Essays about: "mimetic"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 33 essays containing the word mimetic.

1. 16. An Imperfect World, Imperfectly Retold : Mimetic Uncertainty in Early, Late, and Meta-Modern Fiction

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Jonathan Brott; [2020]
   Keywords : Mimetic Uncertainty; Uncertain Narration; Unreliable Narration; Realism; Modernism; Metamodernism; Reflexivity; Virginia Woolf; Tao Lin; Daniel Defoe.;

   Abstract : Proposing the concept of mimetic uncertainty, this project aims to provide a critical inquiry into the correspondence of unreliable narration and realism. Building on Springett (2013) and Olsen (2003), a distinction between narratorial unreliability and uncertainty is proposed to denote whether a narrator explicitly signals an awareness of their fallible narration. READ MORE

3. 17. Size Matters: A Comparative Study of Supply Chain Integration between SMEs and MNEs

   University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Centre of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (CeLS)

   Author : Johann Hagedorn; Feras Khousrof; [2019]
   Keywords : supply chain management; supply chain integration; supplier integration; small and medium-sized enterprises; multinational enterprises;

   Abstract : Background: Supplier integration is becoming increasingly important due to the increased globalisation in the business world nowadays. Today’s focal firm does not operate independently, but as a part of its supply chain which competes with other supply chains in the market. READ MORE

4. 18. Image schemas, mimetic schemas, and the development of Swedish children’s gestures

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Klara Sif Skarphédinsdóttir; [2019]
   Keywords : Gesture; Communication; Language; Image Schema; Mimetic Schema; Mimesis; Sign; Sign function; Cognitive Semiotics; Viewpoint; Mode of Representation; Semiotic Grounds; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Language and gesture are two semiotic systems that work together in close integration during communication. One issue in particular, that of image schemas, has been studied in relation to gestures, though most often in adult gesture and communication (Williams, forthcoming; Cienki, 2013; Mittelberg, 2006, 2018). READ MORE

5. 19. Blockchain accounting: claiming professional legitimacy through disruptive narratives

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för redovisning och finansiering

   Author : Carl Hurtig; Annahita Nikavar; [2019]
   Keywords : Accounting and auditing; Blockchain; Digital technology; Domain change; Institutional work;

   Abstract : Purpose - This thesis aims to explore how and why accounting firms engage in adopting emerging, potentially disruptive technologies such as blockchain as part of their professional domain. While previous research has addressed blockchain's potential impact on accounting systems, the current study focuses on its institutional implications. READ MORE

6. 20. Beyond Vision: Eyeless Writing in Virginia Woolf's The Waves

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Marie-Helen Stahl; [2019]
   Keywords : Modernism; Virginia Woolf; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; phenomenology; vision; eyeless writing; anti-ocularcentrism; nonanthropocentrism; body;

   Abstract : In the early 20thcentury, a “crisis of ocularcentrism” arose in philosophy, replacing the Cartesian epistemological notion of a disembodied mind inspecting the object-world from the outside with an ontological and phenomenological approach to vision and being, embedding humans corporeally in a world exceeding their perceptual horizon (Jay 94). In response, modernist artists abandoned realist and naturalist techniques, rejecting mimetic representation, and experimented with new artistic forms, trying to account for the new complexity of life. READ MORE