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Showing 1 to 20 of 343 for “"Wordsworth's "Great Decade""”.
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Wordsworth's Gothic Poetics
Wordsworth's poetry is typically seen by critics as healthy-minded, rich in themes of transcendence, synthesis, and optimism. The poet in this respect is contrasted with the other great poets of the Romantic tradition--Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Blake--who are all generally related to the …
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Wordsworth's Decline: Self-editing and Editing the Self
… discourse surrounding the poetry of William Wordsworth, it has become generally acceptable to describe the course of the poet’s career by means of a theory of “decline.” In its most common form, this theory argues that Wordsworth’s best poetry was written during one “Great Decade” …
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John Keats, The Great Romanticist
… of Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, and Wordsworth, plus his own-restraint. A word, by way of introduction on Romanticism, which stands alone among literary movements in having exercised upon verse and prose an equal and similar, though not identical, transforming power, seems necessary. …
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Reading Law's Great Unread: Qualitative Computational Methods, Artificial Intelligence and the New Empirical Legal Research
… that law has grown unevenly over the past decade and a half. Chapter 2 uses new artificial intelligence to transcribe and analyze Supreme Court of Canada hearings, revealing gendered and linguistic speaking patterns among justices. Chapter 3 shows how computational methods can be deployed …
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The impact of the Great War on a local community: the case of East Lothian
This is a study of the impact of the Great War on one local community - the Lowland Scottish county of East Lothian. The thesis examines the economic, social and political consequences of the war in the short term of the war years and in the longer perspective of the first pre-war decade. The …
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A historical study on the "eight revolutionary model operas" in China's Great Cultural Revolution
During the Great Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) eight revolutionary model operas were popularized as a means of transformation the ideology and values of the Chinese people as well as a political tool in struggle between the Maoists and Luists. When Mao realized that his ideals were being …
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The ‘Next Great War': Eric Linklater’s Responses to the Crises of the 1930s
… sincerely his growing moral outrage as the decade neared its terrible climax. The parallel shift Linklater undertook from being part of the Scottish Renaissance and a political Scottish nationalist in the early 1930s through a transitional period when he could be highly critical of Britain …
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New slip and stress distributions hold implications for the next great earthquake in Cascadia
Over the past decade, advances in detection of seismic tremor and slow slip have revealed a new spectrum of fault behavior in subduction zones around the world. These phenomena live between the mechanisms of brittle failure and aseismic creep, and reduce stress on the deep portion of the subduction …
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The Phase of Capitalism after the 2008 Great Financial Crisis: An Extended Polanyian Approach
… global crises have converged in the last ‘long decade’: the 2008 global financial crisis, the COVID pandemic, the geopolitical tensions involving the Russia-Ukraine war and the China-US conflict, and the climate crisis. There is no doubt that these crises are signs. The question is: what do …
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Ideology and diplomacy: the impact of reformed religion on foreign policy and diplomatic practice in the first decade of Elizabeth I
… dynastic habits of thought persisted as the decade wore on, Englishmen were increasingly aware of the new religious/political realities of mid century.</p> <p>From the beginning of the reign Protestants looked to Elizabeth for support. While she was hesitant to become the Protestant savior of …
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Measuring changes in areal extent of historic wetlands at Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado 1936-1995
Great Sand Dunes National Monument (GRSA) is a unit of the National Park system in south central Colorado. With funding from the Colorado Historical Society, a series of studies were undertaken for an environmental history of the GRSA area and the San Luis Valley. Park managers were concerned over …
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International diversification opportunities for real estate investment portfolios : a fresh look focusing on private real estate after the Great Crash
… find that 2008 was the only year within the past decade in which several countries saw synchronized negative returns on a calendar year basis in the stocks and real estate markets, and even so the synchronized negative returns was only experienced by half of the countries within the 10-country …
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The idea of solitude: studies in a changing theme, from Pomfret to Wordsworth
… century and specifically in Coleridge and Wordsworth, from the overwhelming predominance of the retirement theme, to a concentration on the issues of isolation, springing out of but superseding those of retirement. The idea of solitude moves from a conoern with physical environment to an …
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Remediation of water using modified chitosan.
… been an area of increasing concern over the last decade. This interest is due to exponential increase in demand of already limited water sources. Therefore the treatment of wastewater for re-use is a topic of great interest. The treatment applied depends on the source and quality of the water. …
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Real-Time Character Animation for Computer Games
… games has increased considerably over the past decade. Due to advances in computer hardware and the achievement of great increases in computational speed, the demand for more realism in computer games is continuously growing. This paper will present and discuss various methods of 3D character …
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The Populist Dilemma: Frank Capra's Increasingly Unresolved Populist Films of the Depression Era
As the United States endured the depths of the Great Depression, Hollywood's studio system sought to entertain the masses through a standardized process designed to maximize profit. Frank Capra, a director with more freedom than was customary under the classical model, attempted to reassure the …
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NMR studies of the chemical additives effect on the sol-gel process
… and scientific points of view during the past decade. Compared with the conventional method, the sol-gel process can make very pure and homogeneous ceramic materials at much lower temperatures. More importantly, it not only opens up the possibilities of preparing new multicomponent materials …
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Shifting alliances and fairweather friends: Luso-American relations, 1941--1951
… and the United States from 1941 to 1951, a decade that resulted in a tremendous and permanent shift in Luso-American relations. It examines the wartime and postwar goals of both Portugal and the United States. It reveals how these two nations overcame their differences during the war and …
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Japan's foreign policy, 1931-1941 : as influenced by the militarists and the Zaibatsu
… achieved the power that they did, power so great that it enabled them to go over the heads of, and the protests of, the civilian branch of government and even the Emperor himself if necessary. The history of the warlords needs to be examined in order to furnish a background needed for a …
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