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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"contemporaneity"”.
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Connectivity and Contemporaneity in Ali Smith’s Oeuvre: A Critical Study
… that an interplay between connectivity and contemporaneity is key to Smith’s writing. My approach follows the contours of Smith’s oeuvre in dialogue with postcritical, feminist, queer, New Ethical, postcolonial and affect theory within the context of contemporary British literature and …
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Chaucer's use of folk material in the Canterbury Tales
… by the past achievements of the race. In fact, contemporaneity in literature is only relative since literary productions are necessarily moulded by the past anthropological as well as historical.
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Le projet urbain dans la requalification : approche comparative entre l'Italie et la France
How does contemporaneity interpret Urban Design and what kind of meaning give to it? How has the economic and politic transformation process of the town influenced Urban Design? Through a comparative method applied to two comparable geographic realities (Italy and France), this dissertation …
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An Appalachian Architecture, an Appalachian Architect
… conscious of his place in time, of his own contemporaneity. The difference between the present and the past is that the conscious present is an awareness of the past in a way and to an extent which the past's awareness of itself cannot show. Fragments from 'Tradition and the Individual …
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Fantasy, morality and ideology: a comparative study of C.S.Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
… his books still reflect his attitudes towards contemporaneity and in this sense are not escapist. It then looks at the morality expressed in each of their works and the various expectations and responsibilities of children's authors. Lastly it looks at four key areas of Lewis' ideology which …
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Magic and possibility: medievalism and the idea of the occult
… the writing of history , and the writing of contemporaneity itself. The thesis also engages with the history and philosophy of science, and the recently-emerging discipline of science studies. Operating within this interdisciplinary framework, it is argued that magic has by necessity always …
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Making Sense of Nonsense
… me to constantly shift and adjust to accommodate contemporaneity. Making Sense of Nonsense recognizes the process of attempting to solve a puzzle that cannot be solved, despite the illusion of resolution, which indicates that the answer is never absolute. Rather, it endlessly evolves. </p>
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Terapia ocupacional frente as pessoas em situação de rua
A contemporaneity of our society created in individuals who live in it a segregation in which some have a higher level of productivity than the other. This movement led to the creation of a stigma, making unproductive people in individuals who add nothing to conviviality and social progress, and …
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The things of now
… moment in time. To reflect the complex nature of contemporaneity, The Things of Now is multi-generic in structure, placing it within the realm of autotheory. By utilizing an autotheoretical approach, the manuscript, in the words of Lauren Fournier, can be seen to “exceed existing genre …
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The new citizens : a study of the architectural identity of public philanthropic institutions built by two Isma'ili communities in contemporary Bombay
… of glass and cement plaster and establish their contemporaneity so. Both institutions were built by Shi'i Isma'ili communities, the hospital by the Bohras and the school by the Khojas. Both buildings represent a significant phase in the history of these mercantile communities in Bombay where …
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Temporal structures in Piers Plowman
… III returns to fourteenth-century English contemporaneity to explain how Langland resolved the apparent paradox of presenting actual events in all their uniqueness while, at the same time, relating them to a highly-structured Biblical world-historical framework.
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Racism and Abjection in the (Post) Colony
… as a narrative which questions South Africa’s contemporaneity as a (post)colonial and (post)apartheid state and the limits of the law by comparing and contrasting the film to, the recently approved, Prevention and combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill. I intend to argue that the …
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Music Culture and the Self-Presentation of Indigenous Musicians on Social Media in Contemporary Taiwan
… on- and offline and between tradition and contemporaneity. Fourthly, indigenous musicians in Taiwan do not only create and perform music, but also give a huge importance to defining and re-articulating what they think indigenous music is and what role it should play in contemporary …
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Natural Strange Beatitudes: Geoffrey Hill's The Orchards of Syon, Poetic Oxymoron and Post-Secular Poetics AND An Atheist's Prayer-Book
… alienation from a cynical and debased Anglophone contemporaneity. The oxymoronic nature of a faith co-existent with existential loss is the primary focus. The semantic distinction between paradox and poetic oxymoron is examined, and the agonistic and aporetic dimensions of the oxymoron are …
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Curatorship and Post-Duchampian Art in Transnational Contexts
… engendered by him can be transposed to contemporaneity. It presents the dynamics of Post-Duchampian art as those artistic manifestations that make regular use of abstract concepts and which are nurtured by the context to which they belong. Bauman and Foucault provided the sources for the …
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The Transcultural Production of Creative Subjectivity: London Art, Design and Communication Higher Education in Mumbai and Shanghai Cultural Industries
… helping to bring the southern cities into self-contemporaneity through their productive intervention. They thereby engage with the unevenness of world space under the international division of labour in subjective terms as a source of creative potential from difference. Objective factors of …
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Physical conclusions? An exploration of [dis]continuities in Thomas Vaughan’s [Al]Chemical tracts.
… The critical process o f locating textual contemporaneity and the concomitant re-historicisation of Vaughan in tandem with an assertion of his writing’s occult signification underpins the problematised and distinctive nature o f Vaughan’s public writing.
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In search of the literal sense : Johannes Oecolampadius (1482-1531) and the exegetical tradition on Isaiah.
… raised concerns about prophecy's coherence and contemporaneity, concerns which Oecolampadius and his fellow reformers grappled with intensely. The study then investigates sixteenth-century disputes over these same issues among the reformers themselves. It closes by looking at a fourth central …
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The Transcultural Production of Creative Subjectivity:London Art, Design, and Communication Education in Mumbai and Shanghai Cultural Industries
… helping to bring the southern cities into self-contemporaneity through their productive intervention. They thereby engage with the unevenness of world space under the international division of labour in subjective terms as a source of creative potential from difference. Objective factors of …
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Vozes do Cruzêro: trajetos poéticos por uma cena cabocla.
… to the scenic practices of the theater in the contemporaneity, and also to bring it to a solo staging, in which the author of the thesis acts as actor- director, translating the path of a cabocla scene that is an expression of what in the course was called cabocla epistemology. The research …
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