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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Organicism"”.
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States of savagery : cannibalism and the political in postwar fiction
… dissertation elucidates the nexus of political organicism, biopolitics, and state violence. It explicates how these novels utilize the cannibal trope to clarify the relationship between the "life" of the political body and the slaughter and consumption of "disposable" peoples. Cannibalism …
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The Ontopolitics of Complexity: Toward Agonistic Democracy and Ecological Political Economy
… commitments relating to complexity, holism, organicism, and environmental determinism, in the intellectual history of systems theory, cybernetics, and theoretical ecology. I critique key interlocutors in the pluralism debate within ecological economics to illustrate how conventionalized …
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The Organic Imagination and Louis Kahn
… Romanticism. This exposes the beginning of organicism as a way of seeing the world as a growth from a mythic image towards a physical manifestation made by artists and poets. In chapter three, the ideas from Romanticism inspire a philosophical and political movement for independence and …
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The Apologist Tradition: A Transitional Period in Southern Proslavery Thought, 1831-1845
… order. They argued from the basis of social organicism, the idea that society should have an elite that controlled the masses. For all three men, slavery represented a system of order that helped balance the dangers of democracy. Significantly, however, all three men recognized that the slave …
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Agricultural approaches to T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral and Four Quartets.
… Drawing on Jeremy Diaper's book T. S. Eliot and Organicism, I explore how Eliot performs and communicates his agrarian politics through these works and how his agrarianism intersects with a Christian understanding of time, martyrdom, and Incarnation. Chapter two examines how Eliot performs his …
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The Independent Group's encounters with logical positivism and searches for unity in the 1951 Growth and Form Exhibition
… the writers discussed in this study-a Romantic organicism, a scientific and a scientistic unitarism, and the ostensibly empirical Gestalt theory-existed simultaneously and intermingled in the IG environment. The historical avant-garde's emphasis on method--such as El Lissitsky's call for …
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The Poetic Architect: An Imaginative Journey of Bruce Goff's Bavinger House
… a poetic architect who employed an imaginative organicism in his work.
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THE PORTRAYAL OF WATER AND WAVE PATTERNS IN THE MUSIC OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY
… liquidity within his Water music. This flowing organicism is supported by ternary-type forms when discernible (in an otherwise ‘open’ structure), and meticulous attention to musical instructions, particularly in the use of specific dynamic waves of sound, which repeatedly swell and contract. …
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Tea, gammon, and coke : the eucharistic imaginary of T.S. Eliot and Denise Levertov.
… century. In light of their investments in organicism and ecology, Eliot and Levertov both respond in verse to the mechanization of eating and eaters with the language and liturgy of their sacramental faith traditions. From Eliot's Waste Land to his Four Quartets, Levertov's Vietnam war …
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Rationalism and the organic analogy in fin-de-siècle Paris : Auguste Perret and the building at 25b rue Franklin
… in society, nature, and history. This "organicism" was again largely indebted to the insights of Viollet-le-Duc. It also reflected Perret's firm conviction that reinforced concrete itself was an "organic" material which summarized and surpassed all previous materials. With such notions …
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Treatment adherence among primary care patients in a historically disadvantaged community in the Western Cape : a qualititative study
… are formism, mechanism, contextualism, and organicism. In many instances adherence as a means of controlling somatic symptoms occurs as part of a logical and mechanistic understanding of health. However, in terms of an organismic worldview, adherence may represent an effort to restore …
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Back to the Land Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023
This thesis is in two parts: a creative piece composed of four linked essays, entitled Red Earth, followed by a critical essay entitled Back to the Land Again: Environmentalism in English georgic life writing 1940-2023. The creative work is life writing based on my experience of living and working …
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Heinrich Schenker’s Early Approach to Form, 1895–1921: Implications for His Late Work and Its Reception
<p>This dissertation constructs Heinrich Schenker’s early approach to form and traces its development as his organic theory of transformational voice leading emerged in the early 1920s. Schenker’s late approach to form is then briefly reconsidered from this newfound perspective.</p> <p>Chapter 1 …
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A polyphony of the mind: intertextuality in the music of Salvatore Sciarrino
"This dissertation examines the work of the Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino (b. 1947), attempting to find a pathway for analysis that can address both its apparent structural simplicity, and its equally apparent intertextual nature. The first chapter demonstrates that typical methods of …