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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Romantic period"”.
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Luxury Romanticism: The Quarto Book in the Romantic Period
… the cultural presence of the quarto book in Romantic-era Britain and argues that the format classed the period's defining literary ideologies--from sentimentalism, to liberalism, to Wordsworthian Romanticism, to orientalism--as luxuries meant exclusively for the nation's wealthiest consumers. …
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Ancestral voices: philological nationalism in the British Romantic period
… on language and nationalism in the British Romantic period. This exploration prompts a reevaluation of the intellectual heritage of the Romantic period, and also a reevaluation of the rise of philological nationalism in Britain, which has traditionally been assigned to the Victorian period. …
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An Alternate Spirit of the Age: George Colman the Younger's Production of Romantic-period Identity
… a system that arose in the theater of the early Romantic period, a textual and cultural process that, like Romanticism, reflected, reacted to and productively affected the social, economic and political changes occurring in Britain at the end of the 18th century. The over-arching genre of popular …
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Public quarrelling in the Romantic period: the rhetorical styles of John Burgoyne, Thomas Paine, William Cobbett, and Percy Bysshe Shelley
… of quarrelling in the writings of four British Romantic authors: General John Burgoyne (1722-1792), Thomas Paine (1737-1809), William Cobbett (1763-1835), and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). All four authors engaged in radical writing about war, politics and various controversial social issues …
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Intellectual formations in the Romantic period: a comparative study of cultural politics and social criticism in the British public sphere, 1802-32
… the ways in which a central literary genre like periodical social criticism was materially constructed out of distinctive modes of intellectual sociability, we can rethink the comparative political efficacy of rival idealist and materialist forms of intellectual praxis during a crucial …
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Word and image : Doré/Poe : an enquiry into the role of word and image in the late Romantic period, with specific interest in the participation of Gustave Doré, Edgar Allan Poe and the influence of the gothic revival
… image and also investigate the influence of late Romantic Gothicism. Part One examines the position and roles of verbal/visual enquiry through illustration and text. A survey of theoretical concepts defining illustration is made. A brief examination of nineteenth century perspectives of …
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Graduate Recital, Voice
… cara, " K. 528 represents the Italian Classical period; the text is based on the Roman myth of the goddess Ceres. Strauss' Drei Lieder der Ophelia, Op. 67 represents German Lieder from the late-Romantic period; the set presents a German translation of Ophelia's mad scene from Shakespeare's …
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The poetic self in the English ode, 1740-1820
… genre. Yet, the so-called masterpieces of the Romantic period, Wordsworth's ""Intimations Ode,"" Coleridge's ""Dejection,"" Keats's ""Ode on a Grecian Urn"" are odes, and the Romantics, however experimental they may have been said to be, are very conscious of genre and very cautious about …
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Cross-cultural refractions: India in English Romantic poetry
"Creative writers of the English Romantic period often felt the allure of India, for India ""stirred"" their Imagination. This dissertation explores the question Why? through analyzing historical phenomena like England's colonization of India and the Oriental Renaissance, through considering the …
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Manuel M. Ponce: A critical study of his Concierto Romántico for piano and orchestra.
… compositional accomplishments from his Romantic period, reflecting both the state of Mexican music at the turn of the 20th century, and his early nationalist tendencies. However, it remains the only concerto in Ponce's output in need of a more comprehensive analysis. This treatise …
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Two shadows in the moonlight : music in British film melodrama of the 1940s
… lies in the connection between music of the romantic period of the 19th century and what became of it during the 20th. "Serious" music from Schoenberg onwards became increasingly dissonant, but the rich melodic tones of romantic music appear to have found a new home in the cinema, and in this …
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“Lord I am 1”: The Solitary “I” and the Social Lyric
… critique of the genre – comes out of the Romantic period, “when a more vigorous and highly developed conception of the individual subject” made this kind of “mimesis” possible. For both Adorno and Culler – for that matter, even for many poets and critics of the Romantic period, the …
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Dangerous men: the crisis of masculinity in Romantic women's fiction
… writing, and feminist literary studies in the Romantic period. I address a gap in Romantic-era scholarship by interrogating how proto-Byronic and Austenian heroes reflect societal and authorial attitudes toward men and often incompatible masculine forms of behavior. Keen observers of their …
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Tragedy and the Younger Romantics
… explores how tragedy was conceptualised in the Romantic period by focusing on the work of Byron, Keats, Mary Shelley, and P. B. Shelley, and their contemporaries. It argues for the centrality of tragedy to the work of these writers, and to British Romantic literary culture. I contend that …
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Laura Netzel's Works for the Flute: New Editions with Historical Context
Romantic-era composer Laura Netzel ranked among the most-performed Swedish female composers during her lifetime but is now all but forgotten by scholars and performers. This dissertation examines how Netzel’s social class, gender, choice of instrumentation, and choice of compositional genres …
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A Comparison of the Styles of Liszt, Thalberg, Pixis, Herz, Czerny, and Chopin as Seen in Hexaméron
<p>In the early Romantic period, mechanical improvements in the piano and the great popularity of opera inspired composers to write piano works based on opera themes. One of these compositions, Hexaméron, was collectively written by six eminent pianist-composers of that time, Franz Liszt, Sigismond …
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Pedalling on: An autoethnographical journey of creative discovery
… Bach, JC Bach, Haydn and Mozart, and also early Romantic Period composers like Beethoven, Schumann and Schubert. This artistic exploration is shaped and documented using an autoethnographic methodology, and the repertoire showcased in each recital is a mix of solo and chamber music. At the centre …
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The literature of the French flute school, 1800-1880 : style characteristics, sociological influences, and pedagogical applications
… 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 France. Compositions …
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Word and Song: The Paradox of Romanticism
Among the various outcomes of the Romantic period, an interest in the relationship of the arts remains a widely recognized yet rarely examined field of study. Music and literature seemed to develop a particular kinship, yet to identify the exact relationship is as difficult as defining Romanticism …
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