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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"oppositions"”.
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Contending with Binary Oppositions in Musical Aesthetics through Eros
… aesthetics has been characterized by binary oppositions. For example, some argue music’s expressivity is rooted in its internal, formal configurations while others do so by pointing to music’s representational qualities. Or some emphasize music's sensorial nature, i.e., the necessity of music …
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Transitivising formations in competition? Lability and the effects of preverbs on old english causative oppositions
RESUMEN EN CASTELLANO El presente estudio investiga los efectos transitivizadores de dos mecanismos de formación de palabras en inglés antiguo: la formación deverbal -jan y los prefijos verbales. Los datos analizados en este trabajo han sido tomados de pares causativos en inglés antiguo, junto con …
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Irreconcilable Oppositions: "<em>Es Muss Sein</em>" and <em>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</em>
<p>Milan Kundera's <em>The Unbearable Lightness of Being</em> is a novel written in response to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's myth of eternal return. Through questioning Nietzsche's myth, Kundera creates an existential framework that rejects eternal return and illustrates his …
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Colette et sa venue à l’écriture. Le phallocentrisme, les oppositions binaires et l’écriture féminine dans le cycle des Claudine
Í þessari ritgerð er Claudine serían tekin til umfjöllunar – en hún samanstendur af fjórum skáldsögum eftir frönsku skáldkonuna Colette (1873-1954) sem hún skrifaði í félagi við fyrsta eiginmann sinn, Willy. Ásamt þeirri fimmtu, La retraite sentimentale, sem Colette skrifaði ein eftir skilnað sinn …
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An examination of selected binary oppositions in the work of Elizabeth Gaskell which serve to demonstrate the author's response to unitarianism and other prevalent influences within mid-Victorian society
… work is characterised by a series of binary oppositions, a feature of her fiction which serves to illustrate her individual response to conflicting values or concepts. Rather than dogmatically resolving the series of antinomies revealed throughout her work, she maintains their co-existence in …
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The phonology of spoken Iraqi Arabic from the functional point of view
… evaluation. Chapter Six classifies oppositions into 'distinctive oppositions' versus 'nondistinctive oppositions, and further presents 'logical' as well as 'phonological' classifications of 'distinctive oppositions'. PART TWO comprises seven chapters and it presents an application of …
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The Communist Party in Moscow 1925-1932
… in the period, with special reference to the oppositions of the 1920's. Four broad problems are discussed. The first is the relationship between the central Party leadership and the Moscow Committee. Second is the role of the grassroots activist in political life. Thirdly, the failure of the …
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Four Black Boxes and a Beacon: A Theater for Roanoke, Virginia
… a series of models and drawings that studied oppositions in mass, scale, transparency, opacity, and most importantly, light vs. dark and day vs. night.
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Ngugi wa Thiongo and third world postcolonialism
… against the logical fallacy of the binary oppositions performed by the contemporary first world postcolonial theory and practice. The division between the first and the third world postcolonial aesthetics is due to their different interpretations and practices of the term 'postcolonial,' …
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Architecture in Eden: a transition between urban and rural conditions
… has drawn heavily from an editorial for <u>OPPOSITIONS</u> magazine entitled “The Third Typology”, by Anthony Vidler. “The Third Typology” is not utilized as a paradigm for architectural design, but rather as a validation of the ideologies employed.
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Forms of disciplinary fragmentation: Holistic healthcare and the categorical division of academic labor
… classification that hinges on three pairs of oppositions: 1) applied-pure, 2) hard-soft, 3) life-non-life. The model’s creator, psychologist Anthony Biglan, postulated the existence of cognitive styles drawn along these lines. Conceiving disciplinary fragmentation as the theoretical splitting …
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Parallel Processes: Embassy for the European Community
… process seeks to reconcile several critical oppositions imbedded within the task. The project develops a new embassy programme which extends the notion of cultural exchange, through diplomacy, into the public realm. It integrates a tectonic strategy which provides necessary protection for …
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Embodying the nation: Post-colonial Irish women's fiction
… attending to how women writers blur the oppositions--Protestant/Catholic, public/private, colonizer/colonized--that have underwritten their neglect to date."
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"Desmantelamiento e integracion de las dicotomias en ""Cien anos de soledad"""
… suggest that throughout the novel, binary oppositions are presented as useless and/or destructive: like the Buendia twins, opposites merge and become confused with one another. The protagonists of this post-colonial saga only find clarity very briefly, usually minutes before their death, …
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Gamekeeper turned poacher: discursive shifts in apprenticeship reform in England, 2011-2021
… with the analysis identifying and organising oppositions, alliances, and juxtapositions to show how each public work, as text, is located and operating within apprenticeship policy and higher education. In exploring the concept of the higher education discursive field, the author relies on …
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ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΟΙΗΤΙΚΗ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΔΡΕΑ ΕΜΠΕΙΡΙΚΟΥ. Η ΗΡΩΙΚΗ, ΕΡΩΤΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΘΡΗΣΚΕΥΤΙΚΗΟΨΗ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΙΗΣΗΣ ΤΟΥ
… AREAS, WHEREIN ALL ABOUNDING IN HIS WORK OPPOSITIONS COULD BE CLASSIFIED . THE CONFLICT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS DEFINES A HEROIC AREA, WHICHIS CONTRACTED WITH AN EROTIC ONE. SEXUALITY FOR THAT MATTER, ALSO CONSTITUTES THE MOTIVE POWER OF THE WHOLE POETICAL PROCESS, IS OFTEN WEAVED TOGETHER WITH …
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Sibelius's Seventh Symphony: Genesis, Design, Structure, and Meaning
… classicism, and between a host of other seeming oppositions, all define the Seventh Symphony and illuminate various facets of the composer's life and thought.
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Truth and strangers in Jean Rhys's novels : Good morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea
… tendency to order reality by constructing binary oppositions which reduce people to homogeneous categories. Rhys illustrates how this view is mistaken and destructive. Rhys highlights the heterogeneity of human existence and exposes the provisionality of truth and the instability of meaning by …
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Home Storage and critical analysis
… that surrounds them. It dismantles the binary oppositions between good and evil whilst resisting a portrayl of violence. The thesis also includes a critical analysis of the play
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