Diss. Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2008.

Thesis (M.S. in Joint Campaign Planning and Strategy)--Joint Forces Staff College, Joint Advanced Warfighting School, 2008. / Title from PDF title page; viewed on Dec. 12, 2008. "4 April 2008." Electronic version of original print document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-77).

Thesis (Doctoral)--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität zu München, 1983.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ekonomsko-komercijalna visoka škola, Zagreb, 1943. / In Serbo-Croatian (roman). Includes bibliographical references.

Issued also as thesis, Basel. / Bibliography: p. 479-486.

Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät--Münster--Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, 1997. / Bibliogr. p. 205-217.

Texte remanié de--Hist.--Dijon, 1992. Titre de soutenance : Les répressions allemandes dans le département de Saône-et-Loire, 1940-1944 : problématiques nouvelles et histoire comparative. / Bibliogr. 247-248. Index.

The purpose of this descriptive-quantitative study was to analyze the relationship between individuals' development according to Fowler's stages and the self-assessed maturity of their faithfulness to Jesus Christ. Based on a review of significant texts from the Judeo-Christian Scriptures and from church history, the researcher concluded that faith as understood by the earliest Christians--which the researcher has termed "biblical-orthodox faith"--and the reality to which James W. Fowler referred as "faith" are not the same phenomenon. Biblical-orthodox faith entails two inseparable dimensions, faith-content and faith-commitment. The validity and vitality of biblical-orthodox faith may be assessed by measuring individuals' maturity in Christian faithfulness. Fowler's understanding of faith--described in this research as "other-awareness"--more closely relates to the phenomenon described in the writings of Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher as das schlechthinnigen Abhängigkeitsgefuehl . The researcher created the Fowlerian Stage-Development Survey (FSDS) to assess Fowlerian stage-development in the sample of 348 evangelical Christians. The alpha reliability coefficient for the FSDS was 0.6941. The Shepherd Scale--a standardized instrument with two sub-scales, the Christian Belief sub-scale and the Christian Walk sub-scale--was utilized to assess individuals' maturity in Christian faithfulness. ANOVA indicated that no significant relationship existed between Fowlerian stage-development and maturity in Christian faithfulness as assessed by the Shepherd Scale. Both qualitative and quantitative analysis suggested that Fowler's Stages 2 through 4 describe the development of the Jungian Ego, while Stage 5 describes the development of the Jungian Self. These findings suggest that Christian spiritual formation comprises three separate "tracks"--Ego-development, Self-actualization, and Christian faith-development. In light of his research findings, the researcher constructed an integrative model of spiritual development that incorporated Ego-development, Self-actualization, and Christian faith-development into a single model while recognizing that Christian faith-development and Fowlerian stage-development operate on separate structural-developmental tracks. / This item is only available to students and faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. If you are not associated with SBTS, this dissertation may be purchased from <a href="http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb">http://disexpress.umi.com/dxweb</a> or downloaded through ProQuest's Dissertation and Theses database if your institution subscribes to that service.

Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is the result of an immersion in the work of J.M. Coetzee. I have taken various of Coetzee’s novels, namely Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons, Disgrace, The Master of Petersburg, Foe, Life & Times of Michael K and Slow Man, and constructed readings of these novels from the inside out. The overarching concern of the dissertation is the notion of subjectivity and Coetzee’s methods of representing subjectivity. It is my contestation that the experience of authentic subjective awareness arises from the process of reading itself. It is not a state of being that is described by the text, but rather a layered constellation of substitutive exchanges that emerges from the process of textual relation. The notion of embeddedness serves as a description of the way in which the text materializes this experience of subjectivity. The structure of exploration in each chapter has taken as its paradigm a conceptual concern arising from the text itself. In the first chapter (Elizabeth Costello) the concern is with structure itself. The character of Elizabeth struggles against the limitation inherent in the process of representation; this struggle is read as an indication of authentic subjective experience in the face of reduction to a system of codes. The second chapter (Disgrace) attempts to formulate the dynamic of subjective awareness in romantic terms. I construct a reading of Lurie’s predicament in terms that arise from his conceptual environment, in order to indicate the primacy of textual materiality as the locus of subjective awareness. The notion of the classic informs the third chapter (The Master of Petersburg). I use an essay by Coetzee to delineate a conception of the classic, which is then applied as a theoretical framework for an exploration of Dostoevsky’s pursuit of his stepson. The fourth and last chapter (Foe, Life & Times of Michael K and Slow Man) focuses on Coetzee’s use of the body as a figure for embedded subjectivity. It emerges that the body as a trope of embeddedness forms an important aspect of Coetzee’s work throughout his career. As such it is a very suitable figure for describing the dynamics of embeddedness as a mode of representation that aligns itself with the textual materiality of subjective being. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis het ontstaan as die gevolg van ‘n noukeurige ondersoek na die werk van J.M. Coetzee. Ek het myself laat begelei deur die inhoud van verskeie van Coetzee se boeke, naamlik Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons, Disgrace, The Master of Petersburg, Foe, Life & Times of Michael K en Slow Man, om intensiewe lesings van hierdie boeke te konstrueer. Die oorkoepelende bemoeienis van die verhandeling is die konsep van subjektiwiteit en Coetzee se metodes van subjektiewe voorstelling. Ek beweer dat die ervaring van outentieke subjektiewe gewaarwording gesetel is in die leesproses. Dit is nie ‘n toestand van wese wat deur die teks beskryf word nie, maar eerder ‘n verweefde raamwerk van substituwe wisseling wat kom uit die proses van tekstuele relasie. Die konsep van inlywing (“embeddedness”) dien as 'n beskrywing van die manier waarop die teks hierdie ervaring van subjektiwiteit konkretiseer. Die struktuur van ondersoek in elke hoofstuk neem as paradigma 'n konsepsuele vraagstuk wat reeds gesetel is in die teks. In die eerste hoofstuk (Elizabeth Costello) is die bemoeienis met struktuur as sodanig. Elizabeth se karakter stry teen die inperking wat noodwending saamgaan met die proses van voorstelling; hierdie stryd word gelees as 'n aanduiding van outentieke subjektiewe ervaring teenoor die druk van vermindering tot 'n stel kodes. Die tweede hoofstuk (Disgrace) poog om die dinamiek van subjektiewe bewustheid te formuleer in terme wat afkomstig is van die romantiek. Ek konstrueer 'n lees van Lurie se toestand in terme wat kom van sy konsepsuele omgewing, om sodoende die voorrang van tekstuele materialiteit as die lokus van outentieke subjektiwiteit aan te dui. Die konsep van die klassieke belig die derde hoofstuk (The Master of Petersburg). Ek gebruik 'n essay van Coetzee om 'n begrip van die klassieke te formuleer, wat dan toegepas word as 'n teoretiese raamwerk waarbinne Dostoevsky se soeke na sy stiefseun ondersoek word. Die vierde en laaste hoofstuk (Foe, Life & Times of Michael K en Slow Man) fokus op Coetzee se gebruik van die liggaam as 'n figuur vir ingelyfde subjektiwiteit. Dit blyk dat die liggaam as 'n figuur van inlywing 'n prominente aspek van Coetzee se werk vorm deur sy loopbaan. As sodaning is dit 'n baie handige figuur om die dinamiek van inlywing te beskryf as 'n modus van voorstelling wat sigself koppel aan die materialiteit van die teks.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-06-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:55:26Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 oliveira_ki_me_assis.pdf: 1036888 bytes, checksum: ae32955da16e86516184096ae9a4cbab (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Villains, publicado em 1969 pela autora inglesa Angela Carter. O romance tem como elemento fundamental símbolos representados por imagens, objetos e lugares que vão revelar também ao leitor a possível crítica ao ambiente patriarcal, observada pela fuga da personagem feminina de uma espécie de confinamento, em busca de seu espaço. Considerando ainda a importância das significações para a obra literária, este trabalho também pretende elucidar como o símbolo é trabalhado na construção do espaço e das personagens femininas. No primeiro capítulo, abordamos brevemente a vida e obra da autora, como também a fortuna crítica produzida sobre o romance. No segundo capítulo, apresentamos um levantamento das principais teorias acerca da ficção científica distópica, pós-modernidade e feminismo. Ainda no segundo capítulo, buscamos analisar as personagens presentes na sociedade pós-apocalíptica e verificar as diversas vozes presentes na intertextualidade. No terceiro capítulo, utilizando teorias sobre a simbologia, analisamos os símbolos presentes no romance. Sendo assim, o trabalho também ressalta como a obra colabora para divulgar a crítica sugerida pela autora contra o modelo patriarcal de sociedade / This dissertation intends to analyze the symbols in the novel Heroes and Villains, published in 1969 by the British author Angela Carter. The novel has as a fundamental characteristic the use of symbols represented by images, possibly built as a criticism directed to the patriarchal society, bearing in mind the main character’s escape from her confinement. This work has the intention to shed a light on how the symbols are built to represent aspects such as space and the female characters. In the first chapter of this study, we touch briefly on the life and works of the author, as well as the critical pieces produced on the novel. In the second chapter we cover the most relevant theories concerning dystopian science fiction, post modernism and feminism. Still in the second chapter, we analyze the characters in the context of a post-apocalyptic society and their many voices in their intertextuality. The third chapter is dedicated to the analysis, using the theories on symbology, of the symbols present in the novel. Lastly, our intention is also to divulge the criticism of the patriarchal model of a society, as intended by the writer