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Showing 1 to 20 of 417 for “"Travels"”.
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Memory travels : death, belonging and architecture
This thesis examines the tension and cooperation between politics of conformity and difference that are embedded in urban spaces, such as burials and mosques in Britain and beyond. It examines the social, political and cultural ideologies and complexities of the historical past and present by …
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Mile Marker : A Material Investigation in Two Lane Travels
This thesis contemplates American imagery, landscape, memories, identities, and travel in order to introduce the spontaneity of adventure to the viewer. My work attempts to spark a desire for being lost and focuses on the memorialization of the journey instead of a destination. Embedding my …
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Travels with Einstein : the uneasy relativity of modernist travelogues
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of English, 2010
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Visits to a Time Called Mississippi and Other Travels
Creative nonfiction and poetry.
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Malthus travels: A cultural history of the population crisis, 1945-1995
"This study maps the invention, circulation and regulation of the population crisis from 1945 to 1995. I conceptualize the population crisis as a complex field of practical reasoning occupied by different elements--human technologies, discourse strategies, institutions, and populations. The primary …
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What Not To Do: Learning by Example in the Republic and Gulliver's Travels
… The Republic and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels provide the reader with efferent knowledge, benefitting the reader’s understanding of the entirety of each text. Plato and Swift employ form, characterization, and the theme of vision to challenge readers to find meaning by asking for reader …
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Alice as an observer: A study on Shen Congwen’s Alice’s Travels in China
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Cakewalking into representation : Gabriele Münter's America travels (1898-1900) and art of dailiness
… subversion. The discussion centers on Münter's travels in the United States as an emblem of the stretch of her dailiness and its instructive vantage on issues of authenticity and documentation governing her output. Miinter's pocket calendars, sketchbooks, photographs, photograph album, and …
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Chinese Voyages: Travels, Studies, Collections in the Pursuit of Organic Architecture
… of his engagement with Chinese culture: his travels to China in 1918, his study of Chinese philosophy, particularly through the works of Dr. Ku Hung Ming (1857-1928) and his book The Spirit of the Chinese People (1915), and his collection and integration of Chinese artworks into his …
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"The projecting species": Reading Swift's critique of the scientific project in Book 3 of "Gulliver's Travels"
Book 3 of Jonathan Swift's Travels into the Remote Nations of the World offers a thorough critique of the eighteenth-century scientific world--a world marked by systematization, theoretical speculation, stories of "progress," and innovation, which people have commonly embraced and into which the …
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Mandeville's Intolerance: The Contest for Souls and Sacred Sites in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
… with the matter of the Holy Land, <italic>The Travels</italic> circulated widely in over 300 manuscripts, making it an important text when studying medieval Christian attitudes toward non-Christians. Although many scholars point to <italic>The Travels</italic> as a tolerant text ahead of its …
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An analysis of the fourth voyage of Gulliver's travels and its relevance to the twentieth century
<p>Any work of art, by definition, is so designated because it speaks to all generations, irrespective of time or place, and regardless of artistic, political, economic, or ideological fads. To accept a work as art with anything less than these universalities is blind acceptance and pure idolatry. …
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Living Circles Towards Green Travels: A Study on the Correlation Between Facility Layout and Travel Behavior
Against the backdrop of global climate change, the high rate of motorization in community transportation and its associated carbon emissions are pressing urban problems that urgently need to be addressed. As the primary transition zone between walking, cycling, and driving, 15-minute living circles …
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From phraseology to reality : a "theological geography" : Bonhoeffer's early travels and the notion of the boundary
… letters. Our interest in the maps and stories of travels operative in Bonhoeffer's life coincides with a prevalence of metaphors of travel and displacement in contemporary literary and cultural criticism and acknowledges the movements of "powerful" travellers across boundaries and continents in …
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Swift and Lemuel Gulliver: A Critical Study of Gulliver's Significance to the Satire in Gulliver's Travels (1949)
<p>TABLE OF CONTENTS</p> <p>CHAPTER PAGE</p> <p>I. INTRODUCTION...............................................................................................1</p> <p>II. ANALYSIS OF GULLIVER’S ROLE IN LILLIPUT……..............................13</p> <p>III. ANALYSIS OF GULLIVER’S ROLE IN …
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Jonathan Swift's response to the challenge of modernity : a reading of Gulliver's Travels.
In Gulliver's Travels Swift does obliquely what he does in his sermons and non-satirical writings more directly: he defends a settled social order, which was held together morally by a common Christian religion and led politically by men of property and liberal education, or by gentlemen. Swift …
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