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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Canonisation"”.
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The British Short Story of the First World War: Form, Function, and Canonisation
… war as a topic on the other, affect processes of canonisation. The thesis locates First World War short stories in between two canons: a literary canon of short fiction, which is dominated by a modernist aesthetics of the short story, and a socio-cultural canon of Great War writing, which is …
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The Role of Women in the Canonisation of Shakespeare: From Elizabethan Theatre to the Shakespeare Jubilee
… in Britain played at an early stage in the canonisation of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare, one of the popular playwrights in English Renaissance theatre, became increasingly famous during the first half of the eighteenth century, and the Shakespeare Jubilee in 1769 marked the climax of the …
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La consécration et la canonisation littéraires au Canada français (1945-2017). Étude de la réception critique de Bonheur d’occasion et de Pélagie-la-Charrette
… thèse étudie le processus de consécration et de canonisation de deux œuvres phares, soit Bonheur d’occasion (1945) de Gabrielle Roy et Pélagie-la-Charrette (1979) d’Antonine Maillet, qui ont remporté d’importants prix littéraires dont le prix Femina (1947) et le prix Goncourt (1979) afin de …
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The Sanctity of the State under Frederick Barbarossa (1152 - 1190): Saint Charlemagne and the sacrum imperium
… to Cologne in 1164 by Rainald of Dassel, the canonisation of Charlemagne in 1165, the design of the Cappenberg head, the Barbarossa chandelier and the reliquary shrine of Saint Charlemagne were reinterpreted as elements of Frederick’s plan to resacralise the state. In my thesis I show that …
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John de Dalderby, Bishop of Lincoln, 1300-1320
… petitions were sent to the Pope asking for his canonisation.
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Guarded logics : algorithms and bisimulation
… procedures, mapping action guarded logics, canonisation of structures and model-theoretic characterisation theorems.
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This is the Word of the Lord: Nicholas Wolterstorff’s account of scripture, appropriated discourse, and divine authorship
… which appropriation is broadly identified with canonisation, is a coherent one. The thesis departs from Wolterstorff, however, in seeing divine authorship as taking place through both inspiration and appropriation. In hermeneutics, the appropriation concept is identified as key to understanding …
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MRS HEMINGWAY A novel What Was Lost: Manuscripts and the Meaning of Loss in the Work of Ernest Hemingway
… attention to the other three wives who defied canonisation, and to suggest Hemingway’s feelings for the ‘other Hemingway women’ were very much more moveable than has been previously suggested. The second part is a critical thesis on the subject of loss in Hemingway’s texts. During my creative …
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Modernismo and Patronage in Brazil, 1917-1949: the National versus the International
… into propaganda, but also facilitated its canonisation. The other main argument is that international abstractionism arrived in Brazil thanks to the intersection between the growing need for an international art institution in the country, and the agendas of national and international …
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Learning to kill? Taking aim with the first-person shooter.
… this thesis rejects this tendency towards canonisation and focuses on how a popular gaming franchise can become the site for a wide range of learning opportunities. This project has undertaken research with three different research cohorts and the ensuing research data enables a claim that …
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Sociological Tragedy: Simmel and Weber on Selfhood and Action
… considers whether Georg Simmel and Max Weber’s “canonisation in opposition” to each other in Anglophone sociology has obscured significant thematic and conceptual connections between them. It employs a genealogical method that focuses on episodic sites of interpretive struggle, but more readily …
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The "social life" of industrial ruins : a case study of Hashima Island
… and continuity. A critical approach to canonisation is employed whereby the choice of heritage resources is done in a more limited and cogent manner. It is argued that currently heritage-making functions as both value distribution and intentional perception for a people in a nation. …
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'n Herwaardering van Olga Kirsch se oeuvre: Identiteit ,moederskap en ballingskap aan die hand van die psigoanalitiese toeriee van onder andere Sigmund Freud,Jaques Lacan en Julia Kristeva
… value and durability as an Afrikaans poet, the canonisation process and possible changes to the poet's position in it were also taken into account. It appears from these that Olga Kirsch is, albeit not one of the greatest poets due to her increasingly dated language, nevertheless an …
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The beatification of Mary MacKillop: What it reveals of experiences of women in the contemporary Australian Catholic Church
… the whole concept of sainthood, the processes of canonisation, the publicity and commercialisation associated with the beatification and the role of the Pope within it, given his theology in relation to women. Their resistance however was restrained by the desire not to diminish in any way Mary …
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A history of apartheid censorship through the archive
… the complicated connections between censorship, canonisation, validation, and criticism that the censors created. It is reassuring to think that censorship in South Africa ended with the banning of The Satanic Verses in 1989, but immersion in the archive shows how far-reaching and long lasting …
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(Il)legitimate performance: copying, authorship, and the canon
… of dance works within the market and to canonisation; the fourth chapter questions whether copying can also be a tool for the rupture of the canon. Copying is an integral methodology for the formation of a canon, therefore also for the legitimisation of a work. Through the works Trio A …
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NAVIGATING ‘NATIONAL FORM’ AND ‘SOCIALIST CONTENT’ IN THE GREAT LEADER’S HOMELAND: GEORGIAN PAINTING AND NATIONAL POLITICS UNDER STALIN, 1921-39
… a primary reason for the painter’s subsequent canonisation in the second half of the 1930s as a ‘Great Tradition’ of Soviet Georgian culture. It helped to articulate a version of Georgian national identity that was at once familiar and gratifying for Georgians and useful for the Soviet regime. …