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Patrick Geddes
The essential problem in a study of Geddes is that it is difficult to cite any one particular doctrine providing his final definition of planning. He did not develop his theories in any one single systematic work. He left articles, lectures, pamphlets and innumerable reports on the subject out of …
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Patrick Geddes: Synthetic Vision
… the beginning of the twentieth century, Scotsman Patrick Geddes introduced methods of investigation commensurate with other sciences. A biologist, trained by Thomas Huxley, Geddes borrowed the practices of the microscopical laboratory in creating the Outlook Tower in Edinburgh, Scotland which …
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Das Kulturkonzept der "créolité" im Romanwerk Patrick Chamoiseaus
… und Romanwerk des Prix Goncourt-Preisträgers Patrick Chamoiseau. Der Autor publiziert im späten zwanzigsten Jahrhundert den "Éloge de la créolité", Manifest für einen postkolonialen Identitätsentwurf, das die Schwierigkeiten der Antillaner, ein kreolisches Selbstverständnis zu leben, …
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The Poetic Achievement of Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967)
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:35:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317546.pdf: 17332276 bytes, checksum: 11072a54cc21267185dc37e692f1fb86 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Patrick Geddes and the Celtic Renascence of the 1890s
… had many pasts to choose from for inspiration. Patrick Geddes found inspiration in its Celtic past. Geddes is best known for his work as a town planner and sociologist, but has been under-valued for his work as the leader of the 1890s cultural movement in Edinburgh, the Celtic Renascence. In an …
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Music in the life and work of Patrick White
Arguably, Patrick White (1912-1990) is Australia’s best known and most celebrated writer. In a working life spanning almost seven decades, he produced twelve novels, eight produced plays, three books of short stories and several collections of poetry, as well as several film scripts (only one of …
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Patrick County, Virginia and the Civil War, 1860-1880
In 1860, Patrick County. like the rest of Virginia and much of the South. wavered uneasily on the brink of secession. In a county where large planters were few, secession was not overwhelmingly popular. Slaveholding families, however, constituted almost one quarter of the white population in …
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Biblique des derniers gestes de Patrick Chamoiseau : Fantastique et Histoire
Patrick Chamoiseau is arguably the most prominent cultural personality from the French island of Martinique. His reputation is due to the worldwide success of his novels, especially Texaco, winner of the Prix Goncourt-award in 1992, but also to the fact that he is the leading theorist of the …
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Time and language in Patrick White's “A fringe of leaves”
Fil: Cicero, Karina R. Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina
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Organic cities and the case of Patrick Geddes in Dhaka
… in the Indian tradition of founding of a city. Patrick Geddes the Scotish town planner came with a huge enthusiasm to work in India. On his eastern sojourn he came to Dhaka to produce a masterplan for the city. He perceived a regenerative organic dimension in the cities form and function, …
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Patrick White "The bowerbird": Beyond Nature and Culture in the Anthropocene
This thesis examines how Patrick White's (1912-1990) fiction unsettles inherited distinctions between nature and culture by transforming perception and literary form. Through close readings across his oeuvre, including The Aunt's Story, Voss, and The Cockatoos, it shows how landscape acts as an …
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The Permanence of Race: Governor Deval Patrick and the Deracialization Concept
… concept through a case study of Governor Deval Patrick's first administration and reelection campaign. The study use critical discourse analysis to explore how race as a discursive social construct was present in the speeches made by Governor Deval Patrick from June 2007 through June 2010. The …
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Self and (m)other in Patrick White's fiction : an object relations approach
This thesis offers a new interpretation of Patrick White's novels, using Object Relations psychology. Object Relations psychology differs from Freudian psychology in that it shifts the focus of attention from notions of the Oedipal conflict and repression to issues of nurturing and relationships. …
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The tripod in the dunny : a study of Patrick White's sylleptic habits
… is a study of relations between aspects of Patrick White's prose style and his perception of a moral equivocation that is entailed in the construction of identity and in the making of fiction. Chapter One presents examples of White's sylleptic style. The virtuosity of the figure is seen to …
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"Variations of the rainbow" : mysticism, history and aboriginal Australia in Patrick White
This study examines Patrick White's Voss, Riders in the Chariot and A Fringe of Leaves. These works, which span White's creative career, demonstrate certain abiding preoccupations, while also showing a marked shift in treatment and philosophy. In Chapter One Voss is discussed as an essentially …
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Scotland’s Forgotten Theologian: The Life, Theology, and Legacy of Patrick Fairbairn (1805-74)
Patrick Fairbairn (1805-74) was a Free Church of Scotland minister and the founding principal of the Free Church College, Glasgow (now Trinity College). In addition to his academic and pastoral duties, he authored eight books, edited and compiled a theological dictionary, and wrote numerous …
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The role of St. Patrick in Downpatrick: from traditional pilgrimage to contemporary parade
This thesis explores how St. Patrick’s Day became detached from the celebration of a fifth century Christian Saint to the contemporary setting where it is caught up in tensions between religion, nationalism and commodification. It explores this matter through a research study of Downpatrick, a …
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The reproduction of violence in the works of Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant
… writings of two contemporary Martinican authors, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant. While existing scholarship provides significant examinations of both authors individually, this study builds on these foundations to carry out the first single extensive comparison of Chamoiseau and …
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Locating the Destitute: Place in Postcolonial Fiction (V.S. Naipaul, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Octavia Butler)
… in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas, Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco and Octavia Butler's Kindred. Using space as a narrative device and an analytical category, I question the tendency of mainstream postcolonial criticism to exchange the forceful binarism of the anti-colonial struggle for …
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