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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Theory and Criticism"”.
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Style and truth in the neoclassical art theory and criticism of Anton Raphael Mengs and Johann Winckelmann
… long enjoyed a greater reputation as an educator and art theorist than as a painter. Mengs' advice to young artists on the masters and precepts of the classical-minded Roman School of painting was substantially enriched by his early collaboration with Johann Winckelmann in Rome during the middle …
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Oedipus' Wake: The (Neo-)Masculinization of the Self in Late Twentieth-Century American Women's Memoir
… to late-twentieth-century flowering of western theory and criticism built around autobiographical writing and follows the feminist branch(es) of that theory and criticism through a reading of the following four memoirs: <em>Autobiography of a Face </em>by Lucy Grealy, <em>All the Lost Girls …
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Stoornis
… women the focal point in a diverse discourse and thematic register. The emphasis is placed on the role of esotericism (compare NAKENNIS and DIE BESOEKER), the influence of modern technology and computers (DIE MEESTER and STAATSGREEP), the juxtaposition of criminal modus operandi and the …
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An Experimental Domain: Object-Oriented Ontology and Architecture
… a new domain of discussion regarding Posthuman theory, Speculative Realism, New Materialism, and Object-Oriented Ontology. The response within academia to these relatively new areas can be seen in architectural school pedagogy, studio topics, syllabi, scholarly works, and projects published by …
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Rhythm, rhyme, and rhetoric in "12 years a day Django".
… flow can be a potent source of subversive and vernacular rhetorical action, which is enabled in part by the racialization of flow. These arguments are cultivated through a contextual and textual analysis of 12 Years a Day Django. In developing these claims, this thesis seeks to demonstrate …
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The Leo Castelli Gallery in Metro magazine : American approaches to post-abstract figuration in an Italian context
Between the years 1960 and 1970, New York gallerist Leo Castelli was closely involved with Milanese editor and publisher Bruno Alfieri's Metro magazine--an international review of contemporary art. By placing his artists in Metro, Castelli inserted them into the world of Italian art criticism and …
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Boredom's Metamorphosis: Robert Venturi and Saul Steinberg
My dissertation investigates questions of boredom and architecture in the middle decades of the twentieth century through the work of two figures: the American-Italian architect Robert Venturi (b. 1925) and the Romanian-born American architect and artist Saul Steinberg (1914-1999). The topic of …
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My life is over now : a novel and critical commentary
… force them to reassess their views, opinions and beliefs, so that they will alter the way they look at the world - specifically here, how they look at family relationships and conflicts, at women and mothering, and at migrants. This critical component of my thesis focuses on these questions …
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Rewriting myths through life writings in Marina Warner's fiction
… (1988), Indigo; or Mapping the Waters (1992) and The Leto Bundle (2000). Across this body of work, the evolution of metabiography in the postmodern novel is traced as it gradually turns from the theme of biographical research and its difficulties into the inclusion of different types of life …
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Citing the viewer : ethnography, film theory and experiences of martial arts action cinema.
… incorporating a radically increased awareness and understanding of the experiences and opinions of people who actually watch films into any film theory or criticism genuinely concerned to analyse, evaluate or otherwise interpret films and/or those who watch them. In particular, it suggests …
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Utterance and Authorship in Dialogic Art: or An Account of a Barcamp in Response to the Question, ‘What is Dialogic Art?’
… sociology, sociolinguistics, literary theory and criticism, and others to explore dialogic art through a dialogue that moves amongst their respective points of view. The barcamp’s collation tracks the contributors’ discursive struggle to co-author dialogic art as a dialogue-based …
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Automatism and art practice
The research project is to develop an understanding of the use of automatism in the practice of art derived from an interrelationship between the material process of art and critical text. As these practices converge in their vocabularies of the psychic and the somatic, they formulate a discourse …
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Feminist Theory and Postwar American Drama
… critical tool, to be applied to drama. Feminist theory from anthropology, psychology, literary criticism, and film theory is summarized and one theorist from each field is selected to serve as an example of how feminism in that field can illuminate drama written by both women and men.</p> <p>I …
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Communicating Climate Change: Climate Rhetorics and Discursive Tipping Points in United States Global Warming Science and Public Policy
… at the heart of global climate change science and policymaking in the United States. On the one hand, we are faced with the ever-increasing mountains of scientific evidence acknowledging the threats of global climate change. Nearly all reputable climate scientists have no doubt that the world …
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The reader's quest : reading and the constitution of meaning in five novels
… influenced by the insights of the psychoanalyst and theorist Jacques Lacan (1901-1981). Broadly speaking, I call for a revised view of the role of the reader and the act of reading in the light of arguments such as the following: firstly, that the linguistic subject is "split" rather than …
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A re-examination of the work of Eugene Atget
<p>Atget's content and style are re-examined. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze facts about Atget's life, to draw conclusions about his technical, contextual and formal style, and to determine whether the published view of his style is representative of his work as a whole. Conclusions are …
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Some Aspect of Wit in the Prose Works of John Dryden
… body of prose which represents Dryden’s literary theory and criticism, there is, as would be expected in any seventeenth-century material, an interesting recurrence of the term wit It is used in conjunctions which gradually demand recognition of the significance of this term as a means by which …
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De la théorie de la description à la description chez Julien Gracq
… a result of a double investigation. Firstly, the theory of description as it has taken form with the contributions of Barthes, Genette, Ricardou, Bal, Riffaterre, Hamon, Weinrich, Adam and Petitjean, Reuter, Molino, Brassart is presented. Secondly, the main critical analyses of description in …
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