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Showing 1 to 20 of 423 for “"selves"”.
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Reading Selves/Writing Selves: Tracing the Intellectual History of Writing as a Technology of the Self
… found ways to forge a connection between their selves and the text. Whether by means and for purposes of representation, translation, or presentation of the self, writing as a technology has long functioned as a method of enacting selfhood. This dissertation constructs an intellectual history of …
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Relational Selves in Eighteenth-Century Literature
… the time when modern individuals constituted themselves against the forces of communal obligation, when marriage emerged as a union based on singular affection, and when heterosexuality cohered as an ideology. But Relational Selves in Eighteenth Century Literature argues that a libertine logic of …
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Chiasma: Plural Selves on Ink and Paper
<p>My work depicts female sexual experience, particularly the complexity of the subject and corporeality. The series Pair, examines the notions of individual subjectivity as porous at the site of desire. These images explore moments of sensual experience - moments when the individual subject is …
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“I Forget to Enjoy the Book”: A Narrative Analysis of Adolescents’ Perceptions of Their Real Selves and Ideal Selves as Readers
… sought to understand student perceptions of themselves as readers compared to their ideal selves as readers. This is in response to personal experience with struggling readers, as well as GADOE data showing the magnitude of the issue surrounding struggling readers at Mountain Middle School (MMS). …
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BODIES, SELVES AND SPACESGENDERED EXPERIENCES OF MILANESE URBAN SETTINGS
Research consistently demonstrates that urban environments are neither neutral nor equally accessible to everyone, as they originate in uneven power relations and so are structured around exclusionary practices that disproportionately affect women’s sense of safety, mobility, and belonging (Kern, …
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Fictional Selves: Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography
<p>Fictional Selves: Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography is about fictionality and the role that processes of fiction play in our experiences of personal subjectivity. I argue that the particular and historically situated form of the Victorian fictional autobiography helps us …
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Haunted houses, haunted selves – feminist readings of uncanny domesticity
… recognizes her doppelganger the union of her two selves takes place in the short story’s dramatic climax. In Shirley Jackson’s literary works the haunted houses, protagonists in themselves, entrap, transform, and ultimately devour their female daughter-victims. The haunted houses are symbols, …
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Interrelating with animals: nonhuman selves in the literary imagination
… characters may sometimes be understood as animal selves, and not as symbolic humans. Interest in the selfhood of non-human animals has been gaining ground in academic debates in the fields of animal and cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and anthropology, resulting in theoretical work that …
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Dialogical Selves: Exploring “Sameness and Difference” in “Queer” Identification
“The LGBTQIA+ community”, like all social groupings, is moulded by dialectical forces: inclusivity/exclusivity, belonging/non-belonging, sameness/difference. Literature on it is riddled with dichotomous conflicts over (dis)identification and (anti)relationality in theory, lived experiences, and …
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Between Selves and Others: Exploring Strategic Approaches within Visual Art
This body of research investigates how visual artists express ideas or meanings about Otherness and issues of belonging in their art. The focus of this study is on women artists with an (East) Asian diasporic background; however, the context of the inquiry includes other American and European …
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Many voices, many selves: An analysis of education blog discourses
<p>At this point, the majority of computer mediated communication (CMC) studies have employed a variation analysis approach, quantitatively describing language on the Internet and comparing CMC to speech and writing. While these studies have provided valuable information about CMC, they have also …
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Radical Interiorities, Aesthetic Selves: Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, Virginia Woolf
<p>In her essay “On Being Ill” (1926), Virginia Woolf writes “We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others…There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown.” My dissertation explores how the novel’s attempts to represent this inherently …
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Parties to gamete donation: from bounded selves to relational persons.
The task of legally characterising complex interpersonal relationships presents a challenge to lawyers, legislators and academics. In law, relationships between parties are commonly characterised in terms of competing sets of rights. The parties are characterised as adversaries, in conflict, and …
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Imagining ‘possible selves’ as an intervention strategy for incarcerated youth
… offenders exploring the idea of 'possible selves’ as an intervention strategy for incarcerated youth. The participants share experiences of their own incarceration as juveniles as well as insights gained through their recent working experience with incarcerated youth. This study concerns …
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Your Self Again: Clones, Originals, and True Selves of Science Fiction
… SF, and specifically clone narratives, lend themselves particularly well to reflect and facilitate philosophical discussions on the subject of character and ultimately self. Jonathan Culpeper and Carolina Fernandez-Quintanilla’s work on fictional characterisation, Carl D. Malmgren’s SF typology, …
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Unraveling selves: A Butlerian reading of managerial subjectives during organizational change.
This poststructuralist research into managerial subjectivity follows ten senior managers’ experience, during significant organizational restructuring in the National Health Service. Located in the North of England the managers were interviewed three times during an eighteen-month period. An …
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The impact of a teaching practicum on the selves of cooperating teachers.
… impact of a five-week teaching practicum on the selves of nine cooperating teachers who voluntarily handed over their classrooms to student teachers. Cooperating teachers in Ireland do not have an official role in either mentoring or assessing their student teachers. Because the study focused on …
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Discovering New Selves: Service-Learning and the Intellectual Development of College Students
The purpose of this study was to explore college students' intellectual development through their service-learning experience. This study also took into consideration the characteristics of student groups and the way in which they transformed intellectually through their service-learning …
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Dispersed Selves, Excessive Flesh: Embodied Identity Flows In Three Middle English Narratives
… of identification: both the ways in which selves disaggregate or shift as well as the various narrative responses to that movement. Ultimately, this study suggests that traditional models of narrative identity do not adequately represent the potential fluidity of identification one finds in …
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