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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Pastiche"”.
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Pastiche as technique : inside an American palace
… architectural techniques like poche and pastiche, and forgotten forms of ornament. Iconography and ornamentation, rather than being mere decoration, form a membrane which acts as a cultural interface to site the building in a strong, diverse, and ultimately stubborn community.
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Pastiche; a lens through which to view the present
The focus of my research is pastiche. Utilizing a combination of analogue and digital technologies, I will propose that pastiche is not only a means of mimicking or referencing the past, it is a means of providing a lens through which the viewer can make sense of the present. I will investigate …
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Epistolary Encounters : Diary and Letter Pastiche in Neo-Victorian Fiction.
… investigates how intercalated documents fashion pastiche narrative structures to organise conflicting viewpoints invoked in diaries, letters, and other addressed accounts as epistolary forms. This study concentrates on the strategic ways that writers put fragmented and found material traces in …
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Father, God and Tyler's ghost : Fight Club as masculine quest and postmodern pastiche
This study seeks to account for the numerous ways critics in reviews, magazine articles, journal articles and books have interpreted David Fincher's Fight Club. It also seeks to account for growing appeal of the film even though it was initially described as a failure at the box-office. The film …
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Parody and pastiche in the use of popular culture in the evangelistic practices of Korean churches
… as “parodies,” I argue that they are instead pastiches, and I explore the extent to which these pastiches are able to play a role as significant, though problematic, evangelistic media in the context of Korean Christianity. Since this practice encompasses Christian evangelism, popular culture, …
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Parodija ir pastišas posovietinėje Juozo Erlicko prozoje /
The bachelor‘s thesis “Parody and Pastiche in the Post-Soviet Prose of Juozas Erlickas” examines the expression of parody and pastiche, the relationship between them, and the nature of the relationship with the hypotexts in the prose of Erlickas. Due to the breadth of the topic, this work also aims …
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An original script for the stage – Case 121: The Shadowless Corpse plus accompanying essay
… the corpse is devoid of a shadow. The play is a pastiche in style of the film noir genre, using genre conventions to ease the audience into a familiar world of detectives and crime before undermining the assumptions by including the philosophical elements. The accompanying essay analyses the …
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Out of Chaos
… of different poetic techniques, from collage and pastiche to more traditional lyric formats.
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Mimosmluvní instituty užití autorského díla: výjimky, omezení, public domain a související problematika generativní AI
… the licence for text and data mining (TDM), and pastiche as part of the licence for caricature, parody or pastiche. Generative AI is discussed mainly in connection with the TDM statutory licence, and the legal nature of AI-generated outputs is also analysed. The thesis employs descriptive and …
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Satire and Synthesis: Parody and Satire of Victorian Education in the Works of Lewis Carroll
… Carroll reveals significant instances of parody, pastiche, and satire on these styles of education and their corresponding reform. Unlike traditional satire, however, Lewis Carroll’s satire does not simply criticize these targets, but utilizes a strategy of synthesis to illustrate strengths and …
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"Oberon's Henchman; Or The Legend of The Three Sisters" by Matthew Gregory Lewis: A Critical Edition
… reading of the text, arguing that Lewis's pastiche is a carefully orchestrated, respectfully playful synthesis of source material which redefines the nature of the spirit world on his own terms. In addition to this background and critical information, this edition provides tools for the …
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By the Book: Book Collecting, Scrapbooking, and the Making of Modernism, 1880--1950
… characterized by chance, openness and pastiche. I further claim that the dialectic of the permanent and the ephemeral, of the elite and the popular (and to a lesser extent the masculine and the feminine) that informed the contrasting material practices of book collecting and …
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Historicist Composition for the Catholic Church: France and Belgium, 1894–1937
… new music and old. Most writers disavowed pastiche by adopting an ahistorical attitude towards music of the past. These debates belonged to a wider problem in contemporaneous European musical culture, that of how to write in the shadow of an ever-expanding canon. Subsequent chapters turn to …
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Temporal and harmonic concerns in the music of Robert Carl
… the result is not a stereotypical postmodern pastiche of the past, his music does embrace a pluralism of historical and current methods in ways characteristic of a composer keenly interested in modern American culture. Moreover, Carl’s music relates to stylistic developments within late 20th …
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Office of Back of House
… on the spaces and labor often hidden behind pastiche and façade.
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Jiggs and Other Stories
… of fiction. The works presented here are a pastiche of genres that include magical realism, tragedy, absurdist fiction, and fantasy and adventure. Beyond those significant categories, however, these stories are the product of my imagination. The power of fiction itself—Id like to …
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Light In Rivers
… illusions -- Gene and Janine meet again -- Pastiche lady -- Knowing when to stop -- Leaving Newton County -- He almost did all the right things -- Gideon's coin laundromat -- When she first knew -- The matter with men -- Quit while you're ahead -- The saleswoman remembers her dream -- Take …
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Regionalità nel Sorriso dell’ignoto marinaio di Vincenzo Consolo e traduzioni.
… è contraddistinta da un singolare e ricercato pastiche in cui larga parte è riservata al siciliano, solitamente nella forma italianizzata, ma anche alle lingue classiche, al francese, allo spagnolo, all’italiano dei primi secoli oltre che alle varianti sociolinguisticamente basse della lingua. …
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Real to reel : a center for inter-related media, Boston
… physicality of given boundaries. In the city of pastiche, a postindustrial condition has revealed a reading of the city that begins to question our temporal existence ... that we attempt to make a place of discourse, a place to create, contemplate and learn. This thesis proposes that this place …
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