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Showing 1 to 20 of 179 for “"Celtic"”.
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Rhyming grammars and Celtic phonology
This dissertation broadens our understanding of a typology of poetic rhyme through the analysis of three rhyming traditions that show unconventional patterns in the contents, position, and size of rhyme domains. The rhyme domain (RD) is a string of segments that stand in correspondence with another …
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Bardic echoes: reconstructing ancient Celtic music, towards an ethnomusicology; or, an interdisciplinary study of Celtic musical identity
… of the music played in the ancient Celtic cultural horizon, from its inception in the Bronze Age to its zenith in the Iron Age, until its amalgamation into the Roman Empire, drawing from sources both earlier and later. The question is considered from a musician’s gaze and informed …
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Irish Celtic folklore in The picture of Dorian Gray
… years, no one has examined the author's Irish Celtic heritage in relation to such unanswered questions as the source for the supernatural power that grants Dorian's wish to remain young and creates the central conflict, the purpose of the eleventh chapter, or the apparent "overwriting" or …
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Patrick Geddes and the Celtic Renascence of the 1890s
… Patrick Geddes found inspiration in its Celtic past. Geddes is best known for his work as a town planner and sociologist, but has been under-valued for his work as the leader of the 1890s cultural movement in Edinburgh, the Celtic Renascence. In an effort to revive the flagging Old Town, …
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Archetypal narratives : toward a theological appreciation of early Celtic hagiography.
This study aims to interpret Lives of Christian saints as examples of religious literature. Hagiography is commonly studied as an historical artefact indicative of the politics or linguistics of the time in which a text was composed, but few theorists have attempted to interpret its religious …
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Nutrient fluxes into the seasonal thermocline of the Celtic Sea
… a variety of hydrological<br/>regimes over the Celtic Sea in 2003 and 2005. Over a topographically flat shelf<br/>JN varied with the spring-neap tidal cycle (1.1 (neap) – 2.8 (spring) mmol m-2<br/>day-1), driven by changes in barotropic shear generated vertical diffusivities (Kz)<br/>at the base …
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Religion and Burial Roman Domination, Celtic Acceptance, or Mutual Understanding
… did not believe that the Romans dominated the Celtic culture. What he observed in the inscriptions and archaeology of Britain was a conflation of both cultures. Roman Britain was a unique combination of Celtic and Roman culture that was achieved through mutual acceptance and practice of both …
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The Subjunctive in Celtic: Studies in Historical Phonology and Morphology
… development of the subjunctive mood in the Celtic languages, and to come to a reconstruction of the category based on all of the data attested in the documented languages. The origin of the various subjunctive morphemes attested in the Celtic languages has long been a contested matter in …
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Francophone literary perceptions of Celtic space in Britain, 1100-1300
… both into contemporary Francophone knowledge of Celtic spaces, and into how they existed within the thought world of the Francophone elite. The first section of this thesis, ‘Geographical knowledge and localisation’, examines how the narratives of *Fouke le Fitz Waryn*, the *Roman de Fergus*, and …
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"Celtic Pride": White Nostalgia and Working-Class Masculinity in 1970s Professional Basketball
In the 1970s, the Boston Celtics were widely regarded as the pinnacle of "white" basketball, a style of play that emphasized teamwork, intelligence, efficiency, hard work, grit, and selflessness. They were upheld as a bulwark against the invasion and takeover of the NBA by "black" basketball. If …
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Unearthed: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of the Romano-Celtic Temple on Hayling Island.
… of past experiences. During the Romano-Celtic period, the temple was a place of pilgrimage and depositional praxis, but today it is buried beneath sunflowers on active farmland and frequently visited by a small community of detectorists, the Solent Metal Detecting Club. They work closely …
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The Representation of Celtic Tiger Irish Masculinity in Hollywood Cinema: 1994-2008
… of three Irish actors in the U.S. during the Celtic Tiger period— Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers—this thesis explores the representation of Celtic Tiger Irish masculinity in Hollywood cinema. It considers the “Celtic Tiger” as an economic phenomenon that had cultural …
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Traditional Practices and Cultural Resilience: Exploring Pastoralism in Central Sardinia and Celtic Diet Practices
… Practices as a Form of Colonial Resistance by Celtic Tribes, which investigate diet practices through the archaeological record and infers if they can be viewed as a tactic of colonial resistance to the Romans. Both works draw from and build upon existing scholarship to explore how cultural …
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Celtic Women in Context: Comparative Perspectives on Stereotypes and Gender Roles of Ancient Women
… focuses on the stories and stereotypes of Celtic women of antiquity. Evidence of the behaviour and roles of these women is sparse, and when they are mentioned, their true nature has the potential to be shrouded in bias, leading to a possible misrepresentation. Classical authors, such as …
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Daoine Sidhe: Celtic Superstitions of Death Within Irish Fairy Tales Featuring the Dullahan and Banshee
… of the portrayal of the dullahan and banshee in Celtic fairy tales and the connection to cultural beliefs of the Irish peasantry. The dullahan is viewed as a headless horseman that appears to the peasantry when a death occurs, or is known for decapitating people who come across the dullahan's …
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Magical birds as a link between the Mabinogion and other Celtic literature : facts and fancies
… considering them all to be reflexes of the same Celtic goddess Rigantona. This work examines the evidence for this, and tries to trace associations between various goddesses and magical birds back to their primary sources, to weigh up whether they are sufficient to aid in such an identification. …
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The Celtic Twilight as Reflected in the Two-Piano Works of Joan Trimble (1915-2000)
The nineteenth-century Celtic Twilight movement was named after a collection of folklore by W.B. Yeats, a work that was inspired by Ireland’s native folklore and contained themes of twilight, nature, and the supernatural, mainly that of the “fairy faith” from old Pagan Ireland. The movement, which …
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