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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"doppelgänger"”.
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Doppelgänger--a user modeling system
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1991.
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Doppelgänger goes to school : machine learning for user modeling
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1993.
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OPERATION CONDOR'S DOPPELGÄNGER: THE JUNTA DE COORDINACIÓN REVOLUCIONARIA AND THE OUTBREAK OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN THE SOUTHERN CONE
This thesis explores the Junta de Coordinación Revolucionaria (JCR) and its impact on the outbreak of political violence in the Southern Cone. Given the JCR's short existence and the barbarity of Operation Condor, most scholars have overlooked this organization or treated as convenient excuse for …
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Das Motiv des Doppelgängers als Spaltungsphantasie in der Literatur und im deutschen Stummfilm
… as dimensões cinematográficas do motivo do Doppelgänger. A tese compõe-se de quatro partes: A primeira parte contém uma introdução à temática da dissertação, explicando o aparecimento e o desenvolvimento das várias definições do conceito de Doppelgänger e termos relacionados (Sósia, duplo, …
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Die Interpretation der 'Reitergeschichte' Hugo von Hofmannsthals als "Rittmeistergeschichte" und deren Bezüge zu den Thematisierungen von Krieg im Gesamtwerk des Autors
… lässt sich nicht nur eine Doppelung der Doppelgänger-Erscheinung des Wachtmeisters feststellen, sondern insgesamt eine hochartifizielle Doppelstruktur aus der hier rekonstruierten 'Rittmeister-Geschichte' und der vielinterpretierten 'Wachtmeister-Geschichte' nachweisen. Aus …
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Uncanny Reminders: The 'Nazi' in Popular Culture
The ubiquity of the ‘Nazi’ – the fictional Doppelgänger of the historical Nazi – in the various media of popular culture is both disturbing and fascinating. There is an important relationship between the ‘Nazi’ and its audience; related to but separate from the historical Nazi, the creation and …
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Egon Schiele’s Double Self Portraiture
… evoke similar themes found in the Romantic <em>Doppelgänger </em>topos, Schiele’s interpretation of topics such as mirror images, shadows, and death are distinct from it because he does not depict his double as a threat. Instead, the doubles beseech the viewer to be understood differently, for …
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Lyric Subjectivity, Ethics, Contemporary Poetics: Claudia Rankine, Fanny Howe, Elizabeth Robinson
… draws on supernatural tropes, including the doppelgänger and the ghost, to underscore the distortions of lyric reflections of the self and the otherness inherent in self-encounter. Further, Robinson's conceptualizations of lyric voice and lyric address are Levinasian in their potential for …
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Poetic irony in Thomas Hardy's Satires of Circumstance.
… upon irony in narrative strategies, use of the doppelgänger motif, thematic ironic elements, and interweaving of ironic and ambiguous elements. The study concludes that Hardy's poetic irony exists in the opposition between levels of meaning in a poem, a strategy which involves the reader in …
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James Hogg's Ambiguously Justified Sinner
This thesis explores Hogg's interpretation of indeterminacy both throughout his career and in Justified Sinner, especially in the character Gil-Martin. Hogg seems to reject the tradition of choosing one side over another in such a dichotomy, and instead chooses to look at both extremes as equally …
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Confronting the Doppelganger: Mapping the Ontological Terrain of an Afro-Caribbean Woman as She Rebrands Diasporic, Feminine Identity Politics: An Autoethnography
<p>This thesis seeks to interrogate the intricacies governing the intra-racial\ intra-gendered relationship of an Afro-Trinidadian woman as she commandeers professional spaces in North America. The intent is to challenge the instrument of Black sisterhood deeming it as an incomplete, social …