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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Symbolist"”.
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Pelléas et Mélisande as symbolist opera
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) has more often than not been labelled an Impressionist, implying that his music parallels the art of the Impressionist painters; this is because in his work musical colour takes precedence over form and design (Jarocinski, 1976: 11). However, it has been documented that …
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Synesthetic Landscapes in Harold Pinter’s Theatre: A Symbolist Legacy
… multi-sensory manifestations in line with <em>Symbolist theory and aesthetics</em>, I argue that Pinter's theatre articulates an <em>ecocritical</em> stance and a <em>micropolitical</em> critique.</p> <p>Chapter One explains the dissertation's theoretical framework (landscape theory, Symbolist …
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G.-Albert Aurier, critic and theorist of Symbolist art
… of all the published writings on art by the Symbolist poet-critic G.-Albert Aurier, intending to elucidate the systematic theory of art that underlies all his criticism. It includes a brief biographical account of Aurier's career as an art critic as well as a Symbolist poet and publisher, …
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A British Symbolist in Pre-Raphaelite circles : Edward Robert Hughes RWS
… extent to which Hughes can be characterised as a Symbolist artist. It relates his later work to Symbolist theory and practice, and investigates Hughes’s personal and professional links with Symbolism as an international movement.
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Turkish-Kurdish Conflict: An Ethno-Symbolist Exploration of Turks' and Kurds' Territorial Homeland Claims
… in generating the conflict. Anchored in an ethno-symbolist framework, the purpose of this thesis is to explore the historical interpretational obstacles over the ownership of homeland between the states and ethnic groups when working towards a conflict resolution. Through a case study of …
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Zinaida Vengerova: The aesthetic of the incarnation of the unincarnated
My dissertation is dedicated to the symbolist-critic Zinaida Vengerova. I focus not only on the work of Vengerova as a critic, her primary public role, but also on her writing which demonstrates her conception and dedication to the Russian Symbolist world view as uniquely expressed by her use of …
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The Many Disguises of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, Fairies, and the Symbolist Movements in Art and Literature)
… of Fin de Siècle and include intellectual Symbolist elements. The following is an investigation of two topics which initially seem widely disparate, fairies and Sherlock Holmes, and how a connection between the two can be explained through the Symbolist movements in art and literature.
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Time for a change: the influence of the writings of Henri Bergson and Arthur Symons on the short stories of Katherine Mansfield
… ideas of Henri Bergson and the French symbolist movement on the short stories of the New Zealand writer, Katherine Mansfield.
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Zimbabwean stone sculpture: The invention of a Shona tradition
… pedagogical techniques of the nineteenth century symbolist painter Gustave Moreau. In doing so, McEwen presented the works created during his tenure (1957-1973) as the reemergence of an ancient Shona tradition. He heralded Shona sculpture as a cultural revival that would stimulate a return to the …
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Literary urbanism, visuality and modernity
Literary Urbanism and the Symbolist Aesthetic argues that the modern city influences urban writers to develop particular literary-visual practices that translate urban experience into poetry and prose. Chapter one considers how urban planning in Paris during the Second Empire inspired Charles …
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The Symbolic Form of Architecture: An investigation into its philosophical foundations and a discussion on the development of the perception of architectural form by modern heoreticians and symbolist architects
… is examined. Finally, a critical review of the symbolist movement in architecture, art, and literature is presented as a movement diametric to the symbolic development in architecture, since it glorified the analogical, and frequently the mimetic. The origins for how the symbolist movement …
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Towards a modernist aesthetic : dialectical modes of representation in the early modern novel
… 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 argument that …
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"Edvard Munch's ""Frieze of Life"" in the context of nineteenth-century physiology"
… physiology as a means to express the Symbolist soul. Munch's subject matter may have dealt with feelings and the soul, love, life, death, and creativity. But it is the contemporary physiological framework that he seems to have drawn upon that helped him deepen and broaden his own …
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Diagnosing the Demonic: Reading Valerii Briusov’s Fiery Angel as Pathography
Russian Symbolists struggled to write a counter-narrative to the prevailing master narrative of disintegration, degeneration, and social pathology advanced by the emerging fields of social science, psychology, and modern medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. The Symbolists invested their …
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The Painter and His Poets: Paul Gauguin and Interartistic Exchange
<p>Many scholars have read the work of Symbolist painter Paul Gauguin through the tales of his travels to Tahiti (1891–93) in <em>Noa Noa</em>, despite the fact that they are an artful fiction, written upon his return to France in collaboration with the writer Charles Morice. Instead of …
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Belarus's National Narratives and Representation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
… the modernist/constructivist and the ethno-symbolist. The ethno-symbolist approach by Anthony D. Smith, however, is chosen as the most appropriate for examining Belarus's nation-building process and therefore, its ability to explain different expressions of Belarus's national narratives is …
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Graduate Recital, Voice
… Impressionist) period and explore Russian Symbolist poetry.
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47 Via Ricasoli, Florence, an English Translation of the Novel By Thierry Laget
… The foremost representative of the symbolist movement, he is the author of a single novel, La Rosée, which appeared just a few days before the start of World War I." (fictional entry in Petit Larousse Illustré) March 1986: Thomas is a real enthusiast of this twentieth century …
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