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Showing 1 to 20 of 205 for “"liminality"”.
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Liminality and the short term study abroad experience
… This study seeks to explore the concept of liminality as explained through short term study abroad experiences. Specifically, in-depth interviews combined with memento and photo elicitation of seven participants allowed for an investigation of the explanatory power of the concept of …
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Celia's Ghosts: Liminality and Authenticity in De/extinction
What might it mean if extinction doesn’t last forever? This thesis grapples with that question through the case of the bucardo, an endemic subspecies of ibex from the Pyrenees, Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica. The bucardo has long been an emblematic feature of the Pyrenean landscape. Hunting drove it to …
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Browning's Caliban : humanity, liminality and the search for transcendence
This is a study of Browning's Caliban in terms of liminality and transcendence, taking into account earlier views of Caliban's character as derived from Shakespeare. The first chapter presents a context for considering the poem, provides a brief history of the evolution of the character, and …
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Legible Grief: Discursive Liminality in Twentieth Century Literatures of Trauma
Currently, scholars in the fields of trauma and affect studies are sharply divided on whether “direct” or extra-discursive experience is possible, and moreover about how such a space might function within the fraught contexts of survivor narratives. On the one hand, scholars of trauma in the …
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Retiring to paradise? : reassessing liminality through leisure migration to Spain
Over the last forty years, we have witnessed the birth of a new phenomenon in the Western world, that of 'the dream retirement. ' This study examines a group of (mainly) Northern European older people who move to Spain in search of the culmination of their life-project. Following years of working …
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Perpetual peace treaty as war: a study in permanent liminality
… transitions and institutionalised “permanent liminality” in shaping society and the sense of self-image in post-conflict settlements explain my interest in the “liminal authorities” that this PhD addresses. The present PhD, titled “Perpetual Peace Treaty as War: A Study in Permanent …
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The Androgynous Tomboy: Adolescent Liminality in the Contemporary Southern Bildungsroman
<p><em>The Androgynous Tomboy: Adolescent Liminality in the Contemporary Southern Bildungsroman</em> is an analysis of the adolescent, specifically, of the young tomboy characters central to three Bildungsroman texts set in the American South during the twentieth century: Carson McCullers' <em>The …
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Towards Digital Liminality : computational tools for 'beyond average' creative thinking
Renowned designer Kenya Hara writes: "Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked". These questions are commonly discovered early in the design process; an often ambiguous and liminal experience where new information is explored and considered in non-obvious ways to reveal …
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Liminality, cancer and art therapy: autoethnographic exploration - living with the tiger
… to systematically investigate the concept of liminality and it relevance to my personal, professional and theoretical experiences of cancer and art therapy.<br/><br/>The Literature Review and Bricolage chapter reviews background literature on cancer and art therapy. It then presents a …
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".it tells us." : the practice of performativity and liminality within Northern culture
Exploring the role of the artist-researcher as a cultural connector, this thesis demonstrates a practice in situ by creating an emerging subjective methodological framework that is based upon experiences working and living in the Canadian North. This thesis is focused upon questioning concepts of …
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The experience of managing liminality: a portfolio of research and therapeutic practice
… explores the experience of managing living in liminality, and ensuing inter- and intrapersonal processes. The first section is an empirical study entitled “Exploring the experience of relationships and identity in adult women living in the UK with a background of high Childhood Residential …
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Bordering the Mediterranean: Liminality and Regioncraft at the Center of the World
In this dissertation, I theorize that the Mediterranean, broadly conceived of as a geo-cultural-political entity and experience, is a locality for the investigation into the processes through which representations of continents and civilizations come into focus. A fundamental argument in this …
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What we don't know: liminality, marginality and narrative mode in David Belbin's fiction
This thesis consists of a selection of my published work from 1989-2015, accompanied by an essay and a bibliography. The essay looks at the ways in which I am drawn towards marginal and liminal zones within fiction, including the areas between Young Adult (YA) and Adult fiction, crime fiction and …
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The Poetics of Liminality and the Politics of English Literary Culture, 1635-1700
… history has often told us. "The Poetics of Liminality" tells a different story. By calling attention to themes and forms of in-between-ness in literature spanning the 1630s to the 1690s, this study sets forth a view of seventeenth-century literary culture--its productions, politics, and …
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Liminality as a Framework for Composition: Rhythmic Thresholds, Spectral Harmonies and Afrological Improvisation
… with particular attention to the concepts of liminality and rhythmic thresholds in the light of recent music perception research. Finally, through an in-depth analysis of two of my recent compositions, Echoes (2008) and Baltimore/Berlin (2008, rev. 2011), I show how this ongoing inquiry allows …
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Marina Carr's Hauntings: Liminality and the Addictive Society On and Off the Stage
… than to submit themselves either to continual liminality or to the addictive society. Sorrel, however, chooses liminality, and her life attests to the stagnation accompanying such a choice. The Mai (The Mai¬), Elaine (Ariel), Frances (Ariel), and Woman (Woman and Scarecrow) choose to integrate …
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Dairy Culture: Industry, Nature and Liminality in the Eighteenth-Century English Ornamental Dairy
… garden that was equally conflated as a site of liminality and ritual. The idealization and ornamentation of dairies within the garden space enhanced their imaginative distinction and allowed them to become spaces that were both sacred and sexual, pious and pagan. The dairy became an acceptable …
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Sandcastles in the Sand: Liminality at the Seashore in Carolyn Wells's Marjorie at Seacote
<p>The American beach at the turn of the twentieth century became a popular site for middle-class families to escape the urban squalor of the cities and play during the summer months. Although relatively unknown today, Carolyn Wells's 1912 novel <em>Marjorie at Seacote</em> depicts how the beach as …
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"Driving Circles Around the Holler:" Liminality and the Grotesque in Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff
… the cycle. These liminalities include narrative liminality of the form of the short story cycle, the social and economic liminal spaces inhabited by the characters, and the ways that the text comments on the liminal nature of storytelling itself. This thesis will argue that the geography of the …
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