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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Sublime, The"”.
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The Oldest Well
<p>This body of work, representing the past two years, is focused on the idea of the composite landscape. This reconfiguring of the elements from the external world combined with invented places is a way for me to articulate the subtle transactions between the interior psyche and the external …
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Radiant divas: In pursuit of the queer sublime
Radiant Divas: In Pursuit of the Queer Sublime considers the importance of the figure of the diva within a queer cultural imaginary in the long twentieth century. Divas, through a performance of the sublime, productively stretch the boundaries of queerness and race into new directions. I argue that …
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Divergent Roads: Pre-Sublime Terror and Sublimated Tragedy in the Poetry of Robert Frost and Joseph Brodsky
Not all great poetry produced in the first quarter of the twentieth century contains such stylistic elements as those metaphysical/modern ones evinced in the poetry of Eliot or other prototypical modernists: Robert Frost’s work, for example. It is true that Frost experiments with form and theme, as …
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A fabulist’s alternity & Lovecraft and the grotesque sublime
The Creative Work: The creative work is a novel titled A Fabulist’s Alternity. It is set in an unspecified time in the future, in Perth, Western Australia, and against the background of the social and natural consequences of climate change. Spread over four days, the story centres on two …
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An approach to the sublime of death
… is an unknown and it is final. This makes it sublime. The sublime as an aesthetic category is experienced emotionally as the moral certitude of having embraced the absolute. In that sense, the nervous system is capable of the exact same physiological responses in life. It is these responses to …
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Forging Ireland: German Travel Literature 1785-1850
This study discerns the patterns of perception and the modes of representation that underlie the manner in which German travel writers portrayed Ireland and the Irish people between 1785-1850. The focus is on demonstrating how individual authors are indebted to common conceptual frameworks and …
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Design and Architecture High School
This thesis is about learning from architecture, it is about teaching design at an early age, and how light and space speak about architecture. It is about teaching design and architecture at the high school level, and the ideas, metaphors and sources of inspirations used to achieve this. Design …
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Shelley's sublime
The sublime is a topic with a rich context in art, philosophy, religion and rhetoric. Critical discussion of Percy Shelley’s use of the sublime has frequently included connections to romantic aesthetics and the philosophy of the period. This thesis argues that Shelley utilized the sublime for …
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Science and the perception of nature: British landscape art in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The period between 1790 and 1820 saw striking changes in the depiction of British landscape. Conventional pictorial formulae (the sublime, the beautiful, and the picturesque) were abandoned in favour of what has been called a more 'naturalistic' mode of representation. The thesis argues that this …
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An abstract study of light in architectural design
Light is, just as space is. Neither can be created. Both are omnipresent Light and space need not be the heart of an architecture, but they are its soul. Space exists, light exists. Light exists to penetrate space. Light sails through space effortlessly, indifferently illuminating its course and …
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Edmund Burke’s Moral Imagination: Interpretation and Cultivation
This dissertation argues that the faculty of imagination is crucial to Burke’s view of man, the sublime and beautiful, the arts, morality, society, and politics and that, therefore, the cultivation of a moral imagination is likewise crucial to his ethic. It accomplishes its thesis by systematically …
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Orient
… hybridity, a concern with socially constructed theories of the “other,” and a critical apprehension about the juncture of art, politics, and the sacred, <em>ORIENT</em> engages, deconstructs, and re-orchestrates a variety of dissonant energies. Cultural in nature and historical in scope, these …
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Chaucer's "Naked Text" and the Tradition of the Medieval Sublime
The dissertation challenges the familiar notion that the literary theory of the sublime did not exist during the middle ages. Analyzing the Latin tradition from the patristic period through the late medieval period, I argue for the vibrant presence of the sublime by documenting its centrality to …
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The dyslexic sublime: exploring the art-making process of dyslexic artists through the lens of the sublime
The connection between art and the Sublime, encompassing concepts like transcendence and the duality of pain and pleasure, is well-established. These formless and invisible concepts can be represented through art, yet research primarily focuses on renowned artists, with limited exploration into how …