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Showing 1 to 20 of 305 for “"otherness"”.
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Condition of Singularity: Viewer, Temporality and Otherness
Differences are an inescapable factor in the event of presentation. Rifts manifest themselves one after another between the object of presentation, the appearance of the presentation, the method of presentation, what/who presents it and to what/whom it is presented and so on. In fact it is a course …
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Between Marks and Surfaces: Indiscernibility, Subjectivity, and Otherness
This practice-based research examines the notion of the in-between of mark and surface within visual art. Drawing on Bracha L. Ettinger’s Matrixial theory, I approach the in-between as a non-oppositional state that has the potential to redefine relationships between self and other in art practice. …
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Constructions of Identity and Otherness in Jack Kerouac's Prose
… approach to the notions of identity and otherness and most vividly illustrates the continuing vitality of Kerouac’s writing.
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Damp Skin: Portraits of Taiwanese Domesticity, Resilience, and Otherness
… of Taiwanese domesticity, resilience, and otherness, framed through the intimate and expansive lens of dampness and enclosure.
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Traces of Otherness in St. Thomas Aquinas' Theology of Grace
This dissertation looks into the work of St. Thomas Aquinas and addresses his theology of grace through the lens of the postmodern concern for the other. The first chapter sets up the postmodern view using Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida to draw out the fundamental grounding for the concern …
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A memory syndrome : selfhood and otherness at the Wailing Wall
Few groups in the world have as long-standing a claim to "peoplehood" as do Jews. Despite the longevity of that claim, however, the problem of instability inherent in objectifying a collective identity has not yet been resolved. The existence and salience of a collective self is assumed at the same …
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The Language of Ethical Encounter: Levinas, Otherness, and Contemporary Poetry
… to a Levinasian saying, which avoids mastering otherness by attending to its uniqueness and imaginatively engaging with it, they enact an ethical response to alterity. As a way of unpacking these ideas, this inquiry will investigate the compelling, if unsettled, convergence in the work of …
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Urban Image and Otherness: An investigation through practice of installation art.
… research addresses, on one hand, the concept of otherness - understood as the infinite learning of 'differential truths' (Ahearne, 1995, p. 192) and on the other hand, a notion of urban image - understood as fragmentary imagery able to accommodate a sense of public space over imprints of …
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My Cherished Enemy: The Construction of Identity and Otherness in Russia
… centuries are inseparable from the question of otherness. The thesis is an inquiry into the origins of the development of ‘us’ and ‘them’ in Russia. The main goal of the dissertation is to give a series of interconnected examples form the early 10th century until the end of WWII with a special …
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An Ecology of Immanent Otherness: The Onto/eco-poethics of Hélène Cixous
… one that moves away from sameness and toward otherness. To contend with and address the deeply unsettling and unprecedented conditions of Anthropocenic life we need an environmental ethics of immanent otherness. To conceive such an ethics, I turn to feminist post-structuralist Hélène Cixous. …
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Encounter with Otherness : Nature and Identity in Rolvaag's GIANTS IN THE EARTH
… temporal man in direct confrontation with "otherness"--the inscrutable power that stands over against Self, imposing boundaries and raising unanswerable questions. Because Rolvaag's hero, Per Hansa, is an energetic, audacious dreamer, he presses into the very face of the unknown, challenging …
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Irony and otherness : a study of some recent South African narrative fiction
… study considers the relation between irony and otherness. Chapter 2 shows that there is little agreement on the politics of irony in critical discussions. Nevertheless, irony and otherness do appear to be linked in many of these discussions. Chapter 3 offers a consideration of Emmanuel Levinas's …
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Revealing otherness : a comparative examination of French and English medieval hagiographical romance
… genres?) and feature the defining notions of otherness, exile and penance. In spite of appearances, this work shows that the French and English authors prove to have quite different takes on the same stories. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory, the chapters discuss the …
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Poland for Poles: Nationalist Imaginaries and the Reproduction of Sexual and Racialized Otherness
This dissertation examines the complex relationships between both sexual (LGBTQI and otherwise) and racialized (subjects who are read as neither white nor Catholic) others and nation|empire-building. It theorizes Poland as concept (meaning sociological entity shaped by multiple competing actors …
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Towards an ethics of otherness: re-considering birth, time, and silence in education
The notion of the self in Western literature has overwhelmingly focused on separation and individuality, and has conflated knowing with being. This work proposes to retell the story of the modern Western individual through the themes of birth, time, and silence (as they represent the lifecycle), in …
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Angles of otherness: Subjectivity and difference in the fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas
… itself from others. She examines the way otherness is implicitly identified within the very subject that professes to exclude it; thus her works interrogate, reverse and finally erode the borders that define the self. Each of the five chapters of this study focuses on a separate …
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Detour to Otherness: Cultural Identity Discourse in Contemporary *American, Ukrainian, and Polish Literatures
"The comparison demonstrates that despite the extensive tradition of addressing diversity in the American literature, the horizontal lines of intercultural exchange or the non-hierarchical ""ethnorelativism of representation"" emerges in American writing only recently, in the works produced as …
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