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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Dekker"”.
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Plague, print and providence in early seventeenth century London.
… whether and how the plague pamphlets of Thomas Dekker demonstrate understanding of divine providence, and, by comparison with other contemporary plague writing, what can be learned of religious attitudes in early seventeenth century London. Historians have come to characterise religion in …
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"From an old country to a new " : opposing worlds and narrative traditions in Willa Cather's : My Ántonia
… cultural differences in the novel. Using George Dekker’s The American Historical Romance as my framework, I identify two prevailing cultures in Cather’s novel—progressive culture and traditional culture—and suggest that the narrative and the narrator wavers between them. As traditional culture is …
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The discourse of witchcraft in Jacobean drama : a case study of Elizabeth Sawyer
… of Edmonton, escrita por William Rowley, Thomas Dekker y John Ford, se analizará como pierde su identidad para convertirse en la "bruja", un elemento subversivo que los mecanismo de control dentro del discurso oficial se encargarán de demonizar.
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The Economics of Gender Relations in London City Comedy
… in three London city comedies—Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Dekker and Thomas Middleton’s The Roaring Girl, and Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside— to reveal men’s commodification of women as a defining feature of the genre. By charting the ways in which the men of these …
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Eficiência técnica e financeira em terminais de contêineres brasileiros
… do comércio mundial (VAN ASPEREN, BORGMAN e DEKKER, 2013; SMITH et al., 2015). No contexto brasileiro, a movimentação portuária cresceu mais de 15% entre 2010 e 2014 (ANTAQ, 2015). Dentro da estrutura portuária, destacam-se os terminais de contêineres que desempenham um papel central na …
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Displacing Desires in Early Modern Drama
… women in the Hic Mulier pamphlet and Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl exemplify the Lacanian signifying operation of totalization and exception, of ""all"" and ""not-all,"" which at once establishes sexual difference and renders structurally impossible the sexual relation. The …
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Framework For Cost Modeling A Supply Chain
… chain cost management and optimization, though Dekker and Goor (2000) said that the goal was to develop a model that would allow direct comparison of specific activities between firms, such as warehousing activities costs. There was no indication in the literature of a cost model that can …
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'Morbid Exhilarations': Dying Words in Early Modern English Drama
… playwrights, including George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, John Fletcher, Thomas Kyd, Gervase Markham, John Marston, Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, William Sampson, and Robert Yarington. Chronologically, the scenes span nearly four decades, from Marlowe’s Tamburlaine plays in …
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The rise of female testimony on the early modern stage
… Edmonton (1621), exploring how John Ford, Thomas Dekker and William Rowley challenge audiences to reflect upon the credibility of accounts offered in popular literature – and, in so doing, to reflect more generally on problems of narrative reliability. Throughout the thesis, I explore these plays’ …
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Competing to succeed: Monarchy and succession in English history plays and tracts, 1559-1607
… VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (1589-1592) and Thomas Dekker and John Webster’s The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1607) demonstrates how, by representing history onstage, these plays graphically stage crises of legitimacy. By representing the weakness of kings, the power of queens, the inadequacy …
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Wifely Figures: Gender, Marriage, and Biblical Typology in Early Modern England
… </p> <p>My first chapter argues that Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton’s The Roaring Girl (1611) figures its titular character, Moll Cutpurse, as a secular prophet whose perpetual maidenhood, coupled with her prophetic speech, challenges the typological assumption that marriage advances …
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Phylogenetic Tree Inferences Using Quartet Splits
… Methods for Derivation Trees}}, Dekker showed that for any $r$, there are $r$-ary inferences that can be made from a set of $r$ quartet splits but cannot be made from fewer. We present an independent recreation of a portion of Dekker's work by giving an exhaustive list of all …
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Sacrificial Acts: Martyrdom and Nationhood in Seventeenth-Century Drama
… legends, I consider how playwrights like Thomas Dekker and Phillip Massinger highlight the expediency of narratives of passivity in defining the subject-ruler relationship. In chapter 3, I focus on Caroline debates about anatomical and metaphysical inwardness to argue that martyrologies provide a …
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Remote Sensing of Cyanobacteria in Case II Waters Using Optically Active Pigments, Chlorophyll a and Phycocyanin
… et al. (1986, 1994), Mittenzwey et al. (1991), Dekker (1993), and Schalles et al. (1998), were applied using a combined dataset divided into a calibration and validation set. Modified semi-empirical algorithms by Simis et al. (2005) were applied to all field spectra to predict phycocyanin …
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Impact of agronomical and technological factors and the oxidative protection of the matrix on polysulfide formation and atypical ageing in wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage which has been important in human nutrition for centuries. Oenological research is expanding, focusing on different aspects, including sensory science, wine technology and wine chemistry. The latter aims to gain more understanding of the chemical processes involved in …
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Familial colorectal cancer 2.0. Implementation of guidelines on familial and hereditary colorectal cancer
Contains fulltext : 118430.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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