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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"haunting"”.
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Everyday Haunting
This document outlines a journey of self-exploration, discovery, construction and destruction. It is a story of learning, a testament to impermanence, and a proposal for possibility. The words and work contained in this document are exclusive to the thoughts and actions of one man that hopes to …
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New media hauntings : digital aesthetics of haunting, context collapse, and networked spectrality
… spectrality’ to theorise depictions of new media hauntings. Ghost stories often include the latest technologies to establish the realistic setting, but technological advance also affords new opportunities to depict ghost stories. I argue that the early twenty-first-century technologies that are …
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I am also here: Invisible Insurrections in temporary autonomous zones – a haunting
… invisibility in the system as a cloak for haunting. Themes discussed in the research include insurrection as opposed to revolution; the scope of cultural work in general and the possibility of an emergent worker's culture in the present; the possibility of liberated zones inside the matrix …
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To Whom Occurs the Haunting: A Singular Exploration of a Disturbed Femme Psyche
… capstone project will be an exploration of the haunting effects of transgenerational trauma and its lasting impact on the present-day psyche of one disturbed female subject - myself. Relying on multiple formats of writing, including but not limited to: memoir, autobiography, diaries, letters, …
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A Spectre is Haunting Samuel Clemens: A Marxist Critique of Wealth as Resolution in Mark Twain's Novels
<p>The distribution of wealth occurs frequently in Mark Twain's novels, especially at the resolution. Indeed, Twain uses wealth as resolution in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. The repeated use of this formula in …
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Prison and its Afterlives: Haunting and the Emotional Geographies of Formerly Incarcerated People’s Reintegration Experiences in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
… beyond the walls of the prison, prolonging the haunting effects of the settler-colonial carceral state in the everyday lives of formerly incarcerated people.
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Haunting visions: The refusal of settler-colonial containment in C. Ree’s Dark Water and annie ross’s Pots and Other Living Beings
… Pots and Other Living Beings—through concepts of haunting that figure in contemporary Indigenous or anti- colonial thought. By focusing on acts of settler-colonial violence embedded in surroundings that have been rendered neutral, Ree and ross utilize a hauntology. They alter their audiences’ …
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Encountering spectral traces: ghost narratives in Chinese America and Taiwan
… aims to explore different tropes of ghost haunting in the cultural productions from Chinese America and Taiwan. Ghost haunting can be regarded as the supernatural and social embodiments. The spectral representation goes beyond the public perception and reception of the phantom other, …
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Spectres of Women in Wuthering Heights
… <em>Wuthering Heights</em> (1847) is its famous haunting scene. As this paper suggests, it is in the haunting scene that the novel’s themes are at their most potent and where Brontë is at her most daring, challenging the socially prescribed, gendered binaries of her time. The primary interest of …
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A Wound Designates a Subject
What haunts when haunting itself has been foreclosed? This thesis develops “ghostlessness” as a conceptual and aesthetic framework across my work in moving image, drawing, and writing. Ghostlessness refers to conditions that suppress haunting where it would otherwise emerge or be felt. Drawing from …
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The dead rise the dead and walk among the living: An examination of the haunting South, queerness, and grotesqueries in Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" and "Local Color"
… of queerness, grotesqueries, and the haunting South. Throughout this reading of Truman Capote’s Other Voices, Other Rooms and Local Color I want to think through the ways in which images and moments in the text can be queer and grotesque while also lending themselves to the images and …
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Chasing That Ghost On Stage: The Haunted Continent And Andrew Bird's Apocrypha
… I argue that bird has taken on a condition of haunting in his recent recordings and performances, that his performances are spaces for his audiences to take on a similar condition of haunting, and that his performances are about, among other things, encountering and learning to live with the …
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The representation of the Ghost in contemporary South African novels by black writers
… reading is specific to the context of the ghosts haunting South Africa. I ask: how has the ghost been represented by black South African novelists, and what does it signal/tell? The thesis finds that there is a relative paucity of critical studies on depictions of ghosts haunting South African …
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Telling realities : the story of Winnie Verloc in Joseph Conrad's The secret agent
… telling - specifically (to pursue the novel's haunting reference to Othello) with regard to "the pity of it".
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Spectres of Childhood: Spectrality and Hauntology in Children’s Literature
… to children’s literature. It utilises ghosts and haunting as a deconstructive methodology, as has been done broadly across the humanities and social sciences, to question if the presentation of childhood may be more hauntological than ontological in children’s literature. The purpose of this …
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Haunted spaces: Visualising the witch in expanded comics
… spaces that house these stories), each component haunting the edges of the others. The interdisciplinary elements that comprise this thesis are conceptualised as haunted spaces to allow consideration of the effect and affect of the past within the present, be that the figure of the witch, the use …
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No One is Looking For You
… and the poems often take place in surrealist, haunting impressions of ordinary settings, mostly in the domestic sphere. This collection features recurring images such as birds, cats, roadkill, long nighttime walks, and light switches which are always being turned off. All of these elements …
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Abezimu/Badimo (ancestors) and copyright law: from the Decolonial Turn to the pluriversal author
"A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of Communism” is the sentence that opens Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels' iconic text, The Communist Manifesto. Marx and Engels set out what was to become the primary program of action for all communist parties in Europe. The Communist Manifesto's …
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Another World Entire: the Posthumanism of Cormac Mccarthy
… radical intimacy with the world, evident in the haunting and elusive presences, and absences, of wolves, hawks, trout, and even the itself in these novels. McCarthy demonstrates how the reality of the world is "another world entire" from the written page and the humanist project. At the end of …
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