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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Hellenism"”.
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Hebraism and Hellenism as seen in Sartor resartus and Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship
… that is, to see into the nature of Hebraism and Hellenism through the two works. Sartor Resartus and Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship.</p>
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Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Lady Jeune's Views on Victorian Culture, Society and Education
… Numerous scholars have examined Victorian Hellenism as a masculine discourse, but the field has not considered how women of the Victorian era were exposed to, or interpreted ancient Greek culture. My work examines the writings of a conservative female that initially supported traditional …
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Greek antiquity, women’s modernity: hellenism in the work of Michael Field, Amy Levy and Virginia Woolf [Antichità greca, modernità delle donne: l’ellenismo nelle opere di Michael Field, Amy Levy e Virginia Woolf]
Sebbene spesso escluse dalle università e dal Grand Tour, molte donne vittoriane instaurarono un rapporto profondo con il Mediterraneo e con l’antichità greco-latina, non solo come viaggiatrici ma anche come traduttrici, studiose e interpreti culturali, sfidando i vincoli di genere nello studio …
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The Arts and Crafts movement: exchanges between Greece and Britain (1876-1930)
… of new work and the emphasis on handwork. Hellenism was embedded in many aspects of British life in the nineteenth century but a new interest in Byzantine art and architecture developed as part of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Robert Weir Schultz and Sidney Barnsley, two young architects, …
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The Rural Settlements of Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic Central Asia: an Archaeology of Indigenous Life under Colonial Rule
… perspective in decentering scholarly emphases on Hellenism in the east in favor of a new paradigm that emphasizes the diversity of indigenous lifeways among ancient, colonized Bactrians and Sogdians. Drawing on a vast overlooked dataset of Soviet and post-Soviet archaeological literature, as well …
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Visual Power and Elite Subjectivity in Private Portraiture from Imperial Greece
… identities and the macro-identity of imperial Hellenism are mutually supportive in highlighting the problem of subjectivity and visual power in Roman Greece. Rather than cashing out portraits as unequivocally Greek or tokens of Romanization, this thesis understands portraiture as a powerful …
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Allegorical tendencies in preaching and their relation to the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture
… point of the Cynic and Stoic philosophies of Hellenism, this chapter traces allegorism through its historical evolution in order to identify essential elements of the method. Chapter 3 presents a balanced doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture. This chapter rectifies the superficial …
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Dancing modernisms : rhythmic bodies articulating cultures of modernisms (1909-1929)
… makes connections between the primitive in neo Hellenism and the modern in the female self. The active body of the quotidian New Woman then brings the focus of my thesis to the movement-bodies in the practices of Madge Atkinson’s Natural Movement and Molly Bagot Stack’s system of 'artistic body …
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Writing Home: Depictions of Forced Displacement in Romantic Era and Contemporary Poetry
… classical allusions reminiscent of Romantic Hellenism. Finally, I examine how contemporary poets have intervened in print and internet culture on behalf of refugees, considering how these interventions may reinforce or subvert the national and legal categories that attempt to determine who …
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Assuming the purple: the rehabilitation of ancient Rome in Victorian culture, 1837-1901
… was eclipsed by the contemporary popularity of Hellenism as a classical model. Yet, as a result of the coalescence of a diverse set of internal and external factors from around 1850 to 1870, Roman antiquity regained credibility and status as a central parallel for Victorian society and empire …
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The oriental context for the end of Greek rule in the Hellenistic Age
… attitude could be seen as a current emphasis on Hellenism as a Western and not an Eastern phenomenon, thus leaving - quite wrongly in my view - Bactrian and Indian history in the Hellenistic Age to be seen simply as the purview of Indian Historians and Indian History.This work is an account of …
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Ancestral voices: philological nationalism in the British Romantic period
… of cultural identification, from religion, to Hellenism, to what he considers 'pure English.' Underlying a shift in cultural concepts of identification is the premise that such concepts are subject to being shifted. This premise of a malleability of cultural identification in general becomes a …
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Da Alessandro ai Theoi Adelphoi. Fondazione e legittimazione della dinastia tolemaica, tra IV e III secolo a.C.
… perspective of female ruler cults in early Hellenism.
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Cyril Against Julian: Traditions in Conflict
… between their respective traditions, Hellenism and Christianity. </p>
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The fresco cycle in the Lombard Church of Santa Maria di Castelseprio
… of Castelseprio. Their style recalls the Hellenism which had survived in the East until the burst of the iconoclastic controversy (AD 726). Therefore, they are seen as part of an artistic tradition which developed before iconoclasm and was adopted in the West, as Eastern influences were …
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Medea in Victorian Women's Poetry
During the mid to late Victorian period, Euripides’ tale of Medea was given new life by the suffragette movement. As Victorians began to question women’s rights and capabilities, Medea’s story resurfaced as a cautionary tale showing the damage that occurs when women repress and shape their …