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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Nineteenth Century France"”.
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Plainchant Accompaniment and Modal Harmony in Nineteenth-Century France
<p>By the beginning of the nineteenth century, harmonization of plainchant melodies had become a trend among church organists. In their harmonizations, many of these organists freely applied the harmonic conventions of what may be characterized today as common-practice tonality, such as …
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Giambattista Vico’s readers in mid-nineteenth-century France, c. 1820-1850
… how Giambattista Vico’s writings were read in France during the first half of the nineteenth century. By disentangling Vico’s legacy from an historicist account, I chart how his work was used to inform the writing of universal histories, principally by Pierre-Simon Ballanche, Jules Michelet, …
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Terroir after the terror : landscape and representation in nineteenth-century France
… with more critical approval; at the same time, France's actual landscapes were being reconfigured, in both physical and symbolic ways. This dissertation investigates the relationship between land reform and landscape representation following the French Revolution through to the early Third …
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Technology and form : iron construction and transformation of architectural ideals in nineteenth century France, 1830-1889.
… the development of iron construction during the nineteenth century in France. The emergence of iron construction paralleled the crisis of neoclassicism, in which an ambiguous compromise between classical formal norms and modem science and technology was already manifest in the iron reinforced …
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Representations of Insanity in Art and Science of Nineteenth-Century France: From the Demonic to the Degenerate
… seeks to analyze depictions of insanity in the nineteenth century, especially in France. Through research into the history of psychiatry and the history of image culture, I intend to explain the changing views of madness. Varying genres of art are used to explore these ideological shifts. At the …
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Speculating on architecture : morality, the new real estate, and the bourgeois apartment industry in late nineteenth-century France
… modernism at the dawn of the twentieth century.
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"Would You Write Something in my Album?" Social Customs and their Literary Depiction in Nineteenth-Century France and Spain
… album phenomenon developed in France and Spain and lasted throughout the entire nineteenth century. Albums were books with blank pages in which the owner collected contributions in the form of poetry, drawings, and music scores. These works were created for album owners by …
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George Sand Was Not a Man, or Was He? An Egalitarian's Stand Against Gender Division and Its Impact on the Role of Women in Nineteenth Century France
… project focuses on the controversial life of nineteenth century French novelist, George Sand. The paper examines the political climate surrounding Sand, her ancestry, upbringing and position on the rights of women in the context of her egalitarian ideals. Her values were influenced by …
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"Telling Balzac's Stories: Narration, Narrators, and Narratees in ""La Comedie Humaine"""
… triumph: His artistic reproduction of early nineteenth-century France is not a still-life; rather it is, as Michel Butor observed, a mobile romanesque. It is as active, engaged readers that we set this work of art in motion.
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From Orientalism to Japonisme: Hugo, Baudelaire and Mallarme
"In nineteenth-century France, both Orientalism and Japonisme were heralded as ways to rejuvenate art and literature. Did these movements actually ""modernize"" the arts? This thesis visualizes the esthetics of the Orientalist poetry of Hugo, Baudelaire and Mallarme through a parallel study of …
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Camille Claudel: The Struggle for Artistic Idenity
… The path she took to become a woman sculptor in nineteenth-century France will be explored. Her relationship with Rodin, her use of themes of destiny, and the educational and societal restraints on a woman sculptor in nineteenth-century France all inform our understanding of L'Âge Mûr.
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Making history, picturing hysteria : archaeology, ficto-criticism, and the critical history of Nicole Jolicoeur's La vérité folle
… Charcot at the Salpêtrière hospital in late nineteenth century France. Jolicoeur's work is explored in the context of the constructed nature of both hysteria as an illness and the photograph for adeptly representing reality. Through her work, Jolicoeur performs a Foucauldian archaeology as …
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Conspiracy in Balzac and Sand's July Monarchy Fiction
… of conspiracy and cultural production in nineteenth–century France, it situates the novel within wider discourses on European political history in the years leading up to the upheaval of 1848. Through close readings of Balzac and Sand’s common investment in conspiracist modes of …
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The literature of the French flute school, 1800-1880 : style characteristics, sociological influences, and pedagogical applications
… representative of the Napoleonic age in France and also the Romantic period as a whole. The changing role of the flutist exhibited in this vocally-based literature can be traced to effects from the development of the Boehm system and to certain nineteenth-century sociological changes in …
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Serial Killer: Gustave Flaubert's Pro-Woman, Woman-Killing <i>Madame Bovary</i>
… conditions of womanhood and domestic life in nineteenth century France. Further, I will expose the ways in which Flaubert, through these killings, aims to release his woman characters from their lives of oppression and imprisonment, detailing their increasingly limited options in life and …
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Communicating through Cork: Marcel Proust's Performative Call to Philosophy of Communication
… behind the gold gilding of the Belle Epoque in nineteenth-century France, and reframed progress as a series of fits and starts, where the self follows false scents in a search for self-fulfillment. Proust wrote the collection of Les plaisirs et les jours (English: Pleasures and Days) and the …
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