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Guy Butler and South African culture
This paper looks at Guy Butler's theories about English South Africans and the English language. I have outlined his reputation as a critical thinker, poet and scholar, with a view to understanding the role he has played as an individual in South African cultural politics. I have also tried to …
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The Pragmatism of Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
Samuel Butler, English Victorian man of letters, is best known for his work on evolution and his three didactic and often satirical narratives: Erewhon, The Way of All Flesh, and Erewhon Revisited. In his writing Butler developed a philosophy of pragmatism, based on a belief in evolutionary …
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William Butler Yeats' transformations of eastern religious concepts
This study addresses the issue of William Butler Yeats' use of Upanishad philosophy in his poetry. Although many analyses of Yeats' art vis-a-vis Eastern religion exist, none offer the thesis that the poet transformed certain religious concepts for his own purpose, thereby removing those concepts …
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Symbolism in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats
… of the symbolic system formulated by William Butler Yeats and his subsequent application of this system to his poetry, with special attention to the rose and the stone. To comprehend and thereby fully appreciate Yeats's poetry requires some knowledge of the forces working together to form the …
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The later political career of R.A. Butler 1951-1964
R. A. Butler was one of the most influential and yet enigmatic of twentieth century politicians. He did more than anyone to stimulate the revival of post-war Conservatism, which led to three consecutive general election victories. He was a powerful figure in all Conservative Cabinets from 1951 to …
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The Social and Political Philosophy of Justice Pierce Butler
… approached the study of Associate Justice Pierce Butler’s Supreme Court decisions. She shared the prevailing opinion that Justice Butler’s contribution to American history was a merely negative one and that his conservatism was somewhat antiquated and unenlightened. This opinion was not altered to …
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Hinn hins. Um draugagang sjálfsverumótunar hjá Levinas, Derrida og Butler
… er leitað til bandaríska heimspekingsins Judith Butler og skoðað hvort – og þá hvernig – Hinn (samkvæmt Levinas) geti tileinkað sér orðræðu í heimi óræðrar merkingar (í anda Derrida), sem gerir honum kleift að fást við samfélagið og lifa lífvænlegu lífi. Í því skyni verða tengsl verufræði og …
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El feminismo en disputa : Butler y Nussbaum frente al feminismo
… los puntos que Nussbaum cuestiona de la obra de Butler, para luego, entrar a revisar la filosofía feminista de cada una, con el propósito de buscar los puntos de divergencia y posibles puntos de encuentro, que nos permitan saber qué caminos se abren para la teoría feminista contemporánea. Para …
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William Butler Yeats and Edmund Dulac; a correspondence: 1916-1938
In 1916 William Butler Yeats, Edmund Dulac, and Ezra Pound were caught up together in the study of Japanese Noh drama, and were experimenting with a production of Yeats' first play using that form, "At the Hawk's Well." This collection of Yeatsfs correspondence with Dulac, which begins in that …
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A Study of the One Sentence Poes of William Butler Yeats
… that the one sentence poems of William Butler Yeats were poems in which techniques were developed that were later extended and used in the great middle and late poems. The greatest number of one sentence poems are to be found in Yeats's volume of poetry entitled. The Wind Among the …
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B. D. Butler and the Crusading Years of 'Prairie Farmer' - Wls
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'Erewhon; Or, Over the Range' by Samuel Butler: A Scholarly Edition
… thesis comprises a scholarly edition of Samuel Butler’s satirical novel 'Erewhon; or, Over the Range' (1872). All prior editions and reprints of 'Erewhon' have positioned it squarely within the traditions of Menippean satire and British intellectual culture; this edition situates 'Erewhon' in …
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While The Sedum Is In Flower: A Biographical Novel of William Butler Yeats
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An Africentric Reading Protocol: The Speculative Fiction Of Octavia Butler And Tananarive Due
… reading protocol to selected works of Octavia E. Butler and Tananarive Due. Butler's Parable Series and Due's African Immortals Series are examined using seven elements of Africentric narrative specific to cultural speculative fiction. Finally, I discuss the implications of using an Africentric …
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Ethics and affects: A critique of social intelligibility with Adorno, Butler and Spivak
… critique of social intelligibility with Adorno, Butler and Spivak I offer a critical analysis that can help to disentangle the reliance of social legitimacy on social intelligibility. I maintain that legitimacy and intelligibility are woven into a kind of double-bind, wherein the illegitimacy of …
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Becoming Otherwise: Politics, Metaphysics and Power in Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead
… political ontology drawn from the work of Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead. Read through and out of these two philosophers of becoming is a post-secular political ontology that is embedded within a metaphysics of creativity, a metaphysic that is itself already infected by the political. At …
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Guy Butler from a post-apartheid perspective : reassessing a South African literary life
Guy Butler was a substantial public figure in South Africa over the second half of the twentieth century: performer of chameleon literary roles (professor, poet, playwright, autobiographer and historian), as well as cultural politician and opponent of apartheid legislation. Nevertheless, his is not …
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Variation in structure of the professional semester for secondary student teaching at Butler University
… semester for secondary student teachers at Butler University.The study was designed to test the following hypotheses stated in null form:Hypothesis I: There will be no significant difference between experimental and control groups in measures of emotional stability when the individuals in …
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