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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Hogarth"”.
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Neo-Victorian Dickens(es): The Hogarth/Dickens Circle and Recent Biofiction
… with the priorities of today. Though most of the Hogarth/Dickens circle remain silent, or silenced, in the historical record, those who have been reprised as fictional characters include Dickens’s wife, Catherine; her sisters, Mary and Georgina Hogarth; his presumed mistress, Ellen Ternan; and his …
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Neoclassicism in eighteenth-century literature: an analysis of realistic conventions in Cleland and Hogarth
… are John Cleland’s two novels and two of William Hogarth’s engraving series. The paper gives an overview of theories on realism from the Greek philosophers, Aristotle and Horace, until its re-‐emerge in eighteenth century in England. The study does a close reading of Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a …
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Dickens bereaved : a psychological examination of Oliver Twist.
On May 7, 1837, Mary Hogarth, the sister-in-law of Charles Dickens died in an upstairs bedroom of the Dickens home, having collapsed early that morning after returning from the theater. She was sixteen years old. This tragedy and the grief associated with it had a profound effect on Dickens and his …
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The Portmanteau Papers
… fiction begins with the prints of William Hogarth, which it investigates as a visual analogue to the narrative patterns employed by period authors. By rereading and recreating selected elements of narrative implicit in Hogarth’s prints, the text of The Portmanteau Papers animates the …
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Woolf and Freud: A dialogue between Woolf's fiction and psychanalytic theory
… that were being published by Woolf's own Hogarth Press much around the same time as her earlier works. It is the contention of this thesis that not only do Woolf s texts explore many of the same theories being developed in the field of psychoanalysis, but that the literary representation …
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Virginia Woolf: The Bookbinder and the Bibliophile
… Her career as a publisher of her home-grown Hogarth Press is a little less widely acknowledged. But Virginia Woolf is known to have engaged herself for many hours folding, stapling, sewing and gluing the publications which she and her husband Leonard had tried printing (at least to start) …
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Leveraging the private sector to enable the delivery of well-located affordable housing in Cape Town
Affordable housing in Cape Town tends to be located far away from economic opportunities, social facilities and public transport infrastructure, which serves to reinforce inequality, burdening poor households and the City. This dissertation explores the current challenges in bringing well-located, …
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The emergence of a negative feedback bias as a product of supervisor and subordinate dynamics: consequences of opportunity-based supervision and performance variation
… governed by common causes (cf. Deming, 1982; Hogarth, 1980 and Kahneman & Tversky, 1973). Results indicated that NFB was an emergent process occurring over time and under conditions where (a) supervisors managed highly inconsistent subordinate performance and (b) supervisors had limited …
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Memory and Judgment Bias in Retrospective Evaluations
… episode (e.g., Fredrickson & Kahneman, 1993; Hogarth & Einhorn, 1992). Here, drawing on some of the parallelisms between memory phenomena and judgment and decision making biases (e.g., distinctiveness; Hunt, 2006), a memory-based approach is outlined and explored. By doing so, the research …
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Cognitive Approaches To The Explanation Of Gambling Behaviour: An Evaluation
… observed by Langer and Roth (1975). Drawing on Hogarth and Einhom's (1992) belief adjustment model an adjusted methodology is employed making the paradigm resemble the real gambling decision making task more closely. The results of the Illusion of Control experiments suggest that the strong …
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Publishing short stories : British modernist fiction and the literary marketplace
… 1914); and Virginia Woolf in Monday or Tuesday (Hogarth, 1921). For these writers, the production of short fiction within the literary marketplace had definite and important consequences on their texts as well as the formation of their mature authorial identities. (With the exception of James, I …
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Reluctant patients: health, sickness and the embodiment of plebeian masculinity in nineteenth-century Britain: evidence from working men's autobiographies
This thesis is a contribution to the patient-centred history of medicine. It takes the historical agenda established by Dorothy and Roy Porter in their work on the Georgian middling sort and applies it to working-class men in nineteenth-century Britain. Thus it uses working men's autobiographies to …
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Umsetzung verschiedener didaktischer Theorien im außerschulischen Unterricht: Potentiale und Grenzen des wiederentdeckten Lernorts Bauernhof
… und so effektiver zu lernen (Bennett, Lubben, & Hogarth, 2007). Das in dieser Studie entwickelte agrarische Umweltbildungsprojekt unterscheidet sich bewusst von bestehenden, zum Teil mehrtägigen und erlebnisorientierten Projekten, indem es Schulpraxisrelevanz für sich beansprucht: Es wird auf …
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Unterricht zum Thema Grüne Gentechnik im außerschulischen Lernort Labor : Schülervorstellungen, unterrichtliche Umsetzung von Schülerdiskussionen und geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede
… im Unterricht nachzukommen (z.B. Bennett, Hogarth, Lubben, Campbell, & Robinson, 2010) und eine aktivere Beteiligung der Schüler zu fördern, bedarf es einer schrittweisen Öffnung der Lehrer-zentrierten hin zu Schüler-zentrierten Unterrichtsansätzen (Day & Bryce, 2011). Hoffnungen und Ängste …
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Out of Order
'Out of Order' proposes that the perception of a work’s expression is the sense of its disorder. The dissertation proceeds from theory to history, and analysis, before bringing the argument to bear with regards to contemporary practice. The theory draws heavily on the work of Harold Bloom (ch. 2). …