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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Pygmalion"”.
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Pygmalion and Adonis
… of a draft for a novel with the working title of Pygmalion and Adonis. It can be split into three sections. The first section is the beginning of the novel where the main character Edvard is introduced. He is rejected from the Academy of Horizons, visits the Arbiter’s temple, and receives an …
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The Upward Pygmalion Effect in the Organization
This study examined the upward Pygmalion effect from the subordinate to the supervisor. One hundred and sixty-one undergraduate participants assumed the role of a supervisor and were randomly assigned to one of nine experimental conditions representing different levels of expectations and …
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Pygmalion in beeld: de mythe van geletterdheid
Onderzoek naar de representatie van de mythe van geletterdheid in (populaire) film.
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Sublime dissension: A working-class Anti-Pygmalion aesthetics of the female grotesque
… of working-class femininity, proposing an “Anti-Pygmalion” aesthetics (referencing Shaw’s Pygmalion)in which pressure to conform to bourgeois notions of respectability is refused in favour of holding onto aspects of working-class female identity which have been treated as faulty and shameful. It …
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Stand Perfectly Still: Statues, Nudity, and the Pygmalion Myth in Victorian Theatre and Culture
Stephen Guy-Bray argues that though the story of Pygmalion has taken various forms in the nineteenth century, “it is often read as a story of artistic and sexual triumph” (447). But a sexual triumph for whom? My thesis addresses questions pertaining to how the nude female body is vieon the …
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"Pygmalion" vs "My Fair Lady": A comparison of the vision of two authors and what each play says to women
… vision of George Bernard Shaw on his masterpiece Pygmalion, and compares it to that of Alan J. Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe on their adaptation of Pygmalion into a history making musical called My Fair Lady. Through this examination it is discovered what Shaw considered a romance and how …
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From 'Le cri de la nature' to 'Pygmalion' : a study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy of music and aesthetic and reform of opera
The thesis sets Rousseau's philosophy of music and aesthetic of opera against the wider philosophical backcloth of eighteenth-centuryF rance and in contraposition to the more scopic music-theoredcabl ackdrop,o f which Rameau'sw ritings are takena s a paradigm. The first half of the thesis contends …
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THE ELIZA-HIGGINS MODEL: THE IDEOLOGY, RAPPORT AND METHODS OF DIALECT ACQUISITION
George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1912) and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady (1956) offer 20th century’s most famous example of dialect acquisition: the transformation of Eliza Doolittle under the tutelage of Professor Henry Higgins. The opportunity to work on Barksdale Theatre’s production of …
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Propoetides
… opera Il Giudizio di Pigmalione (The Judgment of Pygmalion) and was inspired by the following description from Ovid’s Metamorphosis: Nevertheless, the immoral Propoetides dared to deny that Venus was the goddess. For this, because of her divine anger, they are said to have been the first to …
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Yeats and labour
… time of his marriage, Yeats drew on the myth of Pygmalion to distinguish between different aspects of artistic labour. His poetry suggests that while such labour may bring inanimate beauty alive, it may also draw life out of the artist. In response, he proposes a model of reciprocal artistic …
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Counselor Expectation Effects on Disability Referrals
… are found eligible is attempted by using the Pygmalion effect. Procedure. A rating of 1-High, 2-Medium, or 3-Low on Rehabilitation Potential was randomly assigned to all new DDS referrals to vocational rehabilitation made between September 1, 1981, and September 23, 1981. A total of 160 cases …
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"I just want to give something back" Peer work and desistance
… self are considered. Through application of the Pygmalion concept and the looking-glass self, key criminal justice personnel are instrumental in the validation of new pro-social and desisting selves and through peer work, these validations take central stage in supporting the desistance process.
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American women sculptors in Rome in the mid-nineteenth century: feminist and psychoanalytic readings of a displaced canon
… the objects of her creative production in a `Pygmalion effect', the woman sculptor is figured in Hawthorne's novel as a limit, embodying an impossible (for phallic cultural discourses) coincidence of femininity and creativity. Read through a matrixial lens, sculptures by Edmonia Lewis intrude …
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Transferring the stigma of mathematics during COVID-19 : exploring correlations between parent and student perceptions about mathematics.
… the subject. Rosenthal and Jacobson's (1968) Pygmalion effect, or self-fulfilling prophecy, served as the theoretical framework for this study while specifically analyzing the correlation between parent beliefs about mathematics and their child's perceptions about mathematics. This study …
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Gramophonic Trauma: The Object as Cultural Mnemonic in Irish Literature
… attempts to preserve. In George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, the gramophone is feminized in the context of gendered colonial politics. In Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September and Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock the machine is imbued with the physical and psychological violence of Ireland at …
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An Examination of Student-Ahtletes' Perceptions of Their Academic Abilities
… (for example, Rosenthal and Jacobson’s Pygmalion effect (1968) and self-fulfilling prophecy research). The current study examined student-athletes’ perceptions of this stereotype. Three areas were addressed: athletes’ perceptions of their peers’ awareness that the student is a …
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An exploration into managerial perception and its influence on performance in cross cultural setting. The case of Japan International Cooperation Agency's support for development.
There is a wealth of studies which suggest that manager's positive perceptions/expectations can considerably influence organisational performance; unfortunately, little empirical evidence has been obtained from development studies. This first time research explores how Japanese aid workers' …
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The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity
… art and life. This chapter uses the myth of Pygmalion’s statue as a way of thinking about contemporary art’s continued engagement with ideas of mimesis and the ‘real’ which were theorised and debated in antiquity. The second lens is corporeal fragmentation, as evidenced by the broken …