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Inseminate architecture : an archontological reading of Athanasius Kircher's Turris Babel. / Athanasius Kircher's Turris BabelHarrop, Patrick H. January 1992 (has links)
Among the vast assembly of Biblical mythology, the tower of Babel stands as an exclusive representation of the limits of human endeavor. As a paradigmatic extremity, it circumscribes the field of civic artifice. Babel is the absolute limit, and in that regard, its presence is enduring and timeless. The legacy of exegetic readings are textual shades, emanating from the point source of the paradigm. Athanasius Kircher's Turris Babel is an appropriate and intentional unfolding of this condition. / Firstly, that in the awakening of the Baroque scholar to history, origin materializes as the sole legitimate chronological reference. / Secondly, that the paradigmatic extremities collapse into the empirical standard of the theoretical discourse. / This thesis is a speculative study of architecture, drawn through Turris Babel, in the shadow of the paradigmatic limits of Babel. Written in three parts, each dealing with the implications of artifice in confrontation with the post-Babel adversaries of dispersion, tyranny, and decay.
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Inseminate architecture : an archontological reading of Athanasius Kircher's Turris Babel.Harrop, Patrick H. January 1992 (has links)
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Palimpsestic writing and crossing textual boundaries in selected novels by A.S. Byatt / Therina van der WesthuizenVan der Westhuizen, Therina January 2014 (has links)
This dissertation examines three novels by the author and critic A.S. Byatt, namely
Possession (1990), Babel Tower (1996) and The Biographer’s Tale (2000), using a
hermeneutic method of analysis. The investigation pays specific attention to the structure of
the novels and how this compares to the structure of the ancient palimpsest. Theoretical
information on the palimpsest as model is based on relevant writings by Thomas Carlyle
(1830, 1833), Thomas De Quincey (1845) through to Josephine McDonagh (1987), Gérard
Genette (1997) and Sarah Dillon (2007). The ensuing argument is that Byatt’s use of
postmodernist pseudo-intertextuality and intertextuality cause her novels to have a
palimpsestic structure of various layers, with the effect that textual boundaries are
transgressed. Ultimately Byatt’s writing strategies result in ontological uncertainty for the
reader. / MA (English), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014.
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Literatur als Medium kultureller Selbstreflexion : literarische Transversalität und Vernunftkritik in englischen und amerikanischen Gegenwartsromanen aus funktionsgeschichtlicher Perspektive /Butter, Stella. January 2007 (has links)
Univ., Diss.--Gießen, 2007. / Literaturverz. S. [265] - 284.
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Palimpsestic writing and crossing textual boundaries in selected novels by A.S. Byatt / Therina van der WesthuizenVan der Westhuizen, Therina January 2014 (has links)
This dissertation examines three novels by the author and critic A.S. Byatt, namely
Possession (1990), Babel Tower (1996) and The Biographer’s Tale (2000), using a
hermeneutic method of analysis. The investigation pays specific attention to the structure of
the novels and how this compares to the structure of the ancient palimpsest. Theoretical
information on the palimpsest as model is based on relevant writings by Thomas Carlyle
(1830, 1833), Thomas De Quincey (1845) through to Josephine McDonagh (1987), Gérard
Genette (1997) and Sarah Dillon (2007). The ensuing argument is that Byatt’s use of
postmodernist pseudo-intertextuality and intertextuality cause her novels to have a
palimpsestic structure of various layers, with the effect that textual boundaries are
transgressed. Ultimately Byatt’s writing strategies result in ontological uncertainty for the
reader. / MA (English), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014.
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Babel, babble, and Babylon : reading Genesis 11:1-9 as mythOosthuizen, Neil T. 25 August 2009 (has links)
The story of the Tower of Babel (Gen 11: 1-9) has been interpreted in various ways down through the centuries. However, most commentators have ignored the genre of the text, and have not sought to interpret it within its mythological framework - therefore most interpretations are nothing short of babble. A working text is ascertained, and the complexity of the text investigated. The text is then identified as 'myth': within its mythological framework the tower is seen as a temple linking heaven and earth, ensuring the continuation of the royal dynasty (i e 'making a name'). When used by the Yahwist Levites during the Babylonian Exile, our story was inserted in the great Pre-History as polemic against the Babylonian concept of creation, temple, and dynasty; and served
as both a warning and an encouragement to the Exiles. The post-exilic Priestly Writer re-interpreted our story as a warning to the returning exiles that their society, and their temple, should be reconstructed as YHWH determines.
Interpreting the story as myth enables it, finally, to speak clearly into our context today, especially that of South Africa. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / D. Th. (Old Testament)
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"My sense of my own identity is bound up with the past" / The Quest for a Female Identity in Historical Novels by British Women Writers: Penelope Lively, Margaret Drabble, A.S. Byatt, Esther FreudKoch, Jessica 02 July 2013 (has links)
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Babel, babble, and Babylon : reading Genesis 11:1-9 as mythOosthuizen, Neil T. 25 August 2009 (has links)
The story of the Tower of Babel (Gen 11: 1-9) has been interpreted in various ways down through the centuries. However, most commentators have ignored the genre of the text, and have not sought to interpret it within its mythological framework - therefore most interpretations are nothing short of babble. A working text is ascertained, and the complexity of the text investigated. The text is then identified as 'myth': within its mythological framework the tower is seen as a temple linking heaven and earth, ensuring the continuation of the royal dynasty (i e 'making a name'). When used by the Yahwist Levites during the Babylonian Exile, our story was inserted in the great Pre-History as polemic against the Babylonian concept of creation, temple, and dynasty; and served
as both a warning and an encouragement to the Exiles. The post-exilic Priestly Writer re-interpreted our story as a warning to the returning exiles that their society, and their temple, should be reconstructed as YHWH determines.
Interpreting the story as myth enables it, finally, to speak clearly into our context today, especially that of South Africa. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / D. Th. (Old Testament)
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