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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Mircea"”.
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The Archaic Makes the Avant-garde. Experimental Practice and Primordial Image. Reading the Brazilian Post-neoconcrete and the Japanese Gutai Artists Through Mircea Eliade and Carl Gustav Jung.
… took on from the theory and method of authors Mircea Eliade, Gustav Jung, as well as Nise da Silveira. They acknowledged this psycho-physiological process, verified its correspondence with specific human aspirations or existential situations, figured within dreams, symbols, myths, reveries, …
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Staging an Empire: How Late Victorian Theatre Represents Public Perceptions of the British Empire
… Master of Arts, 2019 Thesis Directed By: Mircea Raianu PhD, Assistant Professor of History This thesis denotes the changing perception of the British empire among the general populace during the late Victorian period. By placing the plays of Dion Boucicault and Gilbert and Sullivan into …
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Rhinoceros, or Young Intellectuals and the Radical Right in Interwar Romania
… Using the cases of famous figures such as Mircea Eliade and Emil Cioran, as well as of lesser-known individuals such as Mihail Polihroniade, this work tells the story of one generation’s journey from the avant-garde of European culture to fascism. They came of age in a cultural environment …
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Building Zion: Sacred Space, the United Order, and Mormon Successor Groups
… sacred spaces and sacred communities. By using Mircea Eliade and Mary Douglas to frame the discussion, this study will attempt to piece together how different groups utilized the efforts of their joint founder in response to the social challenges they each faced.</p>
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Rituel du retour dans l'oeuvre de Gabrielle Roy
… is her preoccupation with the past. The text of Mircea Eliade is important to the theoretical framework of the following thesis. His postulating that human beings constantly repeat their past to find meaning to their lives is capital to my analysis of Gabrielle Roy's texts. Indeed, her …
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Eliade's theory of religion and the African experience
Mircea Eliade has made meaningful contributions to the academic debate in the field of religion and comparative religious studies. As much as he had scholastic opinion that would find synthesis with, support and defend his thought patterns and argument, so too he had, of almost equal proportions, …
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Theories of religion and the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-1857
… from Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx, Mircea Eliade, and David Chidester, as well as a selection of socio-religious movement theories, will be used to explain the Great Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement of 1856-1857.
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Metamorfosis Y Transformación En Holmberg, Lugones Y Cortázar (1906-1956)
… sustentado en El mito del eterno retorno de Mircea Eliade. De esta extensa obra, hemos seleccionado cuatro conceptos para examinar los cuentos: el tiempo sagrado en oposición al tiempo lineal; la idea de que toda forma terrestre tiene su contrapartida en el cielo; el centro de la creación …
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Adventures in the archaic: Bataille, Devereux, Eliade, and Lefebvre after 1945
… ethnographer and trained psychiatrist; and Mircea Eliade, one of the best-known historians of religion. In the crucible of the Great Acceleration, this unlikely quartet argued that what had survived the long passage of time mattered more than ever. Their work was marked by an antipathy …
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Overlapping Terrains: Orientalism, Indian Nationalism and the Erotics of Cross -Cultural Contact
… India. It examines narratives by E. M. Forster, Mircea Eliade, Maitreyi Devi and Rabindranath Tagore, which provide a romance setting for themes of East/West encounter. The necessity of addressing or accommodating the ""other"" in these texts creates the conditions for a certain collaborative or …
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Mito e identidade nacional na poética de Fernando Pessoa: o ideal platônico d' A República e o projeto imperial pessoano
… mito, a partir das ideias dos escritores Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell, Claude Lévi-Strauss e outros mitólogos. No segundo capítulo da primeira parte da tese confrontamos as várias versões literárias para o mito de Ulisses, o herói civilizador que teria fundado a cidade de Lisboa. …
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Threshold to the Sacred
… The work too can then become animate with soul. Mircea Eliade believed that through symbols, the world becomes transparent and transcendence becomes visible. The religious man therefore relies on symbols to recognize sacred reality. "Divine work always preserves its quality of transparency, that …
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Dealing with Carbon: Environmental Policy, Organizations, and Technological Responses to Climate Change
This dissertation examines three interconnected dimensions of environmental governance: how contested technologies gain policy legitimacy, how entrepreneurs construct and moralize new environmental markets, and how expertise shapes American energy policy discourse. Through mixed-methods research …
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Polarimetric Characterization Of Random Electromagnetic Beams And Applications
Polarimetry is one of the principal means of investigating the interaction of light with matter. Theoretical models and experimental techniques are presented in this dissertation for polarimetric characterization of random electromagnetic beams and of signatures of random media in different …
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Mythical magnitude: Selected short fiction of Marguerite Yourcenar (France)
… our study, which relies upon the theories of Mircea Eliade, Gilbert Durand and C. G. Jung, offers a symbolic reading of three of Yourcenar's early works, all originally published in the 1930's: the Nouvelles orientales, Lew Coup de Grace and "Anna, Soror dots" (Comme l'Eau qui coule). Despite …
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A phenomenological inquiry into sacred time in Hinduism
… time in Hinduism and present an argument against Mircea Eliade’s understanding of the nature of sacred time in Hinduism. Eliade asserted that all sacred time in Hinduism is fundamentally circular in nature and that the experience of sacred time is an experience of the original act of creation …
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L'exploration et la représentation du sacré dans les oeuvres de Sabine Sicaud et de Minou Drouet
… » dans le temps et l’espace profanes – ce que Mircea Eliade a appelé les hiérophanies. Nous étudions ensuite les ébauches d’une certaine complicité entre les locutrices et le sacré. Cette complicité s’amorce dans l’altérité, et l’ineffable est représenté par des figures ne possédant ni la forme …
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L'exploration et la représentation du sacré dans les oeuvres de Sabine Sicaud et de Minou Drouet
… » dans le temps et l’espace profanes – ce que Mircea Eliade a appelé les hiérophanies. Nous étudions ensuite les ébauches d’une certaine complicité entre les locutrices et le sacré. Cette complicité s’amorce dans l’altérité, et l’ineffable est représenté par des figures ne possédant ni la forme …
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We make fiction because we are fiction: authorities displaced in the novels of Russell Hoban
… her present and about reading itself. I rely on Mircea Eliade's The Myth of the Eternal Return (1965) in discussing the nature of myth-making in Riddley Walker. In the final chapter, I discuss in detail the mechanism of displacement in Pilgermann. By examining the role of the grotesque in the …
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