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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Corpse"”.
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Dead Virginians: The Corpse and its uses in Early Virginia
… of elite Virginias regarding questions of both corpse desecration and natural putrefaction. The cause of this cultural obsession lie in two facts: The blackening of the early colony’s reputation by warfare with Native Americans and the cannibalism associated with the Starving Times, and later …
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Corpses revealed: The staging of the theatrical corpse in early modern drama
… examines the theatrical depiction of corpses as both stage-objects for theoretical speculation and as performance phenomena of the early modern English stage. Investigating popular drama on the London stage from 1587 -- 1683, I demonstrate that the performance of the dead body by the …
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Exquisite corpse: a tower for the public in the era of exhausted modernity
Towers in Manhattan, especially in business areas, have historically used a single overarching system in order to visualize images of their corporate identity and immerse the public in the image of development. While using one system, the architect has tried to organize various unexpected behavior …
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Maiden, Mother, Corpse: Greek Goddesses’ Dominion Over Life and Death in Myth and Literature
Fertility and death are two opposing concepts that occupy the consciousness of every person, culture, and civilization in the world. While there are ways to affect both concepts, they are ultimately beyond human control, and so mythology is one means in which people cope with that reality. Four of …
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An original script for the stage – Case 121: The Shadowless Corpse plus accompanying essay
Case 121: The Shadowless Corpse is an original script for the stage set in a world where metaphysical anomalies occur with enough frequency or impact that they require a branch of government dedicated to investigated such events. The protagonist of the play (‘H’) is one of these detectives and the …
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The psychological stressors and coping strategies of corpse handlers in Windhoek state mortuaries: A phenomenological study
Corpse handlers in mortuaries are a distinct population, prone to the development of psychological challenges. Previous studies have linked their susceptibility to stressful work environments, characterized by recurrent confrontation with corpses. During the year 2016, 46 staff members at the state …
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Uneasy bodies femininity and death : representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks
… feminist reading, representations of the female corpse in fashion photography and art. The cultural theorist Stuart Hall's theories on the concept of representation are utilised to critically analyse and interogate selected images from fashion magazines, which depicts the female corpse in an …
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"""Though Their Bones Crunched, Their Shut Mouths Made No Moan"": Speaking the Corpse in Twentieth Century Anglo -American War Poetry"
… ""trench"" poets who opened their voice to the corpse, allowing it to speak its strange truth in an imagistic and onomatopoeic language through them. The WWII poets developed this corpse voice around an absent but symbolically resonant corpse, which reflected an outlook that was more …
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Genetic and molecular studies of ced-5 and ced-7, two genes required for cell-corpse engulfment in C. elegans
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Biology, 1998.
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Seeing death : portraiture in contemporary postmortem photography
… suggests an interest in the 'subjectness' of the corpse. Katarzyna Majak's (2011) theory of socialization as an attempt to lessen the scandal of the corpse through representation is central throughout this thesis. Majak argues that for the viewer the corpse is a scandal, because it discomfortingly …
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The Significance of a corpse in the law of offences against the dead: a theoretical and doctrinal analysis of England & Wales and Canada
A corpse in criminal law has a unique legal status. A corpse is more than just a dead body, it is a family member, a friend, and someone who was a part of society and warrants special treatment as a result. A firmly held belief is that the deceased deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. …
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Scrounge
… of a dream that never fully disappears—a corpse that haunts rather than vanishes. The material remnants of this corpse are visible in the region’s shuttered factories, opioid-ravaged bodies, and foreclosed homes, while its immaterial form lingers in the unrelenting cultural myth that hard …
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Components Required for the Death and Degradation of the Linker Cell in C. Elegans
… genetic screen to identify genes involved in corpse degradation. I discovered a key protein network involved in linker cell corpse engulfment and degradation and revealed that two small GTPases, RAB-35 and ARF-6, and their regulators ensure timely phagocytosis and phagosome maturation. I also …
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Stretched Out On Her Grave: The Evolution of a Perversion
… mind that of an act of sexual intercourse with a corpse, probably a female corpse at that. But the definition of the word did not always have this connotation; quite literally the word means "love of the dead," or "a morbid attraction to death." An examination of nineteenth-century literature …
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Polar Body Membrane Breakdown Occurs Independent of Macroautophagy in C. Elegans
<p>Failure to digest cell corpses can lead to lupus-like autoimmune disorders in mammals. To better understand if LC3-associated phagocytosis (LAP) drives cell corpse breakdown in phagolysosomes, we studied the clearance of the <em>C. elegans</em> polar body during embryonic development. ATG16L1 …
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Role played by insects in the destruction of the dead body : and its medico-legal application
… are enabled to determine the age of an exhumed corpse up to the third year. The presence or absence of the remains of the first workers enables us to determine the season at which interment took place
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Exquisite Score : a system for collaborative musical composition
… using the paradigm of the parlor game Exquisite Corpse. Through a MIDI-sequencer interface, composers each contribute a section to a piece of music, only seeing a brief fragment immediately preceding their section. Exquisite Score went through many iterations and was tested by several students …
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Screening for Our Fathers: Representations of Native American Masculinity in American Film
… men in film have been continually reduced to corpses, devoid of significant social presence, and denied meaningful explorations of their sexuality and interpersonal identity. The representations of Native Americans in film have received a moderate amount of a critical attention, but rarely are …
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The Pursuit of Divinity: Religious Faith and Fear in Late Victorian Women's Poetry
… Poems, Christina Rossetti engages the female corpse tradition to illustrate the misplaced fear that many of her contemporaries associated with death and the afterlife. While arguing for a renewed faith in God, Rossetti enacts a radical revision of the female corpse tradition that gives agency …
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