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This thesis argues that in the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius Shelley found an insight into the role of contingency in physical and historical process which allowed him to go beyond the limitations of an intellectual inheritance divided between post-Kantian Romanticism and the sceptical revolutionary Enlightenment. This insight entails radical implications for our understanding of the political role of the literary text. Shelley conceives society in evolutionary terms, making poetry a revolutionary clinamen (or mutation) in the iterative cycles of social reproduction. Models drawn from contemporary chaos theory help us to understand how this entropic tendency to disorder can work simultaneously as a negentropic motor of social innovation. Building on the work of Michel Serres, who demonstrates that Lucretius anticipates the recent scientific interest in "determinate indeterminacy," this thesis shows that Shelley's understanding of historical process and the role of the poet in social reproduction has anticipated some of the implications of contemporary "chaos science" in ways that suggest models for the general application of this new paradigm of contemporary scientific thought to literary and political issues.

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No substantial studies, at least to my knowledge, have yet been dedicated either to Milton's or to Shelley's extensive poetic use of the grotesque. This omission surprises me, especially given the voluminous critical attention both authors receive. Neither Milton nor Shelley's grotesquerie can be viewed as the basis of artistic method or artistic achievement as we might with, say, Rabelais, or Poe, or even Kafka. And neither Milton nor Shelley is self-consciously an artist of "the grotesque." In fact, Milton, from his seventeenth century perspective, would scarcely have regarded the term as being applicable to literary criticism at all. And as a late Romantic, Shelley defined himself rather as a poet of the imagination. Nonetheless I will show that both artists avail themselves of a grotesque aesthetic to achieve some of their most powerful and provocative poetry: we may here consider, for instance, Milton's memorable descriptions of the incongruities of Hell and the deformities of its fallen denizens in Paradise Lost, or Shelley's Gothic touches and his perplexing distortion of conventional linguistic and dramatic form in Prometheus Unbound. / Aside from general considerations of the grotesque in these texts, I will especially focus on how Milton's and Shelley's uses of the grotesque mode provide us with unique, and often fascinating vantage points from which to appreciate their respective political concerns and revolutionary interests. While I expect this critical approach will elucidate Milton and Shelley in their own separate artistic and political spheres, I am especially interested to compare and contrast the poets, to show how the quite different uses made of the grotesque in Prometheus Unbound and Paradise Lost reflect the various ways in which Shelley responds to Milton in his role as a revolutionary forefather.

Diss.--Universität Saarbrücken, 1992. / Bibliogr. p. 219-231. Notes bibliogr. p. 181-218.

The work presents the life, work, and times of G. Rossini. It takes a closer look at the opera Il barbiere di Siviglia with particular emphasis on the character of Rossina. The work also familiarizes the reader with the term Bel Canto and its particulars. The author describes her own experience with the character of Rossina.

Text in Afrikaans / Die evangelisasiemetode van Charles Grandison Finney (1792 - 1875), veral die gebruik van die "altar call", word dikwels deur predikers vanuit die gereformeerde tradisie netso oorgeneem vir evangelisasieprediking in 'n gevestigde gemeente. Die doel van die studie is om ondersoek in te stel of die be sonde the evangelisasiemetode, met sy eie teologiese vertrekpunte, gebruik kan word vir evangelisasieprediking in 'n gevestigde gereformeerde <;jemeente. Die evangelisasiemetode van Finney word krities geevalueer vanuit die gereformeerde teologie waarna enkele riglyne gegee word vir evangelisasieprediking in 'n gevestigde gereformeerde gemeente. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / The alter call which originated with Charles Grandson Finney (1792 -1875), is often used by preachers of the reformed tradition for Evanqelistic preaching in an established reformed congregation. The purpose of this specific method for evangelistic preaching, with its own theological departure, can be legitimacy This method of Finney is critically evaluated in the light of the reformed theology and a few guidelines for evangelist1c preacr1ing in an established reformed congregation are then given. / M. Th. (practical theology)

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Realiza un análisis crítico y sistematizado de las orientaciones filosóficas del texto La Relijón Natural, para reconstruir la memoria del pensamiento intelectual de Francisco de Paula Gonzales Vigil. Determina la importancia del texto dentro de la historiografía filosófica de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. La importancia se establece desde la comprensión del proyecto de reforma de la sociedad a partir de una religión natural, el análisis que realiza el texto sobre la religión católica que promueve una moral con ataduras y finalmente, el establecimiento de los principios morales auténticos que provienen de la Relijión Natural, construidos a partir de los deberes que tiene el hombre, para con Dios, consigo mismo, con los demás (su entorno social) y con todo el género humano. / Tesis

In recent years, increasing interest has been taken in the career of Andries Stockenstrom. Detailed study of his policy as Landdrost of Graaff-Reinet , as Commissioner-General of the Eastern Districts, and as Lieutenant-Governor, has brought about a realization of the soundness and value of much of his work. This appreciation of the sterling qualities of Stockenstrom's character- despite his undoubtedly difficult temperament - has led to the tacit assumption that the accusations which were levelled against him, and the odium in which he was held in Albany, after his evidence before the Aborigines Committee 1835 -1836, were largely the result of unfortunate newspaper propaganda. That evidence, it is implied - coming as it did at a time when public opinion was peculiarly sensitive to criticism - was in fact, not as black as it had been painted. Yet the events of the period between the Commissioner-Generalship and the Lieutenant- Governorship have not only coloured the judgment upon Stockenstrom of almost every writer on South African history, but so influenced contemporary public opinion as to materially impair the efficiency of his Lieutenant-Governorship. In writing this thesis, it has heen my purpose to make a detailed study of such material as is available for the period 1833-1836, and to endeavour, by an analysis of the evidence more particularly in the light of the years before 1833, to set this significant period in Stockenstrom' s career in its right perspective.