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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Mermaids"”.
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Mermaids and Sirens as Androgynous Figures in Victorian Art and Literature 1870-1915
… project explores the androgynous depictions of mermaids and sirens in Victorian art and literature. It focuses on three Pre-Raphaelite artists – Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), Evelyn De Morgan (1855-1919) and John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) – who produced prolific mermaid and siren output, …
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The mermaids dive for freedom: Voices of feminist community activists plunging through neoliberal times
This thesis is based on a narrative inquiry with three feminist community activists. Its purpose is to provide a resource to support the radical praxis of feminist community educators in a neoliberal context which has appropriated both community education and feminism for a labour market agenda. It …
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Only Underwater Can We Breathe: The Book of Mermaid Contemplations
<p>In recent years, mermaids have become a cultural zeitgeist. Judging by American women’s ongoing and increasing interest in watching, writing about, and performing as mermaids, many women feel empowered by the mermaid’s hybrid body. Yet there are darker depths to the mermaid myth that continue to …
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Mar Gur Dream Sí Iad Atá Ag Mairiúint Fén Bhfarraige: ML 4080 the Seal Woman in Its Irish and International Context
… Irish and Scottish traditions about seals and mermaids. I conclude that they represent a stable body of belief concerning such beings, and relate to broader concerns about the relationship between humans and their environment. In my third chapter, I explore medieval and early modern Irish …
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When Trying to Reach Zombies and Other Stories
… on the Rocky Beach” explores a world of soulless mermaids. “The Man and His Lamb” is an original fairy tale based on an Old Testament tale. “The Story of Three Siblings” explores classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes through the eyes of their villains. The collection explores Christian themes and …
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Oceans of Literature - The Little Mermaid
… established in books like The Iliad, sirens and mermaids were a part of European culture for centuries. The mermaid as chimera monster that represented the duality of danger and seduction was subverted in 1837, when Hans Christian Andersen wrote the seminal fairy tale “The Little Mermaid.” In our …
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Level Down: Using Games as a Teaching Tool for Low-Level Computer Science
… games. The first game is the physical card game Mermaids and Narwhals, which is meant to teach binary manipulations such as shifts and rotations with broader applications in computational thinking; it was evaluated through a gameplay simulation that modelled the game's behaviour under different …
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21 skin lies & the naked truth : short fiction
… leitmotifs in the text include: open salt water, mermaids, classical and popular culture as reference marks, the "twinning" of ideas and phrases, facets of the so-called digital age and selected portions of the lives of North American gay men between about 1965 and 1997. This collection of short …
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Nantucket
… a baby sperm whale and her herd, and a band of mermaids living in a sea cave.</p> <p>In allowing readers to trace Phoebe's journey through these various characters, this book explores lives that are often marginalized in literature, especially in novels that concern American whaling communities …
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Making Waves: The Mermaid as Female Muse, with Special Reference to the Writings of H.D and Virginia Woolf
… to the inner reality, to memory and desire. The mermaids in H.D's texts are also liberating and enabling figures. They appear as revisions of traditional male-defined mythology and religion, thus undercutting conventional truth claims. With their help, the author overcomes her 'stasis' and …
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Animal-Woman journey(s): posthuman embodiment of zoomorphic folk tales
… different languages tell of Seal Women, Selkies, Mermaids, Dove Girls, She-Wolves, Swan Women: all zoomorphic or semi-zoomorphic beings able to remove their animal coats or skins and take on human shape. Liminal creatures capable of transformation, they embrace the wild and the civilized, animal …
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Ambergris
This thesis contains the first three chapters of my novel in progress, Ambergris, and a craft essay on sentence construction titled, “Narrative on the Level of the Line.” In the craft essay I explore the mechanisms of sentences in creative writing and their function to craft narrative in unique …