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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"muses"”.
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Revising muses: Irrationality, creativity, and composition
Supra-rational theories for the writing teacher -- Inspiration, intuition, emotion -- Irrationality and writing.
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Revising muses: Irrationality, creativity, and composition
Supra-rational theories for the writing teacher -- Inspiration, intuition, emotion -- Irrationality and writing.
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The Cult of the Muses in Thespiai
… was Hesiod who first introduced the Heliconian Muses to the Western world. From the Boeotian poet onwards, Muses were no longer homeless, and mount Helicon and its surroundings would forever be thought of as their space. The town where Hesiod lived, Ascra, happened to be located by the Valley of …
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The transforming muses: stage appropriations of the gothic novel in the 1790s.
This thesis offers a theoretically-aware discussion of the stage appropriations of Gothic novels and dramas in the 1790. Works discussed in detail include: *The Monk*, *The Romance of the Forest*, *The Castle Spectre* and their adaptations, re-writings and afterlives. The author examines many …
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The Last Stand of Angraecum: Biogeographic and Evolutionary History of Darwin's Muses
<p>The Orchidaceae are notable for their remarkable diversity and are regarded as one of the most charismatic families of flowering plants. Notwithstanding the biological significance of Orchidaceae, numerous systematic challenges persist. Inter- and intrageneric relationships in several tribes and …
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Psychometric Exploration of a Measure of Military Sexual Trauma (MST): The Military Unwanted Sexual Experiences Survey (MUSES)
… the Military Unwanted Sexual Experiences Scale (MUSES) was created. Grounded theory provided a framework for generating the initial item pool from clinical observation and the literature. Review by a panel of experts resulted in the initial 68-item MUSES. This study examined the psychometric …
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Hermetic heresies: a sculptural revision of the iconography of the classical muse
… as vestige of function in the portrayal of muses in ancient Greek sculpture, my aim is to dismiss their traditional representations, and to reconstruct the choir of the muses by iconographic substitution. The hypothesis is that if the muses are prototypes rather than personages, then mythic …
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Water Imagery in Paradise Lost
… and renewal. In his prayers of invocation to the Muses in Books I and III, Milton wished to participate in the healing waters of the Pool of Siloam, which, as Cope notes, carried a "cure of the blind man." The blind poet prays that the Celestial Light will "Purge and disperse" "all mist" from his …
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Architecture and the Inspiration of the Museum
… revive the idea of the museum as a place of the muses, where the muses inspire those people who experience the place. I have selected Charleston and its historic setting for the project location of a Museum. This is a place where one might participate in a journey of initiation, education, and …
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Nurses' responses to work-related aggression
… perceived professional competence of registered muses.
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In the Clothes of Others
… begins with a nontraditional evocation of the muses and is followed by three different sections of poems. The thirteen poems in first section deal with how we use narratives to understand our daily lives and how those narratives often fail. The nine poems in the second section explore unstated …
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Bullet Whenever
… that appear, impact, and haunt the manuscript: muses, lovers, poets, family members, celebrities, as well as other writers and artists. The speaker sees himself in relation to these ghosts and speculates about his own existence and mortality. The title refers to the unexpected nature and …
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"So were I equalled with them in renown": The Politics of Poetic Adaptation in Dante's and Milton's Epics
… have a unique relationship to their respective Muses that differs from what can be found in classical epics: Dante replaces the Muse with Beatrice and Virgil —representing Church and State respectively — while Milton’s poem presents an internalised Protestant Muse. I argue that, through this …
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Stoornis
… of criminal modus operandi and the creative muses (BLOEDGELD and DIE SMOKKELROETE), the role of women in a military environment (MYNVELD and DIE GENERAAL EN DIE SIENER) as well as the occurrence of psychological aberration in women (LeERS and STOORNIS). Many facets of women's sexual identity, …
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(Un)veiling nature : a comparative study of Spenser's poetics in Mutabilitie canto seven
… context of a series of works: "The Teares of the Muses," "The Shepherdes Calendar," Sallust du Bartas's "L'Uranie," Richard Wills's "De re Poetica," Philip Sidney's "Defense of Poesie," and the writings of the continental theorist, Cristoforo Landino. The invocation emerges from this comparison as …
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The Value of Classical Allusions in Six of Milton’s Minor Poems (L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Cornus, Lycldas, Samson Agonistes, and Arcades)
… mentions various groups - such as the Dryads, Muses, Satyrs, Sirens, Fates, Titans, and the like - as well as the various aspects of nature which the ancients surrounded with legend or preserved in their literature. In this latter group come the references to the river Acheron, the Cimmerian …
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Walking Toronto's Red Road: The Story Pathways of Indigenous Social Workers
… of Indigenous social workers in Toronto,’ he muses, lifting his hand to his chin. ‘But social work in North America is a dynamic tale of oppression and resistance,’ he pauses to think. ‘So, the ten (10) short stories shared here, created with the participants of this research journey, really …
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Constructions of the Muse: Blues Tribute Poems in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century American Poetry
… have been numerous blues figures invoked as muses, I maintain that Rainey, Smith, Holiday, Leadbelly, and Johnson possess what Joseph Roach terms an "it" quality that makes them compelling to generations of poets, historians, and music fans alike. Poetry offers a medium through which artists …
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History has Tongues: re-evaluating historiography of the moving image through analysis of the voice and critical writing in British artists’ film and video of the 1980s
… McMullen’s Ghost Dance (1983), in which Derrida muses on ghosts and recording. An exploration of recording technologies and media informs a critique of writing history in order to reflect upon British film and video of the 1980s. It identifies a cacophony of voices – political, critical, activist …
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