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Showing 1 to 20 of 146 for “"Form and Content"”.
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A Development of Catalog Form and Content for Community Resource Materials
It was the purpose of this study to develop a format to assist in a more adequate cataloging of community resource materials for use in the public school curriculum of Yakima, Washington. More specifically, the problem was to find answers to the following questions: (1) What information is needed …
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Literature of utopia and dystopia. Technological influences shaping the form and content of utopian visions.
… an age of rapid change. The advance of science and technology, throughout history, has culminated in periods of transition when social values have had to adapt to a changed environment. Such times have proved fertile ground for the expansion of the imagination. Utopian literature offers a vast …
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Form and Content Analysis of the Cartoon as a Cultural Medium of Communication: A Sociological Study in the Popular Pictorial Arts
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"USA Today", its imitators, and its critics: An ethical and organizational analysis
… ethical concerns over USA Today's innovation in form and content of news. The paper: (1) emphasizes form over function, (2) takes brevity and shallowness to extremes, (3) contains too much trivia and fluff, not enough substance, and (4) is too optimistic and amusing. These points are subsumed …
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Photographs as a Source of Content in Figure Painting
The purpose of the study was ( 1) to explore the candidate's concepts of the relationships between form and content found in specific subject matter (photographs of the artist's family); (2) to apply these concepts to a series of oil paintings; and (3) to present conclusions that would suggest …
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An analysis of thematics, poetics, and aesthetics in Ivan Bunin's prose narratives
… a properly suitable relationship between ""form"" and ""content"" without losing aesthetic effects. With this literary perspective, Bunin consistently attempts to pursue the most fundamental questions of human existence: the questions of freedom and necessity, body and spirit, the eternity …
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DEBITUS ORDO. TRADIZIONE E ORIGINALITÀ NEL METODO DI SPINOZA.
Debitus ordo. Tradition and originality of method in Spinoza. This research explores the philosophical significance of the ordo geometricus in Spinoza, focusing on the following three points: the controversial question of the rapport between form and content in his Ethica; the relationship between …
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A catalogue of shapes: a composite object portrait of an oral-formulaic Homer
… equivalence between two seemingly disparate art-forms - Homeric poetry (the Iliad and the Odyssey) and sculptural assemblage. The synthesis of form and content achieved by the re-organization, manipulation, and transformation of pre-existing components in the theory of an oral-formulaic Homer is …
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Antigone : a creative venture
… was the purpose of this study (l) to determine and illustrate the influence of time, culture and production situation upon the form and content of two plays based on the Greek legend of Antigone; the texts in question were those of Sophocles and Anouilh; and (2) to determine and illustrate the …
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Shielded by Athena: Mythical and Biblical Allusions and the Aesthetic Sensibilities of Louise Gluck's Poetry
… world. Her work includes poems that use mythical and biblical allusions, often using personae from those sources to frame personal stories. Glück's poetry can be read in light of the New Aesthetics movement; her subject matter, though personal, speaks on larger societal themes in carefully crafted …
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Toward an Understanding of the Novelistic Dimension of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile
The multi-genre combination of philosophic and literary expression in Rousseau’s Emile provides an opportunity to explore the relationship between the novelistic structure of this work and the substance of its philosophical teachings. This dissertation explores this matter through a textual …
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A Praxis of Oral Homiletics: Preaching from the Heart
<p>Christian preaching has been a central and significant custom to the practitioners of biblically confessional and creedal communities in worship, evangelization, and discipleship. Yet modern preachers confront two challenges presented by the New Homiletic and the media environment. Undue favor …
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In Color
<p>In Color is a collection of shorts, poems, and essays in which the author explores her identity, as well as her past experience and imagined future. While the document consists chiefly of nonfiction, the narratives contained within are based on faulty memory and the author’s imagination, and …
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What We Understand to Be Ghosts
… from his essay "Art as Technique” and Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of polyphony as defined in his book Problems in Dostoevsky's Poetics through the practice of writing short fiction. The stories collected in the thesis explore these ideas by taking advantage of different approaches to …
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The first five symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich
… according to the following categories: form, harmony, thematic treatment, texture and orchestration. The purpose of this process is to reveal the essence of his' compositional style as exemplified in the first five symphonies, and to study musical features which may be considered …
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Anything Like Us
… I explore modern alternatives to Romantic and Neo-Romantic lyric expression. I conclude that a contemporary lyric that desires to be, in some fashion, about itself, must exhibit an acceptance of the mediating influences of time and language, while cultivating an inter-subjective …
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The Nature of Influence: Fu'ad Rifqa's Wilderness Poetry at the Intersection of Nation and Modernity
<p>Fundamental changes in the form and content of Arabic poetry occurred rapidly in the first half of the twentieth century, resulting in the development of free verse and prose poetry as well as the jettison of traditional requirements including end-stopped two-hemistich long lines, strict …
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Living entanglements and the ecological thought in the works of Paul Kingsnorth, Tom McCarthy, and Ali Smith
… of Donna Haraway, Timothy Morton, Karen Barad, and Anna Tsing to explore how three contemporary British novelists—Paul Kingsnorth, Tom McCarthy, and Ali Smith—deal with the representational and ethical challenges of writing about nature and climate change within the Anthropocene. The question of …
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Reinventing the Self: Narrative Persona in Five Autobiographical Works of Viktor B. Shklovsky
Although the works vary in terms of form and content, certain stylistic features and devices make them all unmistakably Shklovskian. An intrusive narrator who both acts in and directs the story is common to all these works. Also consistent is the flippant tone the narrator uses when talking about …
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Renouncing sex and the self: asceticism in early modern England
… seem that ascetic practices disappeared in England with the introduction of Protestantism. With the monasteries demolished, priests encouraged to marry, and the laity cautioned against superstitious practices of mortification, how can there be a cultural history of asceticism after the English …
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