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Showing 1 to 20 of 190 for “"visionary"”.
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Davey Marlin-Jones: Director, educator, visionary
… researched work on Davey Marlin-Jones, director, visionary, educator, and person, and in the process his contributions to the American theatre community will be revealed.
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Shaw's Man of Genius: The Solitary Visionary
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Emily Brontë : the mind of a visionary
This dissertation is an investigation of the visionary and philosophical aspects of Emily Brontë's works. The first five chapters deal with the visionary process such as visions, spirit guides, dreams, imagination, encounters with the darker side of the self and a union with the divine. There is …
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David Willson (1778-1866): Canadian Visionary Writer And Hymnodist
David Willson was a visionary famous in his own life-time for his controversial theological writings for the many poems and hymns he composed; and for the utopian community--the Children of Peace--he helped build at Sharon, Ontario. This thesis initiates a thorough understanding of Willson's …
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Lost in Space No Longer: The Visionary Union of 'The Wire'
<p>In its serial space, David Simon’s <em>The Wire</em> season two relates the seemingly “disconnected” union men, foreign sex worker women, and African-American drug traders and crosses constructed boundaries of race, gender, sexuality, and geography to evoke the possibility of a transnational …
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"""Music that makes holes in the sky"": Georgia O'Keefe's visionary romanticism"
"At the time of Georgia O'Keeffe's death in 1986, she was stereotyped as provincial American who was untouched by literary or intellectual stimuli, a ""frontier"" woman attached to nature by gender rather than philosophy. O'Keeffe's extraordinary abstractions and their sources remained largely …
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Re-visionary bodies: Feminist/Brechtian theory in the plays of Paula Vogel
… In And Baby Makes Seven, Vogel engages in a revisionary dialogue with Edward Albee's classic Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in order to question and reinvent the American nuclear family. In Hot 'N' Throbbing, Vogel re-visions the feminist pornography debate in order to examine the destructive …
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From “Total Destruction” to “Total Dictatorship”: The Influence of Ernst Jünger’s Visionary Fascism
<p>This paper seeks to answer one central question: How can the life and work of Ernst Jünger help illuminate the development of fascist ideas, culture, politics, and power across Europe from 1920-1945? The components of that question are: what were the core elements of Jünger’s aesthetics, …
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William Blake's American legacy: transcendentalism and visionary poetics in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman
… Blakean affinities in Emerson and Whitman, their visionary qualities - like those found in Blake's prophetic works - become freshly apparent. It will also be argued that something distinctly American can be discerned in Blake's poetry. This original approach to Emerson and Whitman challenges their …
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Visionary Nonconformity: Miltonic Resonances and the Poetics of Religious Dissent in the Long Eighteenth Century
… Wittreich's groundbreaking critical model about visionary poetics now may be enhanced in order to reveal a more expansive and fluid Miltonic presence, particularly within much eighteenth-century visionary verse. This dissertation applies and at times refocuses Wittreich to achieve a clearer …
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Adaptive vs. visionary-advocacy approaches in scenario planning : implications of contrasting purposes and constraint conditions
… which are here referred to as 'adaptive' and 'visionary-advocacy' purposes. It is argued that a purpose-based distinction of scenario modes provides part-explanation of the effective basis, or absence thereof, of scenario work for different situations - a basis which is achieved via congruence …
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Dunhuang Manuscript S.2585: a Textual and Interdisciplinary Study on Early Medieval Chinese Buddhist Meditative Techniques and Visionary Experiences
S.2585 is a significant Dunhuang manuscript, providing various types of Buddhist meditative techniques. Some techniques can be traced back to Central Asia and India, although some techniques seem to have been developed later. I argue that the vision of buddhas that accompanies single-minded …
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El mundo visionario en la España moderna: manifestaciones y problemas. Una aproximación desde la tratadística y la Inquisición
In this doctoral thesis we analyse the visionary world as one of the keys in the social and cultural dynamics of modern Spain. In this sense, we propose to study the visionary realities that are inserted within a Christian confessional society, such as the Hispanic one, influenced by the …
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Perceptions of Current Virginia School Superintendents and Active Board Chairpersons Concerning Essential Leadership Characteristics of Superintendents
… chairs ranked instructional leader and visionary leader as the two most essential characteristics of the position of superintendent. In 2009, the superintendents perceived instructional leader and visionary leader to be the most essential characteristics. In 2016, superintendents also …
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