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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Liminalities"”.
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Bodies in Vertigo: the language of liminalities
Starting with my own travel experiences, and with the help of poets, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorie Graham, and Emily Dickinson, I create a theory of displacement, called Vertigo. Vertigo is not only a sense of falling, but a sense of detachment from reality that I felt traversing through different …
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The transformation of public space : mobile technology practices and urban liminalities
Since the mid-twentieth century, various architectural, urban, cultural, and computer science discourses have advanced the rhetoric that contemporary information and communications technologies (ICTs) will fundamentally transform the built and urban environment. More recently, communications and …
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"Driving Circles Around the Holler:" Liminality and the Grotesque in Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff
… reading, illuminating the layers of different liminalities present in the cycle. These liminalities include narrative liminality of the form of the short story cycle, the social and economic liminal spaces inhabited by the characters, and the ways that the text comments on the liminal nature of …
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Of Space and Time: Film and the Female Performer
… and invoking multiple temporalities and liminalities. The thesis culminates in the proposition that an Irigarayan female time-space, as generated through haptic visuality, is one of a becoming through movement and the elemental. The research contributes to the field of moving image …
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Living Within Hyphenated Paradoxes - The Canadian Adolescent Refugee Experience
… that influence refugees sense of identity liminalities: being too young, too old, not westernized enough, not native enough, lacking schooling and wanting academic accolades. Readings of their narratives informed by psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory show that young refugees employ …
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Danmarkshistorier: National Imagination and Novel in Late Twentieth Century Denmark
… of national subjects predicated on the liminalities of cultural identities, on the boundaries between historical fact and fiction, and on the tension between privileged and marginal forms of narrative. In chapter two, Peter Høeg's Forestilling om det tyvende århundrede (1988) is …
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Architectural design for Dementia: Exploring alternate contemporary cultures of residential care design
… of the built environment, and consist of liminalities, affordances, and enablement. Processual discrepancies frame perceived tensions between residents’ aspirations and perceptions of the environment and discuss ideological conceptions of space-time and veridictions. The theoretical …
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Soils and Interventions
Linus Lancaster Soils and Interventions Dissertation Abstract The problem that I have identified during my research for this dissertation is the quantifiable depletion and exhaustion of large percentages of the world's soils through human activity in agriculture and other industrial practices. In …