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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Work in literature."”.
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Ideologies, Histories, and Representations of Work and Labour in Contemporary German-Language Literature: Forced Labour, Sex Work, and State Socialist Labour Ideologies
My dissertation is concerned with the ways in which German-language authors writing between the last third of the twentieth century and now engage with histories, ideologies, and forms of work and labour that exist outside of the realm of conventional wage labour. My specific areas of focus are …
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Happiness Is a By-Product of Function: William Burroughs and the American Pragmatist Tradition
This dissertation examines the techniques and themes of William Burroughs by placing him in the American Pragmatist tradition. Chapter One presents a pragmatic critical approach to literature based on Richard Rorty and John Dewey, focusing on the primacy of narration over argumentation, …
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Working Whiteness: Performing And Transgressing Cultural Identity Through Work
Early in Richard Wright’s Native Son, we see Bigger and his friend Gus “playing white.” Taking on the role of “J. P. Morgan,” the two young black men give orders and act powerful, thus performing their perceived role of whiteness. This scene is more than an ironic comment on the characters’ …
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Getting under your skin. Development of wearable devices for improved non-invasive diagnostics
Wearable devices offer platforms through which to interact with the information about human health that skin has to offer. From sweat analysis to electrophysiology recordings, capturing the information present on the skin can widely enhance the diagnosis of multiple diseases in an entirely …
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Multiscale modelling of CO₂ Electroreduction on Cu - based gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs)
The work presented in this thesis addresses the challenges of upscaling microscopic models such as microkinetic model to mesoscopic models (mass transport models) for CO₂ reduction reaction (CO₂RR). It also bridges the gap between mass transport model and molecular modelling through a multiscale …
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Efficient radio resource management in integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks
The beyond 5G (B5G) networks are envisaged to provide terra bps data rates and ubiquitous and unlimited wireless coverage. However, the terrestrial deployment of 5G networks poses a limitation in achieving a truly ubiquitous and seamlessly connected network. To this end, it has been proposed to …