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Showing 1 to 20 of 505 for “"Contemporaries"”.
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Stages of imprisonment : Shakespeare and his contemporaries
… to bear on the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. It presents the range of spheres in which prison language operated, describing a continuum between the performances of real imprisonment in the streets, the staging of London prison scenes, and the words and metaphors of imprisonment …
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On Beauty And Ethics In Shakespeare And His Contemporaries
<p>Early modern literature abounds in references to beauty. However, in the past few decades, discussions of beauty have been sidelined in part due to the influence of approaches such as cultural materialism and new historicism; as a result, beauty often gets viewed as some kind of ideological mist …
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Dante’s Hidden Sin - Wrath: How Dante Vindictively Used The Inferno Against Contemporaries
… This paper concentrates exclusively on Dante’s contemporaries, those people who lived during his lifetime, and examines his possible motivation for targeting enemy Ghibellines, Black Guelphs, treacherous White Guelphs, corrupt popes, and others who either crossed him or caused him trouble. He …
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Liszt’s Heroes: An investigation into the Artistic Interdependence of Franz Liszt and his Contemporaries
… or acquaintance of so many other great contemporaries. Other subjects for his admiration (dealt with in less detail here) were the virtuoso violinist Niccolo Paganini, and the Irish composer-pianist John Field. Liszt helped to popularise the music of all these composers. His musical …
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Pictures in Motion: The Cinematic Art of Zheng Zhengqiu and His Shanghai Contemporaries, 1910--1935
… his personal relationships with his Shanghai contemporaries during the years 1910-1935. My project characterizes his cinematic art as one in which ideas originated in graphic arts and theater were incorporated into the new technology of cinema in novel and unexpected ways. Zheng's film art …
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Southern Post-Modernism, Anti-Romanticism and Gender Difference in Flannery O'Connor and Some Other Southern Contemporaries
<p>Flannery O' Connor has long been an established southern writer of the mid-twentieth century. This paper discusses briefly the tenets of both Modernism and Post-Modernism as literary movements of the twentieth-century, then looks specifically at how O'Connor's fiction makes her a key hallmark …
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"Misery, alienation and ""The Delinquent Gypsy"" in the art of Isidre Nonell and his Spanish contemporaries"
For centuries Roma people, popularly known as “Gypsies,” an ethnic group without a national territory of its own, faced persecution in Europe which contributed to the transient and “delinquent gypsy” myth, used to justify the harsh social measures against the Roma. Fin-de-siècle Spain presents a …
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Sixteenth-century dialogic discourse: an exploration of Protestant selfhood in the writings of Edmund Spenser and his contemporaries
This thesis examines the relationship between the work of the sixteenth-century poet Edmund Spenser and Protestant polemical writers of the 1580s. Previous scholarship has tended to prioritise Spenser’s indebtedness to classical epic and pastoral, underestimating the importance of classical …
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Poetry Into Song: Word-Music Relations in Settings of Goethe's Faust by Wagner and his Contemporaries (1832–1840)
Despite being a pre-eminent figure of German literature, Goethe remains misunderstood in musicology and the extent of his influence on the formation of the German Lied remains largely uncharted. This is true of Faust I where research into musical settings of Goethe's Faust has traditionally centred …
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Grace, Obedience, and the Hermeneutics of Agency: Paul and his Jewish Contemporaries on the Transformation of the Heart
… agency and obedience for Paul and for his Jewish contemporaries. While post-Sanders scholarship has rightly noted the coexistence of grace and works in the Pauline and Jewish literature, it has failed to account for the diverse and sophisticated ways in which those two concepts can coexist. …
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"Sacramental Resistance" to pastoral dreams : the Midwestern land in the works of Sherwood Anderson and his contemporaries.
This project investigates the neo-sacramentalism of various Midwestern modernists, particularly that of Sherwood Anderson. Modernists from the Midwest tended to draw from Midwestern nature a sacramental vision of the world that questioned the literalist epistemology bequeathed by New England …
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Certain Dramatic Devices Studied in the Comedies of Shakespeare and in Some of the Works of His Contemporaries and Predecessors
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Chivalry and Crisis at the Court of Juan II of Castile: The Chivalric Writing of Alonso de Cartagena and his Contemporaries
… years of Juan II’s reign. Like many of his contemporaries, Cartagena lamented Castile’s descent into civil war and felt compelled to take up his pen in response to the drawn swords of the Castilian nobility. His Doctrinal de los caualleros, produced in 1444 at the height of the civil war, …
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Child-rearing and education : the thinking and practice of John Wesley and some of his contemporaries, evaluated within its eighteenth-century context
… the educational endeavours of some of Wesley’s contemporaries including Lady Huntingdon, John Fletcher, Hannah More and Robert Raikes, and new forms of schooling, particularly that of the poor. Twenty-first century research into child-rearing and education in the period will provide an important …
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MODERN INNOVATIONS IN AMERICAN TRUMPET MOUTHPIECE DESIGN
… than ever before. Vincent Bach and his contemporaries improved upon the previous standards set by European mouthpiece designers such as Leopold August Schmitt. This document explores the ways in which current North American manufacturers Peter Pickett, Terry Warburton, Dave Harrison, …
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"Song Composer and Critic: A Comparative Study of Selected Songs by Robert Schumann and by Composers He Reviewed in the ""Neue Zeitschrift Fuer Musik"""
… characteristic that distinguishes him from his contemporaries.
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