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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Archaism"”.
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Dead Bones Dancing: The Taki Onqoy, Archaism, and Crisis in Sixteenth Century Peru.
… decade of crisis, and its role as a mechanism of archaism by which the Andean people endeavored to restructure their post-conquest world.</p>
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Voces, Silencios, Ambigüedades y Fantasmagorías en el Espacio Transafricano de la Narrativa de Viajes del Siglo XIX
… between body ethics / aesthetics ideals); archaism / modernity (civilization / barbarism), and voices / silences (presences / absences).
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Song hunters in Svaneti: Musical tourism and other intercultural encounters in highland Georgia
… music, which attracts foreign singers due to its archaism, connections to pagan ritual, and harmonies interpreted as strikingly dissonant. Intercultural encounters bear both risks and opportunities. As song tourists have expanded their own horizons and created new opportunities for Svan musicians, …
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Interpretations of Richard Wagner's Music Drama in English-Language Poetry and Poetics (1848-1924)
… temporality which brokered innovation via archaism. They realised his promise in translations, verse-performances and novel dramatic forms. Their literary responses to Wagner reinvented the music drama for the anglophone sphere. This study also contributes to wider debates in cultural …
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Sounding sacred: The adoption of biblical archaisms in the Book of Mormon and other 19th century texts
… make the most consistent and standard use of archaisms. They are not characteristic of 19th century religious texts generally, but are common to two texts, both of which claim to be new revelations of scripture: The Book of Mormon and the Holy Roll. These lack the consistency of the …
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The Artistic Patronage of the Augustinian Friars in Central Italy (1256-c. 1370)
Since the inception of Renaissance scholarship in the late 1800s, the mendicant orders of friars – above all the Franciscans – have been considered pivotal for the artistic and urban renewal underway in Italy from the 1200s onwards. This dissertation provides the first comprehensive study of the …