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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"exemplarity"”.
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Gender and exemplarity in Valerius Maximus
This thesis is a literary study of Valerius Maximus' Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, with particular focus on chapters 6.1 (about the quality of pudicitia) and 8.3 (on women who speak in public). It explores the process by which exempla, the material of Valerius' work, communicate their moral messages …
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The Normativity of Public Freedom: Arendt, Exemplarity, Judgment
Democracies today are experiencing a crisis of exemplarity. The horizon of figures in our political imaginations is being turned over, revised, innovated, condensed, and expanded with such intensity that it can seem that any presumption of commonality with our peers can feel dangerously optimistic. …
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Roman Nostalgia Exemplarity and Romanitas in Late Republican and Imperial Literature
… past. I then explain how I use the notion of exemplarity, relying on theorists who deal with the reception of antiquity in Renaissance Italian authors. Briefly, an exemplum is historical person who offers, through a particular deed or series of deeds, a model of action. In the case of Rome, …
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The Spirit of Exemplarity: The Role of Example in Lyric Studies
… Cavell, I describe an alternative mode of exemplarity which, as Toril Moi attests, is now largely absent from the discipline of literary studies. The argument for a practice of exemplification in lyric criticism which attends to individual poems without an ultimate appeal to a general …
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Learning From the Lives of Others: A Social Analysis of Human Exemplarity and Imitation
… ""cultural convention"" and ""differentiation."" Exemplarity is rooted in the concrete practices of particular communities and is dependent on structures of similarity and difference within a social context. The second topic deals with how something, once it becomes an example, calls out for human …
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'And Hector laughed': comic treatment of the myth of the Trojan War in early modern England
… characterised by a singular fascination with exemplarity, the Trojan myth offered an important depiction of men’s pursuit of distinction, providing both the exempla of male virtue and the ways of subjecting these exempla to scrutiny. The incongruities inherent to the practice of exemplarity, I …
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Voiding Distraction: Simone Weil and the Religio-Ethics of Attention
… notion of attention through the impersonal exemplarity of it.
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TRAYECTORIAS DEL EXILIO: LA IDENTIDAD CULTURAL REPUBLICANA EN LA LITERATURA DE MAX AUB Y DE MARÍA TERESA LEÓN
… and Teresa León acquires an aura of political exemplarity that reflects a counter-hegemonic meaning of global interest. So, the main objective of this work is to examine the literary work of the two writers with a focus on the ways in which they represent the conflicts between the dominant …
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Shakespeare's deconstruction of exempla in Troilus and Cressida
… characters undermine both specific examples of exemplarity and broader ideas about the value of exempla. The play works to create confusion and multiplicity of meaning, posing questions for the audience to consider rather than providing definitive answers.
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Mimetic effect in mentoring Baptist ministers
… and social learning aspects in leadership and exemplarity studies. A mixed methods case study has been used within a critical realist paradigm to identify and build explanation of mimetic effect. The implications of being an insider-researcher with shared faith and calling are discussed. The …
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Medievalism in the French Renaissance: Literature, History, and Nation in Claude Fauchet's Veilles ou Observations (1555)
… III, which focuses on the importance of native exemplarity – the exemple domestique – to Fauchet’s notion of Frenchness. Chapter IV places Fauchet’s emphasis on the exemple domestique in conversation with Pléiade poetics, exploring Fauchet’s conception of the place of native history in the …
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Reading for the Republic: The Minor Declamations and the Culture of the Past
… identifies the text’s overwhelming fixation with exemplarity from the republican past, and especially the exempla provided by war heroes and republican martyrs. The second half of the chapter turns to examine the way in which the text obscures the imperial Roman landscape from view. If the text …
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Discovering Epic, Constructing Culture: Culture-Politics on China’s Western Frontier
… topics as diverse as genre theory, rhetoric, exemplarity, and performance, arguing that Chinese political discourse is far more than mere sloganeering. Instead, this thesis attempts to show how these discourses act as mechanisms to shape space for autonomous action. Specifically, this …
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The Enemy Within: Combatants, Commanders, and Comparative Models in Julio-Claudian Recollections of Late Republican Civil War
… another burgeoning area of research, ancient exemplarity, to examine the portrayal of late Republican civil war across the Julio-Claudian period. I contend that the frequency with which Julio-Claudian writers drew parallels between civil war Rome and individuals from the non-Roman past, who …
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Performative Experiments: Case Studies in the Philosophy of Art, Science and Technology
… of experiment has its roots in Kant's theory of exemplarity, developed in his Critique of Aesthetic Judgment. Artworks are considered exemplary when they give sensuous embodiment to an idea that has not yet been fully formed in thought. To regard artworks as exemplary for the philosophy of …