the historical dictionary of architecture of quatremère de quincy

... including the table of contents; the body of the text (i.e the detailed treatment of the theme); the index Information is presented moving from the most abstract to the most concrete: sub-theme, ... northern Europe, especially Russia, made of the wood of the fir tree tepee Conical dwelling of the Indians of the North American plains, made of poles covered with skins ladder Movable wooden ... These are shown at the end of the preliminary pages along with their definitions They are then repeated on each page of a section, but without the definition TERM Each term appears in the index

Ngày tải lên: 19/10/2022, 00:50

... explanations of building’s meaning and its design message, from a discussion of the process of urban design to the minutiae of the detailed design A clear understanding of the key terms used in architecture ... ornaments on the corners of the 61st floor, and radiator caps on the 31st floor AVA•Visual Dictionary of Architecture CD1007-16 / 4028 1930-1940 Moderne A late development of the Art Deco style, ... articles on the urban environment, building re-use, installation art and interior design She is the director of the college of Continuity in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture The

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... made of Pau, and of my journey in France; likewise where youspeak of the late Marechal de Biron, of Agen, and of the sally of the Marquis de Camillac from that place.These Memoirs might merit the ... during the King's minority, at the time, moreover, when France was dividedbetween the Catholics and the Huguenots, M de Guise being at the head of the former, and the Prince deConde of the latter, ... troops of shepherdesses dressed in cloth of gold and satin, after the fashion of the different provinces of France.These shepherdesses, during the passage of the superb boats from Bayonne to the

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 01:20

... step, the algorithm chooses the node with the best score and evaluates its sub-nodes After the nodes have been expanded and evaluated, the node set is re-ordered and the best of the current nodes ... the true model, -2 times the likelihood for the data given the model plus a constant multiple (2) of the number of parameters in the model Since the first term, involving the unknown true model, ... number of parame- Trang 14ters in the model Increasing the complexity of the model will only improve the AIC if the fit (measured by the log-likelihood of the data) improves more than the cost

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... Libidinal and the National: The Morality of Decadence in Yu Dafu, Teng Gu, and Others.” In Shih, The Lure of the Modern: Writing Mod-ernism in Semicolonial China, 1917–1937 Berkeley: University of California ... Culture of the 1940s Leiden: Brill, 2005. Kao, Hsin-sheng C “The Shaping of a Life: Structure and Narrative Process in Eileen Chang’s The Rouge of the North.” In A Palandri, ed Women Writers of 20th-Century ... Xiaoling “Shadow of The Dream of the Red Chamber: An Intertextual Cri-tique of The Golden Cangue.” Tamkang Review 21, 1 (1990): 1–28. Zhang Chengzhi Liu, Xinmin “Self-Making in the Wilderness: Zhang

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... symbolizing the call for an end to the blind political idealism of the Mao era “Hanhai” (The Great Sea) shares some of the concerns of the root-seekers in its depictions of folk customs in China’s northeastern ... revolution With de-tailed descriptions of their journey, the novel reflects the radical changes that took place in the Chinese countryside during the first few decades of the 20th century HONG SHEN ... unseemly and the morbid aspects of modern urban society and human desire For her portrayals of the depravity of the human condition and the brutal forces in the world and within the hu-man psyche,

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... between the values of the city and those of the countryside and the dilemmas faced by the peas- ants when their traditional way of life is threatened by the encroachment of modernization. Other ... is considered one of the forerunners of nativist literature. JIAN XIAN’AI • 77 The two decades of the 1920s and 1930s were Jian’s most productive years. When the Japanese troops invaded Beijing, ... as the fearless wolves reflect the qualities that help the Mon- gols win wars and overcome the harsh environment. Reminiscent of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild, the novel is a eulogy for the

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... starvation of the 1950s, the destruction of the Cultural Revolution, and the reform era, offering a glimpse into the vulnerability and lack of recourse in the lives of ordinary people and the destruction ... beggar deprived of pride and self-respect repre- sents the physical and moral destruction of the individual at the hands of society’s evils. The vivid characters and the lively language they speak ... investigation of the tragic fate of a schoolteacher who was beaten to death in the name of justice by his rebellious students who live to regret their atrocious act. Picking up the coming-of-age theme,

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... Paris in the early 1930s A cofounder of the Shanghai Experimental Theater, Li was one of the key figures who promoted the modern speech play After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, ... refuses, despite being ridiculed by his fellow villagers At the end of the story, he floats to the middle of the river in his small boat, content in the thought that he will die in the embrace of the ... the mid-1940s In the vein of a detective novel, the work revolves around the mystery of Ge Ren’s death through the accounts of three narrators whose own lives intertwined at some point with the

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 07:20

... family lives in the midst of the town’s brothel district. On the day of the town’s biggest festival—the greeting of Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy—Changsheng is raped while making offerings to ... to think of themselves as heroes and their sacrifices as necessary for the improve- ment of humanity. While lamenting the romantic idealism of the era, Liang describes the collapse of the utopian ... in the aesthetic purpose of literature, pitting himself against Lu Xun and others in a heated debate about the function and direction of modern Chinese literature. He was a cofounder of the

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... Through the vicissitudes in the fortunes of the sons and daughters of a powerful landlord, the novel reveals the intricate histori-cal path modern Chinese intellectuals have followed The descriptions ... in the remote southwest-ern city It centers on the students and the professors and local residents with whom they interact on a daily basis Although the idealized student life is not altogether ... “Shangheng” (The Scar), which gives the movement its name “Ban zhuren” explores the harmful influence of the Cultural Revolution on the minds of the Chinese youth Through the portrayal of two teenagers

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