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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"wildness"”.
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Wildness in Doris Lessing's African stories
… way in which members of these subgroups react to wildness in the environment. Recent trends in ecological criticism have drawn attention to the significance of landscape in literature. Indeed, in Lessing's stories 'wildness', the natural environment, the 'bush', serves as far more than a mere …
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Wild Practices: Teaching the Value of Wildness
The notion of wildness as a concept that is essentially intractable to definition has profound linguistic and ethical implications for wilderness preservation and environmental education. A survey of the ways in which wilderness value is expressed through language reveals much confusion and …
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Beyond Wilderness: Wildness as a Guiding Ideal
… in order to build a case for, and to explicate, wildness as a guiding ideal. I affirm one of Cronon’s objections to wilderness and thus argue that given the previous presence of humans in many wilderness landscapes and the continued presence of wildness within peopled landscapes, a more viable …
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Beyond Wilderness: Wildness as a Guiding Ideal
… in order to build a case for, and to explicate, wildness as a guiding ideal. I affirm one of Cronon’s objections to wilderness and thus argue that given the previous presence of humans in many wilderness landscapes and the continued presence of wildness within peopled landscapes, a more viable …
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Over the Desolation of Wildness Caresses the April Breeze
Over the Desolation of Wildness Caresses the April Breeze is a music composition that serves as an artistic response to the theme of pacifism, drawing inspiration from ancient Chinese philosophy and the ongoing chaos caused by contemporary international conflicts. This work progresses through five …
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Between Wildness and Art: Ecology and Agency in Victorian Literature
This dissertation investigates literary depictions of the relationship between humans and non-human nature in the context of the dramatic changes to physical and ideological landscapes that characterized the Victorian period. This study challenges the contemporary critical vocabulary of …
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Black Leaves
… in terms of geography or industry; second, wildness as an energy that humans, sometimes inadvertently, seek to suppress or control, and wildness in the form of nature’s scars and wounds (the two being mirror images of one another). The avatars of wildness in these stories come in various …
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Black Leaves
… in terms of geography or industry; second, wildness as an energy that humans, sometimes inadvertently, seek to suppress or control, and wildness in the form of nature’s scars and wounds (the two being mirror images of one another). The avatars of wildness in these stories come in various …
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The Social Benefits of Wilderness
… standardization of these interactions drains the wildness out of them. But to relate to an other in an ethical manner, I must assume that the other is wild, with its own integrity, will, and path. Because our experiences in wilderness are radically different than our experiences outside …
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The Social Benefits of Wilderness
… standardization of these interactions drains the wildness out of them. But to relate to an other in an ethical manner, I must assume that the other is wild, with its own integrity, will, and path. Because our experiences in wilderness are radically different than our experiences outside …
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Disruptive Organizers: Wild children in German realism (1850-1900)
… explores the intersection of childhood and wildness within the literary movement of German realism. The latter half of the nineteenth century saw the introduction of mandatory education and the consolidation of the middle-class family, both of which established childhood as a distinct phase. …
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Wild Music: Ideologies of Exoticism in Two Ukrainian Borderlands
… specifically addressing how stereotypes of wildness—or hegemonic conceptions of “otherness”—manifest on the ground within the communities who bear the stigma of such entrenched histories of exoticism. This ethnographic project focuses on music as a medium for challenging and reinforcing …
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Session texts
… certain rituals, certain stories, to accommodate wildness within the wider remit of its laws and traditions, a kind of funnel back and forth between the pastoral and the prophetic. Without this funnel, the wildness goes underground, loses the sophistication of an art form of a story or dance, and …
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Ecology of the Sclerophyllous plants of Mount Tamalpais
… port and metropolis, its slopes still display a wildness and natural beauty that have remained relatively unaltered as compared with other areas of the Bay Region and demonstrates ready accessibility to detailed ecological study.</p><p>The study began during the spring of 1963 when plant …
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Badluck Way
… can bear before losing its essential quality of wildness. Taken as a whole, these stories and photographs describe the process by which I came to feel at home on the Sun Ranch, and how physically working the land shaped my understanding of it.
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Badluck Way
… can bear before losing its essential quality of wildness. Taken as a whole, these stories and photographs describe the process by which I came to feel at home on the Sun Ranch, and how physically working the land shaped my understanding of it.
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Everybody Dreams, Everybody Lies: A Novel of Blessing
… tome about the father wound. Meaning The loss of wildness, instinct, what happens when men become distortions bent by what women want. About desire and looking for a man who can love without a measuring tape or mirror. This story will be set in Alaska, where the men are happy and the gods are …
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A poetics of listening: sound as distant diapason delight in the work of Susan Howe
… in American literature. Howe unlocks the wildness of history by displacing its sources and finding their hidden traces in manuscripts, letters, ephemera, and hushed voices appropriated by the "record of winners." While critics have directed our attention to visual prosodic disturbances …
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The Urban Floodscape: Revealing, Carving, and Placing the Historic Klingle Ford Road
… path/dam system that emphasizes the tremendous wildness of stormwater.
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Science, animals, and profit-making in the American rodeo arena
… played out in the rodeo arena’s dramatization of wildness against a backdrop of a growing horse crisis in contemporary America. Finally, an analysis of contemporary efforts to reconcile the growing practice of rodeo and agricultural animal cloning with rodeo tradition shows how rodeo continually …
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