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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"alter-ego"”.
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(W)alter ego: a journey of rediscovering my self
… unrealised potential, personified as 'Walter'. This personification enables the inquirer to stand back and gain a second-person view of himself - a subject-object shift that enabled him to see, reflect and act on this more expansive perspective. Through this inquiry the author explored …
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Die alter ego in die romans van Etienne Leroux
Die konfrontasie tussen die mens en sy alter ego (die "antler" in die psige) is nie 'n onbekende verskynsel nie. Sedert die vroegste tye het filosowe en skrywers na die alter ego verwys en korter gelede het 'n aantal psigiaters, sielkundiges, antropoloe en literatore die dubbelganger/alter ego as …
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Exploring Privilege through the creation and Live/Digital Performance of an Alter Ego
Through the creation of my own alter ego, called Gemella, this Practice-as-Research project interrogates the relationship between ‘self’ and ‘ego’, and how this relationship is performed on social media sites such as YouTube, Instagram and Twitter. Using psychoanalytic theory, it considers how …
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An angelic alter ego - a style-critical analysis of Einojuhani Rautavaara's Violin Concerto
… composition, seeking to discover where it is categorised. By extension, it is then posited whether such a composition falls into a categorisation of Modernist, or Postmodernist ideals. Finally, a large rationale behind much of Rautavaara's music draws connections between semiotic …
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L'etude de la presence de l'interculturel dan les manuels FLE: L'analyse de la methode Et Toi? Niveau 1 et Alter Ego A1
… était d'analyser si les manuels (Et Toi ? et Alter Ego) sont conçus de manière à inclure des éléments interculturels ainsi que des activités culturelles pertinents pour permettre aux apprenants d'acquérir une compétence interculturelle. Une analyse du contenu de ces manuels a été menée, en …
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O eu e o outro : Dr. Jekyll vs Mr. Hyde : David Bowie vs Ziggy Stardust
… quando se apresentava em público, Bowie criou o alter-ego Ziggy Stardust. O caminho traçado pelo cantor nesta fase da sua carreira artística pode ser comparado com o de Dr. Jekyll, personagem principal da obra literária de Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. O …
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Drop
… mindset through thelens of the superhero’s alter ego whilst looking at the impact of responsibility on their future. This examination comes from the question of “who is the real you” when looking at personality changes in the addict, as well as the impact that addiction has had in my family …
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La escritura autobiográfica en el fin del siglo XIX: el ciclo novelístico de Pío Cid considerado como la autoficción de Ángel Ganivet
… have used Ángel Ganivet's works and his literary alter ego, Pío Cid, as a thread in a narrative form, the autofiction, which characterizes the narrative work of writers who represent the period from the end of 19th century to the beginning of 20th century, which falls within the Spanish Modernism …
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Magical and Mysterious Resonances: Structural Principles in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Kreisler Works and Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana
… Hoffmann's set of essays concerning his literary alter ego, Johannes Kreisler. The character of Kreisler is most prominently featured in two of Hoffmann's works: the <em>Kreisleriana</em> essays (1814-1815) and his final novel, <em>The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr</em> (1820-1822). This …
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Coliseum
… actions, and set of moral codes, and not just an alter-ego that solely belongs to Miguel. The voice also has a history of its own, which is subtly revealed throughout the story, most notably at the end.
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Community college transfer student identity, development and engagement: a constructivist grounded theory approach
… community college transfer students develop an alter ego, attempt to fit the entire four-year college experience in two years ("fitting four in two"), and use applicable engagement at their four-year institutions. These theories are the mechanisms that the population uses to cope with their …
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Preventing and Repairing Ego Depletion Through Humor
<p>The theory of ego depletion views the capacity for self-control as a finite internal resource that declines with continual use. As the levels of this resource decline, performance within a host of domains is impaired, resulting in negative behavioral outcomes. Previous studies have sought to …
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Electroacoustic music composition: myth, symbol and image
… bass clarinet and tape; Chapter 10, Urbis #3 'Alter ego' for electric guitar, live electronics and tape; Chapter 11, Urbis #4 for tape. In this section I address the use of modern urban culture symbols in order to create a contemporary mythological canon. Section 4 - A conclusion to this thesis.
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Concealment and revelation: Surrealism's contribution to 20th century portraiture
… concealment of features, and incorporation of an alter-ego. Brilliant's assertion that inanimate objects have no position in portraiture is also explored through specific examples of surrealist portraiture. By considering specific examples of surrealist portraiture the thesis questions such …
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"Sophie" reigns over dominant display practices : negotiating power in Mary Sibande's installations
… life-sized corporeal presence; she is Sibande's alter-ego cast from Sibande's own body. A central formal element of Sophie is her costume: a voluminous dress that hybridizes the South African domestic servant's uniform and a Victorian madam's dress. A dress denoting both servitude and dominance, …
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In the Labyrinths of Deceit: Culture, Modernity and Disidentity in the Nineteenth Century
… can be detected in an assessment of identity's alter ego - the disidentical self which is characterised by masks, disguises, madness, pathological behaviour, criminality and addiction. Examples of such paradigms for disidentity can be found in a variety of cultural texts and genres throughout …
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“Automatic obedience, synthetic schizophrenia, mass-produced to order. That is the Russian dream, and America is not far behind” : Fascism as a Reaction to a Crisis of Masculinity in William S. Burroughs’s Queer
… protagonist and Burroughs’s fictionalised alter ego, William Lee, feels subjugated to the biological imperative of homosexual desire, while also desperately trying to resist the dominant stereotypes ascribed to him by heteronormative society. As a result, Lee adopts a posture of …
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From Tsonga to Moçambicanidade: civil religious dynamics in Mozambican nationalism
… analysis, the thesis uses the analytical category “civil religion” as a focusing lens in order to explore the dynamics of national solidarity in four main archival sources: First, the construction of the Tsonga narratives of the tiMhamba, the Sacred Woods and the expropriation of local …
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Memorable Acts/active Rememberers: Contemporary Canadian Memory Plays
… drama and prose narrative whereby each is the alter-ego of the other" (15). This thesis examines a literary subgenre in which those alter-egos are brought face to face: the memory play. The memory play defies traditional genre definitions. It combines drama's immediacy with narrative's …
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The artist biopic: a historical analysis of narrative cinema, 1934-2010
… of the director or star to see the artist as an alter-ego. Many of them were adaptations of successful literary works, which tempted financial backers by having a ready-made audience based on a pre-established reputation. The sub-genre’s development is explored via the grouping of films with …
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