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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Hybridism"”.
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O pombalino religioso: na estética das igrejas cariocas setecentistas
… period in the capital of the colony. This formal hybridism observed in the shapes was also found in the eclectic ideology of the most important of "enlightened" portuguese men in that period. In this dissertation we tried to link not only the pombaline style shapes to the "modern" oratorian …
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Negotiation and deliberation in Mexico's democratization process : six cases of legal reform
… and communicative in order to move beyond hybridism into full democracy.
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Island Rewrites: Postcolonial Caribbean, British and Irish Revisions.
… and culture, or through the embracing of hybridism and syncretism. To explore this concept, the discussion engages with postcolonial theorists such as Homi K. Bhabha, Frantz Fanon and Edward Said - as well as the extant body of literature that surrounds postcolonial studies - in order to …
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Verses, subverses and subversions in contemporary postcolonial poetry : the arts of resistance in the works of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lesego Rampolokeng
… strategies of diasporic resistance and cultural hybridism employed in the poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson can contribute to moving away from the limitations of dichotomies and also subvert hegemonic power. And finally, I look at crealisation, mockery and insubordination as strategies of resistance …
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Appropriation and hybridity of Taiwanese literati painting and American abstract expressionism (1949-2007)
… body of my new hybrid art reveals the increasing hybridism from a totally Oriental Literati painting to a painting that is almost fully Westernised. By varying the combinations in the table of hybrid evaluation criteria, one may utilise this methodological framework to create diverse hybrid …
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Taming a Monstrous Genre: Vexed Author-Figures and their Lethal Texts: 1719 to 1824
… was undermined because the novel's generic hybridism opened it up to multiple interpretive lenses. I argue that working under such literary and cultural constraints, novelists were anxious about losing control over the interpretation and reception of their works. Analyzing seven novels, …
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Good to Fight, Good to Eat, Good to Think: Food Disputes in Premodern Japanese Texts
… between the different degrees of human/nonhuman hybridism could enhance the readers’ learning experience.
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Playing with fire : Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the rewriting of the Prometheus myth
… I argue is a disruptive and positive form of hybridism. Chapter One examines the mythic complex which surrounds the figure of Prometheus, concentrating on the versions by Hesjod, Aeschylus and Ovid, and considers the implications of its appropriation and revision by women writers. Chapters Two …
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Studies in the Alseuosmiaceae
… the species are unknown. No internal barriers to hybridism exist between A. macrophylla and A. banksii A. Cunn. and the hybrid swarm between these species is recognised here as A. X quercifolia A. Cunn. Neither do internal barriers exist between A. macrophylla and A. pusilla, but differences in …
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The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
The Night Witch is a concept found throughout human culture, a category of the female magical practitioner who can only be found in literature and the nightmares of those who imagine her. As the name suggests, she typically operates at night, using violence and magic to ensnare and kill her …
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The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
The Night Witch is a concept found throughout human culture, a category of the female magical practitioner who can only be found in literature and the nightmares of those who imagine her. As the name suggests, she typically operates at night, using violence and magic to ensnare and kill her …