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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Sontag"”.
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Collaborations and Resistances Between Writing and Photography in Late Twentieth-Century France
… Stuart Hall, W. J. T. Mitchell, and Susan Sontag are among the critics who provide useful concepts and theories as a foundation from which to explore encounters between texts and photographs.
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Unlocking the self in self-writing
… introspective writing: Marcus Aurelius and Susan Sontag. It is proposed that consideration of the deliberately introspective diary – by being so obviously personal and therefore concerned with issues bearing on the elusive concept of self - uniquely energises discussion of the self and …
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Absent meaning: Fascination, narrative, and trauma in the Holocaust imaginary
… thinkers from the post-Holocaust epoch: Susan Sontag in the 1970s; Saul Friedlander in the 1980s; and Dominick LaCapra in the 1990s and 2000s. By focusing on their use of "fascination," I trace the historical and aesthetic development of representations of the Holocaust and the critical …
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A reader-response approach to Susan Sontag's Death Kit
… After reading these essays and writing about Sontag~s novels, I see my reading of those books as heavily influenced by New Criticism. This is not surprising, for it had a firm hold in the academy when I was first introduced to literary study on a university level in the 1960s. Prior to my …
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Towards a <i>Literary Criticism</i>: Lowry, Durrell, Dolores, and the alchemical balance between critical and creative writing
… essays of Michael Oakeshott and Susan Sontag, observing the precarious position of aesthetics in contemporary literary discourse. Rather than fit the novels <em>Under the Volcano</em> and the <em>Alexandria Quartet</em> into normative Kantian or New Critical frameworks, I follow the …
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Sierra Nevada Brewery Design Project
… was a finalist in the FLoW Competition and the Sontag Competition
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Marcel Duchamp precursore della curatela indipendente? Elementi per un'influenza duchampiana nella concezione dello spazio espositivo in Gene R. Swenson e Brian O'Doherty
… prima metà degli anni Sessanta (per es. Susan Sontag). Soggetto della prima parte della tesi sono le cinque mostre surrealiste a cui Marcel Duchamp ha collaborato, tra il 1938 e il 1961, in veste di organizzatore e allestitore. Si procede a riepilogare e analizzare i diversi punti di vista in …
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Escrituras do corpo: leituras de uma poética queer Niterói
… das discussões de nomes como Suely Rolnik, Susan Sontag, Paul B. Preciado e Judith Butler, revelando importantes processos de desterritorialização e reterritorialização dos significados do corpo. Assim, novos sentidos são produzidos em textos previamente lidos paranoicamente, como sugere Eve …
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Gendered Film Criticism and “Intolerable Images”: Representation of Female Trauma in Brady Corbet’s <em>Vox Lux</em> (2018)
… E. Ann Kaplan, Jacques Rancière and Susan Sontag, this thesis examines how the film's fragmented narrative and stylistic shifts represent the long-term psychological aftermath of trauma, manifesting as emotional dysregulation, substance abuse, and unpredictable behavior. <em>Vox Lux</em> …
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Making Confessions: The Confessional Voice Found Among Literary Genres
… Frank Bidart, short stories and essays by Susan Sontag, and finally, the short stories, essays, and letters of Flannery O'Connor, confessional writing proves to be ambiguous in meaning and difficult to define; nevertheless, each author uniquely incorporates varying degrees of confessionalism to …
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'Muchos Méxicos': widening the lens in Rulfo's cinematic texts
… Margaret Sayers Peden English translation, Susan Sontag hails Pedro Páramo as ‘not only one of the masterpieces of 20th Century world literature, but one of the most influential of the century’s books’. García Márquez has compared the influence of Rulfo on 20th Century world literature to that of …
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A epidemia de HIV/AIDS no Brasil: um estudo semântico cognitivo sócio-histórico-cultural da conceptualização da morte no século XX.
… dialogues with studies of Philosophy (SONTAG, 1989; LUPER, 2010), History (ARIÈS, 2017/1977), Anthropology (BECKER, 2020/1973) and Sociology (KELLEHEAR, 2013). This research has a qualitative approach of a descriptive, explanatory and interpretative, bibliographic, and documental …
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« L'illusion de l'amour n'est pas l'amour trouvé » : Camp and queer desire in Jacques Demy's Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, and Peau d'âne
… and seduction, drawing on scholars Susan Sontag, Judith Butler, and Jean Baudrillard, respectively, the aesthetic of Demy's triptych is situated in a queer sensibility. Catherine Deneuve, Demy's "princesse idéale," is read as the reification of this sensibility in her potent performance of …
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Predation, turbidity, and other factors influencing juvenile Salmonid survival in the lower Snake River
<p>"The object of this study was to quantify consumption rates of juvenile salmonids by three introduced species, smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu), walleye (Sander vitreus) and channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus). Consumption information is crucial because the construction of the Snake …
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Approximate inference in graphical models using LP relaxations
Graphical models such as Markov random fields have been successfully applied to a wide variety of fields, from computer vision and natural language processing, to computational biology. Exact probabilistic inference is generally intractable in complex models having many dependencies between the …
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Cutting plane algorithms for variational inference in graphical models
In this thesis, we give a new class of outer bounds on the marginal polytope, and propose a cutting-plane algorithm for efficiently optimizing over these constraints. When combined with a concave upper bound on the entropy, this gives a new variational inference algorithm for probabilistic …
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“Closer to the Objective”: Following Helen from Troy to Chicago
… the treatment of the pain of others by Susan Sontag; and the language of how women are viewed from Mary Beard and Laura Mulvey. It contextualizes itself in the real world through the research done by Charlotte Lindsey of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the work Women Facing …
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Creativity and Illness: An anecdotal exploration of a writing practice; Coming Undone: A collection of poems & a thesis as an anecdotal exploration of a writing practice
… This is explored in response to Susan Sontag’s ideas, initially expressed in Illness as Metaphor (2002), regarding illness as a literal experience that becomes complicated by metaphorical language. The coda discusses how my illness seems to have dissipated and what that revision may …
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The midlife crisis, gender, and social science in the United States, 1970–2000
This thesis provides the first rigorous history of the concept of midlife crisis. It highlights the close connections between understandings of the life course and social change. It reverses accounts of popularization by showing how an idea moved from the public sphere into academia. Above all, it …