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Showing 1 to 20 of 260 for “"Fascination"”.
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The fascination of evil: mental malpractice in Shakespearean tragedy
… this thesis offers a study of the phenomenon of fascination as it was understood in early modern England—specifically in its relation to magic, demonology and witchcraft. It examines fascination’s place within cultural traditions, and its operation within perception theory and the …
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Absent meaning: Fascination, narrative, and trauma in the Holocaust imaginary
… dissertation demonstrates how a use of the term "fascination" has shaped contemporary understandings of how the Holocaust should and should not be represented and remembered. My argument is that despite its pervasive and influential usage in the discourse of Holocaust representation, no critical …
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Fear and Fascination: A Study of Thomas Hardy and the New Woman
The tragic outcomes of most of his fictional heroines have led many to accuse Thomas Hardy of being a misogynist, harshly punishing women for their open defiance of Victorian social expectations. However, by writing about sexually-charged issues at a time when subjects such as premarital sex, rape, …
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Manufacturing muscle : the hot rod industry and the American fascination with speed, 1915-1984
This dissertation focuses on the pursuits of a particular subset of automobile users: hot rodders, those who modify their standard production automobiles for improved performance. More specifically, this project examines the history of the speed equipment industry - the aftermarket subsector which …
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Bombs, Bikinis, and Godzilla: America's Fear and Fascination of the Atomic Bomb as Evidenced Through Popular Media, 1946-1962.
<p>This project aims to illustrate the change in emotions white, middle class Americans experienced towards the atomic bomb during the nineteen forties to early nineteen sixties by examining the popular culture that they produced and consumed. These Americans described the bomb as being an object …
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The fascination of the 'Islamic State': Perceived iInjustice and crises of identity - why German citizens join the extremist organization
Throughout the Syrian conflict, a new extremist organization became increasingly visible to the public due its use of extreme violence and continuous threats to the entire world living outside of it. The self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) attracted the highest number of …
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Use of Plant Growth Regulators to Increase Branching of Clematis Spp.
… the use of Atrimmec (dikegulac sodium), Fascination (BA+GA4+7), Florel (ethephon), and Dropp 50 (thidiazuron) on Clematis cultivars Ernest Markham, and Hagley Hybrid, and Clematis viticella 'Polish Spirit.' Plants treated with 800 mg·L-1 Atrimmec, or 800 or 1200 mg·L-1 Fascination …
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Le regard fasciné des écrivains français sur l'Allemagne (XIX et XX siècles)
… travail de prouver une constance des points de fascination pour l'Allemagne chez les écrivains francais du XIX et du XX siècles. Nous traitons de la fascination (hypnose) nazie dans une chapitre à part car cette histoire est un tabou en France comme en Allemagne.
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Bramble and Knife
… the natural world around me, and this led to my fascination with animals and extinction, both of which manifested in my poetry. As I struggled with the residual effects of toxic relationships, as well as the bleak romantic landscape of the UP, I saw my own body reflected in the bodies of animals. …
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Maurice Ravel and Exoticism. A study of the exotic in he vocal works of Maurice Ravel with special reference to L'Enfant et les sortileges and the Trois Chansons Madecasses
The fascination for things exotic or fairytale-like occupied Ravel throughout his entre life. In fact, one can safely assume that these fascinations may have prevented him from forming some sort of mental inertia in those difficult years for him following the First World War. On writing about his …
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Ruby's Eyes, a Novel Excerpt
… family, her struggle with her identity and her fascination with her house. The focus will gradually shift from present to past as Ruby travels back in time and meets her great-grandparents. In this past world, Ruby will make discoveries that help her come to terms with her place in her family.
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Proyecto de producción transmedia "Parto Contemporáneo" a partir del poemario "Parto"
… and visceral aesthetic that the rejection and fascination with the human body is projected to promote reflection and questioning about the process of defining identity.
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Secure the Shadow
… The collection is linked by a meta-fictional fascination with the act of storytelling -- the liminal psychological space between the real and unreal, fantasy and delusion, seen and unseen, predator and prey. The collection also maps the topography of loss -- it explores what it means, and how …
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Inanimating Matter: The Aesthetics of Putrefaction in Early Modern English Literature, 1580-1660
… early modern interiority, I place the period’s fascination with processes of organic decay in the context of broader epistemological concerns about the relationship between outward form and interiority in this period; the body’s internal processes of dissolution, manifested especially vividly in …
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Measuring Affective Responses to Different Types of Nature Exposure
… nature preference for the restorative element of fascination showed that individuals who preferred a specific type of nature scene were in turn more fascinated when viewing the scene they preferred. Implications for these results suggest that people who are more closely related to nature …
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Oh, My Stars: A New Map of the Universe in Paradise Lost
… Lost</em> are heavily influenced by his fascination with maps. Furthermore, his design of the universe in <em>Paradise Lost</em> follows a cartographic style that has led to several attempts at mapping it. These attempts, however, have followed the erroneous assumption that Earth centers …
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Pascal Quignard; une poétique de l'image
… croisement entre l’image et la littérature et la fascination produite par l’image. Chaque œuvre présentée au cours de ce projet se concentre sur différentes formes d’images : la peinture nous intéresse principalement, mais l’auteur traite aussi des gravures et des sculptures. Nous avons dû …
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The female fatale archetype in elechi amadi's the concubine and ferdinand oyono's hosueboy
… and therefore has power over him. Toundi has a fascination for this older yet attractive, sexually active white woman who cheats on her husband, and this fatal attraction and fascination stem from his childhood experiences.
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The female fatale archetype in elechi amadi's the concubine and ferdinand oyono's hosueboy
… and therefore has power over him. Toundi has a fascination for this older yet attractive, sexually active white woman who cheats on her husband, and this fatal attraction and fascination stem from his childhood experiences.
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Solo angel roles in vocal music : tracing the use of angel roles from 1600 to the present
… the religious and social climate of the era. The fascination with the spiritual and supernatural during the baroque era, as well as the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, affected the amount of angel solo roles. In the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many began to question traditional …
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