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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Follies"”.
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Sublime Follies: Unveiling the Realm of Multiple-Reality Architectures
Architectural and photographic representations have entwined territories of research where placebased visual production is used as a heuristic means to develop innovative spatial ideas. This thesis addresses a novel architectural approach resulting from their increasingly complex production of …
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Repeating the Follies of the Past: A Regulatory Focus Perspective
Adopting a regulatory focus perspective, I study why people repeat a prior behavior that could be unpleasant, ineffective, or unethical. Driven by the concerns to avoid negative deviations from the status quo, the prevention aspect of self-regulation (i.e., prevention focus) is associated with the …
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Foibles, Follies and Fantastic Occurrences: First-Time Teaching and the Composition Classroom
Foibles, Follies and Fantastic Occurrences: First-time Teaching and the Composition Classroom explores incidents that expectedly—and often, unexpectedly—occur in any instructor's classroom, but especially focuses on the first-time instructor. Following the author's journey from graduate student to …
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Satire in Contemporary Catholic Authors
… lashed the social, economic, and religious follies of the age In which they lived with a view not only to denounce the evil but to effect a reform. "Great evils create their own scourge," and as long as human nature exists, evil, too, will exist; and satire will continue to be the logical …
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Urban Playhouse : a Chinese communal drama in seven acts
… for the urban playhouse, seven groups of follies are deployed to liberate the housing theater from their respective institutional forms. The playhouse seeks to dramatize the nuances of everyday urban life in order to establish new spatial and social relationships. By blurring the …
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Shakespeare’s Historical Tetralogies: Compared and Contrasted
… its folk-speech and song, its virtues and its follies and some of its vices, and even its physical appearance, so sensitively and memorably." These words were spoken of William Shakespeare, literature’s greatest dramatist. These words can be verified easily enough by anyone who has read the …
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Everyday Life, Debt and Death in North Dublin
… one of the key spaces of representation for the follies of the Celtic Tiger era and subsequent economic collapse; it is also a key site in which notions of ownership, rights, responsibility and respectability are being hammered out alongside new modes of governing and new ways of articulating the …
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Zimbabwe's economic crisis & hyperinflation, 1997-2009
… a repetition of the economic and political follies that have plagued some of the fiat governments of the modern world? The purpose of this research, then, is to provide a detailed historical account of the economic side of the crisis, documenting the observable causes and phenomena that …
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Architectura Laticis
… starting point. Bernard Tschumi's set of follies at Parc de la Villette in Paris follow a set of syntactic rules with an infinite combination to reference the transition between one folly to another. Sergei M. Eisenstein describes Architecture as a montage in which a sequential rhythm is …
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The Work of Women in Canadian Musical Theatre: Dancing in the Chorus
… The CanCan Dancer (1840-1900), The Ziegfeld Follies Girls (1930-1950) and The Tiller Girls (1920-1930). This not only helped with the understanding of the development of the chorus girl but also served as an inspiration for my own choreographic research. My interest is not only in the work …
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Observational Animation: An Exploration of Improvisation, Interactivity and Spontaneity in Animated Filmmaking
… films, Primary, Salesman and Titicut Follies and the transformation of ordinary people into ‘social actors’. It is this assumed roll, the everyday presentation of self that audiences relate to and perceive as truthful and authentic and is the backbone of my thesis research. Through the …
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Exœrcising a Haunted City
… scaffold- ings into permanent poles and follies. Situated along the city’s most haunted public estate, these structures are programmed as public facilities for fitness training and children’s playscapes. During the festival, they will be activated into ritual sheds, demonstrating a formal …
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The misericords of Beverley Minister : a corpus of folkloric imagery and its cultural milieu, with special reference to the influence of Northern European iconography on Late Medieval and Early Modern English woodwork
… misericords under such headings as 'The Fool and Follies', 'Satires', 'The bestiary' 'Exempla', etc., leads to the isolation of a small number of motifs which are seen not to belong to the native tradition. These non-English motifs are traced to two main sources, the border woodcuts in early …
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Space of mind The Hidden Architecture in the Time of Pandemic
… the spatial construct we are not aware of: Follies of Cognitive Labor, Field of Imagery, and Garden of Data. Each of the scenes starts with a different type of digital material and adopts its own growing mechanism. After the process of recording, work traces and cognitive activities are …
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Melancholy Figures: From Bosch to Titian
… as an outsider with special insight into the follies of this lower world. Chapter One serves as an introduction to the pose of melancholy, its historical weight and the visual meaning carried by the isolated, brooding figure, generally wth lowered head supported by a hand and often with legs …
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Modos de mitigação da solidão do herói austeriano : um estudo de Oracle night e The brooklyn folies
… destes nas obras Oracle Night e The Brooklyn Follies. Tendo por base estas características – pós e sobremodernas – procurámos gizar um tipo de herói, que não segue nenhuma tradição específica, mas que bebe de várias, ao qual demos o nome de herói austeriano. Neste âmbito, foram descritos os …
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Geldzuviel: A small Building
The design, construction, speculation, and observation of a small wooden tower.