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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"BEAST"”.
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Subtle Beast
A novel.
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Another Beast Entirely
This thesis is a collection of works written and rewritten over the course of my time in the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Master of Fine Arts Creative writing program. It includes short stories, nonfiction essays, and an excerpt from a novel. The pieces range in genre from literary, magical …
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The second beast
This novel is about guilt, blame, truth, reconciliation, jazz, and goats. When we first meet them, the two main characters, Mia and Cassie, are grieving the loss of another character, Sam, to an act of random violence. Each bears some measure of indirect guilt in relation to Sam's death, and each …
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Questing the Beast: From Malory to Milton
<p>The Questing Beast is a Medieval creature that has received little scholarly attention. Because of her labile nature, she is difficult to identify and therefore challenging to study. When previously analyzed, she has been considered only in her Medieval context. By comparing the Questing Beast …
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The beast within : measuring the minds of zoo animals
Though zoos have come far from their early days of concrete boxes in caring for their residents' physical health, zoo animals' mental health-the feelings and thoughts beneath the furry and scaly exteriors-has only recently become a serious field of research. The fear of anthropomorphism, or the …
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On a white horse: The triumph of the anti-beast in Revelation 19
This dissertation is an historical-critical treatment of the apocalyptic symbolism used to describe Christ in Revelation 19:11-21. Chapter 1 presents the dilemma of inadequate explanation for many elements in the text. Along with the history of research, a thesis of resolution is proposed based …
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Prophets of the beast: the modernist esotericism of D.H. Lawrence and W.B. Yeats
This thesis analyses the influence of the esoteric tradition on D.H. Lawrence and W.B. Yeats’ thought and examines both authors’ writings in light of the antidemocratic political religions that emerged during and after their respective careers. While a number of extant studies investigate the …
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"""Fair Montague"" or ""Ill-beseeming beast"": Breeches performance on the American stage, 1800-1869"
Vigorous scholarly interest in gender studies, women's history and feminist theory in the 1980s and 1990s has generated a vast amount of recent material on cross-dressing. Yet, despite cross-dressing's present favor within academia, a paucity of historical analysis exists regarding perhaps the most …
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Orderly Disorder: Rhetoric and Imitation in Spenser's Three Beast Poems from the Complaints Volume
… this mixture of forms and voices, the three beast poems, Virgils Gnat, Prosopopoia or Mother Hubberds Tale, and Muiopotmos are unified by shared traditions in Classical Aesopic beast fable and medieval beast poetry. Reading these three poems as a set reveals Spenser's interpretation of the …
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The burden and the beast: An oracle of apocalyptic reform in early sixteenth-century Salzburg
This study investigates the relationship between apocalypticism, criticism of the church and ecclesiastical reform at the beginning of the sixteenth century. It focuses on Berthold Purstinger (1465-1543), bishop of Chiemsee (reg. 1508-1526), and forms a commentary on his apocalyptic treatise Onus …
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The Background and Meaning of the Image of the Beast in Rev. 13:14, 15
… context of the motif of the image of the beast in Rev 13:14, 15, in order to answer the problem of the author’s intended meaning of the image of the beast to his first century Greco-Roman readers.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>There are six steps necessary to accomplish the task of this …
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Building the Beast: The Evolution of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) From Street Gang to Transnational Criminal Organization
<p>This dissertation explores the evolution of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) from a social stoner group in Los Angeles to a feared transnational criminal organization (TCO). Through a longitudinal study of literature and opensource materials spanning over 50 years, this study examines suppression and …
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The myth of the Black male beast in postclassical American cinema: ‘Forging’ stereotypes and discovering Black masculinities
The thesis examines how postclassical American film invents Black male characters. It uses Levi-Strauss and Barthes’ methods of analyzing myth and critiques hegemonic authorship through Jung’s work on archetypes in the collective unconscious and the ‘shadow’. Using Othello as a prototype character, …
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"The Medieval Bestiary In The Golden Age: Allegory And Emblem In Gracian's ""el Criticon"" (physiologus, Carnival, Grotesque, Beast, Mask)"
The perpetual problems of pessimism versus optimism and Christianity versus secularity in El Criticon have always been issues without resolution. Many critics erroneously assume that because Gracian was a Jesuit and Spain a Catholic country that therefore El Criticon was an optimistic, Christian …
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The same beast or different animals? : examining differential etiologic associations between binge eating and compensatory behavior with impulsivity and perfectionism
Despite the use of binge eating and compensatory behavior in distinguishing diagnostic categories and subtypes of eating disorders, little research has examined the etiologic validity of distinguishing among disorders/subtypes based on these phenotypes. The current project used cross-sectional and …
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The Three Parts of Babylon : Teaching a Historicist Interpretation of the Leopardlike, Lamblike and Scarlet Beasts (Rev 13 and 16:19 as Reflected in Rev 17) Based upon the Douglas Waterhouse Construct
… are biblically represented by the Leopardlike Beast, the Lamblike Beast, and the Sea underneath the Leopardlike Beast. Within the plague setting in Rev 17, the previous three iconographic images have the following corresponding identities, though under alternate guises: the Harlot/Woman/City …
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“Beauty and the Beast” and the Representation of the Female: How Fairy Tales Reinforce and Influence Our Current Understanding of Gender Roles
… Leprince de Beaumont’s “Beauty and the Beast” through the lens of various feminist literary theories and overlapping discourses in gender studies. I intend to analyze and critique the ways in which this classic fairy tale has influenced the representation of the female as “Beauty” and …
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