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Queer Public Figures in Biopics
This work considers the impact of queer representation and queer visibility in the biopic genre, with a specific focus on the morality of artifice when representing the life story of a real figure. How does a figure’s representation impact their legacy, reputation, and the perception of queer …
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Milton's cryptic figures.
… Lost in terms of Milton's use of rhetorical figures, and while several have considered how Milton's Ramist logic text Artis Logicae may inform readings of his poetry and prose, no one yet has shown how rhetorical figures in his epic display crypsis, a mode of writing which strategically …
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Marlowe's Use of Rhetorical Figures
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Figures of Speech in English Poetry
43 leaves
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Figures of Speech in English Poetry
54 leaves
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Melancholy Figures: From Bosch to Titian
My project examines the pictorial and theoretical dimensions of the concept of melancholy as they were understood, expressed, and, most importantly, figured by Renaissance artists. By focusing on the figural pose traditionally associated with the melancholic state and humor, it presents a hitherto …
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Closely Interacting Figures in a Virtual Environment
Computer Animation is constantly extending the range of activities that virtual actors can perform. One of the areas almost untouched previously is performing arts, within which the requirements on motions are not easily fulfilled by most popular animation methods, although keyframing and motion …
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Arresting figures: Reading and theorizing Renaissance texts
This dissertation analyzes three Renaissance texts vis-a-vis critiques of the theories that enable some readings of those three texts. The Introduction to the dissertation offers a critique of Stephen Greenblatt's "cultural poetics" through a close reading of a passage from his Renaissance …
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Reaction to Stimulus Figures in Chimpanzee Drawings
… was contingent on the location of stimulus figures. Centroid locations significantly changed between stimulus type for all drawing categories and among participants for free choice and central figure drawings. Participants drew in the empty space opposite offset figure drawings. Findings …
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Robotics techniques for controlling computer animated figures
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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Locomotion of jointed figures over complex terrain
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1987.
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Partial Figures: Sound in Queer and Feminist Thought
… are thought. The dissertation’s title, “Partial Figures,” refers to its aims: not to exhaustively document the status of sound within discourses of sexual difference and dissidence, but rather to sketch how queer and feminist thought might draw on sound’s resources. The project is thus situated …
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Transatlantic Figures In Early Modern Spain (1550-1650)
… by three interconnected transatlantic literary figures to approach the new context of power relations, in the Iberian Peninsula, and how their literary production reflects these strategies. I study specifically the works of the chronicler Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, and playwrights Juan Ruiz de …
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Three Puritanical Stage Figures in the American Drama
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Figures and movements in seventeenth century conspiracy plays
… ""rationalist"" model. Among the epistemological figures undergoing a change in configuration were those of language, socioeconomic relationships and the perception of the physical world--three figures vital to conspirators who needed to communicate among themselves, who needed to form viable …
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Transgressive figures: Monsters and monstrosity in Flavian epic
This dissertation argues that the monsters in Statius’ Thebaid and Silius’ Punica both embody and reproduce dynamics of Flavian culture. These poems are taken together as exemplars of the culture during the reign of Domitian specifically. I conduct close, sustained, textual analysis of instances …
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Extracting 3D motion from hand-drawn animated figures
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991.
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Public figures : town hall for the new interior
… needs to imagine a new form of agonistic public figures that can hold new formats for the political.
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Figures du Monarque et imaginaire tyrannique chez La Fontaine
… dans « les Compagnons d’Ulysse » engendre les figures animalières du pouvoir. Cette mise en pratique de réécriture du mythe chez La Fontaine rend plus accessible la symbolique de l’agressivité et férocité, qualités qu’incarne un tyran. De plus nous analyserons des situations de violence, de …
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