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Journal articles on the topic "1770-1850 Criticism and interpretation"
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Winarni, Retno, Ratna Endang Widuatie, Tri Chandra Aprianto, and Nurhadi Sasmita. "Perkembangan Perkebunan Partikelir di Jember (1850-an – 1930-an)." Historia 4, no. 1 (July 30, 2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.19184/jhist.v4i1.28427.
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This study was aimed to track how the history of plantations in Jember from the 1850s-1930s. When did plantations arise in Jember? What types of plants were developed on Jember plantations? How was the development of the plantation quantitatively? And what was the impact of the existence of plantations on the development of Jember and its people. The method in this study is a historical method which includes heuristic, criticism, interpretation and historiography. The results of this study are that plantations in Jember developed along with the development of colonial power in the Belada Indies, precisely since the VOC era, but experienced rapid development starting from the implementation period culture stelsel, but reached its peak in liberal times, and plantations also experienced a period of ebb as colonial power receded as well. The conclusion is that there is a parrarel relationship between plantation development and the development of colonial power.
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Kilcourse, Carl S. "Son of God, Brother of Jesus: Interpreting the Theological Claims of the Chinese Revolutionary Hong Xiuquan." Studies in World Christianity 20, no. 2 (August 2014): 124–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2014.0082.
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This paper examines the theological claims of Hong Xiuquan (1814–64), the leader of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–64). Whilst various aspects of the Taipings' theology and religious culture were characterised by originality, the most unique – and, for many, shocking – feature of their new theological world-view was the belief that Hong was the second son of God and younger brother of Jesus. This belief, which was based on visions that Hong had experienced in 1837, provoked criticism and condemnation from Protestant missionaries who were in China at the time of the Taiping Rebellion. The first part of this paper discusses two particular interpretations of Hong's claims in the reports of those missionaries. The analysis reveals that the missionaries' orthodox lens caused them to misunderstand and misrepresent Hong's claim to be the second son of God. Moving beyond the critical interpretations of the missionaries, the second part of this paper examines the Taipings' specific discourses on the nature of the Heavenly Father and his relation to Jesus and Hong. By analysing Hong's claims within this wider (and previously ignored) theological framework, the paper supports a new interpretation that views the title second son of God not as evidence of the Taipings' heterodox character, but as an access point for understanding their localised doctrine of God.
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Suárez Turriza, Tatiana. "Las versiones de Flor de fuego y Flor del dolor de Santiago Sierra: del ocultismo al espiritismo kardeciano." Literatura Mexicana 33, no. 2 (June 13, 2022): 37–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.19130/iifl.litmex.2022.33.2.7731x02.
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This article analyzes, from the perspective of textual criticism, two stories by the Campeche writer Santiago Sierra (1850-1880): “Flor de fuego” and “Flor del dolor,” which are part of the series that he published under the title “Flores.” This work is intended to contribute to the construction of the genetic history of these texts, through the exposition and interpretation of the significant author variants that exist between the first version, which appeared in the Veracruz newspaper Violetas, in 1869, and the second and last version published in the pages of El Domingo, between 1871 and 1872. The comparison of the two versions of these “Flores” reveals interesting variants that allow us to appreciate the transition in his aesthetic proposal from the assimilation of the doctrine of Allan Kardec. The study shows the process of transformation from the occultist substrate to the spiritualist, as the foundation of the fantastic or the supernatural in the stories.
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Mason, Jennifer. "Animal Bodies: Corporeality, Class, and Subject Formation in The Wide, Wide World." Nineteenth-Century Literature 54, no. 4 (March 1, 2000): 503–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2903015.
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In recent criticism, arguments about whether domesticity in The Wide, Wide World (1850) empowered or disempowered women, and whether it was embraced or critiqued by Warner and her contemporaries, have been founded upon, or at least buttressed by, readings of horses and horsemanship. The interpretation of Ellen Montgomery's riding lessons as a metaphor for her disempowerment, and the ubiquitous denunciation of John Humphreys as "brutal horse-beater," however, have little grounding in the nineteenth-century horsemanship on which Warner drew. While for centuries horses in Western culture had been associated with human passions and horsemanship with their forcible domination, a combination of new methods for disciplining equines and new forms of recreational riding rendered the equine body, in the nineteenth century, discursively situated to communicate the internalized discipline and self-regulation that was necessary to make a human body middle class. Through horseback riding and other lessons, Ellen attains the particular mental and bodily development necessary for her to become a proper, sentimental, middle-class woman who is inserted into a network of power relations-a network in which Ellen attains power over other kinds of women who fail to meet the standards that she does. Historical contextualization also reveals that John's horsemanship accords quite well with nineteenth-century standards and would not have been seen as abusive by his contemporaries. As nearly all arguments about The Wide, Wide World's resistance to domestic ideology have been predicated upon John's propensity for horse-beating, this essay calls for a reexamination of what has become a principal claim of Warner criticism.
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Pratama, Fikri Surya Pratama. "MINORITAS MUSLIM PANAMA: MENUJU HARMONI KEBERAGAMAN PASCA PROYEK KANAL PANAMA." Khazanah 12, no. 1 (April 28, 2022): 19–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.15548/khazanah.v12i1.501.
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Despite being a minority, Panamanian Muslims have the longest historical history of any Central American region. Based on this, this article aims to explain the process of the entry of Islam into Panama, and explain how the development of da'wah civilization and the Muslim community in Panama, especially after the construction of the Panama Canal mega project. This type of research is qualitative research using historical research methods, with the following steps: 1) Heuristics or source collection through library research; 2) Source Criticism, namely comparison activities and selecting the validity of sources; 3) This interpretation or analysis stage has occurred either at the beginning of the research or during the post-research analysis process; 4) historiography or the last stage of this research in the form of historical scientific writings. The results of the study show that Islam entered Panam through Mandika slaves brought during the Spanish colonization there, but the development of Islamic da'wah only began to be intense during and after the construction of the canal, this da'wah was intensively carried out by Arab and South Asian immigrants, and reached its peak in 1850-1860's. Panama's constitution provides for religious freedom. Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, and several traditional Panamanian religions coexist in harmony. So far, Panama has given a positive picture of the Central America region which is very conducive and open to religious differences, especially in Islam.
Keywords: Central America, Minority, Muslim, Panama.
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Vasileva, Svetlana S., Svetlana Yu Vorobieva, and Elena A. Ovechkina. "LANGUAGE REPRESENTATION OF VALUES IN LITERARY TEXT AS A REFLECTION OF THE WRITER’S WORLD PICTURE." Sovremennye issledovaniya sotsialnykh problem 13, no. 4 (January 31, 2022): 472–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2077-1770-2021-13-4-472-488.
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The article describes the originality of the writer’s picture of the world and the peculiarities of the representation of the value system in а literary text.
The purpose of the study is to reconstruct the system of value orientations presented in a work of art.
The subject of the study is the system of values and axiological guidelines of the writer, indirectly or directly represented in the text.
The object of the study is the axiological system of Nina Gorlanova, presented in the collection of stories Svetlaya proza.
Research material – stories from Svetlaya proza by Nina Gorlanova.
Research methods are determined by the research objectives and include general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, a combination of linguistic (descriptive, statistical, semantic methods) and literary (problem-thematic method) methods; an axiological approach is used to analyze a literary text.
The novelty of the study is due to its interdisciplinary nature. In this work, an attempt is made to integrate the knowledge of linguistics, literary criticism and axiology.
Research results. This paper makes an attempt to demonstrate the axiological guidelines of the writer and their hierarchical structure, which made it possible to include value dominants in the interpretation of the writer’s artistic world. Practical implications.
The results of this work can be used in the study of disciplines such as text stylistics, poetics of a work of art, as well as in the analysis of fiction speech.
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Ibatullina, Guzel M., and Maria M. Krivda. "ALEXEY TURBIN ‘S INITIATION PLOT IN THE WHITE GUARD NOVEL BY M.A. BULGAKOV." Sovremennye issledovaniya sotsialnykh problem 14, no. 2 (June 30, 2022): 222–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2077-1770-2022-14-2-222-237.
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Background. The problem of the functioning of archetypal plots and related images and motifs in the artistic structure of the novel The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov remains practically unexplored in literary criticism. This also applies to the episode of the meeting between Alexei Turbin and Julia Reiss, in which the logic of the initiation plot is revealed, implemented in the text through a system of folklore-fairytale and mythological references that require detailed analysis and interpretation.
Purpose. The purpose of the article is to study the figurative and semantic paradigm of the initiation plot in the history of the acquaintance of Alexey Turbin and Julia Reiss.
Materials and methods. The material of the study is the episodes presented in Chapters 10–13 of the novel. At the same time, the analyzed fragments are considered taking into account the artistic and semantic contexts of the work as a whole. In the process of research, mythopoetic, structural-comparative, systemic-functional methods of text analysis were used.
Results. The results of the study showed that in the analyzed fragments of the novel detected parallels with the system of fairy tale motifs associated with the archetype of initiation. In the narrative logic of the episode, the main stages of this plot are highlighted: departure // isolation of the hero; trials and temptations; symbolic death; resurrection and transformation. A similar parallelism is revealed in the structure of the chronotope: Turbin, like fairy-tale end mythological heroes, undergoes initiation in a symbolic other world, where he moves from the real-empirical space. Pivotal to the logic of the development of events is the fabulous motive of flight with a number of transformations of the hero and his “miraculous” escape from persecution with the help of Julia Reiss. Turbin repeatedly experiences “meetings with death” as the culminating stages of initiation, in the finale of the plot collision there is a revival and the return of the hero to the real world.
Practical implications. The results of the study can be used in the courses of studying Russian literature at the university and school.
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Johnston, A. J. B. "Imagining Paradise: The Visual Depiction of Pre-Deportation Acadia, 1850-2000." Journal of Canadian Studies 38, no. 2 (February 2004): 105–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jcs.38.2.105.
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There is a widely-held interpretation that l’ancienne Acadie was something of an earthly paradise. That idealized interpretation dates back to, and was heavily influenced by, the writings of Dièreville in 1699 and Abbé Raynal in 1770. The idea came to a literary flowering and a worldwide audience in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1847 poem Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie. Beginning with the first illustrated edition of Evangeline in 1850, and continuing for the next 150 years, a succession of artists offered different versions of the imagined bucolic paradise of Acadia. That body of artwork both reflected and advanced the intellectual and emotional construct that pre-deportation Acadie had been a pastoral place of peace, harmony, and plenty. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, British and American publishers commissioned British and American artists to depict scenes to accompany Evangeline. In the latter half of the twentieth century, Canadian heritage agencies commissioned Canadian artists to develop new artwork of pre-deportation Acadia, without Evangeline imagery or Evangeline-related storylines. None the less, the paintings produced in the last few decades of the twentieth century continued to offer, for the most part, variations on the basic idea that Acadie before 1755 was a time and a place that enjoyed idyllic conditions.
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WEBSTER, SARAH. "Estate Improvement and the Professionalisation of Land Agents on the Egremont Estates in Sussex and Yorkshire, 1770–1835." Rural History 18, no. 1 (March 16, 2007): 47–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956793306002019.
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The role of land agents in the management and improvement of English landed estates between 1770 and 1850 is examined in this paper. The focus is on the responsibilities of land agents, their contribution to agricultural improvement, and in particular the validity of a thesis of the professionalisation of agents during this period. The Petworth House archives are used to compare the work of two legal agents at Petworth in Sussex with that of a professional land agency firm in Yorkshire, both employed by the third Earl of Egremont (1751–1837). This study suggests that the role of land agents in agricultural improvement at Petworth was limited to the financial, legal and political aspects of these developments rather than practical management. It proposes that legal agents remained more influential than has been supposed, even on estates renowned for agricultural improvement, and despite contemporary criticism that emphasised the importance of applied agricultural expertise. The belated professionalisation of the Petworth agents and the significant differences in their roles when compared with contemporary and historical accounts suggests that estate management was therefore far more diverse than is suggested in some recent literature.
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Høirup, Henning. "Nekrolog over Uffe Hansen." Grundtvig-Studier 46, no. 1 (January 1, 1995): 18–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/grs.v46i1.16174.
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Uffe Hansen 14.12. 1894 - 11.9. 1994By Henning HøirupThe obituary begins with a description of Uffe Hansen’s background as an Independent Congregation clergyman (from 1925) to the Grundtvigian Independent Congregation (Danish valgmenighed, i.e. a congregation within the National Church, claiming the right to employ their own minister) of Ubberup, where the prominent clergymen V.J.Hoff and Carl Koch were his predecessors. Carl Koch’s extensive writings, theologically erudite, but .popular. in their language, and thus accessible to the layman, were to become the model for Uffe Hansen’s studies in Grundtvig’s hymnwriting. Through his membership of the Hymn Book Commission of the free Grundtvigian congregations (HYMNS. Independent Congregations and Free Church Congregations, 1935), Uffe Hansen was motivated to realize his plan of a complete account of the whole of Grundtvig’s hymn writing in the book Grundtvig’s Hymn Writing. Its History and Content I. 1810-1837, published in 1937. In the following years Uffe Hansen was absorbed in organizational work (Grundtvigian Convent, the »No More War« organization) and by his membership of the Grundtvigian Hymn Book Committee (The Danish Hymn Book. A Grundtvigian Proposal, 1944). In the 1940s efforts were made to unite the hymn tradition of the re-united Southern Jutland with the traditions of the Kingdom, i.e. the old Danish treasury of hymns and the Grundtvigian hymns. Uffe Hansen became a member of the Hymn Book Commission which published the proposal The Danish Hymn Book in 1951. More than anybody else, Uffe Hansen is responsible for the large number of Grundtvig hymns in this proposal, often with verses from the original versions of the hymns added to them. In spite of vehement criticism on this point The Danish Hymn Book was authorized in 1953. Grundtvig remained the predominant contributor, even though significant Grundtvig hymns, expressing his church view, were omitted, much to Uffe Hansen’s regret. The Hymn Book includes Uffe Hansen’s own translation of the Latin antiphone Oh, Grant Us Peace, Our Lord. While this debate was going on, the continuation of Uffe Hansen’s work, Grundtvig9s Hymn Writing II. 1837-1850 appeared in 1951, an important contribution to a comprehensive interpretation of Grundtvig’s work to renew the Danish hymnody. However, Uffe Hansen’s main achievement as a hymn researcher was his work as a co-editor of Grundtvig’s Song-Work I-VI, 1944-1964. This new edition was worked out on scientific principles, and the hymns were brought in chronological order, as far as it was possible. The edition included a critical variant apparatus, compiled by Uffe Hansen. Concurrently with this work, Uffe Hansen participated in the compilation of a Register of Grundtvig’s Posthumous Papers 1-IXXX, 1956-1964, and, while engaged on this, found several hitherto unknown hymns, which were included in the new edition of the Song-Work.Here Uffe Hansen’s abilities as a researcher and scholar were amply demonstrated. Then, in 1966, came his finalwork, Grundtvig’s Hymn Writing III. 1851-1872, which, like the other volumes, testify to Uffe Hansen’s talent for combining erudition with easy comprehensibility. In his last years Uffe Hansen lived in Holland; he was laid to rest from the Independent Congregation Church of Ubberup.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "1770-1850 Criticism and interpretation"
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Tweedie, Gordon. "Wordsworth and later eighteenth-century concepts of the reading experience." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=70242.
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Influential later eighteenth-century critics and philosophers (Stewart, Knight, Alison, Jeffrey, Godwin) argued that poetry's moral and practical benefits derive from "analytical" modes of reading rather than from the poet's instructive intentions. Frequently exploiting the philosophical "language of necessity," Wordsworth's essays and prefaces (1798-1815) protested that poetry directly improves the reader's moral code and ethical conduct. This dissertation discusses Wordsworth's criticism in the context of analytical principles of interpretation current in the 1790s, providing terms for exploring the theme of reading in early mss. of Peter Bell and The Ruined Cottage (1798-1799), the 1798 Lyrical Ballads, and later poems such as "A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags," "Resolution and Independence," "Elegiac Stanzas," and The Prelude (Book V).These poems anticipate Wordsworth's presentation of reading as the "art of admiration" in the "Essay, Supplementary" to the 1815 Poems, and indicate a sustained search for alternatives and correctives to detached investigative approaches to the aesthetic experience. Attempting to reconcile the extremes of the credulous or fanciful response, reflecting a childlike desire to be free from all constraints, and the analytical response, fuelled by perceptions of contrast between poetic illusion and reality, Wordsworth's criticism and poetry depict the reader as the"auxiliar" of poetic genius. The purpose, traditionally undermined by critics as peremptory and egotistical, was to challenge readers to examine their basic motives in seeking poetic pleasure.
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Gislason, Neil B. "Wordsworth's reflective vision : time, imagination and community in "The prelude"." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21212.
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This thesis examines the role of imagination in "The Prelude," within the context of recent criticism. In accordance with the impact of new historicism on contemporary Wordsworth studies, considerable attention is given to new historicist readings. It is argued that new history's methodological approach generally undervalues the complex texture of subjectivity in "The Prelude." New historical critiques tend to interpret the Wordsworthian imagination merely as a narrative strategy that enables the poet to displace or elide socio-historical realities. However, "The Prelude" does not entirely support such a reading. On the basis of Wordsworth's autobiography and related prose works, it is asserted that the poet's consciousness of creative decline and mortality potently informs his sense of imagination, and eventuates in a mode of self-perception that precludes subjective autonomy and socio-historical displacement.
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Macdonald, Shawn E. (Shawn Earl). "Wordsworth's spots of time : a psychoanalytic study of revision." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60663.
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In the introductory definition of spots of time, Wordsworth claims that these important childhood episodes are virtuous and worthy of celebration. This definition is incongruous with the episodes considered independently, because they reveal themselves as essentially disturbing memories. As he revised the spots of time, Wordsworth attempted to mitigate the disturbing nature of the episodes, betraying his need to repress certain undesireable aspects of the early texts.The following study is a Freudian reading of Wordsworth's spots of time in their various stages of revision. The Introduction to this study addresses some of the problems of interpretation. Chapter One places a Freudian reading of Wordsworth within the context of previous scholarship. Chapter Two is a close reading of the earliest spots of time as informed by Oedipal memories. Chapter Three examines Wordsworth's attempt, through revision, to repress these Oedipal memories.
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Sullivan, David Bradley. "Composing experience, experiencing composition : placing Wordsworth's poetic experiments within the context of rhetorical epistemology." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1063197.
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This text recontextualizes Wordsworth's writings by showing the ways in which they question the assumptions about "philosophy" and "poetry" that have been constructed within the field of Cartesian dualisms. It employs the ideas of classical rhetoricians, particularly Isocrates and Quintilian, contemporary rhetorical thinkers such as Kenneth Burke, and twentieth-century scientists, particularly Gregory Bateson, David Bohm, and Antonio Damasio, to show that Wordsworth's efforts to establish connections between mind and body, mind and world, and feeling and thinking were coherent and highly relevant rather than simply paradoxical. And it argues that Wordsworth's writings embody his effort to develop a "rhetorical epistemology" or an "epistemic rhetoric" that could counterbalance the dangers of the reductive scientific epistemology of his time.Employing his knowledge of classical rhetoric, particularly Quintilian, and his own sense of the complexities of perception and representation, Wordsworth developed a model of knowing founded on personal experience, representation, relationship, and revision rather than on the establishment of "demonstrable" or "objective" knowledge. His model, like Gregory Bateson's "ecology of mind," was built on an integrated view of mind and world. He believed that perception, feeling, thinking and acting were related in a continuum of mental process (rather than being separate categories), and that individual minds had a mutually-shaping, integrative relationship with what he saw as larger mindlike processes (particularly "Nature").Within this ecology of mind, Wordsworth positioned poetry as a mental process which completed science by providing the means for joining fact and value, "objective knowledge" and personal meaning, reflection and participation. In his construction, poetry was to be an accessible, experience-based discourse of learning and knowing. He aimed to return poetry to its origins, not in "primitive utterance of feelings" but in "poesis" or meaning-making.By countering the assumptions of scientific epistemology, and offering a vital alternative, he sought to reshape and revalue poetry, to broaden his society's narrowing view of knowledge, and to reconstitute moral vision and belief in a society on its way to terminal doubt. His model of knowing is worth considering as we reshape our own views of knowing in the late twentieth century.Department of English
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Khalip, Jacques. "Loss unlimited : sadness and originality in Wordsworth, Pater, and Ashbery." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0002/MQ43895.pdf.
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Shipman, Barry M. (Barry Mark). "Wordsworthian Romanticism in the Fiction of Bernard Malamud." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278167/.
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Jump, Harriet Sarah. "Mark Akenside and the poetry of current events, 1738-1770." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2f5ebba5-9a25-4d93-aabb-b8e999433027.
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The aim of this thesis is to provide an analysis of the historical and political context of a group of poems which were written by Mark Akenside between 1738 and 1770. Most of these poems were composed in response to particular political events or situations, or to the publication of works of literature, history, or theology; the remainder are verse-epistles addressed to political figures who were personal friends of the poet. Arguments have also been included for the attribution to Akenside of a small number of anonymous poems. I have taken a broadly chronological approach. The first chapter covers the period 1738-1739, and discusses the background and references of two poems written before and just after the declaration of the War of Jenkins' Ear. The subject of the second chapter is two poems addressed to the 'patriot' politician William Pulteney in 1742 and 1744 (before and after his supposed political apostasy). The third chapter considers the case for attribution of two short poems on the subject of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, and includes a discussion of an Ode addressed to the Earl of Huntingdon in 1747, In the fourth chapter, a poem composed during the contested Westminster election of 1749 is discussed, in addition to Odes addressed to Sir Francis-Henry Drake, Charles Townshend, and Dr Caleb Hardinge. The fifth chapter includes a consideration of Odes written on the occasion of the publication of three books: William Warburton's edition of Pope's works, Frederick the Great's Memoires, and Bishop Hoadly's Sermons; a second Ode to Drake is also discussed. The sixth chapter discusses another poem which relates to Warburton, an Ode on the poetry of the Abbe de Chaulieu, and a letter and an Ode on the subject of the Seven Years' War. The conclusion considers Akenside's revisions in the light of allegations that he abandoned his Whig principles and became a Tory towards the end of his life. My object has been not only to elucidate obscure references and to supply contextual background information, but also to provide a picture of the political and intellectual history of the mid-eighteenth century as seen through the eyes of a highly intelligent, if politically partisan, observer.
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Murayama-Cain, Yumi. "The Bible in imperial Japan, 1850-1950." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1717.
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This thesis undertakes to apply some of the insights from postcolonial criticism to understand the history of Christianity in Japan, focusing on key Christian thinkers in the period since Japan’s national isolation ended in the mid 19th century. It studies these theologians' interaction with the the Bible as a “canonical”text in the Western civilisation, arguing for a two-way connection between Japan’s reception of Christianity and reaction to the West. In particular, it considers the process through which Christianity was employed to support or criticise Japan’s colonial discourse against neighbouring Asian countries. In this process, I argue that interpretation of the Bible was a political act, informed not simply by the text itself, but also by the interpreter’s positionality in the society. The thesis starts by reviewing the history of Christianity in Japan. The core of the thesis consists of three chapters, each of which considers the thought of two contemporaries. Ebina Danjo (1866-1937) and Uchimura Kanzo (1861-1930) were two first-generation Christians who converted to Christianity through missionaries from the United States, and responded to Japan’s westernisation and military expansion from opposite perspectives. Kagawa Toyohiko (1888-1960) and Yanaihara Tadao (1893-1961) spoke about the country’s situation in the years preceding the Asia-Pacific War (1941-1945), and again reached two different conclusions. Nagai Takashi (1908-1951) and Kitamori Kazo (1916-1998) were Christian voices immediately after the war, and both dealt with the issue of suffering. Each chapter explores how the formation of their thoughts was driven by their particular historical, economic, and social backgrounds. The concluding chapter outlines Christian thought in Japan today and deals with the major issue facing Japanese theology: cultural essentialism.
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Roy, Alain 1965. "Guy de Maupassant : l'engendrement du romanesque." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39988.
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In this thesis entitled "Guy de Maupassant: l'engendrement du romanesque", the author proposes to demonstrate that Maupassant's six novels constitute a "trajectory", a progression driven and informed by an underlying logic. Proceeding from a psychoanalytical point of view, the author has uncovered another novel, an unspoken novel, that unfolds with Maupassant's novelistic production. This "other novel" expresses the engendering of the subject, which can be defined as the son-subject's liberation from the primal maternal dominion, thanks to the process of identification with the father.Maupassant's six novels mark various stages in this trajectory. The primal novel Une vie establishes the problematics of the maternal dominion. In Bel-Ami can be seen the formation of the matrix of identity, which coincides with the emergence of the son-subject. The two central novels, Mont-Oriol and Pierre et Jean, illustrate the traumatic experience of paternity and filiation; the latter novel shows the relinquishment of narcissistic defense mechanism. Subsequently, in Fort comme la mort, the repressed narcissistic wound can be analysed. With the final novel, Notre coeur, the son-subject achieves the father position, thus escaping the madness associated with the double-bind of the ambivalent mother.
Previous criticism devoted to the works of Guy de Maupassant has focussed on the thematic obsession of paternity and filiation. This thesis sets out to demonstrate that this obsession is also the very principle driving the engenderment of the novel.
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Quesnel, Caroline. "Folie et raison chez Guy de Maupassant; suivi, de Propriété privée." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60556.
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This master's thesis on literary writing consists of two separate parts. The first is a critique which discusses the problem of perceiving madness through reason in a selection of Guy de Maupassant's short stories. An analysis of the dialogue of the characters who represent reason will reveal that there are strong, strategic ties linking madness and reason.This critique is followed by a creative work. The story focuses on a recluse who prefers the company of objects to that of people. He is, however, subjected to frequent visits from his "family of fools".
Books on the topic "1770-1850 Criticism and interpretation"
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McFarland, Thomas. William Wordsworth: Intensity and achievement. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
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1946-, Williams John, ed. Wordsworth. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
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Charles, Gill Stephen, ed. The Cambridge companion to Wordsworth. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Harold, Bloom, ed. William Wordsworth. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2003.
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Galperin, William H. Revision and authority in Wordsworth: The interpretation of a career. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.
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D'ivoire et de marbre: Alexandre et Henri Perregaux, ou, l'Age d'or de l'architecture vaudoise, 1770-1850. Lausanne: Bibliotheque historique vaudoise, 2007.
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Robert, Woof, ed. William Wordsworth: The critical heritage. London: Routledge, 2001.
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Laila, Skjøthaug, and Thorvaldsen Bertel 1770-1844, eds. Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844). Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana, 2010.
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Caraher, Brian. Wordsworth's "slumber" and the problematics of reading. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991.
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R, Johnston Kenneth, and Ruoff Gene W, eds. The age of William Wordsworth: Critical essays on the romantic tradition. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987.
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Bonds, Mark Evan. "Introduction." In The Beethoven Syndrome, 1–18. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190068479.003.0001.
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This introduction outlines the structure of the book’s three parts, which correspond to the prevailing paradigms of expression from the perspective of composers and listeners alike. From about 1770 to 1830 (Part One), this was a paradigm of expressive objectivity, which operated within a framework of rhetoric, a theory of poetics. From around 1830 to around 1920 (Part Two), the prevailing paradigm was one of expressive subjectivity, which operated within a framework of hermeneutics, a theory of interpretation. Instrumental music was at the center of this new mode of listening. Critics continued to perceive vocal music primarily as the projection of a text, but they now began to hear instrumental music as a manifestation of its creator’s unique individuality. Mixed paradigms have coexisted in a state of tension since 1920 (Part Three).