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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Masques."”.
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Witches, Masques and Lutes: Scoring the Magical Within Masques and Plays
… influenced by the “witch-craze” was theatrical masques. Masques differed from spoken drama and operas, as the action moved forward through dance instead of speech or song. A notable instrument that was used in ensembles that performed in masques was the lute. This thesis focuses on how composers …
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Drawing, Writing, Embodying: John Hejduk's Masques Of Architecture
… dissertation will examine the architectural masques of architect and poet, John Hejduk. Hejduk's masques are more than the text or the drawing; like their inspiration, the Stuart Court Masque, the architectural masque is a compendium of text, symbol, history, and performance, which is meant …
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Inventing 'living emblems': emblem tradition in the masques of Ben Jonson, 1605-1618
… in the development of imagery in his court masques and entertainments, how or why Jonson employs this genre of word-image combinations is rarely addressed. This thesis offers an explanation for what is often assumed in studies of Jonson’s masques and entertainments. Rather than identifying …
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Comus and the seventeenth century masque.
… Soergel, a leading authority on the subject of masques, boldly states that "Comus ist eine Moralitat mit Masquerade, aber keine Masque." Miss Welsford is quite convinced that Comus is a more or less typical production. Masson, like many another critic, praises Comus to the skies while Belloc …
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Étude du masquage visuel périphérique et central: degré de structuration du masque, intensité du stimulus-cible et mode de présentation monoptique et dichoptique
… vérifier l'efficacité relative de trois types de masques (aléatoire, quasi-structure et structure) et l'effet de l'intensité du stimulus-cible lors de taches de masquage visuel monoptique et dichoptique. Le "Lagged Accrual Model" ("LAM") a été appliqué aux données observées d'un groupe de 8 …
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Neoplatonic identities : literary representation and the politics of Queen Henrietta Maria's court circle
… notions of female identity put forward in her masques and pastoral plays. By tracing the influences of both neoplatonism and reformed Catholic theology in the Queen's theatrical productions, I. demonstrate how courtly women came to be privileged as the arbiters of taste and judgement, and show …
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False presences: Fanon's reinforcement of the female subaltern
… arises within Frantz Fanon's books Peau noire, masques blancs, L'an V de la révolution algérienne, and Les damnés de la terre. Through a close reading of these texts, this thesis aims to locate where these blind spots exist and how they are facilitated by Fanon, while also acknowledging the …
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“Princes upon Stages”: the Theatricalization of Monarchy in the Reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1569
… of the royal court, the performance of plays and masques at court, and the queen’s annual progresses to show how Elizabeth, her council, and her subjects used pageantry and spectacle to communicate with each other on the important issues of the day.
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Publishing the Stuarts: Occasional Literature and Politics from 1603 to 1625
… of the Stuarts sponsored by the Stuarts such as masques to fully understand their iconography. Attending to the contexts which shaped occasional literature and the meaningful ways in which authors yoked descriptions of state events to commentaries on political issues, demands a new history of …
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Music and power at the English court, 1575-1624
… between 1575 and 1624 by considering masques, country house entertainments, royal entries and civic pageantry. It explores the changing discourse of music's place within court entertainments, and the ways that different types of entertainment present music. Music's associations with …
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The Circulation And Recontextualization Of Dramatic Excerpts In Seventeenth-Century English Manuscripts
… of the “occasions” of occasional drama (masques and entertainments) by examining moments of manuscript compilation rather than the moments of performance. Bringing together the significance of manuscript compilation, political context, and delivery of performance, my final chapter …
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The Uncanny Other: Edgar Allan Poe’s America
… “Poe and America as a Border Culture: Masks and Masques of American Literature,” analyses Poe’s celebration of the hybridity of his antebellum literary culture in narratives of heterotopic carnivals which he imbues with a distinctly Modern temporality. This carnivalesque expression translates …
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Ponçage de murs en gypse avec un bras robot collaboratif
… qui oblige les travailleurs à porter des masques durant le travail. Ces conditions laissent entrevoir un retour intéressant sur l’investissement en temps humain et une bonne acceptabilité sociale. Des travaux préliminaires ont été faits avec un algorithme de vision pour localiser les …
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Picturing women in Urania by Mary Wroth and Clelie by Madeleine de Scudery
… such as emblems, engravings, paintings and masques.
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Mythology and allegory in drama:A comparative study of Ben Jonson and Wole Sonyinka
… a masque writer is to elevate the king, in his masques, shows the king, in the image of Pallas, to be the judge of all England, the bringer of an ideal world in The Golden Age Restored. In Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue, Jonson shows himself to be a great artist, in the form of Hercules, but …
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Mythology and allegory in drama:A comparative study of Ben Jonson and Wole Sonyinka
… a masque writer is to elevate the king, in his masques, shows the king, in the image of Pallas, to be the judge of all England, the bringer of an ideal world in The Golden Age Restored. In Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue, Jonson shows himself to be a great artist, in the form of Hercules, but …
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La poétique de la relation et ses enjeux dans la littérature francophone d’Afrique subsaharienne : cas d’Henri Lopes, Sami Tchak, Abdourahman Waberi et Fatou Diome
… soi telle qu’elle est décrite dans Peau noire, masques blancs de Fanon, ou encore le néocolonialisme), Édouard Glissant convie au rapprochement des peuples, des cultures et des continents. C’est dans cette optique que surviennent entre autres ses notions de Créolisation et de Relation. Glissant …