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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Corpses"”.
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Exquisite Corpses : an architectural mystery
… exploring the limits of that fiction, Exquisite Corpses determines a more specific understanding of narrative architecture, one that does not dismiss or marginalize the subject matter but augments it. A fictional narrative suggests that contemporary discussions of meaning in architecture must be …
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Exquisite Corpses: Markedness, Gender, and Death in Video Games
This dissertation analyzes gendered death animations in video games and the way games thematize death to remarginalize marked characters, including women. This project combines Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s work on the human subjection to death and Georges Bataille’s characterization of sacrifice …
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Corpses, Guns, Penises and Private Military and Security Corporations
The purpose of this dissertation is to reconceptualise how the work of private military and security companies (PMSCs) comes to matter. The overarching argument is: PMSC work is made to matter through an entanglement of ‘things’, agencies and processes that are not exclusively bound to the needs or …
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Exquisite corpses: Narrative emergence in multiplayer zombie video games
Players of multiplayer video games frequently come out of play sessions having experienced vivid and visceral stories that the original ‘authors’ of the text could not have anticipated. This is narrative emergence at work – a phenomenon that sees elements of game design and player actions combine …
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Constructing community from corpses in Medieval English and Icelandic Literature
… those texts. The most famous textual medieval corpses are the relics of saints as described in hagiographies, relics which, outside of these texts, became the centerpieces of many medieval communities, both religious and secular, as demonstrated by Patrick Geary and Carolyn Walker Bynum. More …
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Playing Dead: Staging Corpses, Ghosts, and Statues in Early Modern Drama
<p>Semi-animate corpses, physically powerful ghosts, and natural looking statues serve a powerful metatheatrical purpose in early modern drama. Such liminal bodies, which I define as figures caught between the fictional body and the living actor, model the relation between playgoer, actor, and …
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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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Genetic analysis of timing, morphology and degradation of cell corpses in C. elegans
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Biology, 1999.
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Investigation of the role of innate immunity in neurodegeneration driven by defective phagocytosis
… programmed cell death, leaving behind cell corpses which must be removed. The clearance of these corpses is accomplished through phagocytosis, or cell eating. Phagocytosis consists of the recognition, internalization, and degradation of external material. In the nervous system, glial cells …
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"A Certain Portion of the Whole." Inspectors, Guardians and Anatomists in East Anglia : 1832-1908
… medical education was the need to acquire human corpses to permit the essential study of anatomy. Over the course of the century the source of anatomical material moved from bodies taken from their graves by bodysnatchers to unclaimed pauper corpses from workhouses and hospitals to the increasing …
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ALTERAZIONI MICROSCOPICHE DELLA DECOMPOSIZIONE:IMPLICAZIONI PER LA MEDICINA LEGALE
… kind of modification which may take place in corpses after death; literature and common experience agree on the specific and individual characteristics of such processes which are dependant on several environmental variables, and only few of them are well known and predictable. The analysis of …
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Sepulcros abiertos: Cadáveres en las narraciones de la Guerra de la Independencia de Venezuela
<p>My thesis analyzes the representation of corpses in Venezuelan narratives written in country’s first hundred years as independent republic (1810-1910). My goal is to show how these narratives has been subjected to procedures that foster their continuous “dismemberment”, “custodial” and …
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Stretched Out On Her Grave: The Evolution of a Perversion
… culminating in the sexualized representation of corpses at the close of the century. The works examined for necrophilic content are: Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary, A Fiction, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Jewel of Seven Stars.
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Effects of Burn Injury on Biological Ethanol and Ethyl Glucuronide Concentrations
… and EtG concentrations are altered in burnt corpses.</p><p>The rodent provided an excellent model for studying the biotransformation of ethanol to EtG and the effects of burn injury on ethanol and EtG concentrations. Our study revealed that blood ethanol concentrations were not significantly …
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Revisão anatômica para definição do ligamento hioepiglotico
Fifty six larynx from adults human corpses were macroscopically studied. Twenty-nine were fixed and twenty-seven were not. From the fixed ones, sixteen were useful for the microscopic study. ln the group with fixed larynx, twelve had mole characteristics and seventeen female. The non-fixed group …
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RILIEVO DI FATTORI XENOBIOTICI, CON PARTICOLARE RIFERIMENTO A NICOTINA E COTININA, IN CAMPIONI ISTOLOGICI APPARTENENTI A FETI E NEONATI DECEDUTI PER CAUSE NATURALI.
… improved in the past years, samples of 35 corpses, represented by fetuses and newborns dead for natural causes, have been subjected to analytical research for xenobiotic substances. Kidney, liver, lung, brain, skin, and sometimes small amounts of hair, have been collected during autopsy, …
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One degree removed : the last carnival of Venice
… death, leaving behind durable synthetic corpses. Products of our consumption tend to pile out of sight, contributing to cities and architectures of their own. The binary condition of masking our waste is essentially our embedded cultural flaw, whether through landfills or capped as parks, …
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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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Seawall
… a largely black crew whose duty is to recover corpses from the wreckage of the city. He meets several pivotal characters and eventually manages to escape into the custody of Henry James Moody, Jr., a wealthy businessman, who places him on retainer for future jobs. In the second section, Million …
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TransGothic Methods
… overlooked technology of gender-switching corpses. A historicist reading of these corpses allows the novel to divulge information about the effort that went into consolidating as natural a paradigm of binary sex and gender. More optimistically, this chapter also considers how gothic fiction …
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