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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"imitatio"”.
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Imitatio Naturae. El paisaje como referente en la arquitectura contemporánea.
… the architectural project is an action based on imitation. Unlike classicist-derived projects, the modern absence of a process verification system means that the capacity to recognise form and materials of which a project consists is basic. In turn, this implies intensification of aesthetic …
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Reading as an Imitatio Christi : Flannery O'Connor and the hermeneutics of cruci-form beauty.
At its simplest, this dissertation proposes two, possibly counterintuitive but mutually dependent, claims: 1) that O'Connor's fiction can be, even must be, considered "beautiful," and 2) that O'Connor writes the way she does to make her audience better readers. Given the dark, shocking, grotesque, …
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Epigrammi di Dioscoride. Edizione critica, traduzione e commento
… aiming at highlighting both the processes of imitatio cum variatione and oppositio in imitando that characterise a large part of Dioscorides’ production, and the influence that this Hellenistic epigrammatist exerted over the following Greek and Latin literary works. SINTESI DELLA TESI IN …
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A Method for Imitation: Learning from Paul, Peter, John, and the Writer of Hebrews
… John, and the writer of Hebrews use of the imitation of Christ in their respective writings. Despite opposition from some theologians, the imitatio Christi is clearly a concern among these writers. The way in which they develop the concept provides insight into how modern developments of …
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Ars rhetorica et sacrae litterae: St. Patrick and the Art of Rhetoric in Early Medieval Briton and Ireland
… significance here is the rhetorical practice of imitatio, which has deep reaching theological and ideological implications.</p>
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Seventeenth-century musical fantasy : origins of freedom and irrationality
… the analogy between music and its sister arts: imitation (philosophical mimesis and rhetorical imitatio as key concepts of artistic representation) and empirical thought (the growing interest in the role of the senses and imagination in aesthetic experience) are taken as bases for contemporary …
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Wolves in Lamb's Clothing: Redeeming the Images of Catherine of Siena and Angela of Foligno
… Catherine submitted to the Church by practicing imitatio Christi, becoming part of official orders as tertiaries and revealing their actions and visions to confessors. In their behavior and writings, both women supported the ideals of the Church. This conformity allowed Angela and Catherine to …
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Reforming Virtue: Bavinck's Method of Engaging with Virtue Ethics from a Reformed Perspective
… Chapter 5 looks to Bavinck’s doctrine of Imitatio Incarnatus Christi to argue that the imitation of Christ bridges mystical and practical ethics. Chapter 6 addresses the last of the four pillars—the Kingdom of God—as a converging ethical paradigm. In chapter 7, I conclude by discussing the …
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The decline in representations of the Virgin as mother in early post-reformation iconography.
… of penance and suffering as in the traditions of imitatio Christi. The decline in the representation of Mary’s physical motherhood develops alongside a general growing rejection of the human body as imago Dei – and particularly the female body whose imago Dei had always been in question. …
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The poetics of cultural healing: Derek Walcott's Omeros and the modernist epic
… intertexts according to this pattern of imitation and divergence (which Joseph Farrell calls the pattern of imitatio and aemulatio in the epic tradition). I organize my dissertation into four chapters, each focused on a particular issue: the process of redefining the epic, the …
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Ritualization - Hybridization - Fragmentation : The Mutability of Roman Vessels in Germania Magna AD 1–400
… boarders. Some scholars interpret them as an imitatio imperii, that is, as expressions of a Romanized lifestyle among the local elites. In this thesis, however, it is argued that these objects must be studied using perspectives that acknowledge interpretation and transformation as important …
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The Pastoral Image: Guillaume de Deguileville’s Spiritual Pedagogy in the Pèlerinage Allegories
… to be another kind of sacramental craft in imitatio Christi, the full ramifications of which are ultimately expressed in the Pèlerinage de Jesus-Christ.
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Female characterisation in the epic poetry of P. Papinius Statius
… observes the ancient literary convention of imitatio, an examination of any feature thereof necessarily first takes account of the treatment of these myths before Statius. Although there is no precise literary precedent for the Achilleid, there are various possible Greek and Roman sources for …
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The Nature of the Interplay of Classical and Biblical Intertexts in Milton's Poetry
… denunciation of colonial imperialism. The imitation of Christ (<i>imitatio Christi</i>) is the highest moral imperative of Christianity. By placing this rebuke in the mouth of Christ himself, therefore, Milton holds up anti-imperialism/colonialism as something not just worthy, but worthiest …
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El caso de Mateo Alemán: La interaccion entre el derecho y la literatura en el informe de la mina de mercurio de Almaden y <i>El Guzman de Alfarache</i>
… Law is the source of Literature –the <em>legal imitatio</em>-, meaningfully, Literature also becomes a source of Law and an essential factor of its interpretation. We are confronting a new jurisprudence, an old precedent, gentle and tenacious that molds the decisions of men and women and with …
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Il manoscrito inedito delle none rime di laura terracina.
… del debate humanístico sobre la cuestión de la imitatio, proponía a los hombres de letras de su tiempo la imitación de la poesía de Francesco Petrarca, que él consideraba el punto más alto logrado por la lengua vulgar italiana en el ámbito de la lírica. Cinco años más tarde, en 1530, Pietro …