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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Literary Style"”.
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Josephus and Luke-Acts: A critical review of a thesis by Steve Mason
… and inspirations for both the content and literary style of Luke-Acts, specifically: This theory, I have termed the "Mason thesis" and which advocates that apart from its obvious dependence on Q. and Ev.Matt. Luke-Acts, was largely indebted to Josephus for much of his historical information …
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Recent Developments in Daniel Research
… dealing with provenance, authorship, text, and literary style and form of the Book of Daniel. The second chapter examines the interpretations of specific portions of the Book, particularly chapter seven.</p> <p>The general finding of this study shows a more cautious use of extra-Biblical sources …
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The Gift of Living Water: A study of the relationship between water symbolism and the Spirit in the Gospel of John
… post-Tabernacles (John 9-21). John’s masterful literary style incorporating effective use of symbolism, irony, dualisms, double entendres and eschatological allusions supports his high Christology, which demonstrably distinguishes the Fourth Gospel from the Synoptics. The study affirms Jesus as …
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Martial's Apophoreta : an introduction and commentary
… the commentary deals with matters of Latinity, literary style, text and metre. It includes a translation, which is intended to be elucidatory rather than literary. The thesis concludes with a three-part appendix devoted to rare usages and hapax legomena, illustrations, and textual concordances
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Female Bodies Under Surveillance: Gender Fictions and the Discourse of Hygiene (Spain, 1850s--1930s)
… manual. This same ambivalence is mirrored in the literary production of the period: novelists endorsed or contested hygiene's standards, establishing a collaboration or antagonism with literary style at the root of this debate. Attitudes toward foreign influence played an important role in this …
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Female bodies under surveillance: gender fictions and the discourse of hygiene (Spain, 1850s-1930s)
… manual. This same ambivalence is mirrored in the literary production of the period: novelists endorsed or contested hygiene’s standards, establishing a collaboration or antagonism with literary style at the root of this debate. Attitudes toward foreign influence played an important role in this …
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Romanticism in Hubert Aquin's Prochain Episode : an intertextual reading
… identity crisis Hubert Aquin chooses Romantic literary and revolutionary figures as models such as Honoré de Balzac associated to Ferragus, le chef des Dévorants in L'Histoire des Treize ; Lord George Byron, who died in Missolonghi fighting for Greek independence, as well as the English poet's …
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The Inspiration to Activism: Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut as Hopeful Critics of Humanity
… and moral responsibility, Chapter One, "The Literary Presentation of a Social Philosophy" discusses textual evidence which leads the reader to understand what both Twain and Vonnegut thought about the possibility of free will and moral responsibility. Consideration is given to the dynamics …
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The Mission Statement of Jesus: Mark 1:15, Mark's Apocalyptically Charged Decision Motif
… in Mark 1:15 is examined from a textual, literary, and historical perspective, considering Mark’s literary style from a narrative perspective, his rhetorical goals, and the eschatological and apocalyptic expectations that were operating in the background at the time of the Gospel’s …
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The Gaṇitatilaka and its commentary by Siṃhatilakasūri: An annotated translation and study
… English. It is my intention to show that the literary practices adopted by Siṃhatilakasūri, in expounding step-by-step Śrīpati’s work, enrich the commentary in such a way that it consequently becomes “his own mathematical text.” Together with the English translation of both the root-text by …
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Aspects of style in the novels of Henry Fielding
… raised in these discursive sections. Analysis of style in these novels also shows a gradual development from the pervasive and self-reflexive irony and the interplay of stylistic modes that characterise the earlier novel to the more confident and increasingly serious authorial voice of the latter. …
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Notes on sexuality & space
… By carefully examining the constative impact of literary style within the publication Sexuality & Space-that is, by looking at how the use of language, therein, impacts that document's inscription of its intellectual and historical context-I have come to a better understanding of how that …
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The Function of Christ's Suffering in I Peter 2:21
… the slaves.</p> <p>Method. The Greek grammar and literary style of the pericope were analyzed; documents that discussed the slave-master relationship in the first centuries B.C. and A.D. were studied; and books, articles, and dissertations on the pericope and the subject of Christ's suffering were …
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Style and references of Lyly's Euphues
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Women Troubadours in Southern France
… man. In courtly love tensons, trobairitz use the literary style, courtly vocabulary and courtly values to express both their support and criticism for the system. Through the use of courtly vocabulary, trobairitz conform to the styles developed by troubadours, yet when trobairitz write as female …
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Truth and Terror: a Text-Oriented Analysis of Daniel 8:9-14
… text-oriented analysis that utilizes linguistic, literary, and intertextual procedures.</p> <p>In chapter 1, an overview of modern text-oriented approaches and the review of recent literature on Dan 8 pave the way for a description of this study's methodology, which consists of a combination of …
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Aesthetics, poetics, and cognition: a new minor literature by autists and modernists
… with experimental modernist texts. Despite the literary significance ascribed to modernism, texts in both genres are still characterized in terms of lack—when literature by autists is analyzed at all. They are often treated as incoherent collections of juxtaposed fragments, which depict isolated …
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