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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"Post-modern"”.
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A natural formative basis to post-modern architecture
Within the cyclic order of history, the Modern Age may be seen to have an emphasis on constructive creativity contributing to its progression away from a natural formative basis for order. As a fundamentally different paradigm to post-modern design approaches, a natural formative basis may be seen …
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A search for primitive voice in post-modern theatre
… the influences of primitive vocal delivery on Post-Modern Theatre. Beginning with a review of the work of three directors: Jerzy Grotowski, Peter Brook, and Richard Schechner; the thesis moves to a case study of a 1991 production of Macbeth where primary research is documented. Focusing on the …
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Applying a post-modern framework to native self-government in Canada
… what it should attempt is a community-based post-modern approach. Where each native community is consulted as to what type of self-government that particular community wishes to realize.
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Understanding disease through a post-modern art practice : (a collaboration of artistic and educational practice)
… is to reflect on my artistic practice from a post-modern way of thinking and seeing the world. This research examines the educational potential of my art production. I propose definitions for three phases of learning, which emerge from my artistic practice: self-learning, self-healing and …
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On Moral Imagination and Indigenous Wisdom: How Leaders Approach Moral-Ethical Tension in Post-Modern Bali
<p>Moral imagination can be defined as an act or process that involves the consideration of a moral-ethical tension and the generation of a novel and appropriate course of action that accommodates the situation. The purpose of this study was to understand <em>how, if at all, might Balinese leaders …
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Curriculum and Compassion: An Inquiry into the Relevance of the Charism of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart in a Post-Modern World
… charism of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart in a post-modern world. The project will investigate the understanding of the charism both by the researcher and by selected brothers who are in unique positions to articulate and explicate just what the charism entails. A variety of formational and …
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The roles of regional organisations in international peace and security in the post-modern era. The case of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe with the Former Soviet Union Republic States.
… in international cooperation. While the post-modern civilisation and values are introduced into the institutions and organisations for international peace and security, the state actors from the pre-modern and modern civilisations and values are vigorously defending the traditional …
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Bottom-up Methodologies in Emerging Models
<p>The post-modern turn in the millennial generation has prompted a response toward religious and organizational authorities, whose organizations do not keep with the changing demand of post-modern individuals. The shift in preferences is marked by a movement from top-down hierarchical models, …
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Employee reactions to management communication: a study of operations personnel in the oil industry.
… aim of critically examining the claims of the post-modern organisation theory (i.e. humanisation of work) and certain communication theories. An ethnographic approach, which enabled the researcher/participant to conduct participant observation in a real setting, ensured deep understanding of …
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Interpretations of the Politics of Fictive Landscapes in Context: A Comparison of Allan Sekula's Sketch on a Geography Lesson and Martha Rosler's In the Place of the Public Airport Series
… the genre of documentary photography within the post-modern age by emphasizing the documentation of an actual physical place, presenting an alternative to the post-modern notion of photograph merely as another component of simulacra, or the intentional creation of an image without meaning or …
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Gestos posmodernos en la novela latinoamericana : los casos de Cristina Rivera Garza, Ana Maria Shua y Laura Restrepo.
… de Laura Restrepo (1955) exhiben gestos posmodernos que enfatizan la dislocación del sujeto, la duda con respecto al concepto de la verdad y la subversión radical del orden ideológico y cultural. Estos textos narrativos cuestionan los valores modernos fundados en la razón, las ideologías …
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Queering Medieval Gender and Sexuality: Pre- and Postmodern Representations of Virginity
… of the medieval virgin in both pre- and postmodern literature and cinema, including women who chose physical virginity as well as spiritual virginity in their quests to be sponsae Christi. I argue that unlike much modern cinema, specifically Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring and Chris …
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The Inward Gaze: Byung-Chul Han's Achievement-Subjectivity in David Foster Wallace's Short Fiction
… Plurum", Wallace posited that the tenets of Post-Modern fiction were once used to criticize the hypocrisies of the 1950's and 60's American had been subsumed by television and were no longer effective tools of criticism. Wallace argues for a move away from irony and stunt pilotry of …
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An Analysis of Appreciative Inquiry as Organizational Development for an Alternative School
… organizational development field suggests that a post modern approach to such efforts may yield new and generative results. Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is an Action Research methodology used for organizational development that is based on a number of post modern assumptions. Because AI has seen a …
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Gathering in the Far Field: The Aesthetics of Contemporary Midwest Regionalism in Theodore Roethke, Robert Bly, and James Wright
… with the overshadowing influence of High Modernism and New Critical theory. Their colloquial style and confessional themes grow directly out of this antagonism toward the ironic and impersonal rhetoric of their literary precursors: Eliot, Pound, Yeats, and the later Fugitive Poets. In …
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Collected Snow Globes
… include visiting art museums, authors across the Modernist and post-modern spectrums, and geographical locales such as Lisbon, the American south, and Kentucky. </p>
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