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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"magician"”.
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The Magician
The Magician is a 18 minutes short musical film. It follows Robert, a magician who performs cards and coin tricks in a struggling venue. He gets told by the venue manager that he needs to perform bigger illusions in order for them to attract the crowds that will allow them to keep the place open. …
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The Magician in Medieval German Literature
"""The Magician in Medieval German Literature"" is an exploration of a number of issues related to magic and learning in vernacular German fiction from the Middle Ages. A close reading of medieval German narratives reveals that since magic was labeled demonic and unchristian by early Church …
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"The Critic as Magician: The Music Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann in the Context of the ""Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung"""
Hoffmann's insistence on these aspects in all of his narrative contributions to the AMZ reveals an agenda significantly different from what is usually attributed to this well-known advocate of instrumental music. It exemplifies Hoffmann's search for an adequate expression of his insights on opera, …
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Wise the Wizard: A Feature Documentary about the Late Harry Wise of Sanford, Florida
… The film focuses on the late Harry Wise, a magician from Sanford, Florida, as remembered by the people who knew him best. Interview subjects include the following: author and TV Producer Charlie Carlson, who wrote a biography about Harry Wise entitled A Wizard's Tux and Tales (Luthers Press, …
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Archetypes and the unthought: The projection of the King’s Court in New Zealand television media
… as the sensing function of the mind. The Magician archetype represents Hermes as the intuitive function of the mind. The Fool archetype represents Ares as the feeling function of the mind. The Destroyer archetype as the inferior and rejected contents of the collective unconscious …
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Ficciones
… and I learnt how to be an architectural magician.
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Where the Dead Remain
… a week in the life of Jude Duboisson, a once magician who is struggling with the loss of his magic and the life he had known in the wake of the storm, as he is pulled out of his torpor and into the affairs of the mighty once again. He is tasked with discovering who murdered Dodge Renaud, the …
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The Fantasy Self
… The Lover, The Creator, The Ruler, The Sage, The Magician, and The Fool. Every human being has components of all twelve in their psyche. At each stage in life, the hierarchy of the active archetypes will change. The intention of the thesis is to make connections between the subjects’ active …
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Solomon on Stage, Representations of Magic and the Occult in Early Modern English Drama
… drama. I explore the extent to which would-be magicians could use Solomon as a role model for their own endeavours, drawing upon sources which attributed magical powers to the biblical king. My concept of ‘Solomonic exceptionalism’ provides scholars with a framework for understanding this …
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A Buberian analysis of the education of artists : student-teacher relationships in the undergraduate studio
… and objectivist instructors and students: the Magician-acolyte and the Matchmaker-debutante respectively. It is concluded that both types of relationships are exemplars of Buber's I-It relationship. Instructors who present themselves as subjectivist or objectivist exclusively, prevent dialogue. …
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The supernatural as rhetorical focus in the three major poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
… mysterious voices control their action through magician-, vampire-, ghost-, and angel-like figures. However, by endowing his major characters with traits which make them different from the characters of the medieval and the Gothic romances and by leaving two of the three poems as apparent …
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The Comparative Science of Magic: Using sleight of hand as a tool to investigate cognition in diverse taxa.
… to be misled by these effects, as expert magicians do not display the same biases when observing sleight of hand effects than typical observers. Chapter 3 shows how the order in which magic effects are presented within a routine moderate how the human audience will perceive the skill of …
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Magic is might?: Uncovering abjection in Shakespeare's The Tempest and J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series
… but a response to the filth or contaminant each magician believes to be a corruption of their selfhood. This thesis employs the theory of abjection to uncover how a social structure is able to function when its existence is built on the inability to remove the threat to the order. The abject is …
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Women and Ventriloquism in Early Modern English Drama
… Paulina as combining the roles of ventriloquist, magician, and playwright, but also to offer a version of implicit but passionate defense of the theater, which strikes the audience as a powerful form of magic and necromancy. In the fifth and last chapter, “Ventriloquism and the Power of the …
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Motives, Allusions, and Eclecticism: A Panametric Analysis of the First Movement of Christian Lindberg's Mandrake in the Corner Based on the Method of Jan LaRue
For more than 20 years, Christian Lindberg has been internationally recognized as the premiere trombone soloist of our time. Few, however, are familiar with his compositions. For over ten years, he has composed many solo and ensemble works for trombone. Many prominent musical organizations in the …
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Sage Illusionists: A Historical Study Using Illusionists as a Reflection of Mass Entertainment, Popular Culture, anf Change During the Late Nineteenth Century
… At the same time, stage illusionists or magicians were one of the most recognizable stars of mass entertainment. In fact, they were in the midst of what has been termed the “Golden Age” of magic. By recognizing the popularity of their performances in the United States and Europe, this …
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FACTS OF THE IMAGINATION (FROM THE INSIDE OUT)
Growing up in a bicultural household, navigating the F train as well as mountain creeks, studying culture and then participating in its production, these are some of the idiosyncrasies that I bring to my work. My investigations are rooted in combining a rediscovery of the sensuousness of the …