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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"the Odyssey"”.
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Forward-backward : the odyssey as a design interface
The Odyssey, one of the two Homeric poems, the other being the Iliad, stands as an exemplary invention of the ancient Greek oral tradition. Odysseus's nostos, his returning journey to his homeland, Ithaca, still echoes today, as an inexhaustible source of imagination and creativity. This project …
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An interpretation analysis of Nikos Kazantzakis' The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel.
This thesis is a study of Nikos Kazantzakis' The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel from the viewpoint of the interpretative reader. Chapter I is a study of the translator and a critical evaluation of the translation itself from demotic Greek into English. The philosophical nature of this poem demanded a …
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Dynamic simulation modeling and control of the Odyssey III Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2003.
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From Fleet to Foot: An Analysis of Odysseus' Pedestrian Journeys in the Odyssey
This dissertation examines the narratives of two pedestrian journeys made by Odysseus in the
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The odyssey of intuition : a non-reductive interpretation of technology through a case study of bridges
Between the idea and the reality lies the realm of the "creative act." The theme of this thesis deals with the realm in between abstraction and conception, knowing and doing, art and science, theory and practice. By using the particular realm between the architect and the engineer as the point of …
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JOURNEYING THROUGH EXODUS, DISPLACEMENT, AND MY CUBAN-AMERICAN IDENTITY: THE ODYSSEY OF MAKING AND BECOMING WAKING DARKNESS. WAITING LIGHT.
… event performed on October 7-9, 2016, in the Kogod Theatre at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in partial fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland’s School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. Created in collaboration with my artistic …
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The Odyssey of African American Women in Films: From the Silent Era to the Post-War Years to the 1950s
… Beavers or sultry sirens like, Lena Horne, Theresa Harris, Fredi Washington and Dorothy Dandridge. The filmic images of African American women that developed in minstrel shows and vaudeville stereotyped African American actresses. My thesis begins with minstrelsy and vaudeville because of …
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Hearts, Bellies, and the Hunger of Heroes: Intertraditional Agonistic Discourse between the Iliad and Odyssey
Within this thesis I argue that the Iliad and Odyssey, as representatives of sub-genres within the larger archaic Greek epic tradition, engage in a shared agonistic discourse with one another in order to demonstrate that the hero of each epic is superior to that of its competitor. In order to trace …
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Dynamic response and maneuvering strategies of a hybrid autonomous underwater vehicle in hovering
The Odyssey IV autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is the next generation of unmanned subsurface robots from the MIT Sea Grant AUV Laboratory. The Odyssey IV AUV has a novel propulsion system, which includes a pair of azimuthing thrusters for maneuvering in surge and heave. An analytical model was …
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Friend, Foe, or Other? Monsters and Identity on the Odyssean Sea
The sea upon which Odysseus wanders in Homer's Odyssey is a chaotic and unpredictable place, empty of historical non-Greek cultures, but full of sea creatures, monsters, and deities eager to ensnare and devour the long-suffering hero. However, the Mediterranean of the Archaic Age that produced the …
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A Shift in Perspective: Temptress Witch to Realistic Woman
… mid-20th century Anglo-American translations of The Odyssey, Odysseus is painted as a courageous, clever king while the briefly-featured Circe is portrayed as a temptress witch. This dichotomy changes, however, by the time these characters are featured in early 21st-century adaptations of Homer’s …
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The typical and connotative character of Xeinoi situations across the Apologue: Three studies in repetition
… engages in a close reading and analysis of the Apologue of Homer's Odyssey; specifically, I am concerned with characterizing the nature of xeinoi situations or interactions in these books - that is, the relationship between the Ithacan travellers and the various inhabitants whom they …
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Iliad Twenty-four : a thematic study
… Homeric Studies, in any discussion around the Iliad and the Odyssey, the figures of two scholars, Milman Parry and A.B. Lord . are, at least in the English-speaking world, dominant. It has been t heir findings which have recently opened up new avenues in our appreciation of these two fine …
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Iliad Twenty-four : a thematic study
… Homeric Studies, in any discussion around the Iliad and the Odyssey, the figures of two scholars, Milman Parry and A.B. Lord . are, at least in the English-speaking world, dominant. It has been t heir findings which have recently opened up new avenues in our appreciation of these two fine …
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Design of an AUV recharging system
The Odyssey AUV Series uses a Lithium-ion Polymer battery which is able to supply the necessary power for a limited mission time. The current method of recharge includes surfacing the AUV, opening the vehicle, removing the battery from the vehicle and recharging the battery. A different approach is …
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Weaving with words: Recording women’s experiences in feminist revisionary adaptations of Greek myth
From the beginning, mythmaking has been profoundly patriarchal, and with the emergence of feminist movements came feminist revisionary adaptations of ancient myth. In this thesis, I argue Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad (2005) and Madeline Miller’s Circe (2018) both stand as examples of feminist …
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Penelope, domestic power and the morality of deceit in Homer's Odyssey.
… use of trickery to delay her marriage to one of the persistent suitors of The Odyssey is, on the surface, exemplified by a ruse which is effective in its simplicity. The weaving, and subsequent un-weaving, of Laertes’ shroud is a brilliant ploy which successfully keeps the suitors at bay until …
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A Joycean Exegesis of "The Large Glass": Homeric Traces in the Postmodernism of Marcel Duchamp
This thesis examines Marcel Duchamp’s "The Large Glass" in relation to Homer’s "Odyssey" and by extension to James Joyce’s "Ulysses." It focuses on the idea that Duchamp may have had in mind Penelope and her Suitors when he was creating the Bride and her Bachelors. The aim of the thesis is …
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Adrift
… who cannot say no to men as a result of her father's abandoning her when she was young. Loosely based on Homer's epic poem The Odyssey (in which Odysseus' son, Telemakos, sets out to look for his lost father), the novel traces Telemaka's search for her father through an endless string of …
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