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Careri, Enrico. "A controversial musician : the violinist, composer and theorist Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)". Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.277281.
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The present thesis is divided into three main sections: the first consists of three chapters dealing wi th Geminiani's lifej the second comprises a chapter on his critical reception from his lifetime onwards and six chapters discussing his musical compositions and treatisesj the third contains footnotes to the chapters, a thematic catalogue of Geminiani's works, two appendices, and a bibliography. The opening, biographical section, which is in large part based on documents discovered by the author in the course of his research, is divided into chapters corresponding to the three main phases of Geminiani's life. The first <1687-1714) discusses the period that Geminiani spent in Italy (Lucca, Rome, and Naples>, his musical apprenticeship with Arcangelo Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti, and the possible factors that induced him to seek his fortune abroad. The second (1714-1732) covers the first period of Geminiani' s residence in London, which saw him achieve his greatest success both as a composer and a violinist, culminating with the publication of his celebrated Op. III concertos (1732). The third (1732-1762> opens with his first sojourn in Paris, an event that marks the beginning of an unset tled period in his 11 fe that persistfJd up to his death. The main portion of the second section is devoted to a descriptive analysis of Geminiani' s works, which comprise three sets of concertos
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Rotondi, Zeno. "Current controversies in the literature on time inconsistency and monetary policy". Thesis, University of Southampton, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326574.
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Bradbury, P. A. ""In good faith" : irony, scepticism and fideism in the controversial literature of the eighteenth century". Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596843.
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This dissertation is a study of the controversial literature of the eighteenth century, an examination of certain texts which offended against the religious convictions of the period. The discussion concentrates on four works: Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique (1696-1701), Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees (1714-1724), Henry Dodwell junior's Christianity not founded on argument (1742) and David Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (1779). This dissertation seeks to establish why these texts were so disconcerting, subversive and fascinating to an eighteenth-century audience. These works were not straight-forward declarations of impiety: the authors themselves - with varying degrees of irony - proclaimed their innocence of any subversive design. And the contemporary response was not always a unanimous chorus of disapproval: it was a curious mixture of outraged denunciation, careful negotiation and - in some cases - unqualified praise. While some readers believed that Bayle et al were seeking to undermine the Christian religion, other readers insisted that they were defending its prerogatives in good faith. This dissertation examines how such contrasting interpretations were constructed from the textual evidence and will thus be a contribution to the study of reader-response in the period. The interpretative difference of opinion was due - at least in part - to the presence of incommensurable theological idioms in the period. Bayle, Mandeville and Dodwell employed religious languages which were unfamiliar to an Anglican audience. While some readers shared the necessary theological presuppositions, many contemporaries were simply baffled by Mandeville's Augustinian moralism, Bayle's use of scepticism and Dodwell's rigorous fideism. The eighteenth century was riven by outbreaks of theological controversy: it was a period in which the definitions of orthodox and heterodox opinions were peculiarly fluid and unstable, a period in which a religious consensus could not be taken for granted.
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Strevens, Adam. "An analysis of certain literary controversies and their significance : 1866-1966". Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.346437.
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Merchant, Alnoor Jehangir. "Types and uses of argument in anti-Ismāʻīlī polemics". Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61179.
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This thesis aims to present and understand various accounts composed by medieval writers against the Isma'ilis and to determine the substance of the arguments forged by each writer to counter the Isma'ilis. Such writings were accepted without question by earlier researchers, and although a revision has been undertaken in more recent studies, the specific nature and orientation of anti-Isma'ili polemics has not been adequately investigated.Through a careful study of different arguments--arguments at times quite sophisticated and difficult to appreciate fully--, we try to show the evolution and development of the style of anti-Isma'ili polemics, the different temperaments of the polemicists studied, and some of the permanent and complimentary features within this tradition.
An additional question examined in this study is the extent to which social, cultural and political factors had an impact on the shaping of this tradition and the various arguments employed within it.
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Skillin, Larry Alexander. "From Proclamation to Dialogue: The Colonial Press and the Emergence of an American Public Sphere, 1640-1725". The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1249590121.
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Santos, Cassia dos. "Polemica e controversia : o itinerario de Lucio Cardoso de maleita a o enfeitiçado". [s.n.], 1997. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269966.
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Orientador: Vilma Sant'Anna AreasDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Résumé: L'objectif de ce travail est celui de suivre la réception critique de l'ouvre de Lúcio Cardoso. J'analyse la répercussion que les romans ( à l'exception du roman Crônica da Casa Assassinada dont l' étude devra être réalisée dans une phase ultérieure ) et les nouvelles de l' auteur ont mérité dans notre milieu littéraire. Ayant débuté dans la fiction avec Maleita en 1934, l'écrivain, catholique et originaire de I'Etat de Minas Gerais, a initialement été affilié au groupe des régionalistes. Mais à partir de 1936, avec la publication de son troisieme livre intitulé A Luz no Subsolo, il a été considéré chez nous comme l'un des amateurs du roman introspectif. Auteur de cinq romans et de sept nouvelles, Lúcio Cardoso a publié la plupart de ses livres pendant les années 30 et 40, c'est-à-dire, des décennies spécialement polémiques dans l'histoire de la littérature brésilienne. Parmi les discussions qui avaient lieu à cette époque-là, on relevra celle qui a opposé le groupe d'écrivains du dit "romance do Nordeste" ( "roman du Nord-Est" ) - considérés de gauche - aux auteurs catholiquesvus comme de droite. .Ayant un tempérament impétueux, Lúcio Cardoso a activement participé à ce débat. Son expressive participation par le moyen d'articles, témoignages et interviews semble avoir eu un poids décisif en ce qui conceme la réception de son oeuvre et celle-ci est, une des idées principales que je soutiens et développe dans mon travail
Resumo: Acompanhar a recepção crítica da obra de Lúcio Cardoso é o objetivo deste traballio. Nele analiso a repercussão que os romances e novelas do autor mereceram em nosso meio literário, exceção feita ao romance Crônica da Casa Assassinada, cujo estudo deverá ser realizado em uma etapa posterior. Estreando na ficção com Maleita em 1934, o escritor, mineiro e católico, foi a princípio filiado ao grupo dos regionalistas, para, a partir de 1936, com o lançamento de A Luz no subsolo, seu terceiro livro, ser considerado um dos cultuadores do romance introspectivo entre nós. Autor de cinco romances e de sete novelas, Lúcio Cardoso publicou a maior parte de seus livros ao longo dos anos 30 e 40, décadas especialmente polêmicas na história da literatura brasileira. Entre as discussões que então se processavam, destaca-se li que opôs o grupo de escritores do chamado "romance do Nordeste" considerados de esquerda - aos autores católicos tidos como de direita. Dono de um temperamento arrebatado, Lúcio Cardoso participou ativamente deste debate. A sua atuação significativa através de artigos, depoimentos e entrevistas parece ter pesado decisivamente para a recepção de sua obra e é esta uma das idéias principais que defendo e desenvolvo ao longo do meu trabalho
Mestrado
Teoria Literaria
Mestre em Letras
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Nascimento, Marconi de Almeida. "O diário de Belmiro Borba : registro de uma vida controversa". Universidade Federal de Sergipe, 2016. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5695.
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The dissertation discusses the work O amanuense Belmiro of Cyro dos Anjos, based on the critical reception, going through some readings and studies undertaken on the mining author and his literary production, to settle in the analysis of the novel's narrative. At this point, it looks like the character Belmiro Borba faces the evils of affection. In other words, how it reacts to evil that print you love, nostalgia, fear and loneliness. Each of these affects the mark with a different pattern of pain. However, our brave hero always reacts the same way; writing their pain on a daily intimate and solitary as a way of redemption. This analytical perspective about the emotions that affect the amanuensis takes us at the end of the dissertation, to reflect on ourselves and our relationship to life.A dissertação aborda a obra O amanuense Belmiro, de Cyro dos Anjos, partindo da recepção crítica, passando por algumas leituras e estudos empreendidos sobre o autor mineiro e sua produção literária, até fixar-se na análise da narrativa do romance. Nesse ponto, examina-se como o personagem Belmiro Borba enfrenta os males dos afetos. Em outras palavras, como ele reage diante do mal que lhe imprimem o amor, a nostalgia, o medo e a solidão. Percebemos que cada um desses afetos o marca com uma estampa diferente de dor. No entanto, nosso bravo herói reage sempre da mesma maneira; escrevendo sua dor em um diário íntimo e solitário, como forma de redenção. Essa perspectiva de análise acerca dos afetos que acometem o amanuense nos leva, ao final da dissertação, a uma reflexão sobre nós mesmos e sobre nossa relação com a vida.
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Cannon, Ammie Sorensen. "Controversial politics, conservative genre : Rex Stout's Archie-Wolfe duo and detective fiction's conventional form /". Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1340.pdf.
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Christenson, Mary Alpharetta 1950. "The impact on teachers and students of teachers' collaborative planning for teaching multiple persectives on controversial environmenal issues using chldrens' literature /". The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486400446372809.
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Naugle, Briel Nichole. "Nobody does it better how Cecily Von Ziegesar's controversial novel series "Gossip girl" spawned the popular genre of teen chick lit /". Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1205333187.
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Czerwinski, Anne Marie. "Understanding the premillennial apocalyptic rhetoric of Sun Bear : the controversial, contemporary prophet of the Earth changes /". free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9988652.
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Frucella, María Laura. "La Cuestión de la letra y la controversia Lacan-Derrida: cortocircuitos entre filosofia y psicoanálisis". Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/328438.
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La presente tesis representa un intento por dilucidar el contenido de
la polémica entre Jacques Lacan y Jacques Derrida en relación a la
escritura. Parte de la convicción de que a pesar de los diferentes
campos en que cada uno de ellos llevaba a cabo su praxis, hay en
este tema indudablemente un núcleo teórico que interesa tanto al
psicoanálisis como a la filosofía. Y es que la cuestión de la escritura,
que atañe a las nociones de letra y significante en el corpus
lacaniano, involucra una pregunta que, desde Freud y su “huella
mnémica” hasta la actualidad, el psicoanálisis no ha cesado de
formularse: ¿de qué materiales está hecho el aparato psíquico?
Cuestión que tampoco deja indiferente a la filosofía, especialmente
si, como en el caso de la deconstrucción, se ha propuesto volver a
pensar hasta los fundamentos mismos del lenguaje.Je me suis proposée dans ma thèse de clarifier le contenu de la controverse entre Jacques Lacan et Jacques Derrida en ce qui concerne l'écriture. Cette controverse trouve son point de départ dans une conviction: s'agissant de domaines et de pratiques différentes, il y à cependant, sans doute, un noyau théorique qui intéresse tout à la fois la psychanalyse et la philosophie. La question de l'écriture qui concerne, dans le corpus lacanien les notions de lettre et de signifiant, comporte une interrogation qui, depuis Freud et sa Spur, ne cesse de se poser au jour d' aujourd'hui: quels sont les fondements matériels de l'appareil psychique? Cette question ne pourrait être indifférente à la philosophie et plus particulièrement en ce qui concerne l'abord de la déconstruction, qui se propose une révision des fondements mêmes du langage.
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Cannon, Ammie. "Controversial Politics, Conservative Genre: Rex Stout's Archie-Wolfe Duo and Detective Fiction's Conventional Form". BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/469.
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Rex Stout maintained his popular readership despite the often controversial and radical political content expressed in his detective fiction. His political ideals often made him many enemies. Stances such as his ardent opposition to censorship, racism, Nazism, Germany, Fascism, Communism, McCarthyism, and the unfettered FBI were potentially offensive to colleagues and readers from various political backgrounds. Yet Stout attempted to present radical messages via the content of his detective fiction with subtlety. As a literary traditionalist, he resisted using his fiction as a platform for an often extreme political agenda. Where political messages are apparent in his work, Stout employs various techniques to mute potentially offensive messages. First, his hugely successful bantering Archie Goodwin-Nero Wolfe detective duo—a combination of both the lippy American and the tidy, sanitary British detective schools—fosters exploration, contradiction, and conflict between political viewpoints. Archie often rejects or criticizes Wolfe's extreme political viewpoints. Second, Stout utilizes the contradictions between values that occur when the form of detective fiction counters his radical political messages. This suggests that the form of detective fiction (in this case the conventional patterns and attitudes reinforced by the genre) is as important as the content (in this case the muted political message or the lack of overt politics) in reinforcing or shaping political, economic, moral, and social viewpoints. An analysis of the novels The Black Mountain (1954) and The Doorbell Rang (1965) and the novellas "Not Quite Dead Enough" and "Booby Trap" (1944) from Stout's Nero Wolfe series demonstrates his use of detective fiction for both the expression of political viewpoints and the muting of those political messages.
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Curfs, Garrit Thomas. "Experiment as rhetoric in the cold fusion controversy". Thesis, This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03142009-040600/.
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Brereton, Catherine A. "Conversations with Lady Chatterley". UKnowledge, 2016. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/41.
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This thesis comprises of a series of personal essays exploring intersections and parallels between my life and D.H. Lawrence’s classic novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The essays discuss, among other things, Lawrence and tuberculosis, gamekeeping, mining in 20th century England, love, education, and youth. Thus, the collection creates a literary memoir.
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Adams, Emily. "Bringing John Green to Schools: Incorporating Young Adult Literature in a Secondary English Language Arts Classroom". Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1570.
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As educators and administrators continue to struggle with the low literacy proficiency rates in this country, a new genre of literature is making its way into the classroom. Young Adult Literature, such as the works of John Green, are becoming a more familiar sight inside the classroom. However, some parents, educators, and members of the school districts are not happy with this new trend. In the last year, alone, young adult books have been challenged hundreds of times in hopes of getting them removed from the classroom and library. I believe that these books need to stay in the schools, though. Through this thesis, I explore the possibility of Young Adult Literature having more of a presence in the secondary English Language Arts classroom in order to increase motivation, engagement, social awareness, and literacy rates. In this research project, only 13% of 11th and 12th grade English Language Arts students
reported enjoying the reading they were currently assigned, despite their statement that they enjoy reading, in general. These books do not lead to motivated and engaged readers. By
incorporating Young Adult Literature into the standard curriculum of an English Language Arts classroom, teachers can enhance motivation, engagement, and productivity. Students can
continue to learn the same literary concepts and techniques, in addition to being exposed to current social problems. When Young Adult Literature is brought into a classroom, an
environment is created in which students can learn what they think, why they think it, and how to respect the differing opinions of others.B.S.
Bachelors
Teaching, Learning, and Leadership
Education and Human Performance
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Hawryluk, Lynda J., University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College e of Communication Design and Media School. "Call waiting". THESIS_CAESS_CDM_Hawryluk_L.xml, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/6.
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This thesis examines the life and career of Bret Easton Ellis, and the influences of his work on the author's development as a writer. Part one encapsulates a novel written specifically for this thesis. 'Call waiting' is a harsh look at modern friendships, the role of work in these relationships and the proliferation of shallow communication through the advent of email. A critical reflection follows, examining the process that led to the novel's creation. Three specific areas are focussed on: the direct influence of Ellis' novel 'The rules of attraction' on the overall themes of 'Call waiting', the realisation of the project and the various editing changes and narrative developments that arose during the writing of the novel, and an examination of the inspiration behind the novel's creation. Part two considers Ellis' role in the literary world of the 1980s, his own complicity in the creation of a career as a celebrity author, and the carefully manufactured persona Ellis presents to the world. In Part three the thesis is concluded with a close analysis of the publication of Ellis' controversial novel 'American psycho'. This chapter explores the negative publicity the novel attracted and the possible causes of the ensuing backlash against the author.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Molina, Campodónico Ana María. "Del nuevo al viejo mundo : las controversias de la Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias de Fray Bartolomé de las Casas". Bachelor's thesis, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2008. http://tesis.pucp.edu.pe/repositorio/handle/123456789/640.
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Cuando cualquier lector (sobre todo contemporáneo) se aproxima a la obra
más difundida, conocida y, sin duda, la más polémica de fray Bartolomé de las
Casas, la Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (1552) es
bastante probable que sienta un cierto sinsabor. Con esto quiero decir que
llegue a considerar el texto de antihistórico, totalmente exagerado e, incluso,
como señala Menéndez Pidal, “un libelo acusatorio sin valor documental” (cit.
en Siervernich 309). Sin embargo, estas lecturas no toman en cuenta la
verdadera situación sociocultural en la cual fue gestada la obra. De este modo,
al acercarnos a la Brevísima, debemos evitar hacerlo con ojos enteramente
contemporáneos y tener presente que el corpus de textos coloniales, del cual
tal polémico texto forma parte, termina teniendo en la mayoría de casos un
efecto en una sociedad viviente, como es el caso de esta obra.Tesis
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Sahiner, Mustafa. "Reflections of contemporary socio-political and religious controversies in William Shakespeare's Henry IV parts 1 and 2, Henry V and Henry VI parts 1, 2 and 3". Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3941/.
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While the general idea is to illustrate how William Shakespeare reflected the contemporary conflicts and problems of the Elizabethan society, the particular aim of the thesis is to offer a close critical analysis of Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1 and Part 2, Henry V and Henry VI Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 plays in an eclectic critical approach derived from the theoretical principles of New Historicism and Cultural Materialism. In order to provide a better understanding of the plays studied in the thesis, there is a presentation of the development of drama, both religious and secular, in the Reformation period. In addition to this, main features of Cultural Materialism and New Historicism are given. The English Reformation and its effects on drama have been given in the introductory chapter. In the first chapter, contemporary religious controversies as reflected in Shakespeare's 1 and 2 Henry VI plays are discussed. The second chapter deals with the reflections of contemporary social conflicts in especially the Jack Cade episode of Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI. In the third chapter, reflections of political conflicts in Shakespeare's Henry V, Henry V, and Henry VI plays are analysed in terms of the appropriation of commoners by the ruling class for the preservation of the dominant order. The thesis concludes that the plays are polyvalent in meaning and thus open to further academic discussions for the years to come.
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Miranda, João Marcos Tomás da Cruz. "Nietzsche e a morte de Deus : críticas ao cristianismo e religiosidade alternativa". reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2010. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/8386.
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Este trabalho tem como objetivo discutir e analisar um dos assuntos mais controversos na filosofia do pensador alemão Friedrich Nietzsche: a morte de Deus. Esse enunciado tem sido interpretado das mais diversas formas, desde a possível ligação com um fato histórico específico até a militância por uma causa ateísta. Este trabalho consiste em ler e interpretar essa expressão a partir da própria obra de Nietzsche. Não só foram pesquisadas a Gaia Ciência e Assim falou Zaratustra, mas suas outras principais obras, analisando minuciosamente o que Nietzsche queria enunciar com a morte do Deus cristão e a ligação deste fato com eventos históricos, culturais, filosóficos, científicos e religiosos de sua época. O resultado da pesquisa evidencia que a morte de Deus foi um evento europeu, embora tenha tido a participação de todos os povos; foi um evento paulatino que culminou no século XIX através das inúmeras revoluções científicas deste período; um evento que aconteceu e foi constatado nos meios aristocráticos de seu tempo, ou seja, na burguesia protestante da Alemanha; é um evento que representava o declínio da fé no Deus cristão e a queda dos valores morais cristãos por meio do ateísmo científico e sintetizava também a proposta nietzschiana de avanço deste mesmo ateísmo. Analisou-se também neste trabalho os desdobramentos posteriores que a morte de Deus teria na filosofia de outros pensadores tais como Martin Heidegger, Gianni Vattimo e Julian Young e também na teologia através de teólogos como Altizer, Vahanian, Van Buren e Hamilton culminando no movimento teológico da morte de Deus também conhecido como movimento do ateísmo cristão. Procuramos analisar também se é possível ou não uma religiosidade alternativa em Nietzsche, ou seja, acatar suas críticas como positivas à religião. _________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
The purpose of this work is to discuss and analyze one of the most controversial matters in the philosophy of German thinker Friedrich Nietzsche: the death of God. This sentence has been understood in many ways, from the perspective of a likely link with a historical fact to the militancy for an atheistic cause. This work consists in reading and understanding this expression from Nietzsche’s own work. Not only the Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra was researched, but also his other main works, analyzing carefully what Nietzsche meant by the death of the Christian God and linking this fact with historical, cultural, philosophic, scientific and religious events from his age. The result of this research attempts to show that the death of God was an European event even though it had the participation of all nations; it was a gradual event that culminated in the 19th century through many scientific revolutions from this period; an event which happened and was observed in aristocratic circles from his time, that is to say, in German protestant bourgeoisie; it was an event which represented the decline of faith in the Christian God and the fall of Christian moral values through scientific atheism and it showed Nietzsche’s proposal of advancement of atheism; it was also analyzed in this work the posterior consequences that the death of God had in philosophy of others thinkers as Martin Heidegger, Gianni Vattimo and Julian Young and also in the theology of authors like Altizer, Vahanian, Van Buren and Hamilton culminating in the theological movement of the death of God known also as the movement of Christian atheism. The purpose of dedicating a part of this work for the theology of the death of God is to investigate whether there is a positive side of the death of God for religion and theology.
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Persson, Cecilia, e Rebecca Carlsson. "Censur på barnavdelningen : Likheter och skillnader mellan småbarnsföräldrars och barnbibliotekariers syn på censur". Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-45183.
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The aim of this bachelor’s thesis is to examine parents’ and librarians’ views on censorship in children’s library. Similarities and differences between the opinion of librarians, and parents with children in the age of 0 to 12 years, have been examined. To analyse the result Jürgen Habermas’ theory of lifeworld and system has been used, together with research, mostly from USA, about censorship of children’s library. There is not much research available on censorship at children's libraries in Sweden, instead newspaper articles on controversial children's literature have been used in this paper to shed light upon the current Swedish views on censorship in children's libraries. Qualitative interviews with two librarians, working in the children’s library, and two parents, with children who visit the children's library regularly, were made. In summary, the research shows that there are actually not many differences in opinion of censorship in children’s library between the parents and librarians. A new question arises: why do we have a discussion in media about censorship of children’s library, when the respondents of this research think the controversial books should not be moved. And is it coincidental that all our respondents shared the same view on censorship of children's literature, or is it the common opinion among children's librarians and parents of younger children in Sweden?
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Kotze, Annemare. "The protreptic-paraenetic purpose of Augustine's Confessions and its Manichean audience". Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53665.
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Thesis (DLitt)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation I attempt to open up new perspectives on the literary qualities and the unity of Augustine's Confessions by reading the work in the light of the context within which it first functioned. Part 1, Prolegomena, consists of a survey of secondary literature (in chapter 1) that focuses on research on the literary characteristics of the work, followed by a theoretical exploration of the two aspects that constitute the focus of this study, the genre and the audience of the Confessions. Chapter 2.1 examines how the literary practices and generic conventions of late Antiquity should inform our reading of the work. This is achieved through a discussion of the implications of genre analysis in general (2.1.1), followed by an examination of the conventions of the ancient protreptic genre (2.1.2), a look at the parallels between the Confessions and three of its literary antecedents and between the Confessions and Augustine's Contra Academicos (2.1.3), and an evaluation of the perspectives offered on the unity of the work by this procedure (2.1.4). Chapter 2.2 starts with a discussion of the concept of intended audience (2.2.1) and proceeds to provide the background needed to follow the arguments on the specific segment of Augustine's audience that I consider here, the Manicheans (2.2.2). Part 2 of the dissertation consists of the analyses of selected passages but attempts at the same time to give an accurate account of how genre and intended audience are embodied in the text as a whole. In chapter 3 I show that Augustine's meditation on Ps 4 in the central section of the Confessions (9.4.8-11) is a protreptic that targets a Manichean audience (3.1) through Augustine's identification with this audience (3.2) and the prevalent use of Manichean terminology and categories (3.3). In chapter 4 I analyse in a more systematic way the expression of protreptic purpose through various devices throughout the Confessions: foreshadowing in the opening paragraph (4.1), the use of a shifting persona (4.2), allusion to Matt 7:7 (4.3), and the theme of the protreptic power of reading and listening (4.5). I evaluate how pervasive the expression of protreptic intent is (4.4) and end with an examination of the protreptic-paraenetic purpose of the first section of the allegorical exposition of the creation story in book 13 (4.6). Chapter 5 examines the degree to which the Manicheans are targeted by the text as a whole as an important segment of its intended audience. I examine the use of the theme of friendship to evoke Augustine's erstwhile Manichean friendships and the history of failed communication with this group (5.1), the role Augustine intends curiositas to play in coaxing the Manicheans into reading yet another attempt to convert them (5.2), and once again how pervasive the concerns with a Manichean audience is (5.3). I conclude this chapter, like the previous one, with an analysis of the last section of the allegory in book 13, where I discern towards the end an intensification of indications that Augustine is preoccupied with his Manichean audience (5.4).
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie proefskrif probeer om nuwe perspektief te bied op die literêre eienskappe en die eenheid van Augustinus se Confessiones deur die werk te lees in die lig van die konteks waarbinne dit aanvanklik gefunksioneer het. Deel 1, Prolegomena, is In oorsig oor die sekondêre literatuur (in hoofstuk 1) wat fokus op studies van die literêre tegnieke in die werk, gevolg deur In teoretiese verkenning van die twee aspekte wat die fokuspunt van die studie vorm, naamlik die genre en die gehoor van die Confessiones. Hoofstuk 2 ondersoek hoe literêre praktyke en genre-verwante konvensies van die laat Antieke die lees van die werk behoort te beïnvloed. Dit word gedoen aan die hand van In bespreking van die implikasies van genre-analise in die algemeen (2.1.1), gevolg deur In oorsig oor die konvensies van die antieke protreptiese genre (2.1.2), In bespreking van die paraIIele tussen die Confessiones en drie literêre voorlopers daarvan asook tussen die Confessiones en Augustinus se Contra Academicos (2.1.3) en In evaluering van die perspektiewe wat hierdie werkwyse bied op die eenheid van die werk (2.1.4). Hoofstuk 2.2 behels In bespreking van die konsep teikengehoor (2.2.1), gevolg deur In opsomming van die agtergrondinligting wat nodig is om die argumente oor die spesifieke segment van Augustinus se gehoor wat hier oorweeg word (die Manicheërs), te volg (2.2.2). Deel 2 van die proefskrif bestaan uit die analises van geselekteerde passasies maar probeer terselfdertyd om In getroue weergawe te bied van hoe genre en gehoor in die teks as geheel beliggaam word. Hoofstuk 3 toon dat Augustinus se oordenking van Ps 4 in die sentrale gedeelte van die Confessiones (9.4.8-11) In protreptiese werk gerig op In Manichese gehoor is (3.1). Augustinus vereenslewig hom met sy teikengehoor (3.2) en gebruik deurgaans Manichese terminologie en kategorieë (3.3). Hoofstuk 4 ondersoek hoe die protreptiese doelwit in die Confessiones uitgedruk word deur die gebruik van verskeie tegnieke: voorafskaduing in die aanvangsparagraaf (4.1), die gebruik van In verskuiwende persona (4.2), verwysing na Matt 7:7 (4.3) en die tema van die protreptiese uitwerking van lees en luister (4.5). Ek evalueer hoe verteenwoordigend ten opsigte van die geheel die uitdrukking van die protreptiese doelwit is (4.4) en sluit met In analise van die protrepties-paranetiese funksie van die eerste deel van die allegoriese interpretasie van die skeppingsverhaal in boek 13 (4.6). Hoofstuk 5 ondersoek die mate waarin die teks as geheel die Manicheërs as die teikengehoor van die werk aandui. Dit toon hoe Augustinus die tema van vriendskap gebruik om sy vroeëre Manichese vriendskappe op te roep en verwys na die geskiedenis van onsuksesvolle kommunikasie met hierdie groep (5.1); dit toon hoe curiositas 'n rol speel om die Manicheërs oor te haalom nog 'n poging om hulle te bekeer te lees (5.2) asook hoe verteenwoordigend ten opsigte van die geheel die bemoeienis met 'n Manichese gehoor is (5.3). Die hoofstuk sluit af, soos die vorige een, met 'n analise (nou van die tweede deel) van die allegorie in boek 13, met klem op die sterker wordende aanduidings dat Augustinus hier 'n Manichese gehoor in die oog het (5.4).
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Reutermo, Victor. "Censur på bibliotek? : En kvalitativ studie av kontroversiella medier på folkbibliotek". Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-391923.
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The aim of this master thesis is to examine how Swedish public libraries approaches purchasing potentially controversial and anti-democratic books. According to the The Swedish Library Act, libraries should work towards the development of the democratic society and act for the benefit of free speech. If that is the case, how do libraries approach non-democratic works, for example works that speculate in racism or even genocide? This have been a widely discussed topic in media the last couple of years, fuelled by two decisions by the Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsman (Justitieombudsmannen) that ruled that two public libraries acted wrongly in their decisions to deny purchase of a couple of controversial books that had been requested to be purchased by patrons. This study is based on five qualitative interviews of managers representing five different Swedish public libraries, supplemented by a review of the libraries steering documents. To summarize this study finds that there has been a shift over the last couple of years how public libraries approach potentially controversial books. In the past, it was more common for libraries to not carry any books considered anti-democratic or xenophobic. However, today it is very common for libraries to add these kinds of books to their collection. The only aspect a library can deny a purchase on is the “quality” of the work, not the values or opinions expressed in it. Because of the lack of a national definition of what exactly “quality” entails some libraries have worked out their own definition that they use when making decisions regarding media purchases. The representatives didn’t think that a national definition was needed and that and under the current configuration the libraries have more manoeuvrability and can apply their professional competence to a higher degree.
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Bates, Marlin C. IV. "A narrative criticism of Christian identity's Who killed Christ?"". Scholarly Commons, 1999. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/519.
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This thesis examines four tracts authored by three Christian Identity rhetors. The study argues that these rhetors employ elements of the narrative paradigm to spread their own brand of hate-based theology.
This study employs a method of narrative criticism as outlined by Foss ( 1996) in examining Howard B. Rand's "Who Crucified Jesus?" and "The Verdict of Time"; Wesley A. Swift's "Who Crucified Christ?"; and Sheldon Emry's "Who Killed Christ?" Howard B. Rand was the leader of the Anglo-Saxon Federation of America during the 1930s, an organization which was the forerunner of the contemporary Christian Identity movement. Wesley A. Swift was a major leader of Christian Identity during the late 1940s through the 1960s.
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Connors, William P. "Mormon Opposition Literature: A Historiographical Critique and Case Study, 1844-57". Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1994. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTAF,24572.
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Hawryluk, Lynda J. "Call waiting". Thesis, View thesis View thesis, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/6.
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This thesis examines the life and career of Bret Easton Ellis, and the influences of his work on the author's development as a writer. Part one encapsulates a novel written specifically for this thesis. 'Call waiting' is a harsh look at modern friendships, the role of work in these relationships and the proliferation of shallow communication through the advent of email. A critical reflection follows, examining the process that led to the novel's creation. Three specific areas are focussed on: the direct influence of Ellis' novel 'The rules of attraction' on the overall themes of 'Call waiting', the realisation of the project and the various editing changes and narrative developments that arose during the writing of the novel, and an examination of the inspiration behind the novel's creation. Part two considers Ellis' role in the literary world of the 1980s, his own complicity in the creation of a career as a celebrity author, and the carefully manufactured persona Ellis presents to the world. In Part three the thesis is concluded with a close analysis of the publication of Ellis' controversial novel 'American psycho'. This chapter explores the negative publicity the novel attracted and the possible causes of the ensuing backlash against the author.
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Berti, Emanuele. "Seneca il Vecchio e la cultura retorica e letteraria nella prima età imperiale". Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/86181.
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Ohali, Avigail. "Le rire des sages : l'humour dans la Mishna et la Tosefta". Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA082.
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Grâce à sa vaste production littéraire, le judaïsme rabbinique, d’abord minoritaire, est devenu l’orthodoxie juive à la fin de l’antiquité. Les écrits rabbiniques ne cherchent pas à faire rire, mais nous avons constaté que les études académiques sur l’humour des rabbins de l’antiquité contribuent de manière significative à la compréhension des textes rabbiniques. Ces études ainsi que les théories modernes sur l’humour, les outils d’analyse littéraire et notre propre développement méthodologique, nous ont permis d’analyser les récits humoristiques dans les écrits tannaïtiques. Les résultats des travaux sur l’humour dans le Talmud Yerushalmi, le Talmud Babli et le midrash aggada, trouvent un écho dans les résultats de notre étude. Nous avons découvert dans la Mishna et la Tosefta une très grande variété de formes et de fonctions de l’humour. L’étude exhaustive des récits humoristiques dans ces deux corpus nous a permis de développer des nouvelles perspectives sur ces textes et leurs protagonistes, notamment concernant les polémiques internes et externes au mouvement rabbinique, les traits de caractère de certains sages et leur manière d’étudier, l’évolution de l’humour entre la Mishna, la Tosefta et les Talmudim. La grande majorité des récits que l’on trouve dans la Mishna et la Tosefta n’est pas humoristique, mais cette proportion est inversée dans certaines thématiques : dans les polémiques internes au mouvement tannaïtique nous avons noté un équilibre entre les textes humoristiques et sérieux, et de surcroît, dans les polémiques avec des groupes extérieurs au mouvement tannaïtique, les textes humoristiques sont majoritaires. L’humour des tanna’im s’avère être complexe et varié, il permet de faire remonter les origines de l’humour juif à l’époque tannaïtique, d’expliquer certains textes énigmatiques, et de mieux connaître la pensée des tanna’imThanks to their extensive literature, the rabbinic movement which was a marginal minority during the early centuries CE became, by late antiquity, the Jewish mainstream, and the rabbinic practice of Judaism became Jewish orthodoxy. Rabbinic writings do not aim to make one laugh, but we have noticed that academic research into the ancient rabbis’ humor contribute significantly to the understanding of rabbinic writings.Our tools for analyzing the humor in tannitic texts are based on previous studies, modern theories about humor, literary analysis techniques and our own personally developed methodology. The research results about humor in the Talmud Yerushalmi, the Talmud Babli and in Midrash Aggada are echoed in the results of our work.We have found in the Mishna and the Tosefta humor in various forms and functions. A comprehensive study of humorous anecdotes in these two textual corpora lends a new perspective about the rabbis and their writings: it also sheds light on the rabbis’ personalities and the house of study atmosphere, struggles within the rabbinic movement as well as with outside opponents, and the evolution of humor between the Mishna, the Tosefta and the Talmudim. The large majority of the stories found in the Mishna and the Tosefta are not humorous, but this proportion is reversed in certain themes: in polemics within the tannaitic movement we find an equal number of humorous and serious texts, and in polemics with opponents to the tannaitic movement, humorous texts are predominant. The tannaitic humor is complex and diversified, it traces the origins of modern Jewish humor not only to the Talmud but back to the tannaitic period, it helps explain some enigmatic texts, and to better know the tannaitic ideology
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Letsinger, Robert B. "Tradition, Erudition and the Book: Aspects of the Bollandist-Carmelite Controversy, with a Critical Edition of the Pamphlet Novus Ismael (1682 & 1683), Including Translation and Commentary". Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1896.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2009.Title from screen (viewed on August 28, 2009). Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Eric L. Saak. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 540-548).
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Yun, Tan Qi, e 陳琦韻. "A Study of Literary Controversies in Chinese Malaysian Literature". Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03287132808574897789.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
中國語文學系
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There has been a long period of literary controversies since the existence of Chinese Malaysian Literature. The controversies in literature vary from time to time. They reflect the contemporary literary trends and thought of the literati in the Chinese society. The essays on literary controversies in earlier time were mostly published in literary supplements of the Chinese newspapers. The social stability after World War II has impelled the development of literature publications. Thus, the “battlefield” of literary controversies has extended to magazines. Literary controversies are actually the ideological confrontation among the writers and the critics who carried different views and opinions. The literati have performed diversities in literary ideologies. Inevitably there are different voices and irrational conflicts among detractors. Most of the controversies have brought out an integrated conclusion on literature issues, which have provided an overview on literature trends in a particular period and best interpretations on literary concepts. Jaundiced opinions could be corrected after several debates. There were certain uncomfortable circumstances too. However, literary controversies still contribute greatly to Chinese Malaysian Literature. This thesis studies on the literary controversies that happened from 1919 towards 1990s，to observe the appearance, conflictions and development of literary trends and thoughts and the link between literary controversies, Malaysia Chinese society and political issues in Malaysia.
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Aguirre, Stella Guedes Nascimento. "Euthanasia : a study of the age long controversial issue in Thomas More’s Utopia, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Brian Clark’s Whose Life is it Anyway?" Master's thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/449.
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Blake, Jedidiah Kwame Rydell. "The feminist use of inclusive language for the Trinity: A case study in hermeneutical method". Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10392/373.
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This thesis explores the relationship between feminists' use of inclusive language for the Trinity and their hermeneutical method in order to determine the viability of their method for theological construction. Chapter 1 describes the theological tradition out of which the feminist critique emerges, noting the intratextual approach that characterizes the hermeneutics of communication and the extratextual approach that distinguishes feminist socio-pragmatic hermeneutics. Chapter 2 elucidates the search for authorial intention and provides a criterion by which to evaluate the feminist hermeneutic. Chapter 3 analyzes feminist socio-pragmatic hermeneutics against the background of a hermeneutics of communication and the normativity of the Scriptures for theological reflection. Chapter 4 demonstrates how the intratextual approach, invariably, yields a truly biblical understanding of the Trinitarian name. Chapter 5 delineates the biblical-theological implications of the study.
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Sheehan, Lucy Ludwig. "Willing Slaves: The Victorian Novel and the Afterlife of British Slavery". Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8000236.
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The commencement of the Victorian period in the 1830s coincided with the abolition of chattel slavery in the British colonies. Consequently, modern readers have tended to focus on how the Victorians identified themselves with slavery’s abolition and either denied their past involvement with slavery or imagined that slave past as insurmountably distant. “Willing Slaves: The Victorian Novel and the Afterlife of British Slavery” argues, however, that colonial slavery survived in the Victorian novel in a paradoxical form that I term “willing slavery.” A wide range of Victorian novelists grappled with memories of Britain’s slave past in ways difficult for modern readers to recognize because their fiction represented slaves as figures whose bondage might seem, counterintuitively, self-willed.
Nineteenth-century Britons produced fictions of “willing slavery” to work through the contradictions inherent to nineteenth-century individualism. As a fictional subject imagined to take pleasure in her own subjection, the willing slave represented a paradoxical figure whose most willful act was to give up her individuality in order to maintain cherished emotional bonds. This figure should strike modern readers as a contradiction in terms, at odds with the violence and dehumanization of chattel slavery. But for many significant Victorian writers, willing slavery was a way of bypassing contradictions still familiar to us today: the Victorian individualist was meant to be atomistic yet sympathetic, possessive yet sheltered from market exchange, a monad most at home within the collective unit of the family. By contrast, writers as diverse as John Stuart Mill, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot located willing slavery in a pre-Victorian history where social life revolved, they imagined, around obligation and familial attachments rather than individual freedom. Rooted in this fictive past, the willing slave had no individual autonomy or self-possession, but was defined instead by a different set of contradictions: a radical dependency and helpless emotional bondage that could nonetheless appear willing and willful, turning this fictional enslavement itself into an expression of the will. For Dickens, willing slavery provided an image of social interdependency that might heal the ills of the modern world by offering what one All the Year Round author described as “a better slavery than loveless freedom.” For novelists such as Brontë and Eliot who were no less critical of Victorian individualism, however, fantasies of willing slavery became the very fiction that their work aimed to dissolve.
Chapter One argues that Frances Trollope’s groundbreaking antislavery fiction mirrors West Indian slave narratives in describing the slave plantation as coldly mechanical, and then extends this vision to portray early industrial England as an emotionally deprived social world similarly in need of repair. In the second chapter, I argue that Dickens responds to that emotional deprivation, and the replacement of traditional family bonds with what he describes as the “social contract of matrimony,” by producing a nostalgic account of willing slavery’s dependencies that draws on discourses of slavery found in British case law, where attorneys could exhort the slaveholder to “attach [slaves] to himself by the ties of affection.” The last two chapters argue that Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda ironize this earlier nostalgia through female characters who grapple with the archetype of the willing slave. As their characters adopt and then discard the theatrical pose of willing subjection embodied by melodramatic heroines such as Dion Boucicault’s “octoroon” Zoe, Brontë and Eliot draw attention to the contradictions inherent to willing slavery, reframing it as a fantasy enjoyed exclusively by white Britons intent on shoring up the familial intimacies that helped preserve their social and economic dominance. These ironic reframings reveal a final paradox: though willing slavery helped create an analogy between African chattel slaves and British family members in fiction, this trope ultimately highlights the differences between the chattel slavery of Africans abroad, where the disruption of kinship bonds was a crucial method for exploitation and domination, and the imagined household subjection of English characters, rooted in the putatively binding qualities of family feeling.
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Fulton, Sharon Ann. "Animal Speech and Political Utterance: Articulating the Controversies of Late Fourteenth-Century England in Non-Human Voices". Thesis, 2012. https://doi.org/10.7916/D89S23MT.
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This dissertation analyzes the function of animal speakers in political poetry by William Langland, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Gower, and it claims that late fourteenth-century poets describe the marginalized voices of emerging politicians by using animal expressions and noises. These writers invent a playful yet earnest poetics of acknowledgment in comparing politicians’ calls to animal cries. In unveiling novel interpretations of Langland’s mouse, Chaucer’s goose, and Gower’s jay, I argue that the speeches of animals contribute to significant argumentative strains within several late fourteenth-century poems, which remain obscure if the reader ignores the signal contribution of the animal. Finally, I study the use of animal speech in the Lancastrian poem, Richard the Redeless, to understand the ways in which the anti-Ricardian regime appropriated this malleable animal imagery to pursue its own political agenda.
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Korkmaz, Aysegul. Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610638/index.pdf.
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This thesis analyses the women characters in four novels, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Shirley, The Mill on the Floss and Sons and Lovers. The first chapter gives information on the historical background of the Victorian period and early 20th century in England in which the novels were written, on the biography of the authors of the novels and clarifies the aim and methodology of the study. The following chapters analyse the women charaters - Helen Huntingdon, Shirley Keeldar, Maggie Tulliver and Clara Dawes - selected for study according to how far they went against social norms, perceptions about women and society's morals, and provide a general evaluation of each character. The conclusion presents a comparison of the four women characters'
attitudes, and asserts that each of them display a controversial attitude in at least one of these areas, considering the period in which the novels were written.
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De, Bruin Gerhardus Stefanus. "Die antieke ruimtevaarder-teorie : 'n godsdienswetenskaplike studie (Afrikaans)". Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23339.
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AFRIKAANS: Die Antieke ruimtevaarder-teorie stel voor dat wesens uit die ruimte die Aarde in die antieke verlede besoek het. Hierdie wesens was betrokke by die vroeë geskiedenis van die planet. Hulle het bewoonbare toestande geskep asook menslike intelligensie deur 'n proses van genetiese ingenieurswese. Hul besoeke is opgeteken en deur mense oorgelewer in godsdienste, mitologieë en antieke legendes. Hul teenwoordigheid is ook nog waarneembaar in antieke fisiese oorblyfsels. Voorstanders van die Ruimtevaarderteorie bied dit aan as 'n wetenskaplike hipotese en as die "mees perfekte algemene noemer van alle tye" wat 'n moderne verklaring vir die oer-godsdiens bied. Afdeling A van die studie bied 'n oorsig oor die teorie en die bewyse wat daarvoor aangebied word. Daar word aangetoon dat, hoewel die meeste van die postulate nie deur die moderne wetenskap as "onsinnig" beskou word nie, dit nie oortuig as 'n werkbare wetenskaplike teorie nie. Omdat daar weinig verskille tussen die basiese onderneming van die wtenskap en die godsdiens bestaan (beide vertrek vanaf onbewysbare aannames om waargenome data te verklaar) word daar vermoed dat die Antieke ruimtevaarder-teorie eerder funksioneer op die vlak van religieusiteit. Hierdie tese word ondersoek in Afdeling B van die studie: Daar word voorgestel dat die Fenomenologiese metode van godsdienswetenskaplike ondersoek, wat poog om 'n fenomeen te verstaan nie soos dit manifesteer nie, maar op die dieper vlak van die funksie en betekenins daarvan, die mees paslike metode vir die ondersoek is. (p> Met gebruikmaking van die insigte van 'n Fenomenologiese benadering, word aangedui dat die Antieke ruimtevaarder-teorie funksioneer as 'n godsdienstige beweging met eienskappe van 'n kulte en 'n nieu-mitologie. Die aanvaarbaarheid van die teorie vir die vele volgelinge daarvan, en die gepaardgaande groei van die bcweging wat dit propageer, word verklaar uit 'n kombinasie van sosiologiese en psigologiese faktore wat aan die werk is in die moderne Westerse beskawing. Vanuit 'n fenomenologiese gesigspunt word gekonkludeer dat die Ruimtevaardcrteorie baie suksesvol op religieuse vlak is. Dit slaag daarin om die Bybel weer "geloofwaardig" te maak en skep weer 'n "kosmiese raamwerk" vir die betekenis van die menslike bestaan. Die teorie kan ook beskou word as 'n prysenswaardige poging tot die sintetisering van godsdiens en die modeme wetenskap vir die aanhangers daarvan, en om die geestelike behoeftes van mense in 'n verwarrende en verwarde wêreld aan te spreek. In 'n slotafdeling word die bevindinge van die studie teologies oorweeg en word die waarde daarvan vir die Chrislelike godsdiens aangetoon. ENGLISH: The Ancient astronaut theory proposes that beings from outer space came to Earth in the distant past. These beings were involved in the early history of the planet: They created habitable conditions and human intelligence by genetic engineering. Their visits were recorded and handed down by humans in their religions, mythologies and ancient legends. Their presence is also visible in ancient physical remains. Proponents present the Astronaut theory as a scientific hypothesis and as "the most perfect common denominator of all time", allowing a modem explanation for old-time religion: Section A of the study provides an overview of the theory and the evidence presented in support of it. It is shown that, although many of the postulates are being accepted by modem science as "not unreasonable", it is not convincing as a workable scientific theory. Since there is little difference between the basic enterprises of science and religion (both departing from unproven suppositions to explain perceived data) it is suspected that the Astronaut theory rather functions on a level of religiosity. This thesis is investigated in Section 8 of the study: It is proposed that the Phenomenological method of studying religion, which attempts to understand a phenomenon not in the way it manifests itself, but on the deeper level of its function and meaning, is the most appropriate for this investigation. Using the insights of a Phenomeno!ogical approach, it is shown that the Ancient astronaut theory functions as a religious movement with attributes of a cult and a new-mythology. The acceptability of the theory for its many followers and the resulting growth of the movement that proposes it, is explained from a combination of social and psychological factors at work in Western society. From a phenomenological point of view it is concluded that the Astronaut theory may be considered very successful on a religious level: It succeeds in making the Bible "respectable" again and it recreates a "cosmic framework" for the meaning of human existence. The theory may also be considered a praiseworthy attempt to synthesise religion and modem science for its supporters and to address the spiritual needs of man in a confusing and confused world. In a final section of the study, the results are being considered theologically and their value. being shown for Christianity.Thesis (PhD (Science of Religion))--University of Pretoria, 2007.
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Beshears, Kyle Robert. "Davidic references in the Book of Mormon as evidence against its historicity". Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10392/5176.
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This thesis critiques contemporary Latter-day Saint scholarly efforts to validate the historicity of the Book of Mormon through textual criticism by presupposing its historic authenticity, then combing the text for evidence of literary elements that may suggest ancient Hebrew authorship. Chapter 2 surveys current Latter-day Saint scholarship and arguments for internal evidence in support of the historicity of the Book of Mormon. Chapter 3 assesses the importance of King David’s influence over the biblical and non-biblical Hebrew cultural and religious identity to determine the likelihood and anticipated portrayal of the king’s appearance in the Book of Mormon. Given the Book of Mormon’s scant and peculiar nature of references to the fabled king, this chapter also argues that a competing testimony against the book’s historicity is produced. Chapter 4 offers concluding remarks.
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"Dionysus versus the crucified: on Nietzsche's criticism of Christianity". 2002. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5891024.
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Chung Yi Cheung.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-121).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1.1 --- Why This Topic? --- p.1
Chapter 1.2 --- The Scope of This Thesis --- p.3
Chapter 1.3 --- The Structure of this Thesis --- p.7
Chapter Chapter 2 --- Christianity and Nihilism --- p.9
Chapter 2.1 --- The Death of God and Nihilism --- p.10
Chapter 2.2 --- Nihilism and the Project of Revaluation --- p.21
Chapter Chapter 3 --- The Project of Revaluation and the Method of Genealogy --- p.26
Chapter 3.1 --- The Fulfillment of Revaluation --- p.27
Chapter 3.2 --- The Method of Revaluation --- p.3 3
Chapter Chapter 4 --- Genealogy of Christianity --- p.44
Chapter 4.1 --- The Morality of Good and Evil --- p.46
Chapter 4.2 --- The Interpretation of Human Nature --- p.53
Chapter 4.3 --- The Ascetic Ideal --- p.58
Chapter Chapter 5 --- Nietzsche's Criticism of Christianity --- p.65
Chapter 5.1 --- The Slave and the Overman --- p.65
Chapter 5.2 --- The Nihilistic Effects of Christianity --- p.68
Chapter Chapter 6 --- Evaluation of Nietzsche's Understanding and Criticism of Christianity --- p.85
Chapter 6.1 --- Nietzsche's Understanding of Christianity --- p.85
Chapter 6.2 --- Nietzsche's Criticism of Christianity --- p.98
Chapter Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.105
Chapter 7.1 --- Dionysus versus the Crucified --- p.105
Chapter 7.2 --- What Christian and Non-Christian Can Learn from Nietzsche --- p.109
Chapter 7.3 --- Limitations of this Thesis --- p.112
Bibliography --- p.114
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Cobb, Vaughn Aaron. "La enseñanza de temas homosexuales en la literatura: El fomento de un multiculturalismo más completo en los estudios de la literatura española". Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3668.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)A variety of minority groups are present in the readings of Spanish and Latin American literature classes; however, there is a lack of representation of homosexual themes in the readings. This paper takes a look at what homosexual themes are present in the literature anthologies in current use, and then suggest a teaching unit and methodology for how one can implement these topics into a literature class. The paper provides a sound basis for teachers who are trying to introduce these issues into their classes. [Language - Spanish]
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Mollett, Margaret. "Creeping crusade : interpretation, discourse and ideology in the left behind corpus, rhetoric and society in the light of revelation 7". Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4044.
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While the Left Behind Corpus may be commended for being an effective tool for evangelism, the question arises of whether or not its themes engender a theology of extermination, indeed a creeping crusade; “creeping” in the sense of it being a movement of stealth and not one of high visibility – “crusade” in the sense of a militaristic movement, similar to that of the medieval crusades.
I span my research across three artefacts in the LB Corpus in terms of its embedded interpretation, discourse and ideology; in fact three separate entities for explanatory purposes, but in effect they form a single entity of interaction and cross-production. I am therefore extending many niches of research and critical discourse to what I envisage as the wider context of the LB Corpus: its potential for social construction, and its enigmatic connections with other apocalyptic-driven and crusade-like movements. Based as it is on “consistent literalism,” the LB Corpus can only be countered by an exegetical approach that situates the foundational text for the Left Behind phenomenon, Revelation 7, in its historical setting, while taking cognisance of the particularities of early Christianity, with its Jewish heritage lived out in a Graeco-Roman environment.
In offering an alternative reading, I take some cues from Vernon Robbins‟ socio-rhetorical approach and draw from perspectives of theorists across several disciplinary fields in pointing out anomalies in a consistent literalism driven interpretation of Revelation 7.New Testament
Thesis (D.Litt. et Phil. (Biblical Studies))
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Heřmanská, Kateřina. ""Instrukcí neb Krátké naučení mladému hospodáři" Šimona Lomnického z Budče". Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-343867.
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The abstract The main aim of the thesis is preparation of the edition of an educational text by Simon Lomnicky from Budeč. My work is aimed on the adaptation and analyse of a moralizing text by Lomnicky. I have analysed his book, Instruction or The short eduction for young hundsman, her evolution during three centuries, differences among editions from 16th, 18th and 19th century and her dependence on source book, The sentences and educations of the great philosophes. The reflection of Lomnicky's life has been changing very fast and dramatically, I have tried to find out reasons of peremptory changes.
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Jones, Marvin D. "Hermeneutical principles in Contra Arianos of Athanasius of Alexandra". Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1144.
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To accomplish the purpose of this thesis an examination of the hermeneutical method expounded by Athanasius will be made. There are three books that comprise Contra Arianos so the progression of this thesis will follow the progression of the stated Athanasian work. This thesis will also review the relevant passages that Athanasius utilizes to present his case for the Eternal Sonship of Jesus Christ. This review will adequately demonstrate the Athanasian Trinitarian concept of eternal, functional subordination of the Son to the Father. The thesis will also review the word ”homoousios” in order to support the conclusions of Contra Arianos. The word ”homoousios” was the term that became the official recognized position of orthodox Christology at the Council of Nicea. The need for such a review arises from the academic concern that the word ”homoousios” may exclude the idea of functional subordination. A review of this word (along with its history) seems appropriate. However, the conclusion (and defense of that conclusion) that will be presented is that homoousios is not mutually incompatible with the idea of ”functional subordination” in a temporal or eternal relationship. This term and concept will
adequately demonstrate that an eternal, functional subordination relationship exists between the Father and Son from the Athanasian point of view. Historical and background studies, which will help interpret and clarify cultural meanings, will also be employed to enhance the study of this thesis. Finally, certain conclusions will be presented showing the results of the study. The conclusions will attempt to answer questions that have undoubtedly arisen in the mind of the informed reader of ancient theology and may help identify and even address contemporary issues concerning the Christological and Trinitarian doctrines.Systematic Theology & Theological Ethics
M. Th. (Theological Studies)
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VanderVennen, Robert E., J. Richard Middleton, George Pierson, Bernard Zylstra, Hendrik Hart e Henriette Thompson. "Perspective vol. 15 no. 4 (Aug 1981)". 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251297.
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Conradie, A. F. "Bybel as problematiese teks: ’n kritiese ontleding aan die hand van polemieke in die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: van Johannes du Plessis tot Ferdinand Deist en Willem Vorster (1920–2000)". Thesis, 2019. http://uir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/25638.
Testo completoAbstract (sommario):
Text in Afrikaans, with summaries in Afrikaans and EnglishIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 383-403)
Die woordestryd oor goddelike inspirasie van alles wat in die Bybel staan, as gevolg van die uitgesproke stellings van Johannes Du Plessis, het tot ‘n krisis gelei wat as baken in die annale van die Ned. Geref. Kerk beskou word. Die meeste van sy standpunte word vandag as waarheid aanvaar en hy het bygedra tot die intellektuele debat oor die Bybel as Woord van God wat vandag nog aangaan. Du Plessis se herkoms, opleiding en verdienste as predikant en saakgelastigde van die Kerk word kortliks bespreek. Hy was die talentvolle seun en enigste kind van 'n Afrikaanse predikant en 'n Engelse vrou, die dogter van 'n sendeling van die LMS. Hy word professor aan die Kweekskool en met kennis opgedoen tydens verdere studie oorsee, het hy gewys op dele van die Bybel wat nie aan goddelike inspirasie toegeskryf kan word nie. Hy het dit ook duidelik gestel dat hy as teoloog en leermeester nie kon glo sonder om te probeer verstaan nie. Hy het sy bevindinge bekend gemaak in Het Zoeklicht, 'n maandblad wat bedoel was om as soeklig te dien om verskillende vorms van “duisternis” in beide godsdiens en die politiek, betref, aan die lig te bring. Oortuig van die waarde van die Hoër Kritiek, het hy dit as sy plig geag om wat hy deur wye leeswerk en kritiese ondersoek rakende die oorsprong, vorm en inhoud van die Ou Testamentiese boeke bekom het, bekend te maak. Artikels van dié aard, eers in De Kerkbode en daarna in Het Zoeklicht, het gelei tot beroering onder behoudende lesers wat gekant was teen enige veranderinge in die prediking. Hulle was veral ontstoke oor sy siening dat die belydenisskrifte wat spruit uit die dae van die Hervorming 500 jaar tevore, oop was vir herformulering. Klagtes dat Du Plessis op 'n gevaarlike pad was, was die begin van wat gelei het tot 'n krisis in die Kerk, en uiteindelik tot 'n buitengewone sinode in 1930 toe hy van sy pos onthef is. Die behoudende reaksie van die meerderheid was dat die Bybel die onfeilbare Woord van God is. Die gevolg was dat 'n groot aantal van die leiers van die Kerk, aanhangers van die Nasionale Party wat in 1948 aan bewind gekom het, tekste uit die Bybel gebruik het om die beleid van Apartheid Skriftuurlik te begrond. Ná byna veertig jaar van 'n onkritiese benadering tot die Bybel, is die geloof in 'n foutlose Bybel weer bevraagteken. Tussen die eerlike teoloë wat dit gewaag het om te wys op foute en inkonsekwenthede, was Ferdinand Deist en Willem Vorster. Albei het hulle opleiding as predikante voltooi maar het hulle nie beroepbaar gestel nie omdat hulle met verdere studie voortgegaan het en hulle openlik uitgespreek het teen die misbruik van Bybelse gegewens om apartheid te regverdig. Geskool aan die Kweekskool in Stellenbosch, het Deist hom onderskei as geleerde wat sy drang na dieper ondersoek gepaar het met 'n piëtisme waarop hy uiting gegee het in 'n stortvloed van akademiese en populêre geskrifte ― wat nie altyd gestrook het met sy stelling dat die Woord van God nie met 'n gelyk-aan-teken aan mekaar verbind kan word nie. Vorster, wat sy opleiding aan die Universiteit van Pretoria ontvang het, het ewe bekend geraak en het internasionale erkenning geniet vir sy toepassing van die semantiek op studies van die Nuwe Testament. Daarby het hy sy kennis van die Nabye Oosterse tale toepaslik gevind in sy bydrae tot The New Quest om meer te wete te kom oor die historiese Jesus, 'n Jood en Galileër wat vir 'n kort periode opgetree het as leermeester en eskatologiese profeet. In die studie van bydraes van die drie geleerdes tot ons verstaan van die Bybel, is ook aandag geskenk aan 'n ander aspek van die Bybel as problematiese teks: Die nadruk wat skrywers en redaktors van die Bybelse gebeure, geplaas het op mans as vaders en seuns ten koste van vroue, moeders en dogters. Die gevolg was dat meeste van die sogenaamde Kerkvaders genoeg in die Bybel kon vind om hulle te identifiseer met die neerhalende beeld wat in Die Openbaring (14:3-4) geskep word van vroue, opvallend in stryd met die inhoud van Genesis 1:26-31.
The controversy started by Johannes Du Plessis over the question whether everything in the Bible was inspired by God, caused a crisis in the Dutch Reformed Church, which is listed as a beacon in its history. Most of the points he raised are accepted as truth today, and started an intellectual debate that is still going on. Information relating to Du Plessis’ origins, training, and achievements as a minister and church official is briefly noted. He was the talented son, and only child of an Afrikaner father and minister of religion, and an English mother, the daughter of an LMS missionary. He became a professor at the Seminary in Stellenbosch, after his studies overseas had caused him to question parts of the Old Testament text that could not be regarded as divinely inspired. He also made it quite clear that believing without trying to understand was not possible for him as a theologian and teacher. He proclaimed his findings in Het Zoeklicht, a monthly magazine intended to serve as a searchlight and an organ to reveal the “darkness” that was still prevalent in both religion and politics. Aware of the value of Higher Criticism of the Old Testament, he regarded it his duty to make known what he had found in reading widely and in critical research on the origins, form and content of the books of the Bible. Articles to this effect published first in De Kerkbode and then in Het Zoeklicht, caused an outcry from conservative readers who were opposed to any changes in the teaching of the church. They were especially enraged by his view that the confessions drawn up by Reformers 500 years earlier, were open for review. Complaints that Du Plessis was on a dangerous path, marked the beginning of what was regarded as a crisis in the Church, and in the end led to Du Plessis being relieved of his post by a special Synod convened in 1930. The views of the conservative majority, however, prevailed. As a result, a large number of leading ministers and theologians, who openly supported the Nationalist government that came into power in 1948, provided assurance that the concept of separation of racial groups was in accordance with Scripture. After nearly forty years of an uncritical approach to the Bible, the belief in in-errancy was again questioned. Among the few theologians who dared to point out errors and inconsistencies in various texts, were Ferdinand Deist and Willem Vorster. Both trained as ministers, they chose to continue their studies and openly expressed themselves against the abuse of Biblical texts to support the ideology of apartheid. Trained at the Seminary in Stellenbosch, Deist turned out to be a noted scholar who combined his urge for honest critical study with a pietism expressed in a flood of academic and popular publications ― which were not always consistent with his own statement that The Word of God could not be connected to Scripture with an is-equal-to symbol. Vorster, who received his education at the University of Pretoria, became equally well known as a scholar and gained international recognition for his application of semantics in the study of the Gospels. He also applied his knowledge of languages in what came to be known as The New Quest for the historical Jesus who, as a Jew and a Galilean, distinguished himself during a brief period as a teacher and eschatological prophet. In the study of the contributions of these three outstanding men to our understanding of the Bible, another major aspect of the Bible as problematic text is addressed: The emphasis the authors and redactors of the Scriptures placed on the roles of men, fathers and sons, patently to the exclusion of women, mothers and daughters. As a result many of the so-called Church Fathers found in the Bible sufficient material to look down upon women ― the verdict expressed in Revelations 14:3-4 being one of numerous texts pointing to women as objects of derision in glaring contradiction to the contents of Genesis 1:26-31.
Biblical and Ancient Studies
D. Phil. (Biblical Studies)