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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Salon culture"”.
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Conversation and Performance in Seventeenth-Century French Salon Culture
… performance in seventeenth-century French salons, and the representation of this aristocratic culture through performance. It seeks to understand how polite amateurs regarded professional performers, and vice versa. I use the study of performance to reveal distinctive constraints and …
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The Feminine Harp as Feminist Tool: Early Professional Footing for Women in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
… instrument formed in eighteenth-century French salon culture and molded by literature, artwork, music, and ideologies over the course of the next two centuries. This research attempts not to dismiss the myths that have come to be assumed as fact, but rather to understand why and how a cauldron …
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Desiring myth: history, mythos and art in the work of Flaubert and Proust
… are sacrificed to preserve the harmony of the salon. Culture is composed not only of logos but of mythos as well: Poetry, Art, History and Religion are all analysed in this study. Flaubert’s works enact a repeated invocation and repression of the visual, most evident in the Tentation de Saint …
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The Mazarin Salon: French Exiles in Seventeenth-Century London
Abstract Annalisa Nicholson: The Mazarin Salon: French Exiles in Seventeenth-Century London This thesis examines the history and literary output of the Mazarin salon, which was formed by French exiles Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin, and Charles de Saint-Évremond. Established in London in …
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Bildung, the Beautiful Soul, and the German Enlightenment Salon
… (the Beautiful Soul) in the context of Berlin salon culture around 1800. It is the first systematic examination of the relationship between this philosophy and the institution of the salon. My principal goal is to demonstrate that during the period between the Ancien Régime and the Vormärz, the …
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'I wasn't educated, I was very lucky': Sylvia Townsend Warner and Education
The fictional works of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) are primarily situated within a tradition of Marxist and feminist politics, or lesbian modernism. This thesis proposes that several of her works written and published mostly in the interwar years can be read through an alternative lens of …