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Grief's Inferno: Costume Design for Rose Xinran Qi's "Ghost Bride"
This document is a description of the process of conceiving and implementing the costume designs for the University of Maryland, College Parks production of Rose Xinran Qi’s Master’s dance thesis “Ghost Bride.” The piece explores themes of female grief, anger, entrapment, sensuality, and catharsis …
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Hell On Earth: A Modern Day Inferno in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
<p>Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Dante's the Inferno contain textual and thematic comparisons. While the Inferno creates a world that exhibits the worst fears of the medieval Catholic subconscious of Dante's time, The Road paints a world of the darkest fears of the current American subconscious. …
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Dante’s Hidden Sin - Wrath: How Dante Vindictively Used The Inferno Against Contemporaries
… on a pilgrimage through what he calls the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso (ostensibly Hell, Purgatory and Heaven) in his epic poem The Divine Comedy, originally titled Commedia. This paper concentrates exclusively on Dante’s contemporaries, those people who lived during his lifetime, and …
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Beyond the inferno : literary representations of New York City before and after 9/11
From its founding, New York City has served as the gateway to the New World and, as such, has been the impetus behind the American Dream. As the city grew in size and importance, though, so the levels of antagonism rose among its inhabitants, for, like any large-scale urban environment, it was …
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Valleys of the Shadow of Death: The Apocalypses of the Inferno and One Hundred Years of Solitude
… apocalypses from other works. Dante's Inferno and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude are both apocalypses, though they are not normally considered such. Each work manifests an apocalypse's typical form and function. Each presents a unique vision of reality. Each …
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"Em busca do céu no inferno, as ironias da vontade em : 'o Jogo da Amarelinha', de Julio Cortázar"
… acaba por se converter em um irônica descida aos infernos. Pelas ironias da vontade e pelo cuidadoso trabalho do autor, porém, é nesse inferno que brilharão as centelhas do céu humano. Por meio da comparação com outras obras da literatura latino-americana e universal, bem como das contribuições …
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Where the Shadows Lie : finding the other in the Spatial Depictions of the Underworld in The Book of Enoch, Inferno and Paradise Lost
… of the Underworld in The Book of Enoch, Inferno and Paradise Lost” answers a question of spatial behaviour in the three texts, in terms of the portrayal of the characters of Fallen Angels, who have been Othered from Heaven, in each text within the spatial context of their respective …
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Internal inferno : a qualitative case study examining how burnout affects the job performance and job satisfaction of faculty and staff of color at higher education institutions.
Higher education professionals are experiencing burnout. Employees at higher education institutions (HEIs) have expectations to support students in various other capacities outside of higher education professionals' job descriptions. For faculty and staff of color (FSOC) specifically, an additional …
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Cinematic infernos: Digital technologies and the remediation of Dante’s Infernal imagery through the cinematic screen (2005-2015)
… of adaptation and remediation of Dante’s Inferno through the cinematic screen in 2005-2015 as well as its relationship with digital technologies. Despite our understanding of Dante and the screen being enriched by the contribution of several scholars such as Antonella Braida, Luisa Calé, …
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Potencialidades da gamificação na descoberta do prazer de ler : estudo de caso: aplicação das técnicas de gamificação na leitura e análise da peça Auto da Barca do Inferno, de Gil Vicente
… a leitura e análise da peça Auto da Barca do Inferno, de Gil Vicente. De forma a embasar este trabalho foi necessário convocar vários estudiosos da área da Gamificação, como, por exemplo, Deterding et al. (2011), Morris et al. (2013), Kapp (2012; 2013), Moura (2018, 2019, 2020), bem como do …
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Dante's Poetics of Absence
… of silence between Vita nuova and the opening of Inferno. Chapter 2 focuses on how language and silence are variously inclusive and exclusive at different points in the Commedia’s narrative, and develops a notion of dantean ‘clusivity’ informed by the evolving metaphysics of the poem’s three …
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O poder da ironia na crónica humorística portuguesa : análise pragmático-discursiva de crónicas de Ricardo Araújo Pereira e Eça de Queirós
… Araújo Pereira, autor de “Crónicas da Boca do Inferno”, publicadas na revista Visão (versões em papel e online) e reconfiguradas em livros (2007, 2009 e 2013); do século XIX, Eça de Queirós, autor de Uma Campanha Alegre: De «As Farpas» (1965, data da edição aqui consultada), que reúne textos d’ …
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T.S. Eliot's Paradiso
… of Dante. In particular the influence of the Inferno and Purgatorio has been pointed out by such critics as Mr. J. M. Bradbury, Miss Helen Gardner, Mr. F. 0. Matthiessen, and Mr. Raymond Preston, but that the Paradiso also contributed a great deal to the Four Quartets has not been particularly …
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The Scholarship and Praxis of Communication Ethics: Rhetorical Interruptions in Historical Narratives
… and poetry, including Homer's Odyssey, Dante's Inferno, Voltaire's Candide, and Albert Camus's The Plague, are used as praxis examples for communication ethics. Through the works of these scholars, authors, and poets, a philosophical discussion ensues on communication ethics bound within the …
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"The image of Satan in Rumi's ""Mathnawi"", Dante's ""Divine Comedy"" and Milton's ""Paradise Lost"""
… though his presence can be felt in the entire Inferno. Dante's Satan functions more as a sign; thus, Satan becomes the turning point in the spiritual journey of the pilgrim. Furthermore, Satan, stuck up to his waist in the frozen river of Cocytus, demonstrate how love, this divine gift, can be …
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The Collapse of Time, Home, and Relationships: A Critical Approach to the Holocaust Short Story
… have chosen lead the reader into a never-ending inferno whose doors all open to the death chamber. In each of these stories, as the writers display an enormous creativity in the objects and situations, they have chosen to come closer to an expression of the unending horror that probably cannot …
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Inter-subjectivity and intra-communality in Ciaran Carson’s Poetic Translations
… 1998 and 2012: The Alexandrine Plan (1998), The Inferno of Dante Alighieri (2002), The Táin (2007), and In the Light of (2012). The thesis discusses the implementation of transitional structures for all-inclusive self-governance in Northern Ireland in 1998, the Good Friday Agreement, as the …
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"It really kind of like cuts my existence into two": an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of adults with sickle cell disease receiving curative Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT)
… Group Experiential Themes: (1) ‘Leaving the Inferno’ – details how the worsening burden of SCD over time influenced participants in making the decision to proceed with HSCT, despite the risks, with all hoping for a more ‘normal life’; (2) ‘Travelling through Purgatorio’ – documents the …
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Dante Praedicator: Sermons and Preaching Culture in the Commedia
… in his treatment of the hypocrites in Inferno 23, and of the schismatics and sowers of discord in Inferno 28. The chapter concludes by arguing that Dante responds to the mandates of church legislation with a considerable degree of indifference. On the one hand he highlights the failure …
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Fluid flow and sound generation at hydrothermal vent fields
… Pa2/Hz was noticed on two records taken near the Inferno black smoker. The frequency of this signal is consistent with predictions and the power level suggests the occurrence of jet noise amplification due to convected density inhomogeneities. Ambient noise from the TAG (Trans-Atlantic …
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