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Showing 1 to 20 of 123 for “"Jameson"”.
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A history of Ngoni chiefs of fort Jameson (Chipata) under colonial rule, 1895 - 1964.
… under colonial rule in Northern Rhodesia’s Fort Jameson (Chipata) from 1895 to 1964. It shows the responses and reactions of the chiefs and the people they ruled towards the policies of the British South Africa Company and later of governments under the Colonial Office and the Federation of …
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A history of Ngoni chiefs of fort Jameson (Chipata) under colonial rule, 1895 - 1964.
… under colonial rule in Northern Rhodesia’s Fort Jameson (Chipata) from 1895 to 1964. It shows the responses and reactions of the chiefs and the people they ruled towards the policies of the British South Africa Company and later of governments under the Colonial Office and the Federation of …
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Room acoustics : an investigation into the computer simulation of room acoustics, with special reference to Jameson Hall
This thesis consists of essentially two parts. The first deals with the theory and measurement of room acoustics while the second examines the room acoustic prediction methods.
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Culture and the modern self: a comparative analysis of the cultural theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Fredric Jameson
Pierre Bourdieu and Fredric Jameson are in many respects two of the most influential contemporary theorists. Bourdieu's comprehensive theoretical model, termed "genetic structuralism", is a fruitful alternative to traditionally dichotomous modes of thinking: subjectivism vs. objectivism, agency vs. …
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Exploring the New Front of the Culture War: <i>1984, Oryx and Crake,</i> and Cultural Hegemony
… as defined by cultural critic Fredrick Jameson. Using the theory of Jameson and other postmodern theorists, an exploration of the dystopic novels or Orwell and Atwood reveals how cultural hegemony has been implemented and altered from the modern to the postmodern.
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The Philosophy Of Aesthetic Bliss: A Marxist Reading Of Nabakov's Lolita
… statement. Using the theories of Fredric Jameson, I will examine the novel in terms of what it has to say about social relations, uncovering the inescapable political agenda. Lolita is a Modernist novel further rooted in the tradition of Russian Symbolism, both movements lending it a …
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(Re)gendering Spatial Politics: Museum as Mediating Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writings
… the works of women writers like Anna Jameson, George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Dinah Craik, and George Paston opened the space’s inclusive potential. In the process, these works re-gender the spatial politics of the museum and reveal the mediating potential of artistic spaces, where …
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Le marxisme et la question postmoderne au cours des années quatre-vingt : l'apport de Marshall Berman, Fredric Jameson et David Harvey à l'étude des transformations culturelles et sociales du capitalisme avancé
… de trois auteurs — Marshall Berman, Fredric Jameson et David Harvey — qui y ont contribué de manière significative. Afin de lever le voile de la confusion quant aux diverses significations attachées au champ lexical de « postmoderne », nous aurons recours au concept heuristique de la « …
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Gestos posmodernos en la novela latinoamericana : los casos de Cristina Rivera Garza, Ana Maria Shua y Laura Restrepo.
… discurso esquizofrénico que desarrolla Fredric Jameson, las expresiones del concepto del poder de Michel Foucault y el pensamiento rizomático propuesto por Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari. Además, utilizamos las teorías de carnavalización de Mijail Bajtín para abordar la escena posmoderna del …
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Joseph Conrad and the ideology of fiction : a study of four works
… a critical dialogue with, and around, Fredric Jameson's Marxist classic, The Political Unconscious (1981). Jameson's proposition that Conrad's fiction is to be understood as a """"Political Unconscious"""" - that is, that Conrad's works produce political meanings in the same way that Freud …
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An investigation of particle collection efficiency in different particle-bubble contacting environments in flotation
… column cell, an agitated column cell and a Jameson-type cell), while the fourth cell environment comprised a laboratory batch subaeration flotation cell. High purity quartz was used as a probe ore in conjunction with a cationic collector and a commercial frother blend. The quartz was …
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The Effect of Frontal Lobe Stress on Gambling Task Performance: Implications for Understanding Addictive Behavior
… Farah, 2005) and working memory (e.g. Hinson, Jameson, and Whitney, 2002; Jameson, Hinson, and Whitney, 2004). The purpose of the current research project was to better understand how these processes affect performance on a decision making task and to determine if a previously administered …
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Melancholy and Satire: Representation of Islam and Nationhood in the Works of Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk
… Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha, and Fredric Jameson, I situate Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk within literary attempts at national representation and narratives of westernization. The main question that the study raises is: what are the literary results of migration, cultural or religious …
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"It's Like We Were Being Watched ... Like There Were Only 3 Walls, And Not a Fourth Wall": Manifestations of Metafiction in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
… theorists (e.g., Patricia Waugh, Fredric Jameson) to illustrate the various different ways Whedon has consciously constructed metafiction as an integral part of his most influential television series. Additionally, the project also endeavors to show how textual self-consciousness can be …
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The Postmodern Condition and the Commodification of Cuisine
… regarding sign/symbol and simulacra and Fredric Jameson regarding media reality and simulacra. Using the three independent theories, the study looks at how postmodern society struggles in its acquisition of image enhancing cultural capital, in the conspicuous and vicarious consumption of …
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An a posteriori error control framework for adaptive precision optimization using discontinuous Galerkin finite element method
… by Pironneau and applied to transonic flow by Jameson . A review of the aerodynamic shape optimization literature and a large list of references is given in. Over the years much technology has been developed, allowing engineers to contemplate applying optimization methods to a wide variety of …
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