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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Revenant"”.
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The Revenant Signifier: The Zombie in Comics and Cinema
… (according to Jerrold E. Hogle), but a revenant signifier, actively and aggressively linking with existing concepts, and transforming them. The thesis also considers both the zombie figure and zombie genre within the parameters of several media – comics, television, film, and literature. …
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Édition critique des Voyages du révérend père Emmanuel Crespel dans le Canada et son naufrage en revenant en France (1742)
"tout d'abord, notre présent travail s'inscrit dans une démarche de recherche différente de celle de Pierre Rouxel puisqu'il s'agit, de prime abord, d'aboutir à une réédition globale de l'oeuvre en proposant une approche critique savante qui s'adresse à un public averti, et qui s'attache à …
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Capitalist Rhetoric and the Redirection of Power Through Metaphor in Reviews of Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu Films
… from the films <em>Birdman</em> and <em>The Revenant,</em> both directed by Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu, to detail how the use of metaphors influences the production of rhetoric. I use cross-cultural rhetoric and identity frames in each review as a way to identify the implications of the use …
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Death as an Expression of Worldview in a Ballad Culture: The Evidence of Newfoundland
… maritime culture. The striking prominence of revenant types in the classical ballad repertoire and the exceptional courage of the heroine of the most popular "Sweet William's Ghost" (Ch 77) confirm local concern with bereavement and its successful resolution. This evidence for Newfoundland …
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Questions of Trace: Presence, Politics, and Virtual Necromancy in Canadian Literary Archives
… it raises the author as an uncanny simulation, a revenant coming back to the text, the selection, the present. Drawing on the works of Jacques Derrida and others, I show how this evocation deconstructs the archive’s own nature, becoming a mystical enunciation that haunts the ecology of the digital …
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Caoilte sa Luath-Fhiannaíocht
… mar phearsa thairseachúil, mar fhéinní, mar revenant, mar fhile, mar cheoltóir, mar chleasaí agus mar idirghabhalaí idir an traidisiún réamhChríostaí agus luachanna na sochaí Críostaí agus idir an saol daonna agus an saol osnádúrtha. Déantar roinnt de na tréithe agus de na cáilíochtaí a …
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Fugitive Phrases: Arcade Fire, Music, and the Amorous Subject
… memory, forgetting and time; the uncanny musical revenant, and the complications of sexuality. Luhmanns theory of passionate love as a system of communication and psychoanalytic analysis as developed by Lacan and iek are used to demonstrate the ways popular music forms an amorous semantic …