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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Muse"”.
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Tranny Muse
Tranny Muse is a poetry collection that interrogates personal, historical, and socio-cultural genealogies, functioning as both a record and an archive. As the speaker of these poems, I explore my life thus far: from growing up Mormon and coming out as gay and trans/nonbinary to performing in drag …
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The Music Muse
… characteristics in different voices. The Music Muse is a computer program designed to help singers train their voices by showing them the individual components of their voices that combine to produce timbre. In paintings, many colors are combined to produce different hues and shades of color. …
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Magritte and the Muse
<p>René Magritte's body of work demonstrates not only a loyalty to the principles of Belgian Surrealism but also to those of Breton's mainstream Parisian group. His connection to the latter is particularly evident in the artist's paintings of the female nude produced from 1930-1962. Today, these of …
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The Early-Modernization of the Classical Muse
The Early-Modernization of the Classical Muse juxtaposes ancient and Renaissance uses of the Muse to retrieve her from the status of mere literary convention. I draw on Hans Blumenbergs 'reoccupation' (Umbesetzung) thesis, which locates in philosophy concerns originally raised in myth, to argue …
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The Muse Re-Evaluated: Diverse Manifestations of Poetic Inspiration
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Sea-Cards for the Impetuous Muse: A Reading of Shaftesbury's Characteristicks
<p><italic>Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times,</italic> by Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury, marks an important dissent from the general trend of early modern philosophy. This dissertation argues that Shaftesbury's book undertakes a restoration of the classical …
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Awakening The Muse: A Museum for the Fisher Family Art Collection
… is a proposal for a large contemporary art museum on the Presidio Parade Grounds in San Francisco, California. The site is small and historic, thus my solution was to build primarily underground. Through my exploration of designing a subterranean art museum I addressed the challenges of …
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Hermetic heresies: a sculptural revision of the iconography of the classical muse
… as vestige of function in the portrayal of muses in ancient Greek sculpture, my aim is to dismiss their traditional representations, and to reconstruct the choir of the muses by iconographic substitution. The hypothesis is that if the muses are prototypes rather than personages, then mythic …
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Reuse the muse : the museum as a transcultural negotiator of national identity
The project proposes a museum that acts as public infrastructure, situated across the boundary between east and west Oslo. The architecture of the museum is a continuous linear element that acts as a bridge through the different urban conditions from one side of the Aker River to the other, …
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No Slip-Shod Muse: A Performance Analysis of Some of Susanna Centlivre's Plays
In 1982, Richard C. Frushell urged the necessity for a critical study of Susanna Centlivre's plays. Since then, only a handful of books and articles briefly discuss herand many attempt wrongly to force her into various critical models. Drawing on performativity models, my reading of several …
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Lee Miller. Beyond the muse. A very modern woman: a woman of her time
Fashion model, surrealist artist, muse, photographer, and war correspondent. This discourse of simple transition from model to war correspondent, influenced by Antony Penrose and the Miller estate, has dominated the reading of Miller‟s life and work, as exemplified by the Imperial War Museum‟s …
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Elise Reimarus (1735--1805), the Muse of Hamburg: A Woman of the German Enlightenment
"Reimarus grew up in Hamburg, a prosperous port city with international flair, which also housed the largest Jewish community in Germany at the time. The daughter of an educated family, Reimarus received an exceptional education, which was enhanced through her correspondence with her older brother …
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Constructions of the Muse: Blues Tribute Poems in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Poetry
… have been numerous blues figures invoked as muses, I maintain that Rainey, Smith, Holiday, Leadbelly, and Johnson possess what Joseph Roach terms an "it" quality that makes them compelling to generations of poets, historians, and music fans alike. Poetry offers a medium through which artists …
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Cross platofrm issues in software design and development : a case study of Athena/Muse 2
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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The Muse in the Classroom: Some Effects on American Nonprofit Arts Organization of Partnering with Schools
… nonprofit arts organizations identified as art museums; ballet; dance; music; music groups, bands and ensembles; opera; singing choral; symphony orchestras; theaters; and visual arts organizations. Responses were gathered from 280 respondents for a 41% response rate. The researcher analyzed the …
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"Taught by the Heavenly Muse": typology and Milton's prophetic voice in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
Most critics have taken a traditional approach toward typological images in John Milton's poetry, but my study departs from previous criticism. I have noticed that there are actually three different systems of typology working simultaneously. Milton's typology is not the literal Medieval use but …
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Making Waves: The Mermaid as Female Muse, with Special Reference to the Writings of H.D and Virginia Woolf
… between a fisherwoman/writer and a mermaid muse. This is a revolutionary idea and completely revises the more traditional assumption of the muse as the 'Other'. It feeds directly into her concept of androgynous writing and corresponds to her watery images and fluidity, her openendedness and …
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Representations of the muse in the writings of Robert Graves: a study of five prose texts (1944-1950)
… and its essential influence on the poet and muse relationship.<br/><br/>The thesis examines the interrelationship between The White Goddess and the tour seminal fictional works The Golden Fleece (1944), King Jesus (1946), The Golden Ass (1950) and Seven Days in New Crete (1949). Analysis of …
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Venus Imaginaria: Reflections on Alexa Wilding, Her Life, and Her Role as Muse in the Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
While much has been written regarding the associations of Dante Gabriel Rossetti with his wife, Elizabeth Siddal, and mistresses, Fanny Cornforth and Jane Morris, scholars have generally ignored, or at the very least, minimalized, the potential importance of his connection to Alexa Wilding. This …
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