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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Narcissus"”.
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A study of the alkaloids of Narcissus pseudonarcissus, Amaryllidaceae
… qualities of the bulbs of the common daffodil, Narcissus pseudonarcissus, Amaryllidaceae. The literature consulted does not shed much light on the mechanisms of the toxic agent or agents, and there appear to be some inconsistencies in respect to the alkaloids extracted. Part of this may be the …
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Looking with Narcissus: Oscar Wilde’s Reception of the Dying God
‘It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors,’ writes Oscar Wilde in his ‘Preface’ to the 1891 book edition of his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. By transferring agency away from the originator to the recipient, Wilde’s aphorism could be considered a late nineteenth-century …
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Pale Narcissus: The Role of Primitive Narcissism in the Relationship between White Privilege Attitudes and Modern Racism
White racial identity and White privilege attitudes and their connection to racism and prejudiced behaviors have been studied extensively in the current literature. However, few empirical studies have explored the psychodynamics underlying Whiteness, specifically those psychodynamics pertaining to …
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Narcissus Goes to College: A Consideration of Dispositional Narcissism as a Variable for Student Learning in Higher Education
For over a century, the enigmatic nature of narcissism has been the source of debate across psychological, sociological, and developmental domains. Although much has been written in recent years about narcissism as a generational phenomenon, referencing data collected from university …
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Dorian Gray: The Myth
<p>“Narcissus and Echo” is a myth cautioning against excessive self-adoration and fixation on beauty. However, in the late 19th century, this ancient myth underwent a transformation, taking center stage as a prominent symbol in the emerging Aesthetic Movement. Contrary to warnings present in the …
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Before the pool of Narcissus : the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk's journey to confessional orthodoxy and isolation through the lense [sic] of doctrine
This thesis considers South Africa's Nederduitse Gerefonneerde Kerk (NGK) in its journey toward confessional orthodoxy and isolation which began already in the late nineteenth century and continued, through the apartheid era, well into the twentieth. The dates chosen roughly to frame this inquiry …
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Neurotropní a antioxidační aktivita vybraných druhů jednoděložných alkaloidních rostlin. IV.
… poprvé. Současně se podařilo izolovat z druhu Narcissus Sir Winston Churchilli alkaloid homolykorin. Jeho struktura byla určena na základě NMR a MS studie. Dále byla změřena jeho inhibiční aktivita v čistém stavu vůči oběma esterázám. Nejvyšší inhibiční aktivitu proti HuAChE vykázal extrakt …
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Die skrywer as hermafrodiet
… ek die skrywer as beide 'n Hermaforditus en 'n Narcissus in groot lierauur. Ek wys uit hoe die skryfaksie self 'n Narcissistiese bedryf is en dat die skrywer, sowel as sy teks, Hermafrodities van aard is. As Narcissistiese figuur, het die skrywer noodgedwonge 'n sekere selfbheptheid met sy stof …
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Joseph Conrad's Confrontation With Racism
… evident if one juxtaposes The Nigger of the "Narcissus," written in 1896, and "Amy Foster" (1903) or The Shadow-Line, completed in 1917. His early writings reflect his acceptance and use of common literary stereotypes of the color black, and through a process of color transformation, the …
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Delving into shadow : a study of reflective photographic image-making.
… producing such work; and aspects of the myth of Narcissus as it pertains to the creation of art work that embodies the reflective stance. In conjunction with the autobiographical-narrative approach to the topics above, Marcel Proust's process (used to produce A la recherche du temps perdu, …
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"""Forms of Some Intenser Life"": Genre and Imperialism at the Turn of the Century"
… including Joseph Conrad’s The Nigger of the “Narcissus” and The Inheritors (with Ford Madox Ford), H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay, Bram Stoker’s The Snake’s Pass, and Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows.” This concentration of generic discontinuities not only demonstrates genre’s formal instability …
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A Season
… takes as its genesis a moment of crisis in which Narcissus leans over the pool and sees no reflection there. Its methods are collage, “translation,” and assemblage as “re-membrance,” and by the end I think what it aims for is the patchwork reconstruction of a face, a face in which the many …
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Man in the Mirror: A Mythology-Driven Exploration of Multiple User-Interpretations in a Multimedia Space
… environment that embeds the Greek myth of Narcissus within itself. The subsequent user study provided insight on the process by which naïve visitors may come to deduce their meanings of a work, both individually and collaboratively. Our results showed that there exists a trade-off between …
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Symmetrical Elements in the Piano Music of Einojuhani Rautavaara
… from Etudes (1969), Piano Sonata No. 1 (1969), Narcissus (2001), and Mirroring (2014). This research also provides an opportunity to study Rautavaara’s lesser-known piano works, as well as providing a first look at Mirroring, his very last work for solo piano. The concluding chapter considers …
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Palimpsest
… prelude. Late summer ; A state of innocence ; Narcissus at the kitchen sink ; Truth in perspective ; A sciolism ; Black knowledge ; Elysium in Kansas ; Dry plateau ; To Parmenides -- Second prelude. Red moon rising ; The rose ; Chameleon ; Dry spell ; Woman at the window ; Psyche in the light ; …
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Botanical Biopolitics: The Sociopolitical Lives of Flowers in Victorian Britain
… which the archival material is drawn: the winter narcissus, the spring primrose, summer fuchsia, and autumn dahlia. The histories presented here aim to centre the plants themselves as biopolitical subjects whose lives simultaneously governed and were governed by the humans who grew around them.
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The Theme of Discipline and Control in Conrad's "The Heart of Darkness"
… and fact. In the Preface to Nigger of the Narcissus he clearly enunciated his conception of the artist’s masterpiece, a conception which he attempted to make a reality in his own works:</p> <p> And art itself may be defined as a single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to …
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De geschiedenis van een jonge god : mythe, primordialiteit en de representatie van de archetypische adolescent en jonge man in werken uit de moderne Afrikaanse literatuur en de wereldliteratuur
… sub-characters, different ids: Ganymede, Apollo, Narcissus, Hermaphrodites and Cyparissus. All conform to different aspects of the archetypal young male character. The classical theme of the adolescent and young man is presented as a connection between literary works that initially seem …
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Balkonládákban és zöldtetőn nevelt hagymás-gumós dísznövények morfológiai és fenológiai értékelése
… Ixiolirion tataricum, Muscari armeniacum, Narcissus tazetta ’Minnow’, Tulipa bakeri ’Lilac Wonder’ és Tulipa tarda) alkalmazási lehetőségeire adnak választ. A három felhasználási területen a növényfajok morfológiáját és fenológáját hasonlítottam össze, leírtam a Crocus sativus …
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