Characteristics of materials used in the writing of Singapore popular history by Narayanan, Rakunathan

“…Given Singapore's short history as an independent country, it was postulated that nonacademic writers and publishers of Singapore popular history may not have been equipped or guided in their craft to the level expected of them as political disseminators, social memory-makers or story-tellers. …”
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The intellectual scope of the 'mester de clerecía' by Curtis, F

“…<p>This thesis investigates the first poetry written in Castilian by intellectuals, the <em>'mester de clerecía'</em>, ‘craft of clerics’. Exploring the unique circumstances of Iberia in the Middle Ages as a hub for the intellectual vanguard and a holy territory for encounters with saints, pilgrimage and Reconquest, I examine the canonical texts of an alleged thirteenth-century poetic school as the Castilian bedrock of a wider Iberian and European literary movement. …”

Reality in America, redux: on Trump panic fiction by Gaskill, N

“…This essay explains why the election of Donald Trump in 2016 marks a literary historical event. In particular, I show how the liberal response to Trump, as well as Trump’s own persona, foregrounded an unsettling confusion between fiction and reality that led novelists to question the value of their craft. …”

A parametric framework to generate visual illusions using Python by Makowski, Dominique, Lau, Zen Juen, Pham, Tam, Paul Boyce, W., Chen, Annabel Shen-Hsing

“…Instead, scientists have to craft them by hand in an idiosyncratic fashion, or use pre-made images not tailored for the specific needs of their studies. …”
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Preserving Mojiang Hani hand weaving techniques: understanding complexity for culture and sustainable development by Mingquan, Liu, Yahaya, Siti Rohaya, Chunli, Guo, Yan, Huang

“…This jeopardizes the continuity of a craft that is deeply woven into the fabric of their cultural identity. …”
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21W.747 Rhetoric, Fall 2002 by Strang, Steven M.

“…Studies the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of ideas, awareness of audience, methods of persuasion, evidence, factual vs emotional argument, figures of speech, and historical forms and uses of arguments. From the course home page: Course Description Introduction to 21W.747 This course is an introduction to the history, the theory, the practice, and the implications (both social and ethical) of rhetoric, the art and craft of persuasion. …”
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Instability Scaffolding: Enacting Strategic Instabilities to Produce Authentic Premium Wine by Zhang, Alan

“…I show how vineyard proprietors and contract providers worked together to sustain craft authenticity at scale in the region through a process I theorize as contract custodianship. …”
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21W.747-3 Classical Rhetoric and Modern Politics, Spring 2006 by Perelman, Leslie

“…This course is an introduction to the history, theory, practice, and implications of rhetoric, the art and craft of persuasion. …”
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The Contract, the Contractor, and the Capitalization of American Building by Spencer, Chelsea Anne

“…Operating at the critical inflection point between projection and materialization, paper and concrete, contractors appealed to investment-minded clients as fellow businessmen, offering them what neither craft builders nor professional architects could deliver: a completed building, for a fixed price, on a guaranteed schedule. …”
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Modélisation des interactions en Italie du Nord au premier âge du Fer: de la circulation de parures aux réseaux d’influences culturelles by Cicolani, V, Huet, T, Zamboni, L

“…By modelling the fashion tradition through the analysis of shared clothing items, this paper would like to propose a critical review of the markers of cultural identity, mobility, interaction traditionally used looking for alternative theoretical interpretation and social narrative of the role of indigenous communities in the North Italic trade et craft activities. …”

Visual mapping art : data visualization & crowdsourcing for an ostensive definition of art by Ong, Zi Feng

“…Art categorization is challenging (Novitz, 1996; Ziff, 1953) because definitions of art vary throughout art history and amongst different philosophical schools. …”
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Urban Informatics and Future Cities / by Geertman, S. C. M., editor 642892, Pettit, Christopher, editor 310233, Goodspeed, Robert, editor 642893, Staffans, Aija, editor 642894

21W.731-3 Culture Shock!, Fall 2002 by Faery, Rebecca Blevins

“…In the coming weeks we will read a number of articles that address current issues in popular culture along with essays, pieces of carefully-crafted nonfiction, by writers, scientists, philosophers, poets, historians, literary scholars, and many others. …”
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Drafting ‘Anon’ and killing anon: Virginia Woolf and the genesis of English literary language by Phillips, J

“…In the draft pages of her literary history, Woolf crafts a narrative for the genesis of literature in English and English as a literary language. …”

21世纪中国电影英雄的塑造 = The making of a 21st century China film hero by 佘曜丞 Seah, Walter Yao Chen

“…From the beginning of the ancient times of worship, the image of a hero was crafted based on the times that it appears, showing that not only does a hero requires the qualities that its predecessors have, but it also must consist of the qualities that are recognized by the modern age as well. …”
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