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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"arcadian"”.
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Poetry and Patronage: Alessandro Scarlatti, The Accademia Degli Arcadia, and the Development of the Conversazione Cantata in Rome 1700-1710
… anthology GB Lbm. Add. 34056. An examination of Arcadian cantatas and their texts reveals the nature of their audience, function, and their place within the historical development of the genre. The conversazione cantata did not exist outside of Rome and was popular for only a brief period in the …
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Borderlands and Political Ecology: A photographic exploration of the environment, territories, boundaries and power near the imaginary line of the equator
… along this line. My plan was to capture arcadian visions of equatorial hardwood primary forests before they are destroyed and to show how this arcadian vision is disrupted by a more dystopian one. The images in this project were photographed in three areas that circle the equator: …
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The Land Of A Million Smiles: Tourism And Modernization In Taney County And Stone County, Missouri 1900-1930
… back-to-nature movement which derived from an Arcadian myth of rural utopianism prevailing at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Stephen Leacock: Humour And Humanity
… Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912) and Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1914). Sunshine Sketches portrays the Tory-humanist's qualified ideal Canadian community of Mariposa in opposition to the individualism and materialism of Josh Smith. In opposition to the failure of Mariposa's …
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The Revolution Will Not Be Satirised: The Revolutionary Potential of Stephen Leacock’s Satire
… the ideological roadmap to guide a revolution. Arcadian Adventures and Sunshine Sketches reflect this: they critique western democracy, but they lack ideological alternatives to revolve into. Given that Adventures’ and Sketches’ critiques remain valid, it appears that Leacock’s two greatest …
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Benefit or Burden: Providing Access and Engagement with Wales’s Garden and Park Heritage
… changes in approach, including a reversal of the Arcadian concept of art triumphing over nature.
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Happily Ever After? Ambiguous Closure in Modernist Children's Literature
… child development, and the disruption of Arcadian myths, I argue that these texts adopt modernist techniques to explore, uphold, or challenge modernity's construction of the child. Embracing modernist indeterminacy and ambiguity, these texts directly engage with constructions of childhood …
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Seasons and Sovereigns: Succession in the Greenworld, 1579 - 1621
… <p>Chapter 3 argues that Shakespeare replaces an Arcadian landscape with a theater of green wonders and Macduff's knowledge of seasonal decorum in <italic>Macbeth.</italic> The chapter begins in the "wake" of the Golden Age with Thomas Dekker's decision to revive pastoral in his account of the …
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Mesotopia: Towards a Place of Lyrical Inquiry
… future visions, as well as romantic images of Arcadian pasts. I have been attending to the material present of our coastal regions while attempting to intuit, rather than imagine, concealed aspects of these compositional sites. This thesis argues that attending to local environments using a …
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Prophets of the beast: the modernist esotericism of D.H. Lawrence and W.B. Yeats
… themselves. This fusion of technophilic and Arcadian thought-currents – dubbed “archeofuturism” by the French right-wing intellectual Guillaume Faye – constitutes the central focus of this discussion of Lawrentian and Yeatsian thought.
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Enchantment and the mechanical: an autoethnographic inquiry into leadership framed within a cosmic and ecological story
… Recognising fractures within a culture built on Arcadian idealism held clues to limited notions of leadership that influenced my behaviour. The Three Baskets of Knowledge, drawn from Māori mythology, helped me find ground beneath the fault lines of the past. Listening to the land and looking back …
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"This strange operation of love" : a unified reading of Sidney's Arcadia.
… passion. They each fall in love with one of the Arcadian princesses. In Book Two Sidney further develops tension surrounding virtuous love as the heroes and heroines tell each other stories about love. Those who fall in love now learn about love. In Chapter Two I discuss three theme clusters …
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THE EFFECTS OF CIRCADIAN RHYTHM-RELATED MOOD ON RECOGNITION AND RECALL MEMORY FOR EMOTIONAL IMAGES
"Studies have proposed that sleep following the presentation of emotional information aids in the consolidation of memory for the emotional elements of the stimuli. Some of these studies have used a paradigm that may have been affected by the confounding influence of circadian factors. Mood may …
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Panic on the British Borderlands: The Great God Pan, Victorian Sexuality, and Sacred Space in the Works of Arthur Machen
… re-invention of Pan, the classical rustic Arcadian god of Greek mythology. The Pan demon--or sinister Pan--evidences an aspect of threatening vitalistic nature that appears at the indefinite center of sexual concealment. Male characters act in secrecy by necessity due to the Labouchère …