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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Dionysian"”.
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Constant Lambert: Dionysian Modernist
… achieving a unique synthesis that may be termed Dionysian modernism. Dionysian modernism emphasizes such topics as excess, transgression, liminality, disruption, and fragmentation, and in so doing engages dialectically with what were then culturally dominant notions of race, class, gender, and …
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Constant Lambert: Dionysian Modernist
… achieving a unique synthesis that may be termed Dionysian modernism. Dionysian modernism emphasizes such topics as excess, transgression, liminality, disruption, and fragmentation, and in so doing engages dialectically with what were then culturally dominant notions of race, class, gender, and …
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Pauline Christ-Groups and Private Dionysian Associations : Mythical Narratives and Communal Rituals as Building Blocks of Social Identity
… I focus on inscriptions that mention private Dionysian associations. Dionysian associations were because he was a popular deity throughout the eastern Mediterranean, and Dionysian associations were common and widespread. Therefore, we have enough inscriptional evidence to attain a general …
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A study of the struggle between the apollonian facade and the dionysian face in ten plays by Peter Shaffer
… Struggle Between the Apollonian Facade and the Dionysian Face in Ten Plays by Peter Shaffer This is a study of the struggle between the Apollonian facade and the Dionysian face in ten plays by Peter Shaffer. Chapter One focuses on the destruction of the Apollonian facade by the Dionysian face in …
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The Apollonian and Dionysian Modes in Lyric Poetry and Their Development in The Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Dylan Thomas
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Action, alienation and Bacchus
… necessary to promote the reconciliation of the Dionysian and Apollonian. These are the forces that characterize the eternal swing from nature to artifice. While evidence of the Apollonian will to construct an ordered reality abounds in the contemporary city, the ability to access the Dionysian …
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On laughter
… with particular reference to the Apollonian/Dionysian conceptual schemata referred to in Nietzsche’s early works. I will demonstrate how our understandings and experiences of the phenomena facilitate the meaningful nature of our relationships with human beings and the natural world as a …
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Eye for the Gap: Frenzy, Liberty, and the Nietszchean Chorus in Conor McPherson's The Weir and Shining City
… by Conor McPherson as embodying elements of Dionysian aesthetics as elucidated by Friedrich Nietzsche. Working through the lenses of Samuel Beckett’s linguistic philosophy and the premium of theater as established by Nietzsche, Artaud, and Brecht, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate how …
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Using a Learning Community to Manage Pain: A participatory action research study
… produce liberation from social oppression.<br/>A Dionysian inquiry was established in order to promote consciousness-raising among participants in learning communities. Three learning communities were initiated and two were sustained. Nine participants fully immersed in the learning communities. …
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The dance of Apollo and Dionysus: The interplay of forces bridging the white viewer and the black dance
… speaking to the deeply pervasive Apollonian and Dionysian impulses that underpin the heart of this philosophical investigation. Particular emphasis will be placed on locating the lures that motivate white individuals to both observe and participate in cross-cultural practices. Finally, I will …
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Shelley the Tragedian: Differing Modes of Catharsis in Prometheus Unbound and the Cenci
… inspiration, as it relates to "Apollonian" and "Dionysian" catharsis.
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Whitby, Wilfrid, and church-state antagonism in Early Medieval Britain.
In 664, adherents of the Dionysian and Celtic-84 Easter tables gathered at the Northumbrian abbey of Whitby to debate the proper calculation of Easter. The decision to adopt the former, with its connections to the papacy, has led many to frame this encounter in terms of Roman religious imperialism …
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Piers Plowman and the Sacraments of Nature
… pessimism about the effects of the Fall and Dionysian optimism about the redemptive power of the sacraments. This synthesis matches Hugh’s integration of Augustine and Dionysius in his *De sacramentis*. In chapter four, I substantiate these claims further with a close study of Langland’s …
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Writing The see-through man: poetry and commentary
… collection as examples of that form undergoing Dionysian adjustments.
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Ancient Greek Maenads: Comparing Mythological Worshippers of Dionysos to Reality
… At the time of the original performance, the Dionysian beliefs and mystery cults of ancient Greece were already a religious practice for some and familiar actions to others within the play's audience. Something can be learned from comparisons between the extreme dramatics of the play and the …
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Architecture as a creative will in the a-tectonic aesthetic order: (an architecture-theoretical inquiry according to Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of order)
… creation of architecture is supported by the 'Dionysian' cognitive qualities of the architectural material space.
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The Washington Bronze Dionysos
… A. D. A setting in the home of a devotee of the Dionysian Mysteries is adduced.
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Disturbing rhythms: James, Merleau-Ponty, music, and self-transformation
… experiences. For example, the initiate of the Dionysian mystery cult would dance to music on the mountainside in order to enter into an ecstatic state and meet her god face to face. This paper will explore music’s role in inducing such states of transformation. Its starting point will be …
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Dynamics of self-discovery in Hermann Hesse’s novels (1919–43): an analysis of the influence of Jung, Freud and Nietzsche on Hesse
… of the Self as involving dynamic processes of Dionysian self-excess. My interpretative perspective focuses on how Hesse’s protagonists undergo processes of self- discovery in certain transitional periods of their lives. Processes of self-discovery and self-composition are thematised and …
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