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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Aesthetic subjects"”.
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The Figures of Crisis: The Reflections of the 2008 Financial Crisis as Ideological Discourse of Capitalism
… crisis by Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke are read as literary texts with formal features that perform an ideological function. Their memoirs of the financial crisis contain a set of figures and formal elements that create the narrative of crisis which acts as an apology …
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A Queer Departure: The Role of Queer Studies and Thanatology in Narrative Videogames Focused on Grief
… within the academic fields of Queer Studies and Death Studies, and their fused counterpart known as Queer Death Studies (QDS). Through the methodology of Fairclough’s (1995) Critical Discourse Analysis, this thesis analyses four narrative-heavy videogames titled Gone Home (2013), Journey …
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The politics of aesthetics and performance: Visuality and the remaking of culture in the Calabar Festival and Carnival, 2004 -2019
The Calabar Festival and Carnival was inaugurated in 2004. Aspects of Calabar cultural festivals had been appropriated into Caribbean carnivals and were performed from around the second half of the 18th century, particularly in the Trinidadian carnival. In 2004, it returned to Africa and was remade …
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After-Effects: A Feminist Poststructural Exploration of the Young Adult Series “After” and Discourses of Romanticized Abuse
… characters that relies on stereotypical and binarized performances of masculinity and femininity to maintain the storyline. In my analysis, I first relied on Judith Butler’s (1990) theory of gender performativity to explore how gendered power is constructed and maintained through the …
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Cognitive Engagement Across Academic and Extracurricular Activities
… involves active participation both inside and outside of school settings, including involvement in extracurricular activities (Fredricks et al., 2019; Vandell & Simpkins, 2024; Wong et al., 2024). Cognitive engagement is considered one element of broader engagement that involves an …
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The graffiti artist : doing the work of the lyric through juxtaposition of disparate social discourse : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for Master of Creative Writing, Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand
… e.g. languages of prose, genre, profession and cultural groups into the lyric tradition. This thesis investigates the use of discourse to perform the work of lyric. It does so in two parts: in a critical essay and through my own creative work, a manuscript of original poetry that is meant to …
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Lignes, an intellectual revue: twenty-five years of politics, philosophy, art and literature
… assumed that a reaction against the Marxist and structuralist theories of the 1960s and 1970s led to embrace of liberalism and an intellectual drift to the right in France from the 1980s onwards: whilst largely supporting this account, the thesis attempts to nuance this narrative of the fate …