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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Subject position"”.
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Thank God I'm an Atheist: Deconversion Narratives on the Internet
… literary devices serve to describe the atheist subject-position as one which is discovered rather than fashioned. The theories of Michel Foucault and P. Steven Sangren are used to demonstrate that many of the most common rhetorical themes found in deconversion narratives imply that atheism is a …
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Locality in A-movement
… typology of possibilities for A-movement to the subject position. Chapter 2 concerns cases of advancing,where the argument generated highest is attracted by the feature (EPP) driving movement to the subject position. Here locality interacts with a condition (Case Identification) preventing an …
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Varieties of clausal complementation
… main types: those that express the content, or "subject matter" of the mental state, and those that express the cause of the mental state. My central theoretical claim is that this dichotomy corresponds to a difference in syntactic structure. I propose that these different structures derive from …
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Examining Evidence for Passive in Yoruba
… is formed by placing the noun which denotes the subject of the action in the sentence to the object position and then making the object of the sentence dislocate to the subject position. Other transformations include the change of the auxiliary verb and the inflection of the main verb. The focus …
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53x+m³=Ø? (Sex+Me=No Result?): Tropes of Asexuality in Literature and Film
… for the contemporary consumer by erasing it as a subject position. In science fiction, however, asexuality can exist as a sexual identity because, I argue, this genre creates spaces that are perceived as non-threatening to the current social norms and constraints -- the compulsory sexuality -- of …
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Towards performing an afropolitan subjectivity
… a series of works that explore an Afropolitan subject position. Towards the goal of articulating a theatrical form, style and aesthetic of this so called Afropolitan experience, the first section of this paper serves to locate the term Afropolitan within a personal contextual frame from which …
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Bildung beyond the borders: racial ambiguity and subjectivity in three post-apartheid bildungsromane
This dissertation examines the subject formation of racially ambiguous protagonists in K Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents, (2001), Yewande Omotoso’s Bom Boy (2011) and Zoe Wicomb’s Playing in the Light (2006), three Bildungsromane set in post-apartheid Cape Town—the mother city—whose violent, racist …
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Reading Speculative Subjectivities: The Second Generation and the Afterlife of Migration
… It argues that second generation is a distinct subject position that is shaped but not wholly defined by race, ethnicity, and nation and, as such, ought to be considered across these boundaries. Negotiations of this subject position itself are also inflected by other factors that are not …
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The Dialectic of the Unhappy Consciousness in J.M. Coetzee's Fiction
… Drawing on Hegel and Adorno, I explore the subject position of the Unhappy Consciousness in three of Coetzee’s novels: Foe, Age of Iron, and Elizabeth Costello. Specifically, I argue that the women characters in these novels can be understood through the lens of the Unhappy Consciousness, …
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Mis/Reading the Hero: a Case For Aaron in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
… and to offer fresh understandings of Aaron's subject position in the play. Futhermore, utilizing Jacques Derrida's notion of "play" and M.M. Bakhtin's configurations of heroes in polyphonic texts, I will "mis/read" the play to prove that Aaron is the hero of this earliest Shakespearean tragedy.
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The ‘Woman-child’ in Fashion Photography, 1990-2015: Childlike Femininities, Performativity, and Reception Studies
… the ‘woman-child’ continues to be a prominent subject-position in fashion photography of the West. This thesis builds upon earlier feminist critiques of the infantilisation of women by considering the meaning of childlike femininities in the period spanning 1990 to 2015. In particular, it …
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Exploring the outside within : a narrative study of identity and teachers' experiences learning to be naturalists
… were often reflections of pre-existing subjectivities, although stories also showed evidence of ongoing identity construction and affirmation. Choosing to teach with the environment appeared to reflect established environmental subject positions in particular. Overall, the greatest …
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Creating Imagined Homelands and the Politics Behind the Balikbbayan Identity
… balikbayan identity, why it is such a desired subject position by Filipinos, and the discrepancies between the state definition of balikbayan, versus on the ground definition of balikbayan.
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Hoosiers on the Hardwood: A Critical Examination of Indiana Basketball Culture and its Effect on Identity Formation
… and performance of this regional and national subject position. From this point of inquiry, authentic ‘hoosierness’ comes to be represented, known, practiced, and felt in relation to hierarchies of power that privilege white, hypermasculine, rural, and conservative bodies.
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A symphony of voices: digital and visual narratives of Japanese American incarceration
… sections foreground the importance of the subject position as well as aesthetic experience in approaching such complex historical phenomena. To help scholars speak with rather than for marginalized communities, I use the metaphor of the symphony, seeing scholar as a conductor who organizes …
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Pharmacopornographic Subjectivity in the Work of Paul B. Preciado
This thesis examines ‘pharmacopornographic’ subjectivity in the work of contemporary Spanish philosopher, Paul B. Preciado, and represents the first extended study of his work. In Preciado’s writing, ‘pharmacopornographic’ describes the entwined influence and dominance of the pharmaceutical and …
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Kwasukasukela : a practical exploration of Nguni oral storytelling traditions on contemporary physical forms of storytelling for theatre
… provides opportunities for the creation of new subject position in theatre practice in South Africa for more critical representations of identity and history.
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Kohti Kalevala-sarjaa : Identiteetti, eklektisyys ja Ranskan jälki Uuno Klamin musiikissa
… It is taken as given that there are multiple subjective factors at work in leading a creative individual towards some choices rather than others. I ask what are the memorable features of Klami s music, whether we can distinguish in them specific choices that lend themselves to conceptual …
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The Power of the Interpreter in the Business Domain: A CDA Approach to the Professional Interpreter’s Mediating Role
… as how their intervening behaviors and shifts in subject position are influenced by the situational and social context of business negotiations. The role of the interpreter within the setting of business negotiations is uncharted territory in Interpreting Studies. This study aims to improve …
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