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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"different readings"”.
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Hero in West and East
In examining the different perceptions of Zhang Yimou’s Hero (2002) from American and Chinese popular press, this research considers western film theories, as well as the specific Chinese film ecology of the current decade 1999-2009. Reflections on the different readings of the filmic text are …
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Situation aspect and viewpoint aspect : from Salish to Japanese
… the main focus is on how various perfect readings are derived in the two languages, which show striking similarities in this respect. In Sencoten, a particle kwlh yields various readings depending on the situation aspect and viewpoint aspect of the predicate with which it occurs (Kiyota …
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Exploring the Identities of North American Yoga Teachers From Different Perspectives on the Self
… North American yoga teachers from two different ontological, epistemological and methodological perspectives. This study illustrates how the self can be understood and constructed in different ways using different readings of the interview material. The first reading of the interview …
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The Place of Man
… desire to make work that can support a number of different readings, the elements of the building have been abstracted to their essential characteristics and identities in order to free up their symbolic potentials. The architectural elements are open vessel into which one can pour their own …
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Tactile sensor design optimization for footwear applications from piezoresistive elastomer to Hall-effect integrated sensing methods
… by mechanoreceptors found in human skin. Two different sensing methodologies will be analyzed: piezoresistive elastomer and Hall-effect integration. The piezoresistive elastomer method will involve testing mixtures of urethane or silicone rubbers with various conductive substances such as …
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Framing Absence: Visuals of the Wall and the Vanishing Landscapes in Palestine
… also examined representations of the Wall in different visual projects. From a theoretical perspective, this dissertation asks how do visual fields facilitate the structuring of national imaginaries and what sights and future visions are offered by different readings of the landscape? To …
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Diving: using fiction narrative and intermedial assemblage to understand family histories in colonial India between 1933-1947
… from multiple perspectives and are played out by different dramatic characters, informed and inferred from scholarly research on domestic servants and other cultural sources, such as childhood colonial memoirs, films and literature. Some of these fictional characters, such as the colonists’ …
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Ethics and affects: A critique of social intelligibility with Adorno, Butler and Spivak
… customary impasses so that affectively different readings of social life can flourish.</p>
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A contextual analysis of definite and indefinite interpretations of tense
… its value via an assignment function. Two different readings are achieved by two different types of assignment function: an assignment function fixed by the context assigns salient times to definite tenses, and another type of assignment function for indefinite tenses, which agrees with the …
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Body of evidence
… practice - to situate it somewhere between the different readings of cancer according to the Western theory of disease, the Eastern and New Age understandings of the body and ill health, and the work of other artists. It seeks balance between these competing discourses and looks for integration …
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Sounding Out: Performance drawing in response to the outside environment
… established by individuals who work in different professions are examined. These different readings of place identify ‘signs’ as conditioning the character of place, and as being read by passers-by as directions through place, thereby revealing an interaction between place and humankind. …
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Design by means of archival research : exploring the notion of multiple interpretations and the proposal for another Ditchley Portrait
… originally used didactic allegory to yield different readings radiating from, and referring to, one source, exploring it as a nonorganic work further allows participation to such an extent that the interpretation of the portrait may only be completed by the response of the recipient. This …
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Edmund Burke's German readers at the end of Enlightenment, 1790-1815
… of the Revolution’s origins, grounded in different readings of his Reflections. Rehberg, for instance, saw Burke as a principled skeptic: he admired the Reflections as an incisive critique of the revolutionaries’ philosophical dogmatism. Gentz, an erstwhile student of Kant, disagreed …
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Designing the superblock : a model for Taipei redevelopment
… in Taipei. The thesis starts out by inspecting different aspects of the contemporary physical context of the city. Traditional urban design strategies and new urban development trends are then juxtaposed to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of both. The main body of the thesis describes the …
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Tres lecturas de las novelas de Mario Vargas Llosa : interpretación psicoanalítica de la producción novelesca de un autor
… Llosa, and it explores these novels from three different perspectives, here called readings. The first perspective focuses on the literary techniques and the importance these may have for the interpretation of the content of the novels. This first reading includes a summary of the reception of …
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Medea senecana in lingua tedesca tra XVIII secolo e oggi
… the analysis of six representative works of different readings: furor and magic in Medea in Corinth (1786) by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger; Love and melodrama in Medea in Corinto (1814) by Johann Simon Mayr; the ethnic and political question in Medea in Prag (1949) by Max Zweig; the …
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Dairy Culture: Industry, Nature and Liminality in the Eighteenth-Century English Ornamental Dairy
… simultaneously. This thesis explicates three different readings of the English dairy in the eighteenth-century cultural imagination. Dairies were structures whose contradictory fancy/functional nature referenced contemporary attitudes about the acceptable balance between industry and idleness …
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The architectural correspondence of space and speech in tragedy
… In the first of our chapters we deal with those different readings attempting a critical presentation of the existing scholarship. Obviously it is the performance and all the conventions which govern it that fully define the space of drama. It is the 'event' (of architectural theories) - as this …
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Modal auxiliary verbs and contexts
… `might', `must', `would', and others, have different readings depending on the context in which they occur (Kratzer 1981). The sentence `Jess could fry the fish' can mean that, in a time previous to the utterance of the sentence, Jess had the ability to fry the fish, or it can mean that, at …