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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"verisimilitude"”.
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Matters of verisimilitude: transitional and transnational realisms in Ireland, 1880-1940
… contested. David Lloyd observes that “matters of verisimilitude” were at stake in the formation of an Irish national identity and literary canon, an observation that highlights the sociopolitical stakes of incorporating nationally bounded realist traditions into an emergent Irish literature. I …
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The Role Of Story Telling In A Police Probationer Training Classroom
… accounts are subject to the constraint of verisimilitude. This thesis suggests that the way in which verisimilitude is defined and applied in any given setting is highly context dependent. In this setting, verisimilitude focuses on the cognitive and task oriented elements of experiences …
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The Fertility of Theories
… a notion of the approximate truth or of the verisimilitude of theories is required. Inter alia it is argued that a distinction must be made between the approximate truth of a scientific theory and that of a simple assertion or a simple narrative. The concepts of the approximate truth of …
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Conrad's Theory of "Justification"
<p>Shipley defines verisimilitude as "a degree of likeness to truth that induces the belief that the actions and characters in an imaginative work are probable or possible." Thrall and Hibbard in A Handbook to English Literature state that "the term [verisimilitude] has been used in criticism to …
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Not knowing the days
… as well as my writing in general, especially verisimilitude and the grotesque.
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Face recognition and computer graphics for modelling expressive faces in 3D
This thesis addresses the problem of the lack of verisimilitude in animation. Since computer vision has been aimed at creating photo-realistic representations of environments and face recognition creates replicas of faces for recognition purposes, we research face recognition techniques to produce …
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The code is not coloured: blackboxing colour, light, graphic arts and modernity
… Art histories mark the end of the pursuit of verisimilitude as coinciding with the invention of photography; however, graphic art imaging continued the inheritance of this pursuit. Automated exactly repeatable colour verisimilitude was its nirvana, achievable through mathematicophysical …
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Power constructs and propositional systems
… consequence relations, and certain relations of verisimilitude and simulation. The logical framework for this investigation is provided by the definition and comparison of a number of multiple-conclusion logics, including a paraconsistent three-valued logic of partial knowledge.
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Modelling and optimization of green pellets classification on roller screens using the discrete element method
… data of contact models that reproduce with verisimilitude the movement of these solids. According to the results, the JKR model was the one that best fitted the interactions of low resistance moist pellets among themselves and rolls surface. Exploratory simulations evaluated the sensitivity …
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Aristotle's poetics in relation to the narrative structure of the screenplay
… is not related to idealistic realism but to verisimilitude. I have analysed what the implication of this conclusion is in terms of Aristotelian, classical and counter-Aristotelian screenplay narrative structures.
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Realism, Fantasy, and the ‘H’ Certificate: Rethinking Horror Cinema in Britain during the 1940s
… film of the 1940s demonstrates a concern with verisimilitude and the reproduction of the surface appearances of reality, when confronting the obscene or the taboo hidden below this surface realism was deemed to be far more closely associated with ‘horrific’ fantasy. This thesis therefore looks …
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The Real Blurred Lines: On Liminality in Horror and the Threatened Boundary Between the Real and the Imagined
… often fiction. Yet horror does more than claim verisimilitude. Whereas some stories are content to pass as reality, other stories question whether a boundary between fiction and reality even exists. They give us monsters that become real when their names are spoken (Tales from the Darkside) and …
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A Part of it All. (Original writing);
… coincidental popular culture texts, I promote a verisimilitude that encourages readers to enter the world I am creating while it presents them with new critical tools for exploring their own worlds in ways that matter. And, after Norman Denzin, I enter the texts through epiphanic moments of …
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The effects of stereoscopic 3D technology: limited capacity, and a process-oriented model of spatial presence
… less-skilled user plays in stereoscopic 3D, its verisimilitude may lead to experiencing spatial presence.
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Comics and/as Documentary: the implications of graphic truth-telling
… trust, and the limitations of representation as verisimilitude. Mindful not to overstate correspondence with animated and inherently moving image forms, however, this contribution explicitly concerns documentary in comics form: as constituted by static and silent pages. The enquiry is structured …
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Ilustrado.
… implicit and explicit exploration of structure, verisimilitude, scope and the recurring themes that persistently characterise the Philippine novel in English.
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Narrative techniques in the novels of Iris Murdoch
… and the gothic into a framework of orthodox verisimilitude, utilising the clashes between these genres to foreground the difficulties of a unified view. This is particularly successful in the first-person novels, where the overt problematising of self-representation paradoxically feeds into …
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Jonson And Women; Or How One Man's Insistence On His Own Artistic Theory Challenges Dramatic Practices And Views Of His Own Gender Representations On The Elizabethan Stage
… plays. The interplay between theatrical verisimilitude (staged realism dependent on the layers of identity which include to whom characters speak, the content of that speech, and in which situation in which they find themselves...both in Jonson's plays and in Jonson's career) and social …
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Healthy debate: medical discourses in the early novel
… those attributes that strive to construct verisimilitude. Via this engagement, medical discourses served as a powerful tool to illustrate and participate in wider debates of philosophical, cultural and social significance during the period. Adopting the methodology of the case study, three …
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The Great War and the American Novel: Mimesis and Craft in Selected Fiction of Dos Passos, Boyd, March, and Hemingway
… attempt to portray the war with some degree of verisimilitude, and collectively, these five war novels provide an often minutely accurate re-creation of the First World War. Because of their use of mimesis, their innovative combination of fiction and non-fiction, and their influence on later …
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