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Conrad Wise Chapman and the Mexican Landscape
… paintings of the Mexican landscape produced by Conrad Wise Chapman (1842 – 1910) and held by the Valentine Richmond History Center in Richmond, Virginia. Chapman lived in Mexico from 1865 to 1867 and from 1883 to 1908 (with a few short absences), and during this period, produced a large number …
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Conrad von Montferrat – Aufstieg und Fall eines Kreuzfahrerherrschers
Leben und Leiden des Kreuzfahrers Conrad von Montferrat im 12. Jahrhundert, Zeitgenosse und Fluch Richard Löwenherz’, Opfer von Assassinendolchen, Familiengeschichte
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Form and Philosophy in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad
It is generally accepted that Conrad's fiction is something quite unique in English literature. An attempt is made to analyse the elements that give it this distinctive flavour. Emphasis is laid on a "confessional" aspect that is always disguised, but never absent from his major works, and this is …
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A critical study of the five novels of Conrad Aiken
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Reproductive ecology of the California sea mussel, Mytilus californianus Conrad
This study deals with the reproductive ecology and larval development of Mytilus californianus. Mytilus californianus is the common mussel found along the more exposed west coast of North America from the Aleutian Islands south Isla Socorro, Mexico (Soot-Ryen, 1955) and was chosen because it is an …
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Understanding ourselves: character and self-knowledge in Conrad and Shopenhauer
That Conrad was familiar with Schopenhauer’s philosophy has been proposed by literary scholars and seconded, in passing, by philosophers. This has resulted in one-way studies of literary influence. This thesis is instead a two-way study in the philosophy of literature. It shows how Schopenhauer’s …
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Who Framed Conrad Black?: Language and Translation in Print Newspaper Articles
… and portrayal of public figures, specifically Conrad Black, in French and English print media from Canada, the United Kingdom and France, and in particular, to identify the language and strategies used to do so. A secondary purpose of this thesis is to examine news reports for evidence of …
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Implementation of a Conrad Probe on a Boundary Layer Measurement System
… of two-hole pressure probe anemometer known as a Conrad probe, as well as its subsequent implementation on an autonomous, compact boundary layer measurement device and its first application for subsonic in-flight measurements of a swept wing boundary layer. Calibration of the Conrad probe was …
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Joseph Conrad and the ideology of fiction : a study of four works
… priority of politics in the interpretation of Conrad's fiction. It does so by establishing a critical dialogue with, and around, Fredric Jameson's Marxist classic, The Political Unconscious (1981). Jameson's proposition that Conrad's fiction is to be understood as a """"Political …
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Relevanz soziokultureller Faktoren für die Strategieumsetzung in Familienunternehmen – eine empirische Untersuchung anhand von Conrad Electronic
… relevant areas of the family business of Conrad Electronic and debriefings with external senior executives, who reflect on their experiences of working in family owned businesses and challenge the findings of the interviews, are applied to discover the social cultural root causes that lead …
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Character Change and Stability in Three Novellas by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer: A Study of Symbols
… of character change and stability in three of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's novellas, Jurg Jenatsch (1874), Der Heilige (1879), and Die Hochzeit des Monchs (1883). The characters exhibiting change, Jurg, Thomas, and Astorre, are compared and contrasted with those exhibiting stability, Lucretia, …
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FOR A METHODOLOGY OF TRANSLATION CRITISIM: THE ITALIAN TRANSLATIONS OF THE SECRET SHARER BY JOSEPH CONRAD
… translations: the selected text is Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Sharer, which has twelve Italian versions published from 1940s to 2007. The thesis is structured as follows. Chapter 2 reviews and critically examines approaches to translation criticism and translation quality assessment, as …
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The centrifugal discourse of myth : women and the 'saving illusion' in selected works of Joseph Conrad
… demonstrate that the women characters in Joseph Conrad's works function in the narratives to present a 'saving illusion' which is in contrast to masculine existential despair. The women characters are characterised by 'being' not 'becoming'. They are also frequently associated with that which is …
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"""Condemned to Consequences"": A study of tragic process in three works by Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene"
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