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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Canonization"”.
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Sancti Episcopi : a study of the canonization of bishops in England, 1170-1320.
… virtues continued in motion until 1320 with the canonization of Thomas de Cantilupe. What is neglected, however, is that this resurgence of saintly religiosity was manifested almost wholly in the canonization of sancti episcopi – holy bishops. Between the martyrdom of Thomas Becket and the …
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<em>On the Road</em> from Melville to Postmodernism: The Case for Kerouac's Canonization.
<p>With the publication of <em>On the Road</em> in 1957, Jack Kerouac became a cultural phenomenon. Crowned the "King" of the Beat Generation, Kerouac embodied the restlessness of Cold War-era America. What no one realized at the time, however, was that the movement that he supposedly led went …
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On Zeitgeist
… gaze that it perpetuates. The mechanism of canonization, and a discourse's capacity to be viral are examined.
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Lennie Tristano (1919--1978): His Life, Music, and Teaching
… problems of the current tendency toward the canonization of jazz, in which he is misleadingly labeled as a ""cool"" jazz musician. The research methods combine oral history, archival research, and musical analysis. The main source of oral history comprises interviews conducted by the author …
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Envisioning Women Writers: Female Authorship and the Cultures of Publishing and Translation in Early 20th Century Japan
… investigation are issues of media, translation, canonization, and the creation of literary histories as Japanese literature became institutionalized within the new cosmopolitan notion of world literature. The first chapter explores how the image of the woman writer formed around the key figure of …
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Santo Toribio: The Rise of a Saint
… did. However, around the time of his canonization, a new identity began to emerge different from that of martyr; he became the patron saint of immigration. For believers, Santo Toribio helps mitigate the criminal nature of this act by showing God's approval and blessing. He places the …
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Amy Beach for the new generation: the effects of increased interest in Beach’s works on the current place in the performance canon of concerto for piano and orchestra in C sharp minor, op. 45
… if any gender bias influenced their comparative canonization. The goal for this project is to argue that the Beach concerto should gain more presence in the modern performance canon based on its compositional merits. In addition, I seek to disseminate reactions to Beach’s concerto at its premier …
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Institutional Analysis of a Natural History Museum: Formation and dissemination of scientific knowledge
<p>When the canonization of scientific knowledge is considered as a point of sociological inquiry the interrelations of popular culture, commerce, and enterprise become crucial elements to understanding how forms of knowledge are produced and reproduced. Scientific knowledge is an integral part of …
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Tactics and Tradition in the Poetry of Thomas McGrath
… how he has slipped through the cracks in the canonization process; yet his work remains in print today and widely read.
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The concept of motherhood in the Bible = Ha-Imahut ba-Mikra
Following the canonization of the Hebrew Bible, a new process of interpreting this text was initiated. Despite the vast amount of biblical research generated in the two thousand years since the canonization, relatively little has been written on the subject of "Womanhood" in the Bible. With the …
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Perceval's sister and Juliet Capulet as disruptive guides in spiritual quests
… through love, Juliet poetically resists her own canonization because she knows that being a saint means being dead and distant from Romeo. Past readers have not understood the necessity of Juliet’s death in Juliet’s sainthood or her poetic disruption of Petrarchan spiritual love. Shakespeare …
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Constructing Episcopal Sainthood in Late Medieval Sweden : The Cases of Brynolphus Algoti and Nicolaus Hermanni
… Algoti and Nicolaus Hermanni examines the canonization process cases of two medieval Swedish bishops, Brynolphus Algoti of Skara (ca. 1240–1317) and Nicolaus Hermanni of Linköping (1325/26–1391). The research asks how their sainthood was constructed – how on one hand traditional saintly …
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Carl Schmitt's Historicity between Theology and Technology
… contingent. The first chapter reconstructs the ‘canonization’ of Carl Schmitt in the field of political theory, focusing on the reception and sanitization of his work in English language scholarship. The second chapter excavates Schmitt’s concept of ‘historicity’ and his turn to the founder of …
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Playing Games with Art: The Cultural and Aesthetic Legitimation of Digital Games
… about games as art; the cultural reception and canonization of blockbuster “prestige games” that pursue artistic status within the boundaries of the commercial industry, such as Bioshock; and at the opposite end of the spectrum, the construction of independently-produced “artgames” such as …
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Writing the Indigenous: Contemporary Mayan Literature in Chiapas, Mexico and Palestinian Literature in Israel
… binary that dominates paradigms of canonization in World Literature.
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Disarming the canon : exploring Tepper’s and Atwood’s retelling of classical (her)story
… that may be rooted in and perpetuated by the canonization of classical texts such as those involved in this study. I start by discussing the curious phenomenon of the simultaneous prevalence of adaptations of classical Greek literature in contemporary culture and the often negative perception …
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Dialectical Metafiction and the Self-Conscious Subject of American Modernism
… melancholy within American Modernism during the canonization of its literary texts, or they have attempted to "recover" the once-thriving but now repressed political energies of Leftist literary texts. These projects raise questions about the validity of the conservative literary history we have …
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Cases remémorées, redessinées. Mémoire de la bande dessinée, détournement et traces graphiques dans 'Au travail' d'Olivier Josso Hamel
… images. As such, it is an intimate act of canonization based on the collective sharing of a personal history of comics. Expanding on Sterckx’s concept, this paper further seeks to show how the détournement of Franco-Belgian comics – as well as other graphic materials – in Au travail compels …
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Le Corbusier's Unite d'habitation: a slab for all seasons?
… The Unite itself, its genesis and its ultimate canonization, has been the subject of even less objective investigation. This study set out to fiII that gap; in the course of my research it was found that Le Corbusier's supposedly-consistent proposals concealed during their long evolution many …
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The Kingdom of Spain as an allegory of Christ's Kingdom in five autos by Calderón
… The two autos written on the occasion of the canonization of the medieval King Fernando III combine historical, legendary, and fictitious events to illustrate temporal and eternal victories through the Sacrament. As is evident in a more than superficial study, in these five autos, Calderón …
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