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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Critical Responses"”.
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Fragile fantasy: Photography and critical responses to 3D video game images
This practice-led research project examines how the 3D video game image is constructed and understood within photographic frameworks. Through artistic practice and scholarly research, this project unpacks the ways that computer-generated and photographic images are interrelated, how their processes …
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Millais’ Modern Christ: Religion and Critical Responses to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Nineteenth Century England
<p>This thesis explores how the press reviewed Pre-Raphaelite paintings in the years 1849 and 1850 with a partial review of 1851. In particular, the focus is on the controversial painting Christ in the House of his Parents by John Everett Millais. This painting became a physical symbol of the many …
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Richard Seifert, Denys Lasdun & the Power of the Press: Critical Responses to the Architects' Building & Their Reputational Impact
This thesis focuses on critical reactions to the work of post-war British brutalist architects Richard Seifert and Denys Lasdun within the media, particularly architectural journals and national newspapers. The impact of such commentary upon the architects’ reputations is considered in detail, with …
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...In the Realms of Art: A Conceptual Inquiry of the Genesis of the Work of Art
… exemplify and draw from the reader the kinds of critical responses I theorize about."
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A performance history of Sir Thomas More
… in relation to the necessary subjectivity of critical responses to unique performances.
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Eve Disordered: The Relationship of Feminine Happiness and Hierarchy in Paradise Lost
… the poem has not always been reflected in critical responses.</p>
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A Generic Approach To Confederation Romanticism
… Campbell Scott, has yet to receive the close critical attention that it deserves. A study of the often-noted but never thoroughly-examined influence of the English Romantics on these poets, this dissertation is organized in terms of the genres that best reflect both the Romantic influence and …
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Numerical modeling of roughness-induced dynamic tire loading on flexible pavements
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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The Materiality of Text and Body in Painting and Darkroom Processes: An Investigation through Practice
… with historical research into artistic and critical responses to Helen Frankenthaler's painting, Mountains and Sea, I argue that unacknowledged male desire distorted and consequently marginalised reception of her work. I then work with the painting processes innovated by Frankenthaler and …
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Absent meaning: Fascination, narrative, and trauma in the Holocaust imaginary
… of the Holocaust and Nazism along with critical responses to these representations, the dissertation demonstrates how a use of the term "fascination" has shaped contemporary understandings of how the Holocaust should and should not be represented and remembered. My argument is that …
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The relationship between technology and the body in Muriel Rukeyser's poetry
… thought. In addition, my thesis discusses some critical responses to Rukeyser‟s poetry and philosophy of art. The theories that form the basis of my study are Rukeyser‟s idea of relational form and Julia Kristeva‟s theory of the <em>chora</em> stage. My study reveals how Rukeyser conceived of …
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Independent Visions of Marginal America: Reimagining a Nation Through Outsiders, Searching, and Non-Arrival
<p>This thesis explores critical responses to American-ness, American identity, and most significantly American myth, in independent films about America in cultural terms, and their attempts to deconstruct the myths of nation and culture. The independent films about America analyzed in this thesis …
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'All Other Faculties Must Be Silent': Victorian Motherhood and the Divided Female Self
… and Poet."" Viewed in the context of the critical responses to her political poetry, this poem demonstrates the intrinsic incompatibility between a woman's identity as purveyor of cultural values to her children, and her physical, biological involvement in bearing and raising children. …
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Lecrae and the Differing Perceptions Among American Protestants of the Causes of Disparate Racial Experiences
… memoirs, op-eds, social media engagement, and critical responses to his engagement. The findings of this case study advance the argument that disparate racial stratification beliefs were a key feature of racial alienation experienced by White evangelical Protestants and Black Protestants in the …
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From whodunnits to literary fiction: The charting of an author’s transition from crime writer to literary novelist
… publishers’ decisions, reader expectations and critical responses. Part One assesses and theorises some problems of genre by means of an exploration of the terms ‘crime fiction’ and ‘literary fiction’. Focusing on the perceived conventions and boundaries of the two genres and some important …
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Children of men: the American jeremiad in twentieth and twenty-first century science fiction and film
… texts and, subsequently, in films that serve as critical responses to earlier attempts at foreclosing dissent.
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Girls of the Period Women Critics and Constructions of the Feminine in the Mid-Victorian Novel.
… of women writers. The notion of a feminine critical discourse about gender is a familiar one. There has been academic interest in the reactions of reviewers such as Margaret Oliphant and Geraldine Jewsbury to images of the feminine in sensation novels, but no study exists that brings …
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Censoring allegorical texts: interpreting Orwell and Miller
… of the texts and their authors, and to critical responses and reviews which act as examples of literary interpretations. Close readings (selected on the basis of recurrence in discussions of the texts) are used to understand the elements of pre-existing knowledge required of readers to …
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Evaluation of asphalt stabilized layer equivalency factors for use in airfield flexible pavement design
… aircraft gear load. Load induced pavement critical responses were obtained using BISAR 3.0 and GT Pave. Analyzing these critical response magnitudes, the adequacy of established asphalt stabilized material factors can be determined and recommendations for more appropriate, yet still …
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Jezebel's Daughters: A Study of Wilkie Collins and His Female Villains
… of other contemporary feminist ideas and the critical responses his works received.
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