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Alliteration in Horace
… that this paper will attempt to answer are: Does Horace show a preference for alliteration of any particular letter or letters? If so, is this due to the fact that a proportionately large number of the words of his vocabulary begin with this letter or these letters? Does he show a preference of …
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Horace Mann's Contributions to Education
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Horace Kallen Confronts America: Jewish Identity in Discursive Formation
… life and thought of American Jewish philosopher Horace Meyer Kallen (1882-1974) explores the discursive fields from which American Jewish modernity developed. Through a close analysis of Kallen's writings and relationships, of his engagement with print culture, and of his understanding of science …
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Making Monsters: The Monstrous-Feminine In Horace and Catullus
<p>In most studies that discuss Horace and Catullus, scholars have differentiated between the two poets in style, subject matter, and polish. However, while the two poets are divergent in many ways, this paper argues that both undergo the same, repetitive process of abjection, in particular, with …
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Horace Walpole as a Critic of British Public Address
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Horace in dialogue : a Bakhtinian study of speakers, interlocutors, addressees and audiences in the moralising satires of horace sermones books one and two
… examines a selection of poems from both books of Horace's Satires against a backdrop of the dialogic theoretical system conceptualised by the Russian thinker Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975). The thesis proposes examining Horatian satire or sermo, as Horace himself termed his genre, as the …
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THE LIFE AND WORKS OF SIR HORACE JONES PRIBA (1819-1887)
… biography of the mid-Victorian architect Sir Horace Jones PRIBA (1819-1887) and comprises the most comprehensive account of his most important projects, including a complete inventory of his known works. It explores Jones’s early life, returning to primary sources, to describe his upbringing …
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Social Disruption in the Gothic Novels of Horace Walpole, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Jane Austen.
… and its fragmentary style, the novels of Horace Walpole, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Jane Austen reveal similar treatments of the sexuality of their characters. The implementation of key Gothic elements—such as the castle, tyrannical father, and distressed damsel—serve to propel the novels’ …
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Fashion & Folly: Developing a Site-Responsive Fashion Exhibition for Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill House
… the history and biography of Strawberry Hill and Horace Walpole. The project posits site-responsive exhibitionmaking as a viable and innovative means for presenting fashion exhibitions in venues other than museums with dress or textile collections. This exhibition model holds the potential to …
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To what extent does Horace present a coherent præceptor persona in the Ars poetica?
… a coherent praeceptor persona may be found in Horace's Ars Poetica. In the first chapter, 'Interpreting the Ars Poetica', I commence by reviewing and commenting upon previous critical attempts to explain Horace's poem. This I have divided into three main sections: 'Interpretations of …
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A Critical Evaluation of the Origins, Meaning, and Implications for Education of Horace M. Kallen's Cultural Pluralism
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"We're all Horacians": Listening to international students at an American liberal arts college
… salient dimensions of internationals' lives at Horace College, a Midwestern liberal arts college, by mapping and analyzing the self-reported stories and the perceptions of my informants. Based on nine months of fieldwork, I explore the particular contours of internationalization, international …
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Latin Satire, Ars Sermonis
… structures in the satiric poetry of Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. Dialogue is analysed as, to greater and lesser degrees, mimetic of, or informed by, turn-taking structures in multi-speaker communication. Analysis is undertaken using methodologies adapted from the field of …
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The significance of the work of Colonel Francis Wayland Parker in the progressive educational movement with special reference to his influence on John Dewey
… of common schools was in danger of failure Horace Mann gave his life to the promotion of the interests of the Common school.</p><p>In 1837, the very year Horace Mann gave up his prospect of a famous political career to become Secretary of the State Board of Education in Massachusetts, …
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Charles Brockden Brown: a Redefinition of the Gothic Novel
… originated in England with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto and continues until the present day as a popular and profitable form of literature. The American author Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) redefined the Gothic novel by proving that terror and horror can …
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Early Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Impact of the Gothic
… aesthetic validity. When the second edition of Horace Walpole's novel, The Castle of Otranto, appeared in 1765, it was subtitled "A Gothic Story." Many of the trappings of Walpole's novel, such as the castle, the Medieval setting, and the concerns of a moribund aristocracy became standard …
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Neoclassicism in eighteenth-century literature: an analysis of realistic conventions in Cleland and Hogarth
… from the Greek philosophers, Aristotle and Horace, until its re-‐emerge in eighteenth century in England. The study does a close reading of Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a Coxcomb, A Harlot’s Progress and A Rake’s Progress showing the areas where the Cleland or Hogarth followed or deviated from …
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A History of the Events Leading to the Establishment of the First State Normal School in America
… to the efforts of James Carter (1795-1849) and Horace Mann (179 6-1859), and because of the generosity of a Boston merchant, the Massachusetts legislature was moved to fund a normal school project for a three-year period. The following year, on July 3, in the town of Lexington, the first state …
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Ars Audax: The Myth of the Flight of Icarus and Its Reception Since Antiquity
… in Ovids Ars Amatoria and Metamorphoses and in Horace's Odes. I demonstrate that the manner in which each author employs Icarus — whether he is the object of focalization or the subject of focalization — and the manner in which each author employs the concept of audacia ('daring') and makes use …
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