstår genom en transposition av diskurser som har sin grund i …
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Towards a philosophy of theatre inspired by Aristotle’s poetics and post-structuralist aesthetics in relation to three South African plays
… from the signifiance and the semiosis of the chora (the feminine or maternal unconscious) within the de-familarisation techniques of Russian and Czech Formalism. This provides a creative and meaningful limit to a consciousness of being-white and being black- in-the-world against disempowering …
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Capitalizing on orthodox masculinity: the NFL, capitalism, and the pedagogy of becoming "controlled fury"
We often hear critics of American football blame the homosocializing space of the locker room as the site of lessons, player-to-player, on toxic masculinity. This dissertation problematizes that assertion by outlining a pedagogy largely scripted by the institutional powers of the NFL. There are …
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An Ontology of Space: Methodological Recursiveness and the Diagram
Current debates on space reveal a dichotomy between two apparently conflicting understandings of space: on the one hand, space is understood as a physical, tangible entity that has an impact on how we perceive, feel and emotionally inhabit the world, and on the other hand, space is conceived as an …