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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"bucolic"”.
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Bucolic Architecture: Hellenistic Pastoral Temples in the Peloponnese
The historical setting of the Hellenistic period in the Peloponnese has been covered in great detail in scholarly literature, as well as the scope of Hellenistic religion and the role of monumental temples during this period. However, the role of small extra-urban temples has been somewhat …
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"Studies in Allusion in the ""Eclogues"" of Vergil"
… the corpus of Theocritus by using only the bucolic Idylls and reworking them; there is not a one to one correspondence between individual Idylls and Eclogues. In the Aeneid, Vergil takes a single author as a primary model and analyzes his works, using them to create something greater than …
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Echoes of Laocoön's Warning in Letters from an American Farmer
… Revolution and the resulting disruption in his bucolic way of life.
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Cinemaplex Over the Pavese: An Architectural Response to the Question of Looking at Territory
… Switzerland. Our shared task was to study a bucolic agrarian region of Northern Italy and propose a strategy for its development. All projects ultimately included in the Atelier's vision were to have a significant strategic value to the territory, resonating with and magnifying the …
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The Manual Alphabet
… a tension between Midwestern realism and bucolic lyricism, absence and presence, letter and hand; moreover, the sounds and silences between the hearing and the deaf as seen through an appropriated “I.” My goal is for the reader to notice how absence occupies the page, to in turn cause the …
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SuperFun site : mining for play in the anthropocene
… the landscape means that the divide between the bucolic and the manmade is going to dissolve. In 20 years, children will be the ones inheriting this condition that they cannot ignore. However, industrialized societies are still over-protective and paranoid about what children experience. They are …
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FARMING OUT THE NEWS: AN ANALYSIS OF AGRICULTURE COVERAGE IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS NEWSPAPERS USING THE CENTER - PERIPHERY MODEL
… media portray agriculture producers as either bucolic, passive people not able to manage their own affairs, or as evil capitalists out to make a profit at any cost. The classic center-periphery model of Johan Galtung (1971) illustrates how economic and political centers benefit by restricting …
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"A Mind of Metal and Wheels": Agrarian Ruralism in Joss Whedon's <em>Firefly</em> and J.R.R Tolkien's <em>The Lord of The Rings</em>
… serve as a foil to the protagonists who live in bucolic agrarian rural zones. For Whedon, the threat manifests as the Alliance, a seemingly Orwellian government that rules from central worlds filled with vast cityscapes and seeks to impose its will upon the more agrarian outer worlds, who want to …
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Artist Colonies in Europe, the United States, and Florida
… individuals and groups relocated to remote, bucolic areas to form art colonies. Artist colonies are typically defined as a group of artists, generally painters, writers, and composers who worked and lived as a community for a certain period of time1. Artists left their city lifestyles as a …
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Theological Existentialism In San Manuel Bueno, Mártir
… rustic village of Valverde de Lucerna in the bucolic Diocese of Renada which lies by a symbolic lake and snow-capped cloudy mountain resembling, said, San Manuel, noting in a quote that, "He was tall, slender, and erect; he carried himself the way our Vulture Peak carries its crest, and his …
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Gray City of the Midway: The University of Chicago and the Search for American Urban Culture, 1890-1932
… of the modern city while evoking the image of bucolic Oxbridge. These contradictory impulses were enhanced by the University’s location on the Midway Plaisance, a public boulevard typifying the urban/rural hybridity of Chicago’s park system. The result was an urbanised nature, or the charged …
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Fictions of Female Voices in Hellenistic Poetry
… us to imagine its παρθένος protagonist as a bucolic singer to-be, thus inventing, largely thanks to Theocritean intertexts, the female herder-singer—a figure that does not exist in genuine Theocritean bucolics. Similarly, the Europa constructs epic that is gendered female by making a choral …
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A regional study of American genre painting from 1830-1880
… areas in America. William Sidney Mount paints bucolic Long Island farmers and negroes, while George Caleb Bingham depicts in paint and pen the rugged Missouri flatboatmen and frontier politicians. Homespun flavor of New England is found in George Henry Durrie's detailed snow scenes, with small …
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Space into Time: English Canals and English Landscape Painting 1760-1835
… motorized, glide slowly and silently past the bucolic banks of the canals. These are, in appearance, as originally proposed by the development companies and drawn and engraved for the newspapers: beautiful country spaces to be admired and enjoyed by the public. Another reason may be the …
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Dairy Culture: Industry, Nature and Liminality in the Eighteenth-Century English Ornamental Dairy
… women engaged, to varying degrees, in bucolic tasks of skimming milk, churning and molding butter, and preparing creams. As dairy work became a mode of genteel activity, dairies were constructed and renovated in the stylish architectural modes of the day and expanded to serve as spaces …
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PRIVILEGE LOST: THE COUNTRY HOUSE, ARISTOCRACY AND ENGLISHNESS IN NANCY MITFORD'S NOVELS
… as a symbol of traditional values and as a bucolic refuge from the chaos of the modern world, the opposition between the declining Victorian and Edwardian nobility that hides behind the curtains of its country mansions, unwilling to accept the loss of its former power and prestige and the …
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Fences & Fault-lines, Deadfalls & Snares
The following collection of poems, Fences & Fault-lines, Deadfalls & Snares, attempts to chart the hierarchies mapped in the English language. Those in power–governments, churches, movements, militaries, businesses–manipulate our language to bait us, the threat of violence hanging overhead like a …
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Fences & Fault-lines, Deadfalls & Snares
The following collection of poems, Fences & Fault-lines, Deadfalls & Snares, attempts to chart the hierarchies mapped in the English language. Those in power–governments, churches, movements, militaries, businesses–manipulate our language to bait us, the threat of violence hanging overhead like a …