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Hodes, Jeremy Martin, and hodes@tpg com au. "John Douglas 1828-1904: The Uncompromising Liberal." Central Queensland University. Humanities, 2006. http://library-resources.cqu.edu.au./thesis/adt-QCQU/public/adt-QCQU20070228.145456.
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Douglas was born in London in 1828 and migrated to New South Wales in 1851 where he represented both the Darling Downs and Camden districts in the New South Wales parliament before
embarking on a lengthy parliamentary career in Queensland, one that culminated in the premiership from 1877 to 1879. He was
subsequently appointed government resident for Thursday Island in 1885, a position he held until his death, nearly 20 years later, aged
76, in 1904. During this period he also served as special commissioner for the protectorate of British New Guinea, administering the territory prior to it being formally proclaimed a
crown colony.
Douglass involvement in Queensland public life was significant and encompassed the entire period from the colonys formation in 1859 to
the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901. In this respect, his career allows, through a study of his long, eventful and varied life, for
this thesis to examine aspects of the development and progression of Queenslands political system as a nascent yet robust, representative
democracy, through most of the second half of the nineteenth century until the colonys incorporation in the newly formed
Commonwealth of Australia.
This thesis argues that John Douglas was an uncompromising Liberal in an age of Liberalism, a principled politician in an era of pragmatic factionalism and shifting political allegiances. Perhapsbecause of this he was more popular with his electorate than with his parliamentary colleagues.
Douglass contribution to Queensland life was in large measure shaped by his character and the formative influences on it. This included his aristocratic upbringing, his public school and university education, his abiding religious faith, a profound sense of fair play, and a desire to participate fully and selflessly in the life of the community he lived in, despite the vicissitudes of his personal life.
As this thesis further demonstrates, an examination of Douglass life affords us an insight into an energetic, accomplished, erudite, and compassionate man. Yet while his intellectual curiosity, thirst for knowledge and wide-ranging interests marked him as a Renaissance man, he also had many failings, most noticeably that of extreme obstinacy. Therefore, this thesis will analyse Douglass convictions and beliefs while examining the strengths and flaws inherent in his
character. It is because Douglas lived a life characterised by complexity and contradiction, leavened by a mixture of accomplishment and failure, that his life, and the times he lived in,
are worthy of examination.
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Van, Breda Vincent. "The function of Douglas John Hall's theological anthropology in his theological methodology." University of the Western Cape, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8247.
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Magister Theologiae - MThNo theologian can credibly claim to be able to speak on behalf of the whole human race in all places at all times and under all circumstances. In recent years theologians stressed the importance of the particular group. In our day authentic theology is characterised by the need to know the self (chapter 1). Douglas John Hall accepts this and therefore consciously theologises on behalf of those in the dominant culture of the North .American continent. He describes the primary characteristic of the human condition of this group of people as the experience of the failure of their symbolic world. This disintegration is especially felt with regard to the perception of the human being (anthropology) . So, in chapter 2 I focus on Hall's theological anthropological perception of those in the dominant culture of the North .American continent. Hall views the primary task of all disciplines in this context - including Christian theology - in the present time as providing resources of meaning in this world of disintegrating symbols. Consequently, he proposes his theological methodology as such a resource. In chapter 3 I focus on Hall's theological methodology as a means out of this present condition of meaninglessness - due to the disintegration of especially the anthropological symbol - for those in the dominant culture of the North American continent
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Vaillancourt, Louis. "Le concept de stewardship chez Douglas John Hall comme fondement d'une théologie écologique christocentrée." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0003/NQ39403.pdf.
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Vaillancourt, Louis. "Le concept de "stewardship" chez Douglas John Hall comme fondement d'une théologie écologique christocentrée." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/41398.
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"Thèse présentée à l'Université Laval comme exigence partielle du doctorat en théologie offert à l'Université de Sherbrooke en vertu d'un protocole d'entente avec l'Université Laval pour l'obtention du grade de Philosophiae Doctor (PH D.)."Dans le contexte de la crise écologique actuelle, la thèse consiste à approfondir la compréhension chrétienne du rapport homme/nature. Le thème du stewardship, de plus en plus présent dans la littérature théo-écologique, apparaît comme une clé pour identifier et exposer la contribution particulière du discours chrétien: celle de repenser les représentations cosmo-anthropologiques, présupposé fondamental à une éthique écologique. Un théologien de chez nous, Douglas John Hall, a longuement exploré cette nouvelle image de l'être humain compris comme steward, une richesse négligée de la tradition judéo-chrétienne, mais combien appropriée à la conversion anthropologique qui s'impose. L'étude systématique du concept de stewardship dans l'œuvre de Hall confirme la pertinence de son emploi comme pivot d'une théologie écologique. Elle fait aussi découvrir des possibilités d'enrichissement de la thématique grâce surtout à l'apport des traditions juive et orthodoxe. Notre essai ouvre finalement la voie à un développement christocentrique qui donne à ce symbole biblique son expression plénière.
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Veer, Jean-Daniel. "Vers une ecclésiologie de la croix : une lecture de la théologie de Douglas John Hall." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/35036.
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Ce mémoire traite de la théologie de la croix de Douglas John Hall dans une perspective ecclésiologique. Il répond à la question suivante : quelle ecclésiologie la théologie de la croix de Hall suggère-t-elle ? En réponse à cette question, le mémoire recense les principales influences de Hall pour aider à comprendre ses préoccupations théologiques. Ensuite, la croix et le contexte sont identifiés comme éléments méthodologiques essentiels de sa théologie de la croix et de son ecclésiologie. Il en va de même des doctrines de Dieu, de la création et du Christ qui sont exposés comme fondements théologiques. D’un Dieu qui souffre, d’une réalité relationnelle et d’un Christ qui représente, ce mémoire en arrive à mettre en évidence une Église qui représente, qui s’engage relationnellement dans son contexte et qui souffre. Cette Église est appelée à représenter le monde auprès du Christ et le Christ auprès du monde. Elle est également appelée à s’engager auprès du contexte dans lequel elle se trouve plutôt que de tenter de fuir la réalité telle qu’elle se présente. Enfin, elle est appelée à souffrir à cause de son identification et de son engagement envers son contexte. En somme, ce mémoire propose une perspective sur les fondements et les éléments d’une doctrine de l’Église chez Hall.This thesis explores Douglas John Hall’s theology of the cross from an ecclesiological perspective. It aims to answer the following question: What ecclesiology does Hall’s theology of the cross suggest? To answer the question, we first survey Hall’s major influences to provide a deeper understanding of his theological concerns. We then identify the cross and context as fundamental methodological underpinnings of his theology of the cross and its ecclesiology. In the same vein, we present the doctrines of God, creation and Christ as theological foundations. Approached from the perspective of a God who suffers, a relational ontology, and a Christ who represents, this thesis highlights a Church that represents, relationally engages itself within its context, and suffers. This Church is called to represent the world to Christ and Christ to the world. It is called to engage in its context rather than attempt to escape its reality. Lastly, it is called to suffer because of its identity and its engagement in its context. This thesis proposes a perspective on the elements of a doctrine of the Church found in the work of Hall.
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Rösch, Thomas. "Medienkritik im angloamerikanischen Gegenwartsroman dargestellt an Romanen von John Irving, Douglas Coupland und Ian McEwan; mit einer Auswahlbibliographie /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2003. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB11675841.
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Thelin, Gunilla. "Det finns ingen planet B : Om befrielseteologi, ekoteologi och ekologi." Thesis, Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm, Avdelningen för religionsvetenskap och teologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-1171.
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Syftet med denna uppsats är att genom ett möte mellan befrielseteologi, ekoteologi och ekologi bidra till ett teologiskt tänkande och en möjlig attitydförändring inför det klimathot och den förändring som mänskligheten måste genomföra för sin biologiska överlevnads skull. Uppsatsen diskuterar befrielseteologi och förvaltarskap och svarar på frågor om människans uppgift och ansvar, vem människan är i förhållande till skapelsen, vem den förtryckte är idag samt vem som har mandat att föra skapelsens talan.
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Enström, Karl Jonas Elton. ""Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land" : En nivåstudie av produktion, struktur, ensamhet och begär i John Steinbecks Of Mice and Men." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-5669.
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My main purpose with this paper of John Steinbecks Of mice and men is to both analyze the long-lived structures and the unique individual destinies of the novel. I employ the method of the historical Annales-movement and use three divided levels in my analysis to try to capture these high structures and low moments of humanity in Structure, Konjuncture and the Individuality. The first level, Structure, is used to see how long-lived almost invisible geographic structures set the human act of condition. The second level, Konjuncture, is easier to grasp in understanding of time and embraces for example economic structures as the industrialism. The last level of Individuality is the fastest in time and easiest to understand but in the long run also the least important. Humans are controlled by structures and norms. I try to inspect what these three levels look like in Of Mice and Men and how they affect each other and the main characters of the novel. I make use of Foucault and Butler in the Konjuncture-level to explore how power, production and discourse create structures that affects the working man and the “non-working” woman in Of Mice and Men. I adopt Butler to see how Steinbeck creates gender through clothes and working tools. In the Indivual-level we can see the effects of the other levels in the characters actions. For example how their sexual preferences are effects of the power-structure of the production (Rubin and Foucault), how a society see images of filth or purity when someone differ from the norm (Douglas and Foucault) and how we sacrifice one member of the social group to contain stability when chaos threatens (Girard).
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Brady, Tony James. "The rural school experiment : creating a Queensland yeoman." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/60802/3/Tony_Brady_Thesis.pdf.
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Using historical narrative and extensive archival research, this thesis portrays the story of the twentieth century Queensland Rural Schools. The initiative started at Nambour Primary School in 1917, and extended over the next four decades to encompass thirty primary schools that functioned as centralized institutions training children in agricultural science, domestic science, and manual trade training.
The Rural Schools formed the foundation of a systemised approach to agricultural education intended to facilitate the State’s closer settlement ideology. The purpose of the Rural Schools was to mitigate urbanisation, circumvent foreign incursion and increase Queensland’s productivity by turning boys into farmers, or the tradesmen required to support them, and girls into the homemakers that these farmers needed as wives and mothers for the next generation. Effectively Queensland took rural boys and girls and created a new yeomanry to aid the State’s development.
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Hernandez, Jesse. "Senses In Synthesis: Imaginative Sensing In The 19th Century." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/621.
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During the late 19th century, arts and literature had a surge of sensory awareness, made manifest through sensory analogy, intersensory metaphor, and synaesthesia. This dissertation explores this phenomenon through a study of five poets and artists: Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Barlas, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Using imaginative sensing, these artists transformed the relationship between artist and observer, assigning greater responsibility to their audience while simultaneously asserting artistic control of their work. Their fascination with sensory mixing and multisensory awareness demonstrates unique ideas about perception and embodiment, ideas that have sparked both controversy and imitation. I begin with a brief history of the condition known as synaesthesia, considering its position as an “abnormal” clinical condition, a desired artistic state of transcendence, and a simple transfer of metaphor. Chapter 1 describes how two French poems brought synaesthesia to public consciousness and prompted a literary movement. In Chapter 2, I explore how poet-painter Dante Rossetti used “acts of attention” and unheard music to demand viewers’ embodied participation. Chapter 3 introduces John Barlas, a relatively obscure British poet who crafted exotic, sensory-laden environments that hovered between the actual and imagined, insisting that the reader use his sensory imagination to participate. Moving to the realm of photography in Chapter 4, I consider Julia Margaret Cameron, whose “out-of-focus” pictures changed photography from a mechanistic technology to high art by incorporating the sense of touch. Historically, the senses have been ranked and separated, with priority given to vision, the sense most associated with reason. I argue that considering the senses as bundles of interconnected experiences and through imagination rather than as isolated methods of physical perception can show how the senses function culturally and give us a much greater understanding of how we process the world. While no time period has regarded the senses with the intensity of the late 19th century, the embodied approach of the era can be applied to our current “sensory revolution” and can impact how we regard technology, cultural studies, and interdisciplinarity. Evaluating how 19th century artists blended the senses through imaginative constructs gives a more thorough explanation of the characteristic sensuality of the period and provides a model for how sensing can function more fully in current endeavors.
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Turnour, Matthew Dwight. "The stewardship paradigm : an enquiry into the ethical obligation associated with being in control of resorces." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/35810/1/35810.pdf.
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The resource allocation and utilization discourse is dominated by debates about rights particularly individual property rights and ownership. This is due largely to the philosophic foundations provided by Hobbes and Locke and adopted by Bentham. In our community, though, resources come not merely with rights embedded but also obligations. The relevant laws and equitable principles which give shape to our shared rights and obligations with respect to resources take cognizance not merely of the title to the resource (the proprietary right) but the particular context in which the right is exercised. Moral philosophy regarding resource utilisation has from ancient times taken cognizance of obligations but with ascendance of modernity, the agenda of moral philosophy regarding resources, has been dominated, at least since John Locke, by a preoccupation with property rights; the ethical obligations associated with resource management have been largely ignored. The particular social context has also been ignored. Exploring this applied ethical terrain regarding resource utilisation, this thesis:
(1) Revisits the justifications for modem property rights (and in that the exclusion of obligations);
(2) Identifies major deficiencies in these justifications and reasons for this;
(3) Traces the concept of stewardship as understood in classical Greek writing and in the New Testament, and considers its application in the Patristic period and by Medieval and reformist writers, before turning to investigate its influence on legal and equitable concepts through to the current day;
4) Discusses the nature of the stewardship obligation,maps it and offers a schematic for applying the Stewardship Paradigm to problems arising in daily life;
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(5) Discusses the way in which the Stewardship Paradigm may be applied by, and assists in resolving issues arising from within four dominant philosophic world views:
(a) Rawls' social contract theory;
(b) Utilitarianism as discussed by Peter Singer;
(c) Christianity with particular focus on the theology of Douglas Hall;
(d) Feminism particularly as expressed in the ethics of care of Carol Gilligan;
and, offers some more general comments about stewardship in the context of an ethically plural community.
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Martini, Maximilian Umberto. "Abolitionism and the Logic of Martyrdom: Death as an Argument for John Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass." OpenSIUC, 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2122.
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This paper looks at three significant instances of the representation of abolitionist martyrdom in nineteenth-century America to first sketch the abolitionist discourse and its varied conceptualizations of martyrdom and second question the rationale and success of this strategy for manumitting slaves. Accordingly, I start with Brown, who (with help from sympathetic northerners and the megaphone of the Associated Press) appealed to the martyrological tradition in order to transform his paramilitary failure at Harper’s Ferry into a powerful symbol of his own abolitionist righteousness over and against the state’s iniquity. Though the superficial differences between Brown and arch-sentimentalist Harriet Beecher Stowe have discouraged their comparison, a look at the logic of martyrdom reveals a similar strategy at work in both Brown’s martyrization and Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which makes death an argument for the manumission of slaves. I argue that this hugely successful novel reveals the potency of martyrological thinking in 19th-century America as it also reveals martyrdom and its logic to be the foundation of sentimentalism like Stowe’s. Finally, I look at the speeches and nonfiction of Frederick Douglass to argue that his own martyrization of John Brown is different than what we see in Brown and Stowe because it provokes change rather than validating abolitionism that already exists. To various degrees, these writers seem aware that there may be a problem in the rhetorical use of martyrdom against the putatively secular state; they consequently employ different strategies for negotiating the meaninglessness of suffering and death with the soteriological and eschatological assumptions of their day. These negotiations reveal the extent to which martyrdom could be taken seriously as a hammer of abolitionism by different authors and thus also indicate the degree to which martyrdom can be taken seriously as a political solution whatsoever. Ultimately, I want to argue that martyrdom and its logic are at best dubious when applied to secular politics precisely because it relies upon the analogy to Jesus Christ as savior, which cannot hold outside Christianity. Simply put, the death of a mortal cannot register eschatologically and, more importantly, death does not make a cogent argument for anything. Instead, martyrdom is preaching to the choir par excellance; whether the choir is Christian, abolitionist, or something else, martyrological appeals do not grow its membership, as martyrologists since early modernity have assumed.
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Frédéric, Paul. "Convergences aventureuses : L'Écho des années soixante-dix californiennes sur l'art européen des années quatre-vingt-dix et autres essais sur l'art contemporain." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00383238.
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Le contexte artistique californien de la fin des années 60 et du début des années 70 constitue un terrain favorable aux investigations d'une nouvelle génération d'artistes, même s'il ne bénéficie pas de réels soutiens logistiques marchands ou institutionnels. L'art conceptuel promu à la même époque par Seth Siegelaub à New York prépare une alternative à l'art minimal. Ce phénomène a déjà son équivalent en Europe. La dématérialisation de l'oeuvre d'art aura des conséquences décisives en Californie, où elle donnera naissance à un art conceptuel dénué de tout dogmatisme marqué par l'influence de fortes personnalités comme Edward Ruscha et John Baldessari. Des artistes originaires de la côté est comme Douglas Huebler, William Wegman, Robert Cumming, du Midwest comme Ruppersberg trouveront de l'autre côté des États-Unis des conditions de travail plus stimulantes. Des Européens comme Bas Jan Ader ou son complice Ger van Elk suivront le même chemin. Leurs oeuvres ne trouveront pas immédiatement sur place une grande visibilité. Mais après une éclipse d'une quinzaine d'années, voici qu'une nouvelle génération d'artistes européens (citons des artistes comme Claude Closky, en France, ou Jonathan Monk, en Angleterre) se penche sur ces grand frères et les place au premier rang de leurs références. À partir d'exemples sélectionnés d'artistes et d'un corpus de textes constitué depuis le début des années 90, que j'ai écrits pour différents catalogues d'expositions, revues, éditeurs, l'objet de cette thèse est de présenter ce dialogue entre les générations et de mettre en évidence certaines convergences malgré la dissemblance des contextes institutionnels et sociétaux.
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Lado, Hervé. "Le développement comme processus d'élimination des rentes et de la prédation : le cadre conceptuel de Douglass North, John Wallis et Barry Weingast à l'épreuve du Nigéria." Thesis, Paris 1, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA010086.
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Si l’on conçoit le développement comme un processus d’élimination des rentes, le cadre conceptuel de Douglass North, John Wallis, Barry Weingast (NWW) élaboré en 2009 qui le définit comme processus de transition institutionnelle d’un ordre social d’accès limité (pays en développement) où la violence est permanente et disséminée, vers un ordre social d’accès ouvert (pays développés) où les accès économiques et politiques sont ouverts à tous grâce à la libre compétition, élimine-t-il véritablement les rentes ? Par une critique théorique interne et une critique empirique illustrée par l’histoire du Nigeria et en particulier l’activité des multinationales pétrolières, nous soutenons que le cadre conceptuel de NWW est défaillant i) dans sa conception du rôle des élites et des non-élites dans le processus d’ouverture des accès au sein de l’ordre social d’accès limité ii) et dans sa construction épistémologique du modèle d’ordre social d’accès ouvert basé sur la libre compétition politique et économique. L’ordre d’accès ouvert de NWW entretient des rentes, et légitime la prédation, que nous définissons comme l’exploitation de rentes de domination. Les prédateurs font ainsi peser sur leurs victimes des coûts sociaux que les démarches de développement durable (DD) et de responsabilité sociétale des entreprises (RSE) peinent à éliminer. Le DD et la RSE ne parviendront à éliminer la prédation qu’en développant des institutions et des référentiels qui contraignent les acteurs à la prise en compte de l’asymétrie de pouvoir et du risque de domination dans les négociations entre parties prenantes, en vue du respect de la dignité humaine dans les transactionsThe conceptual framework developed in 2009 by Douglass North, John Wallis, Barry Weingast (NWW) regards development as an institutional transition from a limited access social order (developing countries), where violence is a spread and permanent threat, to an open access social order (developed countries), where economic and political accesses are open to all through free competition. If we consider development as a process of rents elimination, does this framework enable rents elimination? Combining a theoretical analysis, and an empirical analysis illustrated by the history of Nigeria and oil multinationals’ activities, we argue that NWW’s framework fails i) in the design of the role of elites and non-elites in the transition process within the limited access order ii) and in the epistemological shaping of the open access order based on political and economic free competition. The NWW’s open access order maintains rents, and legitimizes predation which we define as the exploitation of domination rents. Predators generate on their victims various social costs which sustainable development (SD) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives are failing to eradicate. SD and CSR approaches will succeed in eradicating predation only if they consider within transactions the power asymmetry and the risk of domination in negotiations between stakeholders, in order to protect the human dignity
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Syme, Neil. "Uncanny modalities in post-1970s Scottish fiction : realism, disruption, tradition." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21768.
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This thesis addresses critical conceptions of Scottish literary development in the twentieth-century which inscribe realism as both the authenticating tradition and necessary telos of modern Scottish writing. To this end I identify and explore a Scottish ‘counter-tradition’ of modern uncanny fiction. Drawing critical attention to techniques of modal disruption in the works of a number of post-1970s Scottish writers gives cause to reconsider that realist teleology while positing a range of other continuities and tensions across modern Scottish literary history. The thesis initially defines the critical context for the project, considering how realism has come to be regarded as a medium of national literary representation. I go on to explore techniques of modal disruption and uncanny in texts by five Scottish writers, contesting ways in which habitual recourse to the realist tradition has obscured important aspects of their work. Chapter One investigates Ali Smith’s reimagining of ‘the uncanny guest’. While this trope has been employed by earlier Scottish writers, Smith redesigns it as part of a wider interrogation of the hyperreal twenty-first-century. Chapter Two considers two texts by James Robertson, each of which, I argue, invokes uncanny techniques familiar to readers of James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson in a way intended specifically to suggest concepts of national continuity and literary inheritance. Chapter Three argues that James Kelman’s political stance necessitates modal disruption as a means of relating intimate individual experience. Re-envisaging Kelman as a writer of the uncanny makes his central assimilation into the teleology of Scottish realism untenable, complicating the way his work has been positioned in the Scottish canon. Chapter Four analyses A.L. Kennedy’s So I Am Glad, delineating a similarity in the processes of repetition which result in both uncanny effects and the phenomenon of tradition, leading to Kennedy’s identification of an uncanny dimension in the concept of national tradition itself. Chapter Five considers the work of Alan Warner, in which the uncanny appears as an unsettling sense of significance embedded within the banal everyday, reflecting an existentialism which reaches beyond the national. In this way, I argue that habitual recourse to an inscribed realist tradition tends to obscure the range, complexity and instability of the realist techniques employed by the writers at issue, demonstrating how national continuities can be productively accommodated within wider, pluralistic analytical approaches.
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(9872855), J. Hodes. "John Douglas 1828-1904: The uncompromising liberal." Thesis, 2006. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/John_Douglas_1828-1904_the_uncompromising_liberal/13416842.
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Douglas was born in London in 1828 and migrated to New South Wales in 1851 where he represented both the Darling Downs and Camden districts in the New South Wales parliament before embarking on a lengthy parliamentary career in Queensland, one that culminated in the premiership from 1877 to 1879. He was subsequently appointed government resident for Thursday Island in 1885, a position he held until his death, nearly 20 years later, aged 76, in 1904. During this period he also served as special commissioner for the protectorate of British New Guinea, administering the territory prior to it being formally proclaimed a crown colony. Douglass involvement in Queensland public life was significant and encompassed the entire period from the colonys formation in 1859 to the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901. In this respect, his career allows, through a study of his long, eventful and varied life, for this thesis to examine aspects of the development and progression of Queenslands political system as a nascent yet robust, representative democracy, through most of the second half of the nineteenth century until the colonys incorporation in the newly formed Commonwealth of Australia. This thesis argues that John Douglas was an uncompromising Liberal in an age of Liberalism, a principled politician in an era of pragmatic factionalism and shifting political allegiances. Perhapsbecause of this he was more popular with his electorate than with his parliamentary colleagues. Douglass contribution to Queensland life was in large measure shaped by his character and the formative influences on it. This included his aristocratic upbringing, his public school and university education, his abiding religious faith, a profound sense of fair play, and a desire to participate fully and selflessly in the life of the community he lived in, despite the vicissitudes of his personal life. As this thesis further demonstrates, an examination of Douglass life affords us an insight into an energetic, accomplished, erudite, and compassionate man. Yet while his intellectual curiosity, thirst for knowledge and wide-ranging interests marked him as a Renaissance man, he also had many failings, most noticeably that of extreme obstinacy. Therefore, this thesis will analyse Douglass convictions and beliefs while examining the strengths and flaws inherent in his character. It is because Douglas lived a life characterised by complexity and contradiction, leavened by a mixture of accomplishment and failure, that his life, and the times he lived in, are worthy of examination.
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Daniels, Justin John Douglas [Verfasser]. "Interaction of Salmonella typhimurium and Listeria monocytogenes with the murine host / vorgelegt von Justin John Douglas Daniels." 1999. http://d-nb.info/958340994/34.
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Du, Plooy Belinda. "`Can't nothing heal without pain' : healing in Toni Morrison's Beloved." Diss., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1001.
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Toni Morrison reinterprets and reconstitutes American history by placing the lives, stories and experiences of African Americans in a position of centrality, while relegating white American history and cultural traditions to the margins of her narratives. She rewrites American history from an alternative - African American woman's - perspective, and subverts the accepted racist and patriarchally inspired `truths' about life, love and women's experiences through her sympathetic depiction of murderous mother love and complex female relationships in Beloved. She writes about oppression, pain and suffering, and of the need for the acknowledgement and alleviation of the various forms of oppression that scar human existence. Morrison's engagement with healing in Beloved forms the central focus of this short dissertation. The novel is analysed in relation to Mary Douglas's `Two Bodies' theory, John Caputo's ideas on progressive Foucaultian hermeneutics and healing gestures, and Julia Martin's thoughts on alternative healing practices based on non-dualism and interconnectedness. Within this interdisciplinary context, Beloved is read as a `small start' to `creative engagement' with alternative healing practices (Martin, 1996:104).English
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(9719168), Michael James Greenan. "AFRICAN AMERICAN SPIRITUALS AND THE BIBLE: SELECTING TEXTS FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION INSTRUCTION." Thesis, 2020.
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The research in this thesis attempts to select texts from the African American Spirituals and the Bible that are appropriate for secondary language arts instruction, specifically for grades 9-12. The paper first gives an overview of legal justifications and educational reasons for teaching religious literature in public schools. Then, relevant educational standards are discussed, and, using the standards as an initial guide, I identify common themes within the Spirituals and Bible, which, from my analysis of various literatures, are slavery, chosenness, and coded language. Next, I describe my systematic effort to choose texts from the Spirituals and the Bible. To help accomplish this, I draw primarily from two tomes: Go Down Moses: Celebrating the African-American Spiritual and Biblical Literacy: The Essential Bible Stories Everyone Needs to Know. After I describe the research process of selecting texts, I form judgments about which biblical passages and African American Spirituals are particularly worthy of study, along with their applicable and mutual themes.
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Stasko, Carly. "A Pedagogy of Holistic Media Literacy: Reflections on Culture Jamming as Transformative Learning and Healing." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/18109.
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This qualitative study uses narrative inquiry (Connelly & Clandinin, 1988, 1990, 2001) and self-study to investigate ways to further understand and facilitate the integration of holistic philosophies of education with media literacy pedagogies. As founder and director of the Youth Media Literacy Project and a self-titled Imagitator (one who agitates imagination), I have spent over 10 years teaching media literacy in various high schools, universities, and community centres across North America. This study will focus on my own personal practical knowledge (Connelly & Clandinin, 1982) as a culture jammer, educator and cancer survivor to illustrate my original vision of a ‘holistic media literacy pedagogy’. This research reflects on the emergence and impact of holistic media literacy in my personal and professional life and also draws from relevant interdisciplinary literature to challenge and synthesize current insights and theories of media literacy, holistic education and culture jamming.