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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Idyll"”.
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THE LITOST-IDYLL FRAMEWORK IN MILAN KUNDERA’S WORK
… Litost relates to Kundera’s concept of the idyll (which refers to a utopia of innocence); when man learns of his misery, he loses this faith in his idyll and suffers from litost. This relationship serves as a framework with which to explore the major themes from Kundera’s three major works …
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Idyll and ideology : a comparative study of British and German popular fiction for girls, 1888-1918
This study is a comparative analysis of British and German popular girls’ fiction from 1888 to 1918. In three chapters, it investigates the ways in which relations between Britain and Germany were reflected and played out in this genre, and how they were presented to a readership of adolescent …
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A Republican Vision: The Politics of John Tyler
… Jeffersonian vision of preserving the agrarian idyll by expanding into space.
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Island bodies: registers of race and 'Englishness' on Tristan da Cunha c.1811 - c.1940
… the island framed as a Romantic English rural idyll displaced into the South Atlantic, and resulted in a metonymic linkage being created between the island body and the bodies that inhabited it. The shift from mercantile capitalism to industrial capitalism and the rise of modernity in the …
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Projecting Ireland : the historical consciousness of Irish film in the 1990's
… "war-torn Belfast", modern Dublin and "the rural idyll". Nonetheless, I have divided the essay into three main sections, other than the Introduction and Conclusion, which themselves contain subsections, and which encompass the major themes which recur in Irish films. Section Two is a broad study …
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Fictions of Female Voices in Hellenistic Poetry
… in epic. Chapter 4 looks at Ps.Theocritus Idyll 27 and Moschus’ Europa—poems featuring parthenoi on the cusp of their gamos. These poems, in addition to responding to traditional fictions of the female voice, engage with previous Hellenistic fictions. The traditional fiction of the female …
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Effective policy making for establishing sustainable local food systems : the East Riding of Yorkshire and the Abruzzo region, Italy.
… suggests that notions of the ‘rural’ as being ‘idyllic’ are renegotiated and reproduced contemporaneously. The rural idyll influenced the imaginings of the role played by different rural areas in producing ‘local’ food. Policy makers, businesses and consumers all talked about the ‘rural’ as …
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Frustrated desire and controlling fictions : the natural world in ancient pastoral literature and art
… chapter, which culminates in a reevaluation of Idyll 11, shows that although plants and desire are intimately linked with magic, the one true way to remedy a desire is to take control of one's own emotions and not dwell on what is not attainable. The botanical world, then, functions alongside …
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Progress in the peripheries: improvement and national image in the fictions of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1780 - 1830
… a public image of Wales as a picturesque idyll and acknowledging the signs of industrialization. Chapter two explores Maria Edgeworth’s approach to antiquarianism, tradition and the travelogue in her post-Union presentations of benevolent improvement in Ireland. Chapter three examines the …
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Change, loss and community : resident narratives of life on a social housing estate
… policy. It is frequently portrayed as a lost idyll that can be retrieved to counteract social decline; thus, an important means of examining social change. I contend that community is an interpretative concept; consequently, objective policy constructions of community should be challenged and …
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M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin's Plays in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Russian Drama
… cycles Abroad (За рубежом) and The Contemporary Idyll (Современная идиллия). His temporary abandonment of drama in the middle of the 1860s for the sake of his epic works, as well as his criticism of Russian and European drama, proved to be fruitful for Saltykov-Shchedrin not only as a dramatist …
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Young People's Health Beliefs and Behaviours: Power, Performance and Spatialities
… pervasive but problematic notion of the ‘rural idyll’ will be contested.
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From the Pastoral to the Grotesque in Late Russian Realism, 1872-1899
… Russia in positive terms through the lens of an idyllic countryside, three late realist novels, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Demons (1872), Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's The Golovlevs (1875-1881), and Lev Tolstoy's Resurrection (1899), used the grotesque to cast a negative look at that same world. I base …
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Rural Development and Migration - Effects of Rural Development Projects on Internal Migration and Migration Aspirations of Rural Dwellers in Hungary
… cultural life, basic welfare services and rural idyll in general, it is personal connections and the liberating aspects of the rural idyll that seems to matter in staying. It is unsurprising thus, that those were exactly these aspects of development programmes that seemed to reduce outwards …
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The Devil at the Gates of Heaven
… sublimated sexual urges and hungers for idyll, nature, nirvana and escape. Years ago, when I first came to the US, I was astounded by the intensity of consumption and the myriad appetites involved in shopping. That astonishment continues unabated, not least because consumerism is …
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El personaje femenino de la novela indigenista
… Bakhtin’s notion of “the destruction of the idyll”. The study found that the female characters play an inconspicuous part in Raza de bronce, Huasipungo and El mundo es ancho y ajeno. Contrastingly, in Aves sin nido and Los ríos profundos, there are several female characters who play a more …
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Images and perceptions of wives and daughters of the Victorian clergy
… tasks. Change discredited the myth of the rural idyll and dislodged the certainties of a country parish while opening up new fields of mission in the industrial cities. Change saw the Anglican church relinquish its hold on a diminishing worshipping community while maintaining all the expectations …
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Arthurian mythology in the twentieth century : T.H. White and John Steinbeck's interpretations of Malory's Morte d'Arthur
… White makes use of both to create a pastoral idyll. It is suggested that the next three volumes, The Queen of Air and Darkness, The Ill-Made Knight and The Candle in the Wind, demonstrate a progressively ( tragic vision in which the idealism of the first volume is sorely tried by the …
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An Exploration of the Relationship between Contemporary Spirituality, the Physically Active Rural Tourist and the Geography of Place: a case study of the Lake District
… the socially constructed image of a rural idyll. Rural tourism, a prevalent contemporary activity offering a sharp contrast to the urban experience, is largely under-researched in respect to the potential spirituality of such experiences. This study facilitates the building of a contextual …
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Body Double: Mythmaking and Identity in a Virtual Countryside
This thesis looks at how the romanticized image of the American countryside has shifted over the last century. By tracing a lineage of mediation through different mediums (print, television, internet), we argue that there has never been a pure rural condition. Currently, the countryside is …
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