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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Oblivion"”.
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Degrees of oblivion
These poems are chiefly concerned with self-awareness and the degree to which each poem's individual speaker is, either voluntarily or involuntarily, oblivious to his or her particular circumstance within the poem. This idea of self-awareness is explored by creating situations within the poems …
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Utopia and Oblivion
This project investigates the possibility of expropriating the industrial infrastructure of a now defunct oil refinery for the bioremediation of toxic soils, restoration of functional riparian ecologies, and reinhabitation of the site by human and non-human life. The context of the project is based …
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Overcoming the State of Oblivion: Decolonial Approaches within Engaged Art Practices
This research project focuses on tracking artistic responses to social, ecological, and economic sustainability, as well as social responses to artistic movements that go beyond turning art into a commodity in service of a neoliberal agenda. In this doctoral thesis, I provide a critical analysis of …
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"Into the Mainstream and Oblivion": Julian Mayfield's Black Radical Tradition, 1948-1984
<p>“Into the Mainstream and Oblivion” is a study of the intellectual and political biography of the African American writer and political activist Julian Hudson Mayfield. As a member of the black Left, Mayfield’s life of activism and art bring the complex network of artists, activists, and …
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Oblivion: grandes compositoras europeas (1850-1950): aportaciones al repertorio del violín y contribuciones al cambio del paradigma del rol de la mujer en la Música
En esta tesis doctoral, por medio de la mayéutica, y recurriendo a los métodos histórico y hermenéutico, se analizará el papel determinante de 15 grandes compositoras europeas de 1850 hasta 1950, que sin embargo son olvidadas con frecuencia en los libros de música referenciales, en las …
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Writers of the Nation: Intellectual Identity in Bulgaria, 1939--1953
"Finally, this dissertation helps resurrect from oblivion of an entire generation of non-leftist interwar intellectuals, who were purged from national and cultural memory after WWII. By focusing on the way in which these writers, their associates and friends negotiated social expectations of …
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The role of memory in the poetry of Douglas Dunn and Tony Harrison with specific reference to elegy.
… almost as if to counter the consciousness of oblivion present in their imaginations. Making detailed use of Wordsworth's 'Essays upon Epitaphs' and Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', Chapter 1 argues that Harrison reviews a poetics of epitaphs in V.. In Chapters 4 and 6 it is …
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Picture This
… after illusory dreams or longing for oblivion and even punishment. Despite these hindrances, characters repeatedly reach for redemption and stories are often laced with glimmers of hope.
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The Progressive Movement in the United States: 1900 - 1924
… righteousness and then the movement drifts into oblivion where the principles that prompted the display of courage smolder until a powerful personality once again arises who can weld together politicians of like ideals.
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Rete simbolica e dinamiche della memoria nella trilogia della guerra civile di Juan Eduardo Zúñiga
… especially when he recovers and saves from the oblivion the multiple voices of the Madrilenian intrahistoria, the real protagonist of the historical changes. Therefore the trilogy, which is almost an unexplored land, is at the core of the research. After a brief but necessary recap of the most …
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Illegitimate Celebrity in the British Long Eighteenth Century
… even faced a veritable textual and historical oblivion. Illegitimate Celebrity considers the careers of Dorothy Jordan, William Henry West Betty, Edmund Kean, and Margaret Agnes Bunn, and offers a historical genealogy of "illegitimate" performers who dared to break with social convention and …
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Memoria, lenguaje poético y horizonte ético en "Mundar" de Juan Gelman
… part of this thesis revolves around memory and oblivion. We question the possibility of a critical memory, defined by Ricoeur as the reconciliation of an image with its imprint. Due to an analogous tension arising out of the metaphorical devices, an opening of language takes places, and the …
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Madison, Indiana's saddletree industry and its workers, 1860-1930
… production. However, the industry faded into oblivion as the beginning of the twentieth century, leaving the men drawn to these shops in the 1870s and 1880s to find new opportunities. While past historians contributed to the fields of industrial and economic history by studying large …
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Domestic architecture of the Sinhalese elite in the age of nationalism
… of nationalism, which indeed is an area in oblivion (both historically and architecturally), this research established that the elite are in a position to better represent/evoke the shifting political/social/cultural forces (i.e. periodic changes) through their architecture within the …
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The New Lex Mercatoria: Applicability of Lex Mercatoria as Substantive Law in International Commercial Arbitration
… into the laws of states giving rise to the oblivion of the law merchant. There has arisen over time a debate on the existence of a new lex mercatoria. The study evaluates the existence and viability of the new lex mercatoria by answering the following pertinent research questions: what are …
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Strategies for network platform evolution
… short span of time while others have vanished in oblivion. Also, lack of comprehensive research in this area, vis-a-vis research in conventional product based business strategies also provided a big impetus to carry on this research. The outcome of this research is a holistic framework, in the …
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The <i>Délie</i> of Maurice Scève: a study of its structural dynamics
… imposed by three and a half centuries of near oblivion and the verdict of obscurity pronounced against it from the start. The general trend in Scève criticism has been away from philosophical or mystic speculations in favor of a new appreciation of the intensely personal lyrical quality and …
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ROMANCES QUE ARQUIVAM, ARQUIVOS QUE NARRAM:AS AREIAS DO IMPERADOR DE MIA COUTO E A ARQUEOLOGIA DA HISTÓRIA DE MOÇAMBIQUE
… the double inscription of preservation and oblivion inherent to archival logic, does not preserve in order to close, but rather to suspend, unveiling the potential dimension of the past as a space in which to seek answers to the needs of the present. In this sense, the trilogy reconfigures …
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Nationalism and internationalism in selected Indian English novels: 1909 – 1930
… might be the reasons behind their slipping into oblivion, there would remain an immense void if this phase of evolution in Indian English literature is neglected.
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