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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Western tradition"”.
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Tricking for change: Establishing the literary trickster in the western tradition
… a dubious character. If we trace the trickster’s western roots back to Hermes, Mercury, and Loki and take global trickster scholarship into consideration, criteria can be established and the role of the literary trickster can be assessed. The literary trickster’s role is to undermine the …
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Body, soul, and architecture: a study of the premodern Islamic and Western tradition
… always been related to the human body. In the Western tradition, this can be traced back to the writings of Vitruvius as well as a chain of thinkers who followed in his footstep. In several non-Western traditions, however, the relationship is not as clearly traceable. The Islamic tradition is …
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"This Beautiful Evil": The Connection between Women, the Natural World, Female Sexuality, and Evil in Western Tradition
… are structured within a cultural framework of Western tradition: myths and folktales, religious, philosophical, and scientific works, and film.
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An exploration of transformation theory and the western tradition: a critical evaluation of a graduate studies class
… is an exploration of transformation theory, the Western tradition, and a critical evaluation of a graduate studies class at a university. It is an exploration of assumptions that are embedded in experience, that influence the experience and provide meaning about the experience. An attempt has …
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Aesthetics in the Ecotheology of Sallie McFague: A Critique and a Proposal for a Theological Aesthetics of Nature
… goal, a limited history of aesthetics in the Western tradition is surveyed and attention is given to three significant contemporary scholars in the field of aesthetics and nature/environment (Emily Brady, Allen Carlson, and Arnold Berleant). While this work intended to propose the rudiments of …
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Talking with our mouths full : performance and feasting as intercultural dialogue
… rituals and performance. I come from a Western tradition, and have used mostly Western scholarship in my research. Although I respect and honour other perspectives, I can only authentically speak from, and for, my own.
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Voices on the Horizon: A Theory of Ludic Rhetoric
… use of the terms rhetor and rhetoric in the Western tradition encouraged playful cooperation. The move toward reason and science during the Enlightenment relegated rhetoric to mere techniques for persuasion and silenced alternative avenues for seeking truth. Reclaiming traditional rhetoric as …
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Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Wind Ensemble
… FOR TENOR SAXOPHONE AND WIND ENSEMBLE in the tradition of the grand concerti of the nineteenth century, but incorporating a modern sense of harmony and rhythm. The spirit of the piece is very in the Romantic tradition with a soloist set against a large ensemble. However, the traditions …
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A redefined feminine from paleolithic to twenty-first century through children's literature & film
… to redefine the knowledge of the feminine that Western tradition, through “master narratives,” silenced, subverted, and deferred. My guidelines were drawn from the deconstruction of philosophical works by Jacques Derrida and redefined the unique circle of “Being and beings” to be not just God …
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Charles Olson and Jack Spicer: A Comparative Study of the Poetics of the Outside
… the ocular model of artistic expression of the Western tradition, Olson and Spicer, respectively, theorize a poetics of the Outside through which the poet is able to compose verse in such a way as to work against the self and thereby gain access to the always-already polyvocality inherent in all …
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Musical improvisation as the place where being speaks : Heidegger, language and sources of Christian hope
… 3). Among various philosophies of music in the Western tradition, none appears to have foregrounded improvisatory music specifically. However Heidegger's philosophy, it will be suggested, harbours inner trends which favour the idea of music as a central component in philosophical discourse …
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José Rafael Moneo Vallés: 1965-1985
… the 1970s, and interpretation of the history of Western architecture in the early 1980s and allowed him to achieve a synthetic reading of the modern within the Western tradition of building.
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Verso una nuova postura poetica: rinascere a ogni istante
… theme of overcoming anthropocentrism in modern Western culture through a philosophical-anthropological approach. This research was carried out in three main stages: • An in-depth study and comparison of the views of several contemporary anthropologists associated with the so-called “ontological …
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Older than language : comics as philosophical praxis and heuristic for philosophical canon
… and philosophy as a practice conceived in the Western tradition. Comics (at times referred to as both 'graphic literature' and 'sequential art' during this dissertation) constitutes a wholly new object. One that is qualitatively distinct from prose, theater, poetry and cinema. Mimicking the …
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Saphira, the snake priestess : a novel, and; Minoan is not Greek : an essay
… the archetypal motifs that have persisted in the western tradition. Both novel and essay show the reader that Minoan achievements were distinct from later developments on the Greek mainland and represent the first efflorescence of western civilisation.
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Kierkegaardian intersubjectivity and the question of ethics and responsibility
… and recognized as valuable in the history of Western philosophy, both as one of the great anti-Hegelians, as the founder (arguably) of existentialism, and as a religious thinker. However valid this may be, there is similarly a generally admitted critique of Kierkegaard in the Western …
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Songs of hostility, anguish, and peace : an introduction to select war repertoire for singers
… art songs and arias familiar to the classical-western tradition. In a rapidly changing world, it is important for 21st century studio teachers to realize the need to connect with students on a global platform rather than focus solely on an established curriculum. As a modem educator and …
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Representations of Marble in Art from the Late Nineteenth Century to 2023
… nineteenth century to 2023. It begins with the ‘western’ tradition of Europe and branches out to increasingly global perspectives, particularly those shaped through the cross-cultural exchange of ideas between Asia and the ‘west’ that have unlocked new and unique marble expressions. The temporal …
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The Forms of Friendship How women’s friendships shape and challenge narrativity in contemporary German and Anglophone literature
… conventions of reading and interpreting in the Western tradition, especially with respect to Genette’s categories of narrative events (1980). The third chapter, ‘Race is Bigger than Our Friendship’, then looks at racialised subjectivities in the narration of a shared memoir in the first-person …
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Reconstructing Reason: An Investigation of Moral Rationalism and the Normative Core of Critical Social and Political Theory
… of moral rationalism, broadly conceived. In the Western tradition, at least since the Enlightenment, most moral philosophers and political theorists have thought their task was to develop credible alternatives to the traditional justifications of norms, principles, and institutions based on …
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