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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"William Morris"”.
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William Morris and Medieval Material Culture
… important subject of historiography. For many of William Morris's contemporaries, this project of social history and textual recovery provided welcome evidence to support either narratives of nostalgia for an ordered past or a comforting liberal sense of progress; for Morris himself, however, the …
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Eco-socialism in the early poetry and prose of William Morris
William Morris was a highly significant political and cultural figure of the nineteenth century. He was a great artist-craftsman and was hugely influential in the rise of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the second half of the nineteenth century, a movement which saw the revival of traditional …
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The medieval ideal: Utopian medievalism in the life, thought, and works of William Morris
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Esthetics of Dedalus and Bloom: nineteenth century roots, structural metaphors, and resolutions
… essayists which includes Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Horatio Pater, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats. Stephen Dedalus and his esthetics, particularly as they appear in <em>Portrait</em>, are inheritors of that tradition. Further, the study will trace …
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Phantasms of Hope: The Utopian Function of Fantasy Literature
… reading of the utopian function in the works of William Morris, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Ursula K. Le Guin, demonstrating how the archaic figures and motifs of fantasy texts convey anticipatory glimpses of a utopian future.
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Eulogy.
… of artists such as Alexander Marshall, William Morris, Charles Burchfield, Rosamond Purcell, and Kiki Smith; the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke and writings of Loren Eiseley; the ideas of philosophers G. W. F. Hegel and Slavoj Žižek, and art historian James Elkins.</p>
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Decorator or narrator: A contextualisation of Slavic and Australian pattern making and its relationship to my painting practice
… from writers, critics and artists such as William Morris, Lucien Henry, Stuart Hall, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Grace Cohrane, Nicolas Pevsner, Faith Ringgold, Joan Snyder, Miriam Schapiro and Cynthia Carlson. My final conclusion will be drawn from my personal visual practice that uses pattern
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A comparison of Richard Wagner's Der ring des Nibelungen and William Morris's Sigurd the volsung
… with the epic poem Sigurd the Volsung by William Morris. Chapter I begins with an outline of the question under discussion, namely, whether Sigurd the Volsung could have been written as an anti-ring. The rest of the thesis discusses various questions of interpretation which may help …
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A New Archaic Avant-Garde?: Tradition and Experimentation in the Neo-Mediaeval Cinema of Terry Gilliam, Derek Jarman, and John Boorman
… traced back to the likes of Chaucer, Blake and William Morris.
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Reanimating the Wound: Dermatilliomanic Practice and the First World War
… are specifically prompted by the writings of William Morris, Edmund Blunden, and Ivor Gurney, and reflections on practice are sub-divided accordingly. Wilfred Owen’s ‘internal reciprocity of tears’, whereby an act of expression traces memory and mourning, remains a central theme throughout. An …
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'His own privacý: Frederic Manning: a critical and historical analysis
… him, traced from the originality he perceived in William Morris, Thomas Hardy, J.M. Synge, Henri Bergson’s philosophy, and in his fascination with twentieth century developments in dramatic construction. The conclusion reached is that, based on the diversity of material and consistent quality of …
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Patrick Geddes and the Celtic Renascence of the 1890s
… Finland found inspiration in the Kalavala and William Morris inspired Arts and Crafts through England’s Middle Ages. Scotland had many pasts to choose from for inspiration. Patrick Geddes found inspiration in its Celtic past. Geddes is best known for his work as a town planner and sociologist, …
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The influence of British literature upon pre-Raphaelite painting
… of the writer to emphasize the position of William Morris not as an adjunct of the Pre-Raphaelite group, but as a conciliatory figure who united the two factions of the Brotherhood, the realistic and the romantic, into a harmonious group of individualists.</p> <p>Lastly, as interesting …
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Brynmawr experiment 1928-1940 : Quaker values and arts and crafts principles
… These were also the concerns of John Ruskin and William Morris which motivated the formation of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the! 880s. The Arts and Crafts principles which persisted into the twentieth century in the craft communities of C. R. Ashbee and of Eric Gill, and in the craftsmanship …
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The art of earth and fire : the aesthetics of Robin George Collingwood and the craft of the studio potter
… the problem by using the approaches of William Morris, Sir Herbert Read, and Bernard Leach; and in the third, I present a case study and an investigation of doing, making, and creating in the potter's studio. I look on them as studio achievements and activities nestled in the general …
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Investigation of the presentation of Ainu identity in British museums and exhibitions
… Japan House and ‘Art Without Heroes: Mingei’ at William Morris Gallery. Results were derived through qualitative analysis of displays as multimodal texts, focusing particularly on labels. I also conducted semi-structured interviews with curators to discern if and how Ainu collaboration impacted …
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Modern Poetry of Work, the Work of Modern Poetry
… that his early enthusiasm for John Ruskin, William Morris, and the American arts and crafts movement offers a clue to the reading of his first and most important work, Chicago Poems. In many of those poems, Sandburg shares with the arts and craft movement a commitment to transforming work …
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Travel Writing, Self and Other: Finding Reciprocal Space
… Norway, and Denmark; the Victorian polymath William Morris’ Icelandic Journals; travel writer and historian Robert Byron’s The Road to Oxiana; and Nobel Prize for Literature recipients V. S. Naipaul’s An Area of Darkness and Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories and the City. The texts under …
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Doing and talking : the value of video interviewing for researching and theorizing craft
… and the ideological and intellectual heritage of William Morris and his followers. It demonstrates that data gathered using the method proposed could make a positive contribution to emergent discourses on craft as experience. Within the complexity of the data gathered using the proposed method, …
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Literature of utopia and dystopia. Technological influences shaping the form and content of utopian visions.
… H. G. Wells accepted science, while the work of William Morris, Aldous Huxley and Kurt Vonnegut rejected science in preference for a different social order. More's Utopia and Bacon's New Atlantis were written at a time when feudal, agricultural society was being transformed by new discoveries and …
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