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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"subterfuge"”.
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The South Korean “Meta-Avant-Garde,” 1961–1993: Subterfuge as Radical Agency
… This re-purposed and resurrected avant-garde as subterfuge, which I term the “zombie-avant-garde,” proved useful for the South Korean artists to further their own social and political ends. By examining the dialectic, push-pull relationship of the South Korean artists vis-à-vis the Western …
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Subjugation and Subterfuge: Struggling with Metrics as a Middle Manager in a UK Business School
… how we might act. Processes of subjugation and subterfuge emerge in paradoxical patterns of conforming and resisting, and inclusion and exclusion, and emerge as gossip, joking and ribald acts, which have the potential to shift existing power relations. Subterfuge is a ubiquitous emergent pattern …
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The haunts of language: superstition and subterfuge in Henry James's <i>Stories of the Supernatural</i>
<p>My dissertation presents the comic and catastrophic results of James’s characters’ mania for verbal deception. By focusing on the humorous ingenuity of James’s fictional presentations, my study illuminates the literary artistry in each story. Traditional interpretations of James's short fiction …
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Hate Date
… in love with a woman and must undergo painful subterfuge techniques just to be around her. Can a relationship built on pain, survive? Will Bryce give up what he believes in for the love of a gender he's hated his whole life? Is revenge worth it?
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“Bury Your Head Between My Knees and Seek Pardon”: Gender, Sexuality, and National Conflict in John Okada’s No-No Boy
… subversion that not only destabilizes the subterfuge that surrounded internment but also—in its deliberate failure to resolve questions of national conflict on the basis of masculine and heterosexual norms—encourages skepticism about the larger structures of order that allowed internment to …
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A Subdued Palette of Subversion: Artistic Expression, Creativity, and Family Coping Strategies in Soviet Latvia
… which are organized in three chapters. Chapter 1 Subterfuge comprises the author's coming of age in Soviet Latvia and her journey towards attaining specific goals within the oppressive environment. Chapter 2 Subversion is a compilation of recollections of the author's family and immediate Latvian …
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"I Love Mischief Strangely, As Most of Our Sex Do": Aphra Behn and the Trickster Archetype
… of this reality.</p> <p>Behn's heroines use subterfuge and trickery to achieve their desires. A study of Behn's work through a biographical and historical lens aids in understanding her focus, and helps to clearly identify Behn herself, as well as her characters, as trickster figures.</p>
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Collaboration and Conflict in Transnationally-Dispersed Zimbabwean Families
… of sojourners. For instance, they use “spatial subterfuge” and “collaborative parenting” to create families of choice—families which may not conform to either indigenous ideals or immigration regimes.</p> <p>Each of the many places where diasporans live is imbued with unique structures of …
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Learning and teaching in the context of clinical practice: the midwife as role model.
… involve becoming prescriptive or practising by subterfuge. In accordance with Bandura's social learning theory students learn by observing and emulating the example of their role models. Learning is vicarious when students observe the consequences of their role models' actions. When learning the …
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Simin Daneshvar's Savushun: Examining Gender Under Patriarchy
<p>The author covers issues of gender and Iranian national identity as reflected in Iran’s first published woman novelist, Simin Daneshvar. Her novel, <em>Savushun</em>, is the first novel to be published by an Iranianwoman in 1969. The novel depicts Iran at the start of the country’s governmental …
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Fauxtopia
To all who come to this fictitious place:Welcome.Fauxtopia is your land. Here, age relives distorted memories of the past, and here, youth may savor the challenge of trying to understand the present. Fauxtopia is made up of the ideals, the dreams and the fuzzy facts which have re-created reality... …