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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"wallpaper"”.
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Green Herrings in a Yellow Room: A Counter Production of The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper is a designer’s work of critical fabulation. Published in 1892, the short story follows an unnamed woman prescribed a “rest cure” by her husband, John. Confined to a room wrapped in gothic yellow wallpaper, the narrator becomes obsessed with its …
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"The Subordination of the Privileged: Patriarchal Constructions of Femininity in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's Save Me the Waltz"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Zelda Fitzgerald provide unique insight into the patriarchal worlds they lived in through autobiographical accounts of their lives. The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the diaries of Gilman and her first husband, Charles Walter Stetson, serve as Gilman’s …
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Comparative study on indoor fungi growth incorporated with different antifungal and wall finishings
… coated with four types of coating which are thin wallpaper, thick wallpaper, glycerol based paint and acrylic paint. The growth rate was monitored as all the materials was applied with the antifungal. The antifungal has reduced the growth rate of the fungus but depending on the type of material …
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The antifungal coating of different wall finishing towards growth inhibition of aspergillus niger
… namely acrylic paint, glycerol-based paint, thin wallpaper and thick wallpaper. These wall finishings were applied after being incorporated with antifungals on three different building materials; namely plasterboard, concrete and wood. Each sample was placed with 50μl of the spore suspension on a …
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Impact of the Narrative (encoded meanings and creative interventions)
… nineteenth century short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” functions as the project’s conceptual framework and the anchorpoint between social-histories, intellectualism, and the political landscape. This socio-political composition is also positioned as a cultural marker with narrative …
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Mental Illness and Psychiatry in the Victorian Era: An Analysis of the Prevailing Power Dynamics Between Women and Male Authority Figures Through Gilman and Freud.
… on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s <em>The Yellow Wallpaper </em>(1892)<em> </em>and Sigmund Freud’s <em>Dora</em><em>: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria</em><em> </em>(written in 1900 and published in 1905), with an aim to represent the prevailing attitudes of men, especially male physicians, …
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Embattled
… Also included are photocopies or real pieces of wallpaper, flowery fabrics, and snippets of text from popular culture sources. Specific paintings are discussed in relation to personal motivation regarding the use of selected visual metaphors and collage content, as well as the manipulation of …
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The intellectual companion in the fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
With the exception of the "Yellow Wallpaper" and Herland, very little of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's fiction has received any critical attention. This thesis, however, explores the evolution of a possible new character type, the intellectual companion, in her lesser-studied fiction. We can trace the …
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The analysis of the artefacts produced by forensically significant blowfly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) activity and their effect on bloodstain pattern analysis
… possible crime scene surfaces (paper to simulate wallpaper and linoleum) were developed such that fly artefacts can be characterized and differentiated from legitimate bloodstains. Pooled bloodstains were created within the experimental cages and blowflies were allowed access to the cages. A total …
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Bleeding Red: Decolonizing the Actor's Process in Search of Emotional Authenticity
… of Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, I intend to explore indigenizing my role and process to access my full range of emotion, ultimately, allowing a non-Indigenous story and character to be expressed through my Indigenous body. Using Yvette Nolan's Medicine Shows: Indigenous …
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Going To The Movies: Immersion, Visual Awareness, And Memory
… a movie theater complete with curtains, seats, wallpaper, working wall sconces, and patrons. A haphazard condition (control) used a model of the same size, but materials were used in a way that does not resemble a movie theater. Both conditions used an IB paradigm apparatus housed beneath the …
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Florilegia, a fictional dialogue with the works of Anna Atkins: How does a fictional response to the works of Anna Atkins provide a new retelling of her work?
… of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) I give visibility to the voiceless female using the objects that surround her. This, in turn brings to light a subversive role for the dutiful daughter Atkins; the Handmaid.
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SuperFicial: An Exploration of Decoration, Fashion, Taste, Camp, and Trends
… objects in my childhood home such as patterned wallpaper and an antique chair as well as a contemporary brand name mascara. While these objects do not have major functional properties, their decoration and superficiality bring me joy. To better understand my appreciation of decoration and …
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The misericords of Beverley Minister : a corpus of folkloric imagery and its cultural milieu, with special reference to the influence of Northern European iconography on Late Medieval and Early Modern English woodwork
… Hugo Goes (whose unique woodblock-printed wallpaper is also discussed). Goes's Flemish origin leads to a consideration of the presence of other alien artists and craftsmen (e. q. ! Maynard Weywick who provided the patterns for Torrigiano's Westminster tombs) at work in late medieval and …
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Secondhand Chinoiserie and the Confucian Revolutionary: Colonial America's Decorative Arts "After the Chinese Taste"
… and silk, and goods such as furniture and wallpaper displaying Chinese motifs of distant exotic lands, had become popular commodities in Europe by the eighteenth century. The American colonists, who were primarily culturally British, thus developed a taste for chinoiserie fashions and wares …
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Returns-- towards a photographic criticism : [or, the case of the Berliner Bild-Bericht and the North American grain elevators]
… photograph (Chapter Six), as a photographic wallpaper (Chapter Seven), and as a photographic snapshot (Chapter Eight) – to explore the multiple but specific, unique and singular contexts to which these are mobilised – as ‘drawings’, as projected images, as large-scale exhibitions and as …
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Saltram House: The Evolution of an Eighteenth-Century Country Estate
… style, with a focus on the lesser known Chinese wallpaper collection will also be examined bringing new knowledge to an understudied subject. Some discussion will be made of the well-known Robert Adam interiors of Saltram House. The thesis will then end on the extensive portraiture collection of …
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Haunted houses, haunted selves – feminist readings of uncanny domesticity
… in the strangled woman trapped inside the yellow wallpaper. Once she recognizes her doppelganger the union of her two selves takes place in the short story’s dramatic climax. In Shirley Jackson’s literary works the haunted houses, protagonists in themselves, entrap, transform, and ultimately …
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Automatización e implementación de algunos problemas algebráicos y geométricos
… transformations in IR . 2. Simulation of the 17 Wallpaper Patterns, with constructive generation of periodic mosaics. 3. Simulation of the geometric transformation "Inversión" and its application to the implementation of the Apollonius problem (to determine the tangent circumferences to three …
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Re-locating ceramics: art, craft, design? A practice-based, critical exploration of ceramics which re-locates the discipline in the context of consumption, the home and the everyday
… and home decoration and is made entirely from wallpaper (brick wall pattern). This work blurs the boundaries of art, craft and design - at what point does the decoration become the form, or the craft become art? Collection of Objects (about ceramics) explores ideas about collections and display …
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