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THE HERSCHEL OBELISK, CLASSICS, AND EGYPTOMANIA AT THE CAPE

Akroterion, 2012
Immediately prior to his departure from Cape Town to England in 1838, Sir John Herschel sold the estate, ‘Feldhausen’,1 on which he had erected his telescope and had conducted his astronomical observations, to Mr. R. J. Jones, an auctioneer. The property
J.L. Hilton
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The Motif of a ‘Blind Harper’ in an Unexpected Place

Études et Travaux (Institute des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences), 2017
In the village of Nawojowa Góra (25km west of Kraków, Poland) there is an Italian style villa built in the years 1923–1925 for Karol Gustaw Domański (1888–1936).
Joachim Śliwa
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American Egyptomania

, 2004
The WARC file must be opened using a program like Webrecorder.io. The ZIP contains a static version of the website.American Egyptomania was a joint project of the Center for History and New Media, the English Department at George Mason University and ...
Grafton, Scott, English Department, Center for History and New Media   +2 more
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Tarot and Egyptomania

, 2014
The most enduring association of Tarot is with the mystical land of Egypt. This paper explores the nature of this erroneous connection; investigating its origins during the eighteenth and nineteenth century French occult revival with authors of ...
Farley, Helen S.
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Motifs of Ancient Egypt in the Poetry of Anton Novačan and Anton Aškerc

Annales, Series Historia et Sociologia
The poetic oeuvres of Anton Aškerc, Akropolis in Piramide (Acropolis and the Pyramids, published in 1909) and Anton Novačan, Večeri ob Nilu (Evenings by the Nile, published in 1933, 1938 and 1939) contain many specific references from ancient Egyptian ...
Andrej Mečulj
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Writing Egyptomania: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and its Interactions with Ancient Egyptian Archaeology [PDF]

, 2023
Thesis advisor: Christy PottroffThesis advisor: Paul LewisIn 1822 the Western world experienced a revolution in literature and archaeology when the Rosetta Stone was successfully translated, and a craze coined Egyptomania took over the Western world ...
Oliviero, Victoria
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The Sphinx Takes Manhattan, or the Significance of "A Man From the Yaman" in Ameen Rihani's Arabian Peak and Desert

Mashriq & Mahjar, 2016
In 1989, a replica of the Great Sphinx of Giza was photographed passing in front of the Statue of Liberty. This image recalls neglected imperial histories and challenges global models of center and periphery.
Michelle Baroody
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Penny Dreadful ou comment la littérature peut-elle donner naissance à une série ?

TV Series, 2017
Penny Dreadful is practically a case study for the analysis of the relationship between TV and literature: from intertextuality to transaction, from quotes to allusions, from literature to the book as object, the series includes an astounding number of ...
Isabelle Périer
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Reviving Ancient Egypt in the Renaissance Hieroglyph: Humanist Aspirations to Immortality

Arts
In his On the Art of Building, Renaissance humanist Leon Battista Alberti wrote that the ancient Egyptians believed that alphabetical languages would one day all be lost, but the pictorial method of writing they used could be understood easily by ...
Rebecca M. Howard
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Egyptology versus egyptomania: on global knowledge about ancient Egypt

, 2022
Habitualmente, o estudo sobre a Antiguidade não é convocado para a reflexão alargada sobre os problemas da globalização no mundo contemporâneo. No entanto, há vários aspetos em que a reflexão sobre a história antiga pode contribuir para um aprofundamento
Sales, José das Candeias, Mota, Susana
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