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RubyBrantley, Jennifer Susan January 2010 (has links)
Typescript (photocopy). / Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Keats and Shelley : comparative studies in two types of poetic imagery and dictionSwaminathan, S. R. January 1957 (has links)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson and Jorge Luis Borges: Harbingers of Human RightsUnknown Date (has links)
This dissertation comparatively analyzes the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a nineteenth century American, and Jorge Luis Borges, a twentieth-century Argentinian, within the context of human rights. Through their writings, both Emerson and Borges provided a voice to the voiceless by addressing the most egregious violations of human rights during their respective days: For Emerson, the most virulent social ill was slavery; for Borges, it was fascism. While Emerson and Borges differ in several ways, they are remarkably similar in their emphasis of natural laws and natural rights, notably egalitarianism and liberty, which underpin humanity and comprise an integral aspect of civilization. By counteracting the antithesis of civilization, barbarism, the works of Emerson and Borges ultimately embody the tenets that would ultimately constitute The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Thus, Emerson and Borges are indelibly linked through serving as harbingers of human rights. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
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"Abysses of solitude" : the social fiction of Kate Chopin and Edith WhartonPapke, Mary E. January 1983 (has links)
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Technology and transformation : Deleuze, feminism and cyberspaceCurrier, Dianne, 1963- January 2001 (has links)
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The Artist-God who ???disguides his voice???: a reading of Joseph Campbell???s interpretation of the dreamer of Finnegans WakeSkuthorpe, Barret, School of English, UNSW January 2006 (has links)
This thesis is concerned with engaging a critic who has been neglected by his peers in the field of Joyce studies for more than forty years. This critic, Joseph Campbell, is an American scholar more popularly known for his studies in myth. However, he began his intellectual career contributing to a subject that emerged in the early years of the critical reception of Finnegans Wake: that the dream depicted in Joyce???s final masterpiece is dependent on a Dreamer. The neglect Campbell???s work has endured is largely due, this thesis argues, to an inaccurate treatment of his reading of this dream figure. This inaccuracy largely stems from a critic, Clive Hart, who engages with the debate of the Dreamer as an introductory means to demonstrating the ???structural??? theories involved in the Wake. As a minor feature of Hart???s analysis, Campbell???s theory of the Dreamer is identified with another method, one belonging to a fellow American Joycean, Edmund Wilson, a method incongruent with Campbell theories of dream consciousness. Subsequently, Campbell remains an undeveloped scholar within Joyce criticism. To counter Hart???s inaccurate depiction of Campbell, this thesis argues that there is provision in early scholarship to re-evaluate Campbell???s theory of the Dreamer in more developed terms. In this respect, the thesis is divided up into three sections. The first section is a literary review of this early scholarship, demonstrating certain influential strains of thought equivalent to Campbell???s ???metaphoric??? concept of the Dreamer, one that contrasts with the rigid, ???literal??? ideas his work is predominantly identified. The second section examines Campbell???s account in detail and the specific criticism it drew from Hart. Finally, the third section argues that Campbell???s interpretation of the Dreamer is best engaged through an archetypal account of the Dreamer, one that regards the symbols encountered in the Wake through the ???guiding??? features of a mythological concept of the psyche sensitive to the reflexive tendencies of the dream portrayed, Campbell???s ???cosmogonic cycle???.
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"Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary SnyderHiatt, Bryan 20 February 1997 (has links)
Recent conflicts in America concerning the environment (the harvesting of old growth
timber in the Pacific Northwest, or the proposed opening of public lands in southern Utah to mining
interests, for instance) have precipitated a personal examination of "historical others" (Jensen 64),
individuals that possess very different sensibilities from a larger capitalist culture. Two such
writers, Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder, use the wilderness to enact alternative patterns of living
that are designed to change cultures that have lost touch with the land, and have spiraled into a
future where nature is a mere afterthought.
In response to the growth of his society, Thoreau built a cabin at Walden pond as an
experiment to determine if life could be lived simply and morally. His activities were an effort to
"wake up" his "neighbors" who were just beginning to explore capitalism. "Moral reform," Thoreau
believed, "is the effort to throw off sleep" (WAL 61). Thoreau's criticism of capitalism, agricultural
reform, and slavery were generated to help his culture understand what it is to live morally, and
"awake."
Gary Snyder is the voice of Thoreau in the late 20th century, and his work addresses a
world fully enveloped in capitalism. The exploitation of wild creatures and places by world
governments and multi-national corporations is the problem of the modern age for Snyder, and
place-based living is a way of dissenting from a consumption-oriented culture. Reform begins with
the individual living close to the land, but also involves people living in communities and creating
patterns of living that are ecologically stable.
This paper is, in an immediate sense, a comparison of two "American" non-conformists,
but it is also a response to cultural and environmental crises that both writers faced. Chapter I of
this study introduces Thoreau and Snyder and establishes the parameters of this paper. Chapter
II discusses Thoreau's views on capitalism, agricultural reform, and environmental degradation.
Chapter III highlights Snyder's interest in place-based living and bioregionalism. Chapter VI brings
Thoreau and Snyder together in a discussion of political and social reform. The final chapter of
this study reflects how Thoreau and Snyder mesh as ecological philosophers. / Graduation date: 1997
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"My nonsense is only their own in motley" : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ware Jr., and the "nature" of christian character"Jensen, Timothy Ward 14 November 1995 (has links)
Recent changes in the historiography of American Transcendentalism
have inspired a reappraisal of the relationship between the Transcendentalist
movement in New England and the pietistic wing of the Unitarian church. This
thesis explores this reappraisal through a close reading of selected writings by
Henry Ware Jr. in juxtaposition to the more familiar strains of Ralph Waldo
Emerson's Divinity School Address and other Transcendentalist texts of the late
1830's and early 1840's. In opposition to the view that American
Transcendentalism is an imported form of German Romanticism, the thesis
argues that both Emerson and Ware represent a response on the part of rational
religious liberalism to the emotional enthusiasm of the Evangelical movement,
and that the primary inspiration for Emerson's philosophy came from his own
mentor in the Unitarian ministry.
Henry Ware Jr. was the senior minister of the Second Church in Boston
from 1817-1830. Emerson was called to that same congregation in 1829 to serve
as Ware's assistant and eventual successor. From 1830 to 1842 Ware was
"Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and the Pastoral Care" at the Harvard Divinity
School. His Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching was an influential handbook of
homiletics. His devotional manual On the Formation of the Christian Character
went through fifteen editions. His sermon "The Personality of the Deity" has
traditionally been perceived as a response to Emerson's controversial 1838
address, which Emerson delivered at the height of Ware's tenure at the Divinity
School, and which is often depicted as the opening salvo of the so-called
"Transcendentalist Controversy."
Chapter One of the thesis summarizes the changes in the historiography of
American Transcendentalism. Chapter Two relates Ware's "Formation of
Christian Character" to the broader Unitarian understanding of Self-Culture,
which the Transcendentalists also shared. Chapter Three compares Ware's
"Hints" to the Emersonian ideal of preaching as proclaimed in the Divinity
School Address. Chapter Four addresses the issue of the "Personality of the
Deity" in relation to Emerson's notion of an "Over-Soul." The final chapter
offers some personal observations about the nature of history and the reappraisal
of the relationship between Unitarianism and Transcendentalism. / Graduation date: 1996
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Performing the sacred: the concept of journey in Codex DelilahLeimer, Ann Marie 28 August 2008 (has links)
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The unconscious as a rhetorical factor: toward a BurkeLacanian theory and methodJohnson, Kevin Erdean, 1977- 28 August 2008 (has links)
This dissertation provides an exploration of the nature and scope of the category of the Unconscious as a necessary feature of rhetorical theory and criticism. In order to demonstrate the fundamental importance of the Unconscious to rhetorical theory and criticism, this dissertation focuses on Kenneth Burke's rhetorical theory of Dramatism. Burke is one of the most frequently cited theorists by rhetorical scholars, and offers a familiar site for rhetorical scholars to understand the Unconscious as a rhetorical factor. Burke formulated a theory of the Unconscious by drawing from Freudian psychoanalysis. Since Freud, Jacques Lacan has advanced and altered the Freudian understanding of the Unconscious. Therefore, by navigating the terrain of both Burkeian and Lacanian scholarship, this dissertation moves toward a BurkeLacanian theory and method to offer a more critical lexicon for the rhetorical study of the dialectical relationship between the conscious and Unconscious parts of the psyche. In doing so, this dissertation develops and answers the following questions: How can we theorize the Unconscious as a rhetorical factor? How is Burke's theory of the Unconscious rhetorically useful? How might we understand Burke's theory of rhetoric differently and better if we read his Freudian influences through Lacanian scholarship on the Unconscious? How is a theory of the BurkeLacanian subject rhetorically useful? How does a BurkeLacanian theory of the Unconscious inform productive criticism? This dissertation applies a BurkeLacanian theory of the Unconscious by introducing a rhetorical method called "Ideographic Cluster Quilting." This method moves toward the rhetorical study of texts as cultural psyches that are constructed from fragments of discourse that form around figures of abjection. In order to demonstrate the usefulness for studying Ideographic Cluster Quilts, this dissertation analyzes the cultural psyche that forms around the figure of the "illegal immigrant" as abject. In doing so, we gain an insight into the Unconscious hatred of humanity as the perverse core of American identity that qualifies which bodies do and do not matter. We will also gain an insight into the way nationalistic identities function within globalization by confining labor forces within national boundaries, while multinational corporations move freely around the world. / text
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