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Showing 1 to 20 of 161 for “"madness"”.
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Praire Madness
Prairie Madness is a collection of fiction and non-fiction that examines the impact and power of loneliness, both lifelong and momentary. In some of this work, loneliness fuels acts of courage; in others it triggers denial and self-isolation. These stories examine the loneliness of illness, …
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On method and madness
Through the design of an architecture school for Harvard University on the site presently occupied by Gund Hall, this thesis seeks to address the issue of defining architecture as an expressive endeavor--as a way of naming the essence of a given place, in all its cultural, sociological, historical …
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Finding Coyote: Praying Into Madness
Finding Coyote: Praying Into Madness Chairperson: Phil Condon The North American coyote exhibits resiliency and survivorship as a species, and a broad spectrum of personality traits as a character in stories, tales, legends and cosmologies of some native peoples. I have used coyotes—the species, …
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Finding Coyote: Praying Into Madness
Finding Coyote: Praying Into Madness Chairperson: Phil Condon The North American coyote exhibits resiliency and survivorship as a species, and a broad spectrum of personality traits as a character in stories, tales, legends and cosmologies of some native peoples. I have used coyotes—the species, …
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Madness and divinity: Wycherley's reflexive drama
… characters are depicted in a drama of madness and they reflect contemporary seventeenth-century concepts of insanity. The plays thus conform to a long Renaissance and seventeenth-century tradition which links madness and theatricality and asserts that to become completely one’s own …
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Madness in Medieval Art and Romance
… but this study explores ways that literary madness synthesizes models of madness in medieval art and thought to augment major themes in Suibhne Geilt, Vita Merlini, Robert of Sicily, and the cycles of Yvain, Tristan, and Lancelot. The onset of madness reflects a moment of psychological …
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Madness in Lucretius' De rerum natura
… thesis I examine the experience and etiology of madness in Epicurean philosophy and focus on Lucretius’ accounts of epistemology, disease and emotion in De rerum natura. I situate my general argument within Lucretius’ accounts of the physical and cognitive aspects of emotional disorder.
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Women and Madness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
This thesis aims to examine the experience of women regarding mental disorder in nineteenth-century Ireland. The central argument of this thesis is based on two claims. First, that mental disorder was socially constructed in nineteenth-century Ireland, and second, that the social construction of …
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Madness as the Foundation of Non-Culpability
Doctoral dissertation Abstract Background The relation between mental illness and accountability, may at its best be described as unclear. A negative correlation them between was established thousands of years ago, and has since formed a more or less self-evident supposition. This dissertation is …
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Music and Madness: Three Critical Case Studies
… reception and the sociopolitical structures of madness in the twentieth century. My work first uncovers the various definitions of psychological abnormality as they have taken shape through discourses of Western medicine, psychology, and history/criticism of the arts. As I argue, madness is not …
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Animal madness : a natural history of disorder
… the early 21st, I argue that identifying animal madness, insanity, nervous disorders, anxiety disorders, phobias, depression, obsessive compulsivities, suicidal behaviors and more, has not only served as a way of affixing meaning to puzzling animal acts, but has been used to denote borders (or …
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Madness and narrative understanding: A comparison of two female firsthand narratives of madness in the pre and post enlightenment periods.
… and post-Enlightenment firsthand accounts of madness in order to answer the question; what is the relationship between madness, narrative, understanding, identity and recovery? Drawing on the work of Foucault, the research traces the historical and cultural development of conceptualisations of …
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Beyond Reason: Madness in the English Revenge Tragedy
This paper explores the depiction and function of madness on the Renaissance stage, specifically its development as trope of the English revenge tragedy from its Elizabethan conception to its Jacobean advent through a representative engagement of Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, William …
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Madness and Gender in Late-Medieval English Literature
This thesis discusses presentations of madness in medieval literature, and the ways in which these presentations are affected by (and effect) ideas of gender. It includes a discussion of madness as it is commonly presented in classical literature and medical texts, as well as an examination of …
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Madness in African literature : ambivalence, fluidity, and play
Madness in African Literature: Ambivalence, Fluidity, and Play examines how representations of madness in six literary pieces are used to reflect upon discourse.
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Shear Madness: Signal-Dependent and Metaplectic Time-Frequency Representations
Time-frequency representations are multidimensional transformations that indicate the joint time-frequency content of a signal. Representations such as the wavelet transform, the short-time Fourier transform, and the Wigner distribution have proven to be powerful tools for signal analysis and …
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