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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"historicism"”.
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Anton Webern and the politics of historicism
… an approach which can be described as ""critical historicism."" The author attempts to show that Webern's historicism supported the innovative features of his music and, in so doing, enhanced its political significance."
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Perception of old towns, historicism, and temporality
The crux of this inquiry deals with one of the qualities which have been attributed by architectural and urban design theorists to the old, traditional town - its overwhelming sense of visual unity. In this study, it is argued that this unity is somewhat of a perceptual aberration which might arise …
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A Historiography of Musical Historicism: The Case of Johannes Brahms
… a blooming discipline and child of the historicism movement, his historicist practice and thinking continuously receive scholarly attention, especially in the twentieth century up until today. Musical historicism, however, remains a problematic and paradoxical concept, notwithstanding …
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A Historiography of Musical Historicism: The Case of Johannes Brahms
… a blooming discipline and child of the historicism movement, his historicist practice and thinking continuously receive scholarly attention, especially in the twentieth century up until today. Musical historicism, however, remains a problematic and paradoxical concept, notwithstanding …
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Karl Löwith's View of History: A Humanist Alternative to Historicism
… career moved from phenomenology and ontology to historicism and then finally to the supra-historical position, it is hoped, will make a contribution toward such a study.</p>
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The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century
… history. Their literature results in an uncanny historicism that unsettles narratives of material progress by conflating ancient territorial rupture with a potentially disastrous future. The Illinois prairie of the 1840s thus appeared to Margaret Fuller as a country that has been carefully …
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A critical exposition of historicism and implicit activism in Elundini Lothukela
It is the gentle but sharp manner of refutation of negative labels that early Europeans, through negative and undermining othering, attached to the Nguni in South Africa, that was investigated and discovered in this novel, that the author of this thesis is putting under the spotlight here. This …
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Architectural Historicism Revisited: The Case of Twentieth-Century Traditionalist Architecture in Queen Street, Auckland
… the fields of philosophy and history, the term historicism is often used by architectural historians. In historiography about twentieth century architecture, the term historicism is most commonly associated with traditionalist pre-Second World War buildings, designed with the eclectic use of …
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Literary Historicism: Conquest and Revolution in the Works of Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012) and Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980)
… and history. I propose the concept of literary historicism to analyse their portrayal of historical topics and characterise the role of history in their poetics. This concept denotes the historical awareness that underpins the authors’ literary reinterpretations of historical events; their use …
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Isaac Newton as a Prophetic Interpreter
… of hermeneutics had developed by that time. Historicism was the earliest and the preferred system among Protestants until the mid-1800s. The idealist hermeneutic, introduced by Augustine hundreds of years after the beginning of historicism, was a non-historical Catholic alternative to …
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A Sequential Study of Revelation 1-14 Emphasizing the Judgment Motif : With Implications for Seventh-day Adventist Apocalyptic Pedagogy
… dimensions.</p> <p>A second concern is with historicism as an exclusive interpretive model for apocalyptic. Though offering a sense of denominational uniqueness and mission, historicism leaves major portions of the Apocalypse with little relevance for and limited application to current issues …
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Isaac Watts and the Culture of Dissent
… hymns with the aid of Louis Montrose’s New Historicism, showing how Watts’ hymns were impacted by the English culture in which he lived and how they impacted the religious culture to which he belonged and preached: the Dissenters. Watts’ hymns were not the only texts that had an impact on …
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Irony, innocence, and myth: Douglas C. Macintosh's untraditional orthodoxy
… strand of neo-orthodoxy is relevant to the "new historicism" as described by William Dean. The author explores the relevance of Macintosh's work to the developing new historicism including neopragmatism in philosophy, radical empiricism, the American evasion of epistemology, and the role of …
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"Th' offense pardons itself": Sex and the Church in <em>Othello</em> and <em>Measure for Measure</em>
… at risk. My study uses the techniques of New Historicism to contextualize Othello and Measure for Measure in terms of both sexuality and religion. I intentionally avoid the typical Marxist perspective of New Historicism and instead focus on religion as itself an organizing and motivational …
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Power as knowing participation in change: A model for Nursing intervention
… of theory. The current debate between historicism and logical empiricism was discussed briefly and nursing models consistent with the historicism as a philosophy of science were identified. A historicist critique of the current research methods and traditions in the study of …
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The Intricacies of M.F.K. Fisher: Discovering a Kaleidoscopic Hybridity
… I utilize theoretical positions such as New Historicism, Feminism, Genre Theory, and Everyday Theory to help me identify and explain the hybrid tendencies of Fisher's writing. It is not a comprehensive study of her texts in light of these theories, but rather, it is a broad overview in order …
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Historicist Composition for the Catholic Church: France and Belgium, 1894–1937
… on francophone Europe from the zenith of this historicism at the turn of the century to its gradual sublimation between the World Wars. Chapter 1 describes the ideology behind historicist church composition during this period by analysing the debates among musicians, clerics, and critics over …
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Mis/Reading the Hero: a Case For Aaron in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus
… illustrate that Michael Foucault's theories of historicism create for contemporary scholars new methods with which to interrogate the discourses of "race" and to offer fresh understandings of Aaron's subject position in the play. Futhermore, utilizing Jacques Derrida's notion of "play" and M.M. …
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Orationes Regum Ac Potentia: Monarchical Oratory and Power in Shakespeare's Henriad
… from the limited scopes of formalism and New Historicism to a syncretic amalgamation aptly called “historical formalism,” in which the focus is on the formal elements of a literary work while also noting the context of the surrounding culture without making the anti-humanist assumption that a …
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