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Showing 1 to 20 of 275 for “"Figurative"”.
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Figurative Sculpture in Paper Clay.
… her return to organic, gestural work. Works are figurative, ceramic, sculpture, made of paper clay, ranging from 8-inch, wall mounted, bas-relief to life sized, full round figures. Most are slab constructed, unglazed or lightly glazed with soda wash.</p> <p>Topics discussed: the artist's …
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Figurative Devices in "Mansield Park"
<p>Abstract not available</p>
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Oblique Strategies: Queer Opacity in Figurative Painting
… explores concealment as a queer strategy in figurative painting. The studio research consists of a body of paintings in which discernible pictorial and conceptual veils hide queer desire in plain view. It is underpinned by critical theory that proposes opacity as an alternative to absolute …
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Oblique Strategies: Queer Opacity in Figurative Painting
… explores concealment as a queer strategy in figurative painting. The studio research consists of a body of paintings in which discernible pictorial and conceptual veils hide queer desire in plain view. It is underpinned by critical theory that proposes opacity as an alternative to absolute …
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Marking Time: a Figurative Humanist Approach to Drawing.
… nature of my drawings and claim my role as a figurative humanist. Through drawing, I explore the emotive qualities of my own form. Rather than depicting actual spaces, I place myself in psychological spaces that reflect specific moods. Chiaroscuro creates an altered reality where visual …
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Allusions of grandeur : figurative language use in rap lyrics
This dissertation examines allusions among a corpus of rap lyrics to find their uses and functions. The functions of the allusions, as defined by Leppihalme, 1997, of interest are the puzzle (to identify someone with similar social knowledge), humor, to indicate cultural breadth, and …
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Deconstruction's Place in Western Thought: Philosophic and Figurative Language
… relationship between the literal and figurative levels of the text. The history of the uneasy relationship between the literal and figurative levels of Western texts is perhaps best understood in terms of the curricular battles which began with Plato’s proposed program of educational …
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CONTEXT EFFECTS IN THE COMPREHENSION AND PRODUCTION OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
… of familiar proverbs following either a figurative discourse context or one of two literal contexts. Materials from Ferretti, Schwint and Katz (2007) were adapted for a cloze task. Data were collected for 42 proverbs from 240 participants. Booklets presented a series of context paragraphs …
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When Facts Become Figures: Figurative Dynamics in Youth Holocaust Literature
This thesis traces the fluctuations of figurative language and imagery in youth literature, illustrating how the Holocaust has been and continues to be represented and manipulated. Youth Holocaust literature, often a young person’s first introduction to the events of the Nazi genocide, exposes the …
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Abstract and figurative elements of the Apocalypse and its representations
… leadmg to a number of ideas of the abstract and figurative. In Chapter Four, I discuss the Works of Art produced as the major outcome of this project, in terms of process, content and interaction with The Book of Revelation.
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The figurative use of "son(s) of" in the New Testament
… Seminary, 2016 Chair: Dr. William F. Cook The figurative use of "son(s) of" phrases in the NT represents the author employing the father-son relationship, and what this relationship represents in the ancient world, as a tool to illustrate and explain various concepts and ideas in NT thought. As …
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An analysis of figurative language and insight in two supervision sessions
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1986 W54
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Comprehension and recall of figurative language by nonnative speakers of English
… attempted to extend some of the findings in figurative language research over the past 10-15 years to a population not often tested in this area before, nonnative speakers of English. Most metaphor researchers in psycholinguistics have come to believe that nonliteral language is a vital …
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The comprehension of figurative language : electrophysiological evidence on the processing of irony
Diese Dissertation untersucht das Verstehen figurativer Sprache, im Besonderen die zeitliche Verarbeitung von verbaler Ironie. In sechs Experimenten wurde mittels ereignis-korrelierter Potentiale (EKP) die Gehirnaktivität beim Verstehen ironischer Äußerungen im Vergleich zu entsprechenden …
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Figurative Constructivism, Pictorial Statistics, and the Group of Progressive Artists, c. 1920-1939
… mode, later classified under the rubric "figurative constructivism." While these "free" works (as they often described them) were produced independent of the applied work at the museum, the two types of production share several key stylistic and iconographic features. Yet, the relationship …
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The Use of Figurative Devices in Aiding Comprehension for Speakers of Black English
… of black and white children, is the use of figurative language.
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The Comprehension of Some Aspects of Figurative Language by Deaf and Hearing Subjects
… investigate the comprehension of some aspects of figurative language by deaf subjects and to compare their performances with those of hearing subjects. Three groups of deaf children and one group of hearing children were tested. Each group contained 25 children. Each hearing subject studied had an …
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„Wild Democracy” – The figurative conceptualization of the Parliament in Hungarian editorial cartoons (1989 – 2019)
… meaning of the ‘building’, we refer to its figurative meanings. It has already been confirmed that political cartoons are rich in figurative devices (e.g., conceptual metaphor) (i.a. El Refaie, 2009) and they serve as a suitable corpus for the investigation of the figurative meaning of the …
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Animating observed emotional behaviour: a practice-based investigation comparing three approaches to self-figurative animation
This research explores different animation approaches to rendering observed emotional behaviour, through the creation of an animated artefact. It opens with an introduction to the research and the methodology chosen before progressing to a review of academic and practitioner-based literature …
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