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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Critical theories"”.
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Critical Symmetry: William Blake's Influence on the Critical Theories of Northrop Frye
… Blake's poetry, criticism, and thought on Frye's critical theories as expounded in Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1957) and subsequent works. Two generations of scholars have read Blake through Frye in an effort to understand Blakes's prophetic poetry. This thesis concludes that scholars who …
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A career as a social entrepreneur: exploring social enterprise through institutional and critical theories
… considerable traction and public interest. This critical commentary explores a selection of the public works which I have produced over twenty years as a social entrepreneur, beginning with a seminal, older work which still remains very active in the public domain and which has influenced the …
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A Bohemian comes to Harlem : the literary career and critical theories of Wallace Thurman.
… the necessity for the application of sound critical principles to creativity. Thurman's criticism, which is regarded more as a set of ideals than explicit principles of art, was aimed at the black artist who had been lulled into accepting mediocrity by the reading public's faddish interest …
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Global Voices: A Student-Centered Guide to Teaching English as an International Language
… in today’s interconnected, dynamic world. Critical theories and approaches such as critical pedagogy, critical literacy, and the participatory approach can help identify this problem and offer solutions, yet little has been done to apply and translate these theories into practical, useable …
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Improving Higher Education Attainment Among African American Women
… female counterparts. While this study reviewed critical theories that detail the educational challenges for African American female students, the study also interviewed women who experienced success in higher education attainment. This combined review illustrates strategies that break patterns …
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Digital diorama
… with digital video on a personal computer. Critical theories of the late twentieth century are used to illustrate the change of vision from classical to modern and present a framework for understanding the potentials of digital technology.
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Re-Appropriation of Patriarchal Female Myths in the Short Fiction of Luisa Valenzuela
… Red Riding Hood."" I present a brief review of critical theories concluding with a feminist interpretation of this classic tale, establishing that the classical versions were misogynistic and repressed female sexuality. My reading of Valenzuela's story reveals that she has created a female quest …
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The potential of America's Army, the video game as civilian-military public sphere
… Information Age, as assessed through Habermasian theories of democratic communication. Interview fieldwork was carried out in several America's Army game communities including those of real-life military personnel, Christian Evangelicals, and hackers. The political activities of these exceptional …
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Translation of poetry as homicide, with reference to Anna Akhmatova's 'Last toast'
… objective of this dissertation is to provide a critical examination of poetry translation, using as a framework the notion that translation of poetry is comparable to an act of murder or homicide. Constructs pertaining to detective fiction are used as a basis to expose critical theories and …
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Fall Line: a work in progress
An experimental novel, based on the critical theories of Jacques Lacan and Helena Cixous, which explores the exclusion of women from the cultural ideal, and their redefinition as cultural "others" in Western American Society. The novel incorporates three separate narratives: two first person …
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com-posing abolitionist≠posthumanism: notes on incommensurability, incomputability and incognita syn-aesthetics
… figure abolitionist≠posthumanism. Working para-critically to consider textures, postulations and challenges posed by decolonial thought, Indigenous critical theories, Black studies, critical race feminisms, non-philosophy and theories on digitality, i pose incommensurability, incomputability and …
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The Ill Which Remains Within: Exploring the Limits of Hope as a Philosophical Basis for Education
Being particularly at home in critical theories of education, hope is invoked widely by theorists to render bearable perspectives of the politics and practices of education which leave the reader with little reason for optimism in education. Despite much knowledge from critical pedagogues and …
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Navigating Postmodernism & Critical Theory in Family Therapy
<p>Postmodern and critical theories have become important theoretical paradigms encouraging therapists to honor diversity and combat oppressive social structures and practices. However, at times, these two paradigms have been thought to position therapists in contradictory ways, with critical …
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The Clemente Course in the Humanities and critical pedagogy : a comparative analysis of Earl Shorris and bell hooks on poverty, racism, imperialism and patriarchy
… the USA. The course potentially conflicts with critical pedagogy because the critical theories of Paulo Freire and contemporary cultural studies reject traditional notions of both the canon and teaching. However, a comparison between Shorris' and bell hooks' theories of oppression reveals …
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The scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy in 2+1 dimensional critical systems
The entanglement entropy in 1+1 dimensional critical system has been well studied and known to have a universal scaling form that gives information about the underlying critical system. While the case for 1+1 dimensional critical systems has been well studied, the situation in higher dimensional …
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“We need to save civilization first”: examining the role of cyberlibertarian design in the disinformation culture of Reddit’s /r/The_Donald
… in both science and technology studies and critical theories of the media. To that end, the dissertation examines the form and content of the subreddit, beginning from its inception in 2015, and culminating with the apex of its prominence in the public consciousness during 2017’s Unite the …
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Televisual sports videogames
… reference point for players. This thesis takes a critical look at how these televisual sports videogames are situated in the broader sports media industrial complex of North America, while also considering how the televisual design of these games is meaningful for fans of sports. Specifically, the …
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A Genealogy Of Ecological Rhetoric: Heraclitus, Bacon, Darwin And Huxley
… thought, I examine how their rhetorical theories and strategies (as discursive practices, performances and techniques) form a genealogy that bridges rhetorical and ecological theories and practices. My analysis studies their critical assessments and uses of rhetoric as it intersects with …
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Gender equality in building a democratic society for a sustainable future in Tajikistan
… any given society. This study uses feminist and critical theories throughout the paper and connects it with democracy and sustainability. It uses other research done on gender issues in Tajikistan and uses other media sources to give a fuller picture of this issue in Tajik culture. As a result, …
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Technotropes of liberation: Reading hypertext in the age of theory
… writing practices in relation to contemporary critical theories of postmodernism, writing and response and feminism. Hypertext, a powerful computer technology, allows the non-linear linking of texts and information into a web-like structure. On the surface, this structure resembles …
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