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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Classical art"”.
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Imitation: A classical art for modern composition
Imitation, a specific program of writing instruction, offers students the benefits of a discourse community that stretches from Aristotle to Stephen King The arrangement of imitation in a taxonomy directs students through specific steps toward the goal of originality. This taxonomy employs textual …
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This is All It Is for Treble Voice and Fixed Media
… more closely reflect modern contemporary classical art music, while the even-numbered works explore popular music sounds crafted for the concert hall. The subject matter is widely light and only hints toward more serious concepts. Topics include maladaptive daydreaming, self comfort, and …
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Renaissance vertical reading from vers rapporté to Shakespeare's Sonnets
… of vers rapporté from its probable origin in the classical art of memory to its most complex adaptation in Shakespeare's Sonnets reveals the evolution of reading and writing practices during the Renaissance period. Combining literary history and theory, cognitive archaeology, and formal analysis, …
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Visualizing Words and Knowledge: Arts of Memory from the Agora to the Computer
… examines rhetoric's fourth canon--the art of memory--tracing its development through the classical, medieval, and early modern periods. It argues that for most of its history, the fourth canon was an art by which words and knowledge were remediated into visual, spatial forms, either in …
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A rhetorical legacy: the art of memory's place in literature and semiotics
Classical rhetoric's five parts consist of invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. The first three now enjoy privileged status in modern rhetorics, whereas the latter two have all but disappeared from view. Cicero's rhetoric certainly included all five canons of rhetoric. In De …
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Scrimshaw: unlocking the cultural and biological archive of sea mammal art
… decades of the nineteenth century the folk-art tradition ‘scrimshaw’, predominantly using the teeth of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus), flourished among the crews of industrial whaling ships. Scrimshaw collections represent a unique cultural and biological archive of …
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The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity
My thesis is titled ‘The Classical in the Contemporary: Contemporary Art in Britain and its Relationships with Greco-Roman Antiquity.’ From the viewpoint of classical reception studies, I am asking what contemporary British art (by, for example, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst, and Mark Wallinger) has to …
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The Material Construction of Identity in Sparta and Lakonia (750–480 BCE)
This dissertation explores the construction of Spartan and Lakonian identity through material culture from 750–480 BCE. To resolve the lingering shadow of the mirage Spartiate, an image of Sparta constructed through a retrojection of later sources onto the Archaic period, I turn my attention in …