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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"panegyric"”.
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Ennodius' panegyric to Theoderic to Great: A translation and commentary.
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Nyau Philosophy: Contemporary Art and the Problematic of the Gift – a Panegyric
… and is communicated through an intellectual panegyric with an extensive appendix documenting the nature of my art and research as praxis. The appendix includes a detourned Facebook timeline (2011-16) and legal documents from a Venetian court regarding my installation Sanguinetti Breakout Area …
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Ghazal Poetry and the Marwanids: A study of Kuthayyir Azza
… comprehensive account of Kuthayyir’s career as a panegyric poet, tracing his successive patronage relationships, translating and interpreting his major praise poetry, and exploring thematic and tonal overlaps between the poet’s love poetry and panegyric. The dissertation makes the case that …
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Calpurnius Siculus: Exploring pastoral en route to the city
… of ‘unnatural’ nature. His imperial panegyric is considered alongside contemporary writers of the early Empire to counter criticism that Calpurnius was a self-serving career poet. The contradictions of the locus amoenus are an important theme of the collection and are discussed in the …
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The Maiden Voyage of Jonathan Swift
… the forces of pride kept intruding to mar his panegyric, and they forced Temple to retreat to his garden and sent Sancroft to "his heavenly rest." Moreover, Swift was not personally involved with the forces of pride in the first four poems; but after Sancroft, Swift was personally subjected to …
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The Edge of Glory: The ʿAbbāsid Turkic Guard in Third/Ninth-Century Praise Writing
… (‘The Merits of the Turks’) and al-Buḥturī’s panegyrics for the Turkic generals Ṣāliḥ ibn Waṣīf and Khumārawayh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn. In contrast to the dominant image of the Turks in the ʿAbbāsid period, praise writing associates the Turks and individuals labelled as Turkic with the idealised …
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Tautos poetika Nikolajaus Karamzino tekstuose (1787-1803 m.) /
… are systematically analyzed in Karamzin’s panegyric, political and prose fiction texts. Such study perspective allows revealing a connection between aesthetic dimension of the text and his political “imagination”. It is shown that the meaning of the elements of the poetics of the nation is …
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The metaphor of perspective
… read as a satiric response to Edmund Waller’s panegyric on the war in Instructions to a Painter (1665), thus providing the final word in the series of satiric Advice-to-a-Painter poems that Waller spawned. Dryden’s, Marvell’s and Waller’s poems explicitly draw upon visual cultural traditions, …
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The Catafalque of Paul V: Architecture, Sculpture and Iconography
… also considers his presentation in contemporary panegyric. Chapter four outlines the appearance of the catafalque. Its form echoes both Imperial mausolea and early Christian martyria. Through this formal mimicry the very architecture becomes a metonym for the Pauline resurgence of Rome; it …
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Eighteenth-century Latin Occasional Literature of Lithuania from the Point of View of Literary Genetics /
… of the thesis discuss the peculiarities of the panegyric, the ode, the epigram and the epithalamium, as well as those of the genres representing funeral literature – the threnody, the epicedium, the epitaph, and the elegy. The main research is covered in the second part of the body of the …
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'The truth is bitter' : Socrates Scholasticus and the writing of a history of the Christian Roman empire
… than the simplistic language and idealism of panegyric. Reflecting on a century of strife and division.following the 'definitive' triumph of Constantine, Socrates was all too aware that Eusebius of Caesarea's vision of a Roman Empire fundamentally transformed by Christianity - and hencefo1ih …
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Polemic and episcopal authority in fourth-century Christianity
… II, together with the social role of ceremonial, panegyric and invective in the Roman empire; the second chapter examines the Christian construction of an image of the emperor Constantius II as the archetypal tyrant and persecutor; the third argues that these writers laid claim to charismatic …
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The Political Aesthetic of the Medieval Persian Prison Poem, 1100-1200
… domains, the transformation of a predominantly panegyric genre into an instrument of political critique, and demonstrate the political importance of the habsiyyat to the historiography of incarceration as well as of Persian literature. By examining the literary archive of incarceration from …
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Memory And Moderation: The Imperial Image Of Augustus And Its Perception Among Later Authors
… and his praise of Trajan's moderation in the Panegyricus. Pliny exhibits signs of insincerity in his panegyric that resemble the methods of doublespeak used earlier by Horace, Ovid, and Statius. Pliny's false praise of Trajan's moderation reflects his suspicion of the Principate as a whole. …
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Dear Son of Memory: Milton's Engagement with Shakespeare
… In “On Shakespeare,” Milton transforms panegyric imagery to demonstrate his appreciation of Shakespeare and to figure him as a fellow visionary poet. In <em>Comus</em>,<em> </em>Milton draws upon <em>The Tempest</em> to dramatize the Lady’s Christian faith and the Attendant Spirit’s …
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Constructing Community: Tamil Merchant Temples in India and China, 850-1281
… illustrated through several newly translated panegyric texts, which preface mercantile donations appearing on temple walls in the modern states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. Moreover, my work analyzes the complex processes of translation visible in literary and material culture …
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The unities of time and place in sixteenth-century theater and criticism
… scholar Luis Vives. The fable is an eloquent panegyric on the sublimity of Man, his “divine mind,” bliss-giving “powers of perception,” “handsomely shaped” body, and “nature akin to…the immortal gods." The structural device for presenting this exalted view of man is the metaphor of the world …
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Thomas Jefferson: Life lines
Thomas Jefferson: Life Lines is a five movement composition based on excerpts from Thomas Jefferson's personal letters. The material presented focuses on the intimate, human qualities of the man. The musical treatment of this material illuminates and amplifies different aspects of the inner …