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Hendrik Hofmeyr: the harmonic language of a theorist and composer theorist
This dissertation seeks to investigate an aspect of Hendrik Hofmeyr's engagement with music through his theories of harmonic analysis and his use of expanded tonality in his compositions. The purpose of the discipline of music analysis is investigated, and analysis is compared with its sister …
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William Dean Howells as a literary theorist
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William Hazlitt: Romantic Theorist of the Imagination
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Descandalizing Laing: R.D. Laing as a social theorist
The scandal surrounding R.D. Laing’s work concerns both his life and his theories. Given that there is sufficient biographical material on Laing already in existence, this thesis focuses upon his theoretical contributions. No substantial review and critique of the criticism of Laing is currently in …
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Edmund Burke as Literary Critic and Esthetic Theorist
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G.-Albert Aurier, critic and theorist of Symbolist art
This is a study of all the published writings on art by the Symbolist poet-critic G.-Albert Aurier, intending to elucidate the systematic theory of art that underlies all his criticism. It includes a brief biographical account of Aurier's career as an art critic as well as a Symbolist poet and …
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Howard A. Murphy, Theorist and Teacher: His Influence on the Teaching of Basic Music Theory in American Colleges and Universities From 1940 to 1973
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Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971
… was an American revolutionary and political theorist born in New York City in 1921. His career as both an activist and a theorist through the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties, made him an active participant and influential voice for both the American Old Left, and the New Left. Writing …
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Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971
… was an American revolutionary and political theorist born in New York City in 1921. His career as both an activist and a theorist through the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties, made him an active participant and influential voice for both the American Old Left, and the New Left. Writing …
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Syntes och design : Den intellektuelle politikern som konstnär
… are presented; the critic, the pragmatist, the theorist and the artist. These types increase the understanding of politics on a general level. In a pluralistic, democratic system all four types of intellectual politician are generally represented and they can correct one another and balance each …
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Uneasy bodies femininity and death : representing the female corpse in fashion photography and selected contemporary artworks
… in fashion photography and art. The cultural theorist Stuart Hall's theories on the concept of representation are utilised to critically analyse and interogate selected images from fashion magazines, which depicts the female corpse in an idealised way. Such idealisation manifests in Western …
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The Rise Of The Social And The Change In The Political: A Consideration Of Arendt, Habermas, And Foucault
… the works of these three preeminent political theorists with the aim of understanding our common, contemporary construction of "the political." Specifically, I examine the way that each of these theorists describes a condition wherein the very concept of "the political" has undergone …
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Cognitive Institutions: The Cultural Context of Reasoning
… object having no regulative force on the theorist himself. Rather, reason is treated as a necessary structuring element of knowing, which constitutes the individual as a knowing self, and is therefore both necesssary for and regulative of all thought, including that of the social theorist. …
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Self-Theory and Effective Functioning
… self-attributes as relatively fixed (an "entity theorist") has been shown to exhibit maladaptive responses to failure. In contrast, a person who conceptualizes self-attributes as malleable (an "incremental theorist") has been shown to demonstrate adaptive response patterns to failure. This study …
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Paradigms of social stratification: the contemporary power elite debate
… that held by Marxists or economic elite theorists such as T. B. Bottomore, Ralph Miliband, and G. William Domhoff, maintains that while there are many groups competing, those who control the economic sector of our society are dominant. A third position, the structural-functionalist, …
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An Analysis of Metaphors Used to Describe the Learning Process.
… stage of formation. This is true when the theorist is creating new systems of thought and it is true when he is attempting to relate these new ways of viewing his subject to an interested audience.
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Precarious Bodies in Motion: Choreopolitics, Affect, and Flamenco Dissent in Spain
… Building upon the insights of political theorist Jacques Rancière, dance theorist André Lepecki, and affect theorist Brian Massumi, this study reveals the micro-political value of dancing in the form of dissensus and as an affective and aesthetic practice in politics. Dissensus, as …
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Knot/Knotting Practice in Craft and Space
… Nineteenth-century German architect and theorist Gottfried Semper’s idea that architectural form is derived from four basic material practices allies craft and architecture in my project and is the point of departure from which I make my argument. In the second chapter, to consider the …
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Beside Oneself: Towards a Participatory Feminist Art Practice
… social and political systems. Working with queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s notion of beside and what she calls its useful resistance to narratives, as well as feminist theorist Elizabeth Grosz’s return to bodily specificity in her reading of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s BwO (Body …
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Re/presentation Of Hip-Hop: An Exploration Of White Hip-Hop Fans, Consumers And Practitioners
… found that both subcultural and post-subcultural theorist account for different elements of the structure of hip-hop communit(ies). The participants in this study noted an oscillation between class/resistance community identity, as described by subculturist, and a neo-tribal, accounted for by …
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