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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Theories of Affect"”.
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Moving passions: theories of affect in Renaissance love discourse and Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays
… the challenge to "show the nature and truth of love ... to make it [love] true" - with an ideal presentation of Romeo and Juliet. The film finally achieves this by ensuring that Will and Viola end on stage as Romeo and Juliet, playing the parts they respectively inspire. The film, and the …
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The Interaction between Affect and Meta-cognition in Language Use : The Case of Foreign Language Anxiety.
The thesis explores the interaction between affect and meta-cognition as conceptualised by Bachman and Palmer's (1996) model of language use. Anxiety is used to operationalize the concept of affect and develop an empirical model of interaction between meta-cognitive strategies, affect and language …
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Citizens of Tomorrow, Today: Political Futurity and Youth Citizenship in a High School Student Council
… North American high schools, and yet, they are often overlooked as a site of youth citizenship and student leadership. This dissertation explores the affective dimensions of youth citizenship and student leadership, focusing on a student council in an urban high school in Canada. Based on a …
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A strange mirror : realism, ambiguity and absence in the work of Harmony Korine
This dissertation examines the work of Harmony Korine with a particular focus on his use of realism as a disruptive critical tool. My study combines a theoretical and an analytical project. My aim is to defend Korine's works against charges of naive realism by revealing the limits of a …
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Transforming Gender and Sexuality in-between the Personal and the Professional: The Promise of Legal Change in (Un)Becoming Advocate (Avukat) in Turkey
Under the hopeful atmosphere of Turkey's accession to full membership to European Union, Turkey became oriented towards realizing extensive legal and constitutional amendments, as well as juridical reforms in restructuring the contemporary body of law and judicial institutions based on the promise …
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From surviving to thriving: strategies to navigate postgraduate education for academic womxn of colour in the design field in South Africa
Pursuing postgraduate studies is often regarded as a significant achievement, particularly for historically marginalised racial groups in South Africa, such as the Coloured community. However, the struggles encountered by womxn of colour during their postgraduate studies remain underexplored. This …
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Ethnography and experimental non-fiction storytelling: relating the experiences of Maltese Fishermen
… exploration I look at the dynamics of long-term ethnographic research to address the tensions between lived experience and conventional narrative constructs of Mediterranean identities. This research also fills a void in the anthropology of fishermen in Malta which as an area of …
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Play the Body Electric: Sex and Desire in Indie and Experimental Single-Player Sexual Videogames
… blends feminist, queer, and Deleuzo-Guattarian theories of affect to analyze how single-player indie and art videogames make sexual meaning. Using textual analysis and close playing of fourteen indie, art, and experimental videogames as well as examples of avant-garde film, science fiction, and …
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Wujoud: Resistance strategies in the Syrian genocide?
Since the start of the Syrian civil uprising of February 2011, I have become a trusted individual among an exiled community of Syrian civil society activists in the UK. As an Arabic speaker of Lebanese origin, I have continued to work with them as a filmmaker and advocate in various capacities. …
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Fictional matters: death, emotion and representation in nineteenth-century Spain
This dissertation analyzes the representation of death in works of Spanish fiction from 1850-1887. Looking beyond metaphorical representation, I examine the ways in which representations of death are influenced and enhanced by the representation of emotion. Death poses an interesting challenge to …