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Showing 1 to 20 of 241 for “"Fictions"”.
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REALISM ABOUT IMPOSSIBLE FICTIONS
… arguments for the rejection of such impossible fictions, as well as attempts to account for them within a possibilist framework, but I argue that these are unsatisfactory. If I am right, this seems to call for the development of a hyperintensional semantics for fiction and imagination.
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Further fictions in print
Further Fictions mediates a particular visual system - that of the screen. I have tried to unravel and grant materiality to this contemporary virtual coding of images using a process of translation: by evoking the inherent nature of the cinematic image in the medium of print.We live in an analogue …
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A lover's discourse : fictions
… proposing (1) that these realities are in fact fictions (2) that can be contested by creating new fictions through cultural practice. The arguments, challenges and defenses happen in public through observations and readings. The corpus of this thesis is the manuscript of a novel written between …
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Truth in (Impossible) Fictions
… fiction that better handles truth in impossible fictions than the standard Lewisean account. Lewis' solution makes use of possible worlds to capture truths unstated but implied by the fiction. In order to improve upon this account I categorize a number of impossible fictions by the difficulties …
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Reading Houellebecq And His Fictions
… My first chapter, Reading Houellebecq and his fictions, explores the evolutions in the author’s public presentation that render personalist readings of his work particularly problematic. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 Houellebecq’s Islamophobic, Misogynistic and Racist Character(s) reveal attenuating …
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Postwar British Fictions of Inhabitation
… between the two forms. Rather, both house fictions. For Smithson, the writing of books and the planning of buildings was both a way of being in the world and a way of taking it apart and putting it back together. The question of where to dwell, and the search for an ideal location where the …
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Invisible Cities: Photographic Fictions of Architecture
<p>The artist's process in which she examines the built environment through the medium of black and white photography. By tracing the trajectory of her awareness of architecture from her early career as a dancer, to the making of photographic images, the artist illuminates the process of …
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Beyond painting : Carlo Crivelli’s celestial fictions
In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the work of Carlo Crivelli (c.1430/5- 94/5) among historians of early modern art. With his combination of traditional techniques, such as the gold ground, and witty effects of pictorial illusion, Crivelli’s work makes an effective case study for …
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Patterns of patriarchy in men's fictions
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1988.
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Aural fictions: Sound in African American literature
This dissertation explores the importance of representations of sound in the African American literary tradition. Beginning with Frederick Douglass's descriptions of the slave songs and working through depictions of jazz in the early moments of the Civil Rights movement, I show that the aural …
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Military fictions: Stories about soldiers, 1914-1930
… a message of wars futility. These and later fictions tell us as much about the times in which they are written as about the War itself. There is more to Great War fiction than, for example, the narrow selection found on current educational syllabuses.
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Fictions of Female Voices in Hellenistic Poetry
… voices in Hellenistic Poetry. It argues that fictions of female voices in Greek literature produced in this period assume unprecedented importance. Fictions of female voices of course appear within these poems in the form of character voices. They also, however, structure crucial elements of …
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Convenient fictions: the disciplining mechanisms of screenplay structure
<p>This thesis takes the recent increase in on-screen and behind-the-scenes representation in Hollywood film and televison as a launching point for a critique of the manner in which contemporary screenwriting paradigms discipline and control progressive representation. It is my contention that …
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Novel Speculations: Postrace Fictions in the 21st Century
<p>This project charts the emergence of a postrace aesthetic in American fiction. It examines how American novels respond to the pressures of what has been called the paradox of the postrace era: that our images and rhetoric portray a nation moving toward racial equality while our statistics …
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Deus ex Machina: Legal Fictions in Private Law
This PhD dissertation is about legal fictions in private law. A legal fiction, broadly, is a false assumption knowingly relied upon by the courts. The main aim of the dissertation is to formulate a test for which fictions should be accepted and which rejected. Subsidiary aims include a better …
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The ante-tempus narrative : fictions of medicine and prevention
… self-justifying, persuasive, and ‘speculative’ fictions that they create, through the spectacle, and spectacularisation, of the future.
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Fictions of Authority: The Normativity of Representation after Shakespeare
… precede and surpass us. Our poetic and legal fictions can issue these calls only insofar as they figure what is at once before and beyond us, informing our mutual, conscientious commitments.</p>
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The festive wound : L'Anormâle and El Quemado : twin fictions
The Festive Wound is a pair of thematically related short novellas. Their theoretical underpinning is concerned with the interstices, or liminal moments, where polarities dissolve in inversions and admixtures of pat understandings. The Festive Wound can be construed as the paradoxical product of …
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Ingenious Devices: Engineering Fictions and American Technophilia, 1900--1940
The condition for the emergence of this fiction, paradoxically enough, was the widening cultural rift between scientists and non-scientists. Because few members of the general public understood the material they were appropriating, their educational experiences and social concerns largely …
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