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John Ruskin and the Savage Gothic [PDF]
John Ruskin’s provocative theories concerning Gothic art and architecture bear serious consideration in light of the formative debates concerning “primitive” art and its relation to modern European society.
Frances S. Connelly
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Ruskin and his Victorian readers [PDF]
Modern Painters (1843-60) and The Stones of Venice (1851-3) made John Ruskin one of the most influential critics of the nineteenth century. But these magisterial works were followed by a series of very different books, as Ruskin published lectures and ...
Dinah Birch
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The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Wavelet multiscale analysis for hedge funds: scaling and strategies [PDF]
The wide acceptance of Hedge Funds by Institutional Investors and Pension Funds has led to an explosive growth in assets under management. These investors are drawn to Hedge Funds due to the seemingly low correlation with traditional investments and the ...
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Needlework and John Ruskin’s “acicular art of nations”
This essay outlines Victorian cultural critic John Ruskin’s use of needlework. Paying particular attention to textiles in the opening and closing of Fors Clavigera (1871-1885), and highlighting educational texts by two women cited there (Kate Stanley and
Rachel M. W. DICKINSON
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Clock gene dysregulation in epilepsy: A systematic review
Abstract Objective Epileptic seizures show a rhythmic pattern, being more frequent at particular times of the day (e.g., only occurring during sleep), suggesting a role of the circadian rhythm. Clock genes regulate the circadian rhythm and might be involved in the pathophysiology of epilepsy.
Guilherme Fernandes‐Campos +3 more
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ABSTRACT The sedimentary succession at Whittlesey preserves a unique British late Middle Pleistocene to Holocene record back to a time equivalent to at least marine oxygen isotope stage 8 (ca. 250 ka). This study builds on previously published sedimentology, geochronology and palaeoecology results to establish 20 sedimentary facies associations, with ...
H. E. Langford +3 more
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Des traductions de Ruskin à celle du « livre intérieur »
Proust devoted six years of his life, from 1899 to 1905, to translating and annotating John Ruskin. How did a collective project, involving his mother and friends such as Marie Nordlinger, lead Proust, once the «age of translations» was over, to devote ...
Christophe Pradeau, Matthieu Vernet
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ABSTRACT This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of the pigments and techniques used by Charles Fairfax Murray (1849–1919), a leading expert in Italian Renaissance attribution, influential art collector and primary copyist for John Ruskin.
Victoria Kemp +3 more
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Gandhi’s Many Influences and Collaborators [PDF]
In Gandhi's Printing Press, Isabel Hofmeyr introduces readers to the nuances of the newspaper in a far-flung colony in the age when mail and news traveled by ship and when readers were encouraged by Gandhi to read slowly and deeply. This article explores
Presbey, Gail
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