Search Results - "antithesis"
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Pastoral as an antithesis of apocalypse in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood
Published 2022“…The concept of pastoral will be used as an antithesis of apocalypse in order to identify Atwood’s dissatisfaction with contemporary negative practices against environmental nature. …”
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Eco-awareness as an antithesis of apocalyptic eco-phobia in Margaret Atwood’s (The Year of the Flood)
Published 2022“…This finding accentuates the characters engagement with nature since it exalts their eco-awareness as a therapeutic antithesis to apocalyptic eco-phobia; whereby they become convened to cease exploiting nature in negative way. …”
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Idea pemikiran pluralisme agama dalam penulisan buku Indie ‘Aku..., Maka Aku Ada’ dan ‘Antithesis’
Published 2020“…Sebanyak dua karya yang dipilih sebagai sampel kajian untuk menganalisis sejauh manakah pemikiran pluralisme agama digarap dalam penulisan buku indie karya Faisal Tehrani “Aku…, Maka Aku Ada” dan karya Benz Ali “Antithesis”. Hasil kajian mendapati kedua-dua buah buku ini mengandungi ketiga-tiga parameter yang telah ditetapkan. …”
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The dialectics of ‘home’ in Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun
Published 2021“…The study adopts Georg Hegel’s dialectics of thesis, antithesis and synthesis in the discussion of the abstract and concrete perceptions of home. …”
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Spirituality as a Dimension in Counselling
Published 2006“…While many proponents of mental health theories highlight the idea of spiritual dimension as a major or an indispensable dimension, not everyone agrees on the debate, and an antithesis is discussed.…”
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The cadence of counterbalance
Published 2009“…In particular, it focuses on the ‘cadence of counterbalance,’ namely the expression of an antithesis using alliteration. It is suggested that political rhetoric, at its most rousing and memorable, is poetical both because it draws on the musical resources of language and because it appeals to a redressing vision which counterbalances current views of the world with a more desirable one. …”
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Human Rights and Community Development in a U.S. Army Village in Okinawa
Published 2011“…Against the enthusiasm for modernisation led by the construction boom in the 1970- 80s Japan and Okinawa, Yomitan Village has deliberately revitalised a village of farming, traditional arts and crafts: an antithesis to the military’s culture of war and destruction. …”
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Islamic feminist discourse: origins and development in the Muslim World
Published 2011“…It concludes that the concept of feminism, being a modern concept which has developed through different phases in the Western part of the world, like all isms in the modern world, the values it came to be associated with – especially in its radical form – is an antithesis of what Islam stands for and is thus not acceptable to many Muslims. …”
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Would High Commitment Management work in cultural context of Kazakhstan?
Published 2009“…Thus, the case study shows that Kazakh culture is direct antithesis of what HCM is moulded for. That is, this dissertation concludes that HCM is not designed for Kazakh context, and, therefore, is unlikely to work and be successfully introduced in Kazakh business environment.…”
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Contemporary Muslims and human rights discourse: a critical assessment
Published 2009“…Whereas most authors on the subject ardently argue the case for human rights by tracing it from the traditional Islamic religious sources, this study poses an antithesis to that trend. The point of departure in this work is found in its in-depth investigation and critique of the theoretical foundations of the human rights issued by international organizations such as the United Nations or the Organization of African Union (now defunct) or the Cairo Declaration. …”
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Re-examining feminity - the voices of leadership in managerial meeting discourse
Published 2005“…This paper contends that some of the communicative strategies employed by Malay women academic administrators are the antithesis of expected gendered speech patterns that could be triggered by the demands of leadership as well as an expression of individuality. …”
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Russian anti-literature
Published 2013“…Therefore, the social function that was to mold Russia’s destiny could only arise from a literature that measured itself against the West and yet remained distinct – one that could be seen as an antithesis to the Western cultural establishment just as young Russia as a whole sought to see itself as old Europe’s opposite. …”
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Specifics of appealing headlines in Russian mass media materials dedicated to science
Published 2022“…It is indicated that the corpus of appealing headlines on these resources is characterised by individual author’s decisions embodied with the help of a comic mode, allusions, precedent texts and quotes, differentiation of the “image” of the addressee, oxymoron, antithesis and grotesque. In the system of popularising science, appealing headlines become organic components of news, gamified, and animated messages.…”
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Conceptual framework of transparency initiatives (TI) for construction industry of Malaysia
Published 2019“…Whereas, integrity provides the basis for transparency and accountability since integrity is referred to as honesty and trustworthiness in the discharge of official duties, serving as antithesis to corruption. Corruption is a fiduciary crime that is believed to slowly penetrate the construction sectors in countries across the globe. …”
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Ben Cousins and the ‘double life’: exploring citizenship and the voluntarity/compulsivity binary through the experiences of a ‘drug addicted’ elite athlete
Published 2010“…In the interview, we explore Cousins' own understanding of drug 'addiction' and its relation to its apparent antithesis sporting prowess. We also examine the ramifications of the ostensible paradox between drug 'addiction' and sporting accomplishment for understandings of 'addiction' as compulsivity and lack of free will. …”
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Style and creativity: towards a theory of creative stylistics
Published 1997“…The purpose of this thesis is to present a new theory of creative stylistics as an antithesis to traditional description-oriented stylistics. …”
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Joseph Conrad's new paradigm for modern man in search of a soul
Published 2013“…In the first three works, Conrad criticises two opposite but equally detrimental extreme reactions to modern life: firstly, extreme rationalism and positivism which closes the door to the unconscious, rejecting it as irrational and primitive; secondly, the antithesis to this approach, where the protagonists fall under the absolute control of the unconscious. …”
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Cross-Cultural encounters: the early reception of Charles Dickens in China, 1895-1915
Published 2013“…In Chapter Three, I shall first consider how in A Tale of Two Cities Dickens makes use of the French Revolution, and the antithesis between the individual and the collective, to comment on contemporary politics before proceeding to consider how the novel was adapted to serve specific political purposes when it was first published in China in an overtly political journal, The Justice, about a year and a half after the Chinese Revolution of 1911. …”
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Music and emotion links to visitor harassment: a look at Jamaica
Published 2018“…The goal of the study in question was to determine the genres of songs and music likely to have a positive effect on emotions the antithesis of the ones associated with VH but would have positive effect on visitors’ shopping behaviors as well. …”
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