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Critical studies in the Epistle to the Hebrews
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Rhetorical challenges: Critical studies in strategy, tactics, judgment and argument
… artifact and each essay has an independent critical purpose. Despite this diversity, the essays work together to promote rhetorical criticism as a means of political activism; the individual exercises in rhetorical criticism serve the overarching theme that the selection of a course of …
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Critical Studies in the 'Sontags Undt Feyrtags Sonnete' of Andreas Gryphius
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Le Naturalisme Zolien Dans Les Rougon-Macquart: Une Fatalite De La Sexualite
… I have looked back at previous critical studies that were dedicated to the themes of sexuality and/or fatality in Zola's writing. This introductory chapter helped me understand how far critics have gone and what a long way we still have to go before we can fully appreciate the …
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The Solo Piano Works of Henri Dutilleux: A Stylistic Analysis
<p>Henri Dutilleux (b. 1916) is critically acclaimed as one of France's preeminent composers of contemporary music. He is unique among contemporary French composers of the post-Second World War generation for his singular affiliation to the development of his own personal style, notably at the …
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LA SUPERFICIE DI MEZZO. L¿ECOSISTEMA DELLE INTERFACCE DIGITALI: UNA TASSONOMIA CRITICA
… philosophy, media archaeology and disability and critical studies to structure a critical taxonomy of the computer interface. The grand set computer interfaces constitute has been divided in three main ontological classes, each associated with a strong norm that defines all other categories in the …
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Malcolm Lowry's design-governing postures : a rhetorical analysis of Under the volcano
… and enigmatic book has spawned diverse critical analyses geared toward arriving at a single understanding of the novel; however, what too many of these works fail to take into account is the eclectic nature of Lowry's techniques as well as his themes. Hence, though we usually get a very …
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FASHIONABLE POLITICS The discursive construction of ethical consumerism in corporate communications, news media, and social media
… on the discourse-historical approach within critical discourse analysis, the study provides an empirical examination of discursive elements in corporate communications, newspapers, and social media, which construct the market as the best solution to social injustice and climate change. The …
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What's At Hand: Improvisation, Group Facilitation, and 'Agreement' Among Strangers
… and contemporary practice in the field of Critical Studies in Improvisation.
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Systemic Racism in Education: Perspectives of Teachers of Color
… racial and political barriers. Applying Critical Race Theory, critical studies of Whiteness and Microaggressions this study analyzes the experiences of Teachers of Color through their educational career. This research uses a qualitative methods approach with an emphasis on a …
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Digital Diaspora and (Re)mediating Black Women in Britain
… social constructionist underpinnings. Shaped by critical studies of marketing, media, race, and gender, this research addresses issues concerning identity, ideology and inclusion, amidst media and digital culture. This thesis analyses media-based coping mechanisms concerning experiences of …
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Representing Divorce, Reforming Interiority: Narratives of Gender, Class and Family in Post-Reform Chinese Literature and Culture
… of modern Chinese literature, post-socialist studies, cultural history of divorce, and critical studies about global middle-class cultures. Employing analytical tools mainly from literary studies, cultural studies and feminist theories, I examine stories, novels, films and TV dramas about …
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Politics of the temporary: migrant life in urban Malaysia
… a transnational sociological perspective and critical studies standpoint? In order to address these broad questions, I looked at the experience of temporary labor migration in Malaysia, following a period of field research in the country. My concern that the agency of migrants is increasingly …
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T.S. Eliot's Paradiso
… of Mr. Eliot have been the subject of many critical studies since their publication in 1943. Among other aspects of them which have been analyzed is their relationship to the Divine Comedy of Dante. In particular the influence of the Inferno and Purgatorio has been pointed out by such …
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Analysing organisational culture : a critical ethnography of public relations and personnel specialists in a state bureaucracy
… interests. In doing so, I suggest that more critical studies on organisational culture and symbolism have been comparatively neglected. Lamenting this neglect, I suggest that Giddens' theory of structuration can be employed to advance the development of a critical, emancipatory …
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Valuable bridges : cable-stayed bridges and value engineering in American civil engineering culture, 1969-1979
… civil construction projects' value, this thesis studies the significance of cable-stayed bridge designs to 'value engineering' objectives for major highway bridge projects of the 1970s. This study of preliminary designs and feasibility studies for highway bridges presents the alternate bridge …
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Community Transportation Acts Archive
… archiving, an archival approach based in critical studies that focuses on the records and stories of individuals and groups with underrepresented perspectives in existing historical narratives. Reparative archiving draws from Black studies, Indigenous studies, queer studies, etc. and …
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'God Does Not Regard Your Forms': Gender and Literary Representation in the Works of Farīd al-Dīn 'Aṭṭār Nīshāpūrī
Studies on gender in medieval and modern Sufism have tended to posit two extremes: Sufism as an oasis for women, away from the strictures of ‘orthodoxy,’ or Sufism as a haven for misogynistic views of women as temptations, distractions, and necessary evils. However, these simplistic …
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