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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"apotheosis"”.
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Apotheosis of the Public Realm: Civic Classicism in New York City's Architecture
<p>In the years around the consolidation of Greater New York in 1898, a renewed interest in republican political theory among progressive liberals coincided with a new kind of civic architecture. For the first time in American history, cities and the urban public emerged as crucial parts of …
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American Apotheosis: Ceramics and the Production of National Identity in Post-Revolutionary New York City
… was not just the formation of an identity but an apotheosis, the elevation of the nation and its founders to a divine level. The faith in and worship of American exceptionalism fosters entitlement, stifles dissent, demonizes diversity, and has provided the moral justification for everything from …
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The apotheosis of the green revolution and the throes of landless peasant women in two Aegean villages of Turkey in the 1960s
<p>The debates on the historical processes of agrarian transition and the experiences of rural women in these processes have never lost their appeal for sociological study, although the studies have focused on the political economy of development and rural women in development in the 1960s and …
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Between gods and men : analyzing the Aztec deification of the Spanish Conquistadores and reassessing its significance
… the Spaniards created this account of European apotheosis, based on historical precedents and strikingly similar accounts of European apotheosis after the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. Both of these arguments are not, however, free of criticism, revealing the inability to ever answer this question …
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Witchcraft, rebellion, and misrule : a study of Shakespeare's first tetralogy
… and metaphysical--the end result being the apotheosis of the profane.
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O! Canada? : a pavilion for the 2010 World Exposition in Shanghai
… critique of the single family home that is their apotheosis. Also addressed are the ramification of large crowds on the display of objects, the potential for representing national identity without recourse to romanticism or nostalgia and economic and ecological responsibility in view of the …
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The Naturalist
… denies the traditional elegiac conventions of apotheosis and resurrection by reconceiving them as methods not of achieving transcendence but of embracing desire with an acceptance of the inability to transcend. The poems of The Naturalist are a collection of elegies that reflect many of the …
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One virtue and a thousand crimes”: (Re-)writing narrative poetry, an ekphrastic approach
… Lord Byron’s The Corsair (1814), chosen as the apotheosis of popular narrative poetry. The Adept is informed by themes that emerged from close reading of the source texts, adopting an ekphrastic approach – the concept of responding to art with art. The intention of the exercise is to comment …
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A study of the Quintet for Piano and Strings by Richard Danielpour
… titles: “Annunciation,” “Atonement,” and “Apotheosis.” In general, the work shows many of the composer’s compositional characteristics such as references to traditional tonal language procedure, metaphysical ideas (developmental narratives), and rhythmic energy. The purpose of this study is …
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Palimpsest
… ; Woman at the window ; Psyche in the light ; Apotheosis ; A poem about God, sex, and nuclear disarmament ; A song for the stoic ; Winter dawn on the Gulf ; Gypsy flats flea market -- Meditations. Prairie winds ; Thymus vulgaris ; Moldy zinnias ; Notes on the fall ; November snow ; Winter tree …
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Ridiculous Geographies: Mapping the Theatre of the Ridiculous as Radical Aesthetic
… this dissertation engages Ludlam as a kind of apotheosis of Ridiculous play making, displaying how his works exemplified all three of these key aesthetic elements. Then, the discussion turns to Ludlam's inspiration, experimental artist Jack Smith, who was preoccupied to the point of obsession …
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Universal Expositions of the Second Empire: A Study in Art and Politics (Volumes I and II)
… Part Two, "The Universal Exposition of 1855: The Apotheosis of Eclecticism," describes the results of the Government's attempt to obtain the support of all factions by proclaiming eclecticism the Genius of France, arranging individual retrospective exhibitions for leading French artists regardless …
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Speeding Toward Babylon: Subcultural Drug Use in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, 1960-1980
… something more dystopian, finally reaching its apotheosis with punk. The history of drug using subcultures in the 1960s and 1970s provides insights into several fields of Canadian history, beyond drug and subcultural studies. It reflects particularly on (1) the postwar growth of the Canadian …
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Waking the dead: funerary performance, classical appropriation, and gendered embodiment on the early Abbey stage
… in comparison to the tragic figure who achieves apotheosis and spiritual survival through premature death. The funerary mode remains a prominent of feature in representations of Irishness today. The Irish obsession with commemorating dead men is perhaps symptomatic of a pervasive cultural …
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Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Poetry of Ovid
… My third chapter, ‘Maternity, Materiality and Apotheosis’, explores the Metamorphoses against the conceptual intertwining of maternity and physical matter in classical thought. I demonstrate that Ovid both participates in and disrupts this tradition, constructing the mother as still closely …
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Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice: The Function of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities
… ought to be faced by the perpetrators. As the apotheosis of the transitional justice process, my research demonstrates that truth commission reports not only present their mercurial and highly contentious histories as binding, legally-validated, and irrefutably fixed versions of a series of …
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Went off to the Shakers: The First Converts of South Union
… the surrounding chaos. Shakerism offered the apotheosis of that alternate community. South Union was a camp meeting that never ended. However, the denizens of south-central Kentucky who did not convert to Shakerism were quite hostile to the new sect. They understood conversion as a form of …
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Mr Mercury : a biographical study of Edward Baines with special reference to his role as editor, author and politician
… The years 1815 to 1829 revealed Baines at the apotheosis of his journalistic career, with the revelations of the Government Spy scandal, his involvement in the campaigns for Parliamentary Reform, the commencement of his literary career and the launch of his strategy to establish a Whig power …
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In the Mouth of the Cave: Subterranean Site-Specific Writing Practices in Britain from William Wordsworth to Katrina Palmer
… section enters into the ‘cave moment’, the apotheosis of the present absence which John MacKay identifies in Wordsworth’s inscriptional poetics, to perform deep readings of muddied manuscripts: Wordsworth’s pencil-written drafts for the 1805 Prelude; Douglas Oliver’s In the Cave of …
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Bodies of Knowledge: An Anatomy and Kinesiology of the American Prison Nation, 'Human'-making, and Twenty-first-century Techno-gods
… I explore in terms of what I call a <em>techno-apotheosis </em>in the advent of <em>techno-gods</em>. I propose that subjectivity is affected and should be rethought in terms of networked assemblages of subject positions and thing positions, or <em>‘human’ selves </em>and <em>thing …
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