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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Romantic Aesthetics"”.
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"Schattenhaft" in Mahler's Seventh and Ninth Symphonies: An Examination of a Passage in Adorno's Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy
… marking, which connect it to Schopenhauer and Romantic aesthetics, provide the framework for an examination of possible meanings of these two passages in Mahler. Drawing also on references elsewhere in Adorno's book to stylistic and formal features peculiar to Mahler's music, and especially on …
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Orchestrating the Self: Identity Construction in Howard Hanson's Seven Symphonies and "Symphony of Freedom"
… toward modernism, Hanson’s commitment to romantic aesthetics and broadly accessible musical language came to be seen as conservative, reactionary, or even nationalistic in troubling ways. He has since been largely forgotten and dismissed as an ideologue whose artistic values were out of …
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The Construction of Closure and Cadence in Gustav Mahler's <i>Ninth Symphony</i> and <i>Das Lied von der Erde</i>
… that recent approaches to the analysis of late- Romantic music are still dependent on ideas which are themselves a product of Romantic ideology. Typically, the musical practice of the late-nineteenth century (and after) is characterised in terms of its subversive relationship with the music which …
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Shelley's sublime
… sublime has frequently included connections to romantic aesthetics and the philosophy of the period. This thesis argues that Shelley utilized the sublime for political ends by engaging with its religious and philosophical perspectives. Building on the work on Shelley and the sublime done by Cian …
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Subverted modernism: Korngold's Die tote Stadt
… to acknowledge Modernist trends, dialogues and aesthetics in his works for the stage, and instead held fast to late-Romantic aesthetics and philosophies at the expense of engaging directly with contemporary culture and politics. I show evidence to the contrary, that Komgold was in fact actively …
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Poetics and practical aesthetics in the writings of Gottfried Semper.
… Semper in the context of neo-classical and romantic aesthetics, the first part of the dissertation investigates the significance of this reinterpretation. I argue that Semper, by emphasising the ontological and anthropological significance of artistic making, approximated a 'poetics of …
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Towards a modernist aesthetic : dialectical modes of representation in the early modern novel
… modernism is a late manifestation of the romantic-symbolist tradition, arguing that the modern novel's self-reflexive preoccupation with the materiality of language is incompatible with the essentialist premises of romantic-symbolist aesthetics. It also takes issue with the critical …
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Beauty in Coleridge
This dissertation reflects upon the significance of beauty in the oeuvre of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. My central thesis is that Coleridgean beauty is a ‘transcendental’. That is to say, beauty is a property of being as such. My entire argument seeks to defend this claim, to unfold its meaning, and …