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Brassaw, Mandolin R. "Divine heresy : women's revisions of sacred texts /." Thesis, Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9153.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 219-226). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.

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Haase, Donald. "Self-Referential Features in Sacred Texts." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3726.

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This thesis examines a specific type of instance that bridges the divide between seeing sacred texts as merely vehicles for content and as objects themselves: self-reference. Doing so yielded a heuristic system of categories of self-reference in sacred texts based on the way the text self-describes: Inlibration, Necessity, and Untranslatability. I provide examples of these self-referential features as found in various sacred texts: the Vedas, Āgamas, Papyrus of Ani, Torah, Quran, Sri Guru Granth Sahib, and the Book of Mormon. I then examine how different theories of sacredness interact with th

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Furstenau, Nina. "Thoreau and eastern spiritual texts the influence of sacred sound in the writings of Henry David Thoreau /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4964.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on October 25, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

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Reek, Jennifer Lynn. "From temple to text : reading and writing sacred spaces of poetic dwelling." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4537/.

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This thesis inhabits the space between the art of poetry and the conditions of faith. Its concern is threefold: women, Church, poetics. It undertakes a journey from institutional Church into more radical and textual spaces, beginning with an examination of the state of the Roman Catholic Church today as revealed in Tina Beattie’s critique of Hans Urs von Balthasar, whose disturbing theology has contributed to a misogyny she argues has poisoned the body of the Church. Beattie’s critique is a point of departure into a potentially transformative poetics that she hints at but never fully pursues.

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Phillips, Anita. "Masochism and literature, with reference to selected literary texts from Sacher-Masoch to Duras." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1995. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1685.

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The introductory section of the thesis puts forward a view of the usefulness of the concept of masochism in studying literature, arguing that the tendency has been inadequately formulated by psychoanalytic theory. It refers to debates within gay studies, feminism, psychoanalysis and literary studies to contextualise the argument of the thesis. The first chapter analyses Freud's key essay on masochism, 'The Economic Problem of Masochism' (1924) and appraises other theoretical contributions which have discussed the relation of masochism to artistic creativity. It goes on to critique the feminist

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Jack, Alison M. "Texts reading texts, sacred and secular : two postmodern perspectives." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30307.

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The language, themes and imagery of the Bible have been read and re-written in texts across time. In the Revelation of John, the Hebrew Bible echoes and is re-invented just as, in James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824), many explicit and implicit readings and interpretations of the Bible are offered. In this thesis, these readings of the Bible, and the ways in which Revelation and Hogg's Confessions have themselves been read, are considered from two postmodern perspectives. The validity of reading the Bible as literature is defended in the Introduction to

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Barbato, Crystal. "Redefining Gender Roles : Developing relationships between Sacred Texts and Feminism." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-323692.

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This thesis utilized the field hermeneutics within the study of gender roles of women within religion. It argues the relevance of interpretation that have lead to the patriarchal structures within culture and society. In effort to restructure their place in society, women are redefining gender roles through a combination of hermeneutics and Feminism. They are looking at commonly misinterpreted verses that have lead to their subordination to male culture, while also bringing attention to texts and stories within the Bible and the Quran that have long been neglected to show the equality tha

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Bueno, Michelle Negron. "Feminisms and sacred texts examining feminist approaches to the Bible /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Weiss, Katherine. "Dieter Leisegang: Texts as Memory, Texts as Memoir." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2262.

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Zakher, Maged Sobhy Mokhtar. "The use of sacred texts as tools to enhance social research interviews." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/622699.

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Background – Enhanced social research interviews seek to engage interviewees in extended conversation-like dialogues where they are empowered to produce output by discussing themes of relevance to them. Photos, videos, vignettes and other enhancing tools have been used before in social sciences research interviews to contextualise the interview interaction. Initial Assumption – Sacred texts (such as excerpts from the Bible and the Quran) enjoy some features that make them potential tools to enhance research interviews. This study set out to answer the Research Question: ‘What are the benefits

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Lastennet, Pierre. "Saint-John Perse and the sacred." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249741.

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Bloom, Miriam. "Sacred ceremony and magical praxis in Jewish texts of early and late antiquity." Thesis, Brunel University, 1999. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4910.

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The thesis examines texts that indicate how Jews of Early and Late Antiquity dealt with a world ruled by an omnipotent God who governed a cosmos where disorder vied with order. God's bounty reflected his good will towards those faithful to his laws, and disobedience resulted in the infliction of misfortune. A state of disorder, labelled “the ways of the Emorites”, was perceived by Judaeans as the realm of superstition and foreign practices, typified by idolatry, incest and bloodshed. Sacrifice in the Temple allowed people to fulfil God's commandments, drawing near to him by means of animal or

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Drake, David Doyle. "Sacred Union and Sacred Violence in Tournier's Gilles et Jeanne." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2494.

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Written in 1983, the novella Gilles et Jeanne seems to be one of Michel Tournier's simpler works at first glance. Yet, for all of its simplicity, Tournier does not repress his desire to lace the tale with metaphoric and metaphysical symbolism. It is through a symbolic marriage on the battlefield that Tournier links the two characters in a sort of mystical union. All of the crimes following this ritual that precipitated Gilles descent into depravity were in fact an attempt to reunite with the departed spirit of his "spouse", either by mimetically recreating the circumstances of her death, or by

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Kelly, Tessa Claire. "Angela Carter's scarred texts." Thesis, Bangor University, 1999. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/angela-carters-scarred-texts(aa8bede4-844a-41c1-a22c-9642e3768a70).html.

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This thesis aims to describe a poetics of Angela Carter's fiction. It examines the way in which Carter's novels and some of her short stories mobilise the reader into speculation about possible ontologies, provoking them to think beyond the binary oppositions which sustain Western metaphysical thought. The thesis focuses upon Carter's "originary" symbol, the first motif in her first novel, which is a scar. In Chapter One, I argue that the scar is a re-presentation of the mythical wound of female castration which actually works to challenge patriarchal discourses on femininity and female sexual

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Hanson, Sharon Rosalind. "Sacred stories in the texts of law : an evaluation of the secularisation thesis through a re-reading of contemporary legal texts." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408392.

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Al-Bundawi, Zayneb. "Sacred texts and identity construction in the Cardiff Muslim community : sojourners' narratives about 'majales'." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/117240/.

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My PhD research investigates how Shi‘i Muslim women in Cardiff participate in religious rituals and draw on religious texts in ways that help to construct their identities as diasporic Muslims. The religious rituals involved are the majales of Muharram and Safar, the first two months of the Islamic calendar, which are dedicated to commemorate the memory of Hussein, Prophet Muhammad‘s grandson and the third Shi‘i Imam according to Twelver Shi‘a. Majales (sing. majlis) are gatherings of people for the commemoration of the memory of Hussein and the battle of Karbala. Understanding the dynamics of

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Van, Oort Jessica. "Dancing in Body and Spirit: Dance and Sacred Performance in Thirteenth-Century Beguine Texts." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/45623.

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Dance<br>Ph.D.<br>This study examines dance and dance-like sacred performance in four texts by or about the thirteenth-century beguines Elisabeth of Spalbeek, Hadewijch, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Agnes Blannbekin. These women wrote about dance as a visionary experience of the joys of heaven or the relationship between God and the soul, and they also created physical performances of faith that, while not called dance by medieval authors, seem remarkably dance-like to a modern eye. The existence of these dance-like sacred performances calls into question the commonly-held belief that most medi

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Cook, Barbara J. "Women's transformative texts from the Southwestern Ecotone /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3095241.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-179). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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McQuarrie, Kylie. "Sacred Things, Sacred Bodies: The Ethics of Materiality and Female Spirituality in Purple Hibiscus." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4409.

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Thing theorist Bill Brown writes that “the thing names less an object than a particular subject-object relation.” This article examines the subject-object relation between African things and African bodies in Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus. While the main character, Kambili, eventually learns to assimilate Western Catholicism into her Nigerian reality, her Christian fundamentalist father, Eugene, uses Catholicism to justify his self-hating destruction of African things and bodies. This article argues that both reactions are rooted in the characters' ab

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O'Connell, Nicholas. "On sacred ground : the landscape literature of the Pacific Northwest /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9398.

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Lepp-Kaethler, Elfrieda. "Wellspring of motivation and L2 vision in second language acquisition (SLA) : sacred texts as source." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2013. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27640/.

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This thesis addresses a largely unexplored territory in second language motivation research. Its focus was to account for unusual persistence, effort and success among learners acquiring additional language(s) in conjunction with a sacred or special text. More specifically, the project sought to identify the factors, mechanisms and conditions that contributed to exceptionally high motivation for SLA. The guiding theoretical frameworks were Ushioda's Person-in Context relational theory and Dornyei's L2 Motivational Self System. A qualitative research approach was employed which included a serie

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Hess, Andrew J. "The Vernacular as Sacred Language? A Study of the Principles of Translation of Liturgical Texts." Athenaeum of Ohio / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=athe1550248212112309.

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Goff, Alan. "A Hermeneutic of Sacred Texts: Historicism, Revisionism, Positivism, and the Bible and Book of Mormon." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1989. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTGM,3319.

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Sanders, Adam K. "Mimetic Transformations of Sacred Symbols: Christianity in Appalachian Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1009.

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Though many representations of Appalachian religious practices describe conservative, stagnant, xenophobic, and backward traditions, some authors present Christian practices in Appalachia as a potential source of social and individual progressiveness. Denise Giardina in Storming Heaven and The Unquiet Earth, Jim Wayne Miller in "Brier Sermon: 'You Must Be Born Again,'" and Lee Smith in Fair and Tender Ladies all represent "mountain religion" practices that offer relevancy not only to the characters in the novel but also to the reader. Analysis of these works through their symbolic representati

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Lorsung, Éireann. "Love : an approach to texts." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2013. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27889/.

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This dissertation responds to the question, "What would it be like, what would it mean, to approach texts lovingly?" in terms of the work of 20th-century theorists, writers, and thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Brian Massumi, Jean-Luc Marion, E. E. Cummings, Rainer Maria Rilke, Teresa Brennan, and W. J. T. Mitchell. In order to demonstrate the appropriateness and place of love in the philosophical canon, the dissertation combines a consideration of affect with these writers' work. Beginning with an exemplary read

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Minor, John Kyle. "The secret and the sacred are siblings." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6616.

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The Secret and the Sacred Are Siblings is a collection of fiction divided into three sections. The first, "Two Dispatches from Jesusland," contains two stories set in the United States, among disaffected fundamentalists. The second, "Three Koulev-Ville Stories," contains two short stories and a novella set in Haiti, among expatriates and locals. The third section contains two excerpts from The Sexual Lives of Missionaries, a novel-in-progress.

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Zachariah, Tirzah. "Silence and representation in selected postcolonial texts." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24136.

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This thesis discusses female silence, voice and representation as portrayed in four postcolonial novels written by Asian female writers or those from the Asian diaspora. The novels included in the corpus are The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo, Brick Lane by Monica Ali and Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne. This thesis aims to explore the different strategies adopted by the authors to represent different forms of silence of the type highlighted in theoretical work by Spivak, Olsen and Showalter. The novels analysed open up new contexts in which issues of

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Binning, Amy Catherine. "Printing as practice : innovation and imagination in the making of Tibetan Buddhist sacred texts in California." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/288619.

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This thesis offers an exploration of how one brings a Tibetan sacred text to being - and to voice - in the unfamiliar, and perhaps unlikely, landscape of Northern California. Through 16 months' fieldwork with a Nyingma Buddhist community based in Berkeley, California I ask how the production of the sacred is undertaken here by American volunteers who are largely neophytes to Tibetan Buddhism. Against a backdrop of the history of Tibetan textual production - largely populated by masters, monastics, and artisans - I explore what kind of work (both physical and imaginative) American volunteers mu

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Safran, Morri. ""Unsex'd" texts : history, hypertext and romantic women writers /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3026209.

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Rizzo, Therese M. "The Sentimental trickster in nineteenth-century American (con)texts." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 244 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1654494551&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Traylor, Sarah Kay. "Sacred Journeys in a Secular Age: Pilgrimage in Contemporary German Literature." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1562757919972067.

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Wang, Ying-Chien. "'Be valiant and fight the Lords battells' : sacred texts for soldiers during the English civil wars." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612752.

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Dozier, Kimberly S. Hesse Douglas Dean. "Reading Vietnam teaching literature using historically-situated texts /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9914567.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1998.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed July 10, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Douglas Hesse (chair), C. Anita Tarr, Charles Harris. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 232-241) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Shaull, Erin Marie Szydloski. "Paternal Legacy in Early English Texts." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1448913159.

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Bashmakova, Natalʹi︠a︡ Vanhala-Aniszewski Marjatta. "Re-reading Soviet and post-Soviet texts /." Joensuu : University of Joensuu, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0604/2005530487.html.

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Bates, David Christopher. "Religion and the sacred in the works of Haruki Murakami." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192981.

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This dissertation demonstrates how the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami infuses religious concepts and sacred motifs into his works, generally through surreal events and otherworldly encounters that defy purely realist interpretations. The literary use of these images and themes encourage the author’s unique stylistic mood as well as subsequent magic realist readings, where everyday occurrences are interjected by providential asides and often overt references to the supernatural. This study of Murakami also helps to demonstrate how his postmodern works might be viewed in light of widely ac

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Yu, Siu-hung, and 余小紅. "Representations of Chinese women in three modern literary texts." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31988271.

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Anderson, David. "Violence against the sacred: tragedy and religion in early modern England." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32544.

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This dissertation argues that the tragedy of the English Renaissance reflects the religious culture of the era in its depiction of sacrificial violence. It contests New Historicist assumptions about both the relationship between religion and politics, and the relationship between religion and literature, by arguing that the tragedians were reflecting the Girardian sacrificial crisis that characterized martyr executions in the sixteenth century and which was fuelled by uncertainty within the church over th

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Pressman, Hannah Simone. "Confessional Texts and Contexts| Studies in Israeli Literary Autobiography." Thesis, New York University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557024.

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<p> In Jewish Studies in general and Jewish literary studies in particular, the autobiography has taken on renewed significance in the twenty-first century. A recent wave of Hebrew autobiographical writing has reinvigorated long-standing debates about the connections between family drama and national history in the modern state of Israel. This dissertation examines the discourse of selfhood generated by a select group of authors from the 1950s-1990s, the decades immediately preceding the genre's current boom. The "confessional mode of Israeli literary autobiography," as I designate this discou

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Caufield, Catherine Lynne. "Hermeneutics of written texts, religious discourse in Mexican literature." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ49989.pdf.

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Toth, Leah Hutchison. "Resonant Texts: Sound, Noise, and Technology in Modern Literature." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/29.

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“Resonant Texts” draws from literary criticism, history, biography, media theory, and the history of technology to examine representations of sound and acts of listening in modern experimental fiction and drama. I argue that sound recording technology, invented in the late 19th century, equipped 20th century authors including James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Samuel Beckett with new resources for depicting human consciousness and experience. The works in my study feature what I call “close listening,” a technique initially made possible by the phonograph, which forced listeners t

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Ben-Sira, Tallya. "Representation of motherhood in 19th and 20th century texts." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262312.

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Ubilluz, Juan Carlos. "Sacred eroticism : Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski in Latin American literature /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3086724.

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Elmer, Simon James. "The colour of the sacred : Georges Bataille and the image of sacrifice." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271119.

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Each of us has his own meditative practices, his own path to what Bataille called 'inner experience'; but among them the most widespread, the most well-trodden, are the comedies we construct to reach erotic effusion. Subject as these are to interdictions in a more or less direct correspondence to their proximity to the heart of our being, the conjuring up of the god of eroticism constitutes our fundamental, and perhaps our only remaining religious activity. The image of this god, to whom we sacrifice ourselves in the expenditure of the petite mort, is our earliest intimation of that unreality

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Todd, Daniel. "Teaching "Spanishness": nationalist ideology in texts for children in post-war Spain." Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17588.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of Modern Languages<br>Laura Kanost<br>Early in the twentieth century, children’s literature in Spain developed greatly in terms of quality and distribution thanks in large part to the appearance of new publishing houses, illustrators and authors. Additionally, increased demand brought with it new translations of many foreign texts for children. Despite these early developments, children’s literature suffered a dramatic change after the establishment of Francisco Franco’s Nationalist regime; during the post-war period many types of literature were heavily cen

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Sumsion, Ann Elizabeth. "The Search for the Sacred in Gabrielle Roy." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3252.pdf.

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Taylor, Laura Anne. "The representation of land and landownership in medieval Icelandic texts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9057797d-81bd-4d28-a438-4e4d5ee000c0.

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This thesis investigates the representation of land and landownership in medieval Icelandic texts. I shall demonstrate that there is scant homogeneity in this representation; the variation between different narratives is startling and unusual. I seek to categorise this variability by identifying the lack of a secure tradition surrounding land and landownership, and exploring the possibilities open to the saga author to use land practices and myths as literary devices or to glorify the past. I also examine variability caused by the differences in the realm of 'actual' experience. I shall explor

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Ku, Christopher Jun-Sheng. "'Aptlie framed for the dittie' : a study of setting sacred Latin texts to music in sixteenth-century England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8b7d80ad-6989-48f5-9d88-6987b656ef59.

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Although considerable attention has been paid to the texting practices of specific composers and certain repertoires, a comprehensive study of the practice of texting in the sacred Latin‐texted vocal works of sixteenth‐century England remains to be undertaken. How did English composers, scribes, and singers of the sixteenth century set words to music? Today, the general impression that emerges from critical apparatuses of modern performing editions, where manuscripts of vocal music copied by sixteenth-century English copyists are concerned, is negative: they are regarded as casual, often‐contr

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Saraceni, Mario. "Language beyond language : comics as verbo-visual texts." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2001. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35647/.

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The investigation proposed in this study is based on the consideration that the nature of "text" is currently undergoing a change whereby verbal components are increasingly being accompanied by visual components, and the two modes of expression co-exist side by side in the same texts. The Internet is symptomatic of this change, with its multi-modal texts, where words, pictures, and sometimes even sounds, interact with one another. One of the main issues that this thesis aims to address is that although the relationship between the verbal and the visual is not an entirely new area of study, wha

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Pritchett, Elizabeth Reed Jackson. "Vital texts : democratic intertextuality in Dorothy Richardson's 'Pilgrimage'." Thesis, Keele University, 2017. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/3868/.

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'Pilgrimage' (1915-1938/67), Dorothy Richardson’s long modernist novel of female consciousness, has a history of mischaracterisation. The first novel to be termed stream of consciousness, Pilgrimage offers an account of New Woman, Miriam Henderson, as she comes of age in fin-de-siècle Britain and becomes a writer in the first decades of the twentieth century. Adhering strictly to Miriam’s consciousness, Pilgrimage is often read as a byword for high modernist style: hermetic, elitist, and anti-democratic. By examining the power relations behind Pilgrimage’s other key formal system of representa

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