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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"picturesque"”.
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Picturesque prairies : productive preservation on a petroleum planet
Fires burn bright atop the flare stacks in the distance as bison watch from behind the two-meter high fence of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. In this modern scene, complex geographic formations in North Dakota's badlands have established a unique shared topography between an assemblage of …
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Picturesque Portraiture: The Composition of Reality in Hawthorne, Melville, and James
… of reality. The Hudson River School of picturesque landscape painters tackled this dilemma with a compromise formula which used the real objects of nature to create ideal scenes. This dissertation applies the same picturesque formula to select examples of literary portraiture, studied …
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Pictures and poetry : debunking the bunk : an examination of picturesque influence
… examines the history and development of the Picturesque, its definition, theoreticians, and practitioners; and its influence on romanticism. The focus is the correction of pejorative and negative assessments common in modern literary studies which provide a misleading interpretation of both …
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Metaphorical Projection and the Picturesque in the Writings of John Keats
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:38:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6706636.pdf: 11726843 bytes, checksum: 095a67e238c26a473c6edc17439fa00f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1966
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Sublime Views and Picturesque Embellishments: Westward Expansion and “Progress” in Gilded Age Guidebooks Illustration
… landscape, guidebook illustrations highlight the picturesque aspects of the Western environment and supplement the rail travel experience by guiding the viewer through a contemplative and romantic reading of the landscape. Guidebooks immersed the reader in the progressive narrative of the …
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Western Historical Gardens and Chinese Influences--From Great Britain to Picturesque Royal garden in Piedmont
… not primarily to add to the stock of facts about picturesque but to take a intelligibly framework to view of the picturesque garden collapsed the opposition between nature and cultural processes in which facts about picturesque garden influenced the Europe—the way, in particular, that the action …
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Accommodating the Picturesque: The Country Houses of James Wyatt, John Nash and John Soane, 1793–1815
… on the underlying principles and aims of the Picturesque in architecture—among them, the grounding of a house within its surrounding landscape, a greater eclecticism of style and embrace of asymmetry, an emphasis on views and view-points, a concern with issues of framing and movement and a …
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Progress in the peripheries: improvement and national image in the fictions of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1780 - 1830
… between engaging with popular portrayals of picturesque landscapes, rural tradition and Celtic primitivism, and advocating or accepting the need for economic modernization that may compromise those national images. Exploring the dialogical nature of the ‘national tale’, a genre whose …
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Textural Diversity
… They have imperfect yet fascinating textures, picturesque in form, seemingly fractal in design, working together harmoniously to serve the aesthetic. My sculptures, like these natural shapes, are heavy or thicker toward the bottom and lighter toward the top, like a tree or stone. I strive to …
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Oblique figures : representations of Islam in South African media and culture
… were characterized as industrious, placid and picturesque. I contend in analyses of nineteenth century landscape paintings that the figure of the 'Malay' played a role in discursively securing a settler identity in the Cape Colony. This occurred through their 'oblique' positioning near the edge …
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Materialising cultural value in the English lakes, 1735-1845 : a study of the responses of new landowners to representations of place and people
… responded strongly to discourse by creating a picturesque park which demonstrated his taste and values, and by completing the picturesque occupation of Derwentwater by 1787. Wordsworth influenced the choice and management of John Marshall’s extensive estates from 1811, providing an early …
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Dwelling and the Woman Artist in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
… century aesthetics of the sublime and the picturesque are evaluated in relation to the aesthetic spaces of the novel. Helen enjoys an intimate connection to the landscape both at Grassdale and Wildfell Hall, and she finds solace and freedom in nature. But the aesthetics of the picturesque …
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Dwelling and the Woman Artist in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
… century aesthetics of the sublime and the picturesque are evaluated in relation to the aesthetic spaces of the novel. Helen enjoys an intimate connection to the landscape both at Grassdale and Wildfell Hall, and she finds solace and freedom in nature. But the aesthetics of the picturesque …
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Common ground : a Coast Guard station in Boston Harbor
… of the physical, natural environment beyond the picturesque.
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Saint Rita's and Its Place in Marin County History
… enormous land grants which subdivided the vast picturesque wilderness, information about influential figures associated with Saint Rita's and the town of Fairfax, and detailed architectural descriptions of the church in various stages of its development to the present day.</p>
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Variations on Suburbia: Integrating People-Oriented Design
… most new subdivisions continue to follow the picturesque planning principles of their lower-density predecessors. Garages dominate looping streets of compact semis and rowhouses, producing enclaves that lack the walkability, sociability, and mix of uses typical of urban neighbourhoods, as well …
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Patyčių prevencinių programų taikymo socioedukaciniai aspektai: raiškos tendencijos /
… weaknesses found. Program second step strength: picturesque course materials, clear instructions. Weakness - that you cannot share good experience, material with the people outside of the program.
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The Dark Underbellies of the Littles: A History of the Indo-Guyanese Diaspora, Race and Identity
… in New York City and argues that while perhaps picturesque on the surface, Little Guyana is the result of the fraught history of British colonialism, slavery, and indentured servitude and the sociocultural resilience of the Indo-Guyanese people. Using Little Guyana as a window onto the …
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