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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Iconic Ida: Tennyson's The Princess and Her Uses

Guidici, Cynthia (Cynthia Dianne) 05 1900 (has links)
Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Princess: A Medley has posed interpretative difficulties for readers since its 1847 debut. Critics, editors, and artists contemporary with Tennyson as well as in this century have puzzled over the poem's stance on the issue of the so-called Woman Question. Treating Tennyson as the first reader of the poem yields an understanding of the title character, Princess Ida, as an ambassador of Tennyson's optimistic and evolutionary views of human development and links his work to that of visionary educators of nineteenth-century England. Later artists, however, produced adaptations of the poem that twisted its hopefulness into satirical commentary, reduced its complexities to ease the task of reading, and put it to work in various causes, many ranged against the improvement of women's condition. In particular, a series of editions carried The Princess into various nations, classrooms, and homes, promoting interpretations that often obscure Tennyson's cautious optimism.
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The octagon house in American culture : the influence of Orson S. Fowler in the Midwest

McCarley, Rebecca Lawin January 2001 (has links)
In the middle of the nineteenth century, an architectural phenomenon swept through the United States: the octagon house. Orson S. Fowler, best known for his work as a phrenologist, began this trend with the publication of A Home for All in 1848. Though this house form may seem unusual and even inexplicable today, the octagon house must be regarded in relation to the culture of this period. In this context, an understanding of the significance and embrace of this unique residential architecture can be gained. Although octagon houses were built throughout the United States, the intersection of several unique cultural and historical factors existed in the Midwest in this period, creating a region particularly receptive to this novel house form. The octagon house, though only briefly popular, made a lasting impact on the built environment that represents a tangible link to the culture of the middle of the nineteenth century. / Department of Architecture
83

Burocracia e autogestão: a proposta de Proudhon

Motta, Fernando C. Prestes January 1980 (has links)
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L'Amour de Paul Verlaine et l'In memoriam d'Alfred Tennyson

Wright, Cuthbert. January 1947 (has links)
No description available.
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L'influence d'Augustin Thierry sur François Xavier Garneau

Smith, Harry Douglas 25 April 2018 (has links)
La plupart des critiques qui se sont intéressés à François-Xavier Garneau reconnaissent qu'il a subi l'influence de plusieurs historiens français du XIX siècle, Ils mentionnent très fréquemment Thierry et Michelet. Mais ils se contentent ordinairement de citer ce fait. Quelques-uns toutefois sont allés plus loin; ils n'ont cependant considéré que l'aspect religieux de l'oeuvre de Garneau./ Croyant qu'une étude approfondie de l'influence de Thierry sur Garneau n'a pas encore été faite, nous allons considérer divers aspects de la vie et de l'oeuvre de ces deux historiens et faire ressortir les ressemblances qui nous persuadent que Garneau doit beaucoup à Thierry. Le but de cette étude est donc de montrer comment l'historien français Augustin Thierry (1795- 1856) a pu influencer "l'historien national" du Canada, François-Xavier Garneau (1809-1866). Thierry est né quatorze ans avant Garneau et il avait déjà une réputation de grand théoricien et d'historien avant même que Garneau n'ait atteint l'âge d'homme. Celui-ci arrive à l'âge d'homme sans connaître Thierry, dont l'influence sur lui ne se fait sentir que vers 1830. Mais elle sera décisive sur son oeuvre, et sur ses idées. Néanmoins, bien qu'il n'existe aucun lien entre la formation de Garneau et celle de Thierry, il est tout de même nécessaire de faire une étude de la vie de ces deux hommes. Nous ne nous proposons pas toutefois d'écrire une longue biographie des deux historiens, mais tout simplement de mettre en relief dans une large mesure l'influence qu'un écrivain a exercé sur l'autre. Ceci étant fait, nous étudierons les oeuvres de Thierry et de Garneau, dans le but d'exposer comment celles-là ont pu inspirer celles-ci. Enfin nous consacrerons un chapitre à l'étude des idées religieuses des deux hommes, à cause de l'importance de ces idées dans leurs oeuvres. Cette étude comprendra donc trois grandes divisions: une courte biographie de Thierry et de Garneau, une étude comparée de leurs oeuvres, et une analyse de leurs idées religieuses. Nous tenons à exprimer ici notre vive gratitude à tous ceux qui nous ont aidé dans la composition de ce travail: à M. René Gautheron, ancien chef du département des langues modernes à L'Université Dalhousie, qui nous a orienté vers une étude sérieuse de la langue française; qui, par sa recommendation, nous a rendu possible un séjour d'une année scolaire en France, 1939-1940, et qui a sans cesse renouvelé ses encouragements jusqu'au point de nous suggérer le sujet de cette étude. Nous offrons, nos remerciements aux professeurs de l'Université Laval pour les conseils qu'ils nous ont donnés, aux conservateurs des bibliothèques de Laval et de Harvard, et particulièrement à M. Luc Lacourcière, professeur à l'Université Laval, qui nous a guidé si patiemment, et fourni une assistance si précieuse dans la rédaction de cette thèse. / Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2012
86

Gottfried, Baron van Swieten and his influence on Haydn and Mozart

Olleson, D. E. January 1967 (has links)
No description available.
87

Darwin's doubt : implications of the theory of evolution for human knowledge

Vlerick, Michael Marie Patricia Lucien Hilda 12 1900 (has links)
Thesis (DPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation I enquire into the status, scope and limits of human knowledge, given the fact that our perceptual and cognitive faculties are the product of evolution by natural selection. I argue that the commonsense representations these faculties provide us with yield a particular, species-specific scope on the world that does not ‘correspond’ in any straightforward way to the external world. We are, however, not bound by these commonsense representations. This particular, species-specific view of the world can be transgressed. Nevertheless, our transgressing representations remain confined to the conceptual space defined by the combinatorial possibilities of the various representational tools we possess. Furthermore, the way in which we fit representations to the external world is by means of our biologically determined epistemic orientation. Based on the fact that we are endowed with a particular set of perceptual and cognitive resources and are guided by a particular epistemic orientation, I conclude that we have a particular cognitive relation to the world. Therefore, an accurate representation for us is a particular fit (our epistemic orientation) with particular means (our perceptual and cognitive resources). / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis handel oor die aard, omvang en limiete van kennis, gegewe dat ons perseptuele en kognitiewe vermoëns die resultaat van evolusie deur middel van natuurlike seleksie is. Eerstens, word daar geargumenteer dat die algemene voorstellings wat hierdie vermoëns aan ons bied ‘n partikuliere, spesie-spesifieke siening van die wêreld aan ons gee, wat nie op ‘n eenvoudige manier korrespondeer aan die werklikheid nie. Ons is egter nie gebonde aan hierdie voorstellings nie. Hierdie partikuliere, spesie-spesifieke siening van die wêreld kan oorskry word. Ons is egter wel beperk tot die konseptuele ruimte wat gedefinieër word deur die kombinatoriese moontlikhede van die voorstellingsmiddele tot ons beskikking. Verder word die manier waarop ons hierdie voorstellings aan die wêreld laat pas deur ons biologies gedetermineerde epistemiese oriëntasie bepaal. Dus, gegewe dat ons ‘n spesifieke stel perseptuele en kognitiewe vermoëns het en deur ‘n spesifieke kognitiewe epistemiese oriëntasie gelei word, staan ons in ‘n spesifieke kognitiewe verhouding tot die wêreld. ‘n Akkurate voorstelling (m.a.w. kennis vir ons) is om spesifieke vermoëns (perseptuele en kognitiewe vermoëns) op ‘n spesifieke manier (epsitemiese oriëntasie) aan die wêreld te laat pas.
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THE "AMERICAN" INFLUENCE OF POE ON TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN BLACK HUMOR.

Lacayo-Salas, Damarys. January 1983 (has links)
No description available.
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Popper, Darwinism and Third World Evolutionary Epistemology: an Exposition and Critique

Roques, Mark Seymour January 1986 (has links)
Permission from the author to digitize this work is pending. Please contact the ICS library if you would like to view this work.
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"Ch'io t'abbandono" by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Dramatic Image of the Education and Aptitudes of the Composer

Turley, Charles William 08 1900 (has links)
The unpublished concert aria, "Ch'io t'abbandono," by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1825), is representative of the adolescent composer's developing musical aesthetic. In this study, Mendelssohn's education, work ethic, and perfectionism are revealed, paradoxically, as both the catalysts for the piece's composition and also the reasons it was not published during Mendelssohn's lifetime. An exploration of the text, form, thematic usage, and performance demands of the aria yields specific examples of his uniquely balanced romantic-classicist style. A consideration of possible original performers of the piece, Franz Hauser and Eduard Devrient, leads to further discussion about the nature of the work as both a reflection of Mendelssohn's romantic self-expression and his appreciation for the Baroque melismatic style. The significance of the aria, both stylistic and biographical, is further delineated by a presentation of possible motivations for its composition. The musical setting of the text, as well as the text itself, indicates both Mendelssohn's awareness of himself as a maturing adolescent composer and his desire to be a composer of operatic works, a desire that was never fully realized.

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