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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"surreal"”.
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When Reality Was Surreal: Lee Miller's World War II War Correspondence for Vogue
… for Vogue magazine. Miller was trained as a surrealist photographer by Man Ray, and her wartime work, both photographic and written, is indicative of a combination of journalism and surrealism. This thesis examines Lee Miller's war correspondence within the context of Vogue magazine, …
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The Alchemist of the Surreal and the Uncanny Valley: Jan Švankmajer, the puppet and eerie animation
Jan Švankmajer, a militant Surrealist and member of the Czech Surrealist group, whose work is influenced by the Czechoslovakian culture and tradition, employs the notion of the uncanny in his films in mixing and contrasting ways and animating the inanimate is a central element. Freud’s The Uncanny, …
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What is 'Surreal' about Surrealism? An investigation of Surrealism as seen through the looking-glass of Jan Svankmajer
… investigates the filmic representation of surrealism in the films of Jan Švankmajer between 1964 and 2010. These films were analysed in light of two key areas expressed in recent literature regarding the representation of surrealism in film. The first key area is the complicated …
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The Erotic, the Speculative, and the Surreal: Considering the Spiritual as a Site of (Modal) Knowledge Cultivation through the lens of a Queer Black Feminist Radical Imagination
… those are; the erotic, speculative fiction, and surrealism. I take a decolonial, poststructuralist, Black feminist, and queer theory informed approach to this research. Methodologically, I offer a critique to the process of method and methodology and recentre a ‘life-affirming approach’ to …
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A Convergence of Surrealism and Realism: Why Spirituality, Folklore, and the Supernatural Saturate the Work of Toni Morrison
… paper will analyze how Toni Morrison blends surrealistic elements into the recognized realism of her text by crafting various paradoxes within her work. Using three of Morrison’s books: <em>Sula, Song of Solomon, </em>and <em>Beloved</em>, I will examine how each book ties a specific …
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The Transformer Station
… of poetry that explores the points at which the surreal, empathy, and salvation meet.
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I Am A Lonely Engineer
… absence of his father. Through a series of semi-surreal narratives, the speaker eventually comes to terms with his father's absence and begins the process of healing in the wake of this familial trauma.
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Domain of the Marvelous
… are rely heavily on imagery and often reflect a surreal playfulness as if resulting from surrealist word games such as Exquisite Corpse. The second section, 'Poetry is a Pipe, the innocent eye,' a more speaker begins to make various appearances. Many experiments with form including abecedarian, …
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Before You Become Improbable
… everyday and mundane through a more magical and surreal lens.</p>
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High Altitude Fish
… style and form and Brigit Pegeen Kelly for her surreal, otherworldly settings and tone. </p>
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The Cranberry Club
… city landscape, gradually crossing over into a surreal world representing the creative unconscious. Among the themes explored are expiring friendships, romantic values, the fear of the unknown, and the creative process itself.</p>
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Spatial Operations: Peter Sloterdijk and Contemporary Military Atmospheres
… as Sloterdijk suggests, but rather their surreal spatial practices – a basis for which is found elsewhere in Sloterdijk and the writings of Roger Caillois, Rosalind Krauss, Roland Barthes, Michel Serres and Jakob Von Uexküll, along with several artists, including Char Davies, Trevor Paglen …
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Psychoanalysis, management and labour in the British workplace, 1942-c.1970
… reading their study alongside the vibrant and surreal company magazine. The fourth chapter examines psychoanalytic and ethnographic research into two psychiatric hospitals and one general hospital, where psychoanalysts grappled with interpreting feminised care work. These psy-experts attempted …
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Bird Bones and a Hatched Egg
… the poet places her work in the category of the surreal. She describes the process of writing poetry born of fragmentary elements as a feminist emergence of agency. The manuscript is composed of four sections, each an element in the inevitable breakdown of a love relationship: meeting, …
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Come, Comet
… range from relationships between lovers, the surreal nature of dreams, exploring the unconscious processes, and responding to a world of distractions and despair with sense of survivalist faith. A large portion of my work concerns itself with inspiration through ecstasy, or Eros. I break my …
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Underground Radio
… experiencing and enduring all stages of real, surreal, or alternate life.
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Introduction to magic & thaumaturgy
… these character elements enhance the surreal narratives within the collection, driving their developing plots forward.
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At Ease with Mr. Wrong and Other Stories
… question, the stories often stray into the surreal while taking the reader into moments between couples navigating their relationships, to workplaces where characters explore the implications of their professional decisions, into the glut of physical objects that reflect, and personify one's …
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Preconciousness
… the mind as “realms” independent of each other. Surreal, yet familiar spaces and environments become a gateway to the preconscious and a deeper awareness. These unique spaces become a catalyst for a physiological journey to the unconscious. Complex views and interpretations of oneself and ones …
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Selective memory : ten short stories about avoidance
… idea, situation and mood (the fantastical, the surreal) then by individual psychology or causality; and conventional realistic fiction, which explores character through that complex of social interrelations we have become accustomed to calling plot. Some methods used to avoid facing loss are …
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