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    • Intertextuality in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy

    • Intertextuality in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy

    • Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark, No Country for Old Men, All the Pretty Horses, William Faulkner, Light in August, intertextuality, aesthetics, Derrida, Heidegger, Frederic Jameson, Van Gogh, A Pair of Boots

    • The moral and aesthetic complexity of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction demands sophisticated theoretical reading paradigms. Intertextuality informed by poststructuralism is a theoretical approach that enables one to read the moral and aesthetic...
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    • Kenneth Burke, John Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Aesthetics

    • Kenneth Burke, John Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Aesthetics

    • Kenneth Burke, John Dewey, Counter-Statement, rhetoric, aesthetics, art, experience, identification, democracy

    • Kenneth Burke and John Dewey each published books on aesthetics in the 1930s. These texts present parallel conceptions of aesthetics as holding a distinctly rhetorical role in society. My project is to line up these theories, focusing particularly...
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    • Fix

    • Fix

    • selected project, art therapy, healing, sexual abuse

    • For the past 15 years I have been struggling to recover from the consequences of sexual abuse. I have been involved with many self abusive habits, including cutting different areas of my body. I have come to the understanding that these addictive...
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    • Ideals and Realities

    • Ideals and Realities

    • ideals, realities, principles, aesthetics, rhythm, balance, tension, creativity, predictability, installation, art, conceptual, perennial, morality, beauty, goodness, acceptance, unity

    • In order to produce work that prompts the viewer to undergo a process of personal exploration resulting in discourse and the understanding of feelings, it is necessary to balance ideals and realities, combine experience and creativity, and blend...
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    • Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference

    • Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference

    • South Asian, Indian-American, minority literature, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee, Interpreter of Maladies, Middleman and Other Stories, identity politics, contemporary American literature, diaspora, race, ethnicity, culture, aesthetics,...

    • My paper examines how American authors of the South Asian Diaspora (Indian-American or South Asian American) can be read 1) as simply American and 2) without regard to ethnicity. I develop this argument using American authors Jhumpa Lahiri, a first...
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    • Beauty, Ugliness, and Meaning: A Study of Difficult Beauty

    • Beauty, Ugliness, and Meaning: A Study of Difficult Beauty

    • beauty, ugliness, meaning, aesthetics, art, education

    • The emergence of modern art, and subsequently contemporary art, has brought with it a deep-rooted deliberation of the definition of beauty and its role in the realm of art. Unlike many representational artworks, contemporary art less often contains...
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    • The Poetics of a Dominican Holocaust and the Aesthetics of Witnessing

    • The Poetics of a Dominican Holocaust and the Aesthetics of Witnessing

    • García Girls, Holocaust, In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez, trauma, witnessing

    • This study examines Julia Alvarez's best-known works, García Girls and In the Time of the Butterflies, to explore the intertextuality within Dominican-American fiction through the vocabulary and methodology of trauma studies and witnessing....
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    • Rotational Molding of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene Polymers and Blends

    • Rotational Molding of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene Polymers and Blends

    • ABS, ABS resins, acrylonitrile, butadiene, styrene, rotational molding, rotomolding, plasticizer, impact strength, bridging

    • The development of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) resins for use in rotational molding would provide a medium performance material, thus opening doors to new markets for the rotational molding industry. Unfortunately, ABS resins have shown...
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    • Global Finish Curvature Matched Machining

    • Global Finish Curvature Matched Machining

    • five-axis, curvature matched machining, CM2, global finish machining

    • As competition grows among manufacturing companies, greater emphasis has recently been placed on product aesthetics and decreasing the product development time. This is promoting and standardizing widespread use of sculptured surface styling within...
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    • Libertas Reborn: A Legend of Florence and Leigh Hunt's Literary Revival

    • Libertas Reborn: A Legend of Florence and Leigh Hunt's Literary Revival

    • Leigh Hunt, A Legend of Florence, Romanticism, Victorianism, Cockney School

    • According to traditional accounts, following the premature deaths of Keats, Shelley, and Byron in the 1820s, literature in England fell into a sort of slumber until the late 1830s and early 1840s, when a new generation—a generation we now...
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    • Dairy Culture: Industry, Nature and Liminality in the Eighteenth-Century English Ornamental Dairy

    • Dairy Culture: Industry, Nature and Liminality in the Eighteenth-Century English Ornamental Dairy

    • england, gardens, parks, dairy, dairies, pleasure, ornamental, industry, women, improvement, nature, natural, maternity, breastfeeding, milk, liminal, ritual, sexuality, pagan, temples

    • The vogue for installing dairies, often termed “fancy” or “polite” dairies, within the gardens of wealthy English estates arose during the latter half of the eighteenth century. These polite dairies were functional spaces in which...
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