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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Epiphany"”.
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Telling presences: narrating divine epiphany in Homer and beyond.
… authority and legitimacy is constitutive of epiphany. In the first section I examine problems caused by scholarly concern for 'authentic experience' in treating epiphany-accounts in general and Homeric epic in particular. I propose an alternative focus on how sense, both as perception and as …
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Bringers of epiphany: depictions of the feminine in the shorter fiction of George Mackay Brown
This thesis examines the role and function of George Mackay Brown's main female protagonists in ten key short stories. By bearing in mind Christopher Whyte and Douglas Gifford's very different observations of the place these female characters occupy in the texts, it will be discovered whether or …
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The Fantastic Manifesto: Monstrosity of Memory and Epiphany of Selfhood in The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
<p>The Spanish culture of storytelling suffered under the nearly forty-year dictatorship of Francisco Franco. The government-regulated cinema welcomed propaganda and melodrama, and denied the fantastic, the legendary, and the magical. These carefully manipulated histories, which served to …
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Manufacturing the Marvellous: Technology and Divine Presence in Ancient Greek Religion
… existing vocabulary of visual modes of ancient epiphany, and to contribute to the cultural history of the unique category of ancient ‘enchantment’ technologies. A broad chronological scope not only allows for an adequate presentation of the evidence for this previously unidentified phenomenon, …
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Art Therapy Group for Depressed Mothers in Substance Abuse Remission
… and the parent-child relationship. The Epiphany Center of San Francisco is the sponsoring agency for this grant proposal. The Epiphany Center is a donation based center which works with improving the mental health and quality of life of women, babies, and families. This grant, if funded, …
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Spiritual Quest in French and English Post-War Novels
… pursue a transcendent ideal which starts with an epiphany, a sudden realization of truth. This moment of realization is often the moment of surrender to God's will.
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A reading of selected writings of James Joyce in relation to the works of Gilles Deleuze (and Félix Guattari)
… in Ulysses. In Chapter Three, I look at the epiphany, Deleuze's concept of Joyce's 'epiphanic machine', 'duration' as understood by Bergson and Deleuze, and the Deleuzian concept of 'affect' as potentially liberatory insights, after the preceding focus on negative 4 symptornatological' …
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A Search for Authenticity: An Adopted Adult’s Autoethnographic Account of the Search for Authenticity: Through an Adult Education Lens
… a group supervision session. I examine how an epiphany took me in a different direction to my original intended research topic. Using personal archival documents, reflections and vignettes as educational aids I embark on a journey of contemplation using the lens of adult education. I will …
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Exploring My Unique Literacy Experiences as a Ukrainian American Emerging Scholar through Autoethnography
… The autoethnography itself—full of reflection, epiphany, reflexive writing, and rich descriptions—provides a preview into my life as a Ukrainian American woman as I participate in three different discourse communities: the domestic community, the academic community, and the religious community. …
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The Sweet River: A collection of short stories
… catharsis or reversal and double reversal, and epiphany. Thematically, the stories feature a protagonist adrift from conformist society, in search of transcendence amid the age-old dichotomy between the self and the other, and ultimately facing a moral crucible. Stylistically, the stories rely …
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Solitary Souls: Awakening Responses in American Literature
… frequently experience an awakening, an epiphany that encourages them to alter permanently their attitudes or behavior. How American characters react to their awakening is the subject of this dissertation. This study's specific concern is with the limited number of awakening response …
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The conception of human nature in modern political thought : with special reference to the work of Charles Taylor
… conception of human nature as an 'interspatial epiphany', and is to be preferred to the unencumbered sense of interspatial epiphany that might be seen to be offered by some forms of existentialism. Such existentialist thought is not as astutely located or embedded as Taylor's thought, and …
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Prince of Life: An Anthem Cycle for Christian Year
… of Light" consists of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, and Jesus' Teaching. It tells the story of Jesus as the Light as He incarnates into human form to save the world, whereas the "Cycle of Life" includes Lent, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Passiontide, Eastertide, Ascensiontide, and Trinity. …
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<em>Waiting for Mary Jane</em>: A Collection of Modern Appalachian Short Stories in the Joycean Tradition.
… the works of James Joyce by using the concept of epiphany and experimental styles evolving from Joyce's <u>Ulysses</u>. As Mary Jane ages she changes from a pre-teen who longs for male acceptance from all surrounding men, including her farmer father, to a grown woman whose mental well-being is far …
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Environmental Epiphanies: Exploring the Shifts in Human-Nature Interactions
… characteristics and trends across environmental epiphany types. Experiences of epiphanies may have important ramifications for the manner in which people develop attitudes regarding land management issues. The study of environmental epiphanies can inform basic theory regarding conservation …
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The Meaning of Stress in Men Who Have Sustained a Myocardial Infarction
… infarction, interpretive interactionism, and epiphany.
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Thymiaterium Musicale (1625) by Andreas Rauch
… of all seven verses of Nicolai's well-known Epiphany hymn. The bitextuality of the Magnificat (alternately Latin and German texts) may represent Rauch's attempt to provide settings of the odd and even-numbered verses in as a kind of combinative Alternatimpraxis in which the German verses are …
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Authentic Dasein as Pathway to Heideggerianism as a Political Philosophy - a Political Vibration of Being and Time
… of Heidegger's ontology that marks the epiphany of the political vibration of Heidegger's Being and Time.
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"Unspoken sermons": Christian preaching in British fiction, 1979-2004
… experience, particularly experiences of epiphany and conversion. The third describes contemporary novels' portraits of the troubled preacher. The fourth analyses the language used by novelists in their sermons and the fifth studies how sermons construct discourse communities and religious …
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