Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University, 2006. / Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 132 p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1996. / Title from title page screen, viewed May 26, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Stanley W. Renner (chair), Ronald Strickland, William W. Morgan, Jr. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-146) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Grace Theological Seminary, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-120).

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Illustrations not reproduced. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 403-430).

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La production d’Etienne-Martin souffre toujours d’une méconnaissance certaine. Les nombreux ouvrages et études qui lui ont été consacrés n’ont pas suffi à ce que le sculpteur obtienne la juste place qui lui revient dans l’Histoire de l’Art, et l’œuvre se dérobe encore à la compréhension. Trois facteurs principaux sont en cause : la difficulté à comprendre la nature et la fonction de la forme biographique dans son travail sculptural, graphique et manuscrit ; à appréhender l’Abécédaire, système conceptuel qu’il a créé au début des années 1960 ; à déterminer le rôle de l’ésotérisme et de la spiritualité dans sa production. Afin d’éclairer ces problématiques, nous nous fonderons sur l’étude conjointe de ses œuvres, de sa bibliothèque, et des milliers de feuillets manuscrits inédits qu’il a consacrés au récit de son enfance, à ses créations et surtout à l’Abécédaire. Ce travail sera mis en perspective avec des sources secondaires dans une orientation transversale et pluridisciplinaire. Il met en évidence le langage profondément synthétique de l’artiste qui est parvenu, au travers de l’expression de sa mythologie individuelle, à créer un œuvre dans laquelle chaque sculpture n’est pas une entité isolée, mais, au contraire, trouve sa place au sein d’une structure dotée d’un principe combinatoire à même d’engendrer de nouvelles créations. De par ses caractéristiques conceptuelles et formelles, ainsi que par les questions qu’il soulève, cet œuvre mémoriel fait pleinement écho aux recherches menées par ses contemporains. / Etienne-Martin's production remains relatively unknown to this day. The several studies and publications dedicated to it have not been sufficient for the sculptor to be given the place he deserves in Art History, and the understanding of his work still is evasive. This can be explained by three main causes: the nature and the function of the artist’s biography in relation to his sculptural, graphical and written work is hard to grasp; the Abécédaire, Etienne-Martin’s own conceptual system built in the 60s is still puzzling; and the roles of esoterism and spirituality in his work are still unclear. In an effort to address these issues, we will rely on the examination of his work, of his library as well as that of thousands of unpublished pages in which he tells the story of his childhood, of his creations and mostly of the Abécédaire. Through the use of secondary sources, this study will be put into perspective, both in a transversal and multidisciplinary way. It sheds light on the deeply synthetic language of the artist. Thanks to the expression of his own individual mythology, Etienne-Martin has succeeded in creating a work in which each sculpture is not simply a distinct entity. On the contrary, it finds its place inside a structure endowed with a combinatorial principle and able to forge new creations. Owing to its conceptual and formal characteristics, as well as to the questions it raises, this memorial work resonates deeply with the research of his contemporaries.

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Nous vivons une époque faite de mythes qui vont diffuser des idéologies et favoriser une forme de « présentisme », selon les mots de François Hartog : une injonction au mouvement et pourtant, une incapacité à incarner ce mouvement. L’hypothèse centrale de ce travail de recherche est que pour sortir de cette impasse il faut s’extraire de la lecture générationnelle du numérique, qui considère celui-ci comme un événement à part entière, pour développer une lecture dynamique par une appropriation des « économies de la grandeur » de Luc Boltanski et Laurent Thévenot. Cette lecture va nous permettre de densifier le présent et va dévoiler une partie des structures qui conditionnent les organisations ( dans le cas de ce travail : OuiShare et Renault). On va ainsi observer le numérique en situation, au cœur de la dialectique entre le système productif et le système social. De cette manière nous allons l’appréhender comme le catalyseur de transformation plus profondes comme celles qui touchent le travail et son organisation. Pour ce faire nous avons dû redonner à ces organisations qui régentent le travail une forme de plasticité tout en interrogeant les théories qui les caractérisent. Nous avons ainsi fait émerger trois dimensions, comme autant de ligne de crête qui conditionnent le travail et son organisation dont l’équilibre est aujourd’hui remis en question par le numérique: la concentration du capital, la concentration des moyens de production, la concentration de la capacité d’organisation. L’intention de ce travail de recherche est d’alimenter une approche complexe du numérique et de ses effets sur les modes d’organisation du travail et sur notre société en général afin d’ouvrir des pistes d’adaptation sociale et de créativité politique. / Our era is rich with myths that help disseminate certain ideologies and favor a form of ‘presentism’. François Hartog see’s this as a constant compulsion to keep moving and yet an inability to embody the progress we make. This research proposes as its main hypothesis that a resolution to this conundrum requires a step away from the generational reading of the digital, which treats its rise as an event in its own right, and instead embrace a more dynamic reading in alignment with Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot’s notion of “economies of grandeur” (« économies de la grandeur »). In doing so, this reading will allow for a better understanding of the present while unveiling the structures that shape organisations today (in this case OuiShare and Renault). We shall consider the digital in different situations, to shine light on its dialectical position between the productive and the social system where it functions as a catalyst for profound transformations, notably regarding work and the organization of labor.To do so, we must however recognize a certain plasticity of the organizations that govern work, while also questioning the theories that characterize them. Three dimensions are seen to emerge here: the concentration of capital, the concentration of means of production and the concentration of the capacity of organizations. By shining light on new routes of social adaptation and political creativity, this research therefore aims to foster a more complex approach towards the ‘digital’, its effects on the different modes of work organization and on society as a whole.

The purpose of this thesis is an in-depth analysis of the Eddic poem Grímnismál found in the manuscript known as Codex Regius (GKS 2365 4to), located in Reykjavík, dated to c. 1270 and a fragment (AM 748 I 4to), located in Copenhagen, dated to c. 1300. While a great deal of work has been done on Grímnismál as part of the Elder Edda, there is yet no specific edition focusing on it alone. New studies on Germanic paganism and mythology show its shifting nature and the absence of specific tenets or uniform beliefs throughout the Germanic speaking world and in time. The relatively absent sources are similarly scattered. As such, the thesis suggests a new method of study, following a focused historical approach in which only Grímnismál is analysed in an attempt to understand the beliefs of the people that composed it. The nature of pagan belief itself prevents one from drawing more general conclusions on ‘Norse mythology' as a whole. Part 1 is divided into two chapters and deals with my approach, the nature of Germanic belief, and the sources available as well as techniques of interpretation for them, all relevant to the production of the arguments made in the thesis. Part 2 deals with Grímnismál itself: Chapter 1 provides an analysis of the manuscripts, Chapter 2 contains my editing notes and Chapter 3 analyses the contents of the poem, Chapter 4 consists of my conclusions to this study, focusing on the cosmology and the dating of the poem. Part 3 contains the edition of Grímnismál and is followed by Part 4 which is the commentary to the poem. The thesis is followed by two appendices, one containing a facing transcription of the manuscripts and the other being a glossary to all words used in Grímnismál. Finally, this thesis includes a digital edition worked on xml. This is available in the following link: https://starescomp.github.io/grimnismal/#idm140518410334752