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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"monsters"”.
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Lonely Monsters
Lonely Monsters is a full-length feature screenplay that explores the ways in which a classic damsel narrative may be reconsidered. It offers ideas on how death and girlhood may find symmetry. The characters within Lonely Monsters deal with loss, identity of the self versus the world's ideas on …
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monsters under the bed
The exhibition, monsters under the bed is a representation of what occurs when the bedroom lights are turned on and monsters, born from childhood fear, refuse to retreat into the shadows. Cartoon illustrations of physical and mental martyrdom point to the theme of death, as seen through the …
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Persons, imposters, and monsters
This dissertation is about person features, their representation and interpretation in natural language. I will argue that there are several ways in which person features can be represented and interpreted. Most importantly, I will provide evidence for a kind of person features that are parts of …
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Beyond This Point Are Monsters
<p><em>Beyond This Point Are Monsters</em> is a creative work which establishes a fluid, unstable space between the mediated image and the written word. It addresses issues of repetition and difference in the TV melodrama and the inscribed surface of the house in the Gothic novel, performing the …
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The diffraction of monsters from complex apertures
The research presented in this MSc thesis is concerned with understanding the way incoming electromagnetic waves are diffracted by various different types of scattering screens. These classes of problem are fundamental in the laser optics community, and within the arena of wave physics more …
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Loomings: the sleep of reason produces monsters
To Architect is to always work with others. Working with others, though, can be hell, as friction abounds in the process of multiple voices and stances coalescing into one. I design as a form of co-authorship, a processional lineage of the works of others. I build off of foundations previously …
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Fowl feathered fox: Monsters, pipers, families and flocks
Fowl Feathered Fox: Monsters, Pipers, Families and Flocks is a doctoral work consisting of a full-length stage play and an exegesis. An introduction outlines the scope of the doctoral work, while a concluding chapter reflects on research findings and considers staging issues and implications. …
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Unlearned monsters: An archaeology of the Gothic romance
"Lexical politics during the Roman Empire and German Reformation, errors in translating Bede into Anglo-Saxon, and stylistic compatibilities between gothic racial myth and ""customary"" politics mythologized the barbarians who ""invaded"" Kent in 449 as native Goths whose return to their homeland …
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Transgressive figures: Monsters and monstrosity in Flavian epic
This dissertation argues that the monsters in Statius’ Thebaid and Silius’ Punica both embody and reproduce dynamics of Flavian culture. These poems are taken together as exemplars of the culture during the reign of Domitian specifically. I conduct close, sustained, textual analysis of instances …
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Making Monsters: The Monstrous-Feminine In Horace and Catullus
… poetry. Both female figures are constructed as monsters within the poetry that exude devastating heat, cross accepted boundaries, and evoke horror in their respective poets. As abject, Lesbia and Canidia are both revolting and fascinating, making it impossible for Horace or Catullus to …
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American Monsters: Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000
American Monsters: Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000," analyzes an episode of national hysteria that dominated the media throughout most of the 1980s. Its origins, however, go back much farther and its consequences for the media would extend into subsequent decades. Rooted in the …
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The Historian’s Daughter (A novel); Monsters and Memory (An essay)
… in Australia. The accompanying essay is titled ‘Monsters and Memory’ and is an autoethnographical text which combines theoretical, experiential and embodied research to argue that the inclusion of women’s stories, particularly those of trauma and abuse, must be foregrounded in any exploration of …
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When We Were Monsters: Ethnogenesis in Medieval Ireland 800-1366
<p>Ethnogenesis, or the process of identity construction occurred in medieval Ireland as a reaction to laws passed by the first centralized government on the island. This thesis tracks ethnogenesis through documents relating to change in language, custom, and law. This argument provides insight …
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Policing the boundaries of whiteness : monsters made in the USA
… White Monstrous Feminine. My analyses of these monsters depends upon contextual explorations wherein the monster serves as a starting point to understanding the larger, interwoven race and racism of White Supremacy. My methodology is foregrounded in decoloniality and the concept of de-linking …
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Just Add Monsters: Stressful Biofeedback Games for Improved Physiological Control
Anxiety is often experienced as an explicitly physiological sensation: an increased breathing rate, sweaty palms, and a racing heart which can precede, co-occur with, and follow stressful experiences. The bi-directional relationship between these physiological responses and their subjective …
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Conversing with ‘monsters’? Narratives about men who sexually abuse(d) children
This research has examined multiperspectival narratives told about and by men who sexually abuse(d) children. Drawing on institutional, public and private narratives, I have explored how men who sexually abuse(d) children are characterised, how meanings about these men are created, and how their …
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