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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"fin de siècle"”.
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The Fin de siècle Cultural Watershed in Gabriele d’Annunzio’s Novels
… I analysed Gabriele d’Annunzio’s answer to the fin de siècle crisis from Terra vergine to the end of Romanzi della rosa (Il Piacere, L’Innocente, Trionfo della morte), including Giovanni Episcopo, which along with L’Innocente is an expression of the so-called Slavic phase. Analysing this …
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The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in Fin de Siècle Jamesian Narratives
<p>Henry James once described emergent self—awareness of individual consciousness as an “illimitable power” that enables personal survival within a world that is, by default, unpredictable and volatile. Subsequent analyses of narrative subtleties and character evolution in James’s major works of …
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Deutsch-jüdischer Parnaß und die Aushandlungen deutscher Jüdischkeit im Fin de Siècle
„Wir Juden verwalten den geistigen Besitz eines Volkes, das uns die Berechtigung und die Fähigkeit dazu abspricht.“ In diesem Satz kulminiert der Aufsatz „Deutsch-jüdischer Parnaß“, den der jüdische Verfasser Moritz Goldstein 1912 in der nationalkonservativen Kunst- und Kulturzeitschrift Der …
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Anarchisms and the Short Story in Fin-de-Siècle France, 1871-1901
… century. In doing so it interrogates the tendency in existing scholarship on anarchism and literature during this period to rely on analogies between literature and the bomb. This is partly due to a lingering association of anarchism with the 1892-94 period of terrorist attacks. I seek to …
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Seeking God by strange ways : cults and societies in fin de siècle literature
… regarding the role of Christianity at the fin de siècle is that while it did not cease to exist, technological and scientific advances had eroded the faith of many educated Victorians. Here, the term “seeking” suggests a spiritual journey with the aim of attaining a true understanding of …
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Naturalism Against Nature: Kinship and Degeneracy in Fin-de-siècle Portugal and Brazil
… writers, two from Portugal (Abel Botelho and Eça de Queirós) and two from Brazil (Aluísio Azevedo and Adolfo Caminha) to argue that the pseudoscientific discourses of Naturalism, positivism and degeneration theory were adapted on the periphery of the Western world to critique the socio-economic …
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Decadent Sociability and Material Culture at the Fin de Siècle: 'A Genius for Friendship'
This thesis re-evaluates decadence by investigating the relationship that emerged between sociability and material culture at the fin de siècle. Its focus on the mechanisms of sociability and on materiality situates decadent interactions within the physical world. Rather than treating the decadents …
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Reimagining the Baroque in Italian Modernism. From the fin-de-siècle to Lucio Fontana
… is usually associated with either the avant-garde practices of Futurism or the classicism of Fascist visual culture, the Italian modernists' complex engagement with concepts of the ‘Baroque’ has yet to be explored. Through an extensive analysis of paintings, sculptures, publications, collecting …
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“Petticoated police,” “intimate watching” and private agency(ies): reading the female detective of Fin-de-siècle British literature
… New Books and New Editions introduced to its readers "a Female Sherlock Holmes" (12). This was Loveday Brooke, in C. L. Pirkis‘s collection The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective. Loveday is one of many professional female detectives who traversed the pages of short stories, both …
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Rationalism and the organic analogy in fin-de-siècle Paris : Auguste Perret and the building at 25b rue Franklin
… the apartment block at 25b rue Franklin in Paris designed in 1903 by the architect Auguste Perret. It documents the building's history and discusses its design in the context of late-nineteenth-century theoretical debate on housing and architecture. The first part of the study examines the …
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The Idealised and the Profane Nun: The Image of the Nun at the Fin-de-Siècle and into the 1930s.
… examines the representation of nuns from the Fin-de-Siècle into the 1930s, in the popular medium of postcards, in art during the Modernist period, and throughout the early development of film. The thesis demonstrates how secularisation, rapid technological development, and political discourse …
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Descendants of Charles Bovary: Male anxieties through the figure of the cheated husband in French Fin-de-siècle novels and silent films
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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The Creation of a Worldview.
<p>This is an analysis of how fin-de-siècle Vienna and its mayor, Karl Lueger, influenced the development of Adolf Hitler’s worldview.</p> <p>The works of many authors were consulted in conjunction with newspapers and memoirs of the period in order to gain a better understanding of what the …
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"There was No Sign of Man in It": Casting Dracula as Posthuman and Valuing the Progressive Vampire
… a seminal example of Gothic horror at the <em>fin-de-siècle</em>, leading not only to film, stage, and television adaptations, but also to literary reimaginings and a plethora of scholarship. I argue that the vampires in <em>Dracula </em>do not fit into the traditional critical understandings …
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O Parque Güell e a crítica à autonomia da arte: um estudo sobre as relações entre a obra de Gaudí e a crítica Fin-de-Siècle à Autonomia da Arte e os Gêneros Artísticos
A idéia de arquitetura como arte e gênero artístico autônomo é relativamente nova. Na prática construtiva grega, o templo era uma produção totalizante, em que espaço, plástica e cor contribuíam igualmente para a expressividade da obra. No tratado vitruviano, a arquitetura – a construção – é tratada …
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Diagnosing the Demonic: Reading Valerii Briusov’s Fiery Angel as Pathography
… prevailing master narrative of disintegration, degeneration, and social pathology advanced by the emerging fields of social science, psychology, and modern medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. The Symbolists invested their counter-narrative of transformation in the medieval alchemical …
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Antonio Fogazzaro and the Development of Liberal Catholicism in Modern Italy
This thesis examines the cultural and political development of Liberal Catholicism in modern Italy. The events of the Risorgimento had deprived the Catholic Church of her temporal power in 1860 after the Second War of Italian Unification. Pius IX then promulgated Non expedit. The encyclical refused …
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Antonio Fogazzaro and the Development of Liberal Catholicism in Modern Italy
This thesis examines the cultural and political development of Liberal Catholicism in modern Italy. The events of the Risorgimento had deprived the Catholic Church of her temporal power in 1860 after the Second War of Italian Unification. Pius IX then promulgated Non expedit. The encyclical refused …
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