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Victoria Bladen is researching tree of life imagery in English Renaissance literature and its relationship to early European visual culture. The focus texts of the thesis are Aemilia Lanyer's 'Description of Cookham', Andrew Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax', Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline and a group of horticultural texts from the early seventeenth century. Victoria Bladen is a PhD student in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History. Her research is on tree of life imagery in English Renaissance literature and its relationship to early European visual culture. This is an interdisciplinary study that examines the intersections of symbolic and "real" (identified ) topographical landscapes in the imagination of late sixteenth and early seventeenth century authors who drew on aspects of tree of life imagery and iconography. Prior to coming to UQ in 2003 Victoria completed her Master of Philosophy in Medieval and Renaissance studies at UWA.
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Humanities: Visual Arts, Humanities: Renaissance Studies, Humanities: Religious Literature, Humanities: Poetry, Humanities: Painting, Humanities: Language and/or Literature, Renaissance, Humanities: Language and/or Literature, Poetry, Humanities: Language and/or Literature, Drama, Humanities: Inter-Arts--Interdisciplinary Art Forms, Humanities: Gender Studies, Humanities: Folklore and Mythology, Humanities: English Language/Literature, Humanities: Criticism, Humanities: Biblical Studies, Humanities: Arts, General/Other, Humanities: Art Criticism |
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