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Atlas and Hercules in the garden : scientific culture and literary imagination at the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati [PDF]
This essay explores the interplay in early modern Roman gardens between the iconography of instruments and fountains and scientific culture, especially astronomy.
Ribouillault, Denis
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The Retro-Futurism of Cuteness [PDF]
Is it possible to conceive of a Hello Kitty Middle Ages or a Tickle Me Elmo Renaissance? The Oxford English Dictionary dates the first reference to “cute” in the sense of “attractive, pretty, charming” to 1834.
Boyle, Jennifer E., Kao, Wan-Chuan
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A Comparison of Gaius Valerius Catullus and Robert Herrick [PDF]
In writing this thesis my object has been to compare the poetry of Catullus with that of Herrick. I have tried to bring out the influence of Catullus upon Herrick.
Bizjak, Mary Jeanne
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From the plane tree to the gardens of Adonis : plant and garden imagery in Plato’s Phaedrus [PDF]
Since at least the time the Akkadian version of The Epic of Gilgamesh was preserved in clay tablets nearly four thousand years ago, human beings have weaved plants and gardens into their stories.
Carey, Daniel
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Robert Herrick's self-presentation in Hesperides and his Noble numbers [PDF]
Literature has tended to be cut from the moorings of its authorial origins under the influential literary criticism of the past forty years. This thesis is an attempt to re-moor a work of literature to its authorial origins; particularly a work of ...
Faull, Lionel Peter
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The Hero at the Crossroads: Prodicus and the Choice of Heracles [PDF]
The folk-tale origins of the story of Heracles at the Crossroads are discussed and its association with the patterns of three questing brothers, of the tempting or testing of a hero, and of the female figures who attend on a hero shortly after his birth ...
Davies, Malcolm
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A critical estimation of the works of Robert Herrick. [PDF]
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University N.B.: Misnumbered.
Roderick, William Jason
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初探概念構圖運用於E化西語學習:以「從廣告中學西班牙文」課程為例 [PDF]
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張茂椿
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A study of sexuality in Charlotte Bront\u27s Villette : Lucy Snowe\u27s two masters [PDF]
We can see Lucy Snowe\u27s awakening from romantic love to sexual reality in the change of her masters, Graham Bretton to Paul Emanuel. Firstly, Lucy tries to find the ideal of spiritual bond of romantic love in Graham, but he rejects sexuality and ...
村田 尚子
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Tycho’s conversation with Urania, and other engagements with the muse [PDF]
In his own poetry, Tycho Brahe took inspiration from ancient Roman poetry by appropriating ancient theology: the god Apollo and the Muse of Astronomy, Urania.
Cunningham, Clifford J.
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