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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"irruption"”.
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"Purple People": "Sexed" Linguistics, Pleasure, and the "Feminine" Body in the Lyrics of Tori Amos
… that might cause what Luce Irigaray calls “irruption of the semiotic chora”—moments within language where boundaries in the semiotic chain of signification are “blurred.” Thus, while current feminism has moved strictly away from the idea that there is an exigent “feminine” to which all women …
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Gothic heroines and cultural trauma in 20th Century literature and film
… portrays the consequence of that repression: an irruption of traumatic past violence in the present. While the works I consider thereby address the shortcomings of public narratives that strive to evade or redeem collective trauma, they also foreground Gothic ambiguity and excess to acknowledge …
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Modernism, Responsibility, and the Novel
… that anticipated, welcomed, and responded to the irruption of "the new" into a world of repose, order, and complacency. This dissertation therefore explores the concept of ethical responsibility as it relates to representation and self-other relationships in the three British modernist novels: …
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El que toma candela del fuego ajeno. Don Juan Manuel y la refundación castellana del mundo cortesano en el siglo XIV
… of life of the kingdom, a reaction to the irruption of new social classes composed of a new bourgeois nobility, a class of court administrators and hyper centralized royal control. I conclude by arguing that this project is part of a more significant social discourse that embodied the …
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A Model Citizen: Ethos, Conservation, and the Rhetorical Construction of Aldo Leopold
… and articles he wrote during the Wisconsin deer irruption debates of the early 1940s; in the essays of A Sand County Almanac, his best known work; and in its current manifestation on the property of the Aldo Leopold Foundation in central Wisconsin. By focusing on these key rhetorical moments in …
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Theoria versus Praxis : a view based on the final end of humanity according to Aquinas.
… in order to achieve social change that is an irruption of the Kingdom of God into history. To them, understanding of neighbor and of God follows from reflection on political and social action. This essay explores the question of which alternative is primary based on the mature theology of St …
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Through the Gnostic Threshold: Analogical Space in Swedenborg and Blake
… traditions. Furthermore, I find that the irruption of the Gnostic threshold into consciousness and one's passing mentally thereinto constitutes an entrance into an area that I call analogical space. Analogical space is, I believe, that occult (hidden) dimension from which issues all …
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Comme des galets sur la grève (nouvelles), suivi de Rêver le "réel" l'espace dans la nouvelle fantastique onirique (essai)
… Dans toutes les nouvelles, le fantastique fait irruption à des degrés divers, se manifestant généralement par le biais de procédés propres à l'onirisme, étroitement liés à la focalisation et aux types de lieux choisis. Dans la partie"essai" de la thèse, c'est-à-dire : Rêver le"réel" : l'espace …