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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Demonic"”.
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The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
The Night Witch is a concept found throughout human culture, a category of the female magical practitioner who can only be found in literature and the nightmares of those who imagine her. As the name suggests, she typically operates at night, using violence and magic to ensnare and kill her …
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The Night Witch: The Demonic and the Roman Witch
The Night Witch is a concept found throughout human culture, a category of the female magical practitioner who can only be found in literature and the nightmares of those who imagine her. As the name suggests, she typically operates at night, using violence and magic to ensnare and kill her …
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Diagnosing the Demonic: Reading Valerii Briusov’s Fiery Angel as Pathography
… demonomania, a medieval condition indicative of demonic possession that afflicted witch and saint alike and whose signs and symptoms corresponded to hysteria as defined by the fin de siècle. Briusov’s novel chronicles Renata’s descent into illness, her suffering, and her eventual death by fusing …
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Delirio: The fantastic, the demonic, and the reel narratives from Nuevo Leon
This dissertation is about the "making of history." It is about the process of how certain events are laboriously imbedded in the story of a region or nation. It is also about how other events or narratives become phantasms that only surface at disparate moments. These phantasms move towards …
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Developing an Awareness of the Demonic in Biblical Counseling, in Conversation With William Perkins
… beginning with a Perkinsian understanding of the demonic, particularly, an awareness of direct and mediated influence from evil spirits in the present epoch of the church, engaging in synthesis with later Puritan advancements and expansions of his thought, and moving onward to pastoral …
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The Voice of Evil: A Narratological Study of Demonic Characters in Old English Literature
Why are demonic characters so common in Old English poetry? Perhaps evil characters were, as they are today, a source of interest and intrigue; maybe they represented the fears of the Anglo-Saxons; or, it could be that these characters allowed the poets to express what would otherwise be …
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Who is like God? : divine versus demonic authority in the works of Dostoevsky and Flannery O'Connor.
… godless world is not a neutral territory but a demonic dominion wherein characters who have rejected God as their authority now imitate Satan. René Girard defines freedom as the choice between modeling Satan or God, in such a way that the choosing of Satan is also a choosing of autonomous …
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Representations of Insanity in Art and Science of Nineteenth-Century France: From the Demonic to the Degenerate
This thesis seeks to analyze depictions of insanity in the nineteenth century, especially in France. Through research into the history of psychiatry and the history of image culture, I intend to explain the changing views of madness. Varying genres of art are used to explore these ideological …
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The Demonology of William of Auvergne
… are evil, fallen angels. He believed that a demonic conspiracy existed to deceive humans into false worship, and his concerns led him to precisely define the capabilities of demons according to the latest scientific views of spirits, to characterize opinions with which he disagreed as demonic …
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The Devil in the Details: Popular Demonology, Addiction and Criminology
… alterity. At this juncture, theories of the demonic were occulted under scientific methodologies and institutionalized across the structures of modernity. "Evil", as discursive paradigm, was politically incarnated, canonized, and absorbed under the auspices of the state towards the …
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Slaying Literature: Metaphor and Characters in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
… she needs it, and enemies who are frequently demonic and generally evil. Whedon uses many metaphors in the series, most notably one where the demonic adversaries are metaphors for personal struggles. As a storyteller, Whedon created a world – similar to what the audience recognizes – in which …
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The Magician in Medieval German Literature
… narratives reveals that since magic was labeled demonic and unchristian by early Church Fathers, German authors in the Middle Ages were forced to adopt a number of strategies to characterize those who studied and used it. These strategies either alienated and marginalized magicians, so that they …
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The Soothsayers (Bambuki) and the Christian prayer petitioners (Balombi) : a comparative and evaluative study of healing in the Luba Katanga area
… alienation, which considers the Bambuki as demonic.
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Saints and Sinners: Saints, Demons, and Constructions of Agender Identity in the Later Middle Ages
… theological discussions of human, angelic, and demonic gender, which changed significantly in the period, arguing they offered hagiographers conceptions of gender variance. Ultimately, this thesis argues saints were constructed separating from human gender entirely as they moved to a heavenly …
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Saints and Sinners: Saints, Demons, and Constructions of Agender Identity in the Later Middle Ages
… theological discussions of human, angelic, and demonic gender, which changed significantly in the period, arguing they offered hagiographers conceptions of gender variance. Ultimately, this thesis argues saints were constructed separating from human gender entirely as they moved to a heavenly …
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Conscience, Guilt and the Struggle for Purity of Heart in Kierkegaard
… point at which one flees from conscience into a demonic form of life. It will be argued that it is faith that allows us to avoid the danger of the demonic but at the cost of great humility. We must be prepared to set aside the understanding to accommodate a hope that may seem absurd.
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Witchcraft, rebellion, and misrule : a study of Shakespeare's first tetralogy
… with rebellion, carnival, and misrule. The demonic paradigm that gradually emerges as the tetralogy develops is taken to be an expression of power--political and metaphysical--the end result being the apotheosis of the profane.
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The ends of love : vice and charity in The End of the Affair.
… of how natural love can be pulled toward both demonic vice and the love of God makes The End of the Affair a powerful portrayal of Catholic moral choice.
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The Portrait of The Jew in The Balzacian Novel
… perspicacity dispelled the superficiality of the demonic archetype which was commonly accepted. As Balzac probed into the motivation of the Jew, he realized his own affinity with them. In his portraits of the Jew he created outsiders and pariahs with all the strengths of such excluded types and …
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