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A reading of Maturin1 s six novels makes it necessary to reevaluate the general opinion that he is chiefly a gothic novelist. This gothic view of Maturin is founded predominantly upon readings of The Fatal Revenge (1807), his first novel, and Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), his fifth. Although "traditional" gothic devices appear in both these novels, Maturin's searching analysis of Christianity as well as the specifically Irish framework make Melmoth, at least, more of a spiritual and social allegory than a gothic novel. Maturin also published four other novels: The Wild Irish Boy (1808), The Mi1esian Chief (1812), Women, or Pour et Contre (1818), and The Albigenses (1824). The first three of these novels are set in contemporary Ireland and they analyze various conflicting forces which, in Maturin1s view, retarded the building of a progressive and unified Irish society. In The Wild Irish Boy and The Mi.lesian Chief, for example, Maturin presents two approaches to the problem of Irish leadership, a problem which the Union with Great Britain in 1800 had magnified. In Women, also, he dramatizes particular religious and social tensions in Ireland; but in this case, it is the religious gulf which separates various groups and which the growing power of the Methodist community intensifies. His final novel, The Albigenses, likewise reflects religious tensions within Ireland; in this case, he reacts to the renewed threat posed by the native Catholics' quest for emancipation. Those who read these four novels --Scott, Morgan, Godwin, the Irish Catholics and the Irish Methodists, and other contemporaries --considered Maturin as more than simply a gothic novelist. Furthermore, if his letters to Sir Walter Scott and to Archibald Constable can be relied upon, Maturin regarded himself as a serious commentator upon Ireland's social and spiritual degeneracy rather than as a gothic novelist. Maturin, an Anglo-Irish clergyman who distrusted Catholic and Methodist alike, was a deeply spiritual man. To him, Ireland's civil chaos resulted from the misdirected spiritual energy of these two groups as well as from the presence of irresponsible Anglo-Irish and British social leaders. For him, a solution to these problems could only be created by sincere and devoted Christian living which was most easily gained by following the forms of the Church of England. Throughout his career as a writer, this belief formed the basis of both his sermons and novels alike; and furthermore,it inspired his search for an effective medium through which he could analyze and suggest solutions to the problems which, because of its unique collection of religions and races, existed in Ireland. By reading all his novels, therefore, and by considering them within the Irish context of the social and religious tensions in which he wrote, a view of Maturin emerges which shows him to be not only a gothic novelist, but also an Anglo-Irish controversialist. / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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論文(碩士)--香港中文大學硏究院哲學學部,1978. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 284-299). / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan zhe xue xue bu,1978. / 序 --- p.I / 基本書籍略稱表 --- p.V / 導論 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一章 --- 摩爾和艾爾所遺留的問題 --- p.21 / Chapter 第一節 --- 摩爾底描述主義 --- p.21 / Chapter 第二節 --- 艾爾底偽擬概念說 --- p.37 / Chapter 第三節 --- 史氏面對的問題 --- p.51 / Chapter 第二章 --- 倫理分歧底特性 --- p.57 / Chapter 第一節 --- 生活上常有的兩個倫理分歧的例子 --- p.57 / Chapter 第二節 --- 兩種分歧──信念上分歧和態度上分歧、及二者的關係 --- p.68 / Chapter 第三節 --- 態度和情緒 --- p.85 / Chapter 第三章 --- 倫理語詞底意義 --- p.100 / Chapter 第一節 --- 意義底因果說 --- p.101 / Chapter 第二節 --- 描述意義，情緒意義和二者的关係 --- p.111 / Chapter 第三節 --- 實用模式和第一樣型分析 --- p.121 / Chapter 第四節 --- 第二樣型分析和誘導界說 --- p.133 / Chapter 第四章 --- 倫理判斷底有效性問題 --- p.147 / Chapter 第一節 --- 倫理判斷無有效性？ --- p.148 / Chapter 第二節 --- 支持倫理判斷的理由 --- p.167 / Chapter 第五章 --- 史氏之情緒論底批評 --- p.182 / Chapter 第一節 --- 关於倫理與非倫理的價值語詞、和各種倫理語詞的意義問題 --- p.186 / Chapter 第二節 --- 关於倫理判斷底功用和意義問題 --- p.192 / 結論 --- p.231 / 注釋 --- p.242 / 導論及第一章 --- p.242 / 第二章 --- p.251 / 第三章 --- p.259 / 第四章 --- p.268 / 第五章 --- p.276 / 結論 --- p.282 / 參考書目 --- p.284

During the depression era, millions of Americans listened to the weekly radio addresses given by Father Charles Edward Coughlin. He devoted his career to speaking out against the evils of America and felt it his duty to warn Americans against the perpetrators of this evil. But after 1934, the tone of his messages became anti-Semitic and his following decreased. His hatred of Jews escalated and in 1942, he was permanently removed from the air waves. A literature review will examine the nature of American anti-Semitism up to 1934 through literature, periodicals and newspapers. The literature review will also identify the key anti-Semitic terminology that Father Coughlin used in his sermons. The analysis and interpretation will show how stylistic tokens of anti-Semitic rhetoric pervaded Father Coughlin's sermons from the beginning of his career, which led to his downfall as a demagogic orator. / Graduation date: 1994

Texte remanié de: Thesis Ph. D.--Boston, Mass.--Tufts university, 2004. / Notes bibliogr.