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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"estrangement"”.
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George Herbert's restlessness: Spiritual fulfillment or spiritual estrangement?
Restlessness occupied a significant spot in the literature of many prominent writers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries including George Herbert, Christopher Marlowe, and John Milton. Herbert's perspective alone differs from the others; George Herbert's perspective is framed in "The …
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A mother without a mother: women’s experiences of maternal estrangement in motherhood
Family estrangement can be a devastating experience. The traumas associated with estrangement can occur at multiple levels, in the form of past neglect or abuse, or arising from distressing events such as divorce or poverty (Agllias, 2016). The process of estranging from a family member or being …
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‘Αθήνα – η πιο ξένη πρωτεύουσα’: urban estrangement in Greek poetry, 1912-2012
… century as a means to express their feelings of estrangement towards the Athenian urban environment. In doing so it takes into consideration the history of how the rapid creation of the modern Athens has been reflected in literary representations, beginning with Palamas’ Satirical Exercises …
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The Pandemic-Uncanny: Self-Estrangement and Environment in Out There and Bliss Montage
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Eliot through Tolkien: Estrangement, Verse Drama, and the Christian Path in the Modern Era
This thesis explores the function of T. S. Eliot’s use of verse drama as an estranging mechanism that enables his exploration of questions of spiritual moment on the Modern stage. J.R.R. Tolkien’s theory of fantasy, as outlined in his essay “On Fairy Stories,” serves as the framework for my …
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Coming to Terms with Our Routes: The Impact of Family Estrangement on Asian American Identity
Estrangement is a prevalent and understudied phenomenon, particularly in the Asian American diaspora. Research on Asian American families often frames intergenerational conflict as a cultural clash between assimilated youth and unassimilated elders, reinforcing essentialized views of Asian identity …
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Estrangement and the Thinking Subject in Psychological Prose Novels by Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust, and Andrei Bitov
The concept of estrangement has interested readers and scholars since Viktor Shklovsky first coined the term ostranenie in 1917. Its experience is closely tied to intellectual growth in the artistic representation of the modern subject across eras and cultures. This dissertation focuses on the …
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
<p>The Elegy for the Black Body examines the mid-twentieth to early-twenty-first-century poetic justice crafted by African American poets to eulogize individual African Americans whose deaths were the result of racial and political violence. In the age of lynching, mass shooting, and police …
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"Everything Beautiful is Far Away": (Collected Short Stories): Embedded Autobiography, Estrangement and the (Re)discovery of Self in Contemporary Short Fiction
… to the concepts of embedded autobiography and estrangement and establishment of the context in which my enquiry uses such terms. Chapter Two deals primarily with the notion of embedded autobiography and its manifestation within my own short stories, taking in the theories of Karen Horney, Celia …
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From engagement to estrangement: the demise of the physically accessible police officer : a study of police commitment to proactive proximal engagement with local communities
… police forces, the study uncovers a ‘Pathway to Estrangement’, which highlights how an instrumental, risk-based institutional logic drives the prioritisation and resourcing of policing activities. As failing to adequately resource proactive proximal engagement is not considered to present …
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‘Everything in Motion, Motion in Everything’: The experience and process of negotiating development transitions
… understand how people experience and negotiate estrangement from nuclear family members during adulthood. The central research aim was to arrive at a theoretical account of how people psychologically experience and manage estrangement within the meaningful context of their lives. To date, this …
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Interpersonal relationships and psychological well-being: insights from therapeutic practice, scholarship and research
… into the phenomenon of sexuality-related family estrangement, via a sample of eight LGB adults (aged 18-41) currently experiencing it. The data was collected through individual, semi-structured interviews (60-90 minutes long). A pilot (n= 2) was conducted first to ensure the interview questions …
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Ballingskap en vervreemding in die werk van Vernon February en Julian de Wette (exile and estrangement in the work of Vernon February and Julian de Wette)
Identity plays an important role in the work of writers who are in exile. Exile and alienation in the writing of South African authors are well document with a focus on writers like Alex La Guma, Dennis Brutus, Lewis Nkosi, Nat Nakasa and others. It received little attention in the Afrikaans …
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Reclaiming the estranged : imagining an architecture of excess
… is immortal. Our initial fondness fades into estrangement much like a tragic love story. We essentially ghost our waste by disassociating from it entirely. We force it beyond our immediate cone of vision. Our waste streams then veil plastic's journey into landscapes around the world, drawing …
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George III in the Pennsylvania Press: A Study in Changing Opinions, 1760-1776
… and pamphlet press to trace the growing estrangement between the monarch and his subjects before July, 1776. At what point did Americans abandon their hope in George III? What factors contributed to their final conclusion that the responsibility for the estrangement of the colonies from …
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The 21st Century Cancer Care Wellness Facility: A Study, Interpretation, and Application of 16th Century Japanese Tea-house Themes
… create an imbalance, perceivable as feelings of estrangement and detachment for the inhabitant. Estrangement is particularly evident within health care architecture, which owes much of its current form to ideas developed during Modernism. In response to this imbalance, Architecture from the past …
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Noise, artifact and the uncanny in large scale digital photographic practice.
… do I often experience a feeling of disquiet or estrangement? I use the example of laser-photographic printing to explore the issue through a program of practice-based research. The outcome of this line of enquiry includes an original contribution via three series of large-format digital …
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The House that Grief Built
… dreams and reality, disappointment and hope, estrangement and love.
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Strangers
… and 2012. All explore themes of home, family, estrangement, youth, and finally the day-in day-out business of connecting with any other. Most are set in the Washington D.C. area. 'Space Coast,' the last and longest story in the collection, is, in addition to being a story on its own, the first …
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Nietzsche and moral inquiry: posing the question of the value of our moral values
… In chapter three, I consider the possibility of estrangement that is built into our familiarity with moral values, by focusing on the role of cognition. I demonstrate how cognition, in the form of self-consciousness, can disrupt the sedimented, habituated nature of our moral values through a form …
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