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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Emblem"”.
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Inventing 'living emblems': emblem tradition in the masques of Ben Jonson, 1605-1618
While it is widely held that Ben Jonson uses emblem tradition in the development of imagery in his court masques and entertainments, how or why Jonson employs this genre of word-image combinations is rarely addressed. This thesis offers an explanation for what is often assumed in studies of …
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Emblem of the human spirit: Arthur Schnitzler's <i>Der Geist im Wort und der Geist in der Tat</i>
… our title suggests, represents the diagrammatic emblem of Schnitzler’s own conclusions about the human significance. The text of the work comprises, as it were, the keys that unlock the emblem. <em>GWT</em>, it should be noted here at the outset, does not deal directly with human life, is not …
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"The Medieval Bestiary In The Golden Age: Allegory And Emblem In Gracian's ""el Criticon"" (physiologus, Carnival, Grotesque, Beast, Mask)"
… tion of the role of the medieval bestiary and emblem literature in El Criticon, this thesis endeavors to prove that such a premise is unacceptable.
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The Emblem Literature of Johann Michael Dilherr (1604-1669): An Important Preacher, Educator and Poet in the Seventeenth Century in Nuernberg
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A comparative, iconographic study of early-modern, religious emblems
Although scholarly interest in the field of emblematics has increased greatly over the last decade, there is still much to be done, particularly in the area of religious emblems. The emblem form has been considered from the perspective of individual author, geographical factors and theological …
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Drawing, Writing, Embodying: John Hejduk's Masques Of Architecture
… or what the links in Hejduk's masques to the emblem books, which are the heart of the Court Masque. The following dissertation will undertake an explication of two key Hejduk texts as means to demonstrate the architectural meaning of Hejduk's Architectural Masques as a descendant of the Stuart …
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Remaking China Dolls: Imitation and Visual Rhetoric in Contemporary Chinese Cultural Production
… contemporary Chinese doll imageries as an emblem of a rhetoric of imitation playing out a variety of possibilities of identities in an increasingly globalized yet unequally developed world. Grounded in a postmodern interpretation of Barthes' flowing signification chain and with …
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The Virtue Screen: An 18th Century Biombo at Virginia House
… The top sections of these folding screens show emblems that depict images of virtues and vices. The source of the emblems on the Virtue Screen is Otto Van Veen's Homtii Emblemata. The text on the screen is taken from a Spanish translation of the Horatii Emblemata entitled the Theatro Moral de …
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Sue
… from the 2002 strategy video game <em>Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade </em>and a sequence of responses to Suzanne Vega’s 1990 album <em>Days of Open Hand</em> in the ekphrastic spirit. Thus, <em>Sue </em>is intended to contribute to and deepen the meaning of these other pieces of art while …
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Research Proposal: The Changing Image of Nursing as Seen in the Nurse's Uniform
… (one in three) endorsed a single uniform, emblem, or logo. A statistical profile and analysis of the responses was given, and the nature of the responses pointed to areas where follow-up studies would be fruitful.</p>
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"Keynotes and discords: John Lane's ""Keynotes Series"", 1893-1897"
… for the cover, the title page, and a key-shaped emblem were all done by Aubrey Beardsley, and the book was priced at a low three shillings six pence. When Keynotes met with rapid success, Lane capitalized on it by issuing several more works with similarly up-to-date themes, artistic covers and …
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Catastrophic Christianity: an Iconological Study of the Messianic Idea in American Protestant Christianity Circa 1900-1940
<p>A historically variegated emblem of trust and faith, the messianic idea is the offer of religion to the people for salvation from the coming catastrophe. This dissertation analyzes the messianic idea in "America." The foci of the study are popular messianic figurations that serve as heuristic …
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TO KILL AND TO BE KILLED: THE TRANSFERENCE, TRANSFORMATION AND USE OF THE SMITING POSE IN EGYPT AND THE AEGEAN DURING THE BRONZE AGE
… the smiting pose has been identified as an emblem of the pharaonic office, the pose has never been investigated in the field of Aegean prehistory. This motif is incorporated as evidence when discussing larger topics, such as warriors and warfare of the Aegean during the Late Bronze Age. In …
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IL CONTROLLO GIURISDIZIONALE SULL¿ACCUSA: GLI SVILUPPI DELL¿UDIENZA PRELIMINARE E DEI MODELLI DI COMMON LAW
… analogous English and American proceedings as an emblem of adherence to the adversarial system. Starting from these premises, the thesis first traces the evolution of the Italian preliminary hearing, analyzing its main trajectories and, in particular, the evidentiary basis of the decision, the …
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Producing Popularity: The Success in France of the Comics Series "Astérix le Gaulois"
… during the 1960s transformed Astérix into an emblem of national importance, created celebrities out of the series' co-creators, and even helped legitimize bande dessinée, or comics, as a French cultural form worthy of "serious" consideration.
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Gender, Body and Parenthood in Muscovite Russia
… suffering. Through metaphor, allegory and emblem, ideas of parental love, sacrifice and caregiving were tied to maternal body parts and processes specifically: the utroba, childbirth and breastfeeding. The maternal body thus came to represent both parents, creating a new and distinctly …
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Impact of the Narrative (encoded meanings and creative interventions)
… ornamental decoration becomes a metamorphic emblem of contemporary activism. Hidden in Plain Sight is a practice-led inquiry which employs research-creation as a methodology specifically, in association to the artist-pedagogy. Research-creation in this context is viewed as a multidimensional …
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Amending the American flag : artistic liberties in the nineteen sixties and seventies
… alike grasping for control over their national emblem and its meaning. With the Civil Rights Movement, the sixties and seventies brought widespread change as artists explored issues of personal and group identity in a culturally diverse nation. The following chapters consider the artists Jasper …
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Playing on-line : sexual subjectivity, gender play and the construction of the dyke SM fantasy
… of such performances and to stand as a personal emblem for such on-line playings. Considering this character as an edge-dweller--existing only in the cyberfray and in the fantastic--the multiplicity of sexual and gender identity is further unveiled. However, at the end of these travels what …
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