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1	Guilt and redemption in a national eulogy : President Obama's "Together We Thrive: Tucson and Arizona" address as a call for mortification McLennan, Chelsea J. 24 May 2012 (has links) On January 8th, 2011 tragedy struck in Tucson, Arizona. A gunman opened fire on Representative Gabrielle Giffords' "Congress on Your Corner" event, wounding thirteen and killing six ("Arizona Shooting"). Four days later, President Obama spoke to a grieving crowd at the University of Arizona's McKale Memorial Center. This study seeks to demonstrate how the dramatistic process and the pentad provide insight into how Obama guides the nation through the process of relieving the guilt. Specifically, Obama's call for mortification instead of scapegoating as the means for victimage is examined in light of the context and organizational structure of the speech. In addition, a pentadic analysis of the speech is conducted, showing Obama's stress on the agent-agency ratio and a corresponding idealist-pragmatist outlook. Finally, conclusions are drawn about what this study adds to the academic literature on national eulogies, the presidency, and rhetorical studies at large. / Graduation date: 2012 Barack Obama dramatism mortification guilt eulogy pentad Obama, Barack -- Oratory Eulogies -- Arizona -- Tucson
2	Cléopâtre dans les tragédies françaises de 1553 à 1682 : Une dramaturgie de l’éloge / Cleopatra in French Tragedies from 1553 to 1682 : A Dramaturgy of Eulogy Lamy, Mathilde 31 May 2012 (has links) Dernière reine d’Égypte, Cléopâtre est, en France, la première héroïne de tragédie. Présentée comme un monstre de débauche et d’ambition par les auteurs latins, elle devient une figure majestueuse et digne sur la scène : la dramaturgie humaniste naît sous le signe de l’éloge.L’entrelacement des thèmes et des motifs, la composition des pièces ainsi que le travail stylistique et rhétorique des dramaturges mettent en place un tribunal où est instruit le procès de Cléopâtre, l’étrangère, la femme fatale qui a déjà séduit César et qui, responsable d’Actium, précipite la mort de Marc Antoine. Mais le suicide de la reine est mis en valeur par le recours au dénouement étendu, instrument dramaturgique au service d’une logique d’héroïsation. Ainsi réhabilitée dans le théâtre humaniste et « classique », la figure de Cléopâtre illustre à merveille la définition du héros tragique. / Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt, is the first heroine of tragedy in France. Depicted by Latinauthors as a debauched and ambitious monster, she became a lofty and dignified figure onstage: thus was born humanist dramaturgy under the sign of eulogy. The interlacing ofthemes and topics, the composition of the plays together with the stylistic and rhetorical workof the playwrights set up a court where is conducted the trial of Cleopatra, the foreigner, thefemme fatale who had seduced Caesar and who, responsible for the defeat of Actium,hastened Mark Antony’s death. But the suicide of the queen is enhanced by the use of theextended outcome, a dramatic instrument serving a logic of heroizing. Thus cleared of hermisdeeds in the humanist and "classic" theatre, the figure of Cleopatra marvelouslyillustrates the definition of the tragic hero XVIe siècle XVIIe siècle Théâtre Tragédie France Humanisme Dramaturgie Dénouement étendu Héroïsme Éloge Imitation Histoire Égypte Antiquité XVIth century XVIIth century Theater Tragedy France Humanism Dramaturgy Extended outcome Heroism Eulogy Imitation History Egypt Antiquity 840.900
3	A promise kept: the mystical reach through loss Collins, Jody 04 October 2019 (has links) The meaning of loss is love. I know this through attention to experience. Whether loss or love is experienced in abundance or in absence, the meaning is mystical with an opening of body, mind, heart and soul to spirit. And so, in the style of a memoir, in the way of contemplative prayer, I contemplate and share my soul as a promise kept in the mystical reach through loss. With the first, initiating loss, the loss of my nine-year-old nephew, Caleb, I experience an epiphany that gives me spiritual instructions that will not be ignored. I experience loss as an abundance of meaning that comes to me as gnosis, as “knowledge of the heart” according to Elaine Pagels or divine revelation in what Evelyn Underhill calls mystical illumination in the experience of “losing-to-find” in union with the divine. Then, with gnostic import, in leaving the ordinary for the extraordinary, I enter the empty room in the painful yet liberating experience of the loss of my self. In the embrace of emptiness, I proceed to the first wall, the second wall, the third wall, the dark corner of denial, the return to centre, and, finally, to breaking the fourth wall in the empty room so as to keep my promise to you. Who are “you”? You are God. You are Caleb. You are spirit. You are my higher soul or self. And, you are the reader. You are my dear companion in silence. And then, through a series of broken promises and more loss, within what John of the Cross calls, “the dark night of the soul,” I am stopped by the ineffability of the dark corner of denial, the horror of separation and the absence of meaning, which is depicted as the grueling gap between the spiritual abyss and the breakthrough. What does it mean to keep going through a solemn succession of losses? I don’t know. In going into the empty room, I simply put pain to work in order to reach you. Through loss, though there are infinite manifestations, there is only one way: keep going. And so, in a triumph of the spirit, I keep going so as to be: a promise kept in the mystical reach through loss. As for you, through my illumined and dark experiences of loss, what is my promise to you? I keep going to reach the unreachable you. In the loss of self, with embodied emptiness, in going into the dark corner of denial, with a return to the divine centre of my emptied self, in an invitation to you, I give my soul to you in union with you. / Graduate / 2020-06-25 mystic mysticism apophatic cataphatic mystical mystical reach a promise kept empty promise broken promise reverence epiphany losing-to-find gnosis loss union divine will parsing perfection Caleb Lanz put pain to work wholehearted emptiness the empty room first wall second wall third wall dark corner of denial stonewall breaking the forth wall return to centre Promised Land abyss gap standing in the gap void memoir contemplative prayer contemplation everywhere and nowhere revelation illumination ineffable ineffability metaphor higher self self-giving self-emptying embodied emptiness higher soul spirit the dark night of the soul mystical union God breakthrough infinity infinite dynamism spiritual instruction invitation to spirit paradox symbol eulogy spiritual eyes spiritual heart looking into the slow reveal remaining sudden I am everywhere and nowhere what is what ought to be what can be what will be what is as it already is on earth as it is in heaven no-self unknown spirituality

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