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Gavranovic, Altin. "Through the Looking Glass Darkly: Episodes from the History of Deviance." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10506.
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This dissertation is a cultural history of deviance in the United States. I use a series of case studies to examine the way deviant figures have been represented and experienced within American culture. The dissertation covers four historical eras and examines a representative deviant figure in each of them. The first chapter deals with the figure of the witch in Puritan New England, the second examines the libertine in the early American republic, the third deals with freaks in Victorian America and the fourth studies the flapper in the roaring twenties. Each of these chapters is focused on a particular historical crisis, trial or scandal that produced a rich body of historical evidence for study and analysis: the Salem Witch Trial of 1692, the Apthorp-Morton Scandal of 1788, the sensational Beecher-Tilton Affair of 1875 and the Ruth Snyder Trial of 1927. My overarching thesis is that representations of deviants reveal a deep cultural preoccupation with failure and inadequacy, which are projected onto deviant figures. This interpretation is an attempt to move beyond viewing representations of deviance as simply being attempts to repress those who do not conform to societal norms, or to shore up fragile social identities by creating ‘others’ against whom the normal American could be negatively defined. Instead, I argue that representations of deviance were compelling to the Americans who created them primarily as powerful fantasies about failure, lack and inadequacy. On to the rich symbolic canvas of the deviant figure, Americans projected their anxieties about personal and social failure. In different ways at different times, deviants have been used to articulate the various possible ways in which a person could fail to meet their society’s ideals and expectations, and to imagine the consequences of such failures for both individual personhood and society as a whole. The deviant has therefore historically served as a kind of mirror to the culture which produced him or her: a mirror in which a culture might darkly glimpse its own values, distorted by the terrifying failure to achieve that which is most prized.
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Ramsay, Debra. "Through a glass, darkly: American media and the memory of World War II." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.606267.
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The innate correlation between media and memory is widely acknowledged, but less attention has been devoted to how the complex relationships between media themselves contribute to the formulation of mediated memory. Drawing on contemporary representations of World War 11 in American media from the last two decades, this thesis explores the different ways in which media texts and industries connect and interact, and how such relationships shape and define the memory of conflict. The American experience of World War 11 was refracted first through the multifaceted lens of the wartime generation's mediascape and later through that of their progeny, the Baby Boomers. Each generation's media established layers of meaning for subsequent generations to encounter, challenge, reformulate or preserve. These sedimentary layers of meaning form a 'dark glass' through which the past is viewed; colored by each generation's values, perceptions and experiences. This thesis excavates the stratifications of meaning within generational mediated memories of World War 11 in America, exposing both continuities and changes, in order to facilitate a deeper understanding of the configuration of the memory of the conflict in the media of the current generation. Approaching the construction of the mediated memory of World War II as an ongoing process within a dynamic cultural system involving mass media industries, texts and individuals, this thesis concentrates on the nodes of connection between the component parts of the system of memory as means of illuminating the structural design underpinning current representations of the conflict in film, television and digital games. Exploring the evolution of World War 11 mediated memory in the first decade of the new millennium provides insight not only into how mass media technologies combine to color the memory of past conflicts, but also into how war itself is understood in the present. l
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Morrell, Penelope. "Through a glass darkly?': An enquiry into HIV prevalence on Stellenbosch wine farms." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3867.
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Despite the complex and often highly specific nature of the social aspects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, many projects working in the field do not base their strategies on local evidence, given the paucity of suitable local-level data as well as the presences of organisational constraints. A project offering HIV testing to farm-based communities in Stellenbosch is a case in point. While no prevalence data exists for this sub-population, the assumption was that there may be high levels of infection, following the organisation's experience of AIDS-related illnesses on these farms and the social conditions on wine farms which were thought to produce vulnerability for infection. Some in the organisation also thought that farm-based communities battled to access healthcare. During the first year of providing voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) on wine farms, however, the Stellenbosch Hospice's Farms Project consistently found lower than expected levels of HIV infection. This gave rise to the question being addressed in this thesis - which is what can be 'known' about HIV prevalence in a sub-population for whom there is no evidence-based prevalence data. In practical terms, if modestly-funded local-level organisations1 were able to undertake accessible forms of research, what would they be able to surmise about HIV prevalence among proposed beneficiaries? Taking an unusual approach to research on prevalence, this study employs a minimally positivist approach to investigate what can be 'known' about HIV prevalence on wine farms in the Stellenbosch area. It does so by 1 This term is used to include various forms of organisations - be they nongovernmental, non-profit or service organisations - which are small, relatively survivalist organisations. It may be a church-based organisation, a large communitybased healthcare organisation or a service organisation like a hospice. I do so to differentiate it from the larger, professionalised non-governmental organisations (NGO) which frequently have research capacity. My notional organisation is also not a community-based organisation (CBO), however, which are largely membership-based and whose access to their locations is usually more organic and embedded, while NPOs are invariably staffed by people who do not necessarily live in the locations in which they are intervening. vi triangulating data from the four sources that such an organisation might use, had they the capacity. These sources are published statistics and published articles, the opinions of local 'experts', and their own organisational data - in this case the first year of Farms Project's results. Significantly this does not include the more conventional surveys and statistical modelling, which is beyond this kind of organisation's capacity. After reviewing publicly available prevalence data and showing that there are none for this sub-sector, this study probes the HIV 'risk' and related prevalence data associated with issues of poverty, gender relations, 'race' and alcohol consumption on Stellenbosch wine farms. In addition it presents prevalence data from a sample of farms as well as reviews HIV 'risk' and prevalence in rural areas nationally. In doing so, it critiques the causal links often made between the kinds of social conditions found on farms and HIV infection. On the basis of the data considered and the methods used, the study finds that levels of HIV infection on farms could be expected to be lower than the average prevalence in the Stellenbosch health sub-district. It cautions, however, that this finding is not conclusive, not least as it was unable to consider some significant social conditions - like the movement of people, and effects of socially conscious farmers and the services they provide. In addition it is not generalisable to other South African farms, given the particularity of wine farms and of the Western Cape. The study concludes by noting the limited value of prevalence data to project design, given the range of factors that can affect it at any time, and that it necessarily masks variation within an area or sub-population. While prevalence is useful as a starting point in project design, it is important to disaggregate where infection lies through an analysis of key social conditions. The study concludes by highlighting the importance of this finer analysis for project design in order to avoid strategies founded on poor assumptions, while recognising the difficulty of this for modest organisations.
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Thomas, Samantha Jayne. "Through a stoic looking glass (darkly) : reflections of Caesar in Lucan's Civil war." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.556718.
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In this thesis I shall reconsider the Stoic figuring in the character of Caesar in Lucan's Civil War, and in particular its relevance within this Neronian epic. Here, the interaction between Lucan and Seneca will be significant. In Seneca's essay De Clementia, he addressed the young emperor Nero directly, in order to hold up a mirror to Nero so that he may view himself as 'Caesar', and to understand what it means to hold such a position. In this thesis I shall explore the extent to which Lucan's poem may also be configured as a 'mirror' that is both Stoic and Caesarian. However the reflections that will follow are multiple: in my reading, Caesar is no straightforward 'exemplar of evil'. He remains, at times, shockingly arrogant and sacrilegious, and the crimes enacted in his name are difficult to countenance. But he is also a revolutionary figure, overturning a corrupt republic, driven by his men and the will of the people. At times he appears courageous and resourceful, a Caesar who is both informed and facilitated by Stoicism. Caesar is an exemplum in the sense of both 'warning' and 'precedent': a reflection, perhaps, held up to Nero in order that he might glimpse what it might mean to be Caesar: a reflection that is far more complex and arguably far less flattering than the one provided by Seneca. Lucan's Caesar is indefatigable, but he also appears vulnerable and isolated. He is an outrageous criminal, but he will suffer as he is recast as Rome's new figurehead, the target for all Rome's blame. Lucan's Caesar is criminal (nefas), on his way to becoming divine (divus), and it is within this tension, I will suggest, that we may finally glimpse a Caesar who is more human, sympathetic, but always - necessarily - deeply problematicized.
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Stiff, Matthew. "'Through a glass darkly' : seventh to ninth century vessel glass from 'wics' and 'emporia' in North Western Europe." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302702.
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Engle, Karen Jane. "Through a glass darkly, or, Intertextual travel and Angela Carter's de/constructions of identity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0021/MQ46973.pdf.
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Carter, Tristan Bruce. "'Through a glass darkly' : obsidian and society in the southern Aegean Early Bronze Age." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317919/.
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This thesis considers the social context of Southern Aegean lithic technology during the fourth-third millennia B.C., focusing on the socio-political significance accorded the production and consumption of obsidian blades from the later Neolithic-Early Bronze Age. In Section One (Chapters One-Five) past work on Aegean obsidian is examined critically. Through drawing on data generated by recent surveys and excavations in the southern mainland, the Cyclades and Crete, it is argued that from the later Neolithic - EBII, the working of obsidian shifted from a community-wide basis to being located within a restricted number of settlements. These latter sites, due to their size and associated material culture, are suggested regional centres, acting as loci for skilled knappers and the dissemination of their products. This ability to influence or directly control such individuals is claimed to have played a role in the development of social inequality. The central part of the thesis, Section Two (Chapters Six-Nine) discusses the appearance of fine obsidian blades within the EBI Cycladic burial record, arguing that this new mode of consumption provides a context where one can see the reconceptualisation and political appropriation of lithic technology. The regular association of obsidian blades with materials associated with body modification and personal display suggest their use in depilation and scarification: the physical manifestation of an individual's political identity. This role, however, has to be seen as largely symbolic, as microwear analysis shows that these blades were generally interred unused and in such fresh state to suggest that most were produced specifically for burial. Finally, it is considered that the pan-Southern Aegean adoption of this funerary habit, from the late EBI onwards, was largely the result of social processes, namely the long-distance voyaging that formed such an important factor in forging and articulating ideology and cosmology in the Early Cycladic world. The appearance of this burial practice beyond the Cyclades is investigated in the context of contemporary socialrelations and a number of other variables that may have affected the act's meaning in regions such as the Mesara of Southern Crete. Section Three (Chapters Ten-Twelve) deals with those sites where notably higher concentrations of 'Cycladica' have led to suggestions that something above and beyond trade and exchange was responsible for creating the archaeological record: that of physical movement and colonisation. Through my studies it has been recognised that a number of subtly different techniques were employed to produce the fine pressureflaked blades from both domestic and mortuary contexts, some of which have quite specific temporal and spatial distributions. The chipped stone from the three cemeteries central to this controversy: Aghia Photia, Archanes and Manika, were analysed in the context of their relationship to contemporary lithic technology in the Cyclades. Detailed, holistic, contextual analyses have produced remarkably positive results, implying the presence of an immigrant population at the former site, whilst the material from the latter two communities can be largely explained through the adoption and manipulation of exotic social practices. As with every aspect of this thesis' work, these results are then discussed in the light of broader southern Aegean political issues.
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Hahn, Anne Florence. "Through a glass darkly : an investigation of religious and moral values expressed in children's literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16367.
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Bibliography: pages 248-262.The study investigates children's religious and moral reasoning in relation to situations in literature. Theoretical examination includes evaluation of both psychological and literary perspectives on morality and religion. Chapter 1 outlines and evaluates the cognitive-developmental approach to moral development as developed by Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg. The validity of stage categorization is questioned and it is suggested that consideration of types of moral reasoning contributes more than the idea of fixed moral stages to the understanding of moral thought processes. Chapter 2 outlines a literary perspective on religion and examines the emphasis in orientation towards religion as expressed by fantasy and moralistic literature. Although literature has not been categorically designated moralistic literature, passages which contain moralistic emphasis are isolated for discussion. Evaluation of the discipline of reader response theory integrates the theoretical and practical aspects of the study.
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Dickinson, Paul Tyrrell. "Through a glass darkly : finding values in obsidian stemmed tools from New Britain, Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/38825.
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The ways of life of the inhabitants of prehistoric New Britain were almost unknown to archaeologists until the last quarter of the twentieth century. Until recently, the people who lived there during the early to mid-Holocene period, and who left scant traces in the archaeological record, were assumed to have been residentially mobile foragers living in simple societies. More recent research has shown that people were making and exchanging large, highly worked, obsidian tools. The inference was that these tools carried a component of social value and were used to signal status, and that the societies of mid-Holocene New Britain were more complex than previously thought. My aim is to demonstrate that a detailed study of a distinctive class of obsidian stemmed tools supports the proposition that networks, in which concepts of social value existed and symbolic capital was exchanged, flourished in West New Britain in the period 5900-3600 BP. This is achieved primarily by using a high-magnification use-wear analysis which, together with supplementary typological and raw material provenancing evidence, enables use-lives of individual artefacts to be constructed. An exploration of both the nature of value and of archaeological evidence for the ways in which people behave in response to the social value of such as status, prestige and identity provides a basis for linking the object biographies of these objects with ways in which people acted in response to symbolic and social value. The results demonstrate that one group of stemmed tools were standardised products made by specialist craft workers acting within some form of social network and exchange system. The people who owned them treated them as ‘special’ objects, recognizing that some of the value attached to these tools was distinct from and separate to any value they may have had as practical utensils. Use-wear is customarily seen as a functional analysis approach which provides data about matters such as diet and subsistence. Employing use-wear to address more abstract concepts such as status, prestige and identity is innovative and marks a step forward in the way in which a high-magnification microwear study can contribute to archaeology.
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Povey, Deborah. "Seen through a glass darkly : a study of Netherlandish imagery from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries." Thesis, University of Essex, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.238754.
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Röckl, Barbara. "Through a glass, darkly the mirror metaphor in texts by Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2006. http://d-nb.info/996780343/04.
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Bernard, Julia M., M. Klein, C. Oaks, and Janna Scarborough. "Through a Glass Darkly: An International vs. National Student's Perspective of Racial Incident on a College Campus." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/938.
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French, Amanda. "Through a glass darkly : a post-qualitative case study into lecturers' perceptions of academic writing practices in higher education." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.675448.
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Cohen, Jessica Shepard. "Through A Glass Darkly: The Mirror Trope and Female Subjectivity in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23713.
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Throughout their respective bodies of work, both Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor invoke recurring images of the mirror and the mirror-gazing act. Because of the preponderance of these images and because of how they inform our deeper understanding of character, theme, and genre, I argue that these images constitute an important trope in Morrison and Naylor\'s fiction. Although the mirror trope pervades both writers\' bodies of work, it has not garnered significant scholarly attention, particularly with respect to the ways in which the trope highlights an intertextual dialogue between two essential writers of the 20th century American narrative. In this project, then, I conduct an in-depth but by no means exhaustive exploration into the mirror trope. I am specifically concerned with how each writer brings this trope to bear on issues of representation, the politics of recognition, and the dilemma of black female subjectivity and agency in a racist and misogynistic American society. I argue, then, that because the mirror trope is where patriarchal and racist structures of power collide, it signifies a critical point of intersectionality between race and gender. For that reason, the mirror emerges as a space of contestation within these narratives.Master of Arts
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Evans, Mark R. "Through a glass, darkly : an analysis of the monitoring process used in public-private partnerships in Abu Dhabi government schools." Thesis, Open University, 2017. http://oro.open.ac.uk/51578/.
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This thesis is a study of the monitoring process used to evaluate Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in education in Abu Dhabi. It leads to a suggested framework that is more efficient and effective in supporting school improvement. The thrust of the literature on PPPs is to emphasise political and economic benefits, with little focus on educational outcomes. Assumptions that the use of the private sector brings about positive change are seen in the educational (as well as other) sectors, but there appears to be little data on verifiable improvements in academic outcomes. Documentation from and about the Abu Dhabi PPP project was analysed. This gave an insight into the aspirations of those who commissioned the project. It also uncovered discrepancies between the original plans and the implementation. The imaginative aims were blurred in the attempt to press for fast results. Interviews were conducted with a sample of stakeholders, including principals from government schools involved in the project, and others that have been part of the large PPP project to improve educational standards in Abu Dhabi. These interviews revealed their views as to the successes and the difficulties of the PPP itself and the monitoring of it. The analysis of the results of these two strands of investigation – documentary analysis and interviews - are drawn using a post-positivist approach, in the belief that we can know the truth, but only imperfectly. The ethical and cultural strictures within which the research was sited, are discussed in detail as they were a key element in the design of the research. They created limitations in terms of questions that could be asked and data recording methods that could be used.
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Collins, Helen E. "Through a glass darkly, seeking the common ground: The value of Derrida's two interpretations of interpretation for reading literature in religious education." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1997. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/910.
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This thesis investigates and demonstrates the value of using Derrida's "two interpretations of interpretation" (the Rousseauistic and the Nietzschean) to enrich the reading of literature in Religious Education with reference to I.e Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea. Religious Education has responded in recent decades to developments in pedagogy, theology, and various other disciplines such as psychology and sociology. However, religious educators do not seem to have considered the question of the impact of modern literary theory on Religious Education. Such theories have influenced the way in which literature is read and studied in the English classroom. Such developments should be of interest not only to the English teacher but also to the Religious Education teacher. The hypothesis underlying this thesis is that the Derridean common ground of the Rousseauistic and Nietzschean interpretations will broaden and enhance the reading of literature in Religious Education by facilitating both the search for the centre (search for finite meaning) and the free play of signifiers (pursuit of infinitely deferred and pluralistic meaning). Generally, Post-Structuralism, with its emphasis on the impossibility of absolute meaning, seems antithetical to Religious Education, with its emphasis on the search for meaning. However, Derrida's common ground of the two interpretative positions suggests a reading of literature that allows for both the Rousseauistic concern with centre and definitive meaning and the Nietzschean concern with free play and provisional meaning. This thesis, then, establishes that the value of 'story' in Religious Education is considerably enriched by the adoption of Derrida's "two interpretations of interpretation" as an approach for reading literature, whether secular or sacred, in Religious Education.
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Tegg, Vivienne M. "New public management through a glass darkly : a case study examining the impact of new public management on middle management development in the UK and Irish civil service." Thesis, Keele University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398910.
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Lalwani, N. "Through a lens darkly : investigating 'reality' in The Village." Thesis, Bath Spa University, 2015. http://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/6511/.
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‘Through a Lens Darkly: Investigating “Reality” in The Village’ documents the process of rewriting my novel The Village. Organised into three sections, in addition to the full manuscript of the published novel itself, this thesis sets out to examine the ways in which I sought to represent a particular authorial reality in the final draft, after registering its absence in the first version of the book. The first section tackles the process of writing the first draft, the response from my editor, and a distillation of the flaws in the story-telling approach that I felt were preventing the text from having an authentic quality at that point. The second section documents the first part of my endeavour to correct this, through my search for telling detail within video and audio recordings of Sanganer (the North Indian ‘prison-village’ on which The Village is modelled). The third section focuses on the specific influence of three writers on the style and content of the final draft of the novel: Doris Lessing, James Salter and Daniyal Mueenuddin. I read Lessing for insight on tackling issues of exotica and colonialism within the text, Salter for the ability to create a diffuse, ambiguous point of view (in order to force the reader to engage with his or her own viewpoint), and Mueenuddin for techniques to create a powerful sense of place. I have given examples of the ways in which my engagement with these aspects of craft had impact on the final, published version of The Village. A short summary of the novel is given in the appendix at the end of this document. All references to The Village: a doctoral thesis are to the manuscript of the novel supplied as the second part of this manuscript.
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Mew, Karin Anne. "'Thro a glass darkly' : the biography of a Domesday landscape; the 'Nova foresta'." Thesis, University of Reading, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363660.
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Silva, Danilo Tavares Marinho da. "O padre e o médico: as vozes de autoridade em In a glass darkly." Niterói, 2017. https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/3745.
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Esse trabalho tem por objetivo analisar como os pensamentos religioso e científico se relacionam nos contos “O demônio familiar”, “Chá verde” e “Carmilla, a Vampira de Karnstein”, do autor irlandês Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, incluídos na coletânea In a Glass Darkly. Nessas narrativas, os representantes da fé e da razão são apresentados com enfoques distintos, o que permite observar as diferentes maneiras como Le Fanu aborda a religião e a ciência. Com base nessas leituras, procura-se observar se o autor dá mais credibilidade a algum desses ramos ou se ambos se mostram ineficazes perante os elementos sobrenaturais. Neste estudo também será levada em consideração a ambientação das narrativas e a quem pertence a voz narrativa de cada um dos relatos, que não permanecem as mesmas em todos os contos. Para fins teóricos, foram utilizados autores que estudaram o gênero do fantástico – Todorov e Roas – e do horror – Carroll
This work aims to analyze how the religious and scientific mentalities relate in “The Familiar”, “Green Tea” and “Carmilla”,short stories included in the collection In a Glass Darkly, written by the Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. In these short stories, the representatives of both faith and reason are presented in distinct perspectives, which makes it possible to observe Le Fanu’s different approaches to science and religion in these works. Based on these readings, there is an attempt to observe whether the author gives more credibility to any of these branches of thought or if both prove to be ineffective in dealing with the supernatural events. This study will also take into account the settings of these short stories and their narrative voices, which do not remain the same in all short stories considered here. Authors who worked with the fantastic genre – Todorov and Roas – and with horror – Carroll – provided the theoretical support for this dissertation
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O'Sullivan, Jack Denis. "Imaging through a scanner, darkly : spectral imaging for sentinel lymph node biopsies." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2012. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/339772/.
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Breast cancer is the single most prevalent form of cancer in the UK today, accounting for around 16% of all diagnoses, and around 31% of diagnoses in women. The survival rates are good, however the prognosis is heavily dependent on the stage to which the cancer has progressed at diagnosis. In order to help accurately determine this stage, the sentinel lymph node of patients undergoing tumour resection surgery is removed and examined cytologically for the presence of cancerous cells. This examination of the lymph node is currently the rate-limiting step in the operation as a whole. There is evidence in the literature to suggest that cancerous tissue has a measurably different infrared spectrum from healthy tissue owing to chemical and morphological differences in the tissue. There is further evidence to suggest that in the visible and near infrared region, the spectra of healthy lymph node tissue is different from that of cancerous tissue. This thesis details a project, performed in collaboration with a surgical team at St Mary's Hospital, Newport, Isle of Wight, to analyse spectral images taken in the visible and near infrared, of biopsied lymph node tissue. In the course of the project, an unsupervised classificaton technique, based on an extension to the well establised 'spectral angle', was developed to analyse the spectral images. Psoriasis affects 2-3% of the UK population causing itchy and/or painful plaques on the skin. One of the main treatments for psoriasis is UV phototherapy, exposure to which is a risk factor for burning and the development of cancers. This thesis details an investigation into the possibility of developing a targeted UV phototherapy system based on spectral imaging to delineate the plaques and a proposed new UV laser for treatment.
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Burnett, L. "Through the weather glass." Thesis, University of Salford, 2013. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/29511/.
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This Creative Writing thesis argues for the need to rethink our understanding of climate change and focuses on the response of creative writers to this phenomenon, whilst also offering its own creative contribution. The critical component aims at articulating a post-climate change poetics. It reviews the mainstream literature in popular science writing, fiction and poetry from the point of view of a political frame-analysis of climate change, to demonstrate how a certain understanding of climate change maps onto conventions of literary genre. The thesis takes the view that many mainstream literary attempts to negotiate climate change are compromised by the teleological way in which they conceive of the phenomenon. As an alternative position, it draws on the work of climatologist Mike Hulme and physicist and cultural theorist Karen Barad to encourage participation in climate change as a condition for negotiating its meaning. Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass is proposed as a model for literary production informed by this poetics and as a model for the author’s own creative practice. The creative component of this thesis is an intra-generic text presenting the fictionalised narrative of a cycle expedition the author made from Salford to the Greek island of Ikaria in the summer of 2010. This substantial work aims to interrogate, imagine, and enquire into the epistemology of a post-climate change world.
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Ricci, James Anthony. "Now, We Hear Through a Voice Darkly: New Media and Narratology in Cinematic Art." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6021.
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This dissertation explores the intersection of new media and narrative, as it is presented through a cinematic aesthetic. The narrative language of film is analyzed through the theoretical framework of Bakhtin’s concepts of Heteroglossia, Chronotope, and Dialogism. Bakhtin’s ideas of classifying language act as strong tools for demonstrating how cinematic narrative can inform and alter the perception of its spectators. Lev Manovich’s principles of New Media, specifically Variability, Modularity, and Automation are also utilized to demonstrate how cinema is a constantly evolving paradigm.
Chapter one focuses on the theoretical terminology, outlining the conceptual definitions and illustrating their relevance in precise moments of cinema. This chapter introduces the idea that despite the original conception of Bakhtin and Manovich’s deriving from text and digital processes, their concepts are strongly present in contemporary cinema. Chapter two explores Manovich’s concept of variability in the cinematic genre of Noir. The Coen Brother’s Miller’s Crossing illustrates how the use of pastiche and homage has paved the way for the classic Noir genre to evolve into the genre of Neo-Noir. The aesthetic of Miller’s Crossing is examined in great detail to illuminate the comparisons between the variability of both genres. Chapter three also employs a Neo-Noir aesthetic. In Rian Johnson’s film Brick, the language is as much a character as any of the actors on the screen. A detailed reading of film exploring Bakhtin’s Dialogic concepts is established. The narrative of the film is examined with the idea that multiple meanings exist throughout individual units of speech. Chapter four continues the exploration of new media narrative concepts with a Science Fiction and Noir cinematic hybrid in an investigation of Rian Johnson’s film Looper. The basis of this analysis will be focused on fabula time and how the narrative of the film explores time travel, literally and metaphorically. In Looper the concepts of Chronotope and Modularity are both used to illustrate the director’s stylistic use of narrative sequencing to explore the paradoxes of time travel. Chapter five illustrates Manovich’s principles of new media as demonstrated in a biographical music drama. The documentary 20,000 Days on Earth features 24 hours in the life of Noir rock musician Nick Cave. The use of Cave’s music as a basis for the documentarians’ artful biopic creates an interpretive grid for analyzing the views of the artist and the persona that he has created for himself. Representations of diachrony in Cave’s reflective interviews regarding his evolution as an artist are also examined.
The goal of this dissertation is to provide academic consideration for theoretical concepts that have not been traditionally applied to the study of cinema. It should be of interest to scholars seeking to supplement their endeavors within the realms of film studies as well as new media. In the interest of nurturing an interdisciplinary space for literary studies to exist and inform other branches of scholarship, the topics of new media and narratology, when applied to cinema establish a juncture between historical linguistics, digital media concepts and film studies.
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Blanchard, Guy B. "Ants through the looking-glass." Thesis, University of Bath, 1996. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336233.
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Southworth, Steven. "Through a mirror darkly : shedding light on individual differences in the neural correlates of empathy." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/23608/.
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The aim of this thesis was to explore individual differences in the neural correlates of empathy. This was achieved over the course of three experimental studies to gain a better understanding of mirror neuron activity as a putative index of empathy and its relationship with self-report measures of empathy. In the first study we built upon the existing literature by exposing participants to two EEG protocols. Findings demonstrated a more reactive mirror neuron system in response to crying relative to laughing sounds and to painful relative to non-painful imagery. We also found inverse relationships with empathy that could be related to expertise. In our second study we examined the long-term effect of loving-kindness meditation (compared to controls) on empathy by comparing the mirror neuron activity from three EEG protocols. It is argued that we found meaningful differences in mirror neuron activity (for each protocol) that might again be explained by an expertise effect. The final study investigated the potential effect of power-posing on empathy as measured by both EEG and behavioural tasks. Findings demonstrated that those in an open pose (counter to predictions) actually performed better on an empathic accuracy task than those in a closed or control posture. In terms of mirror neuron activity, we find no conclusive evidence to suggest that open posing has a negative effect on empathy, however again we see evidence to suggest that expertise might be driving our data.
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Sturdy, J. C. G. "A LISP through the looking glass." Thesis, University of Bath, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292829.
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Asselin, Steve. "Through a glacier darkly: reversals of race and gender in polar fiction of the nineteenth century." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=94912.
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The Arctic and the Antarctic are put forward as among the few remaining blank' spaces on the map available to nineteenth-century writers for speculative fiction, with polar narratives functioning as a bridge between the travelogue and science-fiction proper. Examining gender in these narratives, the Arctic is typically sexed as male, whereas the Antarctic is designated female. The male explorer protagonist is emasculated before the hyper-masculinity of the Arctic and the overpowering femininity of the Antarctic alike. Turning to race, white explorers venturing into white regions find that their racial status is challenged by superior instances of whiteness. They are also confronted by competing ideologies wherein their whiteness is denied, or the very notion of white superiority is inverted. However, polar narratives also introduce doubt about the internal credibility of their stories through a number of narrative techniques, curtailing the effect of the questions they raise regarding received notions of race and gender.L'arctique et l'antarctique sont présentées comme parmi les derniers endroits blancs' sur la carte où les auteurs du dix-neuvième siècle pouvaient situés leurs récits fantastiques; ils forment un lien entre le récit de voyages et la science-fiction comme telle. Examinant l'usage des sexes dans ces récits, l'arctique est typiquement présenté de façon masculin; cependant, l'antarctique rappelle le féminin. Le héro explorateur mâle est aussi émasculé devant l'hyper-masculinité de l'arctique comme la puissance féminine de l'antarctique. Considérant l'idée de la race,' les explorateurs blancs qui s'aventure dans des régions blanches découvrent que leur statu racial est confronté par des exemples de blancheur supérieure à leurs. Ils sont aussi confrontés par des idéologies locales dans lesquelles leur blancheur est dénié, ou l'idée même de la supériorité blanche est inversée. Cependant, les récits polaires introd uise du doute envers la crédibilité interne de leurs histories grâce a un nombre de techniques littéraires, courbant l'impacte des questions qu'ils posent sur les idées typique de sexe et race.
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Aste, Sofie. "China Through the Looking Glass : Exploring the Swedish China Image Through Framing." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-9670.
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Building on the assumption that the image of China within the Swedish state is pluralist, the aim of this study is to explore this plurality through the lens of Pan Chengxin’s paradigms “China threat” and “China opportunity”. A second aim is to contribute to the theory by applying it in a different context compared to where it originated. This is explored through the method of frame analysis and interpretive text analysis. The study shows that the image is indeed pluralist and differs between entities. Frames that are commonly used by one entity are non-existent in texts by another. There are also differences in emphasis within frames and within entities. Understanding how China is framed and imagined in different parts of the Swedish state can be useful in itself as it helps us understand that the relationship between Sweden and China is complex and dynamic. Furthermore, the study shows that while Pan’s paradigms can be a useful outset point, one cannot understand the Swedish image of China without also looking beyond them. The Swedish China image holds nuances unaccounted for by the theory, particularly in the perception of China as heterogenous to a higher extent than anticipated.
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Madore, Noelle Marie. "Seeing Through the Glass: Psychoanalysis and J.D. Salinger." Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1253044286.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Cleveland State University, 2009.Abstract. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Sept. 28, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-65). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center and also available in print.
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Taniguchi, Shinro. "Measurement of the through-thickness strength of composites." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:441ed7e2-72ed-4c2e-b0d2-066b5419b56e.
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This research deals with the mechanical characterisation of thick composite laminates in the through-thickness direction. Three independent glass fibre/epoxy laminate configurations, namely cross, quasi-isotropic, and woven, plies were investigated. Six specimen configurations, of which two were developed herein, were employed in order to determine the strength behaviour of these three laminate configurations when subjected to interlaminar shear and interlaminar tensile stresses in isolation and in combination. The stress and strain distributions were estimated using the ABAQUS FEA package. The strain distribution obtained thereby was verified experimentally via Moirandeacute; interferometry which records the exact strain field at the test section. A two dimensional failure envelope is defined for each laminate configuration using the experimentally obtained data. All three independent laminate configurations exhibited almost identical failure envelopes. The woven laminate exhibited superior interlaminar shear strength when subjected to combined interlaminar shear and interlaminar tensile stresses, whereas the cross-ply laminate exhibited superior interlaminar tensile strength when subjected to the same combination of stress. The characteristics of the quasi-isotropic laminate were similar to that of the cross-ply laminate. A partial three dimensional failure envelope was also defined for the materials tested.
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Bhardwaj, Mohit. "Water vapor diffusion through glass fiber reinforced polymer nanocomposites." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2005. https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=4193.
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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2005.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 133 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-118).
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Paterson, Patricia A. "Through the looking glass, in search of transformative teachers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq21073.pdf.
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Hlohovsky, Stephanie Emelia. "Through the looking glass, leadership perspectives of bedside nurses." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ59450.pdf.
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Gaskell, Gemma Louise. "Religion through the looking-glass : Lewis Carroll's spiritual eclecticism." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.543956.
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Cornean, Vlad. "Development of Through Glass Vias (TGVs) for Interposer Applications." Thesis, KTH, Mikro- och nanosystemteknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-165618.
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In this thesis work the manufacturing of through glass vias (TGVs) is presented. The TGVs were manufactured by adapting technique based on magnetic assembly developed at KTH for creating through silicon vias (TSVs). TGVs were fabricated by introducing nickel wires in via-holes that were pre-made on a glass substrate and applying a spin-on polymer to isolate the nickel wires from the walls of the via-holes. Another focus of this work was improving the TGV and TSV manufacturing process. This was done by investigating the inuence of the assembly speeds on the yield of the assembly process. Two methods for removing the excess wires left on the surface of the wafer after the magnetic assembly of the nickel wires were tested. Also the inuence the pitch between the via-holes has on the yield of the process was investigated.
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Tarlov, Jessica. "Through the looking glass : controversy, scandal and political careers." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/561/.
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This work measures whether MPs are held individually accountable for their actions through a novel analysis of the 1997 and 2010 UK general elections. Previous research suggests that MPs’ behaviour has little effect on their careers; however, developments in the media’s aggressive reporting style, the rise of personality politics and decline in traditional voting patterns indicate that this is an opportune time to examine the effect of political controversies (including scandals) on MPs’ careers. This analysis focuses on three crucial stages that form a chain of accountability: (1) exposure: the media publicises the controversy and a perception is formed; (2) internal sanction: an MP retires before an election; (3) electoral sanction: voters punish MPs at the polls. Data on MP-specific controversies between the 1992 and 1997 and the 2005 and 2010 elections was sourced from The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and their respective Sunday editions. This work also contains an original analysis of the 2009–2010 MP expenses scandal that utilises British Election Study panel survey data to examine how information on MP malfeasance affects voters’ perceptions of MPs. The findings indicate that political controversy is linked to whether an MP retires, with those MPs from the governing party driving the result in both the 1997 and 2010 elections. Overall, voters do not hold MPs responsible for their actions at the polls. Analysis of the expenses scandal supports these general findings: constituent perceptions of their MPs’ expenses behaviour respond to public information, but do not translate into election results. Internal sanction is shown to be the most powerful form of political accountability in the chain. While identifying any individual MP accountability is novel, the overall results are in line with traditional analyses of the strength of party politics, and indicate the importance of electoral system design for accountability.
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Song, Min Jeong. "Mechanisms of in-betweenness : through visual experiences of glass." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 2014. http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/1657/.
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This practice-led project explores the idea of in-betweenness through the physical and metaphorical aspects of glass. The starting point of the research is that glass, as an artistic medium, when examined with a focus on materiality and the making process on both physical and metaphoric levels, can be compared to the idea of cultural in-betweenness. My aim is to provide metaphoric and theoretical analogies that contribute to an understanding of in-betweenness. To examine the mechanisms of in-betweenness, this research integrates literature review with studio practice and object analysis to interpret the material and process of making objects in both literal and metaphorical dimensions. Historical glass artefacts are analysed to explore the idea of a trans-culture embedded in glass exchange between East Asia and Western Europe during the early modern period (roughly sixteenth to nineteenth centuries) and in practice today. Building on the preexisting scholarly analysis of objects from disciplines including anthropology, art history and archaeology, I experimented with glass and creative process in the studio to provide a fresh analysis based on the materiality of glass and the making process. Findings achieved through the conceptual and practical research reveal parallels between the idea of cultural in-betweenness and the materiality of glass. The analogies drawn from my studio practice and theoretical research for understanding the mechanisms of in-betweenness include: - In-betweenness is a fluid concept that is in a transitional state: the state of ‘becoming’. - In-betweenness is a gradual yet disruptive action that breaks the order of things. 4 - In-betweenness is a process of partial or selective abstraction to the extent where the awareness of origin remains whilst ambiguity is also present. - In-betweenness can be achieved through a mixture of control and chance. It is deliberate creation with an element of chance while some amount of control is maintained.
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Dickson, Erin. "The quirks of intimate space : architectonic art practice translated through digital technology in glass." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2015. http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/6496/.
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This research explores aspects of architectural phenomenology as evidenced in the ‘quirk’, described here as a peculiarity or idiosyncrasy of a building’s personality. Using digital technology, this study frames and contextualises a body of sculpture, performance and installation in glass that interprets personal ideas of home through social, cultural and emotional connections. The research is focused on exposing the quirk to anthropomorphise the site, expressing its familiar and intimate nature. Previous research in creative glass has used digital design and manufacturing technology in studies that contribute primarily to the practical advancement of CAD/CAM processes. This new research applies such techniques, but is instead focused on their capacity to record, translate and realise ideas in relation to the quirk of the architecture. This approach translates quirks through data capture to visualise aspects of architectural phenomenology, which is defined in this context as the embodied, personal and sensory experience of space. A methodology which adapts architectural practice has been applied to provide a creative, flexible framework of site selection, discovery of the quirk and its translation, realisation and analysis. The four bodies of work described in this PhD include a monumental architectonic sculpture, a series of ‘window’ panels created using photographic imagery, a kinetic subterranean installation and a time-based performance of the experience of sleeping on glass. The contribution to knowledge can be claimed through a model of practice that utilises phenomenology through the translation of the architectural quirk to create a unique and diverse body of artwork; and the development of original working methods for waterjet cutting and kiln-forming to produce architectonic sculpture and imagery in glass. This PhD offers an example of the application of architectural phenomenology for those wishing to use architecture as inspiration for artwork.
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Sykes, Alexis Broadbent. "Signs of Life: Rediscovering Nineteenth Century Indian Key through Glass Analysis." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000140.
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Evans, Suzanne M. "Words like Glass Windows." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1337607255.
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Hedin, Ellen. "Through the Looking Glass into the World of Computer Games." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Social and Health Sciences (HOS), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-2403.
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Cheatle, E. J. "Part-architecture : the Maison de Verre through the Large Glass." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1419859/.
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My thesis is an examination of a building, the Maison de Verre (Pierre Chareau, Paris, 1928–32), through an artwork, the Large Glass (Marcel Duchamp, Paris, New York, 1915–23).1 Starting from the fact that both are predominantly constructed from glass, I further align the two works materially, historically and conceptually. Ultimately, I challenge the accepted architectural descriptions of the Maison de Verre, providing original spatial and social accounts of its use and inhabitation in the 1930s. The Maison de Verre was designed as a gynaecology clinic and family home for Annie and Dr Jean Dalsace. Utilising a 'free-plan', it spatialised a programme for progressive female sexual health within a domestic setting. In the context of legislation criminalising contraception and abortion, the building was, perhaps by necessity, not visible from the street. The Large Glass, in contrast, is an overt narrative on unconsummated desire, and, I argue, despite being constructed in New York, is Duchamp’s response to 1910–20s Parisian sexual mores. I interrogate these ideas through a method for which I have coined the term ‘part-architecture’, developed from theories of the psychoanalytic ‘L Schema’ and ‘part-object’, after Rosalind Krauss and Jacques Lacan. Partarchitecture is an original architectural production which combines written critical theory and design operations – including fiction writing, drawing, book-arts and audio – to recover the (now invisible) historical, social and sexual interactions occurring in and between the Maison de Verre and the Large Glass. Three central chapters, structured around the materials glass, dust and air – where glass signifies looking, dust the discarded past, and air the activation of invisible registers – recover the works as new accounts. Importantly, part-architecture offers descriptions that suggest the works remain partial, open ended and contingent.
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Brown, Maria Florence. "Seeing through light : a selective history of architectural stained glass." Thesis, University of Kent, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404550.
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Cheliotis, Leonidas. "Governing through the looking-glass : perception, morality, and neoliberal penality." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611604.
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Brown, Joanne. "Through the looking glass : clinical communication in the clinical workplace." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020802/.
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This qualitative study investigates the subject of Clinical Communication and how it is taught, learned and practised in one London Medical School and Hospital. It is informed by theoretical perspectives from workplace learning and in particular the theoretical construct of Recontextualisation. Five clinical communication teachers and five fourth year medical students took part in a series of semi structured interviews and ward observations over a period of four months. Teachers were interviewed about their teaching practice, they were asked to observe students in the clinical workplace and finally were asked to reflect upon whether these observations had informed their teaching practice. Students were interviewed about how they had learned and subsequently practised clinical communication in the clinical workplace. In total fifteen interviews and nine ward observations were carried out and nine reflective accounts were collected. Data from the interviews and observations were analysed using Responsive Interviewing Analysis. Results suggest that teachers wished to develop a more authentic and integrated teaching practice focused on the clinical workplace and wanted to go beyond the traditional notion of clinical communication as 'skills' based only. Students seemed able to apply the clinical communication skills they had been previously taught to the clinical workplace, but the patient centred philosophy underpinning these was lost and was also not reflected in the clinical workplace culture. Conceptually, the research shifts focus to the clinical workplace as the legitimate location for teaching and learning clinical communication and proposes a new and expanded way of understanding learning in this context. Significant implications for discussion are raised about the theoretical stance taken by the clinical communication community of practice and the way in which it understands and articulates fundamental beliefs about clinical communication.
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Mitchell, Joanne. "Precision air entrapment through applied digital and kiln technologies : a new technique in glass art." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2015. http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/8548/.
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The motivation for the research was to expand on the creative possibilities of air bubbles in glass, through the application of digital and kiln technologies to formulate and control complex air entrapment, for new configurations in glass art. In comparison to glassblowing, air entrapment in kiln forming glass practice is under-developed and undocumented. This investigation has devised new, replicable techniques to position and manipulate air in kiln-formed glass, termed collectively as Kiln-controlled Precision Air Entrapment. As a result of the inquiry, complex assemblages of text and figurative imagery have been produced that allow the articulation of expressive ideas using air voids, which were not previously possible. The research establishes several new innovations for air-entrapment in glass, as well as forming a technical hypotheses and a practice-based methodology. The research focuses primarily on float glass and the application of CNC abrasive waterjet cutting technology; incorporating computer aided design and fabrication alongside more conventional glass-forming methods. The 3-axis CNC abrasive waterjet cutting process offers accuracy of cut and complexity of form and scale, across a flat plane of sheet glass. The new method of cleanly fusing layered, waterjet-cut float glass permits the fabrication of artwork containing air entrapment as multilayered, intricate groupings and composite three-dimensional void forms. Kiln-controlled air entrapment presents a number of significant advantages over conventional glassblowing techniques of air entrapment which are based around the decorative vessel or solid spheroid shaped on the blowing iron. The integration of digital and traditional technologies and the resulting technical glassmaking discoveries in this research advance potential new contexts for air entrapment, in sculptural and architectural glass applications. Contexts include solid sculptures which explore the internal space of glass, to flat-plane panels and hot glass roll-up processes which take air entrapment beyond the limitations of its previous incarnations. The creative potential of Kiln-controlled Precision Air Entrapment for glass art is demonstrated through the development of a body of artworks and their dissemination in the field of practice. Documentation of the findings in the thesis has resulted in a 3 significant body of knowledge which opens up new avenues of understanding for academics, creative practitioners and professionals working with glass.
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Tani, Ayako. "Multi-dimensional line-drawing with glass through a development of lampworking." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2013. http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/5030/.
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This is practice-based research about glass art, undertaken by an artist specialising in the lampworking technique. Over many centuries, lampworking has been widely used for scientific, industrial and craft purposes. In the early 1990s, there was a notable shift where traditional lampworking began merging with contemporary glass art, but there is still room for further development. The research focus is line-making through lampworking. Building upon Hoyt (1989), who determined the fundamental procedures in lampworking, this research identifies five operations relating to line-making: ‘bending’, ‘stretching’, ‘thickening’, ‘adding’ and ‘tooling’. Before this research, these techniques were already well practised in traditional lampwork training. However, they were recognised as only basics to construct larger pieces, and line-making itself did not gain real attention. Neither has the theoretical concept of making lines in glass been discussed enough. This research re-examines each of these operations and searches for dormant possibilities to exploit for artistic expression. The significance of glass lines is discussed in comparison to other line-making techniques and media in visual art. The taxonomy of lines advocated by Ingold (2007) is referred to as a guide for deeper exploration in this field. The investigation highlights the unique material feature of glass and contributes the idea of ’spatial traces’ and ‘projected lines’ to the discussion. A series of artworks is subsequently made to demonstrate and evaluate the research outcomes. The particular innovation generated by this research is the development of ‘calligraphic lampworking’, which is technically an extension of the ‘stretching’ operation. The act of stretching molten glass is observed to be comparable to ink calligraphy, in that they both leave a trace of movement. The distinctive difference is that the strokes of calligraphic lampworking are spatially liberated, whereas those of ink calligraphy are confined to the plane of a two-dimensional surface. The ‘multi-dimensionality’ of glass lines is also theoretically explored and discussed in terms of the glass’s clarity, reflections and shadows.
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Kohek, Maja. "Through the Looking-Glass: The use of psychoactive plants in Catalonia." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671199.
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A Través del Mirall: L’ús de plantes psicoactives a Catalunya
Aquesta tesi consisteix en 6 capítols que versen sobre l'ús de plantes psicoactives en una comunitat de Catalunya. El primer capítol introdueix la comunitat, els llocs on es va desenvolupar el treball de camp i els/les informants. En el segon capítol es descriuen els objectius de l'estudi, la metodologia emprada per a la recollida de dades i els subsegüents anàlisis. També es discuteixen les metodologies d'investigació antropològica, així com els orígens d'aquest treball. El tercer capítol explora el fenomen de la medicalització de la societat occidental contemporània i la seva relació amb la investigació amb drogues i el discurs en matèria de política de drogues. En el quart capítol es desplega la discussió sobre la cosmovisió de la comunitat sobre la qual s'ha treballat, el seu estil de vida, rols de gènere, estils educatius o pràctiques d'autocura. El cinquè capítol és el més extens i en el qual es discuteix l'ús de plantes psicoactives en aquesta comunitat, complementant-lo amb fenòmens com la comercialització i globalització d'aquestes plantes en la societat contemporània. També es proposa la diferenciació de la comunitat estudiada respecte a altres grups neoxamànics o "New Age", i es contextualitza dins del context de communitas. A més, es comparen els usos espirituals i quotidians i es descriuen un gran nombre de rituals en què s'utilitza la planta de cànnabis (Santa Maria) com un sagrament. Els efectes dels rituals en què s'utilitzen plantes psicoactives es presenten sota la perspectiva tant dels individus de la comunitat com de l'autora. El sisè i últim capítol presenta les observacions i resultats de l'estudi des d'un punt de vista de polítiques de drogues i ofereix algunes consideracions sobre el disseny de futures polítiques publiques.A Través del Espejo: El uso de plantas psicoactivas en Cataluña Esta tesis consiste en 6 capítulos que versan sobre el uso de plantas psicoactivas en una comunidad de Cataluña. El primer capítulo introduce la comunidad, los lugares donde se desarrolló el trabajo de campo y los/las informantes. En el segundo capítulo se describen los objetivos del estudio, la metodología utilizada para la recolección de datos y los subsiguientes análisis. También se discuten las metodologías de investigación antropológica, así como los orígenes de dicho trabajo. El tercer capítulo explora el fenómeno de la medicalización de la sociedad occidental contemporánea y su relación con la investigación de drogas y el discurso en materia de política de drogas. En el cuarto capítulo se despliega la discusión sobre la cosmovisión de la comunidad sobre la que se ha trabajado, su estilo de vida, roles de género, estilos educativos o prácticas de autocuidado. El quinto capítulo es el más extenso y en el que se discute el uso de plantas psicoactivas en dicha comunidad, complementándolo con fenómenos como la comercialización y globalización de estas plantas en la sociedad contemporánea. También se propone la diferenciación de la comunidad estudiada con respecto a otros grupos neochamánicos o “New Age”, y se contextualiza dentro del contexto de communitas. Además, se comparan los usos espirituales y cotidianos y se describen un gran número de rituales en los que se utiliza la planta de cannabis (Santa María) como un sacramento. Los efectos de los rituales en los que se utilizan plantas psicoactivas se presentan bajo la perspectiva tanto de los individuos de la comunidad como de la autora. El sexto y último capítulo presenta las observaciones y resultados del estudio desde un punto de vista de políticas de drogas y ofrece algunas consideraciones sobre el diseño de futuras políticas públicas.
Through the Looking-Glass: The use of psychoactive plants in Catalonia The thesis consists of six chapters related to the use of psychoactive plants in a community in Catalonia. The first chapter is introducing the community, the places where fieldwork has been conducted, and the key informants. The second chapter is presenting the aims of the study, the methodologies used for data collection and data analysis, discussing anthropological research methods, as well as explaining how the study came to the existence. The third chapter dives into the phenomenon of medicalisation in contemporary western society and its relations to drug use research and the discourse on drug policy. The fourth chapter discusses the worldview of the studied community, their way of life, gender roles, childrearing, and healthcare practices. The fifth chapter is the most extensive and discusses the use of psychoactive plants in the studied community. It touches on the issues of commercialisation and globalisation of psychoactive plants in contemporary society, argues for the differentiation of the community from other neoshamanic and New Age groups, and discusses the community in the context of communitas. Furthermore, a comparison between spiritual and habitual use is being made, and several rituals are presented that use cannabis (Santa María) as a sacrament. The effects of the rituals are discussed from the point of view of inhabitants and the researcher. The sixth chapter is the concluding chapter and discusses the observations and results of the study from the point of view of drug policy and offers considerations for designing future public policies.
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McWhinnie, Alexander. "Through a looking glass : reflected experience in São Tomé and Principé." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4288.
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The thesis sets out to examine how significant experience is sought, recognised and communicated in São Tomé and Principé. It notes the outcomes that are frequently searched for and describes the 'location' of significant experience in social interaction. It finds that experience which is personalised, qualitative and direct is preferred to that which is thought about. It describes how people adopt strategies that will result in achieving desired outcomes in social responses and material security and it notes that assertions made to achieve these ends can be seen to be associated with conditions of material life lived and utilise signs that reflect social differences locally and globally. It notes that material differences observed can be explained in social terms and social differences can be formed through showing material differences. The study examines ways in which the physical properties of the island and the cultural artifacts still present from the past have an ongoing influence in forming the content, timing and quality of personal and social actions. It notes how the development of personal social connections are associated with material obligations and both how social connections can be developed for this end and how material obligations enacted can confirm social connections. The study notes the seeming inevitability of interaction to form personal social connections and the need thus for maintenance of 'social distance' to enable impersonal commercial monetised exchange to occur. It notes how such distance can be normatively asserted on others and how some utilise an awareness of such social 'architecture' to form obligations from which they may gain materially. The study found that many people have clear and well formed ideas as to the qualities and interests of foreigners. Yet foreigners can also be evaluated by the signs and actions they show. The study concludes that an 'architecture' of significant experience exists for many in the reflected recognition of others and that much importance is placed in particular personalised social relations. The important economic consequences of this are briefly outlined.
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Niemiec, Maria Joanna. "Neutrophils versus Pathogenic Fungi : through the magnifying glass of nutritional immunity." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för molekylärbiologi (Medicinska fakulteten), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-102837.
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Neutrophils are among the first white blood cells recruited to the site of infection once microbial pathogens enter the host organism. At site, they perform a well-orchestrated chain of processes that aims to kill the microbial invader. Most prominent, neutrophils engulf microbes to inactivate them intracellularly, a process called phagocytosis. Alternatively, neutrophils can release neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs). NETs consist of chromatin decorated with antimicrobial effector proteins – a structure that can entangle bacteria and fungi. Neutrophils are crucial during fungal infections. This is reflected in the increased risk of fungal infections resulting of neutropenia. The concept of nutritional immunity describes every infection as a battle for resources. Those are mostly metal trace elements. For a long time, neutrophils were seen as powerful, but “mindless”, killers with a limited set of actions and no transcriptional capacity, but this view is in the flux. In the presented thesis, it was my goal to gain new insights into the interplay of neutrophils and fungi – with special attention to metal-nutritional aspects. We compared human neutrophils lacking the ability to undergo NETosis, due to a non-functional NADPH complex, and neutrophils from the same person that were “cured” by gene therapy. We investigated those NETs and found that their inhibitory activity towards the mold A. nidulans depends on calprotectin, a known zinc-chelator. Considering the high influx of neutrophils, we wanted to unravel the neutrophils’ contribution to the metal milieu at the site of infection and trace element changes resulting from NETosis. By combining synchrotron radiation XRF and ICP-MS, we analyzed the neutrophil metallome and the spatial element distribution in activated neutrophils and NETs. Most strikingly, we found neutrophils to be exceptionally high in Fe and the process of NETosis to be reducing available Zn in the surrounding and the early phagosome, possibly by the formation of Zn-rich vesicles. Using RNA-sequencing, we analyzed the interplay of the C. albicans and neutrophils face-to-face. We dissected their transcriptional profile and revealed a manifold response in neutrophils that include cytokine induction and cellular rearrangement. We further were the firsts to explore the transcriptional response of C. albicans to NETs. Our data indicates a distinct response compared to intact neutrophils or other known stress triggers. Metal homeostasis was affected in Candida in both set-ups. In summary, this thesis provides new insights into the interaction of fungal pathogens with neutrophils and emphasizes the impact of nutritional aspects on this interplay. A deeper understanding of the nutritional immunity during fungal infection might open up new strategies to tackle fungal infections – a growing threat worldwide.