I. Introduction. This thesis shows that Adrienne von Speyr interprets the Son’s entire kenosis through the Suscipe, making this prayer the essential interpretative key to her writings. Although others have noted an Ignatian influence, most dissertations focus on pastoral applications of her writings; none have expressed the Suscipe as the essential key to her work, to her influence on Hans Urs von Balthasar, and through him to twentieth century theology. As a contemplative, her writings more nearly resemble monastic theological writings that have been valued in the Church from before the development of scholasticism and that have continued alongside scholastics until the present day. Attempts to read and understand her writings through a scholastic or academic lens rather than contemplative modes and without the Suscipe key can lead to misunderstanding and misinterpretation. II. A Biography of Adrienne von Speyr. To her contemporaries, von Speyr lived a full and normal life, actively involved with her family and city life. She was known as a physician to the poor, devoted to her family, charitable to all even as an invalid. Her most controversial moment as an adult was converting from the state reformed church to the Roman Catholic Church. Not until her death did anyone, even her family, become aware of her mystical experiences. Von Balthasar as her personal confessor emphasizes the mystical experiences and qualities of von Speyr’s life in his hagiographical styled writings. Her own accounts report mystical experiences including apparitions of Ignatius of Loyola (a mystic) and Mary Mother of God. Von Balthasar attributes certain of these experiences as the impetus for founding the lay secular order of the Community of St. John. Her visionary experiences during Passion Week form the basis for her writings on Holy Saturday and von Balthasar’s.

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Submitted by Isaias Eliseu da Silva (isaiaseliseu@gmail.com) on 2018-06-27T00:05:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese - versão final.pdf: 1821366 bytes, checksum: eecccdd06a461f99da7ed34d47dee510 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Priscila Carreira B Vicentini null (priscila@fclar.unesp.br) on 2018-06-28T13:35:01Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_ie_dr_arafcl.pdf: 1767890 bytes, checksum: 3eac585db880bca16eae48f7dab0a7c1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-06-28T13:35:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_ie_dr_arafcl.pdf: 1767890 bytes, checksum: 3eac585db880bca16eae48f7dab0a7c1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-05-30 / Ecos de Mrs. Dalloway, de Virginia Woolf, reverberam no romance Saturday, de Ian McEwan, publicado oitenta anos após o primeiro, e esta tese propõe uma análise sobre os textos ficcionais referidos a fim de expor a medida em que, dadas as semelhanças entre uma narrativa e outra, diferem-se o contexto histórico, as preocupações das personagens e as técnicas narrativas utilizadas no romance de Woolf e no de McEwan. Ambos os romances ambientam-se em Londres, têm o enredo circunscrito no limite de um dia e utilizam-se de acontecimentos históricos como pano de fundo para as narrativas. Mrs. Dalloway é motivado pelos efeitos provocados pela Primeira Guerra Mundial sobre a sociedade inglesa no início do século XX e Saturday baseia-se nas consequências dos ataques terroristas de 2001 às torres do World Trade Center nos Estados Unidos para apresentar uma narrativa que trata do modo de vida contemporâneo em uma metrópole europeia. Busca-se apontar as categorias do moderno em Mrs. Dalloway e do contemporâneo em Saturday, a partir de um referencial teórico que inclui Calinescu e Berman sobre a modernidade, Bell e Innes sobre o Modernismo, Elias e Schollhammer sobre a literatura contemporânea e Lyotard e Bauman sobre os fundamentos do presente histórico. / Echoes of Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, reverberate in Saturday, a novel by Ian McEwan, published eighty years after the first one, and this thesis proposes an analysis on the referred fictional texts to show to what extent, given the similarities between one narrative and the other, the historical context, the characters’ worries, and the narrative techniques are different in Woolf’s and McEwan’s novels. Both stories are set in London, have their plots circumscribed into the limit of a day, and take historical facts as the background for their narratives. Mrs. Dalloway is motivated by the effects of World War I on the English society in the beginning of the 20th century, and Saturday is based on the consequences of the terrorist attacks in 2001 on the World Trade Center towers in The United States to present a narrative that deals with the contemporary way of life in a European metropolis. The aim of the research is to point out the categories of the modern in Mrs. Dalloway and of the contemporary in Saturday, from a theoretical reference that includes Calinescu and Berman about modernity, Bell and Innes about Modernism, Elias and Schollhammer about contemporary literature, Lyotard and Bauman about the basis of the historical present.

Thesis (M.C.S.)--Regent College, Vancouver, B.C., 1995. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-84).

This thesis examines if and how the Internet viewers of Saturday Night Live skits were influenced by the video skits. the viewers’ online comments were read, categorized and analyzed for content to explore and discuss how the viewers “read” the text of the online video skits. Each video in which candidates John McCain, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama appeared is summarized and analyzed through viewers’ comments. a sample of skits including actors’ portrayals of McCain, Palin, Clinton, Obama and Joe Biden is also summarized and analyzed to find and discuss how the viewers’ perceptions were influenced by the portrayals.

This novel blends first-person narrative prose with conventions of screenwriting to create a voice consistent with its main character, Rick Morgan, who's trying to escape his life as a real estate agent by becoming a screenwriter. As Rick struggles to write a new screenplay he finds it difficult to divorce his creative mind from the troubles of his personal life. As a result his preoccupations with destroying his boss and taking back the girl the boss stole from him, work their way into Rick's new project. The motif of art imitating life imitating art forces Rick to question long held beliefs on business, women, and the creative process as he realizes that life is not like the movies even though the movies are often like life.

The significance of Holy Saturday, the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, is often ignored in Christian life. The most influential modern theologian who has taken its importance seriously is the Swiss Catholic theologian, Hans Urs von Balthasar. He has presented a very innovative but also controversial interpretation that on Holy Saturday Jesus Christ suffered in utter solidarity with the dead in Hell and took to himself our self-damnation. However, this interpretation and several other aspects of his theology related to it seem to depart from the traditional teaching in an idiosyncratic way and have invited various critiques. What this thesis aims to do is to critically examine Balthasar’s theology of Holy Saturday and present its implications for Christian suffering and discipleship, while doing full justice to the genre within which he is working (a combination of theology and spirituality) and at the same time taking into consideration the main critiques made against him. First of all, we will argue that Balthasar does not try to present a radical reinterpretation of the doctrine of the Descent into Hell in contrast to the traditional teachings but rather tries to fully appreciate the in-betweenness of Holy Saturday as the day of transition from the Cross to the Resurrection, in other words, from the old aeon to the new. Balthasar says that Christ Himself descended into Hell as victor over sin and death objectively, but He still had to wait for the victory to arrive subjectively. Further, we will claim that this silent waiting on Holy Saturday, which marks the transition from the Cross to the Resurrection, helps us to deepen our understanding of the meaning of suffering in Christian discipleship. The waiting on Holy Saturday represents the fundamentally ‘tragic’ state of the Christian (understood as “tragedy under grace”) torn between the law of this world and the truth of Christ. As a paradoxical being in transition, the Christian believes that their victory is both already there and not there yet. In this sense, the Christian still lives in Holy Saturday. This notion deepens our understanding of suffering in the Christian life, because now we could translate the meaning of suffering into ‘tragic waiting,’ while fully facing the subjective reality of suffering and at the same time maintaining the hope of finding its salvific meaning by relating it to the paschal mystery. Our conclusion will be that this ‘tragic waiting,’ which itself is our lives, now can be seen in a Christological light. In short, we can patiently endure our Holy Saturday because of Christ’s Holy Saturday in Hell.

By recontextualizing spatiality, it is arguable that the meaning of &lsquo / space&rsquo / as a term varies from the most local to the global geographies. &lsquo / Space&rsquo / as a term for this thesis does not only mean the architectural spaces, but also the social spaces. This thesis aims to define and investigate the dynamics of &lsquo / Thirdspace&rsquo / as a key term and to locate it in the specifities of urban within the area of resistance and transgression. &lsquo / Thirdspace&rsquo / is illustrated as a wider sphere of participation forpolitical resistance. As a space, it is the new meeting places for diverse oppositional practices, for multiple communities of resistance. It is a space that is both center and the margin, which enables the radical social action everywhere in the world, from local to the global. The theoretical framework for understanding the tools of our critical approach will be provided by a comprehensive literature about &lsquo / identity politics,&rsquo / which can be defined as the theoretical base of the concept of &lsquo / Thirdspace.&rsquo / After an extensive analysis about the dynamics of &lsquo / Thirdspace&rsquo / for political resistance, it is concerned to locate the concept of &lsquo / Thirdspace&rsquo / within the material world as a case study. The case study aims to exemplify firstly the &lsquo / Istiklal Street&rsquo / as &lsquo / Thirdspace&rsquo / , secondly political position of &lsquo / Saturday&rsquo / s Mothers&rsquo / as &lsquo / thirdspace of political choice&rsquo / , and lastly to demonstrate the reciprocal relations between them within the framework of the relationship between space and politics.

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