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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"binary oppositions"”.
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Contending with Binary Oppositions in Musical Aesthetics through Eros
… musical aesthetics has been characterized by binary oppositions. For example, some argue music’s expressivity is rooted in its internal, formal configurations while others do so by pointing to music’s representational qualities. Or some emphasize music's sensorial nature, i.e., the necessity …
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An examination of selected binary oppositions in the work of Elizabeth Gaskell which serve to demonstrate the author's response to unitarianism and other prevalent influences within mid-Victorian society
… Gaskell's work is characterised by a series of binary oppositions, a feature of her fiction which serves to illustrate her individual response to conflicting values or concepts. Rather than dogmatically resolving the series of antinomies revealed throughout her work, she maintains their …
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Ngugi wa Thiongo and third world postcolonialism
… an antithesis against the logical fallacy of the binary oppositions performed by the contemporary first world postcolonial theory and practice. The division between the first and the third world postcolonial aesthetics is due to their different interpretations and practices of the term …
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Truth and strangers in Jean Rhys's novels : Good morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea
… tendency to order reality by constructing binary oppositions which reduce people to homogeneous categories. Rhys illustrates how this view is mistaken and destructive. Rhys highlights the heterogeneity of human existence and exposes the provisionality of truth and the instability of meaning …
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Home Storage and critical analysis
… society that surrounds them. It dismantles the binary oppositions between good and evil whilst resisting a portrayl of violence. The thesis also includes a critical analysis of the play
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The 'Uncanny' and The Android
… the relationship between the android and the binary oppositions of strange/familiar, alive/dead and animate/inanimate. This discussion of binary oppositions leads to Ernst Jentsch's 1909 publication, 'On the Psychology of the Uncanny. Jentsch's work is used to develop the uncanniness of the …
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Consumer holiday structure: an analysis of Christian holiday patterns and consumer ritual practice in America
… and repeated patterns, involving inversions and binary oppositions. A structuralist analysis is applied to explore the role of Black Friday as a new consumer holiday in a larger symbol set--one that reveals the reinforcement of underlying values and practices of consumerism. The structural …
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Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance : Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey
… includes a deconstructive analysis using three binary oppositions: the minority and the majority; the individual and community; and the public and private sphere with special reference to language, a significant component of nationalist discourse. This movement also forms the basis of the second …
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The Anatomy of Disgust and the Sublime in Metamodern Painting
… this series explore the application of Platonic binary oppositions of life/death and attraction/repulsion using Renaissance painting techniques that include the application of solvent and linseed oil glazes, as well as Galkyd Lite and MSA Gel, to assist in the realistic replication of the flesh …
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Grendel’s Mother in the context of the myth of the Woman in the Water
… between femininity and water, and connotes the binary oppositions of birth and death, creativity and destruction, and the overarching themes of chaos and transience. By examining the imagery in Beowulf and its contemporary literature, this thesis studies the figure of Grendel’s mother in the …
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Verlorenvlei vernacular : a structuralist analysis of Sandveld folk architecture
… mediation by their creators of a set of binary oppositions common to all human experience. The mental rules that guide this process of design, and therefore account for the physical form of the object, are called the artifactual competence. Because, as a product of this competence, an …
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Work-based subjectivity and identity: assisted self-service in contemporary British retailing
… is argued, provides a means of overcoming the 'binary oppositions' - between 'individual' and 'productive apparatus' and 'ideology' and 'truth' - that have characterised analyses of work-identity within sociology by indicating the relational and dislocated nature of any social identity. In the …
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The paradox of English sport development policy and practice: Examining the mass participation agenda during an era of austerity and continued change.
… Governing Bodies) and professional-community binary oppositions. Findings from this study highlight key drivers limiting the mass participation agenda. These themes include the increased diversity and fragility of the delivery platform provision under austerity, challenge the industry …
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Buddhist Śūnyatā and Christian Apophaticism : A Typology of Negativity with Special Reference to Derridean Khôra and Différance
… provide a fluid language whereby problems of binary oppositions are bracketed and examined within the specific structures of sacred texts within the traditions. Furthermore, Derridean deconstruction provides the crux of the analytical argument because a deconstructed language of negativity, as …
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Representations of love in the novels of Jeanette Winterson from 1985 to 2000
… ultimately maintains rather than deconstructs binary oppositions, whilst simultaneously urging that love should be available to all regardless of sex or sexuality.
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"Desmantelamiento e integracion de las dicotomias en ""Cien anos de soledad"""
… and one that emphasizes the neat paradigms of binary logic. I also review recent schools of thought--deconstruction, feminism, post-colonial criticism--that have systematically questioned the claims of universality of such a representational model. The second part of my study is a survey of …
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Olive Schreiner : women, nature, culture
… of culture constituted through a system of binary oppositions which inevitably privilege masculinity as opposed to femininity by redefining culture in three distinct ways. The patriarchal conception culture as the sole preserve of men is rejected in Schreiner's demands for women's …
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Revelations: Spirituality as Privileged Perspectivism in Magical Realist Distortions
… magical realism blurs boundaries between many binary oppositions, as well as more contemporary approaches by Lyn Di Iorio Sandín and Caroline Rody, focusing on ethnicity, race, and trauma, will further this analysis. An account of folkloric beliefs in magic surrounding the Catholic Saint George …
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Beyond the Dualism of Creature and Creator: A Hindu-Christian Theological Inquiry into the Distinctive Relation between the World and God
… were issuing the same challenge: to move beyond binary oppositions between the world and God to a ‘non-dualism’ (a-dvaita) which means neither ‘one’ (i.e. God = world) nor ‘two’ (i.e. God + world). I develop her work and that of the earlier ‘Calcutta School’ by drawing explicit attention to the …
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Gold Griot: Jean-Michel Basquiat Telling (His) Story in Art
… and challenges the constraints of traditional binary oppositions. I will examine Basquiat’s representation of the icon of the griot; narrator of African history and mythical talisman, shedding new light on the artist’s reclamation of this powerful totem. Traversing the perimeters of the Black …
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