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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"historical subject"”.
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Mirror Images: Leses of Reflection
… relate to my research on “reflections” as an art historical subject. This photographic study examines the theme of reflections through the use of light: sunlight, mirrors, metal, glass and water. My written thesis discusses the seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish masters and their influence on …
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The Parisian Stage during the Occupation, 1940-1944: A Theatre of Resistance?
… of the German or Vichy authorities. Mythical or historical subject material was (deliberately) far removed from the situation of 1940s audiences, yet was presented in the form of ‘new’ tragedies that resonated with their preoccupations. Individual testimony confirms that certain plays provided a …
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Anti-Oedipus en-procés : a comparative analysis of Kristeva and Deleuze & Guattari
… radically different approaches of negotiating subjectivity in late Western Modernity. Here the thought of Julia Kristeva as well as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari are fully engaged. These thinkers, the latter two being considered as one, have until now remained strangers to one another. …
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What Snuck about Hopewell and Other Places and Outside the ‘imaginative estate’: canon, dialect and aesthetics in Northern Irish poetry
… politics of literary tradition, taking as their subject the work of two Belfast poets – Joseph Campbell (1879–1944) and Martin Mooney (1964–) – who remain on the periphery of the Irish poetic canon(s). The third chapter, unearthing an overlooked dialect verse tradition, comprises a survey of …
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The Lagermuseum Creative Manuscript and ‘Encountering Auschwitz: Touring the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’
… in all interrogations of this most contentious historical subject. Questions relating to ownership, display and representational hierarchies permeate the text, characterised by a shape-shifting curator figure and artworks which refuse to adhere to the canon he creates for them. The Lagermuseum …
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The Politics of John Selden, 1584-1654
… that he treated law as a far more contingent and historical subject than the likes of Grotius or the lawyer Edward Coke. What were matters of mere historical curiosity for many, therefore, were of vital political importance to Selden. Part two will explore how this peculiar political outlook …
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Les Chercheurs D’histoire: The Historical Investigator In The Contemporary French Novel
… studies what I call the investigative historical novel, texts that, although about a historical subject, are told from the perspective of modern-day investigators who narrate their process as they piece together fragments of the past. Taking a transnational approach, I analyze novels …
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Contemporary Art and the Liminal Space: Refuge for the Divine in an Empirical World?
… side of this undertaking, all utilising historical subject matter as originally interpreted in biographical film sources and then aligning them to a counterpart in order to grasp a mythical commonality. From this, we can detect and interpret the archetypal significance of such figures and …
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The prose style of Addison and Steele in the periodical essay
… choice, although such stylistic choice is always subject to limitations within certain dimensions: linguistic, historical, subject matter, and genre. The study begins with an analysis of the lexicon, using three sample essays by each of the writers. The distribution of monosyllables and of …
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Reengaging with the Art-Historical Female-Nude Subject through Feminist Deconstruction in Contemporary Painting
How can painting be used to reengage with the art-historical female-nude subject through its feminist deconstruction – and what does this mean in relation to contemporary art? There is still a tendency among scholars to privilege formal analysis of an artwork at the expense of discussing (gendered) …
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George Mason: Slave Owning Virginia Planter as Slavery Opponent?
… unwelcome legacy entailed upon him. Mason, as an historical subject, stands under-reported, under-analyzed, often embellished, and generally carelessly considered. In spite of the effusive hyperbole of some Mason historians, this thesis argues Mason's apparently strong condemnations of the slave …
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Historiografía literaria y Sociedad
Throughout all different socio-historical tensions undergone by the Latin American modernit(ies), the literary-historical production as well as the reflection on the topic - regional, national, supranational and/or continental – have been part of the critical and intellectual itinerary of very …