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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"artifice"”.
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Aspartame : artifice and the science of sweet
… This thesis takes a journalistic look at how artifice came to satisfy the human sweet tooth. Drawing on expert interviews, scientific papers, historical accounts and congressional records, it also examines some of the health complaints like headaches and seizures that have been attributed to …
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Sculpture as artifice: mimetic form in the environment
Can natural and artificial patterning (camouflage) intersect with organic systems and entropic forces in nature to symbiotically link a sculpture to its environment? Through practice led, theory-based research, studio investigation and field study, I will develop a sculptural earthwork called Mud …
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Magical Artifice and Artificial History in the 'Roman de Perceforest'
… fascinating and original portrayals of magical artifice, which have intrigued scholars of Old French for many decades. It is also a peculiarly overt project of 'artificial' history, filling in a lacuna of Arthurian genealogy: King Perceforest's dynasty in pagan Britain. Under the umbrella of …
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Between nature and artifice : The Landscape Architecture Research Office (1966-1979)
Cambridge in the 1960s was a locus of experimentation and research in new computing technologies -from the production of transportation models for New England to the design of war games simulating the vagaries of the terrain in Vietnam. One research group, working in the nascent field of computer …
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"In Propria Persona": Artifice, Politics, and Propriety in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
… examines the use of personae, the rhetorical artifices by which an author creates different voices, in John Gower's Confessio Amantis. I argue that the Confessio attempts to expose how discourses of sexual desire alienate subjects from their proper place in the political world, and produce …
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Total Artifice: Neo-Gothic Literary and Visual Art in Britain 1750-1789
… as if they were only abstractly related. Total Artifice is my attempt to think beyond this rigid alternative. In my first chapter I argue that Horace Walpole’s neo-Gothic style was not, as many scholars have suggested, informed by Burke’s concept of the sublime. Rather, I demonstrate that …
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Deciphering the Real through Artifice: A Study of the Gaze in Victorian Art
This thesis explores how the gaze is utilized to find hidden truth in Charlotte Brontë's first novel, The Professor, the early work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and George Eliot's novella, "The Lifted Veil." Brontë's narrator and protagonist of The Professor is an obsessive gazer who decodes …
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A search for a school
… of Homeric Studies is thing apart; a numbered artifice of pieces, and this is a place apart: a place of song, a place of anger, a place of prayer.
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Fielding's Theatricalist Drama
… the nature and proper function of theatrical artifice. Despite shifts in mode and emphasis, Fielding uses self-conscious theatricalism in his plays in three ways.
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Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture
… a series of probing questions into the nature of artifice, privacy, and celebrity.
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Nuair a bha Gaidhlig aig na h-eoin : an investigation into the art and artifice of avifaunal mimesis as a mode of artistic expression in Gaelic oral culture from the seventeenth century to the present
This investigation will interrogate the mimetic faculty of modern Gaelic oral culture, focussing particularly on mimesis as an artistic device. The imitation of nature in Gaelic is perhaps most frequently associated with the folk-song tradition, in which non-lexical vocable refrains are frequently …
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Life without my head
This book of poems understands the human body as artifice, a device to broadcast and receive pain, even as it promises great pleasure. Here, this device is mostly female: a hyper-sexualized screensaver for a voyeuristic gaze, both flesh and holograph, sensual and synthetic, animated and automated, …
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A Promenade for Isolation
… by common themes: frontality, obscurity, artifice, and seclusion.<br /><br />In the first part, the plan appears as a map of a promenade which is the main ordering device of the building structure.<br /><br />In the second part, the internal spaces are presented as isolated from each other …
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Queer Public Figures in Biopics
… genre, with a specific focus on the morality of artifice when representing the life story of a real figure. How does a figure’s representation impact their legacy, reputation, and the perception of queer people in general? The biopic is defined and analysed in terms of genre, subgenre, and …
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Action, alienation and Bacchus
… characterize the eternal swing from nature to artifice. While evidence of the Apollonian will to construct an ordered reality abounds in the contemporary city, the ability to access the Dionysian realm of truth is not provided for. The ancient urban form of the stoa--by giving shape to the …
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Playing Dead: Staging Corpses, Ghosts, and Statues in Early Modern Drama
… Such displays of the power and pleasure of artifice paradoxically free theater from the constraining obligation of so-called accurate representation and highlight the pleasure playgoers and actors can find in participating together in imaginative yet embodied theatrical fictions. Ultimately, …
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Life after/before
… truth and Charles Eidsvik's notion of cinematic artifice, the project transcends traditional documentary formats to create emotional authenticity. Structured around the stages of grief, the film engages with theoretical insights from authors like Gilles Deleuze, and David MacDougall, highlighting …
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House(s) on a Slope: Reciprocity in Architecture
… result of the reciprocity between the nature and artifice. When architectural form adopts and supports each element on the site, the site will be enhanced from the establishment of architecture. In a macro sense, architectural forms become icons, landmarks, or spiritual backgrounds for culture and …
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