Browsing Theses by Subject "Romanticism"
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Maelström
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-10)The Lofoten Maelström in Norway, one of the world’s most powerful systems of tidal eddies, has been a locus of terror and imagination for centuries. First depicted in renaissance cartography, the myth of the vortex was ... -
Sift
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-01)Sift is a suite of drawings that serves as a personal record of a long hike in Iceland. Through an exploration of sediment as a metaphor, and the use of sedimentation as a drawing process, I am sifting through matter and ... -
Signature Event C*ntext
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-25)This thesis examines how context in Derridean signature theory is taboo and underutilized, and calls signature theory to embrace the contaminating mark of context. Signature theory, as proposed by Jacques Derrida and Peggy ...