Sökning: "malleability"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade ordet malleability.
1. Beastly Lessons: Natural Utopias in Seventeenth-Century England
Sammanfattning : The present study investigates the motif of virtuous animal instructors in three selected English texts from the second half of the seventeenth century: James Howell’s The Parly of Beasts (1660), Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World (1666), and Thomas Tryon’s The Way to Health (1683). These authors proposed solutions to the challenges facing early modern England, most notably the Civil War, the emerging empirical science, and the incipient colonization of the Americas. LÄS MER
2. "Take a Taste" : Selling Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales in 1934
Sammanfattning : This study explores the marketability of Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales, published in the US in 1934. The term marketability is used to refer to the book as a potentially desirable object for sale on the market, successfully promoted by the Book-of-the-Month-Club whose members were intent on educating themselves and refining their taste. LÄS MER
3. This Untethered Buffoon or the Trickster in Everything
Sammanfattning : This Untethered Buffoon or the Trickster in Everything is a documented artistic research project (Doctoral Thesis) in Performative and Mediated Practices, comprising a series of excavations and vivisections of W(w)hiteness through clowning, making and thinging. This work/play traverses the fields of critical whiteness studies, performance and clowning, visual and cultural anthropology and decolonial critique. LÄS MER
4. Escaping the riptide : probing the malleability of cognition
Sammanfattning : Cognitive abilities are essential for functioning in daily life – even something as mundane as going to the grocery store taps into a variety of cognitive functions. Exactly how and under what circumstances they can be improved has led to over a century of academic debate. LÄS MER
5. The malleability of political attitudes : Choice blindness, confabulation and attitude change
Sammanfattning : This thesis is an empirical and theoretical investigation of choice blindness, in particular in the domain of political attitudes. Choice blindness is a cognitive phenomenon in which people do not notice dramatic mismatches between what they choose and what they get while still offering seemingly introspective arguments to explain their (putative) choice. LÄS MER