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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"palimpsests"”.
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Accumulation: embroidery palimpsests
My work explores concepts related to temporal degradation and the impulse to preserve. Through the gradual accretion of fibrous material over extended periods of time, I produce stratified composite structures which serve as metaphors for material cultural advancement and highlight the role of …
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The Mari Lwyd and the horse queen : palimpsests of Ancient ideas.
The idea of a horse as a deity of the land, sovereignty and fertility can be seen in many cultures with Indo-European roots. The earliest and most complete reference to this deity can be seen in Vedic texts from 1500 BCE. Documentary evidence in rock art, and sixth century BCE Tartessian …
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Cinematic Palimpsests: Polysemy and In(ter)dependency in the Spectator Experience
… over the old one” again and again (Dillon 2005). Palimpsests rely on the core principle of in(ter)dependency, wherein each element or layer is both independent and interdependent, inherently affecting the significance of other elements around it and being affected in turn by those other elements. …
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Exploring meaning in Xhalanga Blues: a theatre of ntsomi palimpsests encouraging sustainable storytelling
This research explores the notion of the ntsomi; the oral storytelling custom of amaXhosa, by identifying ten elements listed by various writers as unique to African oral storytelling and weaving these elements into poetics which assist us in tracing how they are used to stage and facilitate …
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'A Fragment of Wholeness': The Making of the Poetic Subject in Vasyl Stus's Palimpsests
… Focusing on Stus’s magnum opus collection Palimpsests (1971-1979), where the poet casts the inhuman conditions of his incarceration to the periphery and instead engages in radical introspection, I show how Stus’s poetry foregrounds the very making of the subject as the constant pursuit of …
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"Palimpsests on German Reunification: Functions of Theodor Fontane's Novels and Poetry in Guenter Grass' ""Too Far Afield"""
To date, this dissertation is the first detailed examination of the intertextuality in Grass' Too Far Afield. The study applies literary theories on intertextuality to determine the function and significance of references. At the same time, it integrates the aspect of reception, since the reader's …
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Palimpsests, Activities, and Archaeological Taxonomy: Implications from Late Plains Woodland Components (AD 500-1000) of the Hamon Site in Northeastern Kansas
This thesis describes the results and interpretations of a multi-faceted analysis of Late Plains Woodland components (AD 500-1000) of the Hamon site (14JF350) in Jefferson County, northeastern Kansas. Methods included artifact analysis, newly obtained radiocarbon dates, a reconstructed spatial …
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Transnational Memory of the Atlantic Slave Trade Today: Modes of Remembering in Three Lusophone Nations
… trade today and its modes of remembering through palimpsests of Memory in three Lusophone nations: Angola, Brazil, and Portugal. Using Astrid Erll’s outline (2010) on Memory studies, this thesis argues that there are different modes of remembering the past according to the distinct positions …
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Unveiling ancestral land: Alkebu-lan practices of human habitation Ebandleni
Our cities can be perceived as palimpsests of sequential historic events that contributed to what the cities have become in the present age. Each event or occurrence produced and brought forth the intangible spirit of the time and place relatively, the aura, which can manifest through the people, …
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La transtextualidad en El mal querer de Rosalía
… expressed by Gerard Genette in his work, <em>Palimpsests </em>(1982), this thesis investigates how the transtextual relationships in the literary, musical, and visual aspects of <em>El mal querer</em> explore the presentation of the theme of gender violence historically and today.</p>
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Ruinscapes in poetry and architecture
… transcriptions, errors, letter phanopoeias, and palimpsests. Architectural ruinscapes are seen as spatial manifestations of the conflicting dipoles which constitute the poetics of ruin-habitation: inside and outside, nearness and beyond, rootness and errance, narrow and infinite, intimacy and …
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Landscape in Peril: A Cultural Assessment of Thomas's Wharf and Woodlands Farm, Northampton County, Eastern Shore, Virginia
… that are records of change and evolution, palimpsests of a people, culture, and place, need to be identified and deemed significant for that quality.
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'Cad Goddeu', 'the Battle of the Trees': texts and interpretations
… theorists such as Gérard Genette in his work Palimpsests, texts and other variants of the poem are studied, and examples of intertextual connections are reviewed, dating from the nineteenth-century to the twenty-first. The dissertation examines the place of Llyfr Taliesin in Welsh literature …
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j u x t a p o s e d: A Revelatory Appraoch to Reconcile Past and Present
… Such are the conditions that describe various palimpsests, partially legible windows into the past. Reconstructing the Ca'Foscari (1935-37), Scarpa's first real commission marked the realized reconciliation between the old and the new. The finished work of the Ca'Foscari reflects the poetic …
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Trace and history: an investigation of Kurdish banner-making through contemporary art practice.
… permitted appropriation of these backing-board palimpsests provides material for the development of an innovative genre of abstract painting, deploying calligraphy to embody a coded chronicle of communal life in Kurdistan. Concurrently, interviews with the calligraphers of Sulaymaniyah are …
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Decoding Robin Hood: Towards a Palimpsestic Method - Reading Layers of Meaning through the Costumes of the Cinematic Robin Hoods, 1938-2018
… of Decoding Robin Hood; images function as palimpsests where the layers of the image contain meaning related to cultural myths. Studying costume is thus an effective way of cutting away the superfluity of a famous narrative, and focusing on the palimpsestic image of a mythical character as …
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[ORIGINS]_Constructing A Spatial Lexicon: A Catalyst For Finding Place_[Locatedness]
… psychologically, or metaphorically. Layering, palimpsests of time, collages of assemblage. This inquiry, a speculative body of work looks to create an architecture that moves, architecture as an embodiment of art through the mediums of the hand/eye which is alchemic by nature. It is a Lexicon …
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PATCHWORK METROPOLIS. Un modello teorico per il progetto dei territori contemporanei
… – cities in between , the territory as a palimpsests , the city territory , the città diffusa , the archipelago city – preserving and enriching each time its precious ambiguity. The thesis is articulated in four parts that assemble a circular story that opens and closes in the same sector …
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Architecture and Memory at the Intersection of Transit, the Built Environment, and Placemaking in Tysons, VA
"Palimpsest" noun: palimpsest; plural noun: palimpsests a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain. something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form. My thesis …
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