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Embodied vision sublimity and mystery in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor /Hicks, Andrew Patrick, January 2008 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2008. / Title from title page screen (viewed on Sept. 14, 2009). Thesis advisor: Thomas Haddox. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Redeeming flesh : portrayals of women and sexuality in the work of four contemporary Catholic novelistsBaldwin, Ruth Margaret Anne 11 1900 (has links)
The last half of the twentieth century has seen a rapid increase in the process of
secularization in both Britain and America, and this trend is nowhere more clearly evident than
in the widespread relaxation of sexual mores. Within the Catholic Church a tension has arisen
between liberal Catholics who argue for the right of Catholics to act according to the dictates of
individual conscience, and traditionalists who champion the absolute moral authority of the
Church. Liberal Catholics emphasize the Thomist view in which the flesh and its desires are
seen as part of God's creation and, therefore, intrinsically good, while conservative Catholics
lean toward an Augustinian/Jansenist view which equates sexual desire with the fallen nature
of humankind. There has also been a great deal of unrest among Catholic women regarding
continuing misogynistic tendencies within the male-dominated Church.
This study focuses upon portrayals of women and sexuality in selected novels by four
representative contemporary Catholic novelists, David Lodge, Mary Gordon, Piers Paul Read,
and Anne Redmon. In their fiction, these writers pursue moral questions related to sexuality
which preoccupy contemporary Catholics, reflecting in their work the empirical struggle of
Catholics to reconcile Church law with their individual needs and desires. In their ratio to each
other, these novelists represent in microcosm the spectrum of opinion among lay Catholics
regarding sexual morality. Liberals David Lodge and Mary Gordon affirm in their fiction the
goodness of the body and its desires, while Piers Paul Read argues for the orthodox view that
the flesh must be rigidly controlled in the interests of spiritual health. Anne Redmon explores
issues of women and sexuality without entering the debate between liberal and conservative
Catholics.
As this study makes clear, the contemporary Catholic novel provides an experientially
based context for moral reflection on sexual behaviour parallel to and often in tension with the
traditional teaching of the Church. The recent Catholic novel has also provided an important
site for the exploration of women's sexual needs, desires, and moral thinking against the
background of an all-male hierarchical Church, which has largely been silent in this area. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate
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Ours is the Kingdom of Heaven: Racial Construction of Early American Christian IdentitiesRobinson, Heather Lindsey 05 1900 (has links)
This project interrogates how religious performance, either authentic or contrived, aids in the quest for freedom for oppressed peoples; how the rhetoric of the Enlightenment era pervades literatures delivered or written by Native Americans and African Americans; and how religious modes, such as evoking scripture, performing sacrifices, or relying upon providence, assist oppressed populations in their roles as early American authors and speakers. Even though the African American and Native American populations of early America before the eighteenth century were denied access to rights and freedom, they learned to manipulate these imposed constraints--renouncing the expectation that they should be subordinate and silent--to assert their independent bodies, voices, and spiritual identities through the use of literary expression. These performative strategies, such as self-fashioning, commanding language, destabilizing republican rhetoric, or revising narrative forms, become the tools used to present three significant strands of identity: the individual person, the racialized person, and the spiritual person. As each author resists the imposed restrictions of early American ideology and the resulting expectation of inferior behavior, he/she displays abilities within literature (oral and written forms) denied him/her by the political systems of the early republican and early national eras. Specifically, they each represent themselves in three ways: first, as a unique individual with differentiated abilities, exceptionalities, and personality; second, as a person with distinct value, regardless of skin color, cultural difference, or gender; and third, as a sanctified and redeemed Christian, guaranteed agency and inheritance through the family of God. Furthermore, the use of religion and spirituality allows these authors the opportunity to function as active agents who were adapting specific verbal and physical methods of self-fashioning through particular literary strategies. Doing so demonstrates that they were not the unrefined and unfeeling individuals that early American political and social restrictions had made them--that instead they were intellectually and morally capable of making both physical and spiritual contributions to society while reciprocally deserving to possess the liberties and freedoms denied them.
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The reception of C.S. Lewis in Britain and AmericaDerrick, Stephanie Lee January 2013 (has links)
Since the publication of the book The Screwtape Letters in 1942, ‘C. S. Lewis’ has been a widely recognized name in both Britain and the United States. The significance of the writings of this scholar of medieval literature, Christian apologist and author of the children’s books The Chronicles of Narnia, while widely recognized, has not previously been investigated. Using a wide range of sources, including archival material, book reviews, monographs, articles and interviews, this dissertation examines the reception of Lewis in Britain and America, comparatively, from within his lifetime until the recent past. To do so, the methodology borrows from the history of the book and history of reading fields, and writes the biography of Lewis’s Mere Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia. By contextualizing the writing of these works in the 1940s and 1950s, the evolution of Lewis’s respective platforms in Britain and America and these works’ reception across the twentieth century, this project contributes to the growing body of work that interrogates the print culture of Christianity. Extensive secondary reading, moreover, permitted the investigation of cultural, intellectual, social and religious factors informing Lewis’s reception, the existence of Lewis devotees in America and the lives of Mere Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia in particular. By paying close attention to the historical conditions of authorship, publication and reception, while highlighting similarities and contrasts between Britain and America, this dissertation provides a robust account of how and why Lewis became one of the most successful Christian authors of the twentieth century.
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基督敎與二十世紀中國小說---郁達夫、茅盾、許地山的小說. / 基督敎與20世紀中國小說 / Christianity & 20th century Chinese fiction---the works of Yu Dafu, Mao Dun and Xu Dishan / Jidu jiao yu er shi shi ji Zhongguo xiao shuo---Yu Dafu, Mao Dun, Xu Dishan de xiao shuo. / Jidu jiao yu 20 shi ji Zhongguo xiao shuoJanuary 2001 (has links)
陳志傑. / "2001年6月" / 論文 (哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2001. / 參考文獻 (leaves 117-123) / 附中英文摘要. / "2001 nian 6 yue" / Chen Zhijie. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2001. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 117-123) / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Chapter 第一章 --- 導言 --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- 基督教與中國現代小說的研究 / Chapter 1.2 --- 郁達夫、茅盾、許地山的獨特之處 / Chapter 1.3 --- 郁達夫、茅盾、許地山三人的硏究檢討 / Chapter 1.4 --- 硏究構想與槪念簡釋 / Chapter 1.5 --- 材料與方法 / Chapter 1.6 --- 史料搜集與論證過程 / Chapter 1.7 --- 各章簡介 / Chapter 第二章 --- 時代巨變中的中國：「啓蒙與救亡」 --- p.25 / Chapter 2.1 --- 吾人覺悟與啓蒙 / Chapter 2.2 --- 「啓蒙與救亡」的一脈相承 / Chapter 2.3 --- 救亡壓倒啓蒙 / Chapter 2.4 --- 小結 / Chapter 第三章 --- 普遍皇權崩潰：「以耶補儒」 --- p.34 / Chapter 3.1 --- 皇權崩潰下的真空 / Chapter 3.2 --- 陳獨秀對基督教的理解與認同 / Chapter 3.3 --- 小結 / Chapter 第四章 --- 由傳統轉向現代的「文以載道」與郁達夫的啓蒙 --- p.40 / Chapter 4.1 --- 文學革命 / Chapter 4.2 --- 沉淪與重新 / Chapter 4.3 --- 《南遷》的諷刺與肯定 / Chapter 4.4 --- 小結 / Chapter 第五章 --- 茅盾的政治寓言小說 --- p.54 / Chapter 5.1 --- 審查下的創作 / Chapter 5.2 --- 在桂林的《新舊約全書》 / Chapter 5.3 --- 《耶稣之死》的政治暗喻 / Chapter 5.4 --- 小結 / Chapter 第六章 --- 我們要甚麼樣的宗敎：許地山 --- p.76 / Chapter 6.1 --- 許地山與宗教 / Chapter 6.2 --- 我們要甚麼樣的宗教 / Chapter 6.3 --- 基督教「人格救國」 / Chapter 6.4 --- 聖賢基督徒《商婦人》、《缀網勞蛛》 / Chapter 6.5 --- 處於民族主義與基督教的《玉官》 / Chapter 6.6 --- 小結 / Chapter 第七章 --- 郁達夫、茅盾、許地山與基督敎 --- p.107 / Chapter 7.1 --- 郁達夫：向基督的懺悔 / Chapter 7.2 --- 茅盾：耶稣的犧牲精神 / Chapter 7.3 --- 許地山：耶穌之再現 / Chapter 7.4 --- 小結 / Chapter 第八章 --- 結論 --- p.115 / 參考書目 --- p.117
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The ambivalent engagement with Christianity in the writing of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Africans in the Eastern CapeNxasana, Thulani Litha January 2009 (has links)
Until recently much of the literature recording the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the Eastern Cape focused purely on frontier conflict and missionary activity, ignoring the evolving culture of the colonized people. But as Somande Fikeni declares, “[i]t is important when celebrating the country’s heritage to look beyond battle sites, monuments and wars and to pay attention to South Africa’s intellectuals and knowledge producers” (quoted in Hollands 4). This is indeed the central purpose of my research. This thesis seeks to examine the influence of Christianity on early South African writing by Africans and the ambivalence with which Christianity is often treated in their work. In South Africa, as elsewhere in Africa, Christianity played a central role in the development of African literature through the influence of mission schools and printing presses. Thus from the outset the development of written literature was inseparable from the spread of Christianity. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writing by Africans reflects this: Christian idioms, biblical stories and images colour their work and yet are not employed unthinkingly. Each of the writers whom I will explore has a complex and at times ambivalent relationship with Christianity, and they use religious discourse for a variety of ends, some of them clearly at odds with their origins in the “civilizing mission” of Europe. According to Yunus Momoniat, “Their works . . . are the beginnings of an engagement not only with the world of words on a page, but also with the politics of literacy itself” (1). The subject of this research is three Xhosa writers from the Eastern Cape: the Reverend Tiyo Soga (1829-1871), the renowned novelist and “National Poet” S. E. K. Mqhayi (1875-1945), and the little-known poet Nontsizi Mgqwetho (Dates uknown, writings 1920-1929), who is described by Mbeki as “the most prolific woman Xhosa poet of the twentieth century” (6). The reason for focusing on the Eastern Cape is because the Xhosa “were the first Bantu people to be exposed to Christian proselytising and to receive a literate education” (Gerard 24). As a result much of the early literature in isiXhosa consisted of translations of the Bible and other Christian tracts, and such “improving” texts as Pilgrim’s Progress. In other words, it is in this work that the first roots of the influence of Christianity in southern Africa can be traced.
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Le Petit Concile et la christianisation des moeurs et des pratiques littéraires sous Louis XIVPreyat, Fabrice January 2001 (has links)
Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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Aux origines de la discipline littéraire: le sens de la communauté. une histoire des Bonnes Lettres 1450-1545Loicq, Aline January 2001 (has links)
Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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The role of Archaeology in the Jesus industryDyer, Jennifer 12 1900 (has links)
The question leading to this study is whether the facts and theories pertaining to the
Bible and Jesus Story as presented by The Authors (H Schonfield, D Joyce, B Thiering, M
Baigent, R Leigh, H Lincoln; M Starbird, and D Brown) could be verified by the
Archaeology evidence. I have adopted a multidiscipline and holistic approach
considering information gathered from all media sources to ascertain what theories, if
any could replace the traditional Jesus Story of the New Testament. I considered
whether the alternative theories or traditional theories were believable due to the
evidence presented by Biblical Archaeology or by the techniques used by The Authors
in presenting their facts. By using Thouless’ system of Straight and Crooked thinking I
was able to ascertain that the theories used in the novels written by The Authors may
have been persuasive, but lacked substance. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / M. Th. (Biblical Archaeology)
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