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Showing 1 to 20 of 298 for “"Heroic"”.
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Heroic painting and its contemporary interpretation
… expression of human culture in the context of heroic painting, which will illuminate the varied contexts that inspired the creation of this body of work. I am motivated by my own love of popular culture, and that of the history of western art. My project objectives were to produce a body of …
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The Heroic Biography of Cú Chulainn
Early Irish literature is romantic, idealised, stylised and gruesome. It shows a tension between reality and fantasy ’which seem to me to be usually an irresolvable dichotomy. The stories set themselves in pre-history. It presents these texts as a “window on the iron age”. The writers may have been …
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Dryden's Pegasus: Heroic Tone in Macflecknoe
… basic analysis of the metrical variations of the heroic lines in “MacFlecknoe,” in an attempt to establish a significant relationship of meaning, metre, and heroic tone.</p>
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Heroic Self-Fashioning in Statius' Thebaid
… examine how heroes attempt to create their own heroic identity in Statius’ epic poem, the Thebaid. The Thebaid is a poem with no single central character, but a central group of heroes of relatively equal standing. Among this large crowd, each individual attempts to prove their heroic worth by …
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Italian Heroic Portraits in the Sixteenth Century
The dissertation is the first study of heroic portraiture in Italy in the sixteenth century. With the term heroic, which is presented and justified in the introduction to the thesis, I qualify independent portraits in all media in which the sitter is represented in the guise of a mythological, …
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William Rimmer's Concept of the Heroic Male Nude
William Rimmer is an enigmatic figure in the history of American art. Works created by him are the single exception to an otherwise undistinguished body of mid-nineteenth century sculpture. Yet, Rimmer was virtually ignored by the art public of his generation. In his own lifetime the considerable …
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Milton's Emerging View of Fame and the Heroic Life
By the writing of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, Milton clearly defines fame in Christian terms. His method is generally parodic; he throws into relief true fame by parodying its false varieties. Thus he makes a clear distinction between earthly fame and heavenly fame. …
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Understanding the Holocaust: Ernest Becker and the "Heroic Nazi"
… societies that generate meaning through various heroic quests that defy man's finite existence, yet often result in carnage. Combining Becker's theoretical framework with the rich historical evidence specific to the Holocaust provides a much richer understanding of both Becker's work and why the …
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Heroic individualism: the hero as author in democratic culture
… with specific reference to the question of "heroic individualism." I attempt to elucidate the notion of heroic individualism by examining three modern democratic moralists whose work occupies the space between politics and literature: Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Carlyle and Friedrich …
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Medieval Gaming: The (Re)Construction of the Germanic Heroic Tradition
… la apropiación y ludificación de la tradición heroica germánica por parte del medio digital de los videojuegos, un proceso que tiene lugar en los márgenes del discurso oficial sobre la Edad Media temprana, construido por los agentes académicos y educativos. Oficialmente, el fenómeno cultural de …
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The collapse of the heroic tradition in 20th century war poetry
… Greek epics; Bergonzi that they are in the anti-heroic poetry of the Elizabethans; and Silkin, in the liberal, humanitarian poetry of the Romantics. Their approaches are valuable in giving new insight into the poetry of the First World War and helping to place it in an historical perspective, but …
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Achilles and The Batman on the Plane of Immanence: Deconstructing Heroic Models
… Batman on the Plane of Immanence: Deconstructing Heroic Models attempts to reposition the way the reader views literary heroism. By defining heroism as a reaction to forces within and external to his society, heroism becomes a function of Michel Foucault’s concept of Otherness. Using Deleuze and …
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The gallant six hundred: performing the Light Brigade into a heroic icon
… in the British cultural ethos as an icon of heroic and national identity. The dissertation focuses on various types of dissemination: public records, newspaper articles, published personal journals, paintings and lithographs, music, and theatrical entertainments. The written document is …
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Narrative design and heroic definition in Chretien de Troyes' Erec et Enide
<p>Little is known about Chrétien de Troyes the man. Whatever is said about him as an individual or about the order and date of his writings is entirely a matter of conjecture, for there is virtually no evidence except for the little offered by the poems themselves. While Chrétien's life's history …
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From Hindu villain to heroic Buddhist king: Dathagiri in the Thiri Rama
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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