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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"David Jones"”.
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Play Among the Ruins: David Jones, Meaning, and Play
In “Art in Relation to War,” David Jones makes a terse, but stimulating comment on art and the creative process: “An act of art is essentially a gratuitous act. [...] It is essentially ‘play.’” The aim of this dissertation is to examine Jones’s work in relation to the concept of playfulness. …
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Historiography in modern poetry: text, imagination and authority in the work of David Jones, Geoffrey Hill and Ian Duhig; and King Harold: a long poem in three parts
… poetry praxis. Through close readings of David Jones’ Anathemata, Geoffrey Hill’s Mercian Hymns and Ian Duhig’s The Speed of Dark, it explores how imaginative conceptions of poems relate to and are affected by their material presentations as texts. In so doing, there is a particular focus …
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Too (2): offerings of small environments
… work is succinctly expressed in a statement by David Jones, "There is no surrogate for being on the job." The designer must acknowledge the obligation not only to generate new ideas, but translate them into three dimensional realities.
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Pulling oneself together: power and character in British literature, 1914-1939
… most closely allied with high modernist style, David Jones resolves shell shock in his long poem In Parenthesis (1937) by translating his years of labor as a soldier into a highly formalized work of art, thereby transforming himself from animal laborans to homo faber. In a brief postscript, I …
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Better than the alternative? Epicurus and the harm of death.
This essay will defend Epicurus’ (341 – 270 BCE) view that death is not a harm to us.
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The competitive advantages of hydrogen fuel cells
This study sought to investigate the competitiveness of hydrogen fuel cells. It was driven by the researcher's interest in the subject and the growing need for energy security. The study combines qualitative and quantitative data from secondary sources like research articles, government …
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Trosolwg o’r traddodiadau am Elen Luyddog/Santes Helen yn yr Oesoedd Canol yng Nghymru
Erbyn heddiw, mae’n debyg ein bod yn cysylltu’r enw Elen/Helen â ffyrdd Rhufeinig Sarn Helen yn bennaf, ynghyd ag enwau lleoedd ac eglwysi yn ardal Caernarfon. Ond pwy, mewn gwirionedd, oedd Elen Luyddog, a sut y cafodd y traddodiadau amdani eu cysylltu â hanes Santes Helena yr honnir iddi …
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Three-Dimensional Digital Recording and Modelling Methodologies for Documentation and Reconstruction of the Newport Medieval Ship
The following thesis presents the three-dimensional digital documentation methods and modelling approaches used during the excavation and post-excavation research phases of the Newport Medieval Ship Project. The primary case study is the Newport Medieval Ship, a large clinker-built merchant vessel …
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Changing narratives of minority peoples' identities in Welsh and Basque film
This thesis discusses how changing narratives of Welsh and Basque identity have been represented in film. It builds on Higson’s (1989) notion of ‘heritage film’, and ideas derived from postcolonial theory to develop a threefold system of classification. It develops an argument that narratives of …
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Rethinking Infants’ Relationship with the Outdoor Environment. Reconfiguring Our Understanding of Agentic Assemblage Intra-Action and Place.
In the context of challenges posed by climate change, and the increased attention upon sustainable education, this thesis draws attention to the missing voices of both Infants and the-more-than-human-world. Through diffractive engagement this thesis stabilises binary thinking as it highlights the …
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The Road to 1944 - the history of the development of education in south and south west Wales in the lead up to the wartime Education Act, and its implementation in the years that followed
This thesis is principally concerned with the period between the two Education Acts of 1918 and 1944 and as such, builds on and contributes to the history of education in Wales. Although a number of studies1 have examined aspects of Welsh education there has not been a strong focus on its …
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Mesur y galw am addysg ol-16 trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg ymhlith disgyblion Blwyddyn 11 sydd yn astudio'r Gymraeg fel iaith gyntaf mewn tair ysgol uwchradd yng Ngheredigion.
Gosodir yr ymchwil o fewn cyd-destun agenda ieithyddol cenedlaethol Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru (LlCC) i greu cynnydd o 5% yn nifer y siaradwyr Cymraeg erbyn 2011, fel yr amlinellir mewn dogfennau megis Iaith Pawb: Cynllun Gweithredu Cenedlaethol ar gyfer Cymru Ddwyieithog (LlCC, 2003). I gyd-redeg …
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The development of the Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum and Mental Hospital
This thesis examines the establishment and development of the Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum (later Mental Hospital) in the context of provision generally in England and Wales. From the early nineteenth century there was increasing interest in dealing with the plight of people with a mental …
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A Comparative Study of the Societal Norms of Nineteenth Century Women in the Elite Tier of Society with Particular Reference to Sarah Vivian, Lady Charlotte Guest and Amy Dillwyn
The events of the nineteenth century brought societal upheaval to the norms of the social class structure which had existed largely unchanged in Britain for many centuries. Urbanisation due to the Industrial Revolution brought the working class together living in proximity, which had not been the …
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Becoming film noir : film noir adaptions of hard-boiled fiction, 1944-46
This thesis interrogates a number of issues that surround what critics have designated ‘film noir’ and its relationship to that branch of modern American literature identified as ‘hard- boiled fiction’. Thus, the main subject matter for the thesis consists of selected films noirs from 1944—46, and …
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The influence of religion on the survival of the Welsh language 1801-2011 : a tale of two centuries.
… and Society, pp. 23-33. 7 Ibid., p. 25. 8 R.O.Jones, ‘The Sociolinguistics of Welsh’ in M.J. Ball, ed. The Celtic Languages (New York and London, Routledge, reprinted 2000), p. 536. 9 Aitchison and Carter, Language, Economy and Society, p. 27. 10 Ibid., p. 27. 7 Science and free thinking was a …