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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"formal experimentation"”.
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Lekhost a Tize: An Experiment in Film Production Methodology
… necessarily exploited in their making. The formal and expressive possibilities inherent in the climate of experimentation existing at this unique juncture in history encourage out-of-the-ordinary solutions to long-standing problems while begging important questions regarding the process and …
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An Imaginary, Average Sun
… From this central premise and through this formal experimentation, the novel explores questions about free will, representation and reality, and our relationship with computer technology. Are we the ultimate source of our ideas and actions? To what extent are we influenced, or even …
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With my mouth
… of many issues which are often addressed through formal experimentation--sometimes from perspectives that address these issues more forcefully than a formal experiment might succeed in doing. While thereby seeking to literally "hack" (in both senses of the word) readerly assumptions, these stories …
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Concrete Innovation Museum: A Symphony of Liquid Stone and Light
… on Chicago's architectural lineage, drawing formal inspiration from the 1909 Plan of Chicago. A weaving, arch-based structure blends into the landscape and preserves open views to the lake, while its accessible concrete roof deck offers an immersive civic experience. The design employs a …
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'It was as if she had said....': May Sinclair and reading narratives of cure
… at the heart of English modernism. In terms of formal experimentation too her concerns chime with the aesthetic innovations of, for example, pound, Eliot and Woolf. Her early interest in psychoanalysis and support for the suffrage campaign also mark her out as a modern. Despite some work from …
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Novel Epidemics: Contagion and Metaphor in US Literature
… an epidemiological lens. Using stylistic and formal experimentation to re-draw the boundaries of the novel and the social body it depicts, the novels examined here unveil the centrality of cultural production to the biopolitics of epidemic and, in doing so, reimagine contagion, novelty, and …
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Occupy, blockade, circulate : narrating community in 21st century crisis fiction
… concerned with crises of inequality and that the formal innovations in these novels are representations of how social movements understand and intervene with the infrastructural facilitation of inequality. The first chapter uses accounts of Occupy Wall Street to understand how the movement …
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Shifting selves : identity quests and innovation in the novels of Marguerite Duras, Patrick Modiano, and Marie Darrieussecq
… overriding concern with identity leads both to formal experimentation and to genre mixing involving the crossing of traditional boundaries and the rejection of convention. The thesis goes on to explore the effect of the centrality of the identity quest on narrative structure, showing how the …
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In “the American Strain”: The Hybrid Poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Adrienne Rich, Marilyn Chin, and Sherman Alexie
… traditional lyric forms, the other with formal invention and experimentation. While both are considered the founders of American poetry, Emily Dickinson has been placed in the former camp and Walt Whitman the latter. This thesis contests their opposition and asserts that both are poetic …
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'some particulars': The Poetry and Practice of Thomas A. Clark
… garden, and how this parallel allows for intense formal experimentation in a small space. Additionally, the Garden chapter investigates spaces of rest and recuperation in Clark’s work. Chapter three, Thomas A. Clark and Concrete Poetry investigates Clark’s relationship with concrete poetry, and …
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Making political films politically?:the film-making practice of Jean-Luc Godard
… and perhaps even more revolutionary art, whose formal experimentation is more organically linked to its subject and whose ability to communicate ideas far oustrips the later work. In conclusion some indications are suggested of a more fruitful basis for Marxist theories of art than Structural …
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The Stagehands of Subversive Spaces: Site-specific Performance and Audience Labour
… engagement with the cultural criticism and formal experimentation that artists stage. Folded into the event, spectators literally compose the scene of the action, and enter into what I call critical proximity with the discourses that shape the performance. As participants interact with and …
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Expansive Hybridity: Multilingual and Visual Poetics in Contemporary Experimental Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry
… to categorize works of poetry that combine formal techniques and practices from opposing traditions of literary history, but within cultural, postcolonial, and Asian American studies, it has served as an important term that designates sites of resistance within cross-cultural contexts of …
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Reading Material: Literary, Picturing, and Representational Strategies in the work of Carol Laing, Sue Lloyd, Andy Fabo, Sharon Switzer, Jane Buyers, and Allyson Clay
… and genre. Foucaults concept of rupture and the formalist-informed interventions Woolfs later essays and fiction suggest, and Steins formal experimentation with writing and genre guide my semiotic analysis of sites of rupture in the work of each artist. Stein resists mimetic portrayals of the …
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The Anti-Racist Avant-Garde: Modernist Legacies and Experimentation in Ralph Ellison and James Joyces’ postcolonial and racial subjects
… This chapter will investigate the temporal experimentation in the ‘Cyclops’ section of Ulysses and the ‘Prologue’ and ‘Epilogue’ sections of Invisible Man, examining how such experimentation effects the anti-colonial/-racist arguments in each text. The final chapter will focus primarily on …
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A Different Subject: Autotheory in Contemporary French Self-Writing
… between developments in intellectual thought and formal experimentation. Yet while the belated reception of queer theory and gender studies in France has generated significant critical interest, how these paradigms are both absorbed into and reconjugated by life writing has yet to be extensively …
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Perverted in Neon
Perverted in Neon is collection of short fictions engaged with various facets of modern popular culture. In its stories, a washed-up rocker enlists the aid of pigeons to deliver messages to his estranged wife; a writer obsessed with finding out what “really” happened to Andy Kaufman is pushed into …