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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"Remembrance"”.
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Katherine of Aragon: Marriage, Scholarship and Remembrance
This masters by research observes how the scholarship and political successes of women in Tudor England are undermined by the overwhelming importance of marriage. This will be shown through the case study of Katherine of Aragon, who was a highly acclaimed and virtuous woman of her time. Katherine’s …
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Mnemonic drift : a framework for collective remembrance
… a machine for slowing down, a catalyst for remembrance. While the vision of the proposal seeks the insertion of a greater mnemonic landscape throughout the urban tissue, the focus for the project is a single fragment of this flexible framework, the development of a spatial device that …
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Death, writing, and remembrance in Anglo-Saxon England
… was therefore a mechanism and a metaphor for remembrance of the dead. I trace the Anglo-Saxon ways of “writing the dead” and the metaphoric and metonymic uses of inscription in several genres, including Old English heroic and religious poetry, Anglo-Latin prose, and commemorative texts and …
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Between memory and history: Shimon Attie's art of remembrance
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, American-Jewish artist Shimon Attie traveled to the former Jewish quarter of Berlin and wondered “Where are all the missing people?” With this question in mind, Attie embarked on a two year project that involved converting black and white archival photographs …
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After "Postmemory": Coping with Holocaust Remembrance in Postmodern Hebrew Literature
… has come to pursue a new modality of Holocaust remembrance. It assumes that when we speak of “remembering” we are referring to acts of remembrance, for, with the exception of those who lived through the Holocaust, those of us who were not “there” cannot remember the actual events of the …
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Defying distance : remembrance, narration, and the gender imaginary in Assia Djebar’s Loin de Médine
This dissertation explores Algerian author Assia Djebar’s Loin de Médine (1991) (Far from Madina), a novel that re-imagines the early Islamic past through women’s perspectives. Djebar framed the work as an inspired re-reading of the earliest Sunni historiography compendiums: Ibn Hishām’s (d. …
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Hidden from Memory: Remembrance and Commemoration of the Sherwood Foresters’ Involvement in Easter, 1916
<p>The purpose of this thesis is to examine the level at which the Sherwood Foresters are commemorated for their service during the Easter Rising of 1916. The Sherwood Foresters, known officially as the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, were created in 1881 in England after combining the …
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Exiled nostalgia and musical remembrance: songs of grief, joy, and tragedy among Iraqi Jews
This dissertation examines a practice of private song-making, one whose existence is often denied, among a small number of amateur Iraqi Jewish singers in Israel. These individuals are among those who abruptly emigrated from Iraq to Israel in the mid twentieth century, and share formative …
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The political culture of order and anarchy : remembrance and imaginative power in Central America
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1994.
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The development of British First World War remembrance on the battlefield from 1914 to 1929
This thesis explores the role of Western Front battlefield landscapes between 1914 and 1929 in shaping memories of the First World War. It asks who visited the battlefields during the conflict, what impressions they formed, how they communicated these to others, and what influence these initial …
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The Problem of Coming to Terms with the Past: A Post-Holocaust Theology of Remembrance
… this injunction to remember comes a theology of remembrance, which draws heavily from Walter Benjamin's writing on weak messianism and inverse theology. The final focus of the dissertation is the development of a Christian theology of remembrance that requires Christians to rethink theology in …
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Between remembrance and rebuilding : developing a consensus process for memorialization at the World Trade Center
… of an inclusive decision-making process for remembrance and rebuilding at the World Trade Center site produced conflicts between stakeholders, particularly victims' families, and New York decision-makers. To illustrate this tension between remembrance and rebuilding, this thesis discusses the …
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The Benjamin Franklin Randolph Monument: A Symbol of Remembrance and Defiance In the Age of Reconstruction
<p>Dedicated to Benjamin Franklin Randolph on February 27, 1871 in Columbia, South Carolina, the Randolph Monument became a political symbol around which Republicans and the African American community rallied around during the days of Ku Klux Klan violence in the late 1860s and early 1870s. …
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Gendering Violence: Autobiographical Writing and the Politics of Trauma and Remembrance in Contemporary Northern Irish Female Writers
La presente tesis doctoral examina seis obras autobiográficas escritas por autoras nacidas o vinculadas con Irlanda del Norte y los «Troubles» (1969-1998), en cuyos textos se exploran las diversas formas de violencia, opresión y silencio a las que se vieron sometidas dentro del conflicto. Los …
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The Roots of Remembrance : Tracing the Memory Practices of the Children of Far East Prisoners of War
… rarely heard, and poorly understood. In Roots of Remembrance I investigate the lives of these children through in-depth interviews, using a psychosocial approach to both interviews and analysis. By tracing intergenerational transmission through the life course, I show that the memory practices of …
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‘The art of salvation is but the art of memory’ : soul-agency, remembrance and expression in Donne and Shakespeare
This thesis examines how the dislocation of old beliefs in post-Reformation England affected perceptions of the soul in the work of Donne and Shakespeare. The introduction, using Augustinian discourses on the tri-partite soul, explores how the soul is imagined in post-Reformation England. Current …
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A cemetery at Jones Point Alexandria, Virginia
… engage the living in the process of death and remembrance in a way which counteracts the negative responses associated with death and remembrance in a way which counteracts the negative responses associated with death. A new cemetery design which acknowledges the need for a place for …
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Remembering and Recollecting World War Two: South African Perspectives
… thesis is as much about the diverse processes of remembrance and recollection as it is about the war itself and assumes that memories of the war can be located in different media. Accordingly the chapters herein are each delegated a media form, from newspapers, literature, memorials, film and …
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