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Through mimesis and methodology
The goal of this document is to outline the trajectory in which I have been working the past several years. I would like to comment and detail the production of several projects, including Site Nine: Indefensible Structures, Text 11: Site Translations, Study For Casablanca: Maps For Access And …
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Mimesis as communication in the work of art.
Dept. of Philosophy. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1974 .R49. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1974.
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Style and mimesis in the name of Walter Benjamin
… in terms of a theory of the faculty of mimesis between 1928 and 1933 sets the stage for the materialist appropriation of the conceptual resources of theology that characterises his late philosophy. The role of style and mimesis in the staging of his philosophy has been obscured until now …
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Modern mimesis: encounters between British and Greek poetry, 1922-1952
This thesis considers the crisis in the portrayal of national spaces and national identities, insecure in the multiplicity of their cultural roots and thus diasporic and hybrid, from 1922, a year marked for its importance in the disintegration of imperial Britain and in the positioning of Greece on …
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Mimesis: Figure di realismo e postrealismo dantesco nell’opera di Pier Paolo Pasolini
… del modello linguistico e stilistico di mimesis dantesca in Pasolini. Costituisce parte di un più ampio discorso sulla rappresentazione culturale che a partire da alcune sue opere teoretiche e creative particolarmente significative intende problematizzare il ruolo di critici letterari …
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A mirror for the republic : mimesis, racial justice, and American literary realism.
… Americans. Using Plato and Aristotle's theory of mimesis, I argue that both black and white writers manipulated audience expectations and prejudices in order to challenge their racist misconceptions. Twain, Chesnutt, Dunbar, and Crane, the writers in this study, used recognizable patterns and …
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Mimesis, Widerstand, Subversion : Bettina von Arnims Briefroman Die Günderode als Ansatz diskursiver Entgrenzung
Bettina von Arnims novel Die Günderode was written during the period of early German romanticism. The novel consists of an exchange of letters between the literary figure Bettine and an opposite, Gunderode. This exchange takes place in the light of the philosophical discourse of German idealism, …
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Allegory, mimesis and the text: theological moulding of Lukan parables in Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis
The approach of this thesis is a departure from the traditional philological examination of understanding the variant readings in Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis. The parables of Jesus in Luke are the object of investigation. The witness of the Church Fathers in the form of their allegorical exegesis …
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Feeling real in fiction : a study of the phenomenological mimesis of givenness in the novel.
… characteristic of the novel as phenomenological mimesis, and I focus in this project especially on the phenomenological mimesis of givenness. Novels give themselves, I argue, in ways that mimetically resemble the phenomenological givenness of the world in our daily lives, and coming to understand …
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The Re-Imagining of Rapa Nui Traditional Healing Arts: Explorations of Narrative Identity, Mimesis, and the Public Sphere
… from the theoretical works of Paul Ricoeur (mimesis and narrative identity) and Jürgen Habermas (public sphere) provide the research categories for this inquiry.</p> <p>Findings</p> <p>The complexity faced on Rapa Nui is of developmental influences on the culture--Polynesian ways-of-life …
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The idea of mimesis: Semblance, play, and critique in the works of Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno
… illustrate the manner in which these features of mimesis, namely its semblance (Schein) and play (Spiel) character, are initially at work in our experiential relation to nature, but are ultimately subject to a violent taboo that wrenches us from nature and thereby wages a desperate battle against …
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Exploring the First Year of Teaching Through Focus Group Discussions, Ethno-Mimesis, A/r/tography, and Performance Ethnography
… programs? Focus group discussions, ethno-mimesis, a/r/tography, and performance ethnography are used to explore the first-year teachers experiences. Findings from the study demonstrated that the first-year teachers endured a significant transition from student teaching to teaching and …
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The window, the mirror, and the stone: A reassessment of the roles of mimesis and opsis in critical theory
This thesis develops three interpretive classifications based on mimetic and opsitic verbal structures. First, the classification of the "window" is described. Second, the aspects of the "mirror" are discussed and illustrated. Third, the features of the "stone" are analyzed and clarified; The …
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The Stakes of Mimesis: Tracing Narrative Lines in the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann and Honoré de Balzac
… relating to the representational practice of mimesis through an explicit engagement with Hoffmann’s work. Hoffmann’s fiction, in turn, proves itself repeatedly to contain the traces of a proto-realist tendency, through its playful interventions into the staging of narrative creation. The …
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The Jacob tôledôt and plot: an exploration of narrative continuity in Genesis 37:2-50:26 according to Ricoeurian Mimesis
… of an interpretive model that appeals to mimesis as the inherent predicate of plot. Drawing in turn on Aristotelian muthos, a threefold rubic is affirmed that gives head to a narrative's hermeneutical consciousness while also acknowledging the intended communicative effect. The result is a …
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The Great War and the American Novel: Mimesis and Craft in Selected Fiction of Dos Passos, Boyd, March, and Hemingway
… of the First World War. Because of their use of mimesis, their innovative combination of fiction and non-fiction, and their influence on later writers, these war novels represent an important development in twentieth-century American literature.</p>
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