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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Metanarrative"”.
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Transcending the metanarrative: the postmodern spirituality of Shirazeh Houshiary's sculpture
… Lyotard theorized as the collapse of the "metanarrative". Transcending the Metanarrative: The Postmodern Spirituality of Shirazeh Houshiary's Sculpture will discuss how Shirazeh Houshiary portrays a hybrid spirituality in her sculptures, which in turn exemplifies Jean-François Lyotard's …
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MAKING MYTH MATTER: INTERROGATING NARRATIVE AND RECONSTRUCTING METANARRATIVE IN CLASSICAL MYTH ADAPTATION
… Wertenbaker and Joanna Laurens as creating metanarratives that shame rape survivors and demean the violence of the rape act. I begin the scholarly portion of the dissertation by examining the difference between narrative: the events of a story, and metanarrative: the discursive function of …
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(Re) Visiting Female Entrepreneurs: An Emancipatory Impulse
… aims to emancipate female entrepreneurs from the metanarrative of economic growth which has created a false dichotomy of successful male entrepreneur versus an unsuccessful female entrepreneur. This aim is pursued through a multidisciplinary and critical inquiry that destabilises this …
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Lithuanian literary history: a theoretical study of writings /
… considered to be named a great/grand narrative (metanarrative). This major genre express nation’s historical memory and identity, is closely associated with the fictional writing, tropes of speech and imaginations of historian. In Europe the prosperity of history writings reached its apogee in …
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Lietuvių literatūros istorija: teorinis rašymų tyrimas /
… considered to be named a great/grand narrative (metanarrative). This major genre express nation’s historical memory and identity, is closely associated with the fictional writing, tropes of speech and imaginations of historian. In Europe the prosperity of history writings reached its apogee in …
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"Alive & Kicking": Queer Cultural Memory of Toronto's Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement Through Photographs of Violence and Protest in The Body Politic (1971-1987)
… memories; the texts communicate the textual metanarrative (dominant narrative of the GLLM), while the photographs show the visual narrative. Both comprise the movement’s collective memory. To analyze these photographs, this thesis establishes a visual methodology based on techniques in …
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Communicating through Cork: Marcel Proust's Performative Call to Philosophy of Communication
… of communication replaces modernity's metanarrative of progress with postmodernity's many works in progress. The metanarrative of postmodernity is fragmentation, the lack of a metanarrative. In postmodernity, progress sputters and stalls, then starts on new paths. Philosophy of …
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Dominion Shifts in Biblical Apocalyptic Literature: a Narrative Reading of Daniel 7 and Revelation 12-14 Vis-À-Vis Genesis 1-3
… (Gen 1–3; Dan 7; Rev 12–14) to the canonical metanarrative, especially insofar as they articulate the issues of dominion shifts (changes in rulership/administration) and divine legislation.</p> <p>Methodology</p> <p>This dissertation focuses on three crucial texts of the biblical metanarrative …
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Postmodern philosophy, relativism, and a renewed vision of education
… rejection of the epistemic foundations and metanarrative of modern philosophy. By denying the ultimate Archimedean point for grounding truth, objectivity, and rationality, postmodern philosophy invokes relativism in which the contingent, hermeneutical, and historical nature of human …
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Nietzsche's Dialogic Ethic After Illusion: Rhetoric and Difference
… contemporary historical moment characterized by metanarrative disintegration. With metanarrative disintegration, difference and multiplicity are now privileged. The privileging of difference communicates a turn to dialogue rather than the modern bias towards telling in shaping communicative …
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Metamodern Satire in Contemporary American Literature and Television
… form replaced correction with destabilization of metanarratives. In this project, I argue that as elements of modernism have resurfaced in the metamodern era, a new theory of satire must be developed to account for satires existing in the liminal space between modernism and postmodernism. To …
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The Transformation of a Shire: Local Negotiation in the Society for Creative Anachronism
… Anachronism supports an official homogenous metanarrative. It is this narrative that is most often heard and examined by outsiders. Despite the initial perceived dominance, this metanarrative acts as a frame or matrix narrative, and contained within are multiple hyponarratives and little …
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“Strangers and Exiles”: Christian Identity as the Foundation for Counseling Korean Americans
… worldly identity, the centrality of the biblical metanarrative in establishing Christian identity, and the significance of Christian identity displayed through the stories of the three immigrants in Scripture. Chapter 3 articulates the two natures of Christian identity—the gospel indicative and …
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Secular Students’ Perceptions of Christian Rhetoric: A Phenomenological Study
… rhetorical elements revealed in the biblical metanarrative or, more succinctly, Christian rhetoric, to persuade his or her fellow man of the truth and beauty of the gospel. Although an abundance of literature devoted to the rise of secularism in the United States exists, there is minimal …
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What's the story: a narrative overview of community interpreting in mental health care in Ireland
… of these interpreter-mediated meetings; (3) the metanarrative level of mental health interpreting service provision. The investigation is based on thematic, structural and dialogic narrative analytical methods carried out on data collected during narrative interviews with mental health …
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Meeting the Absurd: Camus and the Communication Ethics of the Everyday
… who navigated through the chaos of a moment of metanarrative decline. In our own moment of narrative and virtue contention, Camus's voice should again be heard as we seek to take communicative responsibility in an age of absurdity.
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‘Unpenned’: a collection of responses to fairy tales, together with a critical commentary
… automatic writing, surrealism, postmodernism and metanarrative. Theoretical frameworks are employed where they seem most relevant, particularly those pertaining to psychoanalytic thinkers such as Klein. The commentary concludes with a chapter on Agency and Style in which I further examine artistic …
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Reframing the Neolithic
… symbolic reading of agriculture to construct a metanarrative of Mesolithic continuity is challenged through a consideration of the evidential base and the indications it gives for a corresponding movement at the level of the economy; whilst the limiting effects generated by an interpretative …
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