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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"blank space"”.
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The blank space on the map
From the cold shores of Marion Island to the plains of the Great Karoo, this is a story about four South Africans, by birth or circumstance, who are marooned on the outskirts of society and trying to find their way back. Livhu is a scientist who has been sent to a remote research station to study …
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Kinds of spaces : poststructural concepts and metafictional appropriations
"Kinds of Spaces: Poststructural Concepts and Metafictional Appropriations" emerges from studies in structural linguistics, contemporary critical theory, and metafiction and thus moves into the realms of poststructuralism and deconstruction while developing a theory of space in writing. Its central …
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Between the Map and the Territory: Taking the World Apart in the Age of Un-Discovery
… Despite this objective for total knowledge, the blank space of a map is a necessity; in order for a map to be useful it must leave some aspects out. This blank space, along with other blanks in visual representation, is an active silence, and holds meaning in its absence.</p> <p>While the map …
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A Season
… up for display. A Season is a self-portrait as blank space, a self-portrait as perpetual becoming—“a house of mirrors in which every face is perpetually on its way.”</p>
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Textual Space and Metafiction in Mark Z Danielewski's House of Leaves
… experimentation with textual and graphic space and allusions to hypertextual devices, Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves seeks to remind the reader of the presence of the book in print fiction. Danielewski dispenses with traditional textual formats in order to provoke the reader to …
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Factors affecting target perceptibility in object substitution masking
… OSM is “complete”; participants report seeing a blank space at the target location although the target is present. Collectively, the results of the present thesis show that attention does not influence OSM when it is controlled either indirectly (i.e. set size, crowding) or directly (pre-cue). …
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Liminal blankness : mixing race and space in monochrome's psychic surface
Blank space in western Art History and visual culture is something that has tended to be either explained away, or ignored. Pictures that do not depict challenge the visual basis of the ego and its others, confronting what I call the `Phallic reader' (who sees according to the logic and rules of …
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The horror film genre as an interpretive device in an adaptation of Tennessee Williams 's Suddenly last summer
… action takes place in a sort of netherworld or blank space that serves as metaphor for both cinema and the white cube of the gallery. This choice of staging is meant to refer to Catharine's mention of the "blazing white wall" against which her cousin's body was thrown after his death. In fact, …
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V bytě maloměstě, Mikulov
Projekt se zabývá otázkou bydlení v bytě a v rodinném v malém městě, jako je Mikulov. Mým cílem je najít pozitiva obou možností. Zároveň si kladu otázku o užití tradičních motivů a principů bydlení, jako je dvůr, krb nebo průchod mezi domy a za užití nových současných prostředků se je snažím …
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Perceiving Matter in Notes on Space, Undated (Log 3) by André du Bouchet, Fontfroide-le-Haut, Fata Morgana, 2000
This study of the graphic field in notes on space, undated (log 3) focuses on how the white emptiness of a page plays a structural role in the articulation of dissociated fragments of notes. According to the criteria of three theorists (Genette, Lapacherie, Baetens), the distinction between …
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«That Land Became Mine» Baktria, Northeastern Central Asia, the Teispid- Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-327 BCE)
… and the surrounding territories as a «complex space», in which different social actors - not only the Empire and its administration, but also the peoples of the steppes, whom some important recent studies (Miller 2014) have shown to be decisive actors on the Baktrian chessboard - move around …