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Showing 1 to 20 of 244 for “"Classics"”.
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Willa Cather and the Classics
… of human experience. In turning to the Classics, Cather reinforced her belief that only two or three human stories go on repeating themselves.
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Are there classics in American literature?
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Why become a classics teacher?: An exploration of career choice
… a group of graduates who have chosen to train as Classics teachers. Classics graduates have a relatively high employment rate, entering a wide range of careers. One such career is teaching. There has been a shortage of trained Classics teachers in recent years, with only two institutions in …
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River Banks, Rabbit Holes and Railway Children: Charting Series of Children's Classics
… considerable insight into series of children’s classics, which have previously received little in-depth attention. It includes a database that constitutes a historical record of the classic series and a valuable resource for future scholarship. Chapter One analyses this database to answer the …
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Traditions of Tenderness: Sensibility and the Classics in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
… productive dialogue between sensibility and the Classics pervaded British culture. By exploring this under-studied synthesis of cultural strands, the thesis sheds new light on the literary history of emotions in Britain and on the development of Classics as a discipline.
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Poetical vocabulary in Dante's Commedia: imitation, emulation, superseding and redemption of the classics
… attentively evaluated Dante’s dialogue with the Classics, pointing out that Dante’s ‘lungo studio’ and ‘grande amore’ are the literary foundation of the Commedia; and that although the relationship between Dante and his classical models is not definitely established from the encounter with …
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The Classics and the Broader Public in Philadelphia, 1783-1788: Avenues for Engagement
In early Philadelphia, 1783-1788, the classics formed a pervasive presence on the city's cultural, political, and physical landscape. As the American nation commenced its republican experiment, references to the classics in Philadelphia especially emerged as a vehicle and vocabulary employed by …
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Trip down memory lane : revisiting red classics as television drama in post - Mao China
In the post-Mao era, the boundaries of the Red Classics, the canonical Chinese socialist literary and theatrical works, and the values and aesthetics they promoted were transgressed. By adopting the “circuit of cultures” as a methodology, this thesis explicates how a canonical body of texts created …
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'A Manly Desire to Learn' : the Teaching of the Classics in Nineteenth Century Scotland
… nineteenth century. This was the period when the Classics occupied a central position in Scottish education and, as a result, more undergraduates studied these ancient languages than ever before, or since. The thesis also details the very different institutional traditions exemplified by the …
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The German classics on the British stage : the reception of Goethe, Schiller and Kleist since 1945
… of the plays usually referred to as the great 'classics' of German drama, that is, works by Goethe, Schiller and Kleist. The reception of these plays for most of the pre-war period was unenthusiastic, and they were rarely staged before 1945. Even after this they were only gradually introduced …
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Determining the influence on technology integration by the problem solving styles of instructors of history, classics and humanities courses
More is spent on a single B-2 bomber than the combined annual budgets of the National Endowments for the Arts, the Humanities, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. History, classical, humanities studies instructors are traditionally the last to receive instruction on integrating technology …
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Bach as humanist: the influences of the classics and court aesthetics on the design of the six Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051
This dissertation explores J. S. Bach's Six Brandenburg Concertos in the light of a Bildprogrammatik, governed by the same principles that defined arrangements of Baroque art and sculpture, and with the royal hunt as its central motive, carrying the themes of victory, glory, and immortality.
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The classics, the cane and rugby : the life of Aubrey Samuel Langley and his mission to make men in the high schools of Natal, 1871-1939
This thesis explores the life; educational philosophy; and legacy of Aubrey Samuel Langley, an influential boys' schoolmaster who went on to lead Durban High School as its headmaster from 1910-1932. The aim of the thesis is to come to terms with the origins of Langley's controversial educational …
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Theory of price formation in experimental markets
… of experimental market findings and the classics of value theory.
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The Greek versions of Jerome's Vita Sancti Hilarionis
… for the degree of doctor of philosophy in classics in the Graduate School of the University of Illinois, 1935.
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Ο ΧΕΙΡΙΣΜΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΚΟΜΙΚΣ (1950-ΣΗΜΕΡΑ)
… THESIS CENTERS UPON THE WAY GREEK COMICS (ESP. "CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED") MANIPULATE HISTORICAL MEMORY. IT ABANDONS THE TRADITIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL, POLITICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACHES AS WELL AS PART OF SEMIOTIC ONES, ADOPTING A POINT OFVIEW MORE OR LESS DECONSTRUCTIONIST. IT WORKS MAINLY ON COMICS' …
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ENGAGING SECONDARY STUDENTS: THE BENEFICIAL INTERSECTION OF YOUNG ADULT AND CLASSIC LITERATURE
… Students often have difficulty comprehending the classics in comparison to YA literature, which they read with ease. <em>In</em><em> </em><em>Using Young Adult Literature to Increase Student Success and Using Young Adult Literature to Increase Student Success and Teach Multiculturalism …
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