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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Symbolists."”.
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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 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
… of symbols, and how it was misinterpreted by the symbolists.
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Between impressionism and realism: Robert Henri's early career, navigation of nineteenth-century French modernism, and the development of an American avant-garde
… of Whistler, the Impressionists, and the Symbolists. Finally, critical reconsideration of Henri's publication "The Art Spirit" reveals the lasting legacy of nineteenth-century thought in Henri's philosophy of art even as it inspires more forward-thinking practice.
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Claude Debussy: Harmonic Innovations in Historical and Musical Context
… Wagner, Russian musical influence, the French symbolists, and the orientalism that was in vogue throughout Paris. Debussy's unique ideas stemmed as much from his environment as they developed from his own genius. Claude Debussy molded these influences to expand and morph the function of German …
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The Uncanny Other: Edgar Allan Poe’s America
… American identity, and his reception by French Symbolists. Chapter IV, “The American Double: ‘Inescapable Poe’,” presents a discussion of this French influence amongst Anglo-American literary circles, which had complicated effects on his status in his native literary culture (and language). …
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Embodied Performance As Queer Theatre Historiography: Translation, Gender, Identity, and Temporalities in Mikhail Kuzmin's The Dangerous Precaution
… Kuzmin, a notable contributor in both groups of symbolists, is recognized for having contributed music to Meyerhold and Blok’s <em>The Puppet Show</em> but is less known for his multitude of plays. Seeking to remedy this problem, I examine one of the earliest dramatic texts by Kuzmin, <em>The …
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Alchemy and <i>Finnegans Wake</i>
… realm removed from reality, which is what the Symbolists, Yeats, and others sought in alchemy and the occult; nor is it life transmuted into gold, the ordinary perception of the aim of alchemy. <em>Finnegans Wake</em> is, instead, a book which takes the elements of life and turns them into art, …
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Wallace Stevens' parodies of the order of paradise
… Most relied heavily on the verbal icons of the Symbolists, or the Victorians and Pre-Raphaelites, who had in turn adapted theirs from the medieval and Romantic poets, or from such luminaries as Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Poems from the time of Stevens’ youth—and his own undergraduate …
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Soviet Gothic-fantastic: a study of Gothic and supernatural themes in early Soviet literature
… from Pushkin to Dostoevskii, including the major Symbolists, wrote fiction combining the real with the macabre and supernatural. However, following the inauguration of the Soviet regime and the imposition of Socialist Realism as the official literary style in 1934, most critics assumed that the …
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Musical semiotics and color : contextual roles of color in Scriabin and Schoenberg.
Stemming from the larger topic of multimedia, this thesis examines the interrelation of music and color. Color will be explored as a metaphysical entity—beyond visual or aural connotations—as a symbol for inner reality beyond time and space. This analysis will be achieved through the primary case …