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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Ruskin"”.
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The Social Views of Ruskin
To the more thoughtful Buskin is, assuredly, a problem in the literary history of the I9th century in England. Scoffed at and rejected by the reading public, clamored for and listened to breathlessly by people of intellectual leisure, as well as by students, he stands - a challenge and an appeal - …
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Proust and Ruskin: a study in influence
The following thesis is a comparative study of Ruskin and Proust. The six years which Proust spent studying the Englishman's works have prompted several full-length studies and many articles devoted to tracing the nature and extent of Ruskin's influence on the creation of A la recherche du temps …
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'The Sancity Of Womanhood': John Ruskin And The Medieval Madonna
… the same for British art and social critic John Ruskin. His complexly layered rhetoric, most poignantly expressed through the sanctified image of the medieval Madonna, serve as one interesting and much-judged example of many reactions to the tumultuous new social conditions of industrial, …
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British and Indian Influences in the Identities and Literature of Mark Tully and Ruskin Bond
… examines the case of two authors, Mark Tully and Ruskin Bond, who were born in India shortly before India's Independence (1947). Both had British parents, but one considers himself Indian while the other has retained his British identity. The focus of this paper is how and why this difference has …
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Imagining membership and its obligations : the voice of John Ruskin in Wendell Berry's fiction.
This study explores the ways in which John Ruskin's artistic and social criticism illuminate persuasive elements in Wendell Berry's fiction, primarily his three major novels: A Place on Earth, Hannah Coulter, and Jayber Crow. By attending to Ruskin's voice, readers of Berry learn how ethical …
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The influence of Carlyle on the social ideas of Ruskin in the period from 1860 to 1884
Text from page 1: "To connect the name of Ruskin with that of Carlyle is not a new idea. Every biographer and critic of Ruskin refers to the relation which existed between the two men; all mention especially Ruskin's admiration and respect for Carlyle. But no detailed study of the relationship of …
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Learning, knowledge and trade union renewal : an analysis of the student experience of the MA in international labour and trade union studies Ruskin College, Oxford (2006-2016)
… labour and trade union studies (ILTUS) at Ruskin College, Oxford between 2006 and 2016. The MA aimed to address the need for the renewal of organised labour, and exemplified Ruskin’s historical role in assisting trade unions internationally in addressing the ‘conditions for change’. The …
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The Structural Role of Idolatry in The Works of Marcel Proust
… facing the potential artist/writer emerge. The "Ruskin years" mark the period when Proust is confronted directly with the full ramifications of the theme. In profuse prefaces to the Ruskin translations, Proust treats idolatry in the most serious terms citing examples of individuals he knows …
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Sir James Matthew Barrie, Romantic Philosopher in Modern Realistic Drama
… three great Victorian authors—Arnold, Ruskin, and Carlyle— rose to criticize England’s shallow middle class, smug aristocracy, and the newly-rich. Arnold fought the growing chaos by teaching that only education will produce sell-culture; Ruskin spent a huge fortune in the social and …
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The Ethics of Rust: an interpretation of Ruskin's gothic
… demonstrate that the critical theories of John Ruskin have a particular interest to us at the end of the 20th century. The basis for this claim is that Ruskin’s mode of thought was essentially ecological. By this I do not mean to suggest that he was simply interested in nature conservation or …
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The Ethics of Rust: an interpretation of Ruskin's gothic
… demonstrate that the critical theories of John Ruskin have a particular interest to us at the end of the 20th century. The basis for this claim is that Ruskin’s mode of thought was essentially ecological. By this I do not mean to suggest that he was simply interested in nature conservation or …
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Women in the Imperial Art World: Anglo-Australian Women Artists and their Transnational Careers, 1885 - 1907
… Sinnett in 1875, the British art critic John Ruskin replied to her with the advice, 'you must resolve to be quite a great paintress; the feminine termination does not exist, there never having been such a being...as a lady who could paint. Try to be the first'. Almost a century later in …
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Women in the Imperial Art World: Anglo-Australian Women Artists and their Transnational Careers, 1885 - 1907
… Sinnett in 1875, the British art critic John Ruskin replied to her with the advice, 'you must resolve to be quite a great paintress; the feminine termination does not exist, there never having been such a being...as a lady who could paint. Try to be the first'. Almost a century later in …
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Roger Fry as a Protestant Art Critic
… nineteenth-century British art critic John Ruskin. I discuss the problems both men had in engaging with a predominately Catholic art form, and place their work within a wider British tradition. I consider their personal histories and how they gave a similar interpretation of art history. I …
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From Rio to Romola: Morality and Didacticism in the English Appreciation of Early Italian Art 1836-1863
… focuses upon the writing of A.F.Rio, John Ruskin and Anna Jameson. and the displays of the National Gallery, British Institution and Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. It is my contention that the taste for early Italian painting and the theories which supported it gave fresh …
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The Phenomenon of Age and the Temporal Extension of Place
Ruskin once alluded to ‘ageing’ in buildings as “the golden stain of time”, noting “there is actual beauty in the marks of it”. Whilst we superficially understand the affect to which Ruskin refers, if we consider how physical ‘marks’ upon a building might cause us to feel ‘time’, the situation is …
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Brynmawr experiment 1928-1940 : Quaker values and arts and crafts principles
… individual. These were also the concerns of John Ruskin and William Morris which motivated the formation of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the! 880s. The Arts and Crafts principles which persisted into the twentieth century in the craft communities of C. R. Ashbee and of Eric Gill, and in the …
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Arthur Lismer in the context of Sheffield
… and particularly the pervading influence of John Ruskin. Parallels are drawn between Lismer's Sheffield background and his views on art appreciation, which included concerns about art training and education, the lack of aesthetic awareness, and the need for social and civic responsibility in the …
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