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Gregory Tate deposited Humphry Davy and the Problem of Analogy in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoAnalogy, the comparison of one set of relations to another, was essential to Humphry Davy’s understanding of chemistry. Throughout his career, Davy used analogical reasoning to direct and to interpret his experimental analyses of the chemical reactions between substances. In his writing, he deployed analogies to organise and to explain his t…[Read more]
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Bill Hughes deposited CFP: ‘Ill met by moonlight’: Gothic encounters with enchantment and the Faerie realm in literature and culture University of Hertfordshire, 8‒10 April 2021 in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoAs Prof. Dale Townsend has observed, the concept of the Gothic has had an association with fairies from its inception; even before Walpole’s 1764 Castle of Otranto (considered the first Gothic novel), eighteenth-century poetics talked of ‘the fairy kind of writing’ which, for Addison, ‘raise a pleasing kind of Horrour in the Mind of the Reader’…[Read more]
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James Elkins started the topic Online summer reading group on Joyce and Schmidt in the discussion
Humanities March on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoAnnouncing a reading group on the limits of the novel
June 6 – August 29
I’d like to invite everyone to an online reading group on Finnegans Wake and Arno Schmidt’s novel Bottom’s Dream. We’ll be focusing on the way both books threaten the narrative of the traditional novel by privileging language, scholarly apparatus, and other material. T…[Read more]
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Annika McQueen deposited What part did decorative plasterwork play in the transformation of the Great House before 1660? in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis essay argues that the changes that occurred in the form, function, material and internal decorative schemes of the Great House before 1660 was less of a transformation and more of a slow evolution. The popularity of plasterwork in the Great House from the Tudors to the Restoration, demonstrates its importance in the evolution of such…[Read more]
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Annika McQueen deposited Inns and Innkeeping in North Hertfordshire: 1660 – 1815 in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThis dissertation ‘Inns and Innkeeping in North Hertfordshire: 1660-1815’ addresses the lack of a localised study on this building type and supplements the wider body of work that has been undertaken, on inn form, function and innkeeping lifestyles in other regions of England during the long eighteenth century.
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Flavio Gregori replied to the topic CfP: The wonderful and the real from Gothic fiction to Fin-de-Siécle literature in the discussion
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe deadline for uploading the articles is September 1st, 2020.
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Danielle Skjelver started the topic Call for Peer Reviewers in the discussion
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe History of Applied Science & Technology Open Access Textbook editors seek peer reviewers for all regions and all periods.
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Flavio Gregori started the topic CfP: The wonderful and the real from Gothic fiction to Fin-de-Siécle literature in the discussion
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe journal English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts, which I direct and is published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites to send article proposals on the topic:
The wonderful, the fantastic, and the preternatural and their verisimilar representation from the Gothic novel to Fin-de-Siècle Literature.
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Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited Sensory Histories of Place Workshop in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoProgram of the Sensory Histories of Place workshop, organized by me and Elvan Baştürk Cobb, at ANAMED in 2015.
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Camilla Hoel deposited Secret Plots: The False Endings of Dickens’s Novels in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoOliver Twist does not find wealth and family and live happily ever after. Amy Dorrit and Arthur Clennam never escape the workhouse. And Eugene Wrayburn does not revive to marry Lizzie Hexam and start a new and productive life. This article takes as its starting point the idea that a story can have ‘false’ endings and uses it as a way of app…[Read more]
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Steven Aoun deposited Reviews of Lord of the Rings (Return of the King), Passion of Christ and Schindlers List in the group
Advocating for the Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoA very critical overview of seemingly disparate films
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Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 1 (2019) – Foreword in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoRising on the shoulders of the İstanbul Araştırmaları Yıllığı / Annual of Istanbul Studies, the relaunched YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies is now peer-reviewed. Thanks to a reformed advisory board, whose expertise covers all periods and disciplines in the study of Istanbul’s past and present, the journal now sets a much higher academic…[Read more]
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Scott Banville started the topic CFP: VISAWUS 2020: Victorian Transitions in the discussion
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoVISAWUS 2020: Victorian Transitions
Reno, NV October 15-17, 2020
Keynote Speaker: Jolene Zigarovich, University of Northern Iowa
The Silver Legacy Resort/Circus Circus****
The Victorian Era was one of transitions. Victorian Britain transitioned from a rural to urban society. It transitioned from an emergent empire to the dominant imperial…[Read more] -
Raphael Grazziano deposited Virtualities and contradictions in the space under global patterns: LEED® and corporate architecture in São Paulo in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoLEED® is a North American system created to assess sustainability parameters in buildings. It is managed by USGBC®, that was formed in the early 1990s. LEED®’s technical aspects are examined in order to clarify its operation premises, following the research hypothesis that these premises would have impact in the disciplines of architecture and ur…[Read more]
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Raphael Grazziano deposited O eficiente motor do status quo in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAnalysis of the idea of “efficiency” and its deadlock in environmental studies, mainly discussing the Jevons Paradox.
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Raphael Grazziano deposited Aspectos do debate entre realismo socialista e concretismo: a obra de vilanova artigas in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis monograph explores the ambivalent position of Artigas in the political-cultural debate of the Cold War, during the 1950s, when two principal art movements were opposed. On one side, socialist realist tendencies that emerged in post-revolutionary Russia, particularly after the ascension of Stalin, who intended it to be the new art of the…[Read more]
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Raphael Grazziano deposited A arquitetura do século XX segundo Henri Lefebvre in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe urban turn in Henri Lefebvre: its spatial tenets and his architectural references
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Raphael Grazziano deposited Corporate urbanism internationally certified: use and contradiction of LEED© ND in Parque da Cidade in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED©) is a certification used to assess the degree of environmental sustainability attained by a project. However, LEED© has an impact not only on the technical specifications, but also on design. The objective of this paper is to evaluate what the impact of its version for neighborhoods (LEED© ND…[Read more]
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Raphael Grazziano deposited Space and the otherness: an anthology in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoAlexander Cuthbert published a daring anthology on architecture and urban design, completed in 2011. The project began in 2001 resulting in three volumes: Designing Cities (2003), The Form of the Cities (2006) and Understanding Cities (2011). Unlike other anthologies on architecture, this author organized it as follows: critical selection of…[Read more]
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Raphael Grazziano deposited The presence of Henri Lefebvre in the contemporary academic debate of architecture in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHenri Lefebvre’s (HL) large production about cities, urban, urban space and society could indicate its relevance to the architecture produced after the heyday of the neoliberal cycle and its crisis in 2008. This author introduced the practical-sensitive basis in the debate between the spatial and social processes to discuss the ideological d…[Read more]
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