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Showing 1 to 20 of 176 for “"The imaginary"”.
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And if the imaginary... : an investigation of the imaginary and our relation with our built surroundings
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1981.
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Politics of the Imaginary in the Work of Edmond Jabès
This thesis concerns the relationship between socio-historical context and literary criticism with respect to the work of Edmond Jabès (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop). I argue that literary discourse is a significant site in the history of ideas and that criticism accordingly bears a latent …
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Collecting Culture in the 'Imaginary Musical Museum': General Music Textbooks 1971 - 2005
… a museum studies lens, this study examines the collection practices, collection poetics, and collection politics of the general music textbook in both a longitudinal study across historical epochs as well as a latitudinal study across grade levels and publishers. Despite a growing abundance …
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The Emblematic Divide: Contemplating Reality, the Imaginary and Perception in Photographic Practices
In The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, Seminar XI, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1977) recounts the ancient Greek parable of the contest between the Zeuxis and Parrhasios, two artists competing to paint the most convincing trompe l'oeil painting. In the first instance, Zeuxis …
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Understanding the Imaginary Audience and the Personal Fable in a Social Media Environment
Current research has found evidence for the emergence of Adolescent Egocentrism in later ages than previously thought. This current study sought to extend this contemporary understanding of adolescent egocentrism by providing a possible alternative explanation for the reemergence of adolescence in …
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Exploring The Imaginary Domain: An Investigation Of The Interplay Of Alterity, Literature, And The Process Of Self-Definition
… imagined definitions and redefinitions of themselves through encounters with self and other within the context of semiotic engagements with literature. A conceptual lens for exploring these imaginary spaces was fashioned by the braiding together of current trends from philosophy, critical …
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Microcosm Mountain : Exploring architecture's potential to make the pre-existing apparent in the manifold of the imaginary and physical
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Borderlands and Political Ecology: A photographic exploration of the environment, territories, boundaries and power near the imaginary line of the equator
… have photographed primary hardwood forests along the imaginary line of the equator to communicate, persuade and warn of the continued ecological destruction that is occurring along this line. My plan was to capture arcadian visions of equatorial hardwood primary forests before they are destroyed …
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Imaginary Friends: Engaging the Unconscious Mind through Picture Books
<p>“Imaginary Friends” investigates the potential of the ‘imaginary friend’ as a narrative device in picture book storytelling. By combining the research of Marjorie Taylor on ‘imaginary companions’ and Lois Rostow Kuznets on ‘toy animals’ in literature, I seek to give form to the concept of the …
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...e o vento não levou: construindo o imaginário urbano carioca
… searched for new possibilities of understanding the urban imaginary beyond its artistic representations. Our analyses of the urban imaginary are based on the concepts of Art Anthropology. From this point of view, we pinpointed not only the urban dimension of the imaginary, but also the imaginary …
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Stories of Miscegenation: Fact and Fiction of Interracial Life and Art
The contemporary reader, the one whose gaze is unconsciously informed by the same pseudo-science that is in dialogue with American literature, wonders what is real and looks to the biographical for comparison to the imaginary of literature. What she finds is a landscape of images and counterimages …
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Crimes of Passion in Literature and Film: A Detective Investigation of What It Means to Be Human
An attempt is made to apply the Lacanian concepts of the Imaginary and the Symbolic on cultural and national levels and to explain the national conflicts in the Balkans.
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A constructivist and institutionalist political economy perspective on ideational, political and institutional changes in France
When examining ideational change, the constructivist approach to institutional change within political economy focuses primarily on economic policy ideas. Yet the reflexive potential of this approach could be further enhanced by paying greater attention to the ideas a community holds about itself - …
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A Guayaba's Heart
… that is utilizes memory as a binding for the themes of language, family, and Central American landscapes, The poetry collection takes a close look at these themes through a generational lens and gives space to the unveiling of family secrets, the imaginary homeland, and interweaving …
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Mask Performance and The Imaging Consciousness: The relationship between body and non-body in performance
This study employs Jean-Paul Sartre’s theories of the ‘analogon’ and the imaging consciousness to develop the relationship between body and object in mask performance (Sartre, 1948:23). I suggest that the idea of the analogon allows for the body to be extended through, or invested into, objects to …
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Entering the Contact Zone: Encountering the Animal in Children's Fantasy Fiction and Film
This thesis examines the concept of entering the contact zone within the framework of children’s fantasy literature and film. It is conducted at the intersection where children’s literature, philosophy, posthumanism and animal studies meet. The term ‘contact zone’ describes the act of two entities …
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Voice Leading in Fugue
<p>This dissertation examines voice leading in the fugues of J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier from a Schenkerian perspective. In Bach’s fugues, thematic material usually permeates all the parts, making the surface diminutions unusually complex. Given the predominance of the subject, there is a …
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Black here, black there, black everywhere: using theatre to understand what being-black-in-the-world entailed during apartheid South Africa
… person getting killed by a White person, why do they not intervene to stop that killing from happening? One would answer, ‘Because it is just a performance. That Black person is not literally getting killed. It is all an act'. Fair enough. Then why does that spectating Black person get a heavy …
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Solution of Nonsymmetric Systems of Equations on a Multiprocessor
We consider the iterative solution of large sparse linear systems of equations arising from elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations in two and three space dimensions. Specifically, we focus our attention on non-symmetric systems of equations whose eigenvalues lie on both sides of the …
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