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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"structuralism"”.
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Essays on structuralism and development
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 1981
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Paradise Revised: Genesis, Structuralism, and Romantic Texts
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Structuralism: In Defense of a Kantian Account of Perceptual Experience
… of perceptual experience. I call this account structuralism. Put briefly, the account holds that perceptual experience has a structure that is the manifestation of its priori content. I defend this account by showing that it provides a unified framework for understanding perceptual …
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Haile Selassie and the Religious Field: Generative Structuralism and Christian Missions in Ethiopia
… hegemonic power. Pierre Bourdieu's generative structuralism will be employed in this thesis to analyze the EOC's symbolic power as well as Selassie's efforts to dispossess the Church of its cultural power and make it an arm of the state. Controlling the rural periphery of Ethiopia, however …
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Development Theory and the Cold War: A Historical Analysis of Latin American Structuralism from 1930 to 1970
Latin America has experimented with two different development strategies over the last two centuries. First, and currently, an “outward-oriented” program based on exports of primary commodities. Alternatively, for a few years following World War II, a domestic industrialization from within strategy …
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Structure and system as basic metaphors in literary studies : a criticism of one aspect of contemporary structuralism
The subject of this essay is Structuralism, and the point of view, that of a student of literature. And this much the title conveys. However, there are points which need to be made by way of a preface in order to clarify what this essay attempts and what it does not. First, there is the problem …
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Radiohead's subterranean jazz structuralism: the music of Louis Armstrong, Alice Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus in ten compositions by Radiohead
… of detailed imitation that I've coined as ""jazz structuralism"" to break out of their perceived limitations in the rock genre."
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A Structural View of Knowledge and A Constitutive View of Knowledge: An Analysis of Reproductive Education Theory
… debates within reproductive educational theory--structuralism (e.g., Bowles & Gintis's, 1976, 1980, economic structuralism; Althusser's, 1969, 1971, 1976; and Althusser & Balibar's, 1970, discursive structuralism; Bourdieu's, 1977a, 1977b, 1977c, 1980, 1984 cultural structuralism; and Bourdieu & …
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How the ideology and political structures of Nazi Germany enabled the Holocaust : a study in ideology and political structures
… approaches of interpretivism and structuralism. The argument is that Nazi ideology informed the structures of the Third Reich in such a way, primarily through the concepts of ‘cumulative radicalization’ and ‘working towards the Führer,’ that the Holocaust unfolded in a haphazard …
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Place, Bound By A Circle A Hospice
… order within various phenomena. Anthropological Structuralism involves the discovery of the underlying structures found within and between cultures and the human mind. Myths of different cultures address similar underlying questions even if they generate different answers. Linguistic …
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Videocentric criticism, postmodernism and the deconstruction of television
… two defines videocentric criticism. Narrative, structuralism, post-structuralism, and deconstruction are applied to televisual information. An example of televisual information is partially deconstructed; Chapter three proposes the Levels of Televisual Reality, which are similar to Plato's …
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Gender-konstruksies in die afrikaanse letterkunde : 'n ondersoek in kultuurstudies, litterêre teorie en kreatiewe skryfwerk
… on the developments in modem literary theory: structuralism to post structuralism. The influence of the internet is discussed in a chapter. The thesis comments on the value of inter-disciplinary work and programmes. Psychoanalytic and (post)structuralist theories are blended with creative texts …
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Ideas of Wallace Stevens : Fredric Jameson's view of the poet
… upon Fredric Jameson's essay 'Exoticism and Structuralism in Wallace Stevens', which concerns the American poet's writings and their relevance to contemporary culture. ... This paper ultimately supports Fredric Jameson's assertion that Stevens cultivated a style that favours impersonality and …
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The Liminal Space of Dreams: Narration of Dreams in Graphic novel and Comics
… the experience of dreams; Roland Barthes on the structuralism and Post-Structuralism, semiotic language narration; Scott McCloud and other comic scholars on the visual aesthetic of dreams and history of dream comics. This essay unravels the storytelling of dreams to create a non-linear logic of …
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Three Paths To Religious Integration In Ernest Hemingway’s War Fiction
… theories, and I form the approach on structuralism in that I look at both single works and at the war fiction as a whole as well as looking for connections between literature and culture. Furthermore, I look to the theories of Northrop Frye in analyzing this literature because Frye’s …
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The Concept of Self-reflexive Intertextuality in the Works of Umberto Eco
… has been challenged by theories of structuralism, post-structuralism, and intertextuality. It undertakes this rethinking by considering the role of the author as reader--and thus as writer in the process of rereading and rewriting. This study also investigates the postmodern theory …
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A process perspective on legitimacy for public administration: refocusing the national long-term care policy debate
… new methodology is grounded in the literature of structuralism. Structuralism is a social theory and a method of inquiry (Gibson, 1984:2) that provides a means of looking beneath the surface of events or issues to identify patterns of meaning that are not evident at the surface. The work of …
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A Structuralist Controversy: Althusser and Lacan on Ideology
… the two theorists collided on the question of structuralism in the late 1960s, the issue was not the separation, but how ideology as a social practice is to be situated in relation to other social practices. In this debate, it was actually Lacan who upheld structuralism.</p><p>Based on this …
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THE CONCEPT OF A NOMOLOGICAL NETWORK IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN GRAPHIC DESIGN WITH EMPHASIS ON THE SITUATION IN GREAT BRITAIN
… mode of study. Philosophies derived from structuralism have been used to foster abstract conceptual models of developmental processes in an educational system concept for Graphic Design. Systems theory has been mainly used with a particular distinction between 'hard' and 'soft' system …
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The sound of meaning: theories of voice in twentieth-century thought and performance
… constituent of their sense. After Saussure, structuralism dislodges the voice from its privileged position in the phonologic discourses of Western thought. Poststructuralism views meaning as a product of socially constructed language systems, and it argues that neither the voice nor the …
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