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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Cultural references"”.
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A phallic play: Examining 5<sup>th</sup> century cultural references to illuminate aristophanes' appeal for peace to a modern audience
… males to end the Peloponnesian War. By exploring cultural references to symbols in <em>Lysistrata</em>, mainly the phallus, this article seeks to convey the vehemence with which Aristophanes was advocating for an end of the Peloponnesian war and to demonstrate to theatre practitioners that …
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Living on an horizon : the writings of Bessie Head
… and feminist theories and on the variety of cultural references that Head acknowledges and that her writing evokes. Postcolonial perspectives are used to confront Head's attention to the discursive foundations of social fictions, relations and identities. Postcolonial theories also shed light …
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Challenges and strategies of subtitling humour : a case study of the American sitcom Seinfeld, with particular reference to English and Arabic
… to solve the technical, linguistic and cultural problems of translating humour in Seinfeld, and it uncovers the factors that might have affected the subtitlers’ decisions. The study draws on the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH; Attardo & Raskin 1991, Attardo 1994, Attardo 2001, …
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It Will Come Like a Wave
… material reverence, dream-likeness and subtle cultural references. The exhibition It Will Come Like a Wave is the result of my MFA in Visual Arts thesis research. Per the installation conceiving of moments of water dripping and pooling, plant life emerging from the seams and earthy formations …
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„Wild Democracy” – The figurative conceptualization of the Parliament in Hungarian editorial cartoons (1989 – 2019)
… cognitive devices cooperate with ironies and cultural references (such as idioms, allusions, and national symbols) which are determinant in evaluation procedures and the creation of emotional bonds between the viewer and the cartoon. In doing so, the dissertation studies the caricaturistic …
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Travessias: Centro de formação e referências culturais de Santo Amaro do Sul / RS
… the Santo Amaro do Sul Center for Training and Cultural References, focused on community-based tourism, with the goal of promoting social transformation and enhancing the value of cultural heritage.
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Higher Than God
… also relies heavily upon a myriad range of pop-cultural references, primarily rock n’ roll music, video game culture, and Hollywood movies. The end result is a totality of intra-textual meaning, as well as a bittersweet portrait and psychological examination of the protagonist.
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'Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction': Black Women in American Literature of the *South
… the ""South"" and what ""southernness"" mean as cultural references without looking at how black women have contributed to and contested any unified definition of that region. I focus on the late nineteenth century, a period of intense regional conflict when southern blacks witnessed the …
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Explorations of collective form--a design vocabulary using directional village forms as references
… a vocabulary based on the analysis of a group of references; directional village forms, which are considered to be examples of collective form. In outlining this vocabulary, a discussion of values, intentions, and ways of analyzing form are seen as necessary task in establishing a basis for the …
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An Exploration of Meaning-Making and Engagement with Multimodal Texts Involving 14-15-Year-Old Students in a Virtual Reading Group
… St. Lucian dialect and other linguistic and cultural resources to articulate the depth of their convictions. Using their connections, the students critically analysed mainstream St Lucian conceptualisation of colourism and provided expanded perspectives on other themes. In constructing …
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Cyber-Narrative in Opera: Three Case Studies
… voice and musical elements in conjunction with cultural references within the libretti, visual design choices in the productions, and directorial decisions in the evolution of each work. I theorize the expressive power of the operatic medium in dramatizing and personifying new forms of …
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Fog Tropes: A social and cultural history of the foghorn
… nature writing, theoretical analysis and cultural references to address the significance of the historical, geographical, social and meteorological contexts in which the foghorn sounds. Original archival material and first person writing derived from site visits is used to explore the way …
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Understanding Corporate Social Responsibility and the Case of Small and Medium Enterprises in a Kazakh Context
… and institutional architecture to common cultural references and social norms. Simultaneously, transformations in business and economic relations at the global level have produced a growth in discourse on CSR, particularly in developing countries. These systemic changes and international …
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The Post-Colonial Noble Savage: A Study of Witi Ihimaera's Fiction
… complexity. In revealing the presence of western cultural references and literary traditions in Ihimaera’s fiction, the thesis does not aim to undermine the uniqueness of Māori literature. Rather, it suggests that these cross-cultural encounters and literary borrowings have produced rich and …
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Decolonizing the Mind with Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and Chinua Achebe: Searching for a Voice in Postcolonial African Literature
… complement these broad affinities with specific cultural references and historic contexts. This paper attempts to delineate some of the common struggles facing postcolonial African peoples by focusing on the specific writings of Kenya’s Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe. Though they …
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Performance, Photography, Performativity: What performance 'does' in the still image
… academic discourse as a social, political or cultural ‘doing’ and questions what, apart from performing, performance ‘does’ in its transcription to a photographic image. I propose a ‘doing’ occurs because the intentional performance of a given act invokes the power of citation, in turn setting …
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Sandra Cisneros as Chicana Storyteller: Fictional Family (Hi)Stories in Caramelo
… as women in their own male-dominated cultural community. Both elements have contributed to the cultural silencing of Chicanas outside of domestic spaces, and particularly in historical discourse. Cisneros introduces storytelling as a means of empowering Chicanas through language that …
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Hyperspatial Interlace - Grasping Four-dimensional Geometry through Crafted Models
… came from the field of descriptive geometry. The cultural references in the history of hyperspace, such as interpretations in spiritualism and science fiction, served as a poetic inspiration in designing the models. As the results of my research, I present five concepts for physical models, each …
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The Treaty of Waitangi and Asian Immigrants in Aotearoa: A Reflective Journey
… undisturbed possession of natural and cultural resources, and citizenship. However, these commitments were reneged upon and were largely discarded over the next century, including devastating confiscations of land and other natural resources, undignified treatment of Māori culture and …
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Between Selves and Others: Exploring Strategic Approaches within Visual Art
… other American and European artists of various cultural backgrounds. A further aim is to explore the artistic strategies and the historical circumstances of the works as well as to understand the theoretical correlations. The author of this study is a visual artist who has been exploring similar …
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