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Allsopp, Richard David. "Acts of writing : writings on contemporary performance." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2671.
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The work published between 1991-2000 and presented here forms a continuing meditation on, and exploration of contemporary performance. The term 'contemporary performance' is used to refer to practices and discourses in the performance arts that have occurred over the last decade. There Is a particular emphasis on those unstable, hybrid and interdisciplinary areas of performance (including performance art, installation, 'new' dance, 'experimental' theatre, 'live' art) which resist easy definition or categorisation, and which may be further characterised as postmodern in the sense of a reflexive, contextualised and knowingly problematic practice. More specifically the work builds a sustained thesis on contemporary practice and addresses in a number ways some of the central Issues surrounding the placing and practice of performance. It focuses on relationships between performance, textuality, the body, and spatiality; as well as on Issues of context, framing and the place of performance in contemporary culture. The work engages with a number key terms applied to contemporary performance Including ephemerality, displacement, equivalence and ecology, which contribute to the central thesis that contemporary performance Is an unsettled yet always contextualised practice which resists fixities and holds itself between a condition of fragmentation and integration. Contemporary performance is considered from a number of points of view: " as performance: where the events and relationships which constitute performance can be documented and mapped; " as contextuaiised practice: where the conditions that enable or disable performance can be identified; " as process : where the dynamics and media of performance can be situated; " as site : where the frames, surfaces and boundaries of performance can be examined; 7 Acts of Writing - Ric Allsopp (July zooo) Abstract " as ecology: where the Internal and external Interdependencies of performance can be Identified; " as a problematic: where the terms and assumptions that constitute a reading of performance can be Identified and analysed. Two key ideas inform the thesis that emerges from the work: firstly the recognition of an ethical stance towards performance; and secondly the search for a methodology which can disclose the dynamics of performance. The'acts of writing' are seen as an active as well as reflective methodology - an engagement with the event of performance understood as a located, contextualised practice. The published work presented here sets out some of the underlying conditions and methodologies from which my work in the field of contemporary performance proceeds. As a thesis It provides sustained evidence of a 'multiple practice' - that is a set of practices and engagements in the field of research that explore what might be termed the 'ecology' of contemporary performance from various positions. This multiple practice Is a way of locating the work and of attempting to realise an ethical stance towards performance. The recognition that the conditions of contemporary performance depend on an Interdependency of contexts and that performance situates Itself as an unstable catalyst that oscillates between these contexts has enabled me to locate my research into contemporary performance In the variety of ways evidenced by the published output collected here.
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Hébert, Olivier. "Some writings." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/38739.
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Mon mémoire est un essai bibliographique. Une tentative pour trouver naturellement une manière d’écrire et de discuter. Une recherche d’une forme authentique pour développer une pensée conséquente de mon travail d’atelier et par le fait même, éviter de décrire ce dernier. J’ai l’ambition d’évoquer implicitement la peinture, pour progresser, ou régresser, vers une sensation de crédibilité des choses. Some Writings est un exercice dont le cadre n’est pas théorique, mais littéraire, pour évoquer des choses indirectement, par analogie.
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Hall, John. "Writings, readings and not writing : poems, prose fiction and essays." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2469.
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This submission of published work consists of a number of different modes of writing that interrelate as the concerns of a poet, essayist and teacher. There are twenty-seven separate publications, presented under six categories headings: (A) poems, including prose-poems, written for the page; (B) prose-fiction, represented through a single work; (C) visual poems; (D) enquiries into aspects of a general poetics, including questions about 'situatedness' or 'implicatedness', genres of discourse and their related modalities, poetics and grammar, and a poetics of reading; (E) critical and celebratory readings, mostly of contemporary poets and poems; (F) meditations on institutionalised divisions and modalities of knowledge and practice and their implications for arts pedagogy. These six categories are intended to open out on to each other, to constitute an exploration of writing and reading that is always more than the sum of its parts. With the exception of one article published in 1992 all work was published- or will have been - between 1996 and 2005, a period that coincides with the consolidation and development of a field of study and practice at Dartington College of Arts named Performance Writing. The poems and prose fiction exemplify specific practices within this field and the articles are attempts to develop theoretical and critical instruments within it, especially as they apply to poetry. The articles move between close readings of poetic texts and broad enquiries into reading, writing and the operation of texts within their social, spatial and temporal contexts, such as domestic settings or bereavements. Three articles address 'grammar for performance writers'; three others focus on reading and its relation to knowledge, form and setting; another three, including a review, are enquiries into discipline and interdisciplinarity.
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Fleitz, Elizabeth J. "The multimodal kitchen cookbooks as women's rhetorical practice /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1240934967.
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Campbell, Janet. "The mother as subject within the writings of psychoanalysis and women's writings." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.238820.
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Cull, Stephanie Yolanda McLellan. "Implications of suicide writings." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8332/.
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This thesis examined the role of suicide notes as left by the victims of suicide. Suicide note analysis is arguably one of the most robust methodologies in the study of suicide and its prevention. Only a fraction of suicide victims leave a note, however. Although homogeneity has largely been assumed between note writers and non-writers, this assumption was initially made with little if any supporting evidence. This thesis therefore aimed to investigate whether note writers are representative of all suicide victims. A systematic review of existing literature which statistically compared note writers to non-writers was performed. Roughly half of the identified citations reported significant differences between note writers and non-writers; the remainder reported no significant differences. A critique of the Suicide Intent Scale was also presented. The scale’s psychometric properties, strengths, limitations, and contributions to research and clinical practice were evaluated. The thesis also empirically investigated the assumed homogeneity between note writers and non-writers by performing a comparative study using a previously untested sample of Canadian suicide victims. It was concluded that there were no significant differences between note writers and non-writers. Cultural considerations were made. The limitations of this study and implications for future research were discussed.
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Rankin, Andrew Simon. "Mishima Yukio's critical writings." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648769.
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Tsang, Kwai Tai. "A collection of writings." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1318960642.
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Yoshida, Hisayo. "A Cross Cultural Analysis of Japanese Art Critical Writings and American Art Critical Writings." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1408539349.
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Avramidis, Konstantinos. "Atlas of Athenian inscriptions : a book of drawings of writings and writings on drawings." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/29638.
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This thesis proposes a critical exchange between architecture and graffiti. Graffiti in Athens plays a key role in the expression of Greek tensions making this city an ideal place for developing such an exchange. The author acts in a three-fold manner in this research: as architectural designer, one with an impulse to survey by drawing and capable of grasping the matrix of the surfaces upon which graffiti finds an expression; as graffiti writer, somebody with some practical experience as graffitist hence partially equipped to decode the graffiti matrix placed on any given architectural matrix; and as writer on graffiti, who is interested in bringing together and working between the architectural and graffiti matrices to reveal their convergences, deviations and interdependences, and, in so doing, expose the hidden spatiality of graffiti writing. Stemming from this peculiar triple positioning, this book promotes a new situating of Athenian inscriptions. The thesis is presented as an Atlas of Athenian Inscriptions, a book of drawings of writings and writings on drawings. The Atlas offers, in both drawn and written form, a close study of four situations in which graffiti has been recorded. The thesis regards a recent significant graffiti Exhibition – in which the author is actively implicated by being invited into it as a graffiti writer and writer on graffiti – as a starting point, as its situation zero. By de-situating graffiti from its original urban and political context whilst placing it onto the gallery surfaces, this thesis argues that the Exhibition undermines graffiti’s critical potency and has transformed graffiti into an aesthetic object. However, perhaps paradoxically, presenting graffiti as an empty gesture, the Exhibition nonetheless raises questions concerning the situating role of graffiti. By including it in the Atlas together with the following more overt surface ruptures in political edifices, the Exhibition is framed as an equally political situation. The other three situations, all in Athens’ city centre, reflect three important periods in local political history and are emblematic in that they are the epicentres of historical ruptures during which they are extensively graffitied: the former Nazi Detention Centre which operates during the Axis occupation (1941-1944); the Athens Polytechnic that plays a pivotal role in the student uprising against the Greek Military Junta (1967-1974); and the Bank of Greece HQ building which is a site of recurring political expression in contemporary crisis (2010-2015). The Atlas indexes graffiti and related information from the city of Athens, the systematic organisation of which creates different graffiti-related matrices allowing us to make sense of, navigate in and reconstruct the Athenian graffiti landscape through characteristic surface environments. By placing different political situations in the same set with the Exhibition, the thesis aims to give critical voice to how graffiti is perceived. By resituating (graffiti) images, the Atlas restores broken and creates new links between them and their surfaces whilst revealing not only the spatiality of graffiti in Athens but also the spatiality of architecture of Athens as a recurring tension between the matrices of dissensus and consensus. The thesis deconstructs the mythology that architecture represents consensus and graffiti dissensus, since each is embedded in the other. Ultimately, by carefully considering graffiti’s situating character and graphic articulation, this research promotes rupture to the smoothing of its political asperity attempted by architecture, institutions and those writing on graffiti that seek to restrain it.
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Gephardt, Katarina. "Imagined boundaries the nation and the continent in nineteenth-Century British narratives of European travel /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1070292654.
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Shaw, Damian John. "The writings of Thomas Pringle." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244800.
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Thomas Pringle (1789-1834) is remembered as a poet, journalist, travel writer, editor, political campaigner and anti-slavery activist, yet a thorough critical survey of his writings, including his poetry, journalism, letters, narratives and anti-sIavery propaganda, is lacking in Pringle scholarship. This dissertation undertakes the task of a critical survey, in order to bring the diverse range of his writings to the attention of a wider audience, and to lay the foundations for future critical interpretation of Plingle's work. Work published by Pringle during his lifetime appears between 1811 and 1834, originally in Scotland, and later in South Africa and England as well. Pringle's output is diverse, both in style, content and genre. Previous critical discussion of his writing has usually been limited to isolated aspects of his oeuvre - in particular, his 'South African' poetry - and does not take the entirety into account. In this dissertation, I seek to correct this imbalance by exploring the range of Pringle' s writings and establishing a general , chronological framework within which these various writings can be interpreted. I have found it necessary to adopt a chronological approach in order to underline the crucial links between Pringle's work and his life, as well as the influence of his developing political thought upon the style and content of his writing.
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Martin, Timothy Daniel. "Robert Smithson : writings, sculptures, earthworks." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324920.
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King, Elizabeth Ann. "Virginity in early Christian writings /." View abstract, 2000. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1591.html.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2000.Thesis advisor: Glenn Sunshine. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-66).
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Ma, Qianli. "Individualism in Akutagawa Ryunosuke's Writings." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/560775.
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Kammerdiener, F. Leslie. "Creative essays regarding issues in ministry a forum for pastors and wives of numerically small churches in the Kansas City Kansas Baptist Association /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Panzner, Joseph Edward. ""Writing for the ear" : four key words in the writings and interviews of Morton Feldman." Connect to resource, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1230731320.
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Reynolds, Sadie. "Writing against time : the life histories and writings of women in Santa Cruz County jail /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Lamberton, Elizabeth Jean. "The critical writings of Ernest Reyer." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28851.
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Ernest Reyer's career as music critic spanned the second half of the nineteenth century. For more than thirty years he held the position of music critic of the Journal des Debats, one of the most respected newspapers in nineteenth-century France. He also contributed regularly to four journals and the daily Courrier de Paris, and wrote as well for other newspapers and periodicals. Reyer was in addition a conductor and a noted composer, whose major musical works—the operas Sigurd and Salammbo--were performed frequently at the Paris Opera until after the turn of the century. This study deals with Reyer the critic: as a writer on music, he did much to raise the level of musical taste in France during the last third of the century.
The dissertation contains ten chapters and two appendices. Chapter I provides a biographical sketch of Reyer before focusing on his personality
and his music. Chapter II surveys Reyer's literary legacy: the extent of his writings in newspapers, periodicals, and other publications;
his musical preferences; subjects of considerable importance to Reyer; his literary style; and the two compilations of his writings (Notes de musique and Quarante ans de musique, which together represent less than ten percent of his literary production). Chapter III demonstrates
that Reyer believed his role as critic was to educate the public, and that he sought to fulfil this role by founding his approach to critical writing on three basic tenets: professional knowledge of music; intellectual integrity; and the consistent application of an aesthetic. The principles of his aesthetic and the consistency of their application are illustrated in Chapter IV through consideration of Reyer's judgments of operatic composition and performance.
The next five chapters examine Reyer's writings on topics and composers
of particular importance to him. Chapter V studies his views on the complex situation in Parisian lyric theatres during the second half of the nineteenth century, and offers a detailed picture of his conception
of an ideal theatre. Chapter VI discusses Reyer's attempts to stimulate public interest in Gluck, Spontini, and Weber, whose works for lyric theatre were either neglected in Paris or known mainly through mutilated versions. Chapter VII outlines Reyer's long struggle—as both critic and conductor—to establish Berlioz's reputation in France. Reyer's advocacy was so effective that some of his countrymen eventually credited him with having done more than anyone else to bring honor to Berlioz in his homeland. Reyer also played a major role in establishing Wagner's music in France, as is shown in Chapter VIII. Chapter IX demonstrates that Reyer's support was important in launching and sustaining
the careers of many contemporary French composers, including Gounod, Saint-Saens, Bizet, and Lalo. The final chapter summarizes Reyer's achievement as a writer on music. Among the subjects discussed are the strong influence of Berlioz's writings on both Reyer's literary style and his aesthetic, and the impact of Reyer's writings on Parisian musical life.
Appendix A contains an annotated bibliography of Reyer's more than seven hundred critical writings, with an explanation of how they were culled from newspapers and periodicals. Appendix B is a list of other published writings by Reyer. Our examination of his criticism reveals that it would be of interest to have Reyer's complete works available collected volumes.Arts, Faculty of
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Mot, Magdalena. "Russianness in Aleksei Remizov's early writings." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99384.
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This thesis examines three different collections from the early works of the Russian writer Aleksei Remizov (1887-1957): Posolon' (1907), Leimonarion (1907), and Besnovatye: Savva Grudtsyn and Solomoniia (1951). Each of them highlights a different approach taken by Remizov in preserving Russianness. In this analysis the concept of Russianness does not constitute a specific national or historical scheme. The reference is rather to a spiritual legacy, a condition of soul. Posolon' calls for the regaining of a lost cyclicity and looks back in time at the common folk's way of life. Leimonarion is one of the most expressive examples of the constant duality of Remizov's position on the dominant artistic and ideological ideas of the time; this collection looks at the old world through the new eyes of a modern era. "Savva Grudtsyn" and "Solomoniia" present a perpetual moral struggle, which pits the profanity of a secular world against the sacred values to which people ought to aspire.The results of the study show that Remizov, using different themes and different literary genres, pursues one broad concern: Russianness. This theme permeates not only his literary language, but also the content of the works discussed here. In Leimonarion Russia is kept together by her people and their belief in salvation; in Posolon' Russia is all about folklore, joyful games, tales and rituals; in Besnovatye Russia is saved by the simplicity and purity of the iurodivye , the 'Holy fools.'
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Caffari, Marie. "Butor's collaborative writings : exploring border territory." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407254.
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Stern, Sacha David. "Jewish identity in early rabbinic writings." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334821.
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Wong, Shuk-han Mary, and 黃淑嫻. "New Chinese cinemas and feminine writings." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43894410.
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Thomas, Stephen. "Newman and heresy : the Anglican writings." Thesis, Durham University, 1988. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6638/.
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The thesis examines the relationship between Newman's treatment of early Church heresies and his contemporary situation in the period up to 1845.Part I traces his view of heresy from the early Trinitarianism of its evangelical period and snows now It became a rhetorical tool in his defence of the Established Church, 1828-31, culminating in The Arians of the Fourth Century. His continuing use of analogies between Arianlsm and contemporary controversy is traced between 1832 and 1837, before an examination of the relation between rhetoric and politics in the years of Emancipation, Repeal and Reform (1829-32), and in the changed situation after 1832. Part II illustrates the use Newman made of his study of Sabellianism and Apollinarianism Ian Ism to describe 'liberalism', which he argued to be a heresy developing into an underlying Infidelity. His rhetoric was provoked by R.D.Hampden's view of Tests, and influenced by the example of his friend Blanco White's embracing of Unitarian ism in 1835. Newman's consideration, under the category 'Sabetlian', of a variety of systematic theologians arose out of a need to universalize Oxford controversies into an argument about 'rationalism' (Tract 73). He extended his critique both to aspects of Nicholas Wiseman's Roman Catholic apologetic, and, in his strictures upon H.H.Milman, to liberal Anglican historiography. Part III shows Newman's own past-present analogies turning Inwards upon himself in a parallel between his "Via Media' and Monophysltism. The relation of this analogy to his later reminiscences and to the revolution in his concept of orthodoxy and heresy in The Essay on Development, is considered. The modification of his general understanding of heresy, in the light of his new-found idea of development, is then related to his rhetorical use of specific heresies. The Conclusion assesses more theoretically the implications of Newman's rhetorlclzation of Antiquity and considers If there Is a fundamental coherence to his heresiology during the Anglican period.
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Saad, Philippe Charles. "Writings for acquisition : Hellenizing Alexandria, Egypt." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33033.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-87).
This research work started with the exploration of E.M. Forster's major publication on Alexandria published in 1922, Alexandria a History and a Guide, considered until now 'the Classical Guide for Alexandria;' or ironically 'the guide for Classical Alexandria?' In fact, Forster's version of history recounted a Classical heritage all the while effectively attenuating the importance of eleven centuries of Islamic rule and commercial prosperity. As for contemporary name places, they are merely reference points useful to the modern visitor as a means for imagining the missing ancient city. In so doing, Forster relied on a historical tradition without which his book could neither have been written nor have enjoyed such enormous popularity. My thesis investigates the historiography of Alexandria's literary history from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, with a particular focus on this last century which gave birth to the tradition of looking at Alexandria with Classical eyes. Having pointed at the tradition of looking at Alexandria through Classical eyes, I explore primary European sources (maps and travelers' descriptions and commercial treaties) describing Alexandria from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries to identify the key moment when the western interest for Hellenistic Alexandria emerged and neglected its Christian and Islamic heritage. I first examine in the literature of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the prevalence of Alexandria as a major Ottoman port-city actively involved in the trade between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Second, I reveal that the Christian history of the city was of high value to the European travelers who dealt tangentially with its Hellenistic and Roman remains.
(cont.) I therefore affirm that the abandonment of the walled city of Alexandria after the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in 1517, was neither the result of an economic decline nor the consequence of Ottoman misrule, as it appeared to the European visitors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. With this already acquired knowledge, I argue that the European obsession in Hellenistic Alexandria had its causes outside the geographic boundaries of the city. Indeed, this hinge-period coincides with the rise of a new humanism in Europe in the end of the seventeenth century. It was mirrored in Alexandria through the writings of several travelers and envoys such as Corneille le Brun, Benoit de Maillet, Frederick Lewis Norden and Comte de Volney who from one side, resurrected Hellenistic Alexandria in their writings while from the other, dejected the Arab or Islamic civilization occupying and disfiguring this land of antiquity. However, despite their concern for historical accuracy (achieved through travel and archeology), my analysis points out contradictions that betrayed their attempt to reconstruct solely the Hellenistic and Roman city and assign a decline paradigm for the Ottoman town. Engravings as well as paragraphs in the literature they provide reveal the flourishing commerce Alexandria was exerting with Mediterranean cities of the Ottoman Empire, Europe and North Africa. To further support this argument, I examine two mosque patronages that put Alexandria not only on the trade map, but also on the pilgrimage route to Mecca.
(cont.) Studying the eighteenth-century European scholarship on Alexandria, my thesis concludes that this period of unconsolidated knowledge and messy discourse in Europe paved the way to the linear vision of Alexandrian history adopted unanimously after colonialism and the rise of European empires. My thesis brings to a close that Forster's acclaimed book has not been the product of a single individual of the twentieth century, but rather the culminations of a cultural and political tradition whose roots lie beyond the geographic boundaries of Alexandria.
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Millard, David Walter. "Collected writings on the therapeutic community." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.606102.
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SYNOPSIS This thesis has two objectives: ( i ) to place on record work on the therapeutic community published between 1976 and 1994; ( i i ) to substantiate the argument that therapeutic community approaches offer a well defined and empirically established (but perhaps neglected) method of treatment in the mental health and related fields. In respect of the first, the printed work comprises four book chapters, seven papers from the professional literature and fifteen signed editorials from the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities. Some hitherto unpublished pieces have been added in support of the second objective. Concerning the second, the previously printed work is not presented chronologically but is organised in the following sections: The Characteristics of the Therapeutic Community Evaluation Applications of the Model in Practice Contributions to Therapeutic Community Theory Staff Issues. In addition there is a general introduction (The Writer to the Readers) and a separate Introduction to each Section designed to make clear my thesis that (i) therapeutic community approaches can be soundly characterised; (ii) substantial efforts have been made to tackle the question: does it work?; (iii) there is well-described experience of the application across a range of situations of therapeutic community principles; (iv) an intellectually convincing set of theories underlying this approach exists; and (v) the problems of equipping staff to function in a demanding form of social therapy can be adequately addressed.
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HONG, Yuchan. "Spelling Normalization of English Student Writings." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-361925.
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Spelling normalization is the task to normalize non-standard words into standard words in texts, resulting in a decrease in out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words in texts for natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as information retrieval, machine translation, and opinion mining, improving the performance of various NLP applications on normalized texts. In this thesis, we explore different methods for spelling normalization of English student writings including traditional Levenshtein edit distance comparison, phonetic similarity comparison, character-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) and character-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) methods. An important improvement of our implementation is that we develop an approach combining Levenshtein edit distance and phonetic similarity methods with added components of frequency count and compound splitting and it is evaluated as a best approach with 0.329% accuracy improvement and 63.63% error reduction on the original unnormalized test set.
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Chou, Hsiu-Feng. "Darwinism's applications in modern Chinese writings." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/16038.
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The core aim of this interdisciplinary research is to provide a critical analysis of the influence of Darwinism and Social Darwinism on a sample of modern Chinese writings. To achieve these aims, the researcher uses a range of both Chinese and English sources to explore their close affinities with Darwinism and Social Darwinism. Following this course, the research examines how Darwinian thought was introduced to the Chinese reading public in the late nineteenth century through a translation of Thomas Henry Huxley’s Evolution and Ethics by Yen Fu, and the subsequent impact of this work and Darwinian thought in general on seven literary and political figures: K'ang Yu-wei, Liang Qichao, Lu Xun, Hu Shih, Chen Duxiu, Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong. From an historical perspective, the Opium Wars and imperial invasions of China in the nineteenth century severely weakened the country’s political, economic, diplomatic, military, educational and cultural power. For these reasons and others, from 1840 to 1949, China experienced a tumultuous period of social and political transformation, which has eventually led to her revival in the twenty-first century. It will be seen that each of the literary figures examined here used evolutionary thought to justify revolution at various points on China’s long march to modernity. Progressive Darwinian ideas sharply contrasted with the old Confucian values upheld within Chinese communities. Nevertheless, the faults and weaknesses of Qing China awakened many pioneering revolutionaries who sought to reverse the status quo by initiating a series of radical reforms and revolutionary movements. Many within the Chinese intellectual elite looked to the tide of change and progress coming from the West, which they hoped might replace the recent historical stagnation and Confucian dogma embedded in Chinese culture and society. In this vein, many of these pioneering revolutionaries set about driving the historical transformation of China by selecting, translating and interpreting Darwinian ideas in their own writings. From Yen Fu in the nineteenth century to Mao Zedong in the twentieth century, evolutionary thought went hand in hand with China’s modernization.
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Wong, Shuk-han Mary. "New Chinese cinemas and feminine writings." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21779041.
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Robideaux, Sharon. ""Like dancers following each other's steps an analysis of lexical cues in student writing for differing audiences /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4844.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on December 12, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Yates, Kenneth Wayne. "The content of eucharisteo in Pauline writings." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Pendleton, Michael Scot. "Sainthood in the writings of Frederick Buechner." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1997. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p048-0203.
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Malik, Farhana. "Women and landscape in Willa Cather's writings." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299783.
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Levy, Sharona Anne. "Amy Levy : the woman and her writings." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384848.
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Box, M. "The suasive art of David Hume's writings." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371606.
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Lawrence, Veronica J. "The life and writings of Richard Whitford." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2932.
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This study examines the writings of Richard Whitford, early sixteenth-century English Bridgettine Father and author of devotional literature. Since a canon of his writings has not yet been satisfactorily established, the study begins by examining all works attributed to Whitford and their claim to a place in the corpus of his writings. The appearance of Whitfordts name as self-acknowledged author within the text of a work and/or reference to the work in another work known for the above reason to be his are considered indisputable evidence of his authorship. Chapters 2 and 3 examine the salient characteristics of all works falling into this category. Chapter 4 looks at all other works attributed to Whitford and, based on the evidence provided by chapters 2 and 3, accepts or discounts his authorship of the works. Chapter 5 provides a physical description of most early printed editions of Whitford's writings and traces their history as printed books. A comparison of different editions of Whitford's works reveals that his thought remained conservative throughout his life but that he was constantly considering ways in which he might best convey his message to his audience. Chapter 6 is a detailed study of sources, such as contemporary writings, the Bible, the writings of the Church Fathers and the pagan writings of antiquity, used by Whitford in his works and the ways in which he used them. Chapter 7 examines Whitford's writings in the context of contemporary devotional literature. It will be seen in this chapter that they hold a peculiar place in the devotional literature of the early sixteenth century, not so much because of their content but because of their presentation. The appendix provides an edition of Syon Ms. 18, A looking glace for the religious-, quite possibly by Whitford and never previously edited.
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周恩珊 and Yan-shan Bonny Chao. "A study of Italo Calvino's postmodernist writings." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42575710.
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Chan, Chi-wang, and 陳志宏. "Huang Shizhong's fictional writings and political discourse." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45015387.
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El, Daly Okasha Noureldin. "Ancient Egypt in medieval Moslem/Arabic writings." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404563.
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Brooks, Stella Rosemary. "Attitudes to childhood in eighteenth-century writings." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390548.
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Walmsley, John Brian. "Wolfgang Ratke (Ratichius) and his educational writings." Thesis, Durham University, 1990. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6048/.
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Wolfgang Ratke (Ratichius, 1571-1635) presents something of a paradox in educational history. Born in Holstein, he first came into prominence through the Memorandum he presented at the election of the Holy Roman Emperor in Frankfurt in 1612. The Memorandum contained a brief proposal for reforming schools and bringing about unity of government, language and religion throughout the empire. Apart from these few facts, there is almost nothing concerning Ratke on which historians agree. For some, Ratke was a reformer of central importance - the first in history to dedicate himself exclusively to the cause of education (hence his self-given title 'Didacticus’ For others, he was a man who developed fruitful ideas, but failed to demonstrate that they could be implemented in practice, - a man sincere but incapable. For still others, he was not only incapable but not even sincere - a cheapjack, a charlatan. This thesis takes up the paradox of Ratke's treatment in educational history, and tries to discover how it arose. Starting with a sketch of Ratke's life, it examines Ratite’s attempts to implement his reforms in Augsburg, Kӧthen and Magdeburg, and the reasons for his failure. It also examines Ratke's contribution to the areas in which he invested his reforming energy for over twenty years - the curriculum, educational policy and administration, learning-theory and teaching-method. Finally, an attempt is made to find an answer to the question of whether Ratite’s ideas did indeed prove fruitful for the educational reforms which spread through seventeenth-century Germany, or whether they disappeared without trace.
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Ozawa, Shizen. "Imperial foreignness : on Rudyard Kipling's early writings." Thesis, University of Essex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364511.
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Leacock, Bernadette. "The selected polemic writings of D.P. Moran." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.232862.
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COSTA, CARLOS IRINEU WANDERLEY DA. "POINTS AND COUNTERPOINTS IN ABELAIRA`S WRITINGS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=15841@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORA presente dissertação de mestrado está centrada na análise de três livros de Augusto Abelaira. São analisados Bolor, Quatro Paredes Nuas e O Triunfo da Morte, livros escolhidos por permitirem evidenciar alguns dos procedimentos de escrita deste autor. É feita uma breve contextualização histórica, seguida pela análise de temas, elementos textuais, processos formais e características estruturais recorrentes nas obras estudadas. A dissertação se concentra em tópicos característicos da escrita de Abelaira, como sua retomada de assuntos e temas, a problematização da identidade dos narradores e o atrito entre ficção e realidade. O objetivo é demonstrar que a desconstrução da estrutura narrativa linear nas obras do autor impossibilita a existência de uma interpretação privilegiada. É postulado um paralelo entre a técnica abelairiana de justaposição e as técnicas de montagem cinematográfica descontínuas, evidenciando a lógica estruturante que ambas compartilham. Finalmente, é analisada a relação entre o narrador e os diferentes planos narrativos: os narradores destes livros de Abelaira parecem ser compostos por uma superposição de diferentes vozes, algumas das quais remetem a planos externos à narrativa. A partir da relação de atrito entre ficcional e realidade, investiga-se como Abelaira sistematicamente questiona e evidencia os limites da escrita ficcional.
This dissertation is centered on the analysis of three books by Augusto Abelaira, a Portuguese 20th century writer. Bolor, Quatro Paredes Nuas and O Triunfo da Morte have been chosen because they allow us to highlight some of the narrative procedures typical of this author. A brief historical overview is followed by an analysis of themes, textual elements, formal and structural characteristics recurrent in the author`s work. The dissertation focus on aspects that characterize Abelaira`s writing style, such as his constant use of subjects and themes. Our goal is to demonstrate that the very structure of his narrative precludes the existence of a privileged interpretation of the analyzed work. A parallel is postulated between the writer s technique of juxtaposition and discontinuous cinematographic editing techniques, as both share the same logical structuring. Finally, we analyze the relationship between the narrator and the various narrative plans in order to show that the narrators in these three books by Abelaira are a superposition of different narrative voices that make successive references to extra-fictional events. From the friction between fiction and reality that the narratives seem to present, we systematically investigate how Abelaira questions and highlights the limits of fiction writing.
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Chao, Yan-shan Bonny. "A study of Italo Calvino's postmodernist writings." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42575710.
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Mock, Marilyn. "Illustrations or writings which should come first? /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1998. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Thesis (M. Ed.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1998.Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2750. Typescript. Abstract included as one unpaged leaf at back of volume. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 28-30).
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Abou-Aly, Amal Mohamed Abdullah. "The medical writings of Rufus of Ephesus." Thesis, Online version, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.246073.
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Briggs, Gemma Louise. "Metaphor in the writings of Primo Levi." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2011. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9586/.
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This thesis examines Primo Levi’s use of metaphor. To date, there has been no in-depth study of Levi’s figurative language. Despite the esteem in which Levi is held as a writer, critical studies have often tended to focus on content over form, and on those works in which he presents and examines his Auschwitz experience over his fictional output. This study is directed principally to more overtly linguistic and literary elements of Levi’s work, and spans his whole career as a writer of both testimony and fiction. The thesis is divided into four main parts; the first part provides background on Levi’s use of figurative language and engages with critical theories regarding metaphor. Part II is dedicated to the Holocaust and begins by looking at polemical issues surrounding Holocaust literature, such as the appropriateness of the employment of metaphor within this genre. The discussion then concentrates on how Levi overcomes the ineffability of the Holocaust via the use of metaphor in his testimonial writing and his poetry. In Part III, the themes of science, creation and writing are explored. Levi’s writing transcends the ‘two cultures’ dichotomy, not only bringing together creative writing and writing about science, but also through sustained metaliterary reflections on the process of writing itself, whether fictional or autobiographical, creative or scientific. Part IV draws together the findings of this thesis, showing that metaphor is essential to what Levi is trying to achieve as a writer, who – in all his work, although in varying ways – deals with events which fall outside the range of normal human conceptualising experience.
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Khreegi, Yusra. "Women in the writings of Muhammad 'Abduh." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2014. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/20318/.
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The 'Woman question' in Islam, under its various titles - 'women in Islam', 'women's rights in Islam', 'the status of women in Islam', 'gender in Islam' - is one that has been a topic of heated debate for the last century, and continues to be a field of intense debate and thriving scholarship. Likewise, pioneers of modern Islamic reform are often referred to in relation to modern discourses on gender, and the issue of gender is often touched on in discussions of these pioneers' reform projects, but often in a generic and superficial manner. While the Egyptian reformist scholar Muhammad 'Abduh is a figure often referred to in this context, this aspect of his thought has never been studied in detail. This study aims to deepen the study of these two questions - gender and reform - and the intersection between them. Various general books on 'the father of Islamic reform' exist, often devoting a few pages to 'women's reform' (or more commonly referring to the question of women's reform under the few pages devoted to 'Abduh's 'social reform'), creating a rather vague view of this critical figure's views on this topical question, often with unsubstantiated generalisations. This study aims at addressing this through a detailed study and analysis of 'Abduh's own discourse on women in order to discover its themes, distinctive characteristics, the questions it poses and the answers it attempts to give, as well as the tensions and contradictions within it. The study locates the gender question within the bigger context of the reform discourse that emerged in a specific historical context in response to the Muslim world's encounter with modernity. The study further addresses the extent of 'Abduh's influence on subsequent discourses on women and his legacy which continues to be contested and competed over. The study provides, for the first time, a detailed study of 'Abduh's writings on women and gender, based on primary sources, and addresses the overlaps between various rival trends often seen as distinct, pointing to the multiple and diverse roots of the contemporary genre of 'Muslim feminism', which indeed draws influence from the reformist views of 'Abduh, but not necessarily through a single linear and coherent route.
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Allred, William S. "Politics and the Writings of Vassily Aksyonov." W&M ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625534.
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