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Zulus ideas and symbolism
The Zulu, numbering about 4 030 000 persons, are a Nguni people who live mainly in the province of Natal in the Republic of South Africa. It is this people that is described in the present study. The anthropological/ethnographic literature on the Zulu people is extensive. So is the linguistic and …
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The Symbolism of Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is the aim of this prefatory chapter to define symbolism in some manner, to give the reader some notion of the different stages in meaning through which the word has passed and to show the different attitudes toward the word disclosed by the various epochs of civilization. Reference has been …
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Symbolism in Melville's Typee and Omoo
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Explorations of Sound Symbolism and Iconicity
Sound symbolism refers to the finding that individuals have biases to associate certain language sounds (i.e., phonemes) with certain perceptual and/or semantic features (see Lockwood & Dingemanse, 2015; Sidhu & Pexman, 2018a). An example of this is the association between the phoneme /i/ (as in …
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Symbolism in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor
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A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Phonetic Symbolism
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T23:51:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6003961.pdf: 3233661 bytes, checksum: f20e868c2158fadaa446b64c42f355be (MD5) Previous issue date: 1960
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Name symbolism in Hawthorne's five finished novels
… Hawthorne’s work, it is appropriate to discover symbolism in the author's selection of given names and surnames for his characters. Name symbolism includes both sound and meaning of names or parts of names. Symbolic naming is defined as that technique through which a character's name, …
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Symbolism in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats
… in literature as fully as possible. The rose symbolism of Yeats's poetry is the subject of Chapter Three. Many scholars have commented upon Yeats’s frequent use of the flower in his work, but few attempt to pin down its various functions. Thus, this study is to some extent a review of previous …
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reunion: A Journey Through History, Symbolism, and Fear
… work, reunion. The subjects of fear, archetypal symbolism, personal and collective histories were examined through research, archival evidence, video, sound, movement, and installation. reunion, examines not only the powers of personal and collective histories through the symbolic language of …
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Colour symbolism in the works of Gustave Flaubert
The thesis adopts a structural and systematic approach to the study and analysis of colour terms in Flaubert's fiction.The Introduction highlights how Flaubert has come to be regarded as a problematic writer and how much existing work on his colour terms is in some way lacking in clarity. I proceed …
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The symbolism and self-imaging of Marcel Duchamp
"Revered as ""the father of modern art,"" Marcel Duchamp's idea inspired many new art forms after the 1960s including Neo-Dada, Op, Pop, Mobile Sculpture, Junk Art, Assemblage, Body Art, Happening, and Conceptual Art. Given his profound influence on contemporary and subsequent artists, Duchamp's …
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The symbolism of the eye in Mesopotamia and Israel
This thesis explores eye symbolism within the context of the art forms of the Ancient Near East, including pottery, sculpture, idols of amulets, seals, cuneiform texts and the literature of the Old Testament. The central concern in this study is to bring together under one cover the iconography of …
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Neo-Raconteur: Allocating Southern-Gothic Symbolism into Design Media.
… within the realms of Southern Gothic symbolism -- which rely on the supernatural, physical geographic settings, instances of the grotesque and irony along with visual and/or psychological shadow(s) of foreboding caused by tradition or hidden truths, occasionally both.</p>
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The Symbolism of Female Characters in Fedor Sologub's Mythopoetics
This study examines the symbolism of female figures and characters in the full range of Fedor Sologub's literary works over the course of his entire career as a writer and demonstrates their importance in conveying the metaphysical subtexts of his works. Symbolic females console or torture, inspire …
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