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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
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Architectural Lifeworld: Exploring Meanings of Spatial Environments for Residents in Dementia Care
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This study explores the architectural lifeworlds in three dementia care buildings in Alberta, Canada, helping architects better understand the meanings of architectural spaces to people with dementia. Addressing the practical design issue of evidence-based design guidelines challenging...
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Fall 2020
This dissertation analyzes three types of semantically opaque phrases (i.e., phrases that are composed of constituents whose literal meanings do not entirely contribute to the meaning of the overall phrase): opaque compound words (e.g., hogwash), metaphors that have a compound-like structure...
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Solvitur Ambulando: Interrupting Secondary English Literature Education Through Conversation with the Sciences
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Though the world at large is a complex system of interdisciplinarity, secondary classrooms continue to be divided by subject, a modernist orientation, drawing lines between disciplines in lieu of nurturing conversations between them. Ultimately, what results are students who are made to keep...
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Tick Tock: Insect Figuration, Temporal Estrangement and Historiographic Critique in Postmodern and Contemporary Literature, Art, and Film
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This dissertation engages with posthumanist and postmodern theory, critical animal studies, and critiques of modern temporality and historiography to examine how insect figures trouble dominant understandings of historical time in contemporary Western literature, film, and art. It argues that...