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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"creative response"”.
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Queering the Black Country: a critical and creative response
… or energising factor in the production of a new creative work about the region? Using Environmental Psychology and Psychogeography, I critically examine the ways the literature of the region depict its geography and the impact this has on the identity of its characters. Freudian and post-Freudian …
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Art remastered: Connecting the art museum and the local music community through interdisciplinary collaboration and creative response
Art Remastered was a creative project that invited the local music community of Urbana-Champaign to create original content in response to the artwork on display at Krannert Art Museum. Six local musicians from various backgrounds and music genres were tasked with selecting an artwork to creatively …
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Portfolio of compositions
The portfolio is a creative response to the question of how autochthonous new music might be composed which genuinely reflects the interaction of Western and Chinese traditional music and philosophy. The solution proposed is to avoid excessively fusing musical elements derived from different …
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Impact Fiction: the Gentle Art of Bending the Near Future.
… Key Informants (KIs); leading to a KI evaluated Creative Response + Practice Interrogation; closing with committee defence + installation + researcher reflections. Key insights revealed: successful impact-innovation-to-market must resolve ‘a wicked tangle of polychotomies’. For which, a certain …
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The practice of 'creative block': making space for process
The practice of creative block: making space for process explores the 'problem' of creative block, recontextualised as a concept. Thereby constituting reason for thinking and making, creative block may function as material to work with. This thesis is predicated on the notion that a creative …
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Unfoldings
… in his text Homo Ludens, is compared to the creative process in art-making and to the creative response of the viewer. The play process is examined through questionnaire responses and observations made during an evening of experimental play. Huizinga's assertion that play is not a factor in …
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An investigation into a community information database system in the northeast of Thailand: Community empowerment through community learning centres
… into the Information Age. This study is but one creative response to this need. To initiate the study, an extensively validated Questionnaire was implemented with a snowball sample comprising 500 representative, non-randomised respondents from the four provinces of the Inpeng Community Network …
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The natural and rural world in twentieth century British poetry
… language and form and through demonstrating that creative response to the full conditions of life is politically and metaphysically fundamental.
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Particles and Waves: Poetic Responses to Place - Psycho-geography and/as practice
… practices, this project comprises a hybrid creative response to the natural landscape of West Wales, using the River Towy as a focal point. It is concerned with an exploration of the importance of identity, and with themes of the spiritual, land, gender, culture and history. The work’s …
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Tamám : trace, reinterpretation and the periphery of poetic translation.
This thesis consists of two parts: my main creative project, Tamám; four translations of the Chinese T’ang poet Yu Xuanji; and an accompanying critical commentary. Tamám is a present-day reimagining of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám consisting of one-hundred-and-one quatrains. It frames translation …
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MAKING MYTH MATTER: INTERROGATING NARRATIVE AND RECONSTRUCTING METANARRATIVE IN CLASSICAL MYTH ADAPTATION
… its comforting closure, creating a contemporary response to classical work that engages the values of the culture to which it is addressed. I finally provide a set of terms I believe necessary to follow in order to create considered adaptations. In my creative response, which forms the second …
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Writing intermale sexuality history plays
… literacy”. From that state, an original creative response was then made in the form of playwriting. The thematic focus is on sexual and emotional intimacy between men, a topic which has, in terms of archival records, often been ignored, deliberately left coded, or even destroyed. …
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Trauma, Performativity, and Subjectivity in Art Practice
… of Gilles Deleuze's notion of 'becoming' as a creative flow, an active force of connections and relations. This challenge to dominant accounts (both psychoanalytic and philosophical) that characterize desire negatively as a longing for something lost (tragically and impossibly), allows me to …
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Contest and co-option : the struggle for schooling in the African independent churches of the Cape Colony
… 1920. These churches and schools were in part a creative response to discriminatory mission church politics, a general decline in black economic fortunes, and changes in the nature of black political mobilisation. However, the advent of independent church schools did not merely reflect an …
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Poetry as a performing art in the English-speaking Caribbean.
… of decolonization. Reggae music, the principal creative response to the dynamics of the period both in terms of lyrics and rhythmic tension, infuses the work of Michael Smith, Cku Onuora, Mutabaruka and Erian Meeks examined in this study. Chapter four illustrates the development of performed …
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Governing globalization in South Asia through a legal praxis of human rights, development and democracy
… and development. Both critical analysis and creative response are framed within legal history, human rights jurisprudence, constitutional and administrative law, comparative law and public international law, but the author draws extensively on political economy and history, and partially on …
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Die rundköpfe und die spitzköpfe oder reich und reich gesellt sich gern Ein Greuelmärchen: an analysis of Bertolt Brecht’s creative reception of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
This study is an analysis of the creative reception of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure by Bertolt Brecht, whose parable Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe represents the fruit of this literary relationship. Before the investigation of the reception process itself could be undertaken, an …