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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"imitation of nature"”.
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In Life's Likeness: Biomimicry and the Imitation of Nature
This anthropological study of biomimicry examines how nature has been imagined and mobilized by American management consultants at the dawn of 21st century. Whereas culture has been invested with economic potential in “human-centered design,” consultants who name themselves “biomimics” valorize …
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Nuair a bha Gaidhlig aig na h-eoin : an investigation into the art and artifice of avifaunal mimesis as a mode of artistic expression in Gaelic oral culture from the seventeenth century to the present
… will interrogate the mimetic faculty of modern Gaelic oral culture, focussing particularly on mimesis as an artistic device. The imitation of nature in Gaelic is perhaps most frequently associated with the folk-song tradition, in which non-lexical vocable refrains are frequently …
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Biomimetic deployable structures
… adapt to the ever-changing environment by virtue of temporary and convertible structures. Biomimetics is the applied science that, through the imitation of nature, finds the solution to human problems. By observing motions that occur in nature, for example, the blooming of a flower or the …
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Morality and Society in J.M.R. Lenz’s dramas and their resonance in the works of G. Büchner and B. Brecht
This dissertation examines a set of core ideas that have been important in shaping modern drama since the eighteenth century. It does this by examining the pioneering work of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–92) and tracing a line to Georg Büchner (1813–37) and Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956). It …
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The imagery of time and season in the German Baroque and Romantic poetry
<p>Historians of German literature generally agree that the decisive turning point in the reappraisal of German Baroque literature was largely due to Heinrich Wölfflin’s seminal study <i>Renaissance und Barock: Eine Untersuchung über Wesen und Entstehung des Barockstils in ltalien</i> (1888). This …
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Vera o falsa riga dantesca del pensiero poetico leopardiano verso il termine dello Zibaldone
In one of the last pages of his Zibaldone, Leopardi cites the famous passage from Purgatorio XXIV, where Dante defines his poetry as the activity of a penman to whom Love dictates. While assumed as a cornerstone of Leopardi's conception of poetry, the Dantean apophthegm – «I' mi son un che quando …