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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"underworld"”.
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The underworld : sub-urban sensorium
… spatial cognition. This thesis positions the underworld as an unadulterated, highly stimulating and sensorial experience.
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Eating the underworld : a memoir in three voices
Cesare Pavese, the Italian poet, said 'We do not remember days, we remember moments.' In creating the story of our days, some of us will remember different moments from the same events and others will remember the same moments differently. To decide to tell one's story publicly, is a difficult …
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<em>Two from the Underworld</em>: Short Fiction.
<p>The following thesis contains two works of short fiction. The first, “Afterlife,” is narrated by Jeff Carlton, whose unenthusiastic passage into fatherhood is complicated by his girlfriend Charlene’s obsession with mummification. The second, “Jolly,” is the story of Calvin Edwards, a young bus …
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Cerberus Amator: Underworld Imagery in the Elegies of Tibullus and Propertius
… through his position outside of the doors of the Underworld. Next, I turn to the poet Propertius and his presentation of Cerberus as a stand-in for the poet-lover by means of marked vocabulary and a limited freedom that aligns the canine with the poet-lover through his ability to speak …
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A concert of hells: Journeys to the underworld in `Fin de siecle' literature
"The journey to the underworld or katabasis constitutes one of the quintessential themes in Western literature which, though the product of a mythical and theological world view, has not vanished from the consciousness of modern man. It is intriguing, however, that in many prominent thematological …
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The Journey to the Underworld: Topography, Landscape, and Divine Inhabitants of the Roman Hades
… dissertation is to analyze the ways the Roman Underworld was visualized, outlining the possible mental maps of the chthonic realm that constituted the main reference for the literary works and funerary monuments that were created in Rome and Ostia between the end of the first century BCE and …
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Order and chaos in the olivine underworld: two mechanisms for the formation of basal olivine layers
<p>Recent debate has questioned the efficiency of magma differentiation in basaltic magma chambers (Marsh, 2013). As a result, petrologists are increasingly inclined to interpret olivine cumulate layers in small intrusive bodies as separately injected slurries, as opposed to the result of in-situ …
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The Temple Terracottas of Etruscan Orvieto: A Vision of the Underworld in the Art and Cult of Ancient Volsinii
Incorporating both Etruscan as well as Greek myth, the themes selected for their cultic structures may also have been reflected in numerous locally produced small-scale works, many with ritual connotations which highlights the consistency in the visual language employed by local artists in the …
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A Journey to the Late Bronze Age Minoan Underworld: The Reflection of Sunlight on the Sea as an Axis Mundi
Around the times of sunrise and sunset, the sun’s reflection on a large body of water, such as a sea, appears as an elongated gold band, also called a ‘glitter path’. For the first time, this research explores this intangible manifestation of light from an archaeological perspective, focusing on …
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Unveiling absences, or unsettling multiculturalism, in Antonio Casella's 'The Sensualist' and Venero Armanno's 'Romeo of the Underworld' and 'The Volcano'
Scopo di questo studio è stato quello di analizzare gli elementi gotici presenti nei romanzi in esame al fine di evidenziarne il rapporto con il concetto di liminality delle varie generazioni di migranti e come la stessa venga veicolata dalla stessa struttura narrativa. Dunque, un rapporto tra …
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Where the Shadows Lie : finding the other in the Spatial Depictions of the Underworld in The Book of Enoch, Inferno and Paradise Lost
… the Other in the Spatial Depictions of the Underworld in The Book of Enoch, Inferno and Paradise Lost” answers a question of spatial behaviour in the three texts, in terms of the portrayal of the characters of Fallen Angels, who have been Othered from Heaven, in each text within the spatial …
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The Giant Dream Chamber
The Giant Dream Chamber is an underworld figure chanting Aperspectival intuition, the image arrives. Matter undresses, interiority silhouetted.
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Just Passing Through
… a nostalgic country tableau and into the violent underworld of their hometown. Over the course of their journey, the brothers grapple with the ghosts of ancient patriarchal traditions and question how their own actions may have led to Mariel's disappearance. Their struggles serve as an examination …
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The evolution of jazz in Britain c. 1880-1927: antecedents, processes and developments
… study of dance music on the BBC and jazz in the underworld of London. The thesis falls into two parts, the first provides historical and theoretical perspectives on the topic, and the second presents various case studies that examine particular manifestations of the evolving presence of jazz in …
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Il vero e il convenzionale: rappresentazioni della realtà nel romanzo contemporaneo
… in due forme: una «innovativa», delineata da "Underworld" di Don DeLillo, che mette l'accento sul processo costruttivo, una «tradizionale», espressa nel saggio in due varianti («Le particelle elementari» e «Le benevole»), il cui scopo è quello di riattivare meccanismi narrativi ottocenteschi, …
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Toxic Landscapes and Technofossils: A Speculative Anthology of Flin Flon, Manitoba
… relationship between Flin Flon and its spectral underworld are revealed as two conflicting worlds that continuously bleed and leach into one another.
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Wasting Time : a leisure infrastructure for mega-landfill
… the mound.The path alternately reveals this underworld and engages the senses in a series of physical acts: immersion in the bath house, smelling the flowers, ingesting food grown onsite.This transgressive path generates a confrontation between a series of diverse leisure experiences and an …
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The Barbaric Spectacle of Late Modern Fighting
… of mediated Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is an underworld of human fighting that is gripping contemporary popular culture. By offering more illicit and brutal forms of violence, this netherworld has increasingly distorted the boundary between criminality and entertainment. Despite the massive …
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The Mouth of Hell in Medieval Art and Thought
… mouth of hell, in which the entrance to the underworld is pictured as a set of open jaws. This image's origins begin as early as the second century in representations and discussion of Jonah's whale and the nature of the prophet's experience. Its crystallization in the tenth century and …
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