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Cattell, Victoria Fayrer. "Irony and alazony in the English Künstlerroman." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65961.
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Friedlander, Keith. "Born In a Crowd: Subjecthood Across Authorial Modes In the Nineteenth-Century Writer's Market." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35054.
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This dissertation examines representations of authorship and subjecthood in the Romantic period as products of market position and publishing mode. In doing so, it views the traditional concept of Romantic individualism commonly associated with the solitary poet as a strategy developed to help the author navigate a complex writer’s market. Rather than focusing upon individualism as the defining authorial model for this period, however, my project presents it as one example of a diverse range of representational strategies employed by different authors operating from different positions within the market. To this end, this study compares the authorial model of the independent poet with authors engaged in a variety of other modes of publishing, including hack essayists, serialized poets, periodical editors, and celebrity authors.
By examining authors operating across different publishing modes, I demonstrate that each one’s concept of public identity is shaped principally by his or her particular market position, as defined by working relationships with peers, involvement in the particulars of publishing, exchanges with the critical press, and engagement with readers. These authors include William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Charles Lamb, and Francis Jeffrey. By juxtaposing their different models of authorship, this study seeks to bridge the longstanding discourse regarding the social isolation of the Romantic poet with more contemporary streams of scholarship into the material realities of the nineteenth-century publishing industry. Drawing upon the social philosophy of the Frankfurt School and Eric Gans’ theory of Generative Anthropology, I examine how different strategies of representation were developed to preserve personal meaning and sustain public attention. By comparing responses to the rise of the writer’s market and the ubiquity of print culture, this dissertation argues that Romantic period authors demonstrate a distinctly modern understanding of public identity as a product of mediation in mass media culture.
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Perry, Seamus. "Radical differences : divisions in Coleridgean literary thinking; and, The construction of an English romanticism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670268.
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Stone, Heather Brenda. "Companionable forms : writers, readers, sociability, and the circulation of literature in manuscript and print in the Romantic period." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:63f652fc-c4c2-4c3a-bc5c-893d4b922db1.
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Following recent critical work on writers' representations of sociability in Romantic literature, this thesis examines in detail the textual strategies (such as allusion, acts of address, and the use of 'coterie' symbols or references) which writers used to seek to establish a friendly or sympathetic relationship with a particular reader or readers, or to create and define a sense of community identity between readers. The thesis focuses on specific relationships between pairs and groups of writers (who form one another's first readers), and examines 'sociable' genres like letters, manuscript albums, occasional poetry, and periodical essays in a diverse series of author case-studies (Anna Barbauld, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charles Lamb, John Keats and Leigh Hunt). Such genres, the thesis argues, show how manuscript and print culture could frequently overlap and intersect, meaning that writers confronted the demands of two co-existing audiences - one private and familiar, the other public and unknown - in the same work. Rather than arguing that writers used manuscript culture practices and produced 'coterie' works purely to avoid confronting their anxieties about publishing in the commercial sphere of print culture, the thesis suggests that in producing such 'coterie' works writers engaged with and reflected contemporary philosophical and political concerns about the relationship between the individual and wider communities. In these works, writers engaged with the legacy of eighteenth-century philosophical ideas about the role (and limitations) of the sympathetic imagination in maintaining social communities, and with interpretative theories about the best kind of reader. Furthermore, the thesis argues that reading literary texts in the specific, material context in which they are 'published' to particular readers, either in print, manuscript, or letters, is vital to understanding writer/reader relationships in the Romantic period. This approach reveals how within each publication space, individual texts could be placed (either by their writers, by editors, or by other readers) in meaningful relationships with other texts, absorbing or appropriating them into new interpretative contexts.
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Lundy, Lisa Kirkpatrick. "Reverberating Reflections of Whitman: A Dark Romantic Revealed." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279061/.
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Walt Whitman has long been celebrated as a Romantic writer who celebrates the self, reveres Nature, claims unity in all things, and sings praises to humanity. However, some of what Whitman has to say has been overlooked. Whitman often questioned the goodness of humanity. He recognized evil in various shapes. He pondered death and the imperturbability of Nature to human death. He exhibited nightmarish imagery in some of his works and gory violence in others. While Whitman has long been called a celebratory poet, he is nevertheless also in part a writer of the Dark Romantic.
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Reilly, Olivia. "An epicure in sound : Samuel Taylor Coleridge and music." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.719835.
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Louw, Denise Elizabeth Laurence. "A literary study of paranormal experience in Tennyson's poetry." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002292.
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My thesis is that many of Tennyson's apparently paranormal experiences are explicable in terms of temporal lobe epilepsy; and that a study of the occurrence, in the work of art, of phenomena associated with these experiences, may be useful in elucidating the workings of the aesthetic imagination. A body of knowledge relevant to paranormal experience in Tennyson's life and work, assembled from both literary and biographical sources, is applied to a Subjective Paranormal Experience Questionnaire, compiled by Professor V.M. Neppe, in order to establish the range of the poet's apparently "psychic" experiences. The information is then analysed in terms of the symptomatology of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), and the problems of differential diagnosis are considered. It is shown, by means of close and comparative analyses of a number of poems, that recurring clusters of images in Tennyson's poetry may have their genesis in TLE. These images are investigated in terms of modern research into altered states of consciousness. They are found to be consistent with a "model" of the three stages of trance experience constructed by Professor A.D. Lewis-Williams to account for shamanistic rock art in the San, Coso and Upper Paleolithic contexts. My study of the relevant phenomena in the work of a nineteenth century English poet would seem to offer cross-cultural verification of the applicability of the model to a range of altered-state contexts. This study goes on to investigate some of the psychological processes which may influence the way in which pathology is manifested in the poetry of Alfred Tennyson. But, throughout the investigation, the possible effects of literary precursors and of other art forms are acknowledged. The subjective paranormal phenomena in Tennyson's poems are compared not only with some modern neuropsychiatric cases, but also with those of several nineteenth-century writers who seem to have had similar experiences . These include Dostoevsky and Edward Lear, who are known to have been epileptics, and Edgar Allan Poe. Similarity between some aspects of Tennyson's work and that of various Romantic poets, notably Shelley, is stressed; and it is tentatively suggested that it might be possible to extrapolate from my findings in this study to a more general theory of the "Romantic" imagination.
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Tucker, Nicholas John Cuthbert. "In search of the romantic Christ : the origins of Edward Irving's theology of incarnation." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27283.
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This thesis reassesses the evidence surrounding Edward Irving’s controversial teaching about the doctrine of the incarnation. Irving was a controversial figure in his own day and his legacy has been contested ever since he was dismissed from the ministry of the Church of Scotland for teaching that Christ had a ‘fallen’ human nature. This thesis re-examines the emergence and significance of Irving’s teaching. It evaluates the scholarly consensus that his distinctive Christology was a stable feature of his thought and argues the case that his thinking in this area did change significantly. Methodologically, this thesis draws on some aspects of Quentin Skinner’s work in the importance of context (Chapter Two) to understand Irving as he really was, rather than in terms of his later significance. In the light of this, Irving’s biography is examined in Chapter Three, before moving into a discussion of the influential part played by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Irving’s intellectual development (Chapter Four). The second half of the thesis then moves on to consider the development of Irving’s Christology and the questions surrounding its provenance and development (Chapters Five and Six). Finally, in Chapter Seven, possible sources of explanation for Irving’s distinctive ideas about the Incarnation are exhibited and assessed. The argument of this thesis is that Edward Irving developed an account of the Incarnation that was essentially novel, in response to the Romantic ideas that he had derived from Coleridge. In accordance with Coleridge’s assessment, it is argued that this derivation was rendered more complex by Irving’s incomplete apprehension of Coleridge’s underlying philosophy. Nonetheless, it is argued that Edward Irving’s teaching presented a Romantic version of Christ, and that this distinctive conception owes more to the times in which Irving lived than to the theological tradition to which he claimed adherence.
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Baril, Joselle. "Quatre poètes au jardin des Oliviers." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79822.
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In the course of the romantic movement, the vision of the poetic ministry has been expressed by several poets through the figure of Jesus at the Mount of Olives. While Lamartine appropriates the suffering of Christ in order to proclaim himself to be a poet-prophet, Vigny refuses the silence of God. He, thus, accomplishes his poetic mission against God. Whereas Hugo does not take into consideration the meaning of Jesus' agony in order to make the Gethsemane a place of glory, Nerval rejects the notion of a Christlike mission. Hence, by putting into words the death of God, he foretells what Hugo Friedrich will later call an "empty transcendence", which is the very sign of modern poetics. Romanticism carried within itself the signs of the end of transcendence of poetics. Therefore, we will analyse the transition of romanticism to modernity in these four poems1 through the representation of Jesus Christ at Gethsemane.<br>1"Gethsemani ou la mort de Julia" d'Alphonse de Lamartine, "Le Mont des Oliviers" d'Alfred de Vigny, un extrait (strophes VI, VII et VIII du Chapitre intitule Jesus-Christ) de La Fin de Satan de Victor Hugo et "Le Jardin des Oliviers" de Gerard de Nerval.
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FIACCADORI, CHIARA. "FRANCESCO SCARAMUZZA (SISSA, 1803 - PARMA, 1886)." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/10488.
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Il presente studio si propone di ricostruire, in una dimensione monografica, la figura di Francesco Scaramuzza, personalità artistica prolifica che ha determinato nella prima metà dell’Ottocento il nuovo corso della pittura parmense. Interprete e portatore di un Romanticismo atipico, fu debitore, a suo modo, tanto della lezione dei Nazareni quanto, più tardi, della svolta lombarda verso i temi contemporanei, senza mai trascurare l’amata impronta correggesca. L’artista attraversa tre distinti momenti di committenza, dal governo restaurato di Maria Luigia d’Asburgo, dopo la parentesi napoleonica, all’infelice intervallo borbonico, presto sfociato nell’annessione al regno Sardo di Vittorio Emanuele II. Sotto la sovrana austriaca giunge all’apice della carriera, subendo, però, una battuta d’arresto con i Borbone a causa delle sue note simpatie libertarie. Trova una conferma nel nuovo governo unitario, il quale gli affida il compito di illustrare la Divina Commedia, la sua opera più nota e più riuscita, che segnerà, dopo diciassette anni di strenuo lavoro, il punto di arrivo della sua carriera d’artista.<br>This study aims to reconstruct, in a monographic dimension, the profile of Francesco Scaramuzza, a prolific artist who determined the new course of painting in Parma in the first half of the 19th century. Interpreter and bearer of an atypical Romanticism, in his artistic development he was inspired by the lessons of the Nazarenes as much as by the Lombard interest in contemporary subjects, without neglecting the beloved imprint of Correggio’s style. Throughout his career he went through three different patronages, from the restored regime of Marie Louise of Hapsburg, after the Napoleonic period, to the unhappy Bourbon interlude, ended quickly with the annexation to the reign of Vittorio Emanuele II. Under the Austrian sovereign he reached the peak of his career, suffering, however, a setback under the Bourbon government because of his well-known libertarian sympathies. His value was recognized eventually by the establishment of the united Italy, who entrusted him to illustrate the Divine Comedy, his most famous and successful work, which will mark, after seventeen years of strenuous work, the conclusion of his career as an artist.
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Ghosh, Hrileena. "John Keats's medical notebook and the poet's career : an editorial, critical and biographical reassessment." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8247.
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This thesis explores the significance of John Keats's medical Notebook, and his time at Guy's Hospital (October 1815 – March 1817), for the poet's career. As a primary contribution, it offers a new transcription of Keats's medical Notebook (Appendix 1). The transcription reproduces Keats's text and indicates the layout of his notes, but is neither a facsimile, nor a new edition: the visual form of Keats's notes is not reproduced, nor do I offer critical annotations; commentary follows in subsequent chapters. The achievements, limitations and influence of the only edition of Keats's medical Notebook — Maurice Buxton Forman's from 1934 — are the subject of the first chapter, which also considers accounts of Keats's medical career in Keats biography and criticism. Chapter two focuses on the poems Keats wrote while at Guy's to show that the two aspects of his life — medicine and poetry — were mutually influential. Chapter three considers Keats's medical notes in comparison to a fellow-student's, indicating how some characteristics of Keats's note-taking prefigure aspects of his mature poetry. Chapter four finds Endymion suffused with medical knowledge and imagery, and argues that this was a vital aspect of the poem's depiction of passion. Chapter five suggests that the publication of Keats's 1820 volume was greatly influenced by questions of health, medicine, and disease; concerns reflected by the poems in it, which also reveal the extent of Keats's continued awareness of, and interest in, contemporary medical thought. In sum, the thesis argues that the origins of Keats's poetic achievement can be traced in his medical Notebook and ‘hospital' poems, and that the ability to infuse his poetry with medical knowledge was a vital component of Keats's poetic power and achievement.
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Tooley, W. Andrew. "Reinventing redemption : the Methodist doctrine of atonement in Britain and America in the 'long nineteenth century'." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20230.
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This thesis examines the controversy surrounding the doctrine of atonement among transatlantic Methodist during the Victorian and Progressive Eras. Beginning in the eighteenth century, it establishes the dominant theories of the atonement present among English and American Methodists and the cultural-philosophical worldview Methodists used to support these theories. It then explores the extent to which ordinary and influential Methodists throughout the nineteenth century carried forward traditional opinions on the doctrine before examining in closer detail the controversies surrounding the doctrine at the opening of the twentieth century. It finds that from the 1750s to the 1830s transatlantic Methodists supported a range of substitutionary views of the atonement, from the satisfaction and Christus Victor theories to a vicarious atonement with penal emphases. Beginning in the 1830s and continuing through the 1870s, transatlantic Methodists embraced features of the moral government theory, with varying degrees, while retaining an emphasis on traditional substitutionary theories. Methodists during this period were indebted to an Enlightenment worldview. Between 1880 and 1914 transatlantic Methodists gradually accepted a Romantic philosophical outlook with the result that they began altering their conceptions of the atonement. Methodists during this period tended to move in three directions. Progressive Methodists jettisoned prevailing views of the atonement preferring to embrace the moral influence theory. Mediating Methodists challenged traditionally constructed theories for similar reasons but tended to support a theory in which God was viewed as a friendlier deity while retaining substitutionary conceptions of the atonement. Conservatives took a custodial approach whereby traditional conceptions of the atonement were vehemently defended. Furthermore, that transatlantic Methodists were involved in significant discussions surrounding the revision of their theology of atonement in light of modernism in the years surrounding 1900 contributed to their remaining on the periphery of the Fundamentalist-Modernist in subsequent decades.
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White, Jonathan Paul. "The symphonies of Charles Villiers Stanford : constructing a national identity?" Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6d16fac7-bb70-4ba9-bf0e-17c0a9f26ce5.
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Writing in 2001, musicologist Axel Klein concluded that Stanford’s reception history has been significantly impacted by the complicated national identities surrounding both the composer and his music. A lifelong devotee of the nineteenth-century Austro-Germanic tradition, Stanford’s status as an Irish-born leading figure of the ‘English’ Musical Renaissance has compromised the place that the composer and his musical output occupy within the history of Western music. Stanford is well-known for being an outspoken critic on matters musical and Irish. Although his views seldom appear ambiguous, there is still a sense that the real Stanford remains partially obscured by his opinions. Through an examination of his symphonic works, this thesis seeks to readdress our understanding of Stanford and his relationship with Ireland and the musical community of his time. Although A. Peter Brown has stated that the symphony was not a central genre for the composer, it is my argument that, on the contrary, the symphony was a pivotal form for him. Considering these works within the broader history of the symphony in Europe in the nineteenth century, and through a critical examination of Stanford’s relationship with Ireland, this thesis seeks to demonstrate that these seven works can be read as an allegory for the composer’s relationship both with his homeland and with the musical community of his time. His struggle to combine the universality of symphonic expression with a need to articulate his Irish identity parallels Stanford’s own attempts to integrate himself within both British and European musical communities, and further demonstrates, in his eventual rejection of it, that it was only when he attempted to forge a more individualistic path through his music that he found a way of expressing his individual Irish identity.
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Hicks, Mary G. (Mary Geraldine). "Abraham Lincoln and the American Romantic Writers: Embodiment and Perpetuation of an Ideal." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500550/.
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The American Romantic writers laid a broad foundation for the historic and heroic Abraham Lincoln who has evolved as our national myth. The writers were attracted to Lincoln by his eloquent expression of the body of ideals and beliefs they shared with him, especially the ideal of individual liberty and the belief that achievement of the ideal would bring about an amelioration of the human condition. The time, place and conditions in which they lived enhanced the attraction, and Lincoln's able leadership during the Civil War strengthened their estimation of him. His martyrdom was the catalyst which enabled the Romantic writers to lay the foundation of the Lincoln myth which has made his name synonymous with individual freedom everywhere even today.
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Williams, Seán M. "Pretexts for writing : German prefaces around 1800." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ad5fc311-3e1e-4671-a7cd-d68dbb9510ad.
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Throughout history, there have been playful prefaces to literature (or in classical oratory, before display pieces). But German examples written by authors around 1800 to their own works, together with contemporary, self-authored prefaces to speculative philosophy, constitute a peculiarly paradoxical text type. Once literature was conceived as an autonomous domain rather than as a branch of general learning; as a popular book market took hold; and once systematic philosophy competed with literature’s broad acclaim as well as intellectual independence, the preface became not only a pragmatic, but also a creative and conceptual problem. Hence the preface became complicated as a form, in a broadly Romantic tradition of thought in which every act of genuine reflection was understood to expose epistemological contradiction. After my general, theoretical Preface and my comparative, historical Introduction, I focus on three preface paradoxes and three case studies of remarkably complex textuality: on Goethe, Jean Paul and Hegel. Most notable among their prefatory texts are the prefaces to Werther (1774), to a fictive second edition of Quintus Fixlein (1797) and to Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807). This trajectory is a story that begins with literary creativity and moves towards greater philosophical intricacy. The significance of my study is threefold. First and foremost, considering prefaces in this period of German literature and philosophy complements and augments the negative, subjective Early German Romantic idea of irony, Romantic textual fragmentation, as well as Jean Paul’s and Hegel’s literary and philosophically informed attempts to render both concepts and their manifestation on the page more positive and objective. Fragments are conventionally conceived as additive pieces, fortifying or undermining works. This conception can hold true for prefaces, including those by Goethe, Jean Paul and Hegel. At the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, though, a number of writers of fragments argued that their works should be understood as wholes. Precisely some prefaces by Goethe, Jean Paul and Hegel can be read so paradoxically: as unifying, wholesome (in a Sentimental sense) and systematic fragments respectively. Second and third, I show the wider importance of the German preface at the turn of the nineteenth century. Authors around 1800 not only displayed, but discovered and debated a prefatory paradoxicality that we encounter in post-Romantic, post-Structuralist and post-modern literature, theory and philosophy, too. Moreover, I demonstrate the ways in which prefaces by particularly Jean Paul and Hegel influenced especially Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Derrida.
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Kennerley, David Thomas. "'Flippant dolls' and 'serious artists' : professional female singers in Britain, c.1760-1850." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:abea8ab2-2c48-46bb-b983-626a7b8d12b8.
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Existing accounts of the music profession argue that between 1750 and 1850 musicians acquired a new identity as professional ‘artists’ and experienced a concomitant rise in their social and cultural status. In the absence of sustained investigation, it has often been implied that these changes affected male and female musicians in similar ways. As this thesis contends, this was by no means the case. Arguments in support of female musical professionalism, artistry, and their function in public life were made in this period. Based on the gender-specific nature of the female voice, they were an important defence of women’s public engagement that has been overlooked by gender historians, something which this thesis sets out to correct. However, the public role and professionalism of female musicians were in opposition to the prevailing valorisation of female domesticity and privacy. Furthermore, the notion of women as creative artists was highly unstable in an era which tended to label artistry, ‘genius’ and creativity as male attributes. For these reasons, the idea of female musicians as professional artists was always in tension with contemporary conceptions of gender, making women’s experience of the ‘rise of the artist’ much more contested and uncertain compared to that of men. Those advocating the female singer as professional artist were a minority in the British musical world. Their views co-existed alongside very different and much more prevalent approaches to the female singer which had little to do with the idea of the professional artist. Through examining debates about female singers in printed sources, particularly newspapers and periodicals, alongside case studies based on the surviving documents of specific singers, this thesis builds a picture of increasing diversity in the experiences and representations of female musicians in this period and underlines the controlling influence of gender in shaping responses to them.
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Grovier, Kelly. "Walking Stewart & the making of Romantic imagination." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670203.
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Manuel, Daniel. "Les correspondants français de Canova (1785-1822) : contribution à une histoire sociale et matérielle du goût au tournant du XIXe siècle." Thesis, Brest, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BRES0104.
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Le sujet inédit de la thèse repose sur un fonds d’archives. Il questionne la réception du sculpteur néoclassique italien Antonio Canova (1757-1822) dans les cercles et salons mondains à travers la correspondance de personnalités françaises aux profils multiples, du Consulat, de l’Empire et de la Restauration. Au gré des lettres, se dessine l'image d’un artiste aux prises avec des intérêts économiques, artistiques et sentimentaux. La séduction opère auprès des Napoléonides lui assurant protection et commandes ; elle gagne aussi les représentants du pouvoir à Rome et les salonnières pris au jeu de la délicatesse et du charme des compositions de l’Italien. La recommandation apparaît comme un mode de communication privilégié entre artistes et reflète la vitalité de ce type de lettre ainsi que la diversité des réseaux. La correspondance met en évidence le changement de statut de l’artiste qui adapte sa célébrité aux exigences de ses commanditaires en devenant un véritable homme d’affaires. Partagé entre désir d’émancipation et fidélité aux choix esthétiques de son mentor Quatremère de Quincy, Canova livre une production polymorphe qui le fait apprécier de la critique et du public qui cherche à voir en lui l’héritier moderne des sculpteurs grecs : mais ses rares présences et expositions à Paris limitent son impact. L’influence du premier romantisme dans la peinture néoclassique imprègne la production canovienne lui conférant son originalité. L’étude des missives fait surgir des questionnements historiques, matériels et esthétiques dont les épistoliers de Canova sont les témoins<br>The novel subject of this thesis is based upon archive material. It is centered on how the work of Italian neo-classical sculptor Antonio Canova was received in the most glamorous clubs and salons, through the study of letters exchanged by French celebrities from different walks of life during upon the periods of the Consulate, the Empire and the Restauration. Letter after letter, the image of an artist confronted with économie, artistic and sentimental challenges emerges. He succeeds in winning over the Napoleonides who grant him their patronage and their protection. He also gains the support of government représentatives in Rome and of fashionable women who are enraptured by the charm and the refinement of the Italian sculptor’s compositions. Référencés appear as a privileged form of exchange between artists, and reflect the vitality of this type of letter, and the variety of networks.Correspondence demonstrates the changing status of the artist who adjusts his réputation to the demands of his patron, thus becoming a true businessman. Torn between his longing forfreedom and his commitment to the artistic leanings of his mentor Quatremère de Quincy, Canova's production has many facets, which endear him to critics and to the public who wishes to see him as the modem heir of Greek sculptors. Yet as he rarely visits Paris and his work is rarely exhibited there, his impact is limited. The influence of early romanticism on ne classical painting permeates Canova’s works, and is a tribute to his originality. Studying these letters brings to light historical, material and esthetic questions that their authors bear witness to
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Harris, Eleanor M. "The Episcopal congregation of Charlotte Chapel, Edinburgh, 1794-1818." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/19991.
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This thesis reassesses the nature and importance of the Scottish Episcopal Church in Edinburgh and more widely. Based on a microstudy of one chapel community over a twenty-four year period, it addresses a series of questions of religion, identity, gender, culture and civic society in late Enlightenment Edinburgh, Scotland, and Britain, combining ecclesiastical, social and economic history. The study examines the congregation of Charlotte Episcopal Chapel, Rose Street, Edinburgh, from its foundation by English clergyman Daniel Sandford in 1794 to its move to the new Gothic chapel of St John's in 1818. Initially an independent chapel, Daniel Sandford's congregation joined the Scottish Episcopal Church in 1805 and the following year he was made Bishop of Edinburgh, although he contined to combine this role with that of rector to the chapel until his death in 1830. Methodologically, the thesis combines a detailed reassessment of Daniel Sandford's thought and ministry (Chapter Two) with a prosopographical study of 431 individuals connected with the congregation as officials or in the in the chapel registers (Chapter Three). Biography of the leader and prosopography of the community are brought to illuminate and enrich one another to understand the wealth and business networks of the congregation (Chapter Four) and their attitudes to politics, piety and gender (Chapter Five). The thesis argues that Daniel Sandford's Evangelical Episcopalianism was both original in Scotland, and one of the most successful in appealing to educated and influential members of Edinburgh society. The congregation, drawn largely from the newly-built West End of Edinburgh, were bourgeois and British in their composition. The core membership of privileged Scots, rooted in land and law, led, but were also challenged by and forced to adapt to a broad social spread who brought new wealth and influence into the West End through India and the consumer boom. The discussion opens up many avenues for further research including the connections between Scottish Episcopalianism and romanticism, the importance of India and social mobility within the consumer economy in the development of Edinburgh, and Scottish female intellectual culture and its engagement with religion and enlightenment. Understanding the role of enlightened, evangelical Episcopalianism, which is the contribution of this study, will form an important context for these enquiries.
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Brahamcha-Marin, Jordi. "La réception critique de la poésie de Victor Hugo en France (1914-1944)." Thesis, Le Mans, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LEMA3006/document.
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Cette thèse étudie la réception critique de la poésie de Hugo en France entre 1914 et 1944. Elle se fonde sur une conception large et englobante de la « réception critique ». Ainsi, elle envisage la manière dont l’œuvre poétique hugolienne est reproduite et diffusée (dans des éditions savantes, des éditions populaires bon marché, des livres de luxe, des manuels scolaires, des anthologies…) ou fait l’objet d’adaptations (mises en musique, parodies et pastiches) ainsi que les discours tenus sur la poésie de Hugo, que ceux-ci émanent d’universitaires, d’écrivains et intellectuels, de journalistes, de militants, d’hommes politiques, etc. En mobilisant un corpus riche et varié, en confrontant des démarches critiques provenant de champs très différents, notre travail fait apparaître quelques problématiques récurrentes.Celles-ci sont notamment relatives au statut de Hugo comme auteur patrimonial, à la centralité de la poésie dans son œuvre (et en particulier à la centralité des trois grands recueils de l’exil, Les Châtiments, Les Contemplations, La Légende des siècles), aux lectures et aux appropriations politiques auxquelles cette poésie donne lieu, à la manière de situer Hugo dans l’histoire de la poésie française (selon les cas, aux côtés de Lamartine et Musset ou aux côtés de Baudelaire, Rimbaud et Mallarmé). Au-delà du seul cas Hugo, notre travail jette aussi quelques éclairages sur la place de la poésie dans l’imaginaire du premier XXe siècle et sur la manière dont cette période se définit par rapport à un double héritage poétique, « romantique » et « moderne »<br>This dissertation studies the critical reception of the poetry of Victor Hugo in France over the period 1914-1944. Relying on an inclusive conception of “critical reception”, it considers the way in which Hugo’s poetic work was reproduced and circulated (in scholarly editions and cheap popular editions, in luxury books and school textbooks, in poem collections...) or adapted (turned into parody or pastiche and set to music by various composers). It also looks at the many discourses that were held on Hugo’s poetry, whether by academics, professional writers and intellectuals, journalists, political men and activists, etc. Drawing on an extensive corpus and a wide range of sources, confronting methodological approaches borrowed from different study fields, our work helps to throw light on Hugo’s importance as an integral part of French cultural heritage; on the centrality of poetry (especially of the three major collections published while Hugo was in exile, Les Châtiments, Les Contemplations, La Légende des siècles) within his work; on the political readings and the political uses that were made of Hugo’s poetry; on the competing ways of categorising Hugo’s work within French poetry and among French poets, as a Romantic akin to Lamartine and Musset or as a modernist equated with Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Mallarmé. Beyond the sole case of Hugo, our dissertation also sheds light on the importance of poetry in the imagination of the early 20th century, and on the way in which the literature of the period sought to define itself in relation to a two-fold poetic legacy, that of romanticism and that of modernism
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DeLouche, Sean. "Face Value: The Reproducible Portrait in France, 1830-1848." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405798734.
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Guest, Bertrand. "Écritures révolutionnaires de la nature au XIXème siècle : géographie et liberté dans les essais sur le cosmos d'Alexander von Humboldt, Henry David Thoreau et Elisée Reclus." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013BOR30058.
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Comment s’articulent, autour des rapports entre l’homme et la nature, les pratiques scientifiques du naturaliste et du géographe, une pensée politique s’étendant du libéralisme à l’anarchisme et un style d’écrivain ? C’est la question que posent, singulièrement à la forme de l’essai, les œuvres d’Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), de Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) et d’Élisée Reclus (1830-1905). Dans un large XIXème siècle à envisager comme période révolutionnaire marquée par l’effacement des terræ incognitæ, le recul de la nature « sauvage » et les soubresauts économiques et politiques (Révolution Industrielle et révolutions politiques faisant se succéder les régimes), ces figures qu’il faut relire comme d’authentiques écrivains allient au sein d’une politique de la nature la géographie de la Terre à celle de l’Homme, et leurs expériences personnelles de la nature (du voyage d’exploration à l’habitat) à une pensée de la communauté allant et venant de l’individu à l’humanité, du micro- au macrocosme. Héritiers des Lumières luttant contre l’esclavage, le despotisme et le colonialisme, qu’ils documentent, ces essayistes qui refusent de laisser la science aux mains d’une caste positiviste et ethnocentriste sont les vulgarisateurs et les prophètes d’une démocratie littéraire en construction. Ils sont les pionniers d’une exploration moderne des rapports entre écriture et connaissance, les témoins essentiels d’une différenciation des savoirs que leur pratique littéraire universaliste entend conjurer. Tout l’enjeu consiste à perpétuer une approche de la nature comme un ensemble (cosmos) au moment même où elle se trouve, en tant qu’objet, divisée entre création littéraire et savoir savant. A l’aube de l’écologie littéraire et dans cette description d’un monde où chaque chose dépend de chacune des autres, la pratique de l’essayiste semble être la seule à pouvoir porter ce discours complexe, à la fois politique, scientifique et littéraire<br>How can the naturalist’s and the geographer’s scientific enquiries, a political thought ranging from liberalism to anarchism, and a writer’s style all revolve around the relationship between Man and Nature ? Such is a question raised —especially with regards to the Essay genre— by the works of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) and Élisée Reclus (1830-1905). Within the bounds of a longer 19th century, which can be seen as an age of revolutions marked by the fading off of terræ incognitæ, the dwindling of the Wilderness, and a series of economical and political fits (Industrial and Political revolutions triggering the succession of strings of regimes), it appears critical to reconsider these names as those of genuine authors. From the heart of a politics of nature, they bind together the geographies of Man and the Earth, and their personal experience of Nature (as explored or inhabited) with a thought of community ceaselessly shifting from the Individual to the Human Kind, from the Microcosm to the Macrocosm. These Essay writers are the heirs of the Enlightenment in their struggle against slavery, despotism and colonialism (which they document); they object to leaving science in the hand of a positivistic, ethnocentric caste —they are the authors of popular sciences and the prophets of a literary democracy in the making. They are the pioneers of a modern exploration of the relationship between writing and knowledge, the crucial witnesses of a gradual differentiation of sciences that their universalistic literary paradigm sets out to avert. The ultimate point is to carry on approaching Nature as a whole (cosmos) in an era bringing about its division, as an object, into two separate categories of literary creation and scholarly knowledge. In the dawning light of literary ecology, and in this world description in which all things depend on all things, the work of the Essay-writer seems to be the only one able to voice this complex speech, made of politics, science and literature all together
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Ashby, Charlotte. "Words and deeds : national style versus modernity in Finnish architecture 1890-1916 : the writings and work of Vilho Penttilä and the architecture of financial institutions." Thesis, St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/318.
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Crochu, Mariette. "L’Atelier du lied romantique : poétique de la ballade de la Goethezeit." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020REN20022.
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Lorsque l’on se penche sur les poèmes appelés ballades, objets d’une furieuse vogue dans le monde germanique depuis le Sturm und Drang, on se heurte partout à l’absence d’accord sur ce qui fait leur spécificité. C’est en partie dans cet espace poético-musical protéiforme qu’est forgé le lied romantique. Franz Schubert (1797-1828) passe ses premières années de compositeur à mettre en musique de longues ballades, et y revient jusqu’à la fin de sa vie ; Carl Loewe (1796-1869) passe maître de cet art. La ductilité du genre, sa résistance aux tentatives de définition sur le double terrain des lettres et de la musique (Sulzer 1771-1774, Koch 1802, Hegel 1818-1830, Häuser 1833…) mettent en péril sa propre pérennité, mais font aussi de lui un extraordinaire terrain d’expérimentation pour la lyrique musicale en effervescence. Il entre en résonance avec bien des enjeux de la musique du XIXe siècle, parmi lesquels la pratique orale des interprètes, récitants et chanteurs, la question de la narration musicale, et les passerelles entre musique de salon et scène lyrique, entre domaine vocal et domaine instrumental. Cette thèse souhaite contribuer à éclairer le devenir du Kunstlied à travers le prisme d’un de ses lieux privilégiés d’élaboration. Avec la ballade, cet étrange hybride de récit sans conteur identifiable, de drame sans scène et de musique, les dimensions du traditionnel Lied germanique s’élargissent jusqu’à l’émergence du Kunstlied ; mieux, elle fait d’entrée de jeu éclater l’unité émotionnelle de ce dernier. Notre recherche retrace ce parcours imprévisible et les questions qu’il soulève, pour mieux comprendre, non pas l’objet abouti que serait « le lied romantique », mais plutôt le passionnant travail de création artistique, le progressif modelage d’un objet musical, entre-deux des genres, dans ses multiples formes au fil du temps<br>When we look at the poems called ballads, which have been furiously popular in the Germanic world since the Sturm und Drang, we encounter a general lack of agreement on their specificity. The Romantic Lied was partly forged in this multifaceted poetic-musical space. Franz Schubert (1797-1828) spent his early composing years setting long ballads to music, and was to return to do so until the end of his life; Carl Loewe (1796-1869) became a master of this art. The ductility of the genre and its resistance to all attempts at defining it in the two fields of literature and music (Sulzer 1771-1774, Koch 1802, Hegel 1818-1830, Häuser 1833…) jeopardize its own durability, but also make it an extraordinary experimental field for the vibrant musical lyricism. It is in tune with many of the issues at stake in 19th-century music, including the vocal practice of performers, reciters and singers, the issue of musical narration, and the connections between salon music and lyric stage performance, between the vocal and instrumental realms. This dissertation attempts to shed light on the becoming of Kunstlied through the prism of one of its key development settings. The ballad, a strange hybrid of storytelling without an identifiable storyteller, of music and stageless drama, broadens the dimensions of the traditional German Lied until the emergence of Kunstlied; better still, it shatters the emotional unity of the latter from the outset. Our research retraces this unpredictable process and the questions it raises, in order to better understand not the accomplished object that would be “the romantic Lied”, but rather the exciting work of artistic creation, the progressive modelling of a musical object, between the genres, in its multiple expressions over time
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Mirensky, Shaul. "L'approche spatio-polyphonique dans les interprétations des pianistes de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle et la première moitié du XXe siècle." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM3061/document.
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Le but de ce travail est d'étudier l'art d'interpréter de plusieurs générations de pianistes dont la formation remonte au XIXe siècle, mais dont l'activité s'est étendue jusqu'à la 1re moitié du XXe siècle. L'essor de l'interprétation qui marqua cette époque a prodigué des artistes qui - à la suite de leurs grands maîtres (Chopin, Liszt, A. Rubinstein) - ont déjà laissé un nombre considérable d'enregistrements permettant de saisir à travers leur jeu une image authentique de l’œuvre romantique. En nous référant à l'idée que l'essor du pianisme à la charnière des XIXe - XXe siècles provient de l'expansion remarquable de l'art d'interpréter au XIXe siècle, nous avançons l'hypothèse selon laquelle c'est précisément dans les positions esthétiques et dans la vision du monde propre à cette époque qu'il faut chercher les sources d'un tel essor. Parmi les caractéristiques importantes de la manière d'interpréter des pianistes de la 2e moitié du XIXe siècle, entrent d'abord en jeu la faculté de penser imagée, la liberté et une manière d'improviser en modifiant les textes des œuvres exécutées. Ces données se combinent d'ailleurs avec d'autres, comme l'intellectualisme. Les analyses de certaines particularités de style, des manières de jouer, typiques du XIXe siècle (comme le rubato, le « pointillisme etc.), nous révèlent ainsi ce que fut la réelle pensée polyphonique du Romantisme. Il ne s'agit pas de la seule écriture polyphonique, mais d'un principe polyphonique au sens plus large, s'exprimant à travers le style d'interpréter qui, à son tour, définit la perception spatio-temporelle spécifique de ces quelques décennies<br>The aim of this work is to study the performing art of several generations of pianists who were trained in the 19th Century but who extended their artistic activity throught the 1st half of the 20th Century. The rise of the art of interpretation which marked this period gave the artistes who - following their great masters - have left a considerable number of records where their plaiyng conjures up an image of the romantic composition that may be more authentic, though it is quite different from that of today.Based on the idea that the rise of the pianism at the turn of the 20th Century comes largely from the remarkable expansion of the 19th Century performing arts, we hypothesize that it is precisely in the aesthetic positions and the vision of the world inherent in the Romantic era that we should look for the sources of such a rise. Chief among the important features of the style of interpretation of the pianists of the 2nd half of the 19th Century, was their creative thinking, but also the surprising freedom they enjoyed to improvise and modify compositions. Other features include the intellectualism of their approach to the performed composition. Analyses of certain peculiarities of style, of the ways of playing typical of the 19th Century (such as rubato, the « pointillism » etc.) reveal the real polyphonic thougth of the Romantic era. This is not only the polyphonic writing itself, but a polyphonic principle in a broader sense, manifesting itself through the style of interpretation which, in turn, defines the specific spatio-temporal perception of these several decades
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Berkery, Charlotte. "Imaginaire et poésie nocturnes de Paris : la nuit parisienne dans les productions culturelles de la monarchie de juillet." Thesis, Université de Paris (2019-....), 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UNIP7085.
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La nuit parisienne du XIXe siècle constitue un ensemble de « scènes » parsemant les romans, la littérature panoramique, et les dessins de presse de l’époque. Dans des ouvrages canoniques, aussi bien que dans des documents peu exploités, chez des auteurs peu connus, se dégagent les mentalités noctambules ancrées dans la monarchie de Juillet. Les graveurs et caricaturistes, les romanciers et chroniqueurs ont été tout autant témoins qu’acteurs des nuits de la capitale. De la foule des boulevards au noctambule solitaire en « quête de soi », en passant par les figures types du chiffonnier, de la prostituée, du malfaiteur, c’est l’imaginaire et la poétique de la ville nocturne qui seront analysés dans cette thèse et qui s’avéreront partagés entre un romantisme qui profite du cadre nocturne pour évoquer la fantasmagorie et un réalisme qui se focalise sur la dimension sociale<br>The nineteenth-century Paris night is summed up in a repertoire of « scenes » inscribed in novels, panoramic literature and newspaper images. The nocturnal mindset associated with the period of the July Monarchy in particular is revealed in these canonical texts, as well as little- consulted documents, penned by relatively obscure authors. Engravers and caricaturists, novelists and commentators all served as witnesses of, as well as participants in, the nocturnal capital. This thesis examines the imaginary and the poetics surrounding the nocturnal city, from depictions of the crowds thronging the boulevards to the evocations of the solitary noctambule on a voyage of self- discovery. Also scrutinised are the social types of the chiffonnier, the prostitute and the criminal. The poetics of this urban and nocturnal imaginary is located in between a Romanticism of nocturnal impressionism and fantasmagoria, and conversely a realism that highlights the social structures of the night
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Jeannerod, Aude. "La critique d'art de Joris-Karl Huysmans. Esthétique, poétique, idéologie." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO30064.
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Étudier la critique d’art de Joris-Karl Huysmans soulève des enjeux esthétiques, poétiques et idéologiques. Si elle constitue un genre à part entière, que l’auteur a pratiqué en tant que tel, la critique d’art entretient des relations de complémentarité et d’interférence avec le reste de l’œuvre. S’y élabore en effet une esthétique, qui à son tour définit une poétique : parce que le critique est également écrivain, la réflexion qu’il mène au sujet des arts plastiques – peinture, sculpture, architecture – se développe parallèlement à sa pratique d’écriture. Ses options critiques reposent sur une analogie entre les arts, s’inscrivant en cela dans une longue tradition, qui va de l’ut pictura poesis horatien aux correspondances baudelairiennes, en passant par le paragone de la Renaissance. Aussi regarde-t-il l’art en tant qu’écrivain, y cherchant tantôt la confirmation de ses idées sur la littérature, tantôt un modèle d’écriture. Mais parce que la critique engage des valeurs et des convictions, elle se fait aussi la chambre d’écho des options idéologiques de son auteur, aux plans socio-économique, politique et épistémique. Huysmans regarde l’art à travers une idéologie qui se décline en un certain nombre de valeurs et de contre-valeurs : héritier d’un siècle de romantisme, il entretient un rapport douloureux avec son temps, en délicatesse avec la pensée de son époque. Cette idéologie – à la fois anticapitaliste, antibourgeoise et antimoderne – filtre donc le regard qu’il pose sur l’art : elle détermine en partie ses jugements esthétiques, elle les oriente de façon diverse et souvent contradictoire<br>In Joris-Karl Huysmans’s art criticism, aesthetics, poetics and ideology are at stake. Though art criticism is a genre in its own right, which the author used as such, it maintains close relations with his other works: they complete one each other as well as they interfere together. In his art criticism, Huysmans develops aesthetics, which define in its turn poetics: because the critic is also a writer, his thinking about visual arts – painting, sculpture, architecture – runs parallel with his writing process/practice. His critical assessments rest upon a comparison between the arts and therefore form part of a tradition which roots in Horace’s maxim ut pictura poesis, crosses the Renaissance period with the paragone and leads to Baudelaire’s correspondances. When watching a painting, Huysmans remains a writer: he’s looking for a confirmation of his ideas about literature or a model for his writing. But because art criticism puts values and beliefs at stake, it echoes the ideological choices of its author, on socio-economic, political and epistemic levels. Huysmans sees the arts through an ideology which comes in various values (et contre-valeurs): heir of a century deeply marked by romanticism, he maintains painful relationships with his time, in trouble with modern ideas. His ideology – against capitalism, bourgeoisie and modernity – filters the way he considers the arts; it partly determines and influences, in various but often opposing ways, his aesthetic judgement
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Faure, Nelly. "Entre historicisme et modernité : les châteaux construits ou remaniés dans l'Allier, le Cantal et le Puy-de-Dôme, entre le Premier Empire et la Première Guerre mondiale." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014CLF20014/document.
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En mettant fin aux privilèges et à une société d’ordres, la Révolution aurait dû vouer le château à la ruine, ne le laissant subsister dans le paysage que comme les vestiges d’un temps révolu. Mais au contraire, le XIXe siècle devient un véritable âge d’or des châteaux, en France comme dans toute une partie de l’Europe. À travers la France, les constructions, les restaurations et les remaniements de châteaux se comptent par milliers, sous le double effet du repli de la noblesse sur ses terres et de l’essor et de l’enrichissement de la bourgeoisie. Dans l’Allier, le Cantal et le Puy-de-Dôme 464 chantiers et projets voient le jour sous l’impulsion de familles de la vieille noblesse désireuses de réparer sur leur demeure les outrages du temps et de la Révolution et de bourgeois fortunés soucieux d’avoir une résidence prestigieuse, témoin de leur ascension sociale. Au XIXe siècle, on pose un nouveau regard sur le Moyen Âge et le château des siècles passés fait rêver. L’architecture doit s’inspirer des styles historicistes, parfois d’origine lointaine, tout en offrant un intérieur adapté au mode de vie et aux aspirations au confort des châtelains. Certains architectes se spécialisent pour satisfaire ces commandes entre historicisme et modernité<br>As the French Revolution put an end to privileges and the hierarchical division of society, castles seemed meant to disappear or survive only as remains of a bygone era. But the 19th century actually turned out to be a golden age for them – both in France and in many countries in Europe. In France, countless castles were built or overhauled, as the nobility returned to their lands and the bourgeoisie grew in power and wealth. In the three French départements of Allier, Cantal and Puy-de-Dôme, no less then 464 projects or actual construction works were launched. They originated either from ancient noble families wishing to erase the damages of time and History on their properties or from wealthy bourgeois willing to own high-profile mansions that would be of testimony of their social uplift. The 19th century was also a period where the Middle Ages was re-discovered and ancient castles became attractive again. Architectural trends were influenced by historicism, sometimes exotic styles, while interior design had to suit the lifestyle and need for comfort of the landlords. Some architects specialised in such projects, both historicist and modern
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Piptová, Ivana. "Italská romantická diskuse." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-347878.
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This master thesis discusses the roots, concepts and the subsequent interpretations of the so- called "romantic discussion", which took place in Italy between the years 1816-1826. Based on the overview of selected debate entries and their critical interpretations, we will try to explain the relatively scarce attention paid to the Italian romanticism by critics outside of Italy. The polemic on romanticism started with the article "On the Manner and Usefulness of Translations" by Madame de Stael, in which the author as a solution to the crisis affecting Italian literature suggested to translate more of French and German production, as it already reflected the upcoming romantic aesthetics. This modest proposal sparked a fierce debate which gradually dealt not only with the question of adopting foreign cultural impulses, but also with need to redefine the roots of Italian cultural traditions and build a modern Italian identity. The most important responses to Madame de Staël's article - written by Ludovico di Breme, Giovanni Berchet and Pietro Borsieri - are now considered "manifestos" of Italian romanticism. Unfortunately the inputs by Giacomo Leopardi and Alessandro Manzoni, even though they are considered very interesting and intellectually stimulating, cannot be considered part of the discussion as...
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Řezáč, Jan. "Evropský kontext k ztvárnění figury v českém malířství druhé třetiny 19. století. Ideové a formální zázemí tvorby Josefa Mánesa." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-336098.
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In my Ph.D. thesis I suggest methodological approach to the figural painting of the middle of the 19 century, creation of the Czech painter Josef Manes in particular. In this period figural artists still learned to copy historic models in both academic and non-academic institutions. But the figure starts to be also presented as identifying element of the society, newly establishing nations in particular. Also emancipation of artists and their effort for conceptual expression (self-representation) is reflected in the presented figural form. Painting of the late romanticism is characterised by adoptions of Michelangelo's and manieristic way of portrayal of human body. Thus there is a remarkable shift from so far popular classical Raffaelo's renaissance figure. For Josef Manes, usually only graphic patterns were available. In this thesis I also analyse Manes's anthropomorfisations and his tendencies to deform anatomic proportions of depicted figures. I show that these features of Manes's art have social, mental and formal background. I aimed to find interpretations of Manes' artistic approach, probably influenced by ideas from Munich, Dresden, Vienna and Düsseldorf. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Řezáč, Jan. "Evropský kontext k ztvárnění figury v českém malířství druhé třetiny 19. století. Ideové a formální zázemí tvorby Josefa Mánesa." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-348966.
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In my Ph.D. Thesis I suggest methodological approach to the figural painting of the middle of the 19 century, creation of the Czech painter Josef Manes in particular. In this period figural artists still learned to copy historic models in both academic and non-academic institutions. But the figure starts to be also presented as identifying element of the society, newly establishing nations in particular. Also emancipation of artists and their effort for conceptual expression (self-representation) is reflected in the presented figural form. Painting of the European late romanticism is characterised by adoptions of Michelangelo's and manieristic way of portrayal of human body. Thus there is a remarkable shift from so far popular classical Raffaelo's renaissance figure. For Josef Manes, usually only graphic patterns were available. In this thesis I also analyse Manes's anthropomorfisations and his tendencies to deform anatomic proportions of depicted figures. I show that these features of Manes's art have social, mental and formal background. I aimed to find interpretations of Manes's artistic approach, probably influenced by ideas from Munich, Düsseldorf and Vienna. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Fapšo, Marek. "Alois Klar (1763-1833). Mezi osvícenstvím a romantismem." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-354162.
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Final thesis follows the destiny of Alois Klar (1763-1833) with the emphasis on the history of ideas. Primarily, it focuses on three realms: religion thinking, history of language and school system. The whole frame is based on an effort to create an alternative analytic concepts for studying the age of so called "National Movement". Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Glisson, Silas Nease. "Cultural nationalism and colonialism in nineteenth-century Irish horror fiction." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16852.
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This thesis will explore how writers of nineteenth-century Irish horror fiction,
namely short stories and novels, used their works to express the social, cultural, and political
events of the period. My thesis will employ a New Historicist approach to discuss the effects
of colonialism on the writings, as well as archetypal criticism to analyse the mythic origins of
the relevant metaphors. The structuralism of Tzvetan Todorov will be used to discuss the
notion of the works' appeal as supernatural or possibly realistic works. The theory of
Mikhail Bakhtin is used to discuss the writers' linguistic choices because such theory focuses
on how language can lead to conflicts amongst social groups.
The introduction is followed by Chapter One, "Ireland as England's Fantasy." This
chapter discusses Ireland's literary stereotype as a fantasyland. The chapter also gives an
overview of Ireland's history of occupation and then contrasts the bucolic, magical Ireland of
fiction and the bleak social conditions of much of nineteenth-century Ireland.
Chapter Two, "Mythic Origins", analyses the use of myth in nineteenth-century horror
stories. The chapter discusses the merging of Christianity and Celtic myth; I then discuss the
early Irish belief in evil spirits in myths that eventually inspired horror literature.
Chapter Three, "Church versus Big House, Unionist versus Nationalist," analyses
how the conflicts of Church/Irish Catholicism vs. Big House/Anglo-Irish landlordism, proBritish
Unionist vs. pro-Irish Nationalist are manifested in the tales. In this chapter, I argue
that many Anglo-Irish writers present stern anti-Catholic attitudes, while both Anglo-Irish
and Catholic writers use the genre as political propaganda. Yet the authors tend to display
Home Rule or anti-Home Rule attitudes rather than religious loyalties in their stories.
The final chapter of the thesis, "A Heteroglossia of British and Irish Linguistic and
Literary Forms," deals with the use of language and national literary styles in Irish literature
of this period. I discuss Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia and its applications to the Irish
novel; such a discussion because nineteenth-century Ireland was linguistically Balkanised,
with Irish Gaelic, Hibemo-English, and British English all in use. This chapter is followed by
a conclusion.<br>English<br>M. Lit. et Phil. (English)
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Fortin, Marie-Christine. "Les artistes romantiques et la commercialisation de l'art : la transformation du mécénat d'État et le début du système marchand." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/7379.
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Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal<br>Pour respecter les droits d'auteur, la version électronique de cette thèse ou ce mémoire a été dépouillée, le cas échéant, de ses documents visuels et audio-visuels. La version intégrale de la thèse ou du mémoire a été déposée au Service de la gestion des documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal.
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Hesse, Angelika. "Eichendorffs Kritik romantischer Fehlentwicklungen." Diss., 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16941.
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Summary in English<br>Romanticism as a broad movement of thought developed
as a reaction against rationalism and empiricism in the period
of Enlightenment. In his critical evaluation of Getman
literature Eichendorff as a historian exammes the
excessiveness of esoteric theories in the work of the young
intellectuals of the early romantic period in Getmany. The
romanticists' idealist celebration of the self, and their tendency
to overestimate the power of the imagination and the supreme
value of art led to self-adulation and subjectivism which was
unacceptable to Eichendorff s understanding of art and
religion. The "romantic" attempt at creating a new mythology
usmg art as a new kind of religion and thereby making the
poet an omnipotent creator could only be rejected by
Eichendorff whose moral convictions were strongly based on
Christian Catholic beliefs. The young romanticists replaced
ethics with aesthetics. Eichendorffs judgement of this
development is devastating. He describes the early romantic
movement as a "premature abortion".<br>Classics and Modern European Languages<br>M.A. (German)
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Filion, Alexandra. "Le livre est mort, vive le livre! L’obsession bibliophilique chez Charles Nodier." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21259.
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Kučerová, Anežka. "Hrob, náhrobek, hřbitov. Okruh motivů v českém malířství 19. století." Master's thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-369965.
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(in English) This thesis called Grave, Tombstone, Graveyard. The Range of Motifs of the Czech Painting of the 19th Century is based on the analysis of paintings, drawings and graphics made by Czech authors throughout the 19th century. Artists worked with funeral motifs in different ways and these will be presented in different case studies. Some painters were fascinated by these subjects and they turned their attention to them systematically and repeatedly throughout their career. Other artists worked with funeral motifs rarely, although significantly. Artists integrated motifs of graves, monuments and cemeteries to their pieces of art for different purposes; this was connected with the interest of Romanticism in aesthetic anomalies and mystery, with their personal experience and feelings. Artists were also interested in genre scenes that were situated in cemeteries. Funeral motifs can be found in illustrated journals as well. Their aim was to document the specific place and as to symbolically express the finality of the life. The pieces of art will be presented in the context of the burial rites and literature of the 19th century. This phenomenon was also reflected by foreign artists, some of them will be also mentioned in the thesis as an analogy to the Czech works.
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Steyn, Herco Jacobus. "Protean deities : classical mythology in John Keats’s ‘Hyperion poems’ and Dan Simmons’s Hyperion and The fall of Hyperion." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4908.
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This dissertation concurs with the Jungian postulation that certain psychological archetypes are inclined to be reproduced by the collective unconscious. In turn, these psychological archetypes are revealed to emerge in literature as literary archetypes. It is consequently argued that science fiction has come to form a new mythology because the archetypal images are displaced in a modern, scientific guise. This signifies a shift in the collective world view of humanity, or a shift in its collective consciousness. It is consequently argued that humanity’s collective consciousness has evolved from mythic thought to scientific thought, courtesy of the numerous groundbreaking scientific discoveries of the past few centuries. This dissertation posits as a premise that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s supposition of humanity’s collective consciousness evolving towards what he calls the Omega Point to hold true. The scientific displacement of the literary archetypes reveals humankind’s evolution towards the Omega Point and a cosmic consciousness.<br>English Studies<br>M.A. (English)
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Tougas, Kevin. "La théorie de l’art pour l’art : étude généalogique d’un nouveau paradigme éthique de l’art." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24363.
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L’objectif de ce mémoire est de proposer une généalogie de la théorie de l’art pour l’art, élaborée dans le contexte historique du romantisme. En prenant pour point de départ le double mouvement d’autonomisation des beaux-arts et de l’esthétique du XVIIIe siècle, cette recherche vise à reconstituer les grands axes de cette nouvelle doxa artistique apparue sous la Monarchie de Juillet. S’inscrivant dans la même démarche de dissociation entre les notions du Beau et du Bien qui caractérise la naissance de la discipline esthétique au siècle des Lumières, la théorie de l’art pour l’art est généralement reconnue en raison de son rejet radical de toute forme de moralité. Or, derrière cet aspect, il apparaît que certains de ses tenants ont fait preuve d’une très forte rigueur éthique dans l’exercice de leur art. Cela est notablement le cas de Gustave Flaubert, dont la Correspondance déploie le programme complet d’une « morale de l’art ». La reconstitution des fondements de cette dernière occupera la seconde et dernière grande partie de ce travail. La première partie sera quant à elle pour une large part consacrée à la pensée esthétique de Karl Philipp Moritz. Personnage parfois méconnu, cet écrivain philosophe mérite sans l’ombre d’un doute d’être considéré dans la genèse des idées de l’art pour l’art. Sa conception autotélique du Beau offre très certainement l’une des versions les plus radicales de l’indépendance des beaux-arts à l’égard de la morale au XVIIIe siècle. De plus, son concept d’imitation formatrice du beau annonce les changements profonds qui affecteront la conception romantique de l’artiste et de l’acte de création au XIXe siècle.<br>The aim of this study is to propose a genealogy of the theory of “l’art pour l’art”, elaborated in the historical context of Romanticism. Taking as a starting point the movement of autonomy of the Fine Arts and aesthetics of the 18th century, this research is an attempt to reconstruct the main lines of this new artistic doxa that appeared under the July Monarchy. Following the same approach of dissociation between the notions of Beauty and Good that characterized the birth of the aesthetic discipline in the Enlightenment, the theory of “l’art pour l’art” is generally recognized because of its radical rejection of all forms of morality. Yet, behind this aspect, it appears that some of its proponents have shown a very strong ethical rigour in the exercise of their art. Gustave Flaubert is definitely one of them. In his Correspondance, a complete program of a “moral of art” is deployed. Rebuilding the foundations of this program will occupy the second and final major part of this work when the first part will be largely devoted to the aesthetic thought of Karl Philipp Moritz, a character who is sometimes misunderstood. This philosophical writer undoubtedly deserves to be considered in the genesis of the ideas of the theory of “l’art pour l’art”. His autotelic conception of Beauty certainly offers one of the most radical versions of the independence of the fine arts from morality on the 18th century. Moreover, his concept of formative imitation of beauty announces the profound changes that will affect the romantic conception of the artist and the act of creation in the 19th century.
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Cingrošová, Veronika. "Ozvuky německé fantastické literatury období romantismu ve fantastických prózách Jakuba Arbese a Julia Zeyera." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-300125.
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- Aj In this work we focused on the literary genre of the fantastic short story, a genre that has its specific features, working with mystery and ambiguity, and relying on the interactive relationship between the reader and the text. We looked at terms fantastic literature, fantastic short story and we studied which attributes are typical for this literature (such as individual motifs, composition, atmosphere and language-specific resources). Than we were looking for the presence of these attributes in individual works of selected authors. The most important representatives of Czech fantastic stories were compared with selected German Romanticists who were the inception for our authors who followed them and in whose work we find the fantastic phenomena. Then we tracked the similarities and differences in work of these authors. We found, that despite substantial conformity in the use of specific attributes of fantastic stories, the individual works of our authors differs significantly, not only in the frequency of use of these attributes, but also in the overall tone of the work and its effect on the reader. To better understand all the work, we have included in addition to the parts of the works and typically observed phenomena, the key biographical details of all authors, because as it was finally...
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Godin, Jon-Tomas. "Enjeux esthétiques et musicaux de la sonate pour piano à l’époque romantique : les premières expériences en structure à grande échelle de Mendelssohn, Schumann et Brahms." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/19023.
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Les sonates pour piano de la « génération romantique » (Rosen) et des compositeurs qui l’ont suivie s’éloignent des conventions qui régissent la forme classique, et ce à plusieurs égards : schéma tonal, découpage, fonctions formelles, voire même l’affect ou l’esthétique générale du mouvement. Lorsqu’il s’agit de sonates de jeunesse, ces écarts ont généralement été interprétés comme des maladresses ou comme un manque de métier. Cette thèse remet en question cette perspective
et propose une démarche analytique permettant de rétablir ce répertoire dans sa spécificité en définissant une nouvelle conception esthétique de la sonate romantique. L’approche développée ici n’est pas fondée sur une construction musicale purement théorique : elle repose plutôt sur une conciliation entre, d’une part, les valeurs esthétiques caractéristiques de cette époque, et, d’autre part, l’analyse structurelle et formelle. Cette approche est exposée en deux grandes étapes. Les chapitres 1 et 2 parcourent les écrits philosophiques, littéraires, théoriques et critiques des années 1790-1860 pour y découvrir six valeurs esthétiques qui définissent la sonate au XIXe siècle : la forme abstraite, la cohérence à grande échelle, l’organicisme, la tension entre tradition et innovation, l’expression du sublime et celle de la noblesse. Les chapitres 3 à 5 emploient différentes techniques d’analyse (la Formenlehre de William Caplin, l’analyse réductionnelle de Heinrich Schenker et l’étude de l’organisation rythmique et métrique d’après Lester, Krebs et de Médicis) pour montrer comment ces six valeurs esthétiques permettent de rendre compte de la structure spécifique des oeuvres sélectionnées : la Sonate pour piano en mi majeur, op. 6 (1826), de Mendelssohn ; la Grande Sonate pour piano en fa dièse mineur, op. 11 (1832-1835), de Schumann ; la Grande Sonate pour piano en fa mineur, « Concert sans orchestre », op. 14 (1835-1836, rév. 1853), de Schumann ; et la Sonate pour piano en fa dièse mineur, op. 2, de Brahms (1852). Cette approche, qui permet d’appliquer la théorie de la forme à un répertoire pour lequel elle n’a pas a priori été conçue, met l’accent sur la souplesse du rapport entre le discours esthétique et la pratique compositionnelle. Chaque compositeur, sinon chaque oeuvre, répond aux valeurs esthétiques à divers degrés et selon différentes combinaisons. Au final, cette démarche permet de montrer à quel point les considérations esthétiques jouent un rôle primordial dans la conception même de la forme sonate au XIXe siècle. Elle ouvre de nouvelles perspectives en permettant de mieux cerner les points de contact et les divergences entre la sonate classique et la sonate romantique, et fournit des éléments qui permettront une comparaison plus légitime entre ces deux répertoires.<br>Piano sonatas written by composers from the ‘Romantic Generation’ (Rosen), as well as those from the following generation, tend to move away from the conventions of classical form in many ways: tonal plan, form, formal functions, and even the general affect or aesthetic of the movement. When the sonatas in question are early works, unconventional details are frequently interpreted as mistakes or the result of a lack of training. This dissertation challenges that perspective and
develops an analytical approach that establishes the unique elements of this repertoire by defining a new aesthetic understanding of romantic sonata form. This approach is not based on a purely musical construct. Rather, it combines characteristic aesthetic values of the period with formal and structural analysis. The approach is presented in two stages. The first two chapters of the dissertation survey philosophical, literary, theoretical and critical texts from 1790 to 1860, uncovering six aesthetic values that define the sonata in the 19th century: abstract form, large-scale coherence, organicism,
the opposition of tradition and innovation, an expression of the sublime and of nobility. Chapters 3 to 5 use different analytical methods (Caplin’s Formenlehre, Schenkerian linear analysis, and rhythmic analysis based on Lester, Krebs, and de Médicis) to illustrate how these six core aesthetic values illuminate the specific structures of four sonata-form movements: Mendelssohn’s Piano Sonata in E Major, op. 6 (1826), Schumann’s Piano Sonata in F-sharp Minor, op. 11 (1832-1835) and Piano Sonata in F Minor, “Concert sans orchestre”, op. 14 (1835-1836, rev. 1853), and Brahms’ Piano Sonata in F-sharp Minor, op. 2 (1852). This approach, which applies Caplin’s theory of form to a repertoire for which it was not originally developed, underscores the fluidity of the relationship between aesthetic discourse and compositional practice. Each composer, perhaps each individual work, responds to the aesthetic values in different ways and to varying degrees. In
the end, this type of analysis shows how significant aesthetic considerations are in conceptualising sonata form in the 19th century. It broadens our perspective on form by better identifying the commonalities and divergences between classical and romantic sonata form, and provides elements that will allow a more accurate comparison of these two repertoires.
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Kales, Josef. "Vznik, vývoj a druhý život pověsti o Daliboru z Kozojed." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-349495.
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The present thesis focuses on both the actual and the posthumous life of the late 15th c. esquire Dalibor of Kozojedy, beheaded in 1498 by verdict of the Superior Land Court of the Kingdom of Bohemia for capital felony of hostile takeover of a manor house of Ploskovice in the Litoměřice region, including the pertaining peasantry. The text analyses the motives leading to the act and extracts diplomatical, narrative, and literary sources in order to portray the evolution of the tale of Dalibor in the course of 16th through 19th century. The 'áfterlife' of the myth is rooted in the period of Czech National Revival and literary Romanticism, which foreshadows the gradual reshaping process of the then Bohemian mythological heritage as commonly shared by the Czechs and Germans into an instument promoting the Czech national historical tradition, used for defending the Czech culture's milieu against the German one. The thesis explores the aforementioned process as a background for textual instances of the mythical Dalibor's engagement in both society and literature.