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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"realism and idealism"”.
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Realism and idealism in the harmonization of contract law in the European Union
… lawyers supported by the European Commission and by journals devoted to legal integration. The impact of decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union in 2000 and 2006, however, ensured that only a modest proposal, as distinct from a European Civil Code, would be put forward. The …
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G. F. Watts, a Soldier in the Battle for an Art of Ideas
… Arnold, Tennyson, Darwin, Drummond, Spencer and Mill, and that his aesthetic theories both descend from late eighteenth-century neoclassical theorists and foreshadow the abstract intentions of modernism. Chapter one amalgamates various accounts of Watts' early life to present a more complete …
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Malory's work in the light of his times
… portrayal of government, society, love, religion and chivalry. I have at tempted to identify in each both Malory's own perceptions and those of his society and to show the links between them. I have also considered the proportions of realism and idealism in his work, where appropriate, as well as …
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Fiction based on fact : subversions of power and propriety in Charles Reade's matter-of-fact romances.
… Late to Mend, he developed a method of research and writing that he would use throughout the remainder of his career. In the Memoir, he declares: "The plan I propose to myself in writing stories will, I see, cost me undeniable labor. I propose never to guess where I can know" (198). This …
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The United States of America's foreign policy towards Africa: the case studies of Kenya and Nigeria, 1990-2008
… poverty, HIV/AIDS, authoritarianism, civil wars and other related ills, it seems to constitute a national security threat to the US. This is evidently seen by the interest that the US shows on the continent especially when it comes to issues of the potential threat of terrorism that the Western …
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(Re)Placing America: Cold War Mapping and the Mediation of International Space
… from World War II as an undeniably global power, and as the Cold War unfolded, America faced decisions about where to place and display its power on the globe. The Cold War was a battle between two ideologies and competing world systems, both of which were vying for space and had the tools and …
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An ethnography of 'courage' among U.S. Marines
This is a theoretical and ethnographic study of conceptions of “courage” among combat infantry, specifically U.S. Marines. U.S. infantry combat soldiers conceive of the cultural value courage in its many manifestations and formulations. I maintain that courage manifests itself in both vocal signs, …