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Wessner, Mark Daren. "Face to face [panim ʼel panim] in Old Testament literature /". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.
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Albarran, Louis. "The Face of God at the End of the Road: The Sacramentality of Jack Kerouac in Lowell, America, and Mexico." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1375235381.
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Crossen, Maureen. "The question of God in the face of the problem of evil in light of Jürgen Moltmann's reading of scripture and eschatological literature /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Starke, Nathalie. "The Faces of Oppression : In Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Bluest Eye." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-25957.
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This essay examines the novels Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison with feminist and African Amerian theory. The focus is on opppression and I study the men's roles and functions, whether the male characters follow social structures, if patriarchy is something noticeable and how this affect the female characters.
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Cvetković, Carmen Angela. "Seeking the Face of God : a study on Augustine's reception in the mystical thought of Bernard of Clairvaux and William of St. Thierry." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1213.
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The present thesis examines the way in which two twelfth century authors, the Cistercian monks, Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153) and William of St. Thierry (c. 1080-1148), used Augustine (354-430) in the articulation of their mystical thought. The approach to this subject takes into account the fact that in the works of all these medieval authors the “mystical” element is inescapably entangled with their theological discourse and that an accurate understanding of their views on the soul’s direct encounter with God cannot be achieved without a discussion of their theology. This thesis posits that the cohesion of Bernard’s and William’s mystical thought lies in their appropriation of the guiding principle of Augustine’s mystical theology: “You made us for yourself and our heart is restless until it rests in you” (conf. 1.1.1), reflected in the subtle interplay of three main themes, namely (1) the creation of humanity in the image and likeness of God, which provides the grounds for the understanding of the soul’s search for direct contact with God; (2) love as a longing innate in every human being, which explores the means to attain immediacy with God; and (3) the soul’s direct encounter with God, which discusses the nature of the soul’s immediate experience of the divine presence that can only be achieved in lasting fullness at the end of time. This examination of Bernard’s and William’s use of Augustine is structured on the basis of these three core themes which form the scaffolding of their mystical thought. Investigating the specific methods of their reception of Augustine will highlight the originality and uniqueness of each of the two Cistercian authors, who while drawing on the same patristic source use it nevertheless in various ways, by focussing on different aspects of Augustine’s immense oeuvre and by arriving at distinct mystical programmes.
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Marbais, Peter Christian. "The fate of this poor woman men, women, and intersubjectivity in Moll Flanders and Roxana /." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1112111031.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2005.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (Aug. 9, 2006). Advisor: Vera J. Camden. Keywords: intersubjectivity; Moll Flanders; Roxana; Fate; Providence. Includes bibliographical references (p. 347- 361).
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MAKXIMOVITZ, CLAUZEMIR. "THE FACE OF GOD AND HIS CARICATURES: A THEOLOGICAL STUDY ON LIMITS OF LANGUAGE ABOUT GOD." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30387@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>FUNDAÇÃO DE APOIO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>BOLSA NOTA 10<br>A pergunta acerca das imagens de Deus questiona vários pressupostos da fé e da tradição. A compreensão de Revelação talvez seja a primeira e mais importante. Daí decorre um itinerário que esse trabalho quer abordar apontando algumas consequências para a fé e a vivência dessa fé. Não é mais possível alimentar um discurso fantasioso como justificação ou legitimação de um agir egoísta. Não se nos atermos à transformação necessária na imagem de Deus, que não castiga, interfere ou escolhe apenas alguns. A superação dos limites de um deus externo e interventor gera uma postura nova naquele que crê. Essa pesquisa segue esse caminho, de libertação dos conceitos acerca de Deus apontando como consequências o diálogo, com Deus e com o outro, a autonomia e liberdade do ser humano e a responsabilidade que disso advém em relação ao mundo e à realidade criada. Para tanto este trabalho confronta diversos autores sobre os assuntos tratados, concedendo, contudo à reflexão de Andrés Torres Queiruga um espaço maior.<br>The question about the images of God challenges several pillars of faith and tradition. Perhaps the undestanding of Revelation is the first and most important one. Considering that, an itinerary arises, and this work intends to follow it, pointing few consequences for the faith and for the experience of this faith. There is no possibility anymore to strenghten a fantastic speech as justification or legitimization for a selfish acting. Not if we focus on the necessary transformation of the God s image, that doesn t punish, doesn t interfere, doesn t select only a few ones. Overcoming the limits of an external and intervenor god generates a new attitude from that one who has faith. This research, follows this path for to release the concepts about God, by pointing as consequences the dialogue with God and with each other, the human autonomy, freedom and the responsabily that comes from that, about the worl and all reality created by God. For that purpose, this dissertation compares and analyses different authors about the subjects matters, granting a large space to reflection of Andrés Torres Queiruga.
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Nirenburg, Gabriela A. "The Gods Within: Checkhov, Lorca, and the Internalization of Tragic Fate." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1480884187543559.
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Heilpern, Anya Elizabeth. "See God face to face : pray for the King : the painted glass of Winchester Cathedral, c1495-c1515." Thesis, University of York, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19538/.
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This thesis is the first detailed modern study of the painted glass installed in the Lady Chapel and presbytery of Winchester Cathedral between c1495 and c1515. The thesis sets the Winchester glass in its wider artistic context. It confirms the glass as a key example of the glass painting style popular at this period, which has been described elsewhere as “Anglo-Netherlandish”, preferring to label it more broadly “Anglo-Continental”. It then describes the physical context for the glass within the cathedral. It considers the building schemes of which the glazing formed part, and discusses new research which helps to date the glass. The analysis of the earlier glass in the presbytery contributes to the debate on the dating of the presbytery clerestory windows. Much of the glass is lost, dispersed, and jumbled, so a crucial task has been to try to reconstruct as much of the subject matter and layout as possible. The thesis also considers what the glass may have meant to its audience, showing how effectively the schemes supported the liturgy. The thesis concludes with a broad discussion on patronage, suggesting the intellectual and social context within which the glass was commissioned. It is argued that the glass was part of a programme of royal commemoration, which was widespread and obligatory under Henry VII. New circumstantial evidence supports the possibility of contributions to the Lady Chapel works by the king, by courtiers and by Bishop Langton. It is proposed that Langton is likely to have been a significant influence on the Lady Chapel glass. Bishop Fox’s contribution to the presbytery work is defined more closely than previously. It is argued that Fox’s glazing, depicting traditional subjects in the most up to date painting style, was part of his attempt to reinvigorate the church on the eve of the Reformation.
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Blaise, Aboua Kumassi Koffi. "Macunaíma / Kaydara: dois espelhos face a face. Ler Macunaíma sem rir." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8149/tde-12092012-120553/.
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Explorar outros caminhos, até agora pouco seguidos, no intuito de participar de forma pertinente do debate acerca da inteligibilidade de Macunaíma de Mário de Andrade, isto, pode ser considerado o eixo que norteia este estudo comparado. Para levar adiante esta pesquisa comparativa apelamos para Kaydara, não apenas por ser uma obra prima da literatura africana de expressão francesa, mas também porque traz o olhar de dentro para fora de uma sociedade tradicional africana, capaz de dialogar com a literatura brasileira a ponto de lançar luz sobre alguns elementos culturais de origem afro-brasileira presentes nela. Por isso, fomos mergulhar naquilo que a maioria das sociedades africanas considera sua referência na Antiguidade: o Egito Antigo. Agora, quando se põem duas obras de grande valor estético frente a frente, o que sói acontecer é uma ajudar a ler a outra, por isso, nossa abordagem deixa de ser unilateral para privilegiar uma relação de leitura mútua, dando destaque às mais variadas consequências disso.<br>Explore other ways, until now little followed in order to participate in a meaningful way to the debate about the intelligibility of Macunaíma, this can be taken as the shaft that drives this comparative study. To carry out this comparative research we appeal to Kaydara, not only because it is a masterpiece of african french literature, but also because it brings - the look of the inside of a traditional african society, capable to converse with the brazilian literature, point to shed light on some cultural elements of afro-brazilian origin present in it. So we have been diving in what the vast majority of african societies consider his reference in antiquity: Ancient Egypt. Now, when you put two works of great aesthetic value face to face, which is usually happen is one help to read other, so our approach is no longer unilateral and privilege a relationship of mutual reading, highlighting various consequences.
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MARQUES, LEANDRO FREDERICO DA SILVA. "A GOD CONCERNED WITH HUMANITY THE EXPERIENCE OF GOD IN JESUS FACE TO NARCISISM EXISTENT IN THE CONTEMPORARY NEW RELIGIOSITY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2003. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=3738@1.
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Um Deus preocupado com a humanidade reflete sobre a questão
da experiência religiosa hodierna. Tem como ponto de
partida e preocupação de fundo a emergência atual de uma
nova religiosidade cujo influxo no cristianismo vem
subtraindo do seguimento concreto de Jesus Cristo a
dimensão de solidariedade com o semelhante. Trata-se, com
efeito, da atuação crescente do narcisismo e de sua outra
face, a indiferença, mutilando a fé cristã. Seguindo o
esquema ver-julgar-agir, a presente dissertação contrapõe
uma tal religiosidade à compreensão de Edward Schillebeeckx
acerca da experiência de Deus vivida por Jesus de Nazaré
enquanto servo e anunciador do reino de Deus. O objetivo é
responder à pergunta pela contribuição do eminente teólogo
para a superação do narcisismo e da indiferença
identificados no cristianismo contemporâneo.
Finalmente sublinha, à guisa de conclusão, a leitura da
experiência de Deus de Jesus como experiência de um Deus
preocupado com a humanidade: eis a contribuição fundamental
de Schillebeeckx para a superação do narcisismo e da
indiferença e, por conseguinte, para o resgate da vivência
integral da fé cristã como amor a Deus e amor ao próximo.<br>A God concerned with humanity reflects on the matter of
today´s religious experience. Its starting point and main
concerned is the current urge of a new religiosity whose
influx into Christianity has been subtracting the
dimension of solidarity with the fellow man from the
concrete following of Jesus Christ. Indeed, it is about the
increasing influence of narcissism and its other face,
indifference, which mutilate the Christian faith. By
following the seejudge-act scheme, the present dissertation
puts such religiosity against Edward Schillebeeckx`s
comprehension of the experience of God lived by Jesus of
Nazareth as a servant and an announcer of the kingdom of
God. Its objective is to answer the question through the
contribution of that eminent theologian to overcome the
narcissism and the indifference identified in contemporary
Christianity. In order to conclude, it finally emphasizes
the analysis of Jesus´ experience of God as an experience
of a God concerned with the humanity: this is the
fundamental contribution of Schillebeeckx to overcome
narcissism and indifference and, therefore, to rescue the
whole life experience of the Christian faith as love for
God and love for the fellow man.
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Mann, Neil. "Yeats's A Vision : ideas of man and god." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270115.
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Thompson, Lynda Ann. "Cultural Determinism in "Their Eyes Were Watching God"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625890.
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Cleary, Kathleen Colligan. "Playing God in live theatre: the politics of representation /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487848891513182.
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Kim, Stephanie B. "Postcolonial Literature: Dualities in the God of Small Things." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/659.
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This thesis delves into the postcolonial genre, examining the novel, The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, and how it highlights the duality in gender roles, social class, and postcolonial society through the narrative style and language.
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Cathcart, Timothy John. "Touching the Face of God: Religion, Technology, and the United States Air Force." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30120.
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The goal of my project is a detailed analysis of the technological culture of the United States Air Force from a Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective. In particular, using the metaphor of the Air Force as religion helps in understanding a culture built on matters of life-and-death. This religious narrative—with the organizational roles of actors such as priests, prophets, and laity, and the institutional connotations of theological terms such as sacredness—is a unique approach to the Air Force. An analysis of how the Air Force interacts with technology—the very thing that gives it meaning—from the social construction of technology approach will provide a broader understanding of this relationship.
Mitcham's dichotomy of the engineering philosophy of technology (EPT) and the humanities philosophy of technology (HPT) perspectives provides a methodology for analyzing Air Force decisions and priorities. I examine the overarching discourse and metaphor—consisting of techniques, technologies, experiences, language, and religion—in a range of historical case studies describing the sociological and philosophical issues of the Air Force.
As the Air Force is the offspring of the U.S. Army, these examples begin with the Civil War era and the invention of the Gatling gun before moving to the interwar period's Air Corps Tactical School and its seminal organizational thinking about the aircraft. Moving to the more modern times after the birth of the Air Force, I describe and compare the Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center and the Air Mobility Warfare Center, two organizations interacting with technology from different organizational archetypes. The final example is the Department of Defense Readiness Reporting System, an information technology application at the focal point of cultural change affecting not just the Air Force but the entire Department of Defense. Finally, I will conclude with a chapter on policy considerations and recommendations for the Air Force based on the Air Force religion, a balance of both people and technology, and with an eye toward the future of U.S. military operations.
The primary goal is to answer three questions: is the U.S. Air Force truly a religion? If so, how should that affect its approach to technology and technological change? With an eye toward consciously building the future, how has the Air Force religion shaped the organization in the past?
[The attached document is cleared by the Department of Defense for public release (OSR Case 09-S-0496).]<br>Ph. D.
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Tranberg, Josefin, and Matilda Åström. "God avkodningsförmåga är grunden till god läsförmåga : En experimentell studie med metoden Bravkod." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-30148.
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Att utveckla en god avkodning är ett viktigt mål för att erövra en god läsförmåga och för att öka motivationen. En god läsförmåga och en stark motivation är betydelsefulla förmågor för att en individ ska kunna verka i dagens samhälle. Ett effektivt sätt för att utveckla avkodningsförmågan är enligt forskning att arbeta med metoden Bravkod. I denna studie har Bravkods effekt på avkodningsförmågan, läsförståelsen och motivationen hos fyra elever i årskurs 2 med lässvårigheter undersökts. Eleverna fick vid två till tre tillfällen i veckan under fem veckor utföra ett arbetspass med metoden Bravkod. Även en kontrollgrupp med fyra elever ingick i studien. Eleverna i kontrollgruppen valdes ut utifrån att de fått likvärdiga resultat gällande avkodningsförmågan som eleverna i träningsgruppen. Eleverna i kontrollgruppen fick ingen Bravkodundervisning. Alla elever i både träningsgruppen och kontrollgruppen genomförde för- och eftertester. Elevernas resultat jämfördes sedan mot varandra för att urskilja Bravkods effekt. Likt tidigare forskning indikerade vår studie att Bravkod är en metod som med fördel kan användas för att hjälpa elever att utveckla en god avkodningsförmåga och därmed även en god läsförståelse. I vår studie hade Bravkod en positiv effekt på avkodningsförmågan i tre av fyra fall. Tre av fyra elever som fick Bravkodundervisning förbättrade även sin läsförståelse. Dock var det i vår studie svårt att urskilja hur stor effekt Bravkod hade i dessa fall. Eleverna i träningsgruppen besvarade även en enkät. Resultatet indikerade även här att Bravkod hade en positiv inverkan i de fall där det gick att bedöma förändringen avseende motivationen.
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Lemay, Vicky Blue. "Shakespeare's posthumus God postmodern theory, theater, and theology /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3278449.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-10, Section: A, page: 4308. Adviser: Linda Charnes. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 19, 2008).
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White, Barbara A., and mikewood@deakin edu au. "'Beyond God the father' : The metaphysical in a physical world." Deakin University. School of Literary and Communication Studies, 2002. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050825.154051.
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Schaap-Jonker, Hanneke. "Before the face of God : an interdisciplinary study of the meaning of the sermon and the hearer's God image, personality and affective state /." Wien ; Zürich Berlin Münster : Lit, 2008. http://d-nb.info/989460851/04.
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Omberg, Katie. "The liberation of God : women writing a new theology /." South Hadley, Mass. : [s.n.], 2008. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2008/259.pdf.
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Palfi, Benike. "From demon to god : the evolution of the vampire in literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11162.
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Includes bibliographical references.<br>Vampires may be centuries-old mythological creatures, but depictions thereof abound in our modern society in literature, film, and television. The prevalence of the vampire is related to its enormous symbolic power to reflect socio-cultural conditions of society at the time of its creation, which not only determines how the vampire figure has changed within modern literary history, but also makes it possible to pinpoint certain social conditions influencing this change. The aspects of religion and capitalism, and, directly associated with this, consumerism, emerge as particularly relevant when analysing the changes of the fictional vampire, as they are both effective measures of socio-cultural circumstances and have been associated with the vampire figure - in terms of its creation, nature, and specific characteristics - in the history of mythology and literature. It is through tracing the themes of religion and capitalism within primary vampire texts at key moments in history that a greater understanding of how and why the vampire figure has changed may be gained.
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Puttagunta, S. "Seeing the face of YHWH/God : an exegetical study of selected tests in the Pentateuch." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546414.
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Lichi, Anthony J. "Artful conversions Renaissance rhetorics in the name of God and profit /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3332473.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History of Art and the Dept. of Comparative Literature, 2008.<br>Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 14, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-09, Section: A, page: 3360. Advisers: Giancarlo Maiorino; Giles Knox.
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Fowler, Bo. "'The astrological diary of God' and the SciFi-satiric-comic-philosophical novel." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302089.
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Clay, Kevin M. "Asleep in the Arms of God." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2253/.
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A work of creative fiction in the form of a short novel, Asleep in the Arms of God is a limited-omniscient and omniscient narrative describing the experiences of a man named Wafer Roberts, born in Jack County, Texas, in 1900. The novel spans the years from 1900 to 1925, and moves from the Keechi Valley of North Texas, to Fort Worth and then France during World War One, and back again to the Keechi Valley. The dissertation opens with a preface, which examines the form of the novel, and regional and other aspects of this particular work, especially as they relate to the postmodern concern with fragmentation and conditional identity. Wafer confronts in the novel aspects of his own questionable history, which echo the larger concern with exploitative practices including racism, patriarchy, overplanting and overgrazing, and pollution, which contribute to and climax in the postmodern fragmentation. The novel attempts to make a critique of the exploitative rage of Western civilization.
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Mouw, Jack Curtis. "The tragic insight and the economy of sacrifice : Nietzsche, Dionysus, the death of God /." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487670346874525.
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Serock, Erica. "Shades of Color: The Changing Face of Children's Literature." Thesis, Boston College, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/380.
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Thesis advisor: Susan A. Michalczyk<br>Children's literature possesses the power to crumble walls of prejudice, open the mind to unlimited possibilities and perhaps most importantly, entertain children whatever their race, age or social status. Many people have such fond memories of the books they read as children that, should you demand of any American college student what his favorite book was as a child, and he will find it difficult to narrow his selection down to just one. Ask any American child what her favorite movie during childhood and inherently nine out of ten children will choose a movie made by Walt Disney. Indeed literature and the stories of childhood play an important role in the intellectual and psychological development of human beings. During childhood, the literature children read and have read to them often lay the seeds for their future views of themselves and the world. If this were the case, then how much caution should be taken with the themes of these books? Children's literature is defined as "books that are good for children, written with their general necessities and entertainment in mind." The “goodness” of these books is determined not only in their vivid creativity and wildly imaginative stories, but as well in the long lasting lessons they impart upon the children who read them. These books give a child a glimpse into distant lands far away from the suburb they live in or the city in whose parks they play every day. As well, literature can also cultivate cultural prejudices and stereotypes that can either damage a child's developing psyche or improve it. From its inception, children's literature has always been meant to shape and mold children to the will of society. The questions remains to be answered, if literature holds such power over us, then what control should responsible publishers, teachers, librarians and parents exercise in determining what their children should be reading? Where does one draw the line between education and politics in the world of children's literature? In order to fully examine this question and comprehend its implications, one must first examine the history of children's literature and what it originally desired to achieve. Then, once the evolution has been traced, one can analyze the future and determine where the shifts that have occurred in children's literature throughout the eras are leading us in the years to follow<br>Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2003<br>Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: Education, Lynch School of<br>Discipline: College Honors Program
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Shanks, Monte A. "The church's present participation in the kingdom of God in Pauline literature." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Yoon, Young Ho. "Fénélon's spirituality of God-centeredness and self-abandonment an evangelical evaluation in light of John Piper's Desiring God /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1118.
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Ohlsson, Lina, and Amanda Sköldenäs. "Oh my God! : - Engelska lån i barns vardagssvenska på YouTube." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-50902.
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Du, Plessis Hermanus Johannes. "'Child and serpent, star and stone - all alone' the duality of God and nature in children's literature /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-12192005-121046/.
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Lima, Eduardo Sales de. "A face amável do Deus terrível: uma hermenêutica do confronto a partir do imaginário bíblico." Faculdades EST, 2013. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=471.
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Esse trabalho tem, por objetivo, reconhecer as estruturas que usam o imaginário divino para legitimar a perpetuação do poder. Para essa compreensão foi usada a hermenêutica filológica e historiográfica modernas, sensíveis às estruturas e manipulações ideológicas. Filologia, segundo Bakhtin e Benveniste, e historiografia para a escola de Annáles. De posse dessas perspectivas hermenêuticas, foi possível avançar em direção ao imaginário bíblico. A Bíblia foi entendida como instrumento de controle usado para legitimar as estruturas de poder do mundo antigo. Nessa pesquisa, o imaginário do mundo antigo figurou como uma espécie de teologia global, em que o imaginário de um Deus Terrível era usado, nas nações do Crescente Fértil, para legitimar a dominação e a perpetuação do poder. Por fim, apoiado na hermenêutica dialógica, foi possível confrontar o imaginário do Deus Terrível com o Deus Amável. A escrita do Segundo Testamento segue os textos de resistência da Bíblia Hebraica e revelam uma dimensão dialógica. O Deus Amável é uma resposta ao Deus Terrível pregado pela ideologia dominante. Essa reflexão permitiu a releitura de diversos textos de confronto para recuperação do sentido. Essa pesquisa é relevante para a prática pastoral, pois a leitura comunitária da Bíblia ainda não percebeu as manipulações ideológicas em que o texto foi produzido.<br>That work has, for objective, to recognize the structures that use the imaginary divine to legitimate the perpetuation of the power. For that understanding it was used the modern philological historiografic hermeneutics, sensitive to the structures and ideological manipulations. Philology, according to Bakhtin and Benveniste, and historiography to the school of Annáles. Of ownership of those perspectives hermeneutics, it was possible to move forward towards the imaginary biblical. The Bible was understood as a control instrument used to legitimate the structures of power of the old world. In that research, the imaginary of the old world was represented as a kind of global theology, in that the imaginary of a Terrible God was used, in the nations of the Fertile Crescent, to legitimate the dominance and the perpetuation of the power. Finally, leaning in the dialogical hermeneutics , it was possible to confront the imaginary of Terrible God with Kind God. The writing of the second testament follows the texts of resistance of the Hebraic Bible and they reveal a dialogical dimension. Kind God is an answer to Terrible God preached by the dominant ideology. That reflection allowed the re-read of several confrontation texts for recovery of the meaning. That research is relevant for the pastoral practice, because the community's reading of the Bible still didn't notice the ideological manipulations in that the text was produced.
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Porter, Daniel F. "God among the gods an analysis of the function of Yahweh in the divine council of Deuteronomy 32 and Psalm 82 /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2010. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
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Hornsey, Elizabeth. "At Face Value: Facial Difference, Facial Reconstructive Surgery and Face Transplants in Literature and Other Texts." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1627661976152915.
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Orr, Meital. "God and the Devil in the Human Heart: The Dialogic Vision of Abramovitch and Dostoevsky." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10091.
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Scholarship on the founder of modern Jewish literature, Sholem Abramovitch (1836-1917), is a rich field of study, yet it has been largely abandoned today, and the author has hardly been studied at all in nineteenth-century comparative European context. This study uses an unprecedented comparison between Abramovitch and his contemporary, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), to reveal the complexity with which Abramovitch pioneered the integration of European and Russian literary trends into Jewish literature. These writers came from very different cultures and literary situations; however, they also shared many of the same influences due to their shared location in Tsarist Russia in the mid nineteenth century. During this time, the cultural sources and social preoccupations of their intelligentsias increasingly converged, producing a shared zeitgeist which – in combination with their similar early experiences and tendencies for dialogism (contradictory duality) – led to their many literary intersections. A comparison of their oeuvres reveals similar replacements of Gogol’s condescension toward poor protagonists with compassion, subversions of the feuilleton in the service of social critique, unprecedented uses of the “dialogic word,” new variations on the European theme of the “fantastic city,” applications of contemporary concepts such as “necessary egoism” and “free will” to the psyche of the downtrodden, enlistments of the Devil to warn against the dangers of Utilitarianism, and literary efforts to bridge the gap between the classes which include a convergence between romanticism and religion. Though Abramovitch has been designated as a satirist and realist, this study shows how he also pioneered the integration of romanticism into Jewish literature through, psychological penetration of the poor, and themes such as: the truth inherent in emotion, the subconscious and folklore, the transcendent wisdom of the people, and the divine meaning of nature. Abramovitch has been compared on isolated themes with other Russian writers, such as Turgenev, Shchedrin and Gogol; however, only a comparison with Dostoevsky can reveal the nuance and complexity of his many formal and thematic achievements.<br>Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Langdale, K. "God, the narrator and the quest for an aesthetic in Samuel Beckett's prose fiction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234293.
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El-Murr, Leila. "Seeing God: the use of theories of vision in Jāmī's «Yūsuf va Zulaykhā»." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=123126.
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In this study, I will argue that the difference between profane love and sacred love, as examined in Jāmī's masnavī Yūsuf va Zulaykhā, can be conceptualized through vision and narrative planning. Jami's tale centers on Zulaykhā's love for Yusuf and her subsequent conversion to monotheism. The text makes extensive use of the sense of sight, especially through the trope of jelvah-i maḥbūb, the blinding hierophany of the beloved, to create meaning and to illustrate the transformation of Zulaykhā's profane love into sacred love. This transformation occurs in several stages, each of which conveys philosophical and mystical doctrines from Ibn 'Arabī.<br>Lors de cette étude, nous argumenterons que la différence entre l'amour profane et l'amour sacré, tel que présentée par Jāmī dans le masnavī Yūsuf va Zulaykhā, peut s'exprimer par la vision et la répartition du récit. Le récit de Jāmī se concentre autour de l'amour de Zulaykhā pour Yūsuf et sa conséquente conversion au monothéisme. Le texte utilise le sens de la vue , surtout à travers la figure de style jelvah-i maḥbūb, la hiérophanie éblouissante du bien-aimé, afin d'illustrer et de donner un sens à la transformation de l'amour profane de Zulaykhā en amour sacré. Cette transformation a lieu en plusieurs étapes, chacune communiquant des doctrines mystiques et philosophiques d'Ibn 'Arabī.
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Hannah, Kathleen. "He was a Glance from God: Mythic Analogues for Tea Cake Woods in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." TopSCHOLAR®, 1992. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2420.
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The use of myth in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God has been touched on by a few critics, but the wealth of Hurston's knowledge of different cultures offers readers a number of stories and tales from which to draw possible analogues to her characters. In fact, readers can trace Greek, Roman, Norse, Babylonian, Egyptian, African and African-American mythic elements in her character Tea Cake Woods. Hurston uses these analogues to enrich the characterization and to posit her theories of love and happiness in the modern age.
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Stockdale, Emily. "Language and the creation of characters in Arundhati Roy's The God of small things." View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-1/stockdalee/emilystockdale.pdf.
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Wilkes, Kristin. "God and the Novel: Religion and Secularization in Antebellum American Fiction." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18713.
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My dissertation argues that the study of antebellum American religious novels is hindered by the secularization narrative, the widely held conviction that modernity entails the decline of religion. Because this narrative has been refuted by the growing field of secularization theory and because the novel is associated with modernity, the novel form must be reexamined. Specifically, I challenge the common definition of the novel as a secular form.
By investigating novels by Lydia Maria Child, Susan Warner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Hannah Bond, I show that religion and the novel form are not opposed. In fact, scholars' unexamined and unacknowledged definitions of religion and secularity cause imprecision. For example, the Marxist definition of religion as ideology causes misrepresentations of novels with evangelical purposes, such as Warner's <i>The Wide, Wide World</i> and Bond's <i>The Bondwoman's Narrative</i>. Both novels feature protagonists who submit--one to patriarchy and the other to slavery--a stance that appears masochistic to feminist scholars and critics of slave narratives, respectively. However, attending to the biblical allusions, divine interventions, and theological arguments that saturate these texts places them in another framework altogether and reveals that they are commenting not on one's relationship with other humans but with God.
Likewise, unexamined definitions of the secular are problematic because critics often conflate two definitions: the etymological sense of "earthly" and the modern sense of "anti-religious." This slippage underlies the view that religious literature of the nineteenth century became less religious, when it simply became more grounded in daily life. Therefore, to label as "secular" an author like Stowe, who promoted an earthly, lived Christianity, is only accurate if one means "mundane."
Finally, my dissertation demonstrates that literary criticism itself relies on the secularization narrative, perceiving itself as modern and progressive. This reliance obscures the role literature has played in constructing this narrative. For example, colonial novels like <i>Hobomok</i> and <i>The Scarlet Letter</i> rewrite American religious history to exclude Calvinism. Noting how our investment in secularity has delimited interpretive possibilities, this project opens the way for increased clarity in the study of religion in literature.
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St-Onge, Simon. "La fille d'en face : création romanesque et réflexion théorique." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6269.
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Lorsque j'ai décidé de rédiger une thèse en création, ce n'est pas un thème particulier ou une histoire que j'avais en tête; c'était plutôt une structure narrative bien spécifique: le récit est pris en charge par deux auteurs distincts, un homme et une femme, auxquels ont a demandé d'écrire, conjointement, un roman. Ils doivent, chacun leur tour, rédiger un chapitre, le récit de l'un alimentant celui de l'autre dans ce qui constitue une seule et même histoire. L'histoire en question met en scène Vincent et Gabrielle, sa compagne. Alors que le couple tente d'avoir un enfant, Vincent devient peu à peu obsédé par sa voisine d'en face.
À cette partie «fictive» se joignent les réflexions personnelles des écrivains à propos du processus créatif: leurs réactions face à la mise en intrigue de leur partenaire, leur motivation, implication, etc. C'est à travers la présence--implicite ou explicite--de leurs instances narratrices et des manipulations du contenu narratif (mise en scène, point de vue, distance et profondeur, relation narrateur-personnage) que l'on peut déceler les «motivations» des auteurs. La question du pouvoir du narrateur, le jeu qui existe entre l'auteur, son narrateur, les personnages et le lecteur: voilà ce que j'ai tenté d'exploiter dans cet exercice de style.
Le concept du point de vue est donc au caeur de ce projet romanesque; la réflexion théorique s'efforce de dégager les corrélations entre le récit et les différentes perspectives qui le dirigent. Avec l'aide de Pouillon, Genette et Lintvelt, je m'attarde aux problématiques du mode et de la voix (qui voit , qui parle et de quelles façons), tout en soulignant les influences de la structure et de la technique sur le matériel narratif, de l'expérience créative sur la forme et ses instruments.
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Ellington, Scott Arthur. "Reality, remembrance, and response : the presence and absence of God in the psalms of lament." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3057/.
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This study explores the ways in which Israel understood Yahweh to be present by focusing on those psalms of lament which report that God is silent, absent, or hidden and which present him with memories of his presence to save. The study begins by examining the use of memory recitals of Yahweh's creation, the exodus experience of Israel, and the personal experiences of the writer as the primary resources for approaching God in the psalms of lament. Special attention is given to the tension created by the psalmist between the present experience of God's absence and memories of his presence to save. This is then followed by a survey of current writings on God's presence and absence. Next, the study explores issues in Psalms research which relate to the theme of God's presence and absence as it is expressed in the Psalms. Attention is given to the problem of speaking of God acting in human history and to the debate over whether the Psalms have their origin and use primarily in the cultic setting or in the private lives of the community. Also, various understandings of the experiences of presence and absence are considered. This is followed by an exegetical study of seven psalms, with particular attention being given to the tension between experienced absence and remembered presence, the move from lament to praise, and the response to God's salvation of offering testimony before the great assembly. The final part of the study explores the psalmist's use of experiences of reality, memory, testimony, and story as a means of approaching God in the silence in light of the preceding exegetical study.
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Case, Christopher David. ""I See You Face to Face": The Poet-Reader Relationship in Walt Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"." Thesis, Boston College, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/445.
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Thesis advisor: Robert Kern<br>In this paper, I argue that Walt Whitman alters his poetic program from his first to second edition of Leaves of Grass. By intensifying the emphasis on individuality and personality, Whitman overcomes the limitations of his vastness by allowing for intimate contact with a future reader. I continue to argue that the poem "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" exemplifies the emphasis on individuality and personal union. Instead of assuming a relationship with his reader, Whitman sets for himself the goal of making this relationship possible<br>Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004<br>Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: English<br>Discipline: College Honors Program
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Key, Laura. "Face value : representations of money in American literature, 1896-1944." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/face-value-representations-of-money-in-american-literature-18961944(6a2ed6f3-0a55-4dd7-91b8-a96ebedffef2).html.
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This thesis analyses the significance of socio-historical conceptions of money in relation to the development of American literary modernism from 1896 to 1944. Taking as its starting point Jean-Joseph Goux's contention that there was a correlation between the end of gold-backed money in France and the birth of French modernist literature, this study considers how far this claim is tenable in the American case. In 1896, the key debate surrounding the presidential election was over whether money should be backed by gold or silver specie, which became a major public issue. Faith in the gold standard was challenged, raising the possibility that the source of monetary value was negotiable. Subsequent policy changes, financial panics, the Depression and the World Wars all affected public conceptions of money, until the Bretton Woods Agreement instituted an international gold standard supported by the gold-backed U.S. dollar in 1944, effectively re-establishing a firm relationship between gold and money. Since the 1990s, New Economic Criticism has sought to understand the ways in which money and literature converge throughout history. Although several studies of money and American literary realism have been undertaken, the relationship between money and American literary modernism specifically has largely been overlooked in scholarship. Analysing the works of Robert Herrick, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Dos Passos, this thesis contends that a certain strand of American modernism developed as a series of reflections upon the relationship between money, value and realistic representation, in which the limitations of realism are exposed. Calling for a re-historicisation of the relationship between money and literature, this study argues that particular socio-historical moments in the story of American money emphasised the fluidity of money, sending social conceptions of value into flux in a society in which money functioned as the general equivalent by which all values were measured. These moments when accepted face values were called into question offered American writers the language and structure by which to consider and challenge the limitations of existing literary forms by comparing money with literature. Both paper money and literature, forms of representation which function via the inscription of words upon paper, contain an inherent duality; they have both a material value, in terms of their composition from paper and ink, and a deeper capacity to represent a certain value in the society in which they circulate. Modernism is concerned with such a duality, emphasising the materiality of the text and exposing the text's status as a representation that can never equal the reality that it represents. The authors discussed here confronted the discrepancy between written language as a reflection of the real world and words as material constructs in themselves through the metaphor of money, manifesting in both textual theme and structure, where the boundaries of realist representation are broken down via the use of unconventional forms. Utilising the method of close textual analysis and situating the texts examined within the wider socio-historical contexts of which they were born, the thesis focuses upon four different moments in the story of U.S. money and literature. This historically contingent approach facilitates the argument that these literary texts function as sites at which to examine and come to terms with contemporaneous social issues, helping to broaden both the purpose and structure of American literature in the early-twentieth century.
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OLIVEIRA, ANA MÁRCIA SANTANA DE. "THE HUMAN FACE OF GOD IN THE VICTIMS: ETHIC, MYSTIC AND PROPHECY IN THEOLOGY BY JON SOBRINO." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2011. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=17431@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>O Deus de Jesus Cristo nos convoca sempre a optar pelas vítimas deste
mundo. Nosso trabalho acadêmico concentra-se na esperança das mesmas e na
promessa de resgatá-las como chave de leitura hermenêutica teológica. Aspira-se
reconhecer que na Teologia de Jon Sobrino existe uma urgente necessidade do zelo
teológico centrado no Mistério da presença misericordiosa de Deus na história. Neste
sentido, amplia-se o olhar para os novos rostos de vítimas na realidade Latino-
Americana e Caribenha que emergem da Globalização. E com a convicção de que
fazer teologia a partir de testemunhas enriquece e aprofunda a teologia de textos, o
ensejo é registrar e aclamar o rosto humano de Deus nas vítimas, enfocando a ética,
a mística e a profecia à luz da teologia de Jon Sobrino.<br>The God of Jesus Christ calls upon us to opt for the victims of this world. Our
essay focuses on the hope of these victims and on the promise of rescuing them as the
key of theological hermeneutic reading. We aspire to acknowledge that in Jon
Sobrino’s theology there is an urgent need for the theological concern, centered in the
Mystery of God’s merciful presence throughout history. With that in mind, attention
given to the new victims brought up by globalization in the reality of Latin America
and Caribbean must be amplified. Our aim is to register and proclaim the human
face of God in the victims, focusing on ethics, mystique and in the prophecy in the
light of Jon Sobrino’s theology, with the conviction that making theology from
witnesses enriches and deepens the text’s theology.
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Mayer, Adam P. "“The Fist in the Face of God”: The Decentralized Diffusion of Heavy Metal Music through the Internet." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1314362557.
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Glasburgh, Michele M. "Chick lit: the new face of postfeminist fiction?" Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/349.
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This study is a content analysis of ten chick lit books, a genre of women’s fiction. Books were analyzed for five postfeminist characteristics as defined by Susan Faludi’s backlash theory, outlined in Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women and in further research on popular culture’s notions of womanhood: 1) negative reaction to second wave feminism, 2) focus on the individual instead of a collective sisterhood, 3) desire for more traditional femininity through domesticity, consumerism, romance, and motherhood, 4) female identity crisis causing fears of a man shortage, a loudly ticking biological clock, and career burnout, and 5) feelings of anxiety over ability to make the correct future decisions. Analysis has found that chick lit does generally reinforce the notions of postfeminism/backlash, however the characters displayed anxiety over how to incorporate feminine paths into their lives and generally disregard motherhood.
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Bicket, Juliet Linden. "A 'God-ordained web of creation' : the faithful fictions of George Mackay Brown." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3080/.
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This thesis represents the first extensive examination of the ‘faithful fictions’ of the Orkney writer George Mackay Brown (1921-1996). Until now, critical appreciations of the Catholic imagination informing Brown’s opus have been vague and Brown has been seen as a throwback; his Catholicism only part of a reactionary impulse that denies modernity a place in his oeuvre. Through a thematic critical analysis of four major strands of Brown’s corpus that display his Catholic imagination, it is contended that Brown has been misunderstood by the Scottish literary-critical tradition, and that his creative work on religious subjects is diverse, experimental and devotional. The thesis provides a biography of Brown’s faith. It looks at his conversion accounts, and it discusses the interaction between these and other accounts of (spiritual) autobiography. The thesis looks in a detailed way at three mediators of grace in Brown’s faithful fictions: the Virgin Mary, St Magnus, and Christ, whose nativity Brown frequently depicts. By discussing their different roles, depictions and the various literary forms that tell their stories, this study will discover the ways in which Brown encapsulates his Catholic faith in his creative work. The thesis questions whether Catholicism harms his literary output, as some critics have suggested, and shows the ways in which Brown’s writing interacts with other Catholic literature – old and new, at home and abroad. Manuscripts, including several unpublished poems, plays and stories, will be referenced throughout, as will rare and unseen correspondence. The thesis takes in the entire scope of Brown’s body of work and is not limited to a single mode or genre in his corpus. Ultimately, this study contends that Brown is an excellent case-study of the neglected Catholic writer in twentieth-century Scotland, and that there is much work to be done in appraising the Catholic imaginations of many post-Reformation Scottish Catholic writers.
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CHAN, Wing Yi Monica. "A stylistic approach to the God of Small Things written by Arundhati Roy." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2007. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/eng_etd/2.
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This thesis presents a creative-analytical hybrid production in relation to the stylistic distinctiveness in The God of Small Things, the debut novel of Arundhati Roy. Roy’s text drew the world’s gaze after winning the Booker Prize in 1997. Many studies have been written on diverse aspects of the book, and much has been said regarding the writer’s style. However, those studies rarely focus on the minutiae of Roy’s writing and this thesis provides a greater degree of detailed analysis. The objective is to achieve a deeper understanding of the relationship between style and literary aesthetics in The God of Small Things by studying the stylistic patterns behind Roy’s resonating poetic prose.
The stylistic study is carried out adopting two approaches: the corpus-based approach (Part A) and the empirical-creative approach (Part B). The first section provides a stylistic analysis concentrating on the most significant stylistic features of the novel. The study is based on the list of style markers rendered by Leech and Short, Style in Fiction (1981) and elaborated according to the following key aspects that were extracted from the repertoire using my intuitive observation of the novel. These chosen style markers taken together represent key aspects of Roy’s style: (1) Lexis—Roy’s very frequent and particular utilization of adjectives; (2) Grammar—the high concentration of minor sentences and the listing of noun phrases in the text; (3) Figures of Speech— repetition and neologism. The second section presents a self-written pastiche which aims at imitating Roy’s style in literary prose and adapting its approach to a Chinese context. The creative process serves as an experiment on taking pastiche writing as an “experiential” approach to stylistics. In addition, since the resemblance of the pastiche to Roy’s style should not be the only value of the piece, some key themes in the original text are also reproduced.
The analysis in Part A illustrates patterns of Roy’s stylistic choices. On the use of adjectives, Roy tends to arrange adjectival elements in sequence, construct a fixed “like” sentence structure, and adopt combining word forms and affective adjectives. On minor sentences, Roy chooses to separate adverbial phrases, sentence fragments starting with “like”, “as though”, and clauses beginning with “that”, “which”, “and”, “but”, “or”. As for repetitions, there is repeated use of set phrases, sentence patterns and recurrent appearance of certain lines and images. Lastly, on neologisms, Roy’s patterns of creating new words include hyphenation, direct merging, and prefix/suffix building.
The pastiche is entitled Hong Kong Locust Stand I. By juxtaposing with the original, it is found that many stylistic features in The God of Small Things, are present in the pastiche, though with variation. While stylistic elements cannot totally be independent from the theme, the atmosphere, character and plot of the pastiche also demonstrate qualities representing those in Roy’s novel. The pastiche presents an innovative and respectful way to come to terms with Roy’s style through selective imitation and creative adaptation.
In conclusion, it is hoped that this study opens the way for further hybrid studies of style that incorporate both analytical and creative approaches.