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Showing 1 to 20 of 180 for “"Mad"”.
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Paradigms of reality in Poe's mad narrative
This study focuses on an examination of madness in four short stories by American author Edgar Allan Poe: "Ligeia," "Eleonora," "The Black Cat," and "The Fall of the House of Usher." Using Walter Fischer's theoretical communication framework, the Narrative Paradigm, the four stories are examined …
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MAD GIRL'S LOVE SONG: Visibility Through Theatre Creation
… and performing a solo theatre piece entitled MAD GIRLS LOVE SONG. The aim of this research is to create a solo performance of non-linear vignettes using poetic and gestural language that addresses my fear of being seen as a creator. By doing so, I hope to challenge theatre practices that …
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Beware of Mad John: Political Theology, Psychedelics and Literature
<p>Using the discourse of Political Theology as a mode of enquiry we can overcome a longstanding tension between aesthetics and history that characterized much of twentieth century thought. Focusing on literary and occasionally musical works from the mid twentieth century, my aim is to show how …
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Shoreline Erosion at Mad Island Marsh Preserve, Matagorda County, Texas
… amount of shoreline erosion taking place at its Mad Island Marsh Preserve (MIMP), located in Matagorda Bay, Texas. The MIMP is a 7,100 acre nature preserve that borders the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and is eroded by waves generated by barge traffic. TNC is concerned that erosion will shorten Mad …
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POST-ASYLUM GEOGRAPHIES OF MADNESS. FINDING SPACE FOR GETTING MAD
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Mad or Uncontrollable? Reading Female Madness in Three Gothic Texts
… studies to analyze representations of female madness in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, and Isabel Allende’s “If You Touched My Heart.” Drawing on theories of socially constructed disability, it argues that Bertha, Antoinette, and Hortensia are framed as “mad women” …
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Materializing a Mad Aesthetic Through the Making of Politicized Fibre Art
… for the field to support and promote Deaf, mad, and disabled artists by documenting and analyzing our practices through qualitative and/or quantitative research. Calling into question the focus that Disability Studies puts on access and inclusion, this studio-based project interrupts this …
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Poisoners, larcenists, and the mad chambermaid: Villainy in late Victorian detective fiction
<p>This thesis seeks to identify patterns of villainy in late nineteenth-century detective fiction in order to examine middle class conceptions of criminality and the way those models reflect the values of Victorian society. Through a study of more than sixty pieces of short detective fiction, this …
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Albie the mad Albanian: The cross-cultural influence between Byron and Albania
<p>The subject of Byron and Albania has been historically neglected but merits study for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the importance Byron himself gave to Albania. While Western Byron scholars have tended either to omit discussion of Albania or to conflate Albania with Greece in …
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Mad or Magnificent? Mothers Who Cycle With Their Children in The UK
Whilst much research has been carried out looking at the relationship between women and cycling, less is known about the experiences of mothers cycling in the UK with their children (aged 11 and under) for utility journeys. This study uses social practice theory as its framework, in particular, the …
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Structural elucidation of glycerophospholipids using metastable atom-activated dissociation mass spectrometry (MAD-MS)
… known as metastable atom activated dissociation (MAD). The application of this technique to biological molecules has been demonstrated in the past through peptides, but this is the first application to lipid ions. MAD functions by exposing isolated and stored lipid ions with a beam of high-energy …
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A Mad Critique of Anti-Neoliberalism: Sanism in Contemporary Left Thinking On Political Economy
… in anti-neoliberal discourses, which romanticize madness and normalize liberal reason. Given rationality’s centrality to whiteness, I argue that madness becomes a hermeneutic tool that continues liberalism’s violent forgetting. I trace the work that racialized rationality does across a range of …
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Points of Refusal: An Arts-Based Exploration of the Medicalization of Mad Trans Identity
… crip and trans theory, art, and embracing a mad aesthetic, I first highlight the concept of deliberate, productive failure through my inability to be read as transgender, showcasing my ability to pass as a white, cisgender, abled, sane man in photographs. I then apply the frameworks of mad …
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Madmen and mad money: psychological disability and economics in medieval and early modern literature
… is partly attributable to the fact that ‘mad’ characters evoke economic anxieties rooted in the socioeconomic climate of the societies in which the respective texts are created. Fictional ‘madmen’ are used as symbols of or scapegoats for economic problems such as rising poverty, price …
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<i>The blackbird's sonnet</i> and other tales: Stories imagining an art-eco-mad ethic
… about experiences as a white, middle-class Madwoman, this dissertation explores the intersections between Mad studies and EcoJustice education using an arts-based, specifically poetic inquiry and fiction-based research, and autoethnographic approach. Weaving together the creative and …
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'Mad, bad and dangerous to know': exploring the everyday spaces of older, mental health service users
… and ambivalence in the ways which service users made meanings of their daily lives (Brown & Tucker, 2010). Consequently, this thesis is framed around the ontological realms of creativity, potentiality and of becoming within and through space (Deleuze & Guattari, 2004; Massumi, 2002). Finally, …
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“Mad King Ludwig”, « Père Rhin » und “Foresta Nera”. Das Deutschlandbild in englisch-, französisch- und italienischsprachigen Reiseführern
Das Deutschlandbild, das von ausländischen zeitgenössischen Reiseführern gezeichnet wird, wurde in dieser Arbeit anhand aller zum 1. Januar 2000 auf dem internationalen Markt vorhandenen englisch-, französisch- und italienischsprachigen Reiseführer über Deutschland untersucht. Die von den …
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