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Showing 1 to 20 of 175 for “"ghosts"”.
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Empire's Ghosts
Novel.
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Ghosts and Lovers
Ghosts and Lovers is a collection of short stories told from the points-of-view of four related characters. Travis is a bisexual restaurant owner who fears commitment and longs for the idealistic version of love that he remembers from his past. Ezra, his boyfriend, is an artist struggling to accept …
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Ghosts Among the Kudzu
… aimed at young adults (ages 14-20) that explores ghosts and legends in and around North Georgia.</p>
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The Ghosts Are Mine
Poetry, creative non-fiction & short fiction.
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What We Understand to Be Ghosts
The goal of this thesis is to explore Victor Schklovsky's idea of defamiliarization from his essay "Art as Technique” and Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of polyphony as defined in his book Problems in Dostoevsky's Poetics through the practice of writing short fiction. The stories collected in the thesis …
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Celia's Ghosts: Liminality and Authenticity in De/extinction
… extant, which I call ‘de/extinction’. Celia’s ghosts unsettle and complicate the categories of presence/absence, life/death, and extinct/extant.
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After the crash : reclaiming Bangkok's city of ghosts
This thesis addresses the issue of ghost buildings in Bangkok, Thailand - buildings left unfinished since the financial crisis of 1997. Predicated by massive foreign investment, profligate lending and speculative construction, the crash left over five hundred 'interrupted' projects - buildings …
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Ideals in triangulated categories : phantoms, ghosts and skeleta
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 1997.
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Reflection and Acceptance: Small Town Ghosts Represented in Poetry
<p>This thesis discusses the theories of ethnography and ethnographic verse and applies these two theories in an original narrative in verse. Ethnography and ethnographic verse have a complicated relationship when it comes to a poet’s authority representing a certain place. Yet authenticity is …
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Slow Practice -(re)drawing time. Balancing narrative, ghosts and tensions.
… that influence and impact our built environment: Ghosts, Narratives, Tensions and aspects of Time. It does this through [re]drawing & reflecting on key projects. Drawings are the instigators, the place of discussion and explorative devices for examining the processes by which I design and think …
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A GUIDEWAY THROUGH THE LAND OF GHOSTS AND OTHER STORIES
<p><em>A Guideway through the Land of Ghosts and Other Stories</em> is a collection about ghosts, gods, and other monsters that hide in plain sight. Inspired by Chinese mythology and folktale, this collection consists of three novella-length pieces of fiction and one flash-fiction interlude all set …
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The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
The following manuscript is a collection of linked stories that follows a family from Jamaica and Trinidad to the U.S. and back. The collection focuses on two sisters' episodic journey through their sexual awakenings, their mother's illness, their father's violence and absence. In the process, the …
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Direction of Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen: Theatre UNI, Spring Semester 2004
1 PDF file (130 pages)
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Playing Dead: Staging Corpses, Ghosts, and Statues in Early Modern Drama
<p>Semi-animate corpses, physically powerful ghosts, and natural looking statues serve a powerful metatheatrical purpose in early modern drama. Such liminal bodies, which I define as figures caught between the fictional body and the living actor, model the relation between playgoer, actor, and …
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Ghosts on the Land: Apsaalooke (Crow Indian) Interpretations of Rock Art
The seemingly divergent interpretations are reconciled by the cultural perceptions of the medium employed-the immovable rock cliff. Crow interpretations of rock art, therefore, rest as much on the rock face and its place in the landscape as on the comprehension of culturally defined symbols.
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Haunted Homelands: The Ghosts of Partition in Pakistan, India and Palestine
Haunted Homelands argues that the ghosts of Partition intrude into, unsettle, and shape contemporary life in Pakistan, India, and Palestine/Israel. These Partitions have extensive historical overlap: occurring within months of each other, with both territorial divisions emerging as imperial …
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Ruin and Ruination, A dialogue with the ghosts of the city
There are contradictory thoughts associated with ruins. Mainly when we hear the word ruin, it reminds us of glorious ancient structures that evoked an aesthetic pleasure and inspired artists and philosophers throughout the history. But it also has a negative feeling, it means to destroy to turn …
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