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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Historical Characters"”.
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Plato's Villains: The Ethical Implications of Plato's Portrayal of Alcibiades and Critias
… ethical example and a political warning. Other characters serve other philosophical functions. Alcibiades--the worst man in the democracy--and Critias--the worst in the oligarchy--are the most notorious characters.. This dissertation argues that Plato uses these characters in order to open a …
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"Let Us Not Be Misled": A Critical Appraisal of Characterization in John Adams's Nixon in China
… and appraise the characterization of the major historical characters in John Adams’s opera Nixon in China: Richard Nixon, Pat Nixon, Mao Tse-tung, Chiang Ch’ing, Chou En-lai and Henry Kissinger. The first chapter outlines the motivations and intentions of Adams, Goodman, Sellars and other key …
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"By Popular Demand": The Hero in American Art, c. 1929-45
… leaders, unionized workers, farmers, folk icons, historical characters, mothers, and women workers. The ideas they manifest are as varied as the styles and motivations of the artists who developed them. This dissertation contextualizes works by such artists as Florine Stettheimer, Philip Evergood, …
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How communication technologies impact the size and composition of human collective memory
… collective memory? Here we use two datasets on historical characters to present empirical evidence documenting how communication technologies have shaped human collective memory. We show that changes in communication technologies, including the introduction of movable type printing and shorter …
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The history writer’s tale : historical fiction and the depiction of identity in Michiel Heyns’s ‘the typewriter’s tale’ and ‘bodies politic’
This study investigates the relationship between historical fiction, history, and the portrayal of the identity of historical figures with specific reference to two novels by Michiel Heyns, namely: The Typewriter’s Tale (2005) and Bodies Politic (2008). Throughout the study the relationship between …
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Les voies/voix radicales en Angleterre, 1789-1848
… claimed that radicalism could not be analyzed historically as a concept, because it was not a homogeneous movement, nor it had common leaders and a clear ideology. For them, radicalism was merely a loose concept, « a state of mind rather than a plan of action. » At the beginning of the …