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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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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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Lewis-Smith, Christopher. "The dancer and the looking glass." Thesis, University of Kent, 2018. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/65808/.
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This thesis concerns the relationship between the dancer, the camera, and the screen viewer in the making and watching of screendance. It documents a personal journey of exploration that has my own creative practice, located within the wider field of screendance, as a central thread. The research identifies a divide, with respect to control and authorship, which exists between the performer on one side of the lens and filmmakers on the other. It explores, through practice, production methodologies that challenge and narrow this divide. It finds that the small scale, single-take, single mobile camera dancing/filming event can help close the divide between dancer, camera. The research also finds that there are significantly few screendance works that are made as single-take films. As a tangent to this finding, it also finds that screendance works, like in mainstream films, are trending towards increasingly short shot lengths. In addition to the information that I bring together from films, theorists, and interviews, the thesis draws on nineteen short films that I have made as part of this research and concludes with the production of The Glasshouse (2016), a screendance that summarises a number of the core findings of The Dancer and the Looking Glass.
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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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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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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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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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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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Donker, Menno N. van den. "Plasma deposition of microcrystalline silicon solar cells looking beyond the glass /." Jülich : Forschungszentrum, Zentralbibliothek, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=987947575.
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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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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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Meseguer, Alicia Z. "Looking-glass analysis : reading 'Alice' through the portmanteau and the virtual." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.505907.
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This thesis is a psycho-analysis working backwards: beginning with biographical details, it analyses the peculiar brilliance of Carroll's works as inventions which allow him to master his psychic conflict. An acute, perfect equilibrium of desire and morality is understood as underlying Carroll's paralysis as a social and speaking subject (his stutter, his celibacy). The extraordinary genius of the Alice books is seen as the result of a creative overcoming of this conflict, rather than merely an expression of unconscious desires. The thesis takes its bearings from a detailed exploration of two aspects of Carroll's work: the virtual and the portmanteau. In tracing the etymology and senses of the term 'virtual', I uncover and deploy a new definition in which the 'virtual' refers simultaneously to desire and to the morality which prohibits it. Reading Carroll from this new perspective, the portmanteau emerges as virtual in both form and effect. The portmanteau collapses two or more words together in a way that refuses to grant priority. It is then read as a triumphant refusal to disturb the perfect balance of Carroll's psychic conflict. This use of the virtual is conversely, virtually a portmanteau, that is: 'in essence or effect, although not formally or actually' ('virtual' sense 4. a. OED). The virtual and the portmanteau thus intersect and interpenetrate in an original configuration, throwing new light on Carroll's continuing legacy in relation to both literature and film. This virtual-portmanteau formation is thus used to read Carroll's literary work (as well as his illustrations and his photography) and its ongoing effects in three virtual reality texts: William Gibson's Neuromancer, Jeff Noon's Automated Alice, and Larry and Andy Wachowski's Matrix film trilogy.
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Bryan, Jane. "The cinema looking glass : the British film fan magazine, 1911-1918." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429675.
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Walker, Alexandra. "Beyond the Looking Glass : object handling and access to museum collections." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2013. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/374734/.
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For many, a museum visit may consist of gazing at objects locked away in glass a cabinet accompanied by signs forbidding touch, and complex and often confusing text panels. But what message does this present to the visiting public? How can the public connect with museums and their collections if objects are beyond their reach? Why is handling reserved for the museum elite and not the general public? The value of touch and object handling in museums is a growing area of research, but also one that is not yet fully understood. Despite our range of senses with which we experience the world around us, museums traditionally rely on the visual as the principle means of communicating information about the past. However museums are increasingly required to prove their worth and value in society by becoming more accessible, not just in terms of audience but by opening up their stored collections, and government agenda is pushing for culture to feature in the everyday lives of the public. This research pulls apart the hierarchical nature of touch in the museum, demonstrating the benefits of a “hands-on” approach to engaging with the past, investigating the problems and limitations associated with tactile experiences, and puts forward a toolkit for tactile access to collections. It suggests that handling museum collections, not only enhances our understanding of the past, but provides memorable and valuable experiences that will remain with an individual for life.
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Gabelman, Josephine. "Theology through the looking-glass : literary nonsense and the Christian imagination." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3642.
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This project is an investigation into the character of the Christian imagination. It examines in depth three central aspects: paradox, anarchy and the childlike, acknowledging that within each category there is something of the unreasonable or nonrational. Rather than trying to iron out or explain away the logically problematic, the thesis explores the possibility that an idea can be contrary to rationality and yet be true and meaningful. It is demonstrated that a number of central tenets of the Christian doctrine require a faith that often goes beyond reason or does not exclusively identify with it. The study involves the systematic analysis of central stylistic features of literary nonsense using Lewis Carroll's famous Alice stories as exemplar. The construction of a nonpejorative model of nonsense is then used to introduce analogous components of Christian theology with a particular focus on the doctrine of Salvation. Sparked by G. K. Chesterton's description of the Fall as the condition of ‘being born upside-down', soteriology is conceived of as a tospsy-turvy reorientation of the will and an imaginative attunement to the absurd. The project culminates in the setting-up of a nonsense theology by considering the practical and evangelical ramifications of associating Christian faith with nonsense literature; and conversely, the value of relating theological principles to the study of literary nonsense. Ultimately, the research suggests that faith is always a risk and that a strictly rational apologetic misrepresents the nature of Christian truth.
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Yearwood, Claire Elizabeth. "The looking-glass world : mirrors in Pre-Raphaelite painting 1850-1915." Thesis, University of York, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13380/.
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This dissertation examines the role of mirrors in Pre-Raphaelite painting as a significant motif that ultimately contributes to the on-going discussion surrounding the problematic PRB label. With varying stylistic objectives that often appear contradictory, as well as the disbandment of the original Brotherhood a few short years after it formed, defining ‘Pre-Raphaelite’ as a style remains an intriguing puzzle. In spite of recurring frequently in the works of the Pre-Raphaelites, particularly in those by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt, the mirror has not been thoroughly investigated before. Instead, the use of the mirror is typically mentioned briefly within the larger structure of analysis and most often referred to as a quotation of Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait (1434) or as a symbol of vanity without giving further thought to the connotations of the mirror as a distinguishing mark of the movement. I argue for an analysis of the mirror both within the context of iconographic exchange between the original leaders and their later associates and followers, and also that of nineteenth-century glass production. The Pre-Raphaelite use of the mirror establishes a complex iconography that effectively remytholgises an industrial object, conflates contradictory elements of past and present, spiritual and physical, and contributes to a specific artistic dialogue between the disparate strands of the movement that anchors the problematic PRB label within a context of iconographic exchange. Considering the mirror as a stand-alone entity in their works, it not only gives a modern, contemporary relevancy to their images regardless of the subject matter depicted, it also functions as a metaphor for their specific approach to realism mediated through visions in glass.
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Bonacchi, Rebecca H. "Through the Looking Glass: Another Reading of Willa Cather's The Professor's House." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/137.
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This project examines Cather’s experimentation with conflicting voices of narrative authority in the presentation of four central female characters in The Professor’s House, using St. Peter and an entity termed the implied narrator as lenses through which we view other characters. The project is broken down into four chapters, each dealing one addressing the central issues involving that specific female character.
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Bou, Alameda María Elena. "Through the Looking Glass: Understanding a Complex Relationship between Knowledge and Action." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/9175.
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Drawing on the study of knowledge and action as a reference, this thesis explores how practitioners in two different firms perform their practice, 'knowing' and 'acting' simultaneously. It argues that types of knowledge, activities, individuals and context are interwoven at the moment of acting. However, this relationship is not static. The empirical work in a local labour placement company and in a multinational consultancy firm shows that practitioners resort to a host of different expressions of knowledge (or bundle of knowledge) when acting. Therefore, the prevailing role of explicit knowledge and the need for being a precedent in order to be applied is called into question.
The empirical work also reveals that the bundle of knowledge is not static. It evolves over time and at the same time the prevailing type of knowledge varies depending on the type of practice and the practitioner's level of expertise. Therefore, the results underscore the fact that the relationship between knowledge and action is more dynamic and that both interplay simultaneously.
Finally, this research shows that formal company categorisations (senior/junior) describe different practices rather than correspond to differential stocks of formal knowledge. This means that even when experts and novices apparently seem to be doing the same job, their actions are different as they are constituted through different combinations of knowledge types and orders of relevance. These results seem to point toward the fact that the essence of expertise resides in the expert's ability to reframe. He is able to reconstruct practice, whether by reframing his tasks or the overarching context.
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Cole, Barbara. "Through the tinted looking glass, evaluating images of the self and others." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ57656.pdf.
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Cole, Barbara (Barbara Marion) Carleton University Dissertation Psychology. "Through the tinted looking glass: evaluating images of the self and others." Ottawa, 2000.
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Cartellier-Veuillen, Éléonore. "Through the Looking-glass World of Harry Potter : Literature, Language and History." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018GREAL019/document.
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« À travers le monde-miroir de Harry Potter : littérature, langage et histoire » (« Through the Looking-glass World of Harry Potter : Literature, Language and History ») est une thèse qui propose d’analyser Harry Potter non pas comme un ouvrage à succès mais en tant que littérature à part entière. Les films, la marchandisation, le parc à thème et autres annexes aux œuvres sont donc mis de côté pour se concentrer sur le texte qui recèle un nombre important de joyaux littéraires. Notre but sera de démontrer que Harry Potter fait partie du canon littéraire et qu’il permet au lecteur de re-découvrir son propre monde.Quatre grands thèmes dans l’œuvre de J. K. Rowling sont mis en avant – le lien avec la littérature de jeunesse, l’intertextualité, le langage et l’Histoire – pour mieux étudier la qualité littéraire de Harry Potter. Notre problématique se centre sur la question de passage entre notre monde et le monde magique à travers la notion de langage. En effet le langage permet de créer un pont entre notre culture, notre littérature, nos mythes et notre histoire et le monde enchanté du livre. Cette transposition permet au lecteur de redécouvrir son propre monde à travers un habile jeu de miroirs dans le texte. En poursuivant sa lecture le lecteur est capable de passer à travers le miroir et de découvrir un univers à la fois merveilleux et terrible qui reflète et déforme le nôtre.Cette thèse se propose d'analyser la littérarité du texte tout en pointant les liens avec notre propre culture, que ce soit avec la réécriture des classiques anglophones pour adultes et enfants dans Harry Potter, ou la réécriture de notre Histoire. Ce travail a pour but de démontrer que Harry Potter est digne du canon de la littérature et qu'un examen poussé de l’œuvre permet d’apprécier et de découvrir cette saga à un niveau universitaire“ travers le monde-miroir de Harry Potter : littérature, langage et histoire » (« Through the Looking-glass World of Harry Potter : Literature, Language and History” is a thesis whose aim is to analyse J. K. Rowling’s set of magical novels through the lens of literature. We will focus on the text in order to uncover the literary gems which are hidden within the weft of the text. The aim of this thesis is to explain why Harry Potter can be considered as part of the literary canon and how the text creates a mirror-universe which enables the reader to rediscover his own world.In order to better analyse the literary qualities of the text four main themes are put forward in this thesis: the links with children’s literature, intertextuality, language and history. Our thesis question centres on the question of passage between our world and the magical one through the notion of language. Indeed, language enables bridges to be built between our culture, our literature, our myths and our history and the magical universe of the books. This transposition enables the reader to rediscover his own world thanks to a clever hall of mirrors effect. Through his reading process the reader is thus able to go through the looking-glass and discover a wonderful and terrifying world where the best and the worst of our society and history is represented.This thesis reveals how in-depth analyses of intertextuality, language and history display the literary qualities of Harry Potter and enable an academic reading of the text
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Borba, Maria Cristina Schleder de. "The fantasy content of Alice in wonderland and through the looking glass." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2012. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/74942.
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Gerber, Karla. "Through the looking-glass : the Matrix as filmic container and fortigenic tool." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46111.
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This qualitative investigation addresses the notion of using the film The Matrix (Silver, & Wachowski, Wachowski, 1999) as a fortigenic tool. Fortigenesis is a process of developing strengths. Within the relatively new field of positive psychology (PP) the premise is that character strengths and virtues can be fostered to lead a better life with positive goals and richer meaning. This positive outlook has several links with existentialism. As such PP and existentialism were used as theoretical points of departure in this reading of the film. For this new field to grow, positive psychologists embrace the idea of using many foci. Hence many looking-glasses or lenses were used in this reading: these are PP, existentialism, philosophy, Christianity and fairy-tales. As a result, several PP notions such as self-efficacy, love, hope, courage, open-mindedness, creativity and faith and two existential themes, freedom of choice and will to meaning, were read into this motion picture. Thus conceptually, The Matrix is specifically explored as a filmic container. Its application as a fortigenic tool is highlighted through the use of Broaden-and-Build theory to validate and solidify constructs. Broaden-and-build theory is founded on the idea that positive emotions lead to a broadening of cognition (e.g. new and creative ways of thinking), which in turn allows for a broader repertoire of positive actions that people can consider. Lastly, conclusions are discussed, one being that more research about the positive in psychology is necessary.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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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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Bejleri, Andi. "Parameterised session types communication patterns : through the looking glass of session types." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/9475.
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This dissertation studies a type theory to guarantee communication-safety in sessions of an arbitrary number of participants, typically represented as communication patterns, of mobile processes in the context of multiparty session types— a well-established type theory that describes the interactive structure of a fixed number of processes from a global point of view and type-checks the processes through projection of the global type onto the participants of the session. Communication-safety is the property that mobile processes exchange values of the same set without deadlocking and data races. Our study introduces a programming idiom of roles— a concept that describes the nature of a communication pattern in a similar way to classes in Java and C#, offering a design on how to incorporate parameterised session types into a mainstream language. The formal model (1) preserves multiparty session types’ syntax and type-checking strategy, and (2) allows the number of participants to range over infinite sets of natural numbers, providing full computation power of programs. A series of communication patterns and real-world examples from parallel algorithms and data exchange protocols demonstrate the expressiveness and practicality of the formal model, comparing the model with the only mature implementation of (binary) session types. We proved that type preservation under reduction and communication-safety hold in the type system. The study of parameterised session types is supported by the examination of multiparty session types for synchronous communications. We extended the initial work on multiparty session types with a simpler calculus, multicast send of values and labels, a practical form of higher-order communication and a more intuitive, elegant linearity property; we proved that (a) type preservation and communication-safety hold in the type system, and (b) interactions of a typeable process follow exactly the description of the global type.
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Taji, Mona 1956. "Looking through the magnifying glass : higher education policy reforms and globalization in Jordan." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85208.
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This study was based on the assumption that globalization is behind the initiative for higher education reform in Jordan. The changes stemming from globalization are of such magnitude that they are impacting higher education systems almost everywhere, in varying degrees of intensity.The conceptual framework of this study is shaped by qualitative methodology, and guided by a social constructivist paradigm, using a case study strategy. My aim is to choreograph this inquiry based on the post-modern notion that there is no single correct interpretation that captures reality. In this study, I identify the forces responsible for the restructuring of higher education in Jordan, to help gauge the scope and dimensions of the changes advanced under the banner of reform.
My aim in this study is to expand the ongoing debate on higher education in the context of globalization. And most importantly for Jordan, I aim to help develop a more coherent, multi-linear view of the dynamics underlying the reforms advanced, and the various impacts of globalization. By providing insight into the relationship between globalization and the needs advanced for higher education policy reforms, this study aims to help work with globalization rather than against it, and invest every effort to benefit from its opportunities.
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Cruz-Lopez, Irma F. "The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program: Looking at Mexican Participation Through a Magnifying Glass." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23782.
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Mexican migrant workers have been coming to Canada since 1974 to work in agriculture as participants of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). Presently, Mexicans constitute the majority of SAWP workers. As well, Ontario is the main receiver of these workers followed by British Columbia and Quebec. Accordingly, the scope of this thesis mainly encompasses Mexican workers in Ontario. However, the thesis also includes Mexican SAWP workers in Quebec and British Columbia. This thesis reveals two main issues: (1) that all SAWP workers, particularly Mexican workers, lack key legal rights and protections relating to labour relations, employment, health and safety standards at the structural level of the SAWP; and at the federal, provincial, and international levels. (2) Even when they have rights under legislation relating to the above-mentioned subject matters, Mexicans, especially, lack the capacity to access them. Thus, they become ‘unfree labourers’ who are placed in a perpetual state of disadvantage, vulnerable to abuse and exploitation once in Canada. To describe the issues above, the thesis is divided into five chapters addressing the following: Chapter 1 presents the historical context behind the SAWP as well as the Mexican workers’ circumstances that attract them to participate in the Program. Chapter 2 examines the applicable constitutional and federal framework for SAWP workers. In addition, it highlights key federal exclusions placed on them, which originate in the federal immigration and employment insurance legislation. Chapter 3 concludes that Ontario does not protect its agricultural workers from unfair treatment and exploitation in the workplace; rather, it perpetuates such practices. This reality is intensified for SAWP Mexican workers. Particularly, chapter 3 analyses a constitutional challenge to the Ontario legislation excluding agricultural worker from its labour relations regime; said challenge is based on ss. 2(d) and 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Chapter 4 maintains that similarly to workers in Ontario, SAWP workers in Quebec and British Columbia also face extreme disadvantages due in great part to the lack of or limited legal protections. Finally, chapter 5 asserts that due to its implementation in the Canadian framework, international law is inadequate to protect domestic and SAWP workers’ rights. While each chapter identifies tangible drawbacks or anomalies, which affect SAWP workers negatively, the thesis also provides recommendations to alleviate said weaknesses.
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Erkli, Cihan. "Through the Turkish looking-glass Turkey's divergent narratives, national identity & foreign policy /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2010. http://worldcat.org/oclc/645458329/viewonline.
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Radford, Linda Margaret. "Teachers through the looking glass : an enquiry into the public image of teachers." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399545.
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Looking back over a long career as a secondary school English teacher prompted the reflection that during my professional lifetime something of former value has been lost by teachers. I tentatively attributed this to an apparent deterioration in the way in which teachers are perceived by other members of society, and it is this supposition and its implications that this dissertation explores. My concern was, in part, personal. More significant was my growing belief that this seemingly negative perception of teachers was - and is - discouraging able graduates from embarking on a career in education, demoralising serving teachers, and consequently damaging the schooling of pupils, who are our central concern. Given that images are socially constructed, I located my work within the symbolic interactionist paradigm, and explored perceptions from a range of sources. I first investigated ways in which teachers are depicted in books recommended to pupils through the National Curriculum for English, and from English public examination prescribed texts; I subsequently expanded data through interviews with teachers and other members of society, through analysis of newspaper reports and articles, and through consideration of views obtained from pupils. Data confirmed that teachers are generally conceptualised negatively, and thus, in the populist sense, as non-professionals. However, there is evidence, too, of more positive perceptions. I deduce that teacher-image is characterised by ambivalence, and irony, and is vulnerable to change. Moreover, setting teacher-image against its socio-historic background implies that this ambiguity of perception symptomises prevailing attitudes to education. Thus, current initiatives - which may be interpreted as intended,in part, to reconceptualise teacher-image - could suggest recent recognition of the importance of conveying positive perceptions of teachers, in order to recruit and retain competent and committed practitioners.
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Khan, Firoz. "Critical perspectives on post-apartheid housing praxis through the developmental statecraft looking glass." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5251.
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Thesis (PhD (Public Management and Planning))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The principal question this study aims to answer is why and how a left-of-centre government not hobbled by heavy external leverage, with developmental state precedents, potentially positive macroeconomic fundamentals, and well-developed alternative policies for housing and urban reconstruction came to settle on a conservative housing policy founded on ‘precepts of the pre-democratic period’. Arguably, this policy is even more conservative than World Bank strictures and paradigms, whose advice the incoming democratic government ‘normally ignored’ and ‘tacitly rejected’. The study, which spans the period from the early 1990s to 2007, commences from the premise that housing is an expression and component of a society’s wider development agenda and is bound up with daily routines of the ordering and institutionalisation of social existence and social reproduction. It proposes an answer that resides in the mechanics and modalities of post-apartheid state construction and its associated techniques and technologies of societal penetration and regime legitimisation. The vagaries and vicissitudes of post-Cold War statecraft, the weight of history and legacy, strategic blundering, and the absence of a cognitive map and compass to guide post-apartheid statecraft, collectively contribute to past and present defects and deformities of our two decade-old developmentalism, writ large in our human settlements. Alternatives to the technocratic market developmentalism of our current housing praxis spotlight empowering shelter outcomes but were bastardised. This is not unrelated to the toxicity of mixing conservative governmentalities (neoliberal macroeconomic precepts, modernist planning orientations, supply-side citizenship and technocratic projections of state) with ‘ambiguated’ counter-governmentalities (self-empowerment, self-responsibilisation, the aestheticisation of poverty and heroic narratives about the poor). Underscored in the study is the contention that state developmentalism and civil society developmentalism rise and fall together, pivoting on (savvy) reconnection of economics and politics (the vertical axis of governance) and state and society (the horizontal axis). Without robust reconfiguration and recalibration of axes, the revamped or, more appropriately, reconditioned housing policy – Breaking New Ground – struggles to navigate the limitations of the First Decade settlement state shelter delivery regime and the Second Decade’s (weak) developmental state etho-politics. The prospects for success are contingent on structurally rewiring inherited and contemporary contacts and circuits of power, influence and money in order to tilt resource and institutional balances in favour of the poor. Present pasts and present futures, both here and abroad, offer resources for more transformative statecraft and sustainable human settlements, but only if we are prepared to challenge the underlying economic and political interests that to date have, and continue to, preclude such policies. History, experience and contemporary record show there are alternatives – another possible and necessary world – via small and large steps, millimetres and centimetres, trial and error.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die hoof vraag wat hierdie studie probeer beantwoord is hoekom en hoe dit gekom het dat ʼn links-van-die-middel regering wat nie gekniehalter was deur gewigtige, eksterne invloede nie; en met ontwikkelingstaat presedente [of voorbeelde]; potensieel positiewe makro-ekonomiese grondbeginsels, en goed ontwikkelde alternatiewe beleide vir behuising en stedelike herontwikkeling, gevestig [of vasgesteek] het op ʼn konserwatiewe behuisingbeleid, gegrond op ‘voorskrifte van die voor-demokratiese tydperk’. Die beleid is, aanvegbaar, selfs meer konserwatief as ongunstige Wêreld Bank voorskrifte en paradigmas, wie se advies die inkomende demokratiese regering oënskynlik geïgnoreer en stilswyend verwerp het. Die studie, wat strek oor die periode vanaf die vroeë 1990s tot 2007, begin met die aanname dat behuising ʼn uitdrukking en komponent van ʼn gemeenskap se wyer ontwikkelingsagenda is, en saamgebind is met die daaglikse roetine van die ordening en institusionalisering van maatskaplike bestaan en maatskaplike reproduksie. ʼn Antwoord word voorgestel wat berus op die meganika en modaliteite van na-apartheid staatskonstruksie en die meegaande tegnieke en tegnologieë van sosiale penetrasie en regeringstelsel legitimering. Die giere en wisselvallighede van Na-Koue Oorlog staatkunde, die gewig van geskiedenis en nalatingskap, strategiese foute en die afwesigheid van ʼn bewuste kaart en kompas om na-apartheid staatkunde te lei, het gesamentlik bygedra tot die vorige en teenwoordige gebreke en misvormings van ons twee dekade-oue ontwikkelings-isme (‘developmentalism’), groot geskryf in ons menslike nedersettings. Alternatiewe tot die tegnokratiese mark ontwikkelings-isme (‘developmentalism’), van ons huidige behuisingspraktyk, plaas die kollig op bemagtigende skuiling uitkomstes, maar was verbaster. Dit is nie onverwant aan die giftigheid van die meng van konserwatiewe goewermentaliteite (‘governmentalities’) (neoliberale makro-ekonomiese voorskrifte, modernistiese beplannings orientasies, verskaf-kant burgerskap en tegnokratiese projeksies van staat) met teenstrydige teen-goewermentaliteite (‘governmentalities’) (self-bemagtiging, self-verantwoordlikheid (‘self-responsibility’), die estetifikasie (aestheticisation’) van armoede en heldhaftige vertellings omtrent die armes). Onderstreep in die studie is die bewering dat staatsontwikkelings-isme (‘developmentalism’) en siviele gemeenskapsontwikkelings-isme (‘developmentalism’) saam klim en val, en wat roteer om (kundige) herkonneksie van die ekonomie en politiek (die vertikale as van regeerkunde) en staat en gemeenskap (die horisontale as). Sonder robuuste herkonfigurasie en herkalibrering van die asse, sukkel die opgedateerde, of amper her-kondisioneerde behuisingsbeleid – Breaking New Ground – om die limiete van die Eerste Dekade nedersetting staat skuiling leweringstelsel en die Tweede Dekade se (swak) ontwikkelende staat eto-politiek, te navigeer. Die verwagtinge vir sukses is gebaseer op strukturele herbedrading van oorgeërfde en eietydse kontakte en stroombane van mag, invloed en geld, op so ʼn wyse dat hulpbronne en institusionele balans ten gunste van die armes gekantel word. Teenwoordige verledes en teenwoordige toekomste, beide hier en oorsee, bied hulpbronne vir meer transformerende staatkunde en volhoubare menslike nedersettings, maar slegs indien ons bereid is om die onderliggende ekonomies en politiese belange uit te daag, wat tot op datum en nog steeds voortgaan om sodanige beleide te verhinder. Geskiedenis, ondervinding en eietydse rekords, moet wakker bly vir alternatiewe – ʼn ander moontlike en noodsaaklike wêreld – via klein en groot stappe, millimeters en sentimeters, tref of fouteer.
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Harvey, Mark Peter. "Self-contradiction : the paradoxes of desire explored through the looking glass of Lacan." Thesis, University of Kent, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311272.
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Buchbinder, Alison H. ""Through the looking-glass" magical and misused objects in nineteenth century children's literature /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 94 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1597631381&sid=31&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Dalgarno, Elizabeth Louise. "'Through the looking glass' : primary care consultations, work and health : a qualitative study." Thesis, Keele University, 2018. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/5580/.
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Musculoskeletal conditions are believed to cost UK society approximately £7.4 billion per year, with 30 million working days lost each year due to musculoskeletal conditions. Currently, within the UK, sickness certification can be self-certified for a period of seven days after which time a General Practitioner is required to authorise any further period of absence from work for patients. In April 2010 the Sickness Certificate was replaced with the Fit Note. The existing literature has offered little ‘in-vivo’ insight into the primary care consultation in relation to the management of patient musculoskeletal work-related concerns since the introduction of the Fit Note, and there is a paucity of research exploring the patient experience of these consultations. The research questions in this thesis broadly ask: How are musculoskeletal work-related concerns discussed and managed within the primary care consultation? How do patients experience these consultations? Mixed qualitative methodology is used within this study. Interpretative methods are used to thematically analyse 100 video-recorded consultations and 19 semi-structured interviews to answer these research questions and provide insight into this area. Findings reveal that the management of musculoskeletal work-related concerns within the primary care consultation is sub-optimal. Accessing work-related support for these people is complicated and contingent upon how they come to identify themselves as candidates for work-related support. The theoretical framework of candidacy is offered as a useful device for understanding and conceptualising the patient experience of these consultations. Interactions with healthcare, in combination with sociocultural factors, mediate how people come to understand their candidacy to seek musculoskeletal work-related support. Directions for further research in this area are provided.
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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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Salzberg, Ana. "Beyond the looking glass : the narcissistic woman reflected and embodied in classic Hollywood film." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5600.
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Linking the images of stars as contrasting as Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, and Gloria Swanson, and uniting genres like romantic comedy, film noir, and melodrama, the figure of the narcissistic woman stands as a versatile, ever-present extra- and intra-diegetic force in the dream factory of classical Hollywood. She is, in fact, the lead in what sociologist Edgar Morin conceptualizes in The Stars (1957) as a golden-age “myth of love”: Calling upon the psychic and sensory investment of her fans with her otherworldly aura and material impact, the female star emerges as both the active subject of romantic narratives and the admired on-screen partner in a love affair with the spectator. Like Ovid's original Narcissus before her, the narcissistic woman of Hollywood exists, as Morin describes it, to “focus…love's magic on [herself].” Contemporary film theory, however, has interpreted the star not as a subjective force in this dialogical “magic” between actress and spectator but rather as the product of a patriarchal system of filmmaking, one that objectifies women both on the screen and in the audience. In an effort to further analyze the questions of identity and representation evoked by the female star and her audience, this thesis will seek an alternative to the binaries that tend to characterize the traditional understanding of women in classic Hollywood (that is, spectator/star, narcissistic subject/idealized object; male/female, active/passive). Rather than read narcissism as a one-dimensional, monologic preoccupation with one's image, this research posits that classic cinematic representations of the woman's relationship to the self invite an examination of the existential complexity of a figure negotiating the registers of corporeal reality and ethereal ideality, star persona and diegetic character. In the hopes of highlighting the active engagements – between star and role; spectator, actress, and filmic form itself – inspired by these cinematic entities and their “myths of love,” this work will connect psychoanalytic concerns with Edgar Morin's cultural history of Hollywood, Laura U. Marks's theory of haptic visuality, and the phenomenological understanding of film outlined by Vivian Sobchack in an exploration of the embodied subjectivities borne by the on-screen Narcissus and her off-screen audience.
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Postemsky, Diana. "Through the looking-glass reading and reflecting from Wide Sargasso Sea to Jane Eyre /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/647.
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Kennedy, Jennifer J. "Through the Looking Glass: Ovid's Amores 2.1 as a reflection of Amores book one." [Huntington, WV : Marshall University Libraries], 2008. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=875.
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Stewart, Jane Patricia. "The looking-glass of empire : early feminist interrogation of the colonial patriarchy, 1850-1950." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365042.
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Rojas, Paredes Natalia Elizabeth. "Murphy : through the looking glass of chaos and contradiction : a cornerstone in Beckettian style." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2013. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/115667.
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Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciada en Lengua y Literatura InglesaOur objective is to visualize how Beckett show us the ideas explained before in “Murphy” and how he configured them and gave them form through the story and the characters. In order to do so, we will support our analysis with the concepts presented by the theory of chaos and the ideas developed by Jacques Derrida in his theory of Deconstruction. All this in order to understand the phenomena of contradiction presented as the central element in the novel. We also will see how the symbolism present in the novel is used as a way to reinforce and clarify this phenomenon and finally we will be able to see how we can identify our human condition through this novel.
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Westin, Boel. "Vem var det som drömde? Ord och logik i Lewis Carrolls Through the Looking-Glass." Uppsala : Svenska Litteratursällskapet, 1999. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-200728.
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Domínguez, i. Rué Emma. "Ellen Through the Looking-Glass: Female Invalidism as Metaphor in the Fiction of Ellen Glasgow." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Lleida, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/8112.
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Esta tesis doctoral examina la figura de la inválida como símbolo de la indefensión de la mujer en los Estados Unidos durante el cambio de siglo. En mi opinión, éste es un aspecto esencial para comprender la producción literaria de la escritora de Virginia Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945). Aunque escribió la mayor parte de sus novelas durante las tres primeras décadas del siglo veinte, Glasgow fue educada en la moral victoriana. Por tanto, mi análisis de la enfermedad y la invalidez como metáfora de la condición de la mujer se ha llevado a cabo en el contexto del culto a la invalidez femenina de la época. La tesis se centra especialmente en la imagen de la inválida como una manifestación exagerada de los ideales masculinos de género, que definían la feminidad como sinónimo de extrema debilidad.Los capítulos de esta tesis doctoral intentan examinar la figura de la inválida en algunas de las novelas y narraciones cortas de Ellen Glasgow. A mi parecer, este cánon opera como un espejo y refleja aspectos de la personalidad de sus protagonistas así como de la misma autora y, hasta cierto punto, de la mujer en general. Aunque algunos de los personajes femeninos que se consideran no pueden calificarse de físicamente o médicamente inválidos, mi agumento principal es que Glasgow utiliza este ideal cultural y estético como metáfora para revelar los mecanismos de la sociedad machista en la que vivía. La ficción de Glasgow advierte de los peligros que comporta asimilar estos valores, ya que las mujeres de la época eran instruidas para convertirse en un modelo de delicadeza, inocencia y abnegación, hasta el punto de ser reducidas a la invisibildad como individuos. Glasgow parece sugerir que esta doctrina debilita a la mujer tanto física como psicológicamente, ya que condena sus necesidades y aspiraciones como inválidas, es decir, no-válidas.
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Miller, Dawn Marie. "Italy through the looking glass, aspects of British policy and intelligence concerning Italy, 1939-1941." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ28018.pdf.
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Evans, Nancie Jeannette. "Through the looking glass : reflections on organizational integration and the transfer of knowledge between firms." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404229.
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Woodhouse, Anna Louise. "Looking through glass : representations of windows, lenses and spectacles in modern American literature and culture." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.578690.
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Exploring the power and the politics of the glass-framed gaze, this thesis addresses interconnections between capitalism, voyeurism, and surveillance in American literature. Existing studies of the relationship between glass and capitalism, such as Bowlby's Just Looking, focus on explicitly commodity contexts. My research extends such analyses of the commercial gaze to reflect upon sexual and criminal contexts. Transparent and reflective, glass both proffers and withholds what it displays, magnifying both desirous and destructive passions. It presents a unified image of the viewer and the viewed, potentially assimilating and objectifying to enhance self-image. Working through a series of representations. I explore the "mirroring effects" of windows. lenses and spectacles. How, for example. do Holgraves daguerreotypes inform perceptions of past and present Pyncheons? What is the significance of Dr T. Ecklebergs gargantuan spectacles, and how might they frame Gatsby as the 'advertisement of the man") How do Marlowes musings on the 'oriental junk' in the window of a seedy bookstore reflect upon his own sexuality') ( suggest that, collectively. the various representations of windows, lenses and spectacles comprise a metaphorical "hall of mirrors", transfiguring the identities of both viewer and viewed Intensifying the gaze. these forms of glass art' both causes of and remedies to visionary distortion. They figure sight as potentially flawed and correctable, not only commodifying the objects they display. but also becoming commodities in themselves. Drawing upon critical insights provided by Marx, Lacan. and Debord, this thesis inter-relates the perspectives of the consumer, the photographer. and the detective. It traces the development of the consumer gaze in the US, examining the reciprocal complex of mediated presentations and receptions 10 show, literally, how Americans have envisioned themselves through glass.
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Kyser, Diana. "THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: COMPANY CULTURE AS A REFLECTION OF FOUNDER PERSONALITY IN ENTREPRENEURIAL ORGANIZATIONS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/436065.
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This dissertation explores the connection between founder personality and organizational culture in founder-led entrepreneurial companies. With a focus on how founder personality affects culture, it draws from the literature in upper echelon/top management teams, family business and organizational psychology – notably the Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA: Schneider, 1987) and Person-Organization fit (P-O: O'Reilly, Chatman, & Caldwell, 1991) theories. Using a combination of ethnographic, psychological and organizational data from the founders and employees of four small firms from multiple industries, and a broader survey study of 336 respondents from 23 firms, it finds support for O’Reilly et al., (2014)’s CEO Personality-Culture link in the small-company setting. It also validates two new findings: 1) that employee personality traits can trump founder personality as an influence on culture, and 2) that founder involvement can moderate the impact of founder personality on culture. The dissertation concludes with plans for further research into the personality-organizational culture effects and thoughts about the applicability of these results for founders and consultants.
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François, Camille. "Through the cracked looking-glass : poét(h)ique de l’enfance dans le roman britannique contemporain." Thesis, Amiens, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AMIE0008.
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Nous examinons les spécificités poétiques et éthiques de l'écriture contemporaine de l'enfance dans huit romans de Martin Amis, A.S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro et Doris Lessing, mesurant son évolution depuis les origines romantiques de l'enfant littéraire. L'approche choisie combine la précision textuelle de la narratologie, le souci éthique des cultural studies, et l'apport conceptuel de la théorie critique (Barthes, Deleuze, Derrida, et Levinas) sur le signe, l'éthique, et la représentation du corps, afin de mettre au jour l'aliénation poétique et sémiotique subie par l'enfant. En adaptant la méthodologie des études de genre, féministes et postcoloniales à la figure de l'enfant, on s'aperçoit que celui-ci a longtemps été construit comme un signe surdéterminé jusqu'au non-sens, les mécanismes du désir adulte mettant en péril sa constitution en sujet, et conditionnant la poétique des œuvres qui l'accueillent. La notion de trace (chez Derrida et Ricœur) est décisive pour conceptualiser ces formes de kidnapping poétique ; complétée par une analyse narratologique de la parole de l'enfant, des choix de focalisation et de genre de ces romans, elle souligne la nature toujours déjà faussée de l'écriture de l'enfant. Cette étude cartographie également le « sauvetage » paradoxal orchestré par le roman postmoderne à l'endroit de l'enfant-signe, souvent inversé en une visibilité ob-scène du corps, sôma paraissant seul pouvoir contrer sèma. La figure de l'enfant-poète rappelle quant à elle le poids pérenne des mythes romantiques : revisitée par les romanciers contemporains, elle leur permet de mieux poser la question (auto)critique d'une nouvelle éthique de la fictionThis study examines the poetical and ethical aspects of writing childhood in eight contemporary British novels by Martin Amis, A.S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and Doris Lessing. It brings together the textual focus of narratology, the ethical concerns of cultural studies, and the conceptual work of French theory on signs, ethics, and the representation of the body (notably Barthes, Deleuze, Derrida, and Levinas) in order to identify the poetic and semiotic alienation undergone by the child figure. Adapting the tools of feminist, gender, and postcolonial studies to look at the figure of the child in the context of child-writing since its Romantic origins allows us to further stress the poet(h)ical difficulties of writing childhood. The child has indeed been repeatedly set up as a contradictory, self-cancelling sign, a repository of adult meaning and desire, which not only hinders character development but also affects the poetical structure of these works. The concept of trace as defined by Derrida and Ricœur is key to an understanding of this recurrent poetical kidnapping, as are narratological analyses of child-centred language, focalization, and genre, highlighting the often fallacious nature of representation. This study sets out to make sense of the paradoxical postmodern “rescue” of the child-turned-sign played out in contemporary fiction, which often amounts to an extreme foregrounding of its grotesque body, as sôma competes with sèma. The Romantic association of the child with the figure of the poet also comes into focus, as contemporary novelists revisit the myth to reflect (self)critically on a new ethics of fiction
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Miller, Heather 1971 Sept 14. "The book as looking glass : improving works for and about children in early modern England." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39170.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, February 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-64).
This text explores three developments pertaining to children and reading in seventeenth-century England. The author aims to show how profoundly death was implicated in the development of thought about children's reading as well as in the emergence of a literature for children in the early modem period. The first chapter discusses the negative reaction to the growing phenomenon of children reading romances and adventures in chapbook form. Escapist literature was believed to make one forget one's mortal lot, which in turn decreased one's motivation for piety. Through a discussion of the threat chapbook romances posed to pious reading, the chapter establishes the historical context for a related development, the creation of a religious or moralizing literature that children would find compelling. In their quest for gripping settings, authors latched on to the deathbed scene for its felicitous blend of inherent theatricality and religious resonance. By early seventeenth century, a few women writers even used the pretext of deathbed advice to pen their own conduct-of-life manuals in an otherwise male-dominated marketplace. The second chapter discusses the prefatory rhetoric used by the two most successful female writers in this genre. The remarkable success of maternal deathbed advice literature suggests that books in Protestant culture absorbed the near-superstitious value of Catholic icons and relics. The genre also implies a Protestant adaptation of the Catholic veneration of the mother. Comfort for the motherless child no longer came from prayer to Mary, but through the reading (and perhaps holding of) a book of advice by a model (and dead) Protestant mother. An analysis of the prefaces enables a close reading of the self-fashioning
of model mother-authors. The third and final chapter discusses the starring role of death in the first English-language children's book, A Token for Children, by James Janeway. The chapter explores the literary interest in the early deaths of ordinary children of extraordinary piety. By reference to the doctrine of predestination, the author speculates that these books had a comforting as well as a preparatory function, allowing parents and children to rehearse (through reading) a model death of a child undoubtedly bound for Heaven. By no means a comprehensive treatment of the connections between death culture and children's reading in the early modern period, the thesis is intended to indicate how pious reading functioned as a reminder of one's mortality and a spur to self-scrutiny. The "looking glass" of the text displayed idealized and heaven-bound children and parents compared to whom the reader may have felt sorely in need of increased vigilance.
by Heather Miller.
S.M.