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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"sorrel"”.
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Marina Carr's Hauntings: Liminality and the Addictive Society On and Off the Stage
… Coughlan), Hester (By the Bog of Cats), and Sorrel (On Raftery's Hill) are trapped in a liminal state. As liminal characters, each of these women has the ability to discern the destructive nature of the addictive society around them and must therefore decide either to integrate into that …
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Wandering Women: Sexual and Social Stigma in the Mid-Victorian Novel
… Thomas Hardy' Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Hetty Sorrel of George Eliot's Adam Bede, and Lady Dedlock of Dickens' Bleak House. Although the Wandering Woman's journey may resemble a variation of the bildungsroman tradition, it is not, because unlike male characters in this genre, women have limited …
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Moral Training for Nature's Egotists: Mentoring Relationships in George Eliot's Fiction
… views of nature: in the Dinah Morris-Hetty Sorrel narrative, like most of the others, Eliot privileges the transcendence of nature. The other two, Mary Garth-Fred Vincy and Dolly Winthrop-Silas Marner, are exceptions as Eliot portrays in them a Wordsworthian reconciliation with nature. In …
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Dyes and Dyeing Methods in Late Iron Age Finland
… common chickweed (Stellaria media) and red sorrel (Rumex acetosella) were also used in mordanting. Woad (Isatis tinctoria) was used for blue dyeing. Purple was obtained from orchil producing lichens such as rock tripe (Lasallia pustulata). Dyer s madder (Rubia tinctorum) and the yellow …
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The Aral Sea : a palaeoclimate archive
The intracontinental endorheic Aral Sea, remote from oceanic influences, represents an excellent sedimentary archive in Central Asia that can be used for high-resolution palaeoclimate studies. We performed palynological, microfacies and geochemical analyses on sediment cores retrieved from …
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White men's talk about gender-based violence in South Africa: A thematic narrative analysis of the stories told about race, class, and gender
Gender-based violence (GBV) research in South Africa has been critiqued for producing and perpetuating trauma-saturated narratives that situate gendered violence in poor black individuals, families, and communities (Boonzaier, 2017, 2018; Boonzaier et al., 2020). Young, black, working class men, in …
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Bildung and the metaphor of growth in the novels of T. Hardy and D.H. Lawrence
This dissertation explores aspects of the German Bildungsroman, several nineteenth century English versions, and Lawrence's revitalisation of a genre which had become unfashionable and almost moribund. It examines Jude the Obscure (1896) and three of Lawrence's novels in the light of a distinction …
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Between/beyond the binaries: transgender youth in cape town re-present their experiences through photo-narratives
Current literature about marginalised youth centres adult knowledges and perpetuates narratives of risk. Additionally, very little is known about young transgender persons within the South African context. Therefore, by making use of Photovoice elements, this narrative project sought to explore the …
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Sexuality and the handicapped
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Molecular selectivity by host-guest methods
The Host-Guest inclusion crystallization method has long been used for the separation of closely related compounds. Especially for the separation of isomers which presented difficulties in techniques like distillation or chromatography. In this study, different host systems were used to separate …
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From forest to pasture without weeds: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Agricultural Science with Honours at Lincoln University
Dry matter production, botanical composition and seedling size of a ryegrass/ subterranean clover pasture sown on 1 April out of Pinus radiata were measured over three harvest dates (28 July, 17 August, 7 September) in Darfield (43° B'S, 172° 8'E). Pasture was grown at 4 lime rates (0, 2.5, 5, 10 T …