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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Cordelia"”.
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With Cordelia in His Arms: The Impact of Gender Roles in Shakespeare's King Lear
… from the play's debut to modern renditions, find Cordelia's death at the end of Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Lear to be both troubling and unjust. Despite original sources for the plot's happy ending and Cordelia's survival, Shakespeare consciously chooses to kill her. The question remains: why? …
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A comparative analysis of the characters of two dramatic King Lears : Shakespeare and Bottomley
… “neutral influence” in both plays; and Hygd and Cordelia in King Lear’s Wife and King Lear, respectively. Hygd and Cordelia are the “honorable influence” in the stories.</p><p>It has been the further purpose of this thesis to delete from both plays all subplots which do not directly pertain to …
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Ghostly Faces and Liminal Spaces: Landscape, Gender, and Identity in the Plays of Marina Carr
… recently, plays like Woman and Scarecrow and The Cordelia Dream are set in the liminal moments between life and death and in the unconscious world of the characters' dreams, illustrating Carr's continuing exploration of new liminal spaces.
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Alchemy In Selected Plays Of Shakespeare
… blood as tincture in Julius Caesar and Macbeth. Cordelia is related to the Paracelsian idea of balm in King Lear. Alchemical imagery associated with the processes of tincturing, surfeiting, healing, and magic is found in other selected references. Hamlet participates in a process of restoration …
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Retextualized transculturations: The emergence of La Malinche as figure in Chicana literature
… Sylvia Alicia Gonzales, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Cordelia Candelaria, and Angela de Hoyos (Chapter IV); and Lupe A. Gonzales, Norma Alarcon, Cherrie Moraga, Alma Villanueva, Margarita Cota-Cadenas, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Erlinda Gonzales-Berry (Chapter V).
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Rehearsing New Opera: An Ethnographic Lens on Becoming Posthuman
… and rehearsal stages of Sivan Eldar and Cordelia Lynn’s eco-themed opera *Like Flesh*, I confront the post-anthropocentric display of eco-sensitive narratives with material trajectories and antifungal production practices. The examined cases function to expand the academic discourse on …
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Scalable, repeatable, and contention-free parallelization of traffic simulation
Tripod is a project funded by ARPA-E and partly carried on by the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Lab at MIT that aims to promote more energy efficient travel options by offering commuters incentives to make smart travel choices. These incentives depend on the current network state, and …
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Make me yours: the psychodynamics of seduction through works of art
… Søren Kierkegaard’s games between Johannes and Cordelia; Karl Marx’s commodity fetishism; Naia del Castillo’s works, which are linked to Surrealist concerns, and Jacques Lacan’s mysterious objet petit a, the object cause of desire. All these play a part in delineating seduction. My own (nearly …
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An historiographical landscape of the late fifteenth century: The metamorphic era of medieval England and its transformation into the age of the English Renaissance
The purpose of this thesis is to examine current historiographical literature to determine if scholars should re-establish an earlier date for the beginning of English Renaissance by giving credit where credit is deserved, to the Yorkist Kings and their fellow countryman, William Caxton. With the …
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What Counts as Happiness for Young People in the Second Decade of the 21st Century? An Exploration
Empirical research on adults’ happiness is growing. However, research on children’s and young people’s happiness is limited, and has been dominated by adult-led, quantitative studies that emphasise measuring happiness for social comparison and indicators of progress. However, such approaches assume …
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An ethnographic journey to uncover the culture of dialysis units
A major challenge of the 21st century for the health-care professionals is to provide care for the ever-expanding population of people with renal-failure. Patient numbers are rising and specialist nurses, who are the pivotal factor in haemodialysis units, are becoming increasingly scarce. In this …
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Entwicklung eines optischen markierungsfreien Ionenkanalsensor-Arrays
Ligandgesteuerte Ionenkanäle sind Membranproteine, die an der Weiterleitung von Reizen und an der Kommunikation zwischen Zellen beteiligt sind. Große Bedeutung besitzt die Messung der Aktivierung der Ionenkanäle beispielsweise in der Medizin (z.B. Ionenkanalerkrankungen), der Pharmazie (z.B. …
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The space of drawing
This is the written component of a practice - led Phd concerned with the space of drawing. The space that drawing is seen as being able to occupy has undergone significant changes in last ten years. In this thesis I consider the historical and theoretical background to these changes with direct …
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Conducting Women: Gender, Power,and Authority in the Rhetoric of French and English Conduct Literature of the Later Middle Ages
… over differences between the sexes in which Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender participates by examining the pedagogical approaches directed at medieval women.'
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Sites of resistance: language, intertextuality, and subjectivity in the poetry of Diane Wakoski
This dissertation explores the interconnectedness of language and related cultural texts and women’s subjectivity. The poststructuralist feminist enterprise of examining and critiquing language and signifying practices for the ways in which they impose social values and of interrogating and …
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Redefining, Crafting, and Re/Presenting Contemporary Ethnicities: Honduran National Identity, 1994–2006
<p>Since the last quarter of the twentieth century, Fourth World populations, including those in Honduras, have been steadily gaining partial recognition of cultural rights; yet often official discourses of national identity continue to subsume cultural traditions of indigenous and Afro-descendant …
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The quality of mother-infant interactions in Khayelitsha
Little research has been done in the developing countries around the issue of postpartum depression and its effects on the face-to-face mother-infant interactions. Murray et at. (1996) conducted a research study of this kind in Britain. Results obtained in the study were used for comparisons with …
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Wet oxidation of human waste
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1982.
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Digital ad morphing : using behavioral analysis to increase response rates to online advertisements
This paper details the implementation and testing of a digital ad morphing system, a system which determines user cognitive style based on interaction with a website and serves ads designed to complement that cognitive style. The system is intended to increase click through rates on online …
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