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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"artificiality"”.
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Cultural and theological factors affecting relationships between the Nederduitse-Gereformeerde Kerk and the Anglican Church (of the Province Of South Africa) in the Cape Colony 1806 -1910
… with artificialities. First, there is the artificiality of its geographical setting. It is confined to the Cape Colony Which, although permissible during the years when no other conventionally recognized political entity - at least, to Western eyes - existed in South Africa, and justifiable …
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A Key to All Mythologies
… paint, combines landscape with distortion and artificiality. Plastic has lost the futuristic and hopeful appeal it had in the past but it might still be an apt material to employ for a truly American artwork.</p>
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ESL students' perceptions of role-play activities
… also acknowledging some limitations such as artificiality and lack of vocabulary and ideas.
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Theatres of Reality, Fiction, and Temporality: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s <em>Ibsen-Saga</em> (2006 - 2015)
… foundation in three modernist sources: the artificiality of Ibsen’s realism, the utopianism and totality of Richard Wagner’s <em>Gesamtkunstwerk</em>, and the temporal provocations of the historical avant-gardes. I contend that the <em>Saga </em>reanimates Ibsen, Wagner, and the …
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Howells' Dialogic Realism
… and the other, a reactive response to the artificiality of all narrative conventions, realist or otherwise. In this formalist re-evaluation of all thirty-six of Howells' novels written over his fifty-year career, the novels are approached as expressions of a working novelist and critic …
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Stand up for Singapore? Gay men and the cultural politics of national belonging in the Lion City
… nation-building programs. These men expose the artificiality of the nation and its categories of belonging. Even as the state compels them to submit to its call for economic and biological (re)productivity, it also chastises them for their allegedly excessive individualism. Yet, in the corporeal …
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Women in the Context of Industrialization and Labor in Nineteenth-Century German Literature by Women
… writers used literary texts to demonstrate the artificiality of (middle-class) women's socially-prescribed domesticity. They highlighted different ways in which women's lives were influenced by industrial modernity, thereby connecting women to overarching social, political, and economic …
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Field container as a regional strategy for revitalizing the Los Angeles River
… tensions. The Los Angeles River epitomizes the artificiality and ingenious of Los Angeles as a city which molded its environment to suit its will, inhabiting a dry, arid desert and structuring one of the largest metropolises in the world. The merging of these two instances, the particular …
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Infinite urban landscapes : a journey through Cambridge, Massachusetts
… of the featured landscapes appear natural, their artificiality is revealed by the geometries of elements such as fences, pavement, and bridges. The compositions were developed iteratively using digital photography and tracing to find the most dynamic forms and rhythms. Site photos were …
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Urban oasis : the central market redevelopment of Hong Kong
… more and more layers of desenSitizing urban artificiality. Testing my belief that urbanity does not necessarily precludes nature, my thesis proposes to recover the balance in the contemporary urban life. My thesis investigates the collection, distillation and intensification of the elusive …
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Lessons from the underground : the pedagogic possibility of urban infrastructure
… infrastructure change as much as possible. The artificiality of a city is easily forgotten-in part because it is tremendously complex to consider how a city is formed. Repeated visits to the same places yield distinct impressions. An enriched awareness of a place makes it unique among the …
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FROM FANTAISIE TO HISTOIRE: APPLYING AN “ALSATIAN LESSON” TO CHINA
… the evolving original text, we can perceive the artificiality of Daudet’s Alsatian-ness, originating in fact from an underlying Provençal template, de-regionalized and universal, which reconciles attachment to the region and to the nation in literature. It is with this theory that the …
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Misogynistic Language in the Comedies of Ben Jonson: Jonson's Social Commentary on a Degenerating London
… through his portrayal of his characters, the artificiality and consumerism apparent in London society. Hence, Jonson is not promoting the hatred of women; rather he is making a social commentary on his perception of a degenerating London. Furthermore, I propose that Jonson cannot so easily be …
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The Hollywood Novel : An American Literary Genre
… and reality collapse, owing to the timelessness, artificiality, physical unconventionality, unusual atmosphere, and the reality/illusion dichotomy at work in Hollywood and the film industry.
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Ecological Limitations and Potentials of Artificial Aquatic Systems
… of these systems, or judged differently, due to artificiality, and consider resultant possible changes in goals for these systems. The emerging recognition and study of artificial aquatic systems presents an exciting and important opportunity for science and society.</p><p> Irrigation ditches are …
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Performing dreams in England and Spain, 1570-1670
… within this tragicomedy intensely reveal the artificiality of established gender positions and powerfully portray ‘natural’ male pre-eminence in an equivocal light.
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Body Opera: In Search of the Operatic in the Performance of the Body
… or artificial way of moving. This emphasis on artificiality is theorised as an operatic sensibility akin to queerness. The thesis examines opera through the lens of postmodernism and in particular through a queer theoretical framework. The research analogously applies Butler’s poststructuralist …
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‘Restor(y)ing their position in the spotlight, please welcome back on stage… Postgraduate Students who teach… or Graduate Teaching Assistants... or Teaching Postgrads… or…’
… is a way of drawing explicit attention to the artificiality of conventional academic writing and highlights the importance of writing as inquiry in itself. In addition, through the adoption of performative writing in this study, a space has been created for the reader to create their own …
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Beauty of Form and Concept: The Aesthetics of Late Euripidean Tragedy
… marked by a distancing effect and a conspicuous artificiality predominates. This takes several forms, ranging from the presentation of the characters, setting, or chorus to various iterations of formal ornamentation in language and concept. In many cases a tension arises between the effect of …
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Modeling of Polar Cap Ionospheric Patches and Attendant Plasma Instabilities: Initialization from Data and Parametric Analysis
… expanded simulation grid volumes that remove the artificiality of direct plasma patch -- simulation grid boundary interactions that are often the result of the need to use smaller grid volumes due to computing resource limitations,</li> <li>Model a range of notional polar cap patches for …
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