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Petrescu, Raluca Ioana. "« L’Attention aux choses » : la Révélation de l'objet chez Gerard Manley Hopkins, Fernando Pessoa, William Carlos Williams, Francis Ponge et Lucian Blaga." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Strasbourg, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020STRAC025.

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La poésie occidentale de la première moitié du XXe siècle se caractérise globalement par sa rupture avec la subjectivité romantique, mettant en œuvre une dé-subjectivation de l'énoncé et faisant émerger l'idée que le poème se construit comme un objet textuel. Ce travail s’inscrit dans le cadre de ces évolutions, mais leur ajoute une dimension particulière : les oeuvres du corpus présentent, chacune à sa manière, une attitude d'« attention aux choses », selon la formulation d'Alberto Caeiro, « maître » entre les hétéronymes de Fernando Pessoa ; elles développent comme thématique une fascination

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Adair, Vance. "The Shakespearean object : psychoanalysis, subjectivity and the gaze." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1857.

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Through a close analysis of four plays by Shakespeare, this thesis argues that the question of subjectivity ultimately comes to be negotiated around a structural impasse or certain points of opacity in each of the text's signifying practices. Challenging assumptions about the utatively "theatrical" contexts of Richard III, Richard II, Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra, I argue that, to varying degrees, the specular economy of each play is in fact traversed by a radical alterity that constitutively gives rise to a notion of subjectivity commonly referred to as "Shakespearean".

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Grande, James. "William Cobbett's correspondence, 1800-1835." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cf3bea5b-be1e-4a1b-a724-2e8fc789217c.

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The vast majority of William Cobbett’s personal letters have never been published. This thesis examines these manuscripts alongside the ‘open letter’ form that dominated his published writings, using correspondence to illuminate the hybrid and highly idiosyncratic form of Cobbett’s radicalism. It shows how he responded to continued persecution from the government through a series of innovative epistolary strategies, creating a popular journalism that incorporated many of the tropes usually associated with letter writing, including familiarity, authenticity, the spontaneity of speech and the do

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Seddon, Callum. "'Witness William Strode' : manuscript contexts, circulation and reception." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b20305c4-3d47-4001-9959-14e8828ca85f.

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This thesis is concerned with how we read, edit, and understand the socio-textual relationships between seventeenth-century literary manuscripts. It takes as its subject William Strode (1601?-1645), poet, preacher, and Public Orator of the University of Oxford. In particular, this study examines the transmission and reception of Strode's English verse, predominantly by examining verse miscellanies of the 1620s, 1630s and 1640s. Chapter 1 provides the most extensive account of Strode's life to date, situating his career as a manuscript-publishing poet alongside his academic and clerical careers

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Engell, Jessen Maria Elisabeth. "Conversion as a narrative, visual, and stylistic mode in William Blake's works." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0238fceb-5538-4a7b-903d-5952bf777286.

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This study suggests that Blake’s works can be understood as ‘conversion works,’ which seek to facilitate a broadly defined perceptual, spiritual, and intellectual conversion in the reader/viewer. This conversion is manifested in various ways in the texts, images, narrative structures, and style of Blake’s works. Part I discusses the genesis of the narrative of Blake’s own conversion and introduces critical discussions of the conversion narrative as a genre, showing how the predominant interpretative paradigm of the conversion narrative (as an autobiographical reportage describing a one-off exp

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Chaloupka, Evan M. "“That Damn Looney”: Illuminating Benjy and his Narrative with Objects and Autism." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1334687361.

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Grice, Deborah. "First cast the beam from thine own eye : the condemnation at the University of Paris 1241/4." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fa98cafa-5c58-4dfa-836b-937bcf1a26c1.

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In 1241/4 the theology masters at the university at Paris, their chancellor, Odo of Châteauroux, and bishop, William of Auvergne, condemned ten propositions against theological truth. Unlike other such condemnations, particularly at Paris in 1277, modern scholars have largely ignored it. This study attempts to remedy this neglect. It aims to view the condemnation in its contemporary context, concentrating on contemporary texts or those available in the period. The study's main focus is not the condemnation itself. Instead it seeks to set it against the background of wider doctrinal, intellect

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Mertz, Jeffrey Barclay. "A visionary among the radicals : William Blake and the circle of Joseph Johnson, 1790-95." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c1816fad-c35f-4587-bee6-0c4c67d96a36.

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Blake’s critics have never attempted to illustrate in a systematic manner how Blake used information he learned from writings published by members of the circle of Joseph Johnson in his own works during the period 1790-95. Although Blake was a peripheral figure in the Johnson circle – known to them through his profession of engraving and marginalized on account of his social position and lack of university education – his works reveal a continuing engagement with topics addressed in the writings of authors associated with Johnson, perhaps signifying Blake’s desire to be recognized as an author

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Brasil, Giselly. "Paisagens frágeis." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27155/tde-07032017-133732/.

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O foco de interesse deste trabalho reside no mapeamento e na investigação de procedimentos presentes na produção de William Forsythe que estimulam a reflexão sobre a prática cênica e o fenômeno da arte sob uma perspectiva transitiva e espacial. Mover, alterar perspectivas e sugerir o aparecimento de novos ângulos, pesos e intensidades é interferir nas dinâmicas que geram campos instalativos e paisagens frágeis nas quais a percepção está em constante movimento. Qualidades e características presentes nos trabalhos de Forsythe, sobretudo na série Objetos Coreográficos, serão apresentadas aqui com

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Heighes, Simon John. "The life and works of William and Philip Hayes (1708-77 & 1738-97)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:81d30fca-5545-429d-b79a-7253b8e1d828.

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William and Philip Hayes, father and son, between them occupied the Heather Chair of Music at Oxford for over half a century (1741-97). They were two of the most important provincial musicians of their age, who as composers contributed to all the main genres of the time except opera. The Hayeses' musical style reflects both a reverence for Handel (particularly in their choral works) and also an awareness of the insurgent galant idiom (clearly apparent in their sonatas). William Hayes was also active as a writer on music, publishing three substantial pamphlets between 1751 and 1768. He is perha

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Butler, Sophie P. "Sir William Cornwallis the Younger (c.1579-1614) and the emergence of the essay in England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a78cbf58-ec0f-4ba3-a9e8-c8d46eb3918b.

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This thesis provides a full-length critical treatment of the Essayes (1600-01) of Sir William Cornwallis (c.1579-1614). Cornwallis' Essayes are the first examples of the ‘familiar’ essay in English: to which the rhetorical shaping of persona and the use of the personal voice are central. This is the first such study of Cornwallis since the first half of the twentieth century, and situates his Essayes within their cultural, social, and material contexts. The thesis draws upon previous work on Cornwallis and his Essayes from the 1930s and 1940s, but also on recent developments in early-modern En

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Owens, Thomas A. R. "'The language of the heavens' : Wordsworth, Coleridge and astronomy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e2967508-a7fe-4558-82a2-9db41105d476.

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This thesis proposes that astronomical ideas and forces structured the poetic, religious and philosophical imaginings of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Despite the widespread scholarly predilection for interdisciplinary enquiry in the field of literature and science, no study has been undertaken to assess the impact and imaginative value of mathematics and astronomy upon Wordsworth and Coleridge. Indeed, it is assumed they had neither the resources available to access this knowledge, nor the capacity to grasp it fully. This is not the case. I update the paradigm that limits th

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Clucas, Tom. "Romantic reclusion in the works of Cowper and Wordsworth." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6fecb323-7ddc-43bd-a592-35694f8addaf.

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The end of the eighteenth century witnessed an imaginative mass migration as authors wrote about withdrawing from society. This thesis traces the origins of 'Romantic reclusion' in the works of Cowper and Wordsworth, particularly Cowper's poem The Task and Wordsworth's unfinished masterwork The Recluse, which epitomise the tradition. Romantic reclusion differs from 'solitude' and 'retirement' in that its motives were social. Cowper and Wordsworth wrote about withdrawing in order to criticise the increasing commercialism and competition they saw in British society. Both poets imagined seceding

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Youansamouth, Edward. "'Two congenial beings of another sphere' : Peter Sterry as a theological precursor to William Blake." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4e5b37ea-be6c-4397-8ebc-aeb6dde63d82.

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This thesis seeks to explicate, and develop an appropriate method for the elucidation of, the antecedents to the theology of William Blake in the writings of the seventeenth-century divine, Peter Sterry (1613-1672). While the radical religious scene of the English Revolution has long been recognised as offering important antecedents to Blake's thought, Sterry is a figure who has largely been overlooked. The exception to this is an essay, published in 1929, in which Vivian de Sola Pinto asserted the existence of 'startling affinities' between their ideas. Pinto's study was, however, limited by

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Russell-Jones, Iwan. "The relationship between theology and politics in the writings of John Lilburne, Richard Overton and William Walwyn." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a6106d7e-a6bd-4ab1-8597-f2c77f4d3ac3.

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In assessing the relationship between theology and politics in the writings of the three major Leveller pamphleteers of the 17th century, scholars have tended to search for, and focus upon, individual aspects of one or other of the Levellers' respective theological positions which they consider to have had democratic implications - as, for example, the notion of congregational church government, or a universalist understanding of salvation - which are then deemed to have been foundational to their political theories. But this approach is too abstract. The development of the Leveller platform c

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Delorme, Shannon. "The Unitarian physiologist : science and religion in the life and work of William Benjamin Carpenter (1813-1885)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5372009d-0c43-4a8d-81ea-b5bddcd17c8d.

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This thesis provides the first comprehensive study of an eminent but oft-overlooked Victorian polymath, with the overarching aims of assessing his contributions to nineteenth-century intellectual life and of exploring the mutual relations between science and religion in his work. One of the towering figures of the Victorian scientific establishment, William Carpenter (1813-1885), F.R.S, was a famous physiologist and public figure. He is most remembered for his concept of 'unconscious cerebration' which contributed to the emergence of the disciplines of neurology and modern psychology, but Carp

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Downing, Jonathan Philip. "Prophets reading prophecy : the interpretation of the Book of Revelation in the writings of Richard Brothers, Joanna Southcott and William Blake." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:76ab3c3f-eb74-4bd8-b970-89113dddc39f.

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This thesis examines the use and interpretation of Revelation in the writings of the contemporary prophets Richard Brothers, Joanna Southcott and William Blake. Contributing to an emerging scholarly interest in the reception of biblical texts within marginalised interpretative traditions, the thesis offers a detailed exploration of how Revelation is incorporated into these authors' prophetic texts, and how it informs the identity of readers who see their activities as bringing about the fulfilment of the text's visions on the historical plane. This aim is achieved by engaging with extant compa

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Angello, Elizabeth Stuart. "Paradise Always Already Lost: Myth, Memory, and Matter in English Literature." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5172.

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This dissertation follows a collection of agentive objects around and through the networks of humans and nonhumans in four disparate works of English literature: the Anglo-Saxon poem The Dream of the Rood, William Shakespeare's narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece, Thomas Hardy's novel The Woodlanders, and Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. Applying the emergent discourses of object-oriented analyses, I posit the need for a critique that considers literary objects not as textual versions of real-world objects but as constructs of human imagination. What happens when we treat nonhuman o

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Parel, Véronique. "La richesse comme objet de connaissance scientifique : de la mesure de la valeur à l'analyse du travail dans la pensée économique de William Petty." Paris 1, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA010015.

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Au XVIIeme siècle, en Angleterre, sous l'influence notamment des travaux de Bacon, la richesse devient un objet de connaissance scientifique. Après avoir exposé le contexte la fois socio-économique et intellectuel de l'époque, la thèse propose une lecture de l'oeuvre de William Petty. Cette oeuvre est centrée sur la mesure de la richesse nationale et sur les lois naturelles qu'il convient de respecter afin d'accroitre cette richesse. C'est en fonction de ces objectifs que prennent sens les concepts de valeur intrinseque, de prix naturel, de valeur extrinsèque et de prix politique ainsi que les

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Chiou, Tim Yi-Chang. "Romantic posthumous life writing : inter-stitching genres and forms of mourning and commemoration." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1a316a0f-7365-4555-8bc8-9e09b47ec674.

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Contemporary scholarship has seen increasing interest in the study of elegy. The present work attempts to elevate and expand discussions of death and survival beyond the ambit of elegy to a more genre-inclusive and ethically sensitive survey of Romantic posthumous life writings. Combining an ethic of remembrance founded on mutual fulfilment and reciprocal care with the Romantic tendency to hybridise different genres of mourning and commemoration, the study re- conceives 'posthumous life' as the 'inexhaustible' product of endless collaboration between the dead, the dying and the living. This th

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Alexander, Jessica L. "‘World Wisdom’: Difference And Identity In Gertrude Stein’s “Melanctha”." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1213987268.

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Vaughan, Nicolás. "Ockham's conception of logic as a rational science : an inferentialist interpretation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4a35a4ce-daf2-4516-8468-c7d04e259ba2.

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This thesis is a detailed examination of the logico-semantic system propounded by the English philosopher and theologian William of Ockham (c.1287 – c.1347). It provides a reinterpretation of Ockham's account of mental content and mental-language semantics, as well as of his theory of consequential goodness. It does so from the standpoint of an inferentialist theory of meaning, in rejection of previous attempts made from the standpoint of internalist and externalist theories of mental content. Chapter 1 ('The Scientic Status of Logic') provides an account of Ockham's understanding of logic as

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Schetina, Catherine Ruth. "“It Made the Ladies into Ghosts”: The Male Hero's Journey and the Destruction of the Feminine in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/405.

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This thesis is a consideration of the intertextual relationship between William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon. It considers the objectification and destruction of women and female-coded men in the service of the male protagonist's journey to selfhood, with particular focus on the construction of race, gender, and class performances.

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Laki, Giulietta. "Les choses de la rue et leurs publics. Pour une connaissance ambulatoire de l'espace public objectal à Bruxelles." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/277031.

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Que se passe-t-il si l’on considère que les objets sont partie prenante de la vie publique ?Cette hypothèse est explorée ici au départ d’une entrée spécifique, celle des objets qui peuplent les rues d’une ville, Bruxelles. Comment les objets participent-ils à l’espace public urbain ?La notion d’« espace public » a pour principal atout le fait de thématiser un lien entre le spatial et le sociétal, entre matérialité de la ville et vie publique, entre le quotidien et le politique ;mais rares sont les études qui analysent la nature de ce lien. C’est ce que nous allons faire ici, par le biais d’une

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Roberts, Gabriel C. B. "Historical argument in the writings of the English deists." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f4f32628-8e30-49b4-b2ab-449dc0b94b64.

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This study examines the role of history in the writings of the English deists, a group of heterodox religious controversialists who were active from the last quarter of the seventeenth century until the middle of the eighteenth century. Its main sources are the published works of the deists and their opponents, but it also draws, where possible, on manuscript sources. Not all of the deists were English (one was Irish and another was of Welsh extraction), but the term ‘English Deists’ has been used on the grounds that the majority of deists were English and that they published overwhelmingly in

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Roy, Malini. "Shape-shifters : Romantic-era representations of the child in the Wollstonecraft-Godwin family circle." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:59d59e07-eb4d-46b3-a7c972cd12102b2d.

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Kelley, William Frank. "Intellectuals and the Eastern question : 'historical-mindedness' and 'kin beyond sea', c. 1875-1880." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fa39dda1-6c64-4ac0-860c-37c0ffdd6ecd.

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The intractable problems posed by the decline of the Ottoman Empire were a defining feature of the nineteenth-century British experience. Events such as the Greek War of Independence (1821-32), the Crimean War (1853-5), and the Bulgarian Agitation (1876-8) were merely prominent denouements in the protracted history of what contemporaries called 'the Eastern Question'. The Eastern Question could be construed in many ways and admitted many answers. But by the 1870s, many Victorians had come to construe the Eastern Question as primarily an historical question. This thesis explores the ways in whi

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McConnell, Flora A. Kennedy. "Quantifying collateral flow pathways in the brain." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2a0142ed-6161-4294-abd4-acd377ba6fed.

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Ischaemic stroke is a major cause of death and disability worldwide. Cerebral autoregulation, which can be impaired during acute stroke, and collateral flow to brain tissue through the circle of Willis, both play a role in preventing tissue infarction. The configuration of the arterial circle varies between individuals. Thus, personalised modelling of the cerebral arterial network, to determine the potential for collateral flow, can be of significant value in the clinical context of stroke. The interaction between autoregulation and collateral flow remains poorly understood. In this study, ste

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Frodyma, Judyta Julia Joan. "Wordsworth's scriptural topographies." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:113ea195-dd48-4cbc-b26e-6572989392d6.

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In 1963, M.H. Abrams suggested that the ultimate source of Wordsworth's poetry is the Bible, and, in particular, the New Testament. This thesis, however, demonstrates the importance of the Old Testament and offers the first extended analysis of Wordsworth's use of Old Testament rhetoric. It examines both his affectionate perceptions of the natural world, and the Biblical recollections that saturate his writing. The purpose is to align two critical discourses - on Scripture and topography - and in doing so, situate Wordsworth's sense of himself as a poet-prophet in both Britain and America. The

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Wilewski, Sarah. "Styles of sovereignty : the relevance of Louis XIV to English royal iconography, 1689-1714." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a65349cf-629a-4a8a-a961-c281f34a248e.

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This thesis explores the influence of French royal image-making on English monarchies at the turn of the eighteenth century. It investigates the relevance of Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715) to English royal iconography during the reigns of William III (r. 1689-1702) and Queen Anne (r. 1702-1714) across a wide range of source material - from panegyric and portraiture, to medals, sculpture, and architecture. In doing so, it foregrounds the intricate interplay between political communication and different forms of artistic imagination in the early modern period. The thesis conceptualises the relation be

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Coston, Micah Keith. "The dramatic role of astronomy in early modern drama." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:09da8bf1-cf3e-4df6-816b-be7fb13f1753.

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By examining five types of astronomical and celestial phenomenaâcomets, constellations, the zodiac, planets, and the music of the spheresâthis thesis posits not only that early modern dramatists were influenced by established and emerging natural philosophy as habits of thought that manifested in their writing, but also that astronomical phenomena operate within the drama, performance, and in the theatre as elements for creating and developing a distinctly spatial dramaturgy. Using theories from the spatial turn, this thesis maps the positions, edges, disturbances, and motions of celesti

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Flett, Edward Charles. "Virtual frontiers and the technological state : contemporary American narratives in a global context." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:608353cc-62d8-496c-b8df-d79de028f03e.

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This thesis analyses a series of threshold states located within contemporary culture. It investigates the effects of technology on spatial relations and human conditions in recent centuries, with a specific interest in the rise of virtual phenomena and the ongoing process of virtualisation. Key to the discussion is measuring the extent to which America and its narratives have influenced the virtual layer attached to contemporary global technological culture. Prevalent within this framework is the idea of the frontier as an idealised outpost, a lingering threshold state that is scrutinised in

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Picon, Marina. "Normes et objets du savoir dans les premiers essais leibniziens." Thesis, Lyon, École normale supérieure, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ENSL1058.

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La doctrine leibnizienne de la science repose-t-elle sur une théorie de la connaissance? Après avoir montré, dans des travaux préalables, qu’une telle dépendance ne se rencontre pas dans l’œuvre de la maturité, nous nous intéressons ici aux premiers écrits de Leibniz. La Nova Methodus discendae docendaeque Jurisprudentiae (1667) dresse, suivant l’exemple de Bacon, un inventaire raisonné des disciplines que doit réunir la nouvelle encyclopédie. Comme dans les projets leibniziens ultérieurs, cet inventaire est précédé de la distinction entre types de savoir en fonction des critères logiques selo

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Hodder, Mike. "Petrarch in English : political, cultural and religious filters in the translation of the 'Rerum vulgarium fragmenta' and 'Triumphi' from Geoffrey Chaucer to J.M. Synge." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:49cdf913-cd2a-48c6-bf1e-533052018285.

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This thesis is concerned with one key aspect of the reception of the vernacular poetry of Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch), namely translations and imitations of the Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (Rvf) and Triumphi in English. It aims to provide a more comprehensive survey of the vernacular Petrarch’s legacy to English literature than is currently available, with a particular focus on some hitherto critically neglected texts and authors. It also seeks to ascertain to what degree the socio-historical phenomena of religion, politics, and culture have influenced the translations and imitations in questi

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Heimburger, Robert Whitaker. "A theological response to the "illegal alien" in federal United States law." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:43010cbe-32a9-4ecd-abcf-cf57f729bbd5.

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Today, some twelve million immigrants are unlawfully present in the United States. What response to this situation does Christian theology suggest for these immigrants and those who receive them? To this question about the status of immigrants before the law, the theological literature lacks an understanding of how federal U.S. immigration law developed, and it lacks a robust theological account of the governance of immigration. To fill this gap, the thesis presents three stages in the formation of the laws that designate some immigrants as aliens unlawfully present or illegal aliens, drawing

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Langdell, Sebastian James. "Religious reform, transnational poetics, and literary tradition in the work of Thomas Hoccleve." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a2e8eb46-5d08-405d-baa9-24e0400a47d8.

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This study considers Thomas Hoccleve’s role, throughout his works, as a “religious” writer: as an individual who engages seriously with the dynamics of heresy and ecclesiastical reform, who contributes to traditions of vernacular devotional writing, and who raises the question of how Christianity manifests on personal as well as political levels – and in environments that are at once London-based, national, and international. The chapters focus, respectively, on the role of reading and moralization in the Series; the language of “vice and virtue” in the Epistle of Cupid; the moral version of C

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"Acquiring Little Mexico: William Spratling's Object Collection Practices and the U.S. Collection of Mexican Objects, 1926 to 1940." Tulane University, 2020.

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Walz, Robert J. "William Wordsworth and the Great Mother : an object relation analysis of the archetypal feminine and poetry of the sublime /." Diss., 2001. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3036285.

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Porter, Camarin M. "Real presence or fictum Walter Chatton, William of Ockham, and the mental object of the act of loving God /." 2004. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/56139898.html.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2004.<br>Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-60).

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Čejka, Vojtěch. "Descartova mechanistická fyziologie a Harveyho objev krevního oběhu." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-405987.

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The aim of this thesis is to show in what way the mechanistic philosophy of René Descartes allowed him to accept William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood, while at the same time prevented him from accepting his explanation of the movement of the heart. In the introductory section we mention some of the basic notions concerning the state of natural philosophy in the second half of the 16th century which are closely related to the themes of the thesis. Both authors we are concerned with are also presented. The second, historicaly oriented section focuses on Aristotle's, Galen's

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FAVERO, MAURA. "Le altre origini dell'assemblaggio tra gli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11573/916751.

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La ricerca affronta il tema dell'assemblaggio analizzando il contesto di ricezione, diffusione e comprensione della pratica tra la fine degli anni Cinquanta e i primi anni Sessanta, mettendo in relazione alcune vicende italiane con quanto avveniva contemporaneamente nel resto d'Europa e negli Stati Uniti. Tre eventi espositivi (The Art of Assemblage, 1961, New York; Collages et objets, 1962, Parigi; New Realists, 1962, New York) sono stati individuati come nuclei intorno ai quali si formarono costellazioni significative di altri episodi, eventi, personalità, ricerche che hanno interessato le s

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Favero, Maura. "Le altre origini dell'assemblaggio tra gli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11573/917343.

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La ricerca affronta il tema dell'assemblaggio analizzando il contesto di ricezione, diffusione e comprensione della pratica tra la fine degli anni Cinquanta e i primi anni Sessanta, mettendo in relazione alcune vicende italiane con quanto avveniva contemporaneamente nel resto d'Europa e negli Stati Uniti. Tre eventi espositivi (The Art of Assemblage, 1961, New York; Collages et objets, 1962, Parigi; New Realists, 1962, New York) sono stati individuati come nuclei intorno ai quali si formarono costellazioni significative di altri episodi, eventi, personalità, ricerche che hanno interessato le s

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Green, Rohanna. "Atmospheric Modernism: Rare Matter and Dynamic Self-world Thresholds." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/33874.

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Defining rarity as a relative quality in matter roughly opposite to density, this dissertation focusses on the way material qualities of molecular gases, such as semi-opacity, permeation, and blending, inform modernist representations of embodied spatial experience. In modernist writing, rare matter—including air, fog, smoke, and haze—functions as an active component of the sensory environment, filling up the negative space that sets off subjects from objects, and characters from settings. Representing matter across the full range of the rarity-density spectrum allows modernist writers to chal

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