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Graham, Catherine (Catherine Elizabeth). "Standpoints : the dramaturgy of Margaretta D'Arcy and John Arden." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60621.
Full textHolmes, Michael M. (Michael Morgan). "John Donne's Apocalypse." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60624.
Full textMcIlroy, Brian. "Scientific art : the tetralogy of John Banville." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31040.
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Grodd, Elizabeth Stafford. "The Love Poems of John Clare and John Keats: A Comparative Study." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4907.
Full textDe, Beer Marésa. "Oor die kortkuns van John Miles." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002092.
Full textWright, John Samuel Flectcher, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Liberty in key works of John Locke and John Stuart Mill." Deakin University, 1995. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051201.154348.
Full textLennox, John 1980. "Poetic attention : the impressionist sensibility and the poetry of John Ashbery." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79959.
Full textVoss, Annemarie. "John Milton's Paradise lost in Germany : reception and German-language criticism." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/762991.
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Bider, Noreen Jane. "The rhetorical strategies of John Donne's "Holy Sonnets" /." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61283.
Full textLatham, Jonathan Cyril. "Text and context : an examination of the way in which John's prologue has been interpreted by selected writers : Origen, Luther and Bultmann." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004612.
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Anderson, David Roy. "John Graves and the Pastoral Tradition." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2919/.
Full textGerber, Edward. "The scriptural tale in the Fourth Gospel : with particular reference to the prologue and a syncretic (oral and written) poetics." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683084.
Full textMalick, Shah Jaweedul. "The dramaturgy of John Arden : dialectical vision and popular tradition : a doctoral dissertation." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=71987.
Full textThe study explores two fundamental and related constitutive features of Arden's dramaturgy: diachronically, its adherence to the forms, conventions, and techniques of popular or traditional theatres, and synchronically, its radical political emphasis as expressed in a categorically plebeian and collectivistic bias. It begins by situating Arden in his time and his tradition, and then discusses how other significant choices of his--the emphasis on story-telling (Part 2), the supra-individual approach to dramaturgic agents (Part 3), and his ludic theatricality (Part 4)--flow out of and contribute to the consistency of his dramaturgy. Part 5 focuses on a detailed analysis of The Island of the Mighty.
Arden's rejection of the established bourgeois theatre with its illusionist character and individualist ideology and his orientation towards a dialectical show distinguishes his work from that of his English contemporaries. It can be linked to that radical alternative tradition in modern dramaturgy which culminates in Bertolt Brecht.
Stanislaw, Rebecca W. "The poetic voice of John Ciardi." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/833002.
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Johnstone, Michael 1971. "Breathing eyes : Keats and the dynamics of reading." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26692.
Full textWagler, Brent M. "Stars, stones and architecture : an episode in John Dee's natural philosophy." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22550.
Full textPadgett, Jeffrey Lynn. "The monistic continuity of the Miltonic heresy." Virtual Press, 1987. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/514853.
Full textLarsen, Brian. "An interaction of theology and literature by means of archetypal criticism, with reference to the characters Jesus, Pilate, Thomas, the Jews, and Peter in the Gospel of John." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13419.
Full textMcCormack, Christopher. "Cracking the codes : a textual and editorial examination of John Fante's literature." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33914.
Full textReed, Marthe. "The poem as liminal place-moment : John Kinsella, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Christopher Dewdney and Eavan Boland." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0136.
Full textNg, Wing Hong. "John Rawls' idea of public reason : religious reason in public justification." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2007. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/782.
Full textDitmann, Laurent. "Cheever's signs : a semiotic approach to thirteen stories by John Cheever." PDXScholar, 1988. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3741.
Full textHenry, John. "Unclarity of expression in the letters of John and its elucidation according to four recent commentaries." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683348.
Full textCheetham, David. "Transforming John Hick's eschatology." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683123.
Full textBishop, Scot. "John Donne's poetry and sermons : some parallels in spiritual discovery." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26659.
Full textPhillips, Malcolm. "Experiment and representation : the domestic surreal in contemporary British and American poetry." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14707.
Full textHarikae, Ryoko. "John Bellenden's Chronicles of Scotland : translation and circulation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d0ebf41c-8263-45e0-a6d5-5826bf8e0396.
Full textCoxon, Paul. "The Paschal New Exodus in John's Gospel : an interpretative key, with particular reference to Chapters 5-10." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683362.
Full textBaker, Cynthia J. (Cynthia Jane). "Rain and Diagonal Light: Nature Imagery in the Novels of John Cheever." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501241/.
Full textHeterick, Garry R. (Garry Raymond) 1965. "Dethroning Jupiter : E.M. Forster's revision of John Ruskin." Monash University, English Dept, 1998. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8604.
Full textKhalip, Jacques. "Loss unlimited : sadness and originality in Wordsworth, Pater, and Ashbery." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0002/MQ43895.pdf.
Full textHope, Laura Lee. "John Fowles' narrative stylistics in The Collector, Daniel Martin, and A Maggot." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/564.
Full textChong, Kenneth Tze Aun School of English UNSW. "Donne???s Holy Sonnets and Calvin." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/26154.
Full textKilian, Julie. "Traditional and Christian elements in contemporary pictorial African art in South Africa with special reference to the works of John Muafangejo, Azariah Mbatha and Dan Rakgoathe." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012635.
Full textKobayashi, Takanori. "The apocalyptic-eschatological drama of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel : an investigation into the Johannine Christology and eschatology with special reference to John 12.20-36." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9572.
Full textRheaume, Randall. "Equality and hierarchy within the God of John's Gospel." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683359.
Full textSkublics, Heather A. L. E. "Naming and vocation in the novels of J.R.R. Tolkien, Patricia Kennealy and Anne McCaffrey." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68137.
Full textPreuss, Rosemary J., and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "John Clark : transformation and the void : with a catalogue raisonné." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1994, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/59.
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MacArthur, Lori Kinder. "John Rawls, Feminism, and the Gendered Self." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5030.
Full textDe, Milander Cornelia. "Contemporary implications of the first-century counter-ethos of Jesus to the scripted universe of gender and health in John 4 & 9 : a narrative-critical analysis." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96942.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africans are confronted on a daily basis with the social inequality among individuals which greatly inspires violence, victimisation, discrimination and life-denying ethos. These acts of injustice are not simply inspired by formal laws and policies, but spurred on by various ideological and symbolic categories and power structures. In a way, social behaviour can be said to be ‘scripted’ by the ideologies, perceptions and language internalised, normalised and passed on within society at large. One does not have to look very far to see the way in which this ‘script’ functions in South Africa and what impact the pre-determined and ‘scripted’ identity markers of gender and health have on individuals and groups, as categories like man, woman, HIV positive, and disabled already trigger a set of preconceived ideas and expectations regarding these individuals. The normalisation of this ‘script’ and its social hierarchies is extremely counter-productive as it often pre-determines the value, abilities, potential, limitations and ‘appropriate’ ethos of individuals and groups on the basis of the categories they fall into. The scripted nature of society is however not a twenty-first century phenomenon, but something deeply integral also to life in first century Palestine. This script interpreted, determined and reinforced the prescribed status, agency and ethos of different individuals and identity markers of health and gender were paramount in this process of scripting. Part of this ‘scripted’ world was Jesus of Nazareth. However, upon reading the narratives of John 4:1-42 and 9:1-41, it would appear that the relationship between the societal script and the actual ethos of Jesus was anything but simplistic. Upon reading these two episodes against the grain of the first century societal script, Jesus’ ethos as a Jewish man in relation to a somewhat questionable Samaritan female and blind and impure beggar brings forth some inconsistencies toward the script. It would seem as if Jesus was reluctant to read his context one dimensionally and simply comply with popular custom and ideology. The aim of this study would therefore be to explore whether these inconsistencies between the societal script and the ethos of Jesus could be of any significance in an analogously scripted twenty-first century South Africa, a society pleading for critical reflection upon the societal script. When the possible ‘counter-ethos’ of Jesus is considered, faith communities might be challenged to embrace the fragility of social categories and hierarchies and perhaps embody a similar critical attitude and ethos toward the life-denying societal script and its taken-for-granted assumptions.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Suid-Afrikaners word daagliks gekonfronteer met die sosiaal ongelyke stand van ons samelewing. Hierdie ongelykhede is grootliks verantwoordelik vir geweld, viktimisasie, diskriminasie en nie-lewensgewende etos. Die bogenoemde word egter nie bloot deur formele wette geïnspireer nie, maar aangevuur deur verskeie ideologiese en simboliese kategorieë en magstrukture. Sosiale gedrag kan as’t ware gesien word as ʼn voorafbepaalde teks, ondersteun deur die ideologieë, persepsies en taal wat ons internaliseer, normaliseer en aan ander oordra. Hierdie voorafbepaalde ‘samelewingsteks’ is uiters prominent in Suid-Afrika, waar ʼn bepaalde status, etos en grense dikwels aan individue gegee word op die basis van identiteits-merkers van onder andere gender en gesondheid. Die identifisering van iemand as man, vrou, MIV positief, gestremd, ensovoorts spreek ideologiese boekdele van hul plek, doel en perke in die samelewing. In hierdie sin dien die vooropgestelde ‘samelewingsteks’ ʼn uiters teenproduktiewe rol, aangesien dit die waarde, vermoëns, potensiaal, en ‘korrekte’ etos van individue vooraf bepaal op grond van die simboliese kategorieë waarin hul val. Die voorafbepaalde ‘samelewingsteks’ herbevestig dikwels sosiale hiërargieë, wat ongeregtigheid normaliseer en bevorder. Hierdie is egter nie net ʼn een-en-twintigste eeu se verskynsel nie, maar iets wat al reeds prominent voorgekom het in eerste eeu se Palestina. Hierdie ‘samelewingsteks’ het die gepaste status en etos van verskillende individue bepaal op die grond van identiteits-merkers, soos die van gender en gesondheid. Dit is ook die samelewing waarin Jesus van Nasaret homself bevind het. Wanneer die narratiewe van Johannes 4:1-42 en 9:1-41 gelees word, kom dit egter voor asof die verhouding tussen hierdie ‘samelewingsteks’ en die etos beliggaam deur Jesus kompleks was. Wanneer die twee episodes in lig van die voorafbepaalde ‘samelewingsteks’ gelees word, blyk Jesus, ʼn Joodse man, se etos teenoor ʼn redelike verdagte Samaritaanse vrou en blinde en onreine bedelaar in spanning te wees met die etos aan hom voorgeskryf. Dit sou voorkom asof Jesus gewaak het teen die eenvoudige beliggaming van wat deur die ‘samelewingsteks’ as gehoord voorgeskryf en verwag is. Die doel van hierdie studie sou daarom wees om te ondersoek of die spanning tussen die eerste eeu se ‘samelewingsteks’ en die ware beliggaamde etos van Jesus enigsins betekenisvol kan wees in lyn van die een-en-twintigste eeu se voorafbepaalde ‘samelewingsteks’ in ʼn land wat ryp is vir kritiese refleksie op dit wat as ‘normaal’ en ‘korrek’ beskou word. Die moontlike ‘kontra-etos' van Jesus kan geloofsgemeenskappe uitdaag om die broosheid van sosiale en simboliese kategorieë en hiërargieë aan te gryp en ʼn soortgelyke kritiese houding en etos teenoor die nie-lewegewende ‘samelewingsteks’ en sy voorveronderstellings te beliggaam.
Hacksley, Helen Elizabeth. "An edition of a selection of poems by John Randal Bradburne." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008069.
Full textHartmann, Melissa Bakeman. "Blurred relationships: The factual fiction of John Edgar Wideman." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2166.
Full textBarsky, Robert F. "Byron and catastrophism." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63758.
Full textWong, Saiming. "The roles of the moral and the political in the philosophies of Kant and Rawls." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2018. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/593.
Full textGrovier, Kelly. "Walking Stewart & the making of Romantic imagination." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670203.
Full textMcKay, Niall. "Luke and Yoder : an intertextual reading of the third gospel in the name of Christian politics." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17842.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: Critical New Testament study has drawn on analytical techniques and interrogatory methods from a wide range of disciplines. In recent decades the dominance of historical and ecclesiologicallylocated approaches have been challenged by insights from literary, sociological, anthropological, cultural and ideological scholarship. These challenges have proved fruitful and opened biblical scholarship to new and generative interpretation. This plurality of interpretation has in turn challenged the reductionism of biblical scholarship, leading to the now common acknowledgement that a particular reading or reconstruction is but one of many. Unfortunately many new readings have been too tightly bound to a single method or insight. The broad interaction between these readings has been often overlooked. In contrast to this trend an epistemology of text emerging from the poststructural notion of intertextuality allows the construction of links between a range of interpretive methods. Intertextuality emerges from literary and cultural theory but spills over to make hermeneutical connections with historical, cultural and ideological theory. For the most part New Testament scholars who have appropriated the term have noted this but not thoroughly explored it. In this study an ideologically-declared overtly intertextual approach to the third canonical gospel demonstrates the interlinking hermeneutic allowed by intertextuality. John Howard Yoder's reading of the gospel of Luke underscores the development of a Christian social-ethic. This reading in turn forms the framework for the more overtly intertextual reading offered here. An intertextual reading of the New Testament Scriptures is both narratively generative and politically directive for many Christian communities.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Kritiese Nuwe Testamentiese studies het in die verlede gebruik gemaak van analitiese tegnieke en ondervraende metodes uit ‘n wye verskeidenheid van dissiplines. Meer onlangs is die oorheersing van historiese en kerklik-gerigte benaderings uitgedaag deur insigte vanuit letterkundige, sosiologiese, antropologiese, kulturele en ideologiese dissiplines. Hierdie uitdagings het vrugbaar geblyk en het Bybelse vakkennis toeganklik gemaak vir nuwe en produktiewe interpretasies. Hierdie meervoudige interpretasies het op hul beurt weer die reduksionisme in Bybelse geleerdheid uitgedaag, wat aanleiding gegee het tot die nou algemene erkenning dat ‘n bepaalde vertolking of rekonstruksie slegs een van vele is. Die breë wisselwerking tussen sulke vertolkings word dikwels misgekyk. In teenstelling met hierdie neiging, laat ‘n epistemologie van die teks wat te voorskyn kom uit ‘n poststrukturele begrip van intertekstualiteit toe dat verbande gekonstrueer word word tussen ‘n verskeidenheid van vertolkingsmetodes. Intertekstualiteit spruit voort uit literêre en kulturele teorie, maar vorm ook hermeneutiese skakels met historiese, kulturele en ideologie kritiek. Die meeste Nuwe Testamentici wat gebruik gemaak het van hierdie term, het kennis geneem van sulke verbande, maar dit nie altyd volledig verreken nie. In hierdie studie demonstreer ‘n ideologies-verklaarde, openlik intertekstuele benadering tot die derde kanonieke evangelie die gekoppelde hermeneutiek wat toegelaat word deur intertekstualiteit. John Howard Yoder se vertolking van die Evangelie van Lukas plaas klem op die ontwikkeling van ‘n Christelike sosiale etiek. Hierdie interpretasie vorm op sy beurt weer die raamwerk vir die meer openlik intertekstuele vertolking wat hier aangebied word. ‘n Intertekstuele interpretasie van die Nuwe Testamentiese geskrifte is beide verhalend produktief asook polities rigtinggewend vir talle Christelike gemeenskappe.
Hopkins-Utter, Shane. ""An echo of an echo" : J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth as elegiac romance." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79947.
Full textJiang, Xulin. "Political justice and Laissez-faire : a consequentialist optimization of Rawl's scheme of justice as fairness." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2009. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/983.
Full textGillingwators, Jean. "Joan Didion and the new journalism." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/417.
Full textGeorge, Stephen K. "Of vice and men : a virtue ethics study of Steinbeck's The pearl, East of Eden, and The winter of our discontent." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/952814.
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