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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Villette"”.
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Passionate craftsmanship: the artistry of Charlotte Brontë's <i>Jane Eyre</i> and <i>Villette</i>
… to the extent that <em>Jane Eyre</em> and <em>Villette</em> do, and even fewer employ them as the main vehicle of their structure and theme.</p> <p>For in <em>Jane Eyre</em> and <em>Villette</em> it is the imagery, symbolism, and the other techniques of poetry—as distinguished from the methods …
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Deconstruction in landscape architecture
… ideas, with particular attention to Parc de la Villette by Tschumi. Deconstruction as a design tool is compared to traditional design synthesis, and various methods of applying deconstruction to landscape architecture are described.
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Symbol and theme : a study of natural imagery in selected novels of Emily, Charlotte and Anne Brontë
… Heights, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Villette, and Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wild fell Hall, examining each sister's individual use of nature, and its related symbols and images. This thesis will show how the natural world provides the structural principle on which …
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Jane Eyre And Her Transatlantic Literary Descendants: The Heroic Female Bildungsroman And Constructions Of National Identity
… Brontë's career from Jane Eyre (1847) to Villette (1853) in order to demonstrate the evolution of the heroic female bildungsroman in Brontë's work. This distinctive narrative paradigm, the heroic female bildungsroman, is incorporated into a perpetual search for a mythology to define …
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Fictional Selves: Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography
… by Dickens and <em>Jane Eyre</em> and <em>Villette</em> by C. Bronte are openly imaginative works, but they are told through the thematic and formal conventions of the nascent genre of autobiography. I propose that the dual presence of conventions of reference and conventions of fiction …
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Architectura Laticis
… Bernard Tschumi's set of follies at Parc de la Villette in Paris follow a set of syntactic rules with an infinite combination to reference the transition between one folly to another. Sergei M. Eisenstein describes Architecture as a montage in which a sequential rhythm is established by the …
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The other cross-channel neighbor: Imagining and appropriating Belgium in nineteenth-century British literature and culture
… Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor (1846-1857) and Villette (1853). While pre-1960s criticism of both novels focuses on these characters' individual experiences, later critics have positioned their conflicts in the context of Britishness in a Continental setting. This chapter extends the latter …
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Charlotte Bronte and the uses of creative writing : a study in function and form
… The project collapsed after Emily's death. In Villette, she affirmed her faith in her memory and imagination.Three appendices discuss It is all up!, the dating of But it is not in Society (April 1839), and the dating of Bronte's letter to Hartley Coleridge (December 1841).
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Poetics of Dislocation: Comparative Cosmopolitanism in Charlotte Brontë, Flora Tristan, and Toru Dutt
… Charlotte Brontë's novels, Jane Eyre and Villette, Flora Tristan's memoir from her travels to Peru, Pérégrinations d'une paria, and Toru Dutt's novella, Le journal de Mlle d'Arvers are the focus of this study. Brontë's heroines, Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe, Tristan's champion of the …
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Postsecular Victorians: literature, culture, and belief
… understanding of Victorian modernity. Brontë’s Villette uses Gothic conventions to dramatize the challenges of sectarian religious difference through the trans-channel courtship between the Gallic Paul Emanuel and the ultra-Protestant Lucy Snowe. Finally, Arnold’s poetry and essays demonstrate …
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“An Unquiet Soul”: Despair and Doubt of God’s Benevolence in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë
… doubt of the efficacy of the Church), to Villette (with its almost fatalistic view of events). As God seemingly disappears from Brontë’s protagonists’ worlds, they are left to fend for themselves; in Brontë’s novels we glimpse protagonists’ moments of atheism and doubts of salvation, …
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Receptor-Mediated Antigen Delivery by Α<Sub>2</Sub>-Macroglobulin: Effect on Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Immunity and Implications for Vaccine Development
<p><p>The receptor-recognized form of α<sub>2</sub>-macroglobulin (α<sub>2</sub>M*) targets antigens (Ag) to professional Ag-presenting cells (APCs) for rapid internalization, processing, and presentation. When employed as an Ag delivery vehicle, α<sub>2</sub>M* amplifies major …
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Theology and the Narrative Form of the Victorian Realist Novel
… fictional autobiographies, Jane Eyre (1848) and Villette (1853). I situate both novels within traditions of spiritual life-writing to argue that confession as a predominantly Protestant literary genre and a largely Catholic liturgical sacrament provides narrative structure for Brontë’s …
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'Eve's Apples': Growing Ladies In The Brontean Sublime, 1826-1853
… last novel published within her lifetime, <em>Villette</em>, is the topic of the final chapter. By this time, Brontë has come closer to a complete vision of the feminine sublime. She develops Lucy Snowe as a woman who finds balance between her sense of identity and Nature. Lucy uses the garden …
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Creative implications of deconstruction: the case of jazz music, photography, and architecture
… idea of architecture as event in Parc de La Villette. Tschumi's work is an example of how the deconstructive approach adopted by architects fosters creativity in users. Finally, the analysis focuses on the transformative and creative character of portable architecture by investigating the …
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Ignorance and Marital Bliss: Women's Education in the English Novel, 1796-1895
… Ellis's conduct books. Charlotte Brontë's Villette (1853) juxtaposes Ellis's ideal women's education with Wollstonecraftian models from Alexander J. Scott's Suggestions on Female Education (1849) and an anonymous review of Sarah Lewis's Woman's Mission (1839). In Phineas Finn (1867-1869) …
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Exquisite Corpses : an architectural mystery
… heavy theoretical underpinnings (Tschumi's La Villette, Rossi's urban plazas), but also accepts the dismissive value of fiction. Ultimately, the goal is to revisit a spectral dialogue excluded from most contemporary architectural production, and suggest a probable methodology around which to …
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