Relevant bibliographies by topics / Christian literature, English / Dissertations / Theses
To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Christian literature, English.

Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Christian literature, English'

Author: Grafiati
Published: 4 June 2021
Last updated: 1 March 2023

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Christian literature, English.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.

1

Williams, Lydia. "Good Christian." restricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11172008-162748/.

Full text
Abstract:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008.<br>Title from file title page. Josh Russell, committee chair; John Holman, Sheri Joseph, committee members. Description based on contents viewed June 8, 2009.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
2

Church, Alan P. "Scribal rhetoric in Anglo-Saxon England /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9320.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
3

Johnson, Michael C. "Character Development in a Distance Education Literature Course: Perspectives on Independent Study English 395R-Christian Fantasy Literature." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3157.pdf.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
4

Mullally, Erin Eileen. "Giving gifts : women and exchange in Old English literature /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3061960.

Full text
Abstract:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 253-271). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
5

Fenwick, Andrew. "Girdles of iron, breast-plates of silk: Homeric women and Christian pity in Tolkien's Middle-Earth." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6804.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
6

Knight, Alison Elaine. "Pen of iron : scriptural text and the Book of Job in early modern English literature." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610695.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
7

Sloan, Alathea Prickett Stephen. "Receiving "The True Name" : reading Lilith as a mystical dream-vision /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4999.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
8

Broggi, Alicia. "J.M. Coetzee and the Christian tradition : navigating religious legacies in the novel." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f53e2155-c9e7-4aad-aed8-d8087f92c5f4.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis examines how J.M. Coetzee's engagement with Christian thinkers and concepts has shaped his fiction. Through a series of close readings, I show how Coetzee, who does not identify as a Christian, reworks and reimagines concepts from key Christian interlocutors across his writings. Each close reading is informed by a consideration of what Coetzee had himself been reading during the writing process, based on evidence in interviews, essays, monographs, and archival materials. Attending to Coetzee's reading and writing, together, illuminates the distinctively self-conscious nature of his
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
9

Gianfalla, Jennifer Mary. "Romancing the Other: Non-Christian and Interfaith Marriage in Late Middle English Literature, 1300-1450." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243002784.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
10

Wallace, Amy. "Waste Land or Promised Land: T.S. Eliot's The Idea of a Christian Society." TopSCHOLAR®, 1987. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2945.

Full text
Abstract:
In T. S. Eliot's The Idea of a Christian Society, the poet questions the nature of our society's foundations; he believes that Western culture is moving dangerously closer to the liberal and secular and that this shift could be disastrous. Instead, Eliot suggests that we return to what is at the very roots of Western tradition: Christianity. To facilitate this change in direction, Eliot stresses the importance of an educational system which takes a Christian perspective. Also important in his thinking is a Community of Christians, who would act as leaders, and the Christian community (encompas
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
11

O'Donnell, Thomas Joseph. "Monastic literary culture and communities in England, 1066-1250." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1905660951&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
12

Hewitt, Lindsay Ann. "A sociolinguistic approach to the study of literary dialect in the work of John Galt and Christian Johnstone." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1992. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4327/.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis is interested in the communicative function of literary dialect. It argues that approaches to the study of literary dialect which focus on linguistic form at the expense of literary function have helped to create a false dichotomy: literary dialect is seen either as the writer's serious attempt at re-creating the nuances of speech, or else is merely the use of established literary conventions which have no bearing on actual linguistic usage. Taking John Galt's The Entail (1823) and The Provost (1822) together with `West Country Exclusives' by Christian Johnstone (1834-5) as case st
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
13

Loman, Jennifer D. "Shame, Christian hospitality, and the American writer." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6986.

Full text
Abstract:
Hospitality is relational, a system of ethics contending with difference, navigating the mutable boundaries between self and Other. Desire or duty to reflect the gracious inclusivity of God without regard for reciprocation marks Christian hospitality in particular. Given the shortcomings of humankind in comparison to the divine, however, the utopian ideal of hospitality extended to all cannot be had on Earth. Thus, the impulse to reach out to the Other continually comingles with the shameful awareness of human limitation, a paradox the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas calls “infinite responsibilit
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
14

Eakin, Sarah E. "The Synthesis of Anglo-Saxon and Christian Traditions in the Old English JUDITH." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1386941516.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
15

Hansen, Elisabeth Marie. "A vision of her place Julian of Norwich and the contemplative's role in the Christian community /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1313909461&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
16

Mostert, Linda Ann. "Feminist appropriations of Hans Christian Andersen's "The little mermaid" and the ways in which stereotypes of women are subverted or sustained in selected works." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1371.

Full text
Abstract:
According to Lewis Seifert, “Fairy tales are obsessed with femininity … These narratives are concerned above all else with defining what makes women different from men and, more precisely, what is and is not acceptable feminine behaviour” (1996: 175). This study, then, will demonstrate how certain patriarchal ideas associated with fairy tales are disseminated when fairy tale elements are reworked in film, visual art and the novel. The aim of this project, more specifically, is to show how certain stereotypical representations of women endure in works that could be read as feminist appropriatio
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
17

Donovan, Leslie Ann. "The old English Lives of Saints Eugenia and Eufrosina : a critical edition /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9397.

Full text
Abstract:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1993.<br>Includes portions of British Library Manuscript Cotton Julius E VII. in the original Old English and modern English transcription. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [291]-312).
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
18

Chatfield, Thomas Edward Francis. "Beyond realism and postmordernism : towards a post-Christian morality in the works of Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1db4198a-56e4-417d-b5e5-eb6586a6d7d6.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis evaluates and re-evaluates the relationship between the works of Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis through a detailed examination of their published works, and attempts to locate this relationship in the context of the central moral uncertainties of post-1945 British fiction. Most previous critical studies of these authors have tended to discuss the relationship between Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis in terms of an opposition between the father's realism and the son's postmodernism, and have debated Philip Larkin's influence upon Martin Amis only tangentially. Against thi
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
19

Woeber, Catherine. "A study of Christ and his saints as representatives of the values of Christian heroism in Old English poetry." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21143.

Full text
Abstract:
Bibliography: pages 71-72.<br>This dissertation investigates the concept of Christian heroism as it appears in a number of Old English poems, through a study of the figure of the miles Christi. These poems present a specific Christian heroism which, though couched in terms culled from Germanic heroism, nevertheless exists in its own right and is quite different from it. Christ and his saints are seen as heroes in themselves (Christian servants obedient to the will of God) rather than as heroic warriors as they are usually regarded (Germanic heroes fighting for a Christian cause). They are lead
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
20

Watkins, Tamara. "(Re)Mediating the Spirit: Evangelical Christian Young Adult Media." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4796.

Full text
Abstract:
"We are in the world, but not of the world," a maxim frequently spoken in evangelical Christian culture, provides insight into how these individuals view their relationship with secular culture. They presume to share the same temporal plane with secular culture, but do not participate in it. In this dissertation, I explore whether the division between evangelical Christian culture and secular culture is as clear as this aphorism implies. To facilitate this investigation, I examine media Christian content creators created for an American evangelical Christian young adult audience in the early t
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
21

Durkin, Philip. "A study of Oxford, Trinity College, MS 86, with editions of selected texts, and with special reference to late Middle English prose forms of confession." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f63833b4-b75f-48bb-b1db-892929806abc.

Full text
Abstract:
The thesis consists of a detailed examination of the contents of Oxford, Trinity College, MS 86, (Trinity), with particular attention being given to several lengthy English confessional items which it contains. This is complemented by a more general consideration of late Middle English prose forms of confession and the manuscripts in which they occur. Part One consists of a survey of all surviving independent prose forms of confession preserved in late Middle English manuscripts. I divide the texts into groups according to their probable audience and readership, assessed from both internal and
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
22

Brooks, Britton. "The restoration of Creation in the early Anglo-Saxon vitae of Cuthbert and Guthlac." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:17b5d20e-446e-4891-90a6-f02a196a7409.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis explores the relationship between Creation and the saints Cuthbert and Guthlac in their Anglo-Latin and Old English vitae. It argues that this relationship is best understood through received theological exegesis concerning Creation's present state in the postlapsarian world. The exegesis has its foundation in Augustine's interpretations of the Genesis narrative, though it enters the textual tradition of the vitae via an adapted portion of De Genesi contra Manichaeos in Bede's metrical Vita Sancti Cuthberti (VCM). Both Augustine and Bede argue, with slight differences, that fallen
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
23

Lasseter, Helen Theresa Wood Ralph C. "Fate, providence, and free will : clashing perspectives of world order in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4845.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
24

Alger, Jean. "Aemilia Lanyer's threads in the tapestry of dialectical devotion /." Read thesis online, 2010. http://library.uco.edu/UCOthesis/AlgerJ2010.pdf.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
25

Kacarab, Katherine Elizabeth. "A Burkean analysis of Jehovah's Witness apocalyptic rhetoric." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3315.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis uses principles from Burke's Rhetoric of Identification to examine how apocalyptic prophecies foster and maintain an apocalyptic group identity. Jehovah's Witnesses were used as a sample apocalyptic group because they comprise a group with a heavy textual and symbolic focus on the apocalypse.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
26

Ridley, Sarah Elizabeth. ""That Every Christian May Be Suited": Isaac Watts's Hymns in the Writings of Early Mohegan Writers, Samson Occom and Joseph Johnson." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984204/.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis considers how Samson Occom and Joseph Johnson, Mohegan writers in Early America, used the hymns of English hymnodist, Isaac Watts. Each chapter traces how either Samson Occom or Joseph Johnson's adapted Isaac Watts's hymns for Native communities and how these texts are sites of affective sovereignty.
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
27

Falsberg, Elizabeth Laurie. "Ancrene wisse in its ethical and sociolinguistic setting /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9396.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
28

Reeve-Tucker, Alice Glen. "Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Catholicism : 1928-1939." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3469/.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis considers the development of Evelyn Waugh's and Graham Greene’s Catholicism between 1928 and 1939. Focusing predominantly on Waugh’s and Greene’s novels, it investigates how their writings express Catholic ideas, as well how their faith informs their views of human nature, their political sympathies, and their criticisms of modern secular civilization. While it recognizes the important differences between Waugh’s and Greene’s thinking in this period (such as their diverging political sympathies and their uses of different forms and genres of writing), it also establishes some signi
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
29

Erickson, Dena Marie Wright. "The Relationship Between Non-Native English Speakers' English Proficiency and their Callings in the LDS Church in the United States." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1995. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTAF,7948.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
30

Sisson, Richard Kimberly. "To Hold as T'were the Mirror Up to Hate: Terrence McNally's Response to the Christian Right in Corpus Christi." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08062007-155932/.

Full text
Abstract:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007.<br>Title from file title page. Matthew Roudane, committee chair; George Pullman, Thomas McHaney, committee members. Electronic text (201 [i.e. 200] p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed 19 Oct. 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-200).
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
31

Lee, Adam S. "The Platonism of Walter Pater." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5a0d6f60-85cf-4835-8212-0e7ad1561dcc.

Full text
Abstract:
After graduating from the Literae Humaniores course, which after the mid-nineteenth century came to revolve around Plato’s Republic, Walter Pater’s (1839-1894) professional duties spanning thirty years at Oxford were those of a philosophy teacher and lecturer of Plato. This thesis examines Pater’s deep engagement with Platonism in his work, from his earliest known piece, “Diaphaneitè” (1864), to his final book, Plato and Platonism (1893), treating both his criticism and fiction, including his studies on myth. Plato is an ideal philosopher, critic, and artist to Pater, exemplifying a literary c
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
32

Slaven, Craig D. "Southern Transfiguration: Competing Cultural Narratives of (Ec)centric Religion in the Works of Faulkner, O’Connor, and Hurston." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/31.

Full text
Abstract:
This project explores the ways in which key literary texts reproduce, undermine, or otherwise engage with cultural narratives of the so-called Bible Belt. Noting that the evangelicalism that dominated the South by the turn of the twentieth century was, for much of the antebellum period, a relatively marginal and sometimes subversive movement in a comparatively irreligious region, I argue that widely disseminated images and narratives instilled a false sense of nostalgia for an incomplete version of the South’s religious heritage. My introductory chapter demonstrates how the South’s commemorate
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
33

Lewis, Anna Christina Kohler. "WWJD /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2433.pdf.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
34

Adams, Sarah Joy. "Wonder, derision and fear the uses of doubt in Anglo-Saxon saints' lives /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1185822398.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
35

Williams, Eleanor. "The Divine and Miss Johanna." Ohio : Ohio University, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1145555978.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
36

Connolly, Margaret. "An edition of 'Contemplations of the dread and love of God'." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2786.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis presents an edition of Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God, a late Middle English devotional prose text for which no critical edition is currently available. I have transcribed and collated the text from all sixteen extant manuscripts and the 1506 printed edition. An investigation of the errors and variants according to the classical method of textual criticism has yielded little in the way of conclusive results, and it has therefore not proved possible to construct a stemma of manuscripts from the corpus of evidence as it now exists. My edition therefore uses one manuscrip
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
37

Lingscheid, Claudia. "Das 'Buch von den Neun Felsen' : Textgeschichte und Überlieferung mit einer kritischen Edition." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7194d405-a68a-47c1-89f6-145f826921ad.

Full text
Abstract:
Subject to this study is the Neunfelsenbuch ('Book of the Nine Cliffs'), an account of a vision, which is assumed to have originated in Strasbourg after 1352. Initially written in the German vernacular, it was widely circulated in various German dialects and in Dutch and Latin translation. The text exists in two versions: a long version, which is thought to be the work of Rulman Merswin (1382), a citizen of Strasbourg and founder of the convent at the 'Gruner Worth' (1367); and a short version of unknown authorship. Previous scholars have considered the long version to be Merswin's reformulati
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
38

Rogozhina, Anna. "'And from his side came blood and milk' : the martyrdom of St Philotheus of Antioch in Coptic Egypt." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:35b8fd5c-5c85-4b5f-81c8-77e0b66a165d.

Full text
Abstract:
My thesis examines the function and development of the cult of saints in Coptic Egypt. For this purpose I focus primarily on the material provided by the texts forming the Coptic hagiographical tradition of the early Christian martyr Philotheus of Antioch, and more specifically - the Martyrdom of St Philotheus of Antioch (Pierpont Morgan M583). This Martyrdom is a reflection of a once flourishing cult which is attested in Egypt by rich textual and material evidence. This text enjoyed great popularity not only in Egypt, but also in other countries of the Christian East, since his dossier includ
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
39

Bytheway, Emily. "Fealty and Free Will: Catholicism and the Master/Servant Relationship in The Lord of the Rings." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1969.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis asserts that one aspect of The Lord of the Rings which has been previously overlooked is the hierarchical nature of the master/servant relationship, which mirrors in many ways the hierarchical nature of the Catholic church. Through the various master/servant relationships that Tolkien portrays, he reflects not only the ideal of master and servant working together for good, but also the ways in which this intimate relationship can go horribly wrong. Aragorn represents an ideal master, one who is wise and good, and his servants are either rewarded or punished according to their loyal
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
40

Workman, Jameson Samuel. "Chaucerian metapoetics and the philosophy of poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8cf424fd-124c-4cb0-9143-e436c5e3c2da.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis places Chaucer within the tradition of philosophical poetry that begins in Plato and extends through classical and medieval Latin culture. In this Platonic tradition, poetry is a self-reflexive epistemological practice that interrogates the conditions of art in general. As such, poetry as metapoetics takes itself as its own object of inquiry in order to reinforce and generate its own definitions without regard to extrinsic considerations. It attempts to create a poetic-knowledge proper instead of one that is dependant on other modes for meaning. The particular manner in which this
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
41

Leduc, Natalie. "Dissensus and Poetry: The Poet as Activist in Experimental English-Canadian Poetry." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/38773.

Full text
Abstract:
Many of us believe that poetry, specifically activist and experimental poetry, is capable of intervening in our society, as though the right words will call people to action, give the voiceless a voice, and reorder the systems that perpetuate oppression, even if there are few examples of such instances. Nevertheless, my project looks at these very moments, when poetry alters the fabric of our real, to explore the ways these poetical interventions are, in effect, instances of what I have come to call “dissensual” poetry. Using Jacques Rancière’s concept of dissensus and the distribution of the
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
42

Soud, William David. "Toward a divinised poetics : God, self, and poeisis in W.B. Yeats, David Jones, and T.S. Eliot." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:331a692d-a40c-4d30-a05b-f0d224eb0055.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis examines the traces of theological and broader religious discourses in selected works of three major twentieth-century poets. Each of the texts examined in this thesis encodes within its poetics a distinct, theologically derived conception of the ontological status of the self in relation to the Absolute. Yeats primarily envisions the relation as one of essential identity, Jones regards it as defined by alterity, and Eliot depicts it as dialectical and paradoxical. Critics have underestimated the impact on Yeats’s late work of his final and most sustained engagement with Indic trad
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
43

Mejias, Sarah J. "Sense and Sensibility: A Sermon on Living the Examined Life." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2387.

Full text
Abstract:
Jane Austen’s novels remain an essential component of the literary canon, but her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, is frequently neglected. However, in Sense and Sensibility is the genesis of Austen’s technique through which her major characters cultivate and reveal a strong inner life, demonstrated through the character of Elinor Dashwood. This technique is a characteristic she incorporates in each of her succeeding novels. Her approach to literature centers on the interiority of her characters and their ability to change, but it her first novel Austen takes a unique approach. Fo
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
44

Curtis, Florence Sally Haines. "The intellectual scope of the 'mester de clerecía'." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ac9a4eb0-567f-4668-983e-897dce15bfff.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis investigates the first poetry written in Castilian by intellectuals, the 'mester de clerecía', ‘craft of clerics’. Exploring the unique circumstances of Iberia in the Middle Ages as a hub for the intellectual vanguard and a holy territory for encounters with saints, pilgrimage and Reconquest, I examine the canonical texts of an alleged thirteenth-century poetic school as the Castilian bedrock of a wider Iberian and European literary movement. Notably including analysis of the fourteenth-century "Libro de buen amor", a canonical work in its own right thought to parody the earlier po
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
45

Randall, Jennifer M. "Early Medieval Rhetoric: Epideictic Underpinnings in Old English Homilies." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/61.

Full text
Abstract:
Medieval rhetoric, as a field and as a subject, has largely been under-developed and under-emphasized within medieval and rhetorical studies for several reasons: the disconnect between Germanic, Anglo-Saxon society and the Greco-Roman tradition that defined rhetoric as an art; the problems associated with translating the Old and Middle English vernacular in light of rhetorical and, thereby, Greco-Latin precepts; and the complexities of the medieval period itself with the lack of surviving manuscripts, often indistinct and inconsistent political and legal structure, and widespread interspersion
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
46

Hong, Sara. "Moving Imitation: Performing Piety in Early Modern English Literature." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/644.

Full text
Abstract:
Thesis advisor: Mary T. Crane<br>Using the rich concept of imitatio as an organizing theme, this study explores the tangibility of faith and a privileging of an affective, embodied religious subjectivity in post-Reformation England. Moving Imitation asserts that literary and devotional concepts of imitatio--as the Humanist activity of translation and as imitatio Christi--were intensely interested in semiotics. Indeed, if the Renaissance was a period in which literary imitatio flourished, advancements in translation theory were not unaccompanied by anxieties--in this case, anxieties about the s
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
47

Prentiss, Apryl D. "For the Love of God?! Is there a place for Gay Christians between Faith and Fundamentalism?" VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/88.

Full text
Abstract:
Drawing from observation, autoethnography, ethnographic research and audio-taped interviews, this thesis explores the complicated and emotionally charged relationship between homosexuality and Christianity. The current culture war being waged in the media between the Religious Right and members of the LGBT community often results in the isolation and rejection of those who would define themselves as gay Christians. This thesis explores the role of the Bible as it informs and catalyzes this war and other foundational beliefs used as weapons in this rhetorical conflict. Additionally, this thes
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
48

Chapman, Alison Fiona. "Christina Rossetti and the aesthetics of the feminine." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1995. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3059/.

Full text
Abstract:
The act of contextual recovery that motivates New Historicist readings of Christina Rossetti's poetry has its own validity, but the consequence of recovery is often to posit a fully intentional, strong, and subversive subject position. An alternative critique is offered which interprets subjectivities as endlessly oscillating between positions of presence and absence, subject and object, silence and speech, here and elsewhere, and between the text and (impossibly) outside the text. This dynamic allows for a subtle matrix of collusion with, resistance to, and evasion of the representational sys
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
49

Kirakosian, Racha. "Schrift- und Schreibmystik : Christina von Hane." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:435af122-cc51-4f02-ac75-189227b104e5.

Full text
Abstract:
The subject of my thesis is a little-studied hagiographical work that gives important insights into rewriting processes and their significance in medieval textual culture. The anonymous Life of Christina of Hane, a thirteenth-century Premonstratensian nun from the Palatinate, is an example of bridal mysticism which combines the medieval tradition of the reception of the Song of Songs with hagiographic elements. A codicological and palaeographical analysis of the only manuscript shows it to be a sixteenth-century copy, but the type of mysticism and the theological questions that it discusses su
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
50

Currence, Cindy K. "Christina Rossetti: A Feminist Visionary." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625600.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!

To the bibliography