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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"The Ambassadors"”.
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The Other Plot in The Ambassadors
… James deliberately and ingeniously wrote <em>The Ambassadors</em> (1903) as a double-plotted novel. The traditional plot which follows Lambert Strether to Paris provides cover for the detailed story of Strether’s experiences in Paris as a homosexual man seeking his identity. James conveys the …
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Narrative enquiry into the physical literacy journeys of further education young ambassadors
The benefits of physical literacy are widely acknowledged, with advocates recognising the importance of its development throughout the life course. Whilst the link between physical activity, health and physical literacy is well researched, there is a noticeable lack of young people’s voices in the …
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Diplomatic communication between Byzantium and the West under the late Palaiologoi (1354-1453)
This dissertation studies the diplomatic communication between the Byzantine Empire and the West during the last century of the empire’s life from 1354 to 1453. The first chapter deals with ambassadorial travel to the West, studying land and sea routes, the season of travel, its speed and duration …
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Telepathy and the Visual in the Late Novels of Henry James
This thesis addresses the tripartite relationship between telepathy, the visual and in the psychologically complex late novels of Henry James, with particular focus on The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903), and The Golden Bowl (1904). It acknowledges that significant research has …
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A Transcendental Phenomenological Examination on the Impact of Advising on the Decision to Study Abroad
… are falling behind when it comes to competing in the global marketplace. To help prepare students to compete in the global marketplace, participation in a high-impact experience such as study abroad is recommended. In order to increase high-impact experiences for agricultural students, it is …
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'The Auditive Intelligence': Intonation in Henry James
This thesis seeks to retrieve the ‘auditive intelligence’ in the work of Henry James, but it does so by first recognising some of the theoretical and historical obstacles that lie in the way of such a recovery. Structural linguistics has been responsible for encouraging the assumption that there …
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The Double-Vision of Imagination : An Appraisal of Surface and Substance in the Fiction of Henry James
This study is concerned, primarily, with the faculty of the imagination, incidentally as a general concept, but chiefly in its application to the fictional and critical works of Henry James. A number of these works have been consulted with the intention of deriving, and subsequently illustrating, a …
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Addressing Climate Change through Community Organizing and Machine Learning
Climate change is the challenge of our time. It is global, slow-moving, and impersonal – yet it has already impacted everyone from California to Kuwait. Humans are ill-adapted to this type of problem, as the scale – both in time and space – is too large to spur action. But to ignore the difficult …
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To what extent and in what ways do communities of practice facilitate learning in the context of professional development for interpreting students and practitioners?
… and new practitioners experience a gap between the end of their intensive guided studies and their engagement in the impermeable landscape of professional practice. This lonely experience in this no man’s land induces an identity crisis and a need for further professional development that has …
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Traveling Theater
This thesis proposes that architecture has the potential to organize experience through its sensory effects and that the body is the fundamental link between experience and the imagination. The project in this thesis is a traveling theater. It was inspired by an interest in the intersection between …