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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Notions of Truth"”.
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Unresolved: notions of ‘truth’ in interpretations of post civil war era artworks by Akram Zaatari and Walid Raad
… thesis is to present a unique parallel reading of two Lebanese born contemporary artists’ work. The artists Akram Zaatari and Walid Raad have created works that explore truths surrounding the events of the recent Lebanese war. Long after physical combat ended, the different parties involved …
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Meaningful mouthpieces : the deconstruction of texts for theatrical (re)presentation
The focus of this research is the translation of deconstruction theory into theatre practice. This is proposed as a way of challenging notions of truth and myths perceived as truth. In dealing with this challenge, notions of post-linearity were applied to text. The application of post-linearity …
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TEACHING WITH CONSCIOUSNESS: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY INTO SCHOLARS’ EXPERIENCES TEACHING ABOUT CONSCIOUSNESS BEYOND THE BRAIN
How might educators challenge the context of present-day mainstream science and philosophy in ways that help students open their minds to the possibility that consciousness may exist beyond the brain? To explore this question, I conducted a narrative inquiry with nine scholars from diverse …
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Establishing methodologies for the analysis and development of interactive documentary
… form that has been shaped by the growth of digital interactive entertainment. Through investigation and analysis of the historical background of documentary, the research discusses the development of documentary film, examining the notions of truth, objectivity and authorship in factual …
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Representation of marriage in selected Harold Pinter plays
This thesis explores the institution of marriage as it is depicted in six plays by Harold Pinter. The married couples in Pinter's plays struggle to maintain the balance between normalcy—the socially accepted behaviors expected of married individuals—and the sexual infidelity that they commit. …
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Performing the encounter; a practice-led inquiry
… explores the ethical and relational dimensions of verbatim theatre, focusing on how encounters between theatre-makers, participants, and audiences shape both the creative process and the final performance. Moving beyond traditional notions of representation, it argues that verbatim theatre is …
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Affective Insurgencies: Circular Narratives of Conflict in Contemporary South Asian Novels
… will explore how our everyday discourses and notions of truth and epistemic validity which we use in a variety of academic disciplines and other contexts can be deconstructed within the textual space of contemporary literature on terrorism. In chapter one, I analyze nineteenth- and …
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Re-membering the colonial present : Jimmie Durham's serious dance
… performer, and poet who was born into a family of activists and carvers. A graduate of Geneva's Ecole des Beaux Arts (1972), he devoted nearly a decade to activist work for the American Indian Movement on both community and international levels, before returning to art practice in the 1980s. An …
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An ecofeminist creation : how Poor Things rewrites and re-animates Frankenstein
Alasdair Gray was one of the preeminent Scottish writers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His 1992 novel, Poor Things, represents a culmination of his carefully curated and craftily charged textual maneuvers as well as a rewrite of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1831). His …
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On knowingness : irony and queerness in the works of Byron, Heine, Fontane, and Wilde
This thesis identifies strategies of queer/irony in the writings of Lord Byron, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Fontane, and Oscar Wilde. Key to the understanding of irony is Friedrich Schlegel's re-evaluation of the concept. The thesis establishes an approach to the multifaceted concept of irony and …
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Rock & Roll: a novel
… fragmentary memoirs, the disconnected odyssey of Nick Numbers, a rock music critic working in London and LA through the 1970s into the early 1980s, Rock & Roll explores the multiple realities that exist between documentary, documentable fact and supposedly pure fiction. Real people and …
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Sensing-through Architectural Scenographies: Tactility, Language and Natural History in the Work of Walter Benjamin
In its consideration of the work of the senses, notions of truth and language and political aesthetics in Walter Benjamin’s epistemology of images, this thesis takes as its touch-stone Benjamin’s somewhat overlooked meditations on the sensorial faculty of tactility (“das Taktische”). According to …