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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Knowingness"”.
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On knowingness : irony and queerness in the works of Byron, Heine, Fontane, and Wilde
This thesis identifies strategies of queer/irony in the writings of Lord Byron, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Fontane, and Oscar Wilde. Key to the understanding of irony is Friedrich Schlegel's re-evaluation of the concept. The thesis establishes an approach to the multifaceted concept of irony and …
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Marketing, the literary & the logos of cool: A poststructuralist enquiry into the appropriation and impact of literary theory on marketing discourse and its implications for the re-presentation of consumer dispositions of characterised by cool
… on the use of irony as a mode of subjective knowingness, but which occludes its disruptive 'other'.<br/><br/>I draw on Foucault and Belsey to highlight the discursive practices and techniques entailed in the articulation of subjectivity and knowingness. I also highlight the implications of …
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SMARTGIRLS.TV: DISCOURSES OF ACHIEVING GIRLHOOD IN SCHOOLS, ON SCREEN AND ONLINE
… I find that girls, with varying degrees of knowingness, draw on these tropes to frame stories of intelligible selfhood and to present themselves as deserving winners within educational meritocracies. I demonstrate that the ‘smart girl’ is not wholly constructed in the vanguard of success, …
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Why 4-H Members Leave: A Study of Discontinuance Through Both Current 4-H Members and Former Members
… discontinuance. This study developed a model of "knowingness" that provides a foundation for understanding how well a current member needs to know a discontinuer in order to accurately describe their reasons for leaving.
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Unveiling a blind spot... a moment of truth. Psychotherapists’ lived experience of psychological blind spots and moments of self-awareness: findings from a hermeneutic phenomenological enquiry
… -- Makes the truth much bigger’; ‘Inner knowingness manifests’; ‘Tipping point’; and ‘Vacillation’. These themes evidenced the participants felt sense of a moment of self-awareness as a cultivation of consciousness, that often emerged from within to engender a new perspective on reality. …
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Unpacking the Contested State of Public Housing in New York City
… and dreams seriously, a powerful intimate knowingness capable of situating and assessing present day policy and political conditions in longer historical timelines is revealed. For me, this research led to questions about what my role as a person of European-descent could and should be, as …