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The Devil in American literature : a consideration of four texts.
In Wonders of the Invisible World, Cotton Mather says, "About this Devil, there are many things, whereof we may reasonably and profitably be Inquistive." My study of the devil focuses on selected representations in American literature from the colonial to the contemporary period. I have selected …
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Who is like God? : divine versus demonic authority in the works of Dostoevsky and Flannery O'Connor.
This dissertation explores issues of authority in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Flannery O'Connor, using René Girard's theory of mimesis. O'Connor and Dostoevsky recognize the rejection of divine authority as the central religious problem of the modern world. Though their continents and …