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1. Before fiction
: the ancien régime of the novel
by Paige, Nicholas D
2011, 1st ed., ISBN 9780812243550, xiv, 284
French fiction | Themes, motives | Technique | English fiction | Fiction
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2. The English romance in time
: transforming motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the death of Shakespeare
by Cooper, Helen
2004, ISBN 9780199248865, xiii, 542
Themes, motives | History and criticism | Romances, English | English literature | Literary Studies (Early and Medieval) | Literary Studies (Early Modern) | Literary Studies (European) | Conventions | Shakespeare | Anglo-Norman | Medieval Romance | Pulp Fiction | Spenser | Elizabethan Romance
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3. Breaking resemblance
: the role of religious motifs in contemporary art
by Alexandrova, Alena author
2017, First edition., ISBN 0823274470, xii, 268 pages
Idols and images in art | Themes, motives | Art, Modern | Art and religion
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4. The Hasidic tale
by Nigal, Gedalyah
2008, Littman library of Jewish civilization, ISBN 1904113079, viii, 383
Hasidic parables | Hasidim | Themes, motives
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5. Hitchcock's motifs
by Walker, Michael
2005, 1st ed., Film culture in transition, ISBN 9053567739, 490
Plots, themes, etc | Motion pictures | Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 Criticism and interpretation | History & Criticism | Film | Performing Arts | Film Studies | Film criticism | motion pictures | film | Biography | Themes, motives | 1899-1980 | Hitchcock, Alfred | Hitchcock, Alfred, Sir | Cinema, Radio, Television, Interactive Media | Directors | Cinematic Motifs | Cinema
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6. Contemporary art and classical myth
2011, ISBN 9780754669746, xviii, 376 p., 16 p. of plates
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7. From ornament to object
: genealogies of architectural modernism
by Payne, Alina Alexandra
2012, ISBN 9780300175332, ages cm
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8. Venetian narrative painting in the age of Carpaccio
by Brown, Patricia Fortini, 1936
1989, ISBN 0300040253, 310
Narrative painting, Renaissance | Themes, motives | Carpaccio, Vittore, 1455?-1525? Themes, motives | Bellini, Gentile, -1507 Themes, motives | Narrative painting, Italian | Art and society
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9. The place of narrative
: mural decoration in Italian churches, 431-1600
by Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg
1990, ISBN 0226469565, xx, 406 p., [16] p.of plates
Mural painting and decoration, Italian | Themes, motives | Christian art and symbolism | Mural painting and decoration, Medieval | Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance
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10. Reading Vincent van Gogh
: a thematic guide to the letters
by Grant, Patrick, 1941- author
2016, ISBN 1771991895, xiii, 184 pages
Themes, motives | Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 CorrespondenceHistory and criticism | Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 | Letters | Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 Themes, motives | Gogh, Vincent van, - 1853-1890 - Correspondence - History and criticism | Arts and Entertainment | Gogh, Vincent van, - 1853-1890 - Themes, motives | Artists | painter | writer | art history | imagination | spirituality | aphorisms
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11. Full Text Age and work-related motives: Results of a meta-analysis
by DORIEN T. A. M. KOOIJ and ANNET H. DE LANGE and PAUL G. W. JANSEN and RUTH KANFER and JOSJE S. E. DIKKERS
Journal of organizational behavior, ISSN 0894-3796, 2/2011, Volume 32, Issue 2, pp. 197 - 225
Literary themes | Employee motivation | Applied psychology | Motivation | Life span | Motivation research | Mastery motivation | Age | Older workers | Age groups | Psychology, Applied | Business & Economics | Social Sciences | Management | Psychology | Business | Psychological aspects | Organizational behavior | Life span, Productive | Analysis | Age (Psychology) | Research | Studies | Organization theory | Meta-analysis | Age differences | Occupational psychology
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12. Motifs merveilleux et poétique des genres au Moyen Âge
by Gingras, Francis
2015, Rencontres, ISBN 9782812450860, Volume 151, 572
Marvelous, The, in literature | Literature, Medieval | Themes, motives | Literary form
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13. Fashion, interior design and the contours of modern identity
by Myzelev, Alla and Potvin, John
2010, ISBN 0754669157, xiii, 250
Social aspects | Interior decoration | Fashion
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14. The marvellous and the monstrous in the sculpture of twelfth-century Europe
by Ambrose, Kirk, 1968
2013, Boydell studies in medieval art and architecture, ISBN 9781843838319, xii, 187
Decoration and ornament, Romanesque | Sculpture, Romanesque | Christian art and symbolism | Sculpture, European | Decoration and ornament, Architectural | Themes, motives | Monsters in art
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15. Machine Art in the Twentieth Century
by Broeckmann, Andreas author
2016, Leonardo, ISBN 9780262035064, x, 376 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates
Art, Modern | Themes, motives | Art and technology | TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING | ART | Social Aspects | History
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16. The Jew, the cathedral and the medieval city
: Synagoga and Ecclesia in the thirteenth century
by Rowe, Nina
2011, ISBN 9780521197441, xvii, 326
Ecclesia (Christian art) | Christianity and other religions | Judaism | Sculpture, Medieval | Relations | Themes, motives | Christianity | Synagoga (Christian art) | History | Art and society | Europe | To 1500 | Cathedrals | Christian art and symbolism
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17. Full Text The unmaking of home in contemporary art
by Lauzon, Claudette, 1969- author
2017, Cultural spaces, ISBN 1442649828, ix, 212 pages
Dwellings in art | 1900-2099 | Art, Modern | Themes, motives | Social aspects | Dwellings | Home in art | Popular Culture | Communication Studies | Language Arts & Disciplines | Social Science | 21st century | Sociology | Media and Communications
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18. Art since 1989
by Grovier, Kelly author
2015, Thames & Hudson world of art, ISBN 0500204268, 224
Art, Modern | Themes, motives
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19. Polis and personification in classical Athenian art
by Smith, Amy Claire, 1966
2011, Monumenta Graeca et Romana, ISBN 9004194177, Volume 19, xlv, 202 p., [32] p. of plates
Art, Classical | Athens (Greece) Symbolic representation | Art, Greek | Themes, motives | Art and society | Personification in art | Athens (Greece) - Symbolic representation
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