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Logical Proof and Imaginative Reason in Selected Speeches of Francis Bacon
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Charity and Related Principles in the Writings of Sir Francis Bacon and Sir Thomas Browne
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An investigation of the resources available for interpreting visual cultural production related to male homosexuality in Britain : 1940 to the present
… 11. Through oblique encounters with the work of Francis Bacon, Cecil Beaton, Keith Vaughan and David Sockney, detailed readings of popular fiction, literature and literary theory, research in the archives of The Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (1955-7), analysis of …
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Tracing the line : a Deleuzian reading of Irvine Welsh's Marabou stork nightmares
Using Gilles Deleuze's Baconian aesthetic theory to explore how feminism might rely on Deleuze's "becoming-woman" to express the feminine, this dissertation analyzes the expression of sexual violence-an experience gendered feminine-in Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares. I begin by establishing …
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Kim Ki-duk and the Cinema of Sensations
… 2: The Time-Image [1985]) published right after Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (1981), which develops the idea of sensation. By tracing the conceptual origin of sensation from "event," "sense," and "affect," this dissertation answers the mystery of the disappearance of sensation in the …
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Early modern masters of suspicion
… Niccolò Machiavelli, Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, and John Milton, casting them as Masters of Suspicion. The category of ‘Master of Suspicion’ was introduced by Ricœur (1970) to describe how Marx, Nietzsche and Freud approached their respective economic, epistemological and medical …
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The politics of the confessional imagination, from Calvin to Hobbes
… section with an examination of the philosophy of Francis Bacon. In the second section, I turn to theological considerations. I first discuss the connection between idolatry and the imagination canvassed in Protestant theology and its sources in scholasticism and parallels in the …
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Art Through Sensation: Unfolding Image and Text Together, Through Bacon, Bergson and Jung
… it begins with the painting processes of Francis Bacon (as analyzed by Gilles Deleuze), the metaphysics of philosopher Henri Bergson and the psychology of Carl Jung. The book attempts to build an in-between; to start with givens and fill in the space that blends them together into a smooth …
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Agents of History: Women and Royal Politics in Early Modern Historical Narratives and Plays
… the political histories of Thomas More and Francis Bacon, and the Protestant martyrology of John Foxe, to the canonical Shakespearean works and lesser-known dramas that comprised the history play genre, most popular in the 1590s but written as late as the 1630s. Unlike previous literary …
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The Anatomy of Disgust and the Sublime in Metamodern Painting
… Fyt, Rembrandt van Rijn, Théodore Géricault, Francis Bacon, Joel-Peter Witkin, Walton Ford, Jenny Saville, and Victoria Reynolds, this study documents the evolution of the series from inspiration drawn from an analogy of human and animal suffering to a mature narrative based on formal …
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Descartes' Letters to Pere marin Mersenne, Le Minime, on the Science of Sound and Music, 1629-40
… Jean-Baptiste van Helmont, Thomas Hobbes and Francis Bacon, etc. Although few of Mersenne's own letters are extant, at present the ongoing publication of the responses to his correspondence numbers thirteen volumes. Of Mersenne's other works related to music, only two are translated into …
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A Genealogy Of Ecological Rhetoric: Heraclitus, Bacon, Darwin And Huxley
… and ecology. Studying the works of Heraclitus, Francis Bacon, T.H. Huxley and Darwin as "bridge figures" in the history of rhetoric, science and ecological thought, I examine how their rhetorical theories and strategies (as discursive practices, performances and techniques) form a genealogy that …
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Hoc est enim corpus meum: christian art and passion inonography in the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jean-Luc Godard
… interpreters of Passion iconography, such as Francis Bacon, in the case of Pasolini. Through close readings of Pasolini's films that deal with the sacred, including La ricotta (1963), Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (1964) and Teorema (1968), and Godard's later work, including Passion (1982), Je …
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Customary Practice: The Colonial Transformation of European Concepts of Collective Identity, 1580-1724
… in the writings of Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon opened up a new discourse of collective identity that found its most developed expression in the writings of the French and English people who first colonized North America. Among the authors whose work I examine are Marc Lescarbot, …
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1981: One or Several Aesthetics?
Gilles Deleuze’s monograph on Francis Bacon, The Logic of Sensation (1981), proposes a theory of aesthetic experience that prioritizes the material depths of sensation over stable, identifiable forms. Deleuze’s key references in The Logic of Sensation to playwright Antonin Artaud arouse the …
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Francis Bacon's science of magic
This thesis seeks to explain how Francis Bacon promoted a materialist ontology whilst at the same time designating the goal of his inquiry into nature "true natural magic. " It attempts to establish the precise relationships among Bacon's concepts of matter, inquiry and magic in terms of his novel …
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Poor Relief, Agrarian Laws, and Redistribution in England, c. 1450–1601
… of these laws from John Fortescue to Francis Bacon with other redistributive proposals, including ecclesiastical disendowment and acts of resumption, produces a comprehensive image of redistributive agrarian laws in this period. A final chapter considers how propriety and inequality …
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