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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Re-Presentation"”.
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Kate Chopin's The Awakening: A Re-Presentation of Societal Control
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Meaningful mouthpieces : the deconstruction of texts for theatrical (re)presentation
The focus of this research is the translation of deconstruction theory into theatre practice. This is proposed as a way of challenging notions of truth and myths perceived as truth. In dealing with this challenge, notions of post-linearity were applied to text. The application of post-linearity …
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Within Double Restraint: The Dialectics & Aesthetics of Erotic [Re]presentation in African Cinema
“Within Double Restraint” advocates for the concept and application of eroticism as an analytical lens in the study of African cinema. This thesis unveils and investigates representations of sexuality and the nude female form in African cinema. One of the most useful concepts through which one can …
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Re/presentation Of Hip-Hop: An Exploration Of White Hip-Hop Fans, Consumers And Practitioners
… and participants. However, scholars have created a clear link between hip-hop, the African American community, and African Diaspora. Through ethnographic fieldwork and autoethnography, I explore the intersection of race and hip-hop. With the data from my trips to hip-hop events and in-depth …
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The Yuanmingyuan As Collective Memory: The Re-Presentation And Consumption Of History In Late 20Th Century China
! Yuanmingyuan, more than a site, is an idea that has both historically and recently been associated with diverse ideologies and powerful group sentiments. In the 1980s, the construction of the Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park around the ruins of the early 18th century Qing imperial garden, the …
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Constructing a Spatial Imaginary: The Formation and Re-presentation of Monte Carlo as a Vacation-Leisure Paradise, 1854-1950
In 1854, Monaco faced an uncertain future. The principality subsisted on a struggling agro-economy, encountered serious challenges to maintaining its sovereignty, and contained a disgruntled populace overburdened with taxes and state monopolies. European contemporaries perceived the small state as …
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The construction of ethnic identities in comic books : analysing the (re)presentation of Self and Others in 'The Adventures of Tintin'
This thesis aims to raise awareness of the representations of Self and Others in a widely-distributed and controversial 20th -Century comic book series, Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin. It explores how selected character roles are constructed, especially regarding their function, ethnicity, and …
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Marketing, the literary & the logos of cool: A poststructuralist enquiry into the appropriation and impact of literary theory on marketing discourse and its implications for the re-presentation of consumer dispositions of characterised by cool
… the discourses of marketing and consumer culture.<br/><br/>The starting point for this study was an exploration of the ways in which postmodern marketing's engagement with the literary helps consolidate interpretive approaches that claim to offer a deeper understanding of the more nuanced needs …
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Through the Lens of Interpreters: The Awakening of Faith in Mahayana in Its Classical Re -Presentations
… in Qixinlun commentaries introduce their treatise by asking a set of fully established questions that are commonly asked in almost all exegetical works, i.e., the general exegetical tradition determines how a particular exegetical tradition surveys its text---Chapter 4 thus examines the …
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The role of recursive remindings on memory updating of emotional stimuli
It has been argued that emotional memories are harder to update than neutral memories (Novak & Mather, 2009; Sakaki, Niki, & Mather, 2012) and that the cause is that emotional memories are subject to greater levels of proactive interference. This explanation was questioned in this paper and another …
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JEWISH LANDSCAPES ROOTED, EMBEDDED, ENSHRINED, AND TRANSCENDENT: METAPHOR AS COMMUNICATED IN JEWISH MUSEUMS IN NEW YORK, JERUSALEM, AND SAN FRANCISCO
… places, museums negotiate authenticity and re-presentation, fact and ideology, memory and the present confronting a basic question for museums directors, curators, and visitors alike: what is the truth here? In this dissertation, the content and form of four Jewish museums are examined …
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Architecture, festival and order: the history and persistence in the Florentine Feast of San Giovanni and its significance to the city's civic identity
… San Giovanni is still a significant day for Florence. Since its revival in the 1930s - but also throughout much of the city’s history - every year church processions and civic parades have been augmented by a series of other events that together combine to represent the city to itself and to …
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Koha and Kōrero: Intercultural Participation in Aotearoa
… of art-making such as drawing and pigment preparation. The type of art-making was designed to engage Māori participants at the events, and less well-known traditional methods were researched for this process. The starting point for the project was rock drawings and the ochre pigments used to …
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Paradigm or pariah? : an architectural intervention into Daniel Burnham's timeless plan of Chicago
… Hudson Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago. It presses the boundary of what is known, and concentrates on dissecting and analyzing extremes brought about by the polar boundaries of (re)presentation and abstraction, in order to reveal the nature of time and move closer in my personal search for …
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Transforming Performances: An Intern-Reseacher's Hypertextual Journey in a Postmodern Community
I present the dissertation web as a montage of a postmodern inquiry of my doctoral internship and research experiences—concerns and jubilation—positioned within the discourses of <a href="site_map2.htm#2">postmodern</a>, dissertation, academia, experimentalism and cyberspace innovations among …
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An exploration of how identity capital is constructed in the narrative life stories of fathers in areas of disadvantage.
There is limited research concerning fathers who live in areas of disadvantage and their life experiences. Deficit model thinking and pathologisation of people who live in areas of disadvantage can be found in research and policy, and none more so than for fathers who may not fit desired ideals of …
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The Perceptual Specificity of Representations of Complex Scenes for Rotation, Translation, and Reflection
The issue of how complex visual scenes are represented has received relatively little attention. Perceptual specificity refers to the degree to which a physical change to a stimulus, upon re-presentation, alters performance in any type of memory test. I investigated the perceptual specificity of …
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Child's play : facilitating child development through play and interaction with plants
The representation of planting has been under- theorised in landscape architecture and has become a simple technical accompaniment to design rather than a vital part of the design process. Generally, planting design is left to the end of the project when it fills a previously generated plan …
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