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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Memory--History"”.
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Performing photographs: memory, history, and display
In my study, I place concepts and practices of photography and performance in dialogue to enable our understanding of how photographs perform and how performance contains or can contain elements we attribute to photographs. The connection between photography and performance that most intrigues me …
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Lives in Limbo: Memory, History, and Entrapment in the Temporal Gateway Film
… existing categories discussed and defined in memory studies. This thesis employs an interdisciplinary approach in order to draw out the features of the temporal gateway film, demonstrating how the central protagonist, the character whose life is in limbo, personifies the experience of living …
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Embodying the intangible at Princess Vlei : Capturing memory, history and imaginings in landscape and architecture
… of program. An exploration into the history, legend, memory and imaginings associated with Princess Vlei illustrate that landscape is not simply made up of physical attributes, but holds intangible values. The variety of human expression and activity that take place at the vlei define …
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Memory, History, and Forgetting in the Sandra Allen Collection of Papers on Mormonism: A Feminist Rhetorical Historiography of Institutional Intervention in the Equal Rights Amendment
… dissertation leverages archival theory, public memory theory, feminist historiography, and rhetorical theory to argue that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reinterpreted the Mormon past to engender identification and foster political action during the Equal Rights Amendment …
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A palimpsest-image: place, space and film geographies
… of discourses involving complex combinations of memory, history and imagination. Not necessarily present all the time, these three vectors interact, whether in the interpretation and organization of the theoretical discourse, or in the consideration of the practical work in its artistic and …
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Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of the Self: Living in the Truth
… short of a full victory” on the “battlefield” of history, Badiou argues that Ricoeur deceives his readers by hiding the relationship of the self to history. The purpose of this deception is to defend a definition of history that allows for a Providential sense of history whereby the past could be …
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Die mite as ideologiese verskynsel : die versoeke na 'n nuwe mite in Postapartheid Suid-Afrika
… dissertation. Secondly, the concept cultural memory is investigated, which includes an analysis of memory, history and history production. Thirdly, it includes a text analysis of the works of three South Africa authors. By looking at theoretical concepts on ideas, using Carl Jung's theories on …
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RE/placing public art: the role of place specificity in new genre public art
… our perceptions of specific locations through memory, history and experience. The thesis explores place as a subject, an artistic influence, and a social and cultural signifier. Also examined is how artists use place as a means of connecting to specific locations and audiences, as well as a way …
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The history writer’s tale : historical fiction and the depiction of identity in Michiel Heyns’s ‘the typewriter’s tale’ and ‘bodies politic’
… the relationship between historical fiction, history, and the portrayal of the identity of historical figures with specific reference to two novels by Michiel Heyns, namely: The Typewriter’s Tale (2005) and Bodies Politic (2008). Throughout the study the relationship between history as a …
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Heritage, letters, and public history : Dorothea Fairbridge and loyal unionist cultural initiatives in South Africa, circa 1890-1930'
… classic studies of old Cape architecture and history. The exportation of the Cape vernacular building style as a national architectural idiom for South Africa at large is explored in a case study of the Tongaat-Hulett sugar estate in Kwazulu-Natal. The role of genteel anglophone Englishwomen …
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Through the Mangrove Tunnels, for String Quartet, Piano, and Drum Set, and “Musical Signification in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest”
… drawn from my memories as well as the colorful history of Weedon Island, a nature preserve in St. Petersburg that I spent much of my childhood exploring. The island’s many legends include ceremonial gatherings of Native Americans, landings by Spanish conquistadors, burned-down speakeasies, …
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Paradoxes of the Heart and Mind: Three Case Studies in White Identity, Southern Reality, and the Silenced Memories of Mississippi Confederate Dissent, 1860-1979
… processes by which various groups silenced the memory of Civil War white dissent in Mississippi. It analyzes three case studies: F. A. P. Barnard’s 1860 trial for abolitionism, the transformation of community memory which surrounded Newt Knight in the early twentieth century, and Mississippi’s …
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Constructing Memories: Time Made Tangible
… gives the past and time itself presence. This Memory Center, located in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C., gives the opportunity for people to share their memories and experiences in order to give time physical presence. Like an interactive science museum, the Memory Center opens itself to the …
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A memória coletiva do Holocausto na União Europeia do século XXI
Na tentativa de encontrar um património comum e uma memória coletiva a todos os seus Estados-Membros, uma identidade para legitimar o crescente processo de integração europeu, a União Europeia encontrou no Holocausto um evento histórico que amplamente seria reconhecido e assimilado no seio desta, …
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Civil War prisons in American memory
The memory of Civil War prisons has always been contested. Since 1861, generations of Americans struggled with the questions raised by the deaths of approximately 56,000 prisoners of war, almost one-tenth of all Civil War fatalities. During the war, throughout Reconstruction, and well into the …
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Um estudo de caso: o fundo Tomé José de Barros Queirós e o relevo dos arquivos pessoais e particulares no âmbito do património documental, da memória e da história
A presente dissertação para o curso de Mestrado em Estudos do Património insere-se na linha de investigação do Património Documental. Pretende evidenciar o valor da Memória para a escrita da História, através do estudo de caso do fundo pessoal, histórico e particular de Tomé José de Barros Queirós …