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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Synecdoche"”.
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Synecdoche: Visions of Midwestern Solitude
Synecdoche: Visions of Midwestern Solitude is an MFA Thesis Exhibition comprised of small-scale paintings of rural scenes that examine the way memory and perception is used in experiencing the landscape. By incorporating a method of nocturnal observation, the artist introduces an element of …
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Writing race in Haiti's constitutions : synecdoche and negritude in post-revolutionary Haiti.
All political universals rely on a synecdoche in which a part of the population is taken to represent the whole. Modernity is characterized by a white supremacist synecdoche that selects the white portion of a population to stand in for the whole population. Haiti's early constitutions invert this …
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Roots: Agrarian Movements and the Importance of Ground within the Philosophy of Communication (A Synecdoche)
This work looks at the way in which an agrarian philosophy communicates the meaningful connection between cultivating land and being attentive to the philosophical notion of ground. It tells the story of agrarian movements from the last century with special attention to what about the philosophy …
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The use of figurative language in the 21st century american literature: the case of the novel “the lucky one” by nicholas sparks /
… stylistic devices such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, simile, hyperbole, and epithet. Understanding the prevalence and usage of lexical stylistic devices in modern American literature is crucial for comprehending the depth and richness of literary works. While previous studies have explored …
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Stain Upon the Silence: Samuel Beckett’s Deconstructive Inventions
… invention with rhetorical tropes – metonomy, synecdoche, metaphor, and irony – to create depiction-based persuasion, which asks the rhetor to suspend logic and evoke emotional response.</p>
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Science and Natural Philosophy in the Poetry of Heinrich von Meissen (Frauenlob)
… into these poems. Rhetorical devices like synecdoche, enjambment, concatenation, ekphrasis, and personification are used repeated and strategically in the leichs as didactic tools and hermeneutic guides, enabling the audience to augment the text’s overt theological, literary, and …
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Nietzsche's Ariadne: a new perspective on the eternal recurrence
… inverting the philosophical concept Woman as a synecdoche of all marginalized groups within structures of dominant thought: the disabled, the stateless, the queer, the dispossessed. In order to fully explore the potential capacities of this perspective, I piece together Nietzsche's sense of …
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Fault lines : the legacy of urban renewal in Hudson, NY
… the recent revitalization of Warren Street as a synecdoche for the identity of the city as a whole. This thesis explores the potential to recover historical and contemporary perspectives that illustrate the confined disparity marking Hudson today -- both for what they reveal about the present …
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Assuming the female part : a critique of discourses of bodily normalcy
… I identify as a particularly problematic form of synecdoche. Although feminisms are often highly attuned to questions of social difference amongst women, I argue that, too often, this awareness is not extended to deconstructing notions of 'natural' physical female identity. This can, in part, be …
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The Artistic Uses of Metaphors in Constructing Meanings and Messages in new Generation Songs in Tanzania
… devices such as metonym, allegory, similes, synecdoche, proverb, symbolism and slang in constructing meanings and messages. Therefore, the audience comprehends meaning of a metaphor on the basis of the context of use, body of knowledge and experience and socio-cultural relations. Furthermore, …
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Puritan iconoclasm : its origin and motivation
… introduction of Jean Calvin's hermeneutics of synecdoche revolutionized iconoclastic thought, because it increased the weight of the idolatrous offense and also explored the subjective mental aspects of image worship. Secondly, I discuss the reception and adoption of Calvin's synechdocal …
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The Plot and The Archive: Curation, Provisional Histories, and Novels
… and curatorial techniques (including ekphrasis, synecdoche, show-and-tell, and displayed archeology), this dissertation argues that characters-as-curators encourage readers to question known historical records, using textually constructed exhibition spaces as sites for these reexaminations. The …
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The Victoria Institute 1865-1932: A Case Study in the Relationship between Science and Religion
… and demonstrates how Darwinism served as a synecdoche for broader cultural trends. Chapter Five examines the Victoria Institute’s fascination with geology and its relationship to scientific epistemology. Chapter Six turns to the Victoria Institute arguing for religious belief based on …
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Living the divine spiritually and politically : art ritual and performative/pedagogy in women's multi-faith leadership
… change to take place within, 2) the addition of synecdoche to the renderings of a/r/tography, assisting a multi-dimensional spiral movement towards a whole a/r/tographic practice, 3) a lived and radically relational curriculum of philetics within loving community that drew forth the women’s …
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The Qur'an after Babel: Translating and Printing the Qur'an in Late Ottoman and Modern Turkey
… of the Qur'an in the late Ottoman Empire became synecdoche for a new vision of Muslim authority and modernity that reduced the role of the ulama and created space for interpretive plurality on an unprecedented scale. Meanwhile, some Turkish intellectuals came to appreciate the symbolic value of …
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Language on Holiday and the Philosophy of Mind: A Linguistically Sensitive Approach to Phenomenal Consciousness, Pain, and Psychological Predicates
… things like ‘The brain thinks’. I propose the Synecdoche View, according to which the locutions of cognitive scientists are figurative, with ‘the brain’ referring to the human being, such that ‘The brain thinks’ reports the thinking of the human being, not the thinking of the brain. One …
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Justice, Equality, and SlutWalk: The Rhetoric of Protesting Rape Culture
The international SlutWalk protest phenomena emerged in 2011 in Toronto, Canada as a feminist movement determined to speak out against two key aspects of rape culture: slut-shaming and victim-blaming. SlutWalk protesters simultaneously advocate a sex-positive stance while lashing back at rape …
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Justice, Equality, and SlutWalk: The Rhetoric of Protesting Rape Culture
The international SlutWalk protest phenomena emerged in 2011 in Toronto, Canada as a feminist movement determined to speak out against two key aspects of rape culture: slut-shaming and victim-blaming. SlutWalk protesters simultaneously advocate a sex-positive stance while lashing back at rape …
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"Clothes Make the (One Like a Son of) Man": Dress Imagery in Revelation 1 as an Indicator of High Priestly Status
… of the high priest suggests that metonymy and synecdoche were in play in some of the texts. In addition, this study suggests that high priestly dress should include such elements as bare feet, the censer, and incense, since bare feet are an example of negative dress, a censer can be classified …