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Showing 1 to 20 of 228 for “"Mourning"”.
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Teaching Mourning
Abstract TEACHING MOURNING By Julie Ann Crowder, MAE A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Art Education at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2011 Major Director: Sara Wilson McKay, Ph.D. Interim Department Chair …
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Filled With Absence: Spaces for Mourning
… an architecture for the emotional state of mourning. The seven spaces of this architecture exist in three dimensions: the narrative, the emotive, and sacred.
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Mourning, Melancholia, and Masculinity in Medieval Literature
<p>This dissertation examines male bereavement in medieval literature, expanding the current understanding of masculinity in the Middle Ages by investigating both the authenticity and affective nature of grief among aristocratic males. My focus is on the pattern of bereavement that surfaces across …
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Spectral futurity: The performative afterlives of mourning
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Nesting of Mourning Doves in Eastern South Dakota
The mourning dove¹, not presently a game bird in South Dakota, is gaining support toward that status. During the 1959 state legislative season a bill sponsored by the Department of Game, Fish and Parks to place the mourning dove on the game bird list was passed by the House and defeated by the …
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Mourning, Evil and Grace: A Hermeneutical-Phenomenological Approach
… and grace are different, equiprimordal ways of mourning-in-the-world.
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Mourning and Melancholia in Zimbabwean Culture and Cinema
… Zimbabwe is still in a state of melancholia, mourning the loss of her identity. I contend that the notion of identity is not straightforward, but rather is multifaceted and layered in trauma, tribalism, racism, class and sexism. There is, therefore, a need to reevaluate post-colonial theories …
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Childhood mourning : a critical evaluation of psychoanalytic views.
There is dissention among psychoanalysts about mourning in childhood, including the criteria appropriate to define mourning, the intrapsychic processes of mourning, the ways these manifest in grief and the factors affecting the outcome of childhood bereavement. In order to place the controversies …
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Beyond Mourning: Afro-Pessimism in Contemporary African American Fiction
This thesis engages questions about the relationship between black life and black pain within the confines of a racist society to defend black subjects from the continued violence of systemic racism. Through a reading of three contemporary African American fiction texts, this thesis considers the …
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Mourning Gendered Discipline: Virginia Woolf and the Modern Elegy
… obey two distinct sets of codes in traditional mourning culture and have experienced differently problematic cultural sanctions in responding to loss. This study explores how the traditional gendered discipline in mourning is challenged by Woolf in her representation of Lily Briscoe and Septimus …
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Re-performance, Mourning and Death: Specters of the Past
… philosophical and psychoanalytic discourses on mourning and loss with performance studies theories, particularly those relating to re-performance and the documentation of performance. Thus, it draws on work by performance studies scholars, such as Peggy Phelan, Diana Taylor, and Rebecca …
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Feminizing Grief: Victorian Women and the Appropriation of Mourning
The Victorians didn’t invent the culture of mourning. But they certainly codified how the culture of grief should be one largely shouldered and sustained by women. Mourning rules for women were characterized by restraint and reserve; subject to critique and control. How to mourn, for how long, and …
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Population Dynamics of the Mourning Dove in South Dakota
Mourning dove bandings in South Dakota totaled 44,842 from 1917 through 1970. Adult bandings totaled 44.4 percent of all bandings while immatures, juveniles, locals, and unknown age were 41.3, 0.8, 12.8, and 0.7 percent, respectively. Recoveries totaled 2.8 percent of the banded population, 2.5 …
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Baudelaire's Responses to Death: (In)articulation, Mourning and Suicide
… par excellence, auguring the anticipation of mourning and the problem of remembering the dead as a lifelong cognitive dilemma. Chapter four, "Lethal Illusions," combines analysis of suicide in "La Corde" and "Le Poème du hachisch" with interrogation of mimesis. If the intoxicant serves as …
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The Growth of Mourning Dove Nestlings in Eastern Nebraska
This study on the Mourning Dove (Zenaidura macroura) was designed to provide a basic description of growth in the nestling stage of development for this species, and in this particular locale. The description is in terms of growth rate and attainment of various anatomical features including feather …
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Mourning, materiality and the feminine: Sarah Pucill’s films 2004-2010
… 2004 and 2010, in all five 16mm films: Stages Of Mourning, (17min, 2004), Taking My Skin, (35min, 2006), Blind Light (21min, 2007), Fall In Frame (19min, 2009), Phantom Rhapsody (19min, 2010). As I have been making films that have been exhibited and funded in the public field since 1990, the films …
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Strategic Mourning: America's Journey After the Death of George Washington
… to quickly manufacture practices surrounding the mourning of their presidents. Losing the man who had led them for many years—and against a backdrop of numerous national arguments—inspired eulogists to paint a heroic portrait of the popular general and president to promote calm and unity among …
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Dreams and the Maternal Imaginary: From Nostalgic Intersubjectivity to Mourning
… has fueled omnipotence and obscured the work of mourning. Finally, it explores the idea that psychoanalytic theories are vulnerable to collusion with sociocultural fantasies about mothers and motherhood when they do not preserve a space for theorizing maternal alterity. It considers the …
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Mourning men : the elegiac in James Merrill and Richard Howard
Since the mid-to-late '80s, AIDS has become part of contemporary society. That literary representation of AIDS are now surfacing is thus not unexpected. And, given the homosexual community's early encounter with AIDS, it is equally unsurprising that an extraordinary amount of what is known as AIDS …
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