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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"art and text"”.
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The Bible and its modern methods: interpretation between art and text
… between passages of the Hebrew Bible and unrelated works of Modern art. While a growing field of criticism addresses the representation of scriptural stories in painting, sculpture and film, the artwork in this study does not look to the Bible for its subject matter. The …
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Lilian Westcott Hale and Nancy Hale: From Victorian to Modern in Art and Text
Lilian Westcott Hale (1880-1963) and her daughter Nancy Hale (1908-1988) built successful careers during a period of transition in America, as Victorian mores were replaced by new modern freedoms. Greater independence for women had evolved during the preceding century, before the influential …
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The Literary Past and the Hellenistic Symposium
This thesis explores the presence of canonical texts in the Hellenistic period beyond individual reading habits. It utilises the interpersonal context of the symposium to understand the place and significance of literature as a social phenomenon. Methodologically, it combines art and text, …
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Childhood and Christianity from Paul to the Council of Chalcedon.
… is a study of the interaction between children and the rituals practices of antique Christianity. The thesis is framed firmly as a piece of cultural . - - history and it takes as its evidence the writings of the church fathers, complemented by antique Christian art. It has sought to show that …
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Unflattening the page: Lucian, ecphrasis, and the embodied reader
… ‘Unflattening the page: Lucian, ecphrasis, and the embodied reader’ has as its main focus the ecphrastic work of Lucian, a second-century CE Syrian-Greek writer, and one of the most prolific and versatile writers of Greek imperial literature. It argues that imperial, and in particular …
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The Mythology of Ecphrasis in Rome and Roman Greece (50 BC - 500 AD)
Greek and Latin literature of the Roman empire is full of descriptions of artworks (a phenomenon known as “ecphrasis”). Even though these descriptions have received much scholarly attention in recent decades, Classicists have not yet taken seriously an approach to ecphrasis that was demonstrably …
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Globalizing the Sculptural Landscapes of the Sarapis and Isis Cults in Hellenistic and Roman Greece
<p>“Globalizing the Sculptural Landscape of Isis and Sarapis Cults in Roman Greece,” asks questions of cross-cultural exchange and viewership of sculptural assemblages set up in sanctuaries to the Egyptian gods. Focusing on cognitive dissonance, cultural imagining, and manipulations of time and …