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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Promethean"”.
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Talking Trains, Planes and Automobiles: Machine Anthropomorphism in Children’s Fiction
… fall into three modes of representation: the promethean machine, the fraternal machine, and the dominant machine. Each mode functions as an ideological apparatus to either support the promethean ideology, provide a counter discourse, or turn it on its head completely. The case studies focus on …
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Prometheus in sound : one hundred years of musical adaptations of the myth of Prometheus: Beethoven, Shubert, Liszt, Wolf, Parry, Fauré and Scriabin
The Promethean characteristics of contemporary young iconoclasts as they have expressed disapproval of the society which they have inherited and in which they feel entrapped prompted this study. Our interest here lies with the nature of the dissatisfaction rather than with ways of expressing it. If …
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Playing with fire : Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the rewriting of the Prometheus myth
… offspring, cultural texts, makes use of the Promethean fire in both of its possible senses. Only the literal, however, is seen by patriarchal culture as her rightful realm. Myth dictates that only men received from Prometheus the fire of figurative creativity, of language. The "woman writer," …
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The Portrait of The Jew in The Balzacian Novel
… them. Balzac develops in the successful Jew, a Promethean figure who uses his authenticity, will and intelligence to achieve his goal.
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William H. Sheldon's constitutional psychology: the somatotype as fiction
… biological hegemony. The demise of heroism and "Promethean Will" or individuality was, for Sheldon, a matter of nostalgia and alienation. The somatotype studies, while fostering the illusion of detached empiricism, actually allow Sheldon to judge contemporary humanity according to antique …
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The relationship of family characteristics of at-risk children in rural West Tennessee and select measures of success over a period of 10 years
… in a program funded in rural West Tennessee. The Promethean Foundation is a program that provides childcare tuition support to at-risk children. While the program has been in existence for 20 years, the study focused on 10 years from 2009 through 2019. The program staff reviewed the perceptions of …
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Günther Anders’ Theory of Media and Communication: Developing a Conception of Technological Domination, Alienation and Ideology with Marx beyond Marx
… splitting to update Anders’ concept of Promethean shame. With technological splitting affects are not absent but expressed in a raw, overtly direct fashion. They can consequently be compartmentalised and split off from operators' and users' sense of self.
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The Cretan Glance : The Syncretic Spirit in the Novels of Nikos Kazantzakis
… failure. Kazsntzakis, although more honest and Promethean than any other twentieth century novelist in his attempt to delineate a structuring myth for modern man, falls prey to cultural lack of place for symbols. He is not a myth-maker for modern man on the level of Homer in an earlier time; the …
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Byron's Poetics of Events
… impetus of Byron’s poetic self- conception, his Promethean sympathy, is related to his notion that ‘words are things’: poetry holds the power to be effectual, to form an event as much as an intervention in the course of events. The thesis concludes that Byron’s evental poetics ultimately result …