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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Christianity in literature"”.
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Religious imagery in nineteenth-century French slavery narratives
This thesis builds upon the growing and dynamic field of Francophone Slavery Studies by revealing the long-overlooked role that religion plays in fictional narratives of slavery by early nineteenth-century French writers. The authors studied are both canonical and non-canonical, male and female, …
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Triptych 1
… is to bear witness to American Christian life in the 21st century, to give weight and texture to the virtues and contradictions of what Cornel West called "the most absurd and alluring mode of being in the world." Borrowing from the traditions of psychological realism, Christian existentialism, …
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The influence of Christianity in Pope's Moral Essays.
Alexander Pope's Moral Essays include the Epistle to Cobham, the Epistle to a Lady, the Epistle to Bathurst and the Epistle to Burlington. Simply put, this thesis focuses on Christianity as it appears in these poems. Christ does, of course, show Himself in different ways through the four poems. In …
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Moral Training for Nature's Egotists: Mentoring Relationships in George Eliot's Fiction
George Eliot's fiction is filled with mentoring relationships which generally consist of a wise male mentor and a foolish, egotistic female mentee. The mentoring narratives relate the conversion of the mentee from narcissism to selfless devotion to the community. By retaining the Christian value of …
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The Paradox of the Christian Poet: George Herbert's Problematics
The thesis examines the paradoxes in Herbert's poetry and attributes the many contradictions and vacillations within The Temple to Herbert's own "spiritual conflicts" as a Christian poet. The thesis explores the poems as interconnected expressions of Herbert's dual nature as Christian-Poet. The …
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Christianity in contemporary Asian American literature : (mis)-translations of the word.
Postcolonial critics often assume that Christianity is an oppressive Western religion that imposes cultural and political "colonization" and is therefore intentionally "subverted" or "ironized" by contemporary Asian American writers. From the perspectives of Christian literary and cultural …