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Showing 1 to 20 of 300 for “"Flesh"”.
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In the flesh
… and associated written dissertation of In the Flesh, set out to explore the sensitive symbiotic relationship between humans and the machines.
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Flesh, A Naked Dress
"Flesh, A Naked Dress" is a collection of five poems: "Joy of the Perfect Tool," "Texas," "Estuary," "Flesh, A Naked Dress," and "An Event in the World." The form of the serial poem, adopted for this collection, is the one described by poet Jack Spicer. It is larger scaffolding for the poetry, …
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A pound of flesh
This novel explores themes such as post feminism, the clash of Islam and Christianity in a globalised world and sexual morality through the eyes of a girl who is not only coming of age but is also coming to terms with the sociopolitics of modern Britain.
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Virtual Bodies: Probing Fake Flesh
<p>This thesis explores the fluid and often elusive concept of the body as mediated through technology and art, questioning the boundaries between the physical and virtual. By investigating the interactions of cultural ideals, technological mediation, and material experimentation, the research …
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Logic and Flesh: Richard Hooker’s Sacramental Social Body
This thesis argues that the scope of Richard Hooker’s critique in his Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie extends beyond its ostensive target of Elizabethan presbyterianism to what he saw as a more general dissolution of a framework of human self-understanding rooted in Christian metaphysics and …
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Words Into Flesh: Parisian Dance Theater, 1911--1924
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 87569 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs
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A Christian Ontology of the Flesh: Word, Symbol, Performance
… of perception and an ontology of the flesh. His voice, although decidedly removed from the religious, is constantly brought into theological debate whether it be Judith Butler’s reading of Merleau-Ponty’s early lectures on Malebranche’s sensuous theology, or a reading of his …
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Samuel Butler’s Way of All Flesh as a Sociological Novel
… examines in depth Butler’s novel The Way of All Flesh, as the focal point of his critical analysis of Victorian society. It treats the work as a sociological novel showing the main character Ernest Pontifex manipulated by harsh societal forces and presents the thesis that man needs to be freed …
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The Word was made flesh: The male body in sports evangelism
This dissertation explores the functions of athletic male bodies within sports evangelism. I argue that the production of the male body within sports evangelism – both physical and symbolic - plays an integral part in the mission of Christian athletes by using the body as a medium for conveying …
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Flesh and spirit onstage: chronotopes of performance in medieval English theatre
This study uses Mikhail Bakhtin's chronotope, which is the informing principle of one's experience of space and time, to explore different relations among space, time, actors, and audience in medieval theatre. Relations between the material and spiritual worlds as understood in the Middle Ages are …
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Unpresentable Members: The Theology and Radical Phenomenology of the Sexual Flesh
… with a wager: that a proper account of the flesh and its sexual character may not only prove philosophically fertile within its own limited domain, but may also provide insight into the theological question of the proper role and place of gender and sexual difference within communities, …
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Memoried flesh: shock and trauma in late nineteenth-century Russian fiction
This dissertation focuses on representations of nervous shock and trauma in nineteenth-century Russian literature, with special focus on the works by Fedor Dostoevsky and Anton Chekhov. The current genealogy of trauma relies heavily on the work of Sigmund Freud and of subsequent scholars and is …
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True flesh: pilgrimage, measure, and perfecting the human in Dante’s 'Commedia'
Critics of Dante’s Commedia have frequently maintained that the 14th-century poem depicts a “pilgrimage” in the sense of a journey to God, undertaken both in imitation of the actual practice of pilgrimage to holy sites such as Jerusalem and Santiago de Compostela, as well as of the Biblical Exodus, …
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Food, Flesh, and Fervor: Perfecting the Ascetic Body in Tertullian's De Ieiunio
The purpose of this paper is to explore and investigate the explicit and implicit boundary markers of food, drink, fasting, and the body within the rhetoric of Tertullian's De Ieunio contra Psychicos, or On Fasting against the Psychics, while simultaneously providing an adequate historical context …
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Adding Flesh to Sullivan’s Bones: The Legacy of St. Amant v. Thompson
<p>The 1962 Democratic primary for the United States Senate seat from Louisiana was not much of a contest, with incumbent Russell B. Long handily defeating his opponent, Phil A. St. Amant. But the defamation case that stemmed from that campaign has had a lasting impact on defamation law in the …
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