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1	Where is the Place of Darknesss?: A Metaphor Analysis of Darkness in the Old Testament Cooper, Daniel Ross 11 1900 (has links) English speakers use the concept of "darkness" in a number of metaphors to portray a wide variety of experiences from evil to fear to ignorance. These metaphorical connections or entailments are so natural that we can see an image of a dark-clad person in a film or book and usually be correct in assuming that they are at best questionably moral and at worst a villain. The Old Testament (OT) also employs dark images and dark imagery to various effects. From Job's description of the underworld in Job 3 to Isaiah 's description of the coming light that will dispel the darkness in Isa 8- 9, to the dark paths the wicked trod in Eccl 2:14, the OT uses a number of metaphors of darkness. For most of these examples, it would be easy to assume that the ancient Hebrew writers of the OT were working with the same concepts of darkness that we do today and thus interpret these passages along the same lines as our own modem English metaphors. But such assumptions can and have led to a number of misunderstandings and conflicting interpretations of passages that employ dark images. These miscommunications are most apparent in passages where God's presence is indicated by darkness like at the Sinai and Temple theophanies (Exod 20:19-20 and 1 Kgs 8:12, respectively) as well as later poetry about God (Ps 97:2). By combining the theoretical framework of Cognitive Metaphor Theory (CMT), and the methodology of Conceptual Blending (CB), this study will work toward a clearer understanding of how the writers of the OT understood darkness and how that shaped their use of it in their images and imagery of death, captivity, the unknowable, and God. It will be shown that the ancient Hebrew conception and use of darkness centres around three key recurring metaphors - Death is Darkness, Captivity is Darkness, and the Unknown is Darkness - while the metaphor Evil is Darkness is foreign to the OT. These findings serve to provide greater clarity in interpreting those OT passages that portray God as having a penchant for darkness.
2	Like pilgrims to this moment : myth, history, and politics in the early writing of Seamus Heaney and Leonard Cohen Ward, Caitlin 23 December 2008 This thesis examines the early work of poets Leonard Cohen and Seamus Heaney in light of their treatment of mythology, ritual, and mythologization, moving either from personal to political awareness (Heaney), or from political to personal awareness (Cohen). Heaney, writing in the midst of the Irish Troubles throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, slowly works up to political awareness as the situation from which he is writing becomes more dire. By contrast, Cohen writes during the beginnings of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec, from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, moving progressively farther away from the highly political and mythologized work of his first book. This thesis analyzes both poets first four books of poetry and how each poet addresses the politics of his historical time and place as a minority figure: an Irish Catholic in Northern Ireland, and an Anglophone Jew in Montreal, respectively. Ultimately, each poet chooses to mythologize and use traditional mythologies as a means of addressing contemporary horrors before being poetically (and politically) exhausted by the spiritual and mental exertion involved in the "poetry of disfigurement." Northern Irish poetry Belfast poetry Montreal poets Belfast poets Irish literature Canadian literature the Troubles Seamus Heaney Leonard Cohen Montreal Belfast Jewish poets Irish poets Irish Republican poetry Quiet Revolution Silent Revolution Irish poetry mythology bog poetry 20th century poetry English literature poetry 20th century studies ethnic minorities religious minorities mythologization Hebrew scripture Tollund Man North Let Us Compare Mythologies Death of a Naturalist Flowers For Hitler Wintering Out Door Into the Dark Spice-Box of Earth Parasites of Heaven
3	Like pilgrims to this moment : myth, history, and politics in the early writing of Seamus Heaney and Leonard Cohen Ward, Caitlin 23 December 2008 (has links) This thesis examines the early work of poets Leonard Cohen and Seamus Heaney in light of their treatment of mythology, ritual, and mythologization, moving either from personal to political awareness (Heaney), or from political to personal awareness (Cohen). Heaney, writing in the midst of the Irish Troubles throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, slowly works up to political awareness as the situation from which he is writing becomes more dire. By contrast, Cohen writes during the beginnings of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec, from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, moving progressively farther away from the highly political and mythologized work of his first book. This thesis analyzes both poets first four books of poetry and how each poet addresses the politics of his historical time and place as a minority figure: an Irish Catholic in Northern Ireland, and an Anglophone Jew in Montreal, respectively. Ultimately, each poet chooses to mythologize and use traditional mythologies as a means of addressing contemporary horrors before being poetically (and politically) exhausted by the spiritual and mental exertion involved in the "poetry of disfigurement." Northern Irish poetry Belfast poetry Montreal poets Belfast poets Irish literature Canadian literature the Troubles Seamus Heaney Leonard Cohen Montreal Belfast Jewish poets Irish poets Irish Republican poetry Quiet Revolution Silent Revolution Irish poetry mythology bog poetry 20th century poetry English literature poetry 20th century studies ethnic minorities religious minorities mythologization Hebrew scripture Tollund Man North Let Us Compare Mythologies Death of a Naturalist Flowers For Hitler Wintering Out Door Into the Dark Spice-Box of Earth Parasites of Heaven

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