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Showing 1 to 20 of 150 for “"fantastic"”.
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Fantastic religion : fandom as religious practice
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This project seeks to understand both the theoretical and tangible implications of fandom as a meaningful category within the field of Religious Studies and to illuminate a theoretical framework based in functionalist …
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Distorted Realities: Contemporary Spanish Fantastic Film
… past 20 years, Spanish cinema has embraced the fantastic genres in filmmaking. Films such as El día de la bestia/The Day of the Beast (Álex de la Iglesia, 1995), Los otros/The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, 2001), El laberinto del fauno/Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006) and Los …
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Fantastic Birds and Where to Find Them
I investigated avian-habitat relationships in three related study systems. In my first chapter I characterize the nonbreeding habitat of the western subspecies of Willow Flycatchers (Empidonax traillii subspp.), including the federally endangered Southwestern Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii …
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Saints in Space and the Queer Fantastic
… subject matter pertaining to wonderment, the fantastic, and whales in space. They pay particular attention to relationships between queer women, to the imaginative possibilities of outer-space and the ocean, and mapping the way to a hopeful future</p>
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In(tro)vert: A Dimension of the Fantastic
… as a means of translating the dimension of the fantastic into built form develops a narrative of controlled light, movement, and space. The city, the street, and the obscured reality beyond will be discovered through this lens.
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The Power Fantastic: How Genre Expectations Mediate Authority
<p>This dissertation reconciles academic and popular uses of the term genre, concluding that genre is a transmedial, mutable, associative, recognized system regulated through tacit understandings of prestige and power in a given Social space. The study employs a digital humanities method (dependent …
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The Contemporary Malaysian Fantastic Film: Imagining an Alternative Modernity
The thesis posits that contemporary Malaysian fantastic films possess critical characteristics: they offer an alternative version of an imagined community and undermine the status quo. These films deploy elements of fantasy to negotiate the dominant notions of cultural and national identity in …
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The feminist postmodern fantastic: sexed, gendered, and sexual identities
… of postmodernism and its sister genre, the fantastic mode. As a heterogeneous, open-ended, self-reflexive form, the “postmodern fantastic” challenges conventional realism and its correlative sovereign subject. The postmodern fantastic is redeployed by feminist practitioners, whose …
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Cogwheels of the fantastic: The mechanisms of medieval fantasy
<p>This thesis critically analyzes the fundamental mechanics of the medieval fantasy genre, including its relationship with violence, environment, worldbuilding, and power dynamics. This thesis aims to help establish the start of a lexicon of shared terminology and fantasy novum to better …
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The modern fantastic in German Democratic Republic short prose
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Fantastic facts : the supernatural in the ethnographic writings of Giraldus Cambrensis.
This thesis seeks to answer the question of what role supernatural themes and motifs played in allowing us a glimpse into Gerald of Wales’ sense of dualist identity. He is revered by many modern Welsh scholars as an early Welsh nationalist, even though Gerald did not always see himself that way, …
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The Theme of Time-Travel in The Argentine Fantastic Short Story
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1977.
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Finding the Fantastic: Digitally Mapping the London of Fantasy Youth Literature
Given the centrality of London as a setting in English literature, interpretations and imaginations of the literary city have continually been re-written to incorporate new social norms. As the city expanded, concerns arose around the movement of women and children within the urban environment. …
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Foibles, Follies and Fantastic Occurrences: First-Time Teaching and the Composition Classroom
Foibles, Follies and Fantastic Occurrences: First-time Teaching and the Composition Classroom explores incidents that expectedly—and often, unexpectedly—occur in any instructor's classroom, but especially focuses on the first-time instructor. Following the author's journey from graduate student to …
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Delirio: The fantastic, the demonic, and the reel narratives from Nuevo Leon
… a scientific history, what is the economy of fantastic text? How do allegories of writing and oral narrative that exist in the liminal region of the reel, explain history? The surreal quality of what was told to me, I believe, is related to the lack of structured, documented history regarding …
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Of Mushrooms and Shangri-L.A.: Food in Fantastic Literature for the Young
… upon the character. Novels described as fantastic often present more tangible and obvious uses of food and its effects on the characters. Literature does not have to contain the fantastic for it to demonstrate growth, but these elements allow readers to more easily "see” those changes in …
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