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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Tractarian"”.
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Ward as a Tractarian
The pages of history reveal the lives of individuals, the rise of nations and of great movements, and we read them through, occasionally elevated by the heroism of some lofty soul, but more often borne down by the records of avarice, cruelty, and ambition, by tales of climbs to glory, and of falls …
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Tractarian Male Friendships, Intimacies, and Identities in Nineteenth-Century England
… which, I contend, were at the centre of the Tractarian Movement because of the way in which the chronologies of these friendships point towards an earlier starting point for the Oxford Movement and because of the way in which intimate friendships influenced the development of Tractarian …
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TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF TRACTARIAN HYMNODY: A Critical Appraisal of the Interaction between Theology, Poetry and Music in Anglican Hymnody between 1840 and 1900.
… poets and composers who had been inspired by the Tractarian revival. Hadow’s aesthetic judgment was formed by a new generation intent on the promulgation of ‘good taste’ which regarded the hymn repertoire of earlier Victorians as insincere, cloying and sentimental, with little regard for …
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Eve and the creation cycle: Christina Rossetti's reaction to John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
… her interest in the Anglican sisterhood, her own Tractarian obsession, the influence of her association with the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, and most specifically, her reaction to Milton's depiction of Eve in Paradise Lost. She reconstructs Milton's Eve in her own poetry. This treatise will …
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Rite of Association: The Figure of the Secret Society and Victorian Democratic Debate
… Glasgow Spinners (1838), the controversy over Tractarian reserve (1838), the so-called ""papal aggression"" (1850), the Indian Mutiny (1857--58), and the unification of Italy (1859--70). These events and the democratic debates surrounding them serve as the context for close readings of literary …
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Wittgenstein and the problem of phenomenology
… The paper expresses a dissatisfaction with the Tractarian account of logical grammar and pleas for a “logical investigation of the phenomena themselves”. This plea echoes Wittgenstein’s conception of a “phenomenological language” in the manuscripts from the same period. The thesis discusses the …
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Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein on existence and negative existentials
… in two ways depending on how one understands the Tractarian analysis of propositions involving definite descriptions. On one interpretation, Wittgenstein’s theory of existence is very similar to Russell’s, on the other his theory is radically different.
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A Poetics of the Soul: Devotional Poetry in Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Christina Rossetti
… B. Tennyson's Victorian Devotional Poetry: The Tractarian Mode (1989), this project situates individual poets in their cultural and religious contexts, and it encourages an understanding of devotional verse as an important feature of Victorian poetry. In addition to these aims, this dissertation …
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Life, achievements and influence of Thomas Combe of Oxford (1796-1872)
… and his art collecting, his contribution to the Tractarian movement, and his benefactions - poses some organisational difficulties. Whilst there are some links between these topics, they are sometimes in one direction only: his work at the Press, and the income derived from it, obviously governed …
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Sing No Sad Songs for Me : A Study of the Influence of the Oxford Movement upon Christina Rossetti as Evidenced in Her Poetry
… from the evangelical branch of the Church: the Tractarian or Oxford Movement.</p> <p>July 14, 1833 is the date which is often regarded as the founding date for the Oxford Movement; on this day John Keble delivered the assize sermon "National Apostasy" which openly addressed the ominous trend of …