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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Reception History"”.
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(Re)constructing Johann Sebastian Bach: reception history and performance practice in New York City during the Great War
… War can be illuminated through two threads: 1) reception history and reputation, and 2) contemporary performance practices. Between 1914 and 1927, the reputation of Bach migrated away from one having nationalistic and Romantic associations to one embodying both a "universal" objectivity and a …
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The Reception of Rebekah Within Genesis
… between the character of Rebekah and her reception history. This dissertation aims to understand how she has been received by scholars and artists in comparison with how Rebekah is literarily portrayed in the biblical text. This dissertation utilises two key methodologies, reception …
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"A Good Reder": the middle English Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy, instruction, publics, and manuscripts
… a consideration of its transmission and reception history, and a survey of its manuscript witnesses; it also incorporates an edition of the text from two of its manuscripts. The text is a cosmological treatise of approximately five thousand words, written for the most part in English, …
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A Critical Assessment of the Portrayal of Women in the Dead Sea Scrolls Sectarian Rule Texts, and of the Evidence for the Presence of Women in the Qumran Community
… as well as the scrolls themselves, and the early reception history of the scrolls, were all androcentric in nature. This research analysed the portrayal of women in the Rule texts using a multidisciplinary approach, focusing on Reception History and recent Feminist-Critical and Gender Studies …
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Neoclassicism in eighteenth-century literature: an analysis of realistic conventions in Cleland and Hogarth
… publishing their works. It also provides the reception history and different critical views of their works.</p>
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"Sed rudibus et indoctis" : women, orthodoxy, and the Rosebery Rolle Manuscript.
… movement, as well as by examining the themes and reception history of his texts, this study argues that Rolle was not a precursor to the Lollard movement. He was, instead, an orthodox product of the political and theological situation of the period. Finally, because the passage of verse at the end …
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Bach's Mass in B minor: An Analytical Study of Parody Movements and their Function in the Large-Scale Architectural Design of the Mass
Most studies of the Mass in B Minor deal with the history of the work, its reception history, primary sources, performance practice issues, rhetoric, and even theological and numerical symbolism. However, little research focuses on an in-depth analysis of the music itself. Of the few analytical …
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The Prester John Legend and European conceptions of Alterity before 1800.
… takes a necessary Longue durée approach to the reception history of Prester John. Key to this study is an examination of how the reception of Prester John is indicative of wider European conceptions of Eastern alterity. Figures of curiosity, such as Prester John, ‘existed’ in spaces of ignorance …
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Trans Metamorphoses: Gender, Race, and Classical Receptions
… premodern critical race studies, and classical reception history, I construct a long genealogy of what we now call transgender, in which racial difference is inextricable from the assignment of sex. Through close readings of popular romance, early drama, Ovidian myth, and biblical epic, the …
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Sanctifying Boldness: New Testament Women in Narsai, Jacob of Serugh, and Romanos Melodos
… chapter reflects on the significance of this reception history for understanding the dynamics of verse exegesis in Late Antiquity. While Narsai, Jacob, and Romanos stand as three independent artists, they jointly contribute to the poetic mode of biblical interpretation. Inhabiting the voices …
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The Literary Reception of Paul Hamilton Hayne and His Place in the American and Southern Literary Canons
… neglect of Hayne's work by first outlining his reception history as a poet. Certain trends are evident, specifically a movement in the United States away from the Anglo-American tradition to a new style of poetry, best represented by Walt Whitman. This change in what was fashionable in poetry …
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The Role of Hijra in the History of Deoband: Preserving Islam in a Minority Context
… approach, including textual analysis and reception history, this research seeks to understand the reception and consequent adaptation of hijra in the Deoband tradition. Through an examination of the historical development of hijra, this thesis offers an up-to-date treatment of Deoband’s …
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I Shall But Love Thee Better After Death: A Rediscovery of Eleanor Everest Freer’s Sonnets from the Portuguese, Op. 22 (1910)
… Chapter 3 gives a performance and critical reception history of the song cycle. The next sections outline notable aspects of the cycle as a whole, offers a table of performance practice guidance for each of the forty-four songs, and highlights notable features of each of Freer’s sonnet …
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Strauss and the City: The Reception of Richard Strauss’s Salome, Elektra, and Der Rosenkavalier within New York City, 1907–1934
… This study examines this connection through a reception history of Strauss’s <em>Salome</em>, <em>Elektra</em>, and <em>Der Rosenkavalier </em>in the city, beginning in 1907 with the New York City premiere of <em>Salome </em>and concluding in 1934 when the opera returned to the Metropolitan’s …
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The Cymbalum mundi of Bonaventure Des Periers and the Concept of Renaissance Unbelief, 1537–1937
This thesis presents the complete reception-history of the Cymbalum mundi of Bonaventure Des Periers, a collection of four dialogues originally published in Paris in 1537, and rumoured for centuries afterward to contain a hidden denial of revealed religion. The thesis divided into six chapters. …
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Haydn's Creation as a Musical Response to the Enlightenment
… or "idyllic." Concluding chapters focus on reception history of The Creation in both Austria and England, Haydn's two target audiences for the work.
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A Freudian <i>Dream</i>: Interpretations of <i>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</i> by Psychoanalysts and Psychoanalytically Informed Literary Critics
… that the papers merit greater prominence in the reception history of the play.
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Jesus the bridegroom: a metaphor of fidelity in the New Covenant
… Jesus the Bridegroom. Throughout its reception history, the metaphor has drifted from its New Testament context and been reinterpreted through the lens of Song of Songs or contemporary bridegrooms. However, we advocate suspending the romantic framework of the Song of Songs, even …
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Charles Villiers Stanford's Preludes for Piano op.163 and op.179: A Musicological Retrospective (3 volumes)
… biography identifies changes in Stanford reception history which have affected the understanding of his piano music both during his career and posthumously. Stanford’s experiences as pianist and composer of piano music are explored to provide a contextual backdrop to the thesis. As the …
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