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La Chine rêvée de Judith Gautier / The fantasy vision of China in Judith Gautier’s writingsShi, Yichao 28 June 2019 (has links)
Judith Gautier caresse un vif intérêt pour les temps anciens et le monde inconnu. Parmi toutes les contrées lointaines, c’est en Chine qu’elle conçoit son rêve le plus charmant et son monde intime le plus merveilleux. La Chine dans son ensemble la séduit, répondant à la fois à sa curiosité envers l’Antiquité et à son désir de décrypter des documents indéchiffrables. C’est de là qu’elle a tiré ses meilleures inspirations pour ses créations littéraires. Basée sur les écrits de Judith Gautier sur la Chine, d’une part, et sur leurs sources d’inspiration, d’autre part, notre thèse projette d’examiner les spécificités rêvées de la Chine de l’écrivaine, de mesurer la distance entre son art imaginatif et la situation réelle de ce pays et de repérer les éventuels facteurs ayant contribué à la formation de son style. Les œuvres de Judith Gautier constituent un grand terrain d’exploitation, dont l’intérêt de la recherche est caractérisé par sa fécondité, présentant une quantité considérable de sujets à découvrir, par son érudition, qui englobe une large dimension culturelle de l’Orient à l’Occident, ainsi que par sa préférence de la liberté, qui entraîne des choix arbitraires quant aux traductions et aux adaptations. La découverte de la vie et des œuvres de Judith Gautier est un voyage formidable, où sont manifestés des idées inédites, des images inconnues et des horizons nouveaux et insolites. / Judith Gautier takes a keen interest in the ancient times and the unknown world. Among all the distant lands, it is in China that she conceives her most charming dream and her most wonderful intimate world. China as a whole seduces her, responding to her curiosity towards antiquity and her desire to decipher indecipherable documents. The culture of this country gives Judith Gautier a lot of inspirations for her literary creations. Our thesis plans to research the characteristics of Judith Gautier’s fantasy vision of China and measure the distance between her imaginative art and the actual situation of this country. We plan to find the possible factors that contributed to the formation of her style and the sources which gave her inspirations. The works of Judith Gautier constitute a large field to be explored. They present a considerable number of subjects to be discovered thanks to the fertility of the author and encompass a large cultural dimension from the East to the West. Besides, Judith Gautier’s preference for the freedom leads to her arbitrary choices of translations and adaptations. The discovery of her life and her works is a wonderful journey, where new ideas and unknown images are revealed.
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Visionary experiences during Jesus' baptism: a critical analysis of selected scholarly viewsVaidyan, Thomas Kizhakadethu Lukose 01 1900 (has links)
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-115) / The purpose of this study is to critically analyse selected scholarly views on the visionary experiences during Jesus’ baptism. Modern scholars have different opinions about the reports in the New Testament on Jesus’ baptismal visionary phenomena. Some scholars interpreted the events as Jesus’ actual seeing or vision and others accept it as literary creations by the authors, to make sense of the reports on seeing and hearing that are hard to understand. Reports like a Spirit descending in the form of a dove are extraordinary for most people and pose interpretive challenges. The two distinct trends identified in the study of visionary experiences are those who take the text on the visions literally and those who see them as literary creations. There is a new trend in biblical scholarship, which is comparative and invokes insights from cross-cultural research in order to understand the accounts of the visions as altered states of consciousness (ASC). These views are also presented, compared and evaluated selecting three major views from modern New Testament scholars. Among the scholars identified, who take the baptism visions literally, are Dunn, Meier, Marcus, Hurtado, Borg and Webb. The scholars selected, who consider the baptism visions as literary creations, are Sanders, Crossan, Miller and Strijdom. The scholars, who contributed to the new development in interpreting the texts on visionary experiences as ASC, are Pilch, Davies and DeMaris. Pilch uses the theoretical model of ASC and understands it differently from those used by Davies and DeMaris on which they base their interpretations. A scientific explanation of ASC is built from theories about how the brain and culture, together, create certain states of consciousness. All these views are analysed based on the scholarly interpretations from the three definitive trends in the visions research, comparing the caretaker versus critical at a meta-analysis level. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / M.A. (Biblical archaeology)
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