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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"doppelganger"”.
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William Wilson's Echoes: The Doppelganger Theme in Late Victorian Horror Fiction
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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 …
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Dark Doubles and Dual Audience: What Uncanny Doppelgangers in Children’s Literature Teach Readers
The doppelganger motif in all its varieties has been used in narratives of different countries, centuries, and literary or cinematic genres. Primarily, it is employed in suspenseful genres like the thriller or gothic horror, which many consider unsuitable to young children. Accordingly, research on …
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Measuring Individual Brand Image Perceptions and Brand Reputation using Associative Networks: Theory and Implications for Consumer Goods
… user-generated content on the likelihood of doppelganger brand image, namely the appearance, or reinforcement, of negative associations at the brand reputation level. This work reveals that BCM is a superior approach to measure brand image and brand reputation, compared to dyadic methods. In …
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Body of glass: cybernetic bodies and the mirrored self
… is tied to visual motifs such as the double or doppelganger. Accordingly, the theories of Jacques Lacan are employed to elucidate the issues that arise when one of the most pervasive images in Western culture also doubles as a reflector. The final chapter seeks to expand upon the framework …
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Moderate Modal Metaphysics
… it's contingent which properties exist. Take two doppelganger knives that would have been constituted by the same handle, but different blades. According to higher-order contingentism, if neither knife exists, properties that would single either knife out also do not exist. The knives are …
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Haunted houses, haunted selves – feminist readings of uncanny domesticity
… the yellow wallpaper. Once she recognizes her doppelganger the union of her two selves takes place in the short story’s dramatic climax. In Shirley Jackson’s literary works the haunted houses, protagonists in themselves, entrap, transform, and ultimately devour their female daughter-victims. …
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K-theoretic Schubert calculus and applications
A central result in algebraic combinatorics is the Littlewood-Richardson rule that governs products in the cohomology of Grassmannians. A major theme of the modern Schubert calculus is to extend this rule and its associated combinatorics to richer cohomology theories. This thesis focuses on …
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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 …