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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Animal Imagery"”.
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Aspects of Animal Imagery in Petrarch’s 'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta'
This thesis examines the role of animal imagery in Petrarch’s 'Rerum vulgarium fragmenta' (Rvf) as a means of elucidating his poetics in conversation with his predecessors. To achieve this aim, the present study compares and contrasts Petrarch’s poetry with that of the poets quoted in Rvf 70, …
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"Wood Leoun" . . . "Crueel Tigre": Animal Imagery and Metaphor in "The Knight's Tale"
<p>The people of the Middle Ages believed animals were disconnected from themselves in terms of ability to reason and ability to resist passions. Humans and animals were created by God, but he bestowed man with a soul and the ability to resist earthly delights. When men were described in terms of …
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"My barbarous illustrations" : animal imagery in the poetry of Robert Browning.
… "seems to be packed with references to more animals than probably exist in any city zoo." This dissertation is the product of a comprehensive study not of all animals which appear in Browning's poetry but of those animals used by the poet in metaphoric constructions. Employing a New Critical …
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Old truths in new skins: animal imagery in the works of Nikolai Leskov
Animals complicate everything. They are implicated in science, in theology; they change the course of human development in its technological, cultural, and many other aspects. Animals have often provided material for thinking about what it means to be human, since they have been harnessed by …
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Art and Becoming-Animal: Reconceptualizing the Animal Imagery in Dorothea Tanning's Post-1955 Paintings
… sparse is the scholarship on Tanning’s dog imagery, which pervades her oeuvre but becomes most apparent in her later phase. This thesis seeks to shift attention toward Tanning’s later abstract paintings; it also seeks to fill the gap in scholarship on Tanning’s dogs. Specifically, through …
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"Too Big to Swallow All at Once": Consumption and Posthuman Healing in Ceremony and House Made of Dawn
<p>This project examines the roles of animals and animal figures in the Native American novels <em>House Made of Dawn </em>(1968)<em></em>by N. Scott Momaday and <em>Ceremony </em>(1977) by Leslie Marmon Silko. Both novelists consistently evoke animal imagery within their respective texts often …
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Polecats, Poison, and Prejudice: Naturalized Anti-Judaic Tropes in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale
… identity. The comparison of the Pardoner to animals to suggest defining traits about his character invites closer attention to his tale’s use of animal imagery.</p> <p>This thesis examines animal imagery and cultural signifiers related to the Black Death in <em>The Pardoner’s Tale </em>to …
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The Journey to Manhood in Gaines' Bloodline
… on the lives of the black men. Gaines use of animal imagery furthers the effects of racism on the psychology of the blacks. The resolution comes around in the form of a mentor who helps the protagonists to break through the debilitating mind-set and work towards a new self-identity no longer …
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Fauna in archaic Greek and Kalanga oral wisdom literatures
Animals play an important role in the communication of wisdom. In songs, proverbs, aphorisms, riddles and other oral modes of communication, animals sometimes play the roles of human beings. Homeric similes, Hesiodic and Aesopic fables, and numerous oral figures of speech in Greek lyric poetry …
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Reading in the animal vernacular: the bestiary as lay genre in medieval England
… understanding of the bestiary’s system of imagery and moralizations by the fourteenth century, which exclusively monastic use does not explain. The animal imagery that appears in vernacular media requires a nuanced understanding from the audience in order to have any meaning beyond …
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Natural Disorder: The Animal Image in French and British Art before Darwin, c. 1790-1859
This study of the animal form in French and British art reveals humanity's shifting self-image as new theories of species transmutation replaced hierarchical models of nature in the half-century before the publication of Charles Darwin's <italic>On the Origin of Species</italic> in 1859. To assert …