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Holmes, Michael M. (Michael Morgan). "Unnatural desires : cultural dissidence in metaphysical literature." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40139.
Full textPowers, Patrick D. "Belief in the Unbelievable: Yakov Druskin and Chinari Metaphysics." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1619455383434057.
Full textPlunges, Craig. "Vanishing Points: Perspectival Metaphysics in the English Renaissance." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:26718764.
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Nickels, Zachary. "The Art of Loneliness." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1462549085.
Full textMounsey, Chris. "William Blake's 'The Four Zoas' : a reassessment of its implied metaphysics." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1992. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/110358/.
Full textNatarajan, Uttara Valli. "Hazlitt and the reach of sense : criticism, morals and the metaphysics of power." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.308818.
Full textHudson, Brenda Kay. "Vision of creation| A Jungian view of Hildegard's "On the Origin of Life" vision." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3716788.
Full textHildegard von Bingen, a visionary abbess living in the tumultuous 12th century, recorded and interpreted three very powerful visions pertaining to Christianity. This dissertation is limited to the first image of Hildegard’s last vision called De Operatione Dei, the Works of God, a cosmological vision about creation. Hildegard named this image On the Origin of Life.
The thesis of this dissertation suggests the four main characters in the first image of Hildegard’s cosmological vision—the two-headed and four-winged red figure named Caritas standing on the serpent-wrapped monster—correspond to the four stages of Jung’s individuation—encounter with the shadow (serpent), encounter with the soulimage (monster as Adam), encounter with the god-image (Caritas), emergence of the Self (godhead). Each of these characters and stages represent a level in what has been called by perennial philosophy the Great Chain of Being. Hildegard’s vision represents the unfolding of Spirit into matter. Jung’s individuation process describes the soul’s journey back towards Spirit.
This work starts by introducing the vision and Hildegard’s interpretation. Next it moves to what other authors have written. Since the vision is about creation the interpretation starts with the literalists’ view of Genesis and moves to the mystical interpretations of Genesis. Other creation stories including a serpent and a goddess amplify the interpretation. Then, using Jungian and alchemical symbols the images of this iv vision are further elaborated. The research follows the logic of the axiom of Maria, from the uroboros, to the hermaphrodite, to the trinity and ending with the marriage quaternio—two pairs of hermaphrodites. Byington’s symbolic elaboration process is used to interpret the dramatic action of the vision thereby bringing the vision back to life as Hildegard might have experienced it. Finally, the parallel between Hildegard’s vision and Jung’s individuation process is explained in detail. The work ends with Hildegard’s interpretation of why god created the world showing how it aligns with the goal of individuation, and how both are critical for the life of the soul in the 21st century.
Ruiz-López, Agnes. "Hermetic Text and Subtext: Paranormal Phenomena in the Works of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera and Benito Pérez Galdós." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1037.
Full textMenuez, Paolo Xavier Machado. "The Downward Spiral| Postmodern Consciousness as Buddhist Metaphysics in the Dark Souls Video Game Series." Thesis, Portland State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10637267.
Full textThis paper is about locating the meaning of a series of games known as the Dark Souls series in relation to contemporary social conditions in Japan. I argue that the game should be thought of as an emblem of the current cultural zeitgeist, in a similar way one might identify something like Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums as an emblem of the counter cultural 60s. I argue that the Dark Souls series expresses in allegorical form an anxiety about living in a time where the meaning of our everyday actions and even society itself has become significantly destabilized. It does this through a fractured approach to story-telling, that is interspersed with Buddhist metaphysics and wrapped up in macabre, gothic aesthetic depicting the last gasping breath of a once great kingdom. This expression of contemporary social anxiety is connected to the discourse of postmodernity in Japan. Through looking at these games as a feedback loop between text, environment and ludic system, I connect the main conceptual motifs that structure the games as a whole with Osawa Masachi’s concept of the post-fictional era and Hiroki Azuma’s definition of the otaku.
Tompsett, Daniel Charles. "The reduction of metaphysics and the play of violence in the poetry of Wallace Stevens." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2010. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/388.
Full textWilson, Douglas 1965. "The ideology of despair : William Faulkner and the metaphysics of absence." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1997. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27635.
Full textWilson, Mary E. "Gothic cathedral as theology and literature." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002826.
Full textVericat, Fabio L. "From physics to metaphysics : philosophy and style in the critical writings of T.S. Eliot (1913-1935)." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7445/.
Full textWhite, 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.
Full textBandara, Dhanuka Mr. "T.S. Eliot and the Universality of Metaphysics; a Buddhist-Hegelian critique of post-structuralist and post-colonial theory through a reading of Eliot’s poetry and criticism." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1533313801703122.
Full textLester, Mark Michael. "Readings of Leibniz : metaphysics in the writings of S.I. Witkiewicz, Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9516.
Full textKaplan, Sara Esther. "Magazine." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1086450926.
Full textNicol, Timothy Keith. "Shaping Spirits, or, Imagination and "Abstruse Research": the perils of metaphysics and Coleridge's loss of form in the years of his philosophical accomplishment." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12392.
Full textThe mystical nature of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Christabel' and 'Kubla Khan' has intrigued readers for over two centuries. Of these full poems only the "Rime" is complete and yet they all still enjoy the scrutiny of a wide audience. This thesis examines the circumstances surrounding Coleridge's inability to continue writing such poems of imaginative force.
Smeriglio, Kristina. "Hallowed Be Thy Fall." NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/writing_etd/35.
Full textThompson, Alison. "The Higher Learning." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1452180306.
Full textPei, Kong-ngai. "Fictional characters and their names a defense of the fact theory /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/b4020389x.
Full textPei, Kong-ngai, and 貝剛毅. "Fictional characters and their names: a defense of the fact theory." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4020389X.
Full textGetz, Evan Jay Donnelly Phillip J. "Analogy, causation, and beauty in the works of Lucy Hutchinson." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5231.
Full textNeubauer, Deana. "The biosemiotic imagination in the Victorian frames of mind : Newman, Eliot and Welby." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2016. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/1142/.
Full textRobjant, David. "The river as a guide to Iris Murdoch." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683256.
Full textFajardo, Tiffany L. "The World in Singing Made: David Markson's "Wittgenstein's Mistress"." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1861.
Full textSanyal, Sudipto. "An Uncertain Poetics of the Intoxicated Narrative: Drugs, Detection, Denouement." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1367932599.
Full textDavidson, Joshua. ""And the Light Flood Over the Land": Reading Region in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1337713763.
Full textMfune, Damazio Laston. "My other - my self: post-Cartesian ontological possibilities in the fiction of J M Coetzee." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002289.
Full textKeynes, Laura. "William Hazlitt : an aesthetics of embodiment." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669977.
Full textDittmer, Sienna Miquel Palmer. "Cross-Cultural Ecotheology in the Poetry of Li-Young Lee." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3027.
Full textEvans, David B. "Scepticism at sea : Herman Melville and philosophical doubt." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a842c507-0efc-4b73-9aaa-ccc36f54a7a5.
Full textWheatley, Carmen. "Donne and Spanish literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235777.
Full textMenezes, Rodrigo Inácio Ribeiro Sá. "Existência e escritura em Cioran." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2016. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/11705.
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Cioran (1911-1995) is a Romanian-French thinker who would not have the right to complain about being misunderstood or even ignored, inasmuch as he begged to turn marginality into a philosophical imperative and a lifestyle. Eleven years since his death, in Paris, and one hundred since his birth, in Transylvania, this one author, the perfect stranger in more than one sense, remains largely unknown by the Brazilian audience, scholarly or not, in such a way that his shady aura, so to speak, as well as countless legends and rumors prevail about his life, personality and thought. Having said that, and apart from his own will to marginality, Cioran is a thinker who just can t and will not remain as such for much longer ignored or spurned, be it by Academia as such or by particular intellectual milieus with varied ideological outlooks. All the more when it comes to reflect upon problems which happen to be just as prevailing as worrying, such as the rise of integralism and of fanaticism, be it religious or of any other kind, atheism, skepticism and nihilism in the XXth century, anguish, despair, the metaphysical need of mankind and the sense of ultimate transcendence, suffering, death, suicide, evil, finally, a wide range of questions which are all highly relevant from a philosophical standpoint and also that of human sciences. In the first part of this inquiry, we aim at showing that philosophical pessimism and apophatic dwell mix up in the existential metaphysics of Cioran, a religious philosophy of existence which, not being guided up by the faith in revealed truths and by the adhesion to external authorities, aims to think human existence and condition according to that which is most imperious and essential, in Cioran s view, when it comes to the metaphysical animal: wisdom rather than science, deliverance by disillusion rather than salvation by faith and knowledge, the need for the absolute to the detriment of the delusions of becoming, coping with the contingency inherent to existence, namely human existence, tragically gifted with reflexive consciousness, freedom, a destiny. Cioran s organically existential thought is inseparable from, as he puts it, from his own life experience, namely the insomnia to which he accredits the merit or the fault for his blessed, for his cursed lucidity: a state of mind incompatible with life, turning life into a state of non-suicide . If there is pessimism, skepticism, nihilism, mysticism within the sum of attitudes that composes the works of Cioran, such attitudes which might as well be modalized as reactions to the problem of evil, all these tendencies emanate from insomnia-bred lucidity. Secondly, we shall turn our attention to the topic of Cioran s écriture, with everything it implies, differently than his Romanian writing, as far as style, concern for expression and the aestheticizing of discourse are concerned. We aim at showing that the Farewell to philosophy enounced by the author in A short history of decay (Précis de decomposition), parallel to his literary turn and the radicalization of the fragmentary principle that precedes his French writing, is the paradoxical expression of a negation-driven thought which, by betraying Philosophy with Poetry, Music and Mysticism, cannot help but pay an unheard-of tribute to Human thought and to Philosophy itself. Finally, we argue that Cioran s French works represent, by its form and content, the necessary consequence and exact expression of a lucid, organic thought, which discovers in the écriture de soi the very destiny of Western Philosophy, and in Style as adventure the highest form of modern-thought heroism
Cioran (1911-1995) é um pensador romeno-francês que não teria o direito de reclamar por ser incompreendido e ignorado, pois ele mesmo fez da marginalidade um imperativo filosófico e um estilo de vida. Onze anos após o seu falecimento, em Paris, e cem anos após o seu nascimento, na Transilvânia, este autor, estrangeiro em mais de um sentido, permanece em grande medida desconhecido pelo público brasileiro, acadêmico ou não, fazendo prevalecer sua aura de obscuro e um sem-número de lendas e rumores sobre a sua vida, a sua personalidade, o seu pensamento. Dito isso, e vontade de marginalidade à parte, Cioran é um pensador que não pode ser e não permanecerá sendo por muito tempo ignorado ou desprezado, seja pela Academia como pelos círculos intelectuais com as mais diversas orientações ideológicas. Ainda mais quando se trata de pensar problemáticas, tão atuais quanto preocupantes, como a ascensão do fundamentalismo e do fanatismo, religioso ou de outra natureza, o ateísmo, o ceticismo e o niilismo no século XX, a angústia, o desespero, a necessidade metafísica do homem e o sentido da transcendência, o sofrimento, a morte, o suicídio, o mal, enfim, uma gama de questões altamente relevantes do ponto de vista da filosofia e também de outras disciplinas, como a psicologia e a história. Na primeira parte desta investigação, pessimismo filosófico e misticismo apofático convivem na metafísica existencial de Cioran, uma filosofia religiosa da existência que, sem se pautar pela fé em verdades relevadas e pela adesão a autoridades externas, busca pensar a condição e a existência humanas de acordo com aquilo que é mais urgente e essencial no animal metafísico, segundo o autor: a sabedoria antes que a ciência, a libertação pela desilusão e pelo não-saber antes que a salvação pela crença e pelo conhecimento, a necessidade de absoluto em detrimento da ilusão do devir, o enfrentamento da contingência inerente à existência, e particularmente à existência humana, tragicamente dotada de uma consciência, de uma liberdade, de um destino. O pensamento orgânico de Cioran é inseparável, como ele o reitera, de sua experiência de vida, notadamente a insônia à qual ele atribuiria, posteriormente, o mérito ou a culpa da sua bendita, maldita lucidez: um estado de espírito incompatível com a vida, tornando-a um estado de não-suicídio . Se há pessimismo, ceticismo, niilismo e misticismo na soma de atitudes que é a obra de Cioran, atitudes que podem ser justamente modalizadas como atitudes frente ao problema do mal, todas essas tendências emanam da lucidez gestada a partir de suas noites em branco. Em um segundo momento, nos voltaremos à questão da écriture cioraniana, com tudo o que ela implica, diferentemente da escrita romena, em termos de estilo, preocupação com a forma e estetização do discurso. Pretendemos mostrar como o Adeus à filosofia declarado por Cioran no Breviário de decomposição, concomitantemente à guinada literária e à acentuação do princípio fragmentário que precede sua obra francesa, é a expressão paradoxal de um pensamento da negação que, traindo a filosofia com a poesia, a música e a mística, não deixa de prestar uma homenagem inaudita ao pensamento e à própria Filosofia, doravante irreconhecível. Por fim, argumentamos que a obra francesa de Cioran representa, em forma e conteúdo, a consequência necessária e a expressão exata de um pensamento lúcido e orgânico que descobre na escritura de si o destino da filosofia e no estilo como aventura o grande heroísmo do escritor moderno. Em Cioran, Filosofia e Literatura se juntam numa fuga para dentro do niilismo, como forma de resistir às tentações do nada
Williams, Heather Margaret. "Mallarme and the crisis of metaphysical language." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267666.
Full textGrossmith, R. "Other states of being : Nabokov's two-world metaphysic." Thesis, Keele University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.379420.
Full textBarthelmess, Eugenia. "Politics and metaphysics in three novels of Philip K. Dick." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPR, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1884/24340.
Full textBecket, Fiona. "Metaphor and "metaphysic" : the sense of language in D.H. Lawrence." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1992. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36068/.
Full textWilliamson, Paul. "The metaphysical basis of mid eighteenth-century English poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314489.
Full textRoane, Nancy Lee. "Misreading the River: Heraclitean Hope in Postmodern Texts." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1431966455.
Full textWilson, Susan. "Beckett through Kant : a critique of metaphysical readings." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1998. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12952/.
Full textBarbour, Susan Jean. "Elegaic materialism : the poetry and art of Susan Howe." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4a0decd4-dec1-4f23-9457-d4d8b58c97c1.
Full textLaws, Alexander S. "Setting the Stage and Building Homes: Architecture Metaphors and Space in Donne's First Caroline Sermon." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2671.
Full textPhipps, Gregory. "Figures in American literary pragmatism: Henry James and the metaphysical club." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=96930.
Full textCette thèse examine les intersections littéraires et philosophiques entre les œuvres de fiction d'Henry James et les écrits de William James, de Charles Peirce, et d'Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Ces trois derniers étaient des personnages clés dans le développement du pragmatisme, un mouvement philosophique qui met l'accent sur l'émergence de la valeur d'une croyance ou d'une idée à travers une action ou des conséquences sociales tangibles. Appliquer une approche pragmatiste à la fiction d'Henry James nous permet de clarifier de nouvelles interprétations de ses récits, tandis qu'en même temps le fait d'appliquer une approche littéraire au pragmatisme nous amène à des nouvelles compréhensions de cette philosophie. Le but principal de ce projet est donc d'articuler et d'examiner le fonctionnement d'un pragmatisme littéraire en traçant l'emploi des métaphores et du langage figuratif semblables dans les œuvres de Peirce, d'Holmes, et de William et Henry James. D'un côté, ces composants littéraires établissent des liens entre les écrits fictifs et philosophiques en faisant fonction de véhicule rhétorique important dans différentes constructions de la subjectivité qui sont étroitement liées. D'un autre côté, ce langage figuratif relie aussi les œuvres de ce quatre écrivains à un environnement culturel partagé en incluant des références à des développements et des transformations de grande échelle dans l'Amérique de la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, notamment, la guerre civile, l'expansion d'une économie capitaliste et corporative, l'expansion du chemin de fer, et les échos de la Révolution américaine. De cette façon, l'application de l'approche pragmatiste à des vieux problèmes philosophiques est infléchie par des intégrations littéraires des dynamiques et des tendances majeures qui sont primordiales au fonctionnement de la culture américaine de la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, ce qui donne une perspective exclusivement américaine sur la relation entre la subjectivité individuelle et l'environnement externe. La fiction d'Henry James sert de laboratoire où les ramifications des représentations pragmatistes de la subjectivité se jouent à travers les relations négociées par ses personnages entre leurs croyances et leurs idées privées et l'évaluation de celles-ci dans leurs domaines sociales. Entre autres, les œuvres littéraires de James démontrent que les processus à travers lesquels « la vérité arrive à une idée » sont complexes, multi-stratifiés, et souvent inattendus.
Graziani, Lorenzo. "Un groviglio di mondi. Studio sul pluralismo fisico, metafisico e letterario postmoderno." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/260546.
Full textJorsch-Peußner, Alexandra [Verfasser]. "Berlin Stories. Berlin as a Metaphysical City in English and American Literature / Alexandra Jorsch-Peußner." Aachen : Shaker, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1066196680/34.
Full textSwope, Richard A. "Metaphysical detectives and postmodern spaces, or the case of the missing boundaries." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1829.
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Giddens, Thomas Philip. "Comics, crime, and the moral self : an interdisciplinary study of criminal identity." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3622.
Full textYuan, Honggeng. "From conventional to experimental : the making of Chinese metaphysical detective fiction /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21556398.
Full text袁洪庚 and Honggeng Yuan. "From conventional to experimental: the makingof Chinese metaphysical detective fiction." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43894422.
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