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Showing 1 to 20 of 156 for “"Larsen"”.
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Aesthetic detail in the works of Nella Larsen
In the novellas Quicksand and Passing, Nella Larsen uses the often maligned detail to explore issues of gender, race, and sexuality. Female body parts, women's clothing, and skin color are particularly reiterated and fetishized. These evocative descriptions function symbolically and at times act as …
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Polar föhn winds and warming over the Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica
… Peninsula (AP) and enhanced melt rates on the Larsen C Ice Shelf are supported in a study combining the analysis of observational and high resolution model data. Leeside warming and drying during foehn events is observed in new aircraft, radiosonde and automatic weather station data and …
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"The Thing Became Real": New Materialisms and Race in the Fiction of Nella Larsen
… and textuality in the fiction of Nella Larsen, using new materialist and affect theories as frameworks for reading her short stories, “The Wrong Man” and “Freedom” (1926), and her novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929). I argue that Larsen mobilizes concepts of misrecognition and …
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Around Talk: Affect, Triviality, and Possibility in Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Nella Larsen
… fiction of Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Nella Larsen through the lens of talk. I use the term ‘talk’ to define and theorize a liminal category of expression in these texts, vacillating between the elevated, ineffable significance associated with the art of conversation and the mere …
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The use of precedents in contemporary Arab architecture : case studies; Rasem Badran and Henning Larsen
… the Presidential Palace in Bagdad, and Henning Larsen's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Riyadh. The analysis examines the architects' designs and design research in order to reveal the architects' theoretical positions and their artifactual realizations. This approach allows for a deeper …
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Zur Problematik von Herkunft, Geschlecht und Identitätsfindung in den beiden Romanen von Nella Larsen "Quicksand" (1928) und "Passing" (1929)
… Romane „Quicksand“ und „Passing“ von Nella Larsen zeigen Hauptprotagonistinnen mit interrassischen Identitäten, die auf einer schwarzen und weißen Elternschaft beruhen und sich damit an den bis in die späten 1970er Jahre in den USA tatsächlich existierenden sog. Rassenmischungsverboten …
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Any Bodies' Protest Novel: Challenging the Politics of Canon Formation in the works of Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Baldwin
James Baldwin, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston are three authors who are very often read alongside one another in classrooms, book groups, and history. This grouping is often based on a system of seemingly arbitrary but identity-based categorical structures . Facets of the author' s assigned …
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Creating a terministic screen of "mothering" in Nella Larsen's Passing and Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life
… topic of motherhood within the novels of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) and Fannie Hurst’s Imitation of Life (1932), critical attention mainly focuses on issues of race, class, or gender. Moreover, in regards to the novels, rhetorical consideration of the term “mothering” and the act of it within …
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Using Archived Aerial Photography to Measure Long-term Change in the Surface Elevation of Larsen A Tributary Glaciers from 1957 to 2020
… impact on ice mass. One ice shelf on the AP, the Larsen A (LAIS) collapsed in 1995, resulting in the thinning and acceleration of its tributary glaciers. Ice loss from LAIS tributaries between 2009 and 2017, accounted for approximately 18% of what was lost from the Northern AP (Scambos et al., …
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Glacial Geomorphology of the Eastern Antarctic Peninsula Shelf
… disintegration of the northern parts of the Larsen Ice Shelf (Larsen A and B) have permitted acquisition of marine geophysical data in previously unmapped areas. A Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) cruise, completed in 2013, collected new multibeam swath bathymetry data and 3.5 kHz CHIRP …
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"A Shade Too Unreserved": Destabilizing Sexuality and Gender Constructs of the New Negro Identity in Harlem Renaissance Literature
… through their works. Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston used their own fictional works to explore the New Negro construct being promoted. In examining the constructed nature of this New Negro identity, these artists strove to destabilize the social "norms" upon which the …
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Lingualização e complexidade : um paralelo possível?
… theory applied to language acquisition (LARSEN-Freeman, 1997; LARSEN-FREEMAN and CAMERON, 2008). It is worth mentioning that the construct does not consider language acquisition as a product, but rather as a process. From several studies in the area of physics, biology, mathematics and …
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Styles of Play in Elite Soccer: Identification and Definition of the Attacking and Defensive Styles of Play in the English Premier League and the 1st Spanish League
… Tenga, Holme, Ronglan, & Bahr, 2010b; Tenga & Larsen, 2003; Tenga & Sigmundstad, 2011). Different attacking and defending styles of play and associated variables have been identified (Bate, 1988; Hughes & Franks, 2005a; Lago-Peñas & Dellal, 2010; Pollard et al., 1988; Tenga, Holme, et al., …
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Graduate Recital, Saxophone
… and showcases a piece by female composer Libby Larsen.
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Learning-Disabled Students' Noun Referent Skills in Original Narratives: A Pilot Study.
… 1963), only one standardized test (Hammill & Larsen, 1978) includes a reliable evaluation based upon the student's own original composition.
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An Intersectional Analysis of Nella Larsen's Quicksand
… a feminist intersectional analysis of Nella Larsen's Quicksand in order to shed light on this complicated and often misunderstood novel and also to show the value of a truly intersectional framework for literary analysis. In addition, I aim to develop an interdisciplinary intersectional …
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La gestión Estratégica en el contexto de las Universidades Colombianas Factores que inciden en su incorporación, aplicación efectiva e institucionalización
… y la administración de las universidades (Larsen, Maasesen, & Stensaker, 2009). Sin embargo, muchas de estas reformas han fracasado, lo cual se explica, en parte, porque los diseños de estas propuestas resultaban contradictorios e inapropiados, para los intereses y las estructuras de …
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A COMPARISON OF METADISCOURSE MARKERS AND WRITING QUALITY IN ADOLESCENT WRITTEN NARRATIVES
… Language-Third Edition (TOWL-3), (Hammill & Larsen, 1996). It is hypothesized that there will be a correlation between the number of metadiscourse markers and the standard score of Subtest 8, Story Construction of the TOWL-3, (Hammill & Larsen, 1996). Essays given a high score on this …
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A COMPARISON OF METADISCOURSE MARKERS AND WRITING QUALITY IN ADOLESCENT WRITTEN NARRATIVES
… Language-Third Edition (TOWL-3), (Hammill & Larsen, 1996). It is hypothesized that there will be a correlation between the number of metadiscourse markers and the standard score of Subtest 8, Story Construction of the TOWL-3, (Hammill & Larsen, 1996). Essays given a high score on this …
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