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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"personae"”.
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Nietzsche's conceptual personae of freedom
… encounters with textual figures, or conceptual personae, which are strongly associated with freedom in Nietzsche’s oeuvre. The conceptual persona, drawn from the work of Deleuze and Guattari, is an integral part of the process of developing and articulating philosophical concepts. Nietzsche’s …
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"Melville's personae in ""Moby Dick"""
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Her kind: Personae in Anne Sexton's poetry
… in her poetry. This study examines the Sexton personae in three ways. First, the relatively consistent traits of the personae who appear in the poetry apart from and created by the poet, Anne Sexton, are identified. Second, as several themes recur throughout her canon--the struggles in …
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The self-presentation of poets: modern poets and their online personae.
… Barbour, and Lee's (2017) development of online personae, this qualitative study examined poets and their usage of social media. Goffman (1956) and Moore, Barbour, and Lee (2017) propose the concept of identity construction and interactions which enhance self-presentation or ideal personae. This …
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Adoção intuito personae: a relativização do cadastro de adoção à luz do melhor interesse
… discutir a possibilidade da adoção intuitu personae no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro sob a ótica do princípio do melhor interesse da criança, o que leva a uma relativização dos cadastros de adoção dispostos no artigo 50 do Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente. A adoção intuitu personae é …
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“Brightly Colored Magic and Weird Worlds”: Sylvia Plath’s Creation of Personae Through Her Visual Poetics
… and visual techniques become, for Plath’s personae, a method of manipulating their experiences through a blurring of the divide between individual imagination and subjective reality. Plath’s visual techniques further function to represent her personae’s psychic interiority in ways that not …
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In the Theater of my Mind: Authorship, Personae, and the Making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Work
Pier Paolo Pasolini is one of the most important but also most misunderstood Italian artists and intellectuals of last century, a cultural and artistic myth often understood and used in excessively sectorial or expedient ways. This dissertation defines and explores Pasolini's carefully constructed …
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Remembering the Forgotten Beauty of Yeatsian Mythology: Personae and the Problem of Unity in The Wind Among the Reeds
… the Forgotten Beauty of Yeatsian Mythology: Personae and the Problem of Unity in The Wind Among the Reeds
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"In Propria Persona": Artifice, Politics, and Propriety in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
<p>This dissertation examines the use of personae, the rhetorical artifices by which an author creates different voices, in John Gower's Confessio Amantis. I argue that the Confessio attempts to expose how discourses of sexual desire alienate subjects from their proper place in the political world, …
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The construction of the text, the production of multiple personae and the construction of the self on Bob Dylan's album, Blood on the tracks
… construction of the text, the making of multiple personae and the construction of the self on Bob Dylan's album, Blood on the Tracks. Using arguments by theorists such as Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva and, more importantly, Mikhail Bakhtin, I examine the plurality of discourses …
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Influencer persona and audience engagement : an analysis of the user decision-making differences between traditional and short-video-based social media
… influencers' points of view? How do influencer personae affect the decision-making processes of their audiences, and are there methods that can quantify those influences? Presented in the thesis are A) The definitions and subsequent analyses of different social media platforms, influencers, …
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The psalmist in the Psalm : a persona-critical reading of Book IV of the Psalter.
… in a psalm are properly identified as literary personae, and should not be equated with the psalm's historical author. This distinction is hermeneutically significant insofar as the psalm's speaker is therefore oriented to the world of the poem rather than the reader's knowledge of or access to …
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Through Other I's: Las Otras
… but whose I? The collection explores the use of personae, and gives voice to “the other” I’s/<em>las otras</em>, women who came before us and those who walk among us. Sometimes in English, sometimes in Spanish, sometimes the voices cross between languages. Written primarily in free verse, the …
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The history writer’s tale : historical fiction and the depiction of identity in Michiel Heyns’s ‘the typewriter’s tale’ and ‘bodies politic’
… representation and representation of historical personae and identities in historical fiction are also investigated as well as the differing ways in which history and historical fiction deal with the question of the identity of historical figures. In the chapter on Bodies Politic Heyns’s …
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La Leche League, the media, and the nursing mother: A broader perspective on persona theory
… League newsletters I theorized a new category of personae, the constitutive persona, which includes personae used by a collective to attract new members and provide them with language to talk about their experiences. Second, in analyzing the media's coverage of breastfeeding, I argued for an …
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`SHE WILL NOT SUBMIT TO BE IGNORED': KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND PERFORMING AMERICAN FEMININITY AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
… explores how Wiggin performed her different personae throughout her life, how she shifted between the different roles she personified, and how the fluctuation of the definition of "appropriate" feminine behavior affected when and how she performed. The multiple facets of Kate Douglas Wiggin's …
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The Immanent Body: A Thematic Study of the Logic of Immanence in Christology, Philosophy and Aesthetics
… in relation to bodies are found in conceptual personae. Contemporary philosopher Gilles Deleuze's concept of conceptual personae, developed in conjunction with French theorist Felix Guattari, helps navigate the complex relationship between bodies and ontology developed by these three ancient …
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Shielded by Athena: Mythical and Biblical Allusions and the Aesthetic Sensibilities of Louise Gluck's Poetry
… use mythical and biblical allusions, often using personae from those sources to frame personal stories. Glück's poetry can be read in light of the New Aesthetics movement; her subject matter, though personal, speaks on larger societal themes in carefully crafted work with layers of meaning that …
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