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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"anachronism"”.
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John Tenniel and Technology: Anachronism and Social Meaning
Sir John Tenniel worked for the Victorian magazine Punch for over fifty years, from 1850 to 1901, and served as head cartoonist for the latter thirty-seven years of his tenure at the magazine. Tenniel's cartoons effectively became the heart of Punch's visual lineup, and the sentiments expressed by …
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The shopping arcade : historic anachronism or modern retail prototype?
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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“Coloured” Pasts in Post-Apartheid South African Fiction: Slavery, Gender, and Anachronism
… By investigating, or making visible, figures of anachronism, these novels qualify the celebratory rhetoric of the “new” nation by pointing to the continued challenges facing the democratic state, particularly in relation to the social position of “coloured” women. In doing so, they challenge the …
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The nautical fault defence- an anachronism or a concept of the future?
In context of the carriage of goods by sea, the carrier's liability for loss of or damage to the goods has always been a controversial topic, because the carrier's and the shipper's interests have to be harmonised. In order to find an equitable solution, several liability regimes have been …
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The Transformation of a Shire: Local Negotiation in the Society for Creative Anachronism
… how a small branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Loch an Fhraoich, whose values and identity center around camaraderie and narrative and aesthetic coherence, attempts to balance these two often contradictory principles. To better illustrate the negotiations taking place, I have used …
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"Is it time we move through or space?": literary anachronism and anachorism in the novels of Elizabeth Taylor
… through the lens of the interlinked concepts, anachronism and anachorism, an approach that enables an analysis of the structural, thematic and stylistic engagements with time and place in her fiction. Blending theme with chronology, the study attaches a particular topic to each decade between …
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an Architecture Manufactum
… of its creator. Rather than viewed as anachronism, inculcating the human component, "manufactum", into modern design reacquaints us with our own capricious temperaments. As powerful tools of the contemporary world heighten our faculty for exactitude, the prudence remains as to whether …
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Imperialism, state formation and the establishment of a Muslim community at the Cape of Good Hope, 1770-1840 : a study in urban resistance
… it is regarded only as a quaint and colourful anachronism, adding a touch of spice to the cosmopolitan nature of the town. This thesis, however, takes as its point of departure the rejection of the notion that the development of Islam in Cape Town can be meaningfully understood in these terms.
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Lectures in transition : a study of communicative practices in the humanities in a South African university
The lecture is usually seen as an anachronism, out of step with contemporary trends in student learning and communication. However it remains a defining space in higher education, particularly in the first year experience. This study is a re-description of the lecture; it explores the tensions and …
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Sculpture in site: Examining the relationship between sculpture and site in the principal works of Giambologna
… physical and conceptual, in order to remove anachronism from the perception of a given sculpture.
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Bedouin, not a Bad-One. The Bedoul Bedouins' Struggle for Identity, Place and Belonging in Petra, Jordan.
… 'traditional' ancestor figures for Jordan and an anachronism, who should have been nomads and not connected to a Lost City. With these conceptions of place and identity overlaid upon them and their relationship to Petra the Bedoul have continued to struggle for Bedouin identity and a place in …
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Bedouin, not a Bad-One. The Bedoul Bedouins' Struggle for Identity, Place and Belonging in Petra, Jordan.
… 'traditional' ancestor figures for Jordan and an anachronism, who should have been nomads and not connected to a Lost City. With these conceptions of place and identity overlaid upon them and their relationship to Petra the Bedoul have continued to struggle for Bedouin identity and a place in …
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The (family) firm : representation and power in the British royal family
… of the monarchy as an archaic institution, an anachronism to corporate forms of wealth and power, and therefore irrelevant. Rather, I propose to understand the monarchy as part of capital regimes, committed to accumulating wealth and securing power. To do this, I conceptualise the monarchy as a …
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Retrofitting the Tennessee Valley Authority
… increasingly relegating the TVA to irrelevant anachronism. Today's TVA is an important American landscape facing obsolescence, largely due to organizational ossification and a failure to adapt to changing attitudes towards environmental management. Using the Tennessee River as a conceptual and …
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De Cortés al Mago de Oz: Estrategias posmodernas en el teatro latinoamericano: 1980-1992
… of various literary and nonliterary genres, anachronism, ahistoricity, metafiction, transvestism and parody are used by the playwrights to question the traditional beliefs of history, genre, gender and art. By exploring these strategies, I demonstrate how the plays dismantle not only the …
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Post- Print: a moment of compression
… diversions, I consider historical thinking and anachronism to be practical methodologies in my work. These retroactive interventions are themselves closely informed for me by the philosophical strategies of fragmentation, reframing and détournement variously proposed by Benjamin, Žižek and …
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Heritage of the Red Orient : theories and practices of architectural restoration in Soviet Central Asia (1920-1991)
… to the dissertation) testifies to the apparent anachronism of the proportinalist speculations, which in the Soviet Union were accepted as the successful reconstruction of medieval Islamic architectural theory and highly praised a triumph of Communist science by cultural authorities. Using …
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Serving the Patris in the Roman Empire: Civic Patriotism in Basil of Caesarea, the Emperor Julian, and Gregory Nazianzus
… for civic patriotic language, rather than an anachronism that, reflected mainstream fourth-century political culture. Secondly, however, ascetic and universalist ideas springing from contemporary philosophy offered significant challenges to the place of civic patriotic language in elite …
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Natural theology and natural philosophy in the late Renaissance
… ‘natural theology’ has often been subject to anachronism and misunderstanding. The term itself is difficult to define; it is most fruitful to think of natural theology as the answer to the question, ‘what can be known about God and religion from the contemplation of the natural world?’ There …
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L’Imaginaire des Pays-Bas dans la littérature française du XIXe siècle
… its stereotypical and anachronistic nature. The anachronism is also typical of the images borrowed from paintings of the Dutch school and a few art historians. Realism is most appreciated when poetically tinged, as with Rembrandt who reveals the boundary between dream and reality. History …
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