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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Aestheticism"”.
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The poetic oeuvre of 'Michael Field': Collaboration, aestheticism and desire in the writings of Katharine Harris Bradley (1846 - 1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862 - 1913)
The last few decades have witnessed an immense resurgence in critical and academic interest in the lives and writings of nineteenth-century women poets, many of whom had been forgotten or ignored for the greater part of the twentieth century. From the 1970s onwards there has been a steady increase …
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DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI AND THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: ENVISIONING AESTHETIC BEAUTY AND THE PAST THROUGH IMAGES OF WOMEN
… that there is a relationship between Rossetti’s Aestheticism and his understanding of the Italian Renaissance and that this relationship is visibly manifested in his images of women from the period. In Victorian England, Aestheticism and the philosophy of beauty for its own sake became …
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Robert Hugh Benson and the Catholic Literary Revival in Edwardian England
… also had a complex relationship with 1890's Aestheticism. Though he wrote a novel denouncing its tenets, Benson seemed attracted by it. While many of his own views on art contradicted Aestheticism, he recognized the aesthetes' quest for beauty as valuable when consecrated to God. Finally, …
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Variant Definitions: Essays and Ruminations
… to what personal meaning for which people live. Aestheticism seems an ideal that is to be strived for, but never attained. The included essays focus on the disparity between the banality of a lived life and perceived elegance.
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Variant Definitions: Essays and Ruminations
… to what personal meaning for which people live. Aestheticism seems an ideal that is to be strived for, but never attained. The included essays focus on the disparity between the banality of a lived life and perceived elegance.
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A study of some aspects of K.P.D. Maphalla's poetry
… the theme of protest as conveyed through poetic aestheticism. Influence constitutes one of the main poetic devices which give amplitude to the poet's compositions. His imagery is a window through which the reader catches a glimpse of the poet's mind. The reciprocal relationship between the theme …
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Impartialist Ethics and Psychic Disintegration: A Talking Cure
… to psychoanalysis, and what I call practical aestheticism.</p>
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Expressing Loneliness: The Importance Of Form In Lorrie Moore's Early Experimental Fiction
… form becomes an integral part of meaning. New Aestheticism calls for criticism to return to an appreciation of aesthetic and formal qualities of literature, and this attention to form is necessary when studying Lorrie Moore's early works. Drawing on the avant-garde movements of Impressionism, …
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They throw pebbles in our garden: Women and consumerism in the Soviet Union from Lenin to Khrushchev
… traditional gender norms and encouraged feminine aestheticism. My research illustrates how the Post-Stalin era, which became more visible to the world, turned women into a barometer of the Cold War balance of power. Throughout my thesis, a theoretical question of the integrity of the Soviet …
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Aleksej Konstantinovic Tolstoj and Russian Romanticism
… started as a poet of supreme individualism and aestheticism. His views of Christianity are aesthetic and moral. He was among the first to deal blows to religious Slavophilism and Russian nationalism. The character of Tolstoj's oeuvre, its ties to Voltairianism and late, decadent Classicism, …
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Applicability of Healthy Communities in Virginia
… discussion. HC emphasizes values of community, aestheticism, relativism and private behavior. Review of available material establishes that an existing understanding of the concepts underlying HC movement contributes to its successful application. No research appears on the attitudes of health …
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Mermaids and Sirens as Androgynous Figures in Victorian Art and Literature 1870-1915
… concepts such as Dustin Friedman’s queer Aestheticism, José Esteban Muñoz’s queer utopianism, Astrida Neimanis’s hydrofeminism and Susan Stryker’s trans monsters. These concepts, when reviewed together, present the idea that queer Aesthetic art looks towards an ideal future in which …
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The Battle of Good and Evil in The Picture of Dorian Gray
… the novel there are elements of gothic fiction, aestheticism and the Faustian bargain. Faust and The Picture of Dorian Gray have many similarities, both in the structure of the stories, as well as in themes and plot. This essay looks at the similarities and differences between the corresponding …
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Between impressionism and realism: Robert Henri's early career, navigation of nineteenth-century French modernism, and the development of an American avant-garde
… he dabbled in impressionism, symbolism, and aestheticism—we can gain a fuller understanding of the dichotomous, sometimes contradictory nature of his more conservative artistic practice and his progressive philosophy of art. Reexamination also connects Henri to the influential artists of the …
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The Historical Impact Of Philosophical Naturalism On American Aesthetic Education: Bennett Reimer’s Philosophy Of Music Education As Aesthetic Education
… following the Enlightenment—i.e., the rise of aestheticism curiously coincided with the rise of philosophical naturalism. It was further determined that philosophical naturalism indeed seems to have influenced Bennett Reimer’s view of aesthetic value. It was concluded that non-naturalist …
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Dorian Gray: The Myth
… of the Narcissus myth exposes a darker facet of Aestheticism, warning of inevitable downfall when artistic pursuit succumbs to vanity and pleasure-seeking ideals.</p>
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“Tell me about it, Stud”: Queering the Dancing Male Body in Musical and Dance Films of the 1970s and 1980s
… of the male body, and through their camp aestheticism which complicates normative ideas about desire, sexuality and gender. I interrogate claims emerging from work in musical genre theory, which describes the musical as “the most heterosexist of all the Hollywood filmic forms.”2 By …
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The theory of communicative action and the aesthetic moment: Habermas and the (neo)Nietzschean challenge
… abandoned rationality in favor of a disruptive aestheticism that remains bound to a subject .. centered philosophy of consciousness and that lacks the self-critical mechanisms characteristic of rationality's intersubjective potential. The totalizing tendencies of a subject-centered perspective …
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THE VICTORIAN HERITAGE OF VIRGINIA WOOLF: THE EXTERNAL WORLD IN HER NOVELS (TIME, SETTING, COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE, SOCIETY)
… and rejecting individuality, emotion, and aestheticism. Woolf's father enforced these values; her mother added traditional feminity, physical beauty, and social role-playing. Woolf's Modernist novels rebel against this heritage but also demonstrate her attraction to it. Her English novel …
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