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Showing 1 to 20 of 241 for “"René"”.
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René Girard, Sacrifice, and the Eucharist
… in light of the theory of sacrifice proposed by René Girard. Specifically, I consider the Eucharist within the context of the sacrificial nature of Christianity, a matter of some controversy as regards both the early thought of Girard and those who have taken up and developed his thought. In his …
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Image, text and the female body : René Magritte and the surrealist publications
In 1935, Andre Breton published his speech Qu'est-ce que le Surrealisme? with Rene Magritte's drawing, "Le Viol" (The Rape) on its cover. The image, a view of a woman's head in which her facial features have been replaced by her torso, was meant to shock the viewer out of complacent acceptance of …
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Chateaubriand's René as a Philosophical Reaction to the Enlightenment and Early Romantic Sentiment
<p>For over 200 years “René&rqduo; Chateaubriand's short fictional interlude in his grand argument for the restoration of Christianity after the French Revolution, has been read as the founding text of the French Romantic movement. While this text did in fact serve to define many of the …
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Death as Poetics of Dislocation in the Global South: René Depestre, Maryse Condé, and Santiago Gamboa
… distancing from this position in the works of René Depestre, Maryse Condé and Santiago Gamboa and argues that representations of death function as the means to question notions of national exceptionalism and secure entry into a larger world literary space. Whereas the Global South translates …
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« Tu m'arracheras de moi » : la limite de la représentation dans la poésie de René Lapierre (1990-2008)
Les recueils de poésie publiés par René Lapierre de 1990 à 2008 participent d’un questionnement de la forme poétique, laquelle, en plus d’interroger la posture énonciative mise en scène par le texte, propose comme moteur dominant la juxtaposition et la multiplication des instances narratives et se …
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Le surréalisme, la fiction, et l'apparence de la réalité dans les œuvres de Louis-René des Forêts
… Le présent travail explore les oeuvres de Louis-René des Forêts, à savoir Le Bavard et La Chambre des enfants, par rapport aux oeuvres surréalistes, à savoir Nadja, le "Manifeste du surréalisme," et L'Amour fou, afin de déterminer dans quelle mesure les composantes du surréalisme telles que le …
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René Schoof's Algorithm for Determining the Order of the Group of Points on an Elliptic Curve over a Finite Field
… to the security of these applications. In 1985 René Schoof published a paper [5] describing a polynomial time algorithm for solving this problem. In this thesis we explain some of the key mathematical principles that provide the basis for Schoof's method. We also present an implementation of …
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Two Annunciations: Examples of interpellation or offers of reception? a comparative analysis of pictures by Roger van der Weyden and René Magritte.
… van der Weyden and Personal Values (1952) by René Magritte. It demonstrates that interpellation and reception are part of the same process, and that reception theory is especially suited to this comparison and analysis-because it allows consideration of ways in which the comparable pictorial …
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Exploring the french flute school in North America: an examination of the pedagogical materials of Georges Barrère, Marcel Moyse, and René Le Roy
The discussions that surround the topic of the French flute school and its approach to flute playing have yielded many conflicting assessments. Specifically, different opinions regarding who carried on the French school’s tradition of flute playing have produced different ideas about its lasting …
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My Blood of the (New) Covenant: An Assessment of René Girard's Soteriology in Light of the Covenantal Milieu of the Last Supper Sayings
This study assesses René Girard's claims regarding the Gospels' understanding of Jesus' death. Though Girard contends that the Gospels never depict Jesus' death as an atonement for sin, there are significant passages that Girard avoids discussing like the Last Supper sayings in the Synoptic …
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Vers une représentation textuelle du déplacement et du voyage dans la littérature francophone antillaise et guyanaise: l’exemple de Joseph Zobel, Guy Tirolien et René Maran
… Zobel, Guadeloupean Guy Tirolien, and Guyanese René Maran were punctuated by transnational and peripatetic mobility. Thus, this thesis advocates for the impact of movement, within and between the Caribbean, France, and Africa (only Tirolien returned to Guadeloupe) – on the themes, style, …
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Respuesta en rendimiento, proteína y calibre de la cebada cervecera a la fertilización nitrogenada y a la aplicación de fungicida en Bragado, provincia de Buenos Aires
Fil: Capellades, Matías René. Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina
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La voz del fauno : la opinión pública en José Ortega y Gasset
Fil: Etchebehere, Pablo René. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina
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Who is like God? : divine versus demonic authority in the works of Dostoevsky and Flannery O'Connor.
… 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 centuries differ, the two writers lived in comparable cultures: …
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Interaction graphs derived from activation functions and their application to gene regulation
… discussion, and new proofs of the conjectures of René Thomas, using the theory of conjugate activation functions. These conjectures relate feedback in the interaction graph to dynamic properties of multi-stationarity and periodic stability. We prove a more general form of Richard and Comet's …
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Contar historias nos salvará del apocalipsis : una interpretación de cien años de soledad desde la teoría mimética
… utilizando la teoría mimética del filósofo René Girard. Así, aparecen las relaciones entre la novela como una comprensión de la existencia humana y el pensamiento antropológico; también aparece el concepto de apocalipsis como una forma de comprender el tiempo de las narraciones y de la …
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"Traitorous Bodies": Cartesian Dualism in Romance Novels by Susan Johnson and E.L. James
… absent among the current scholarship. Applying René Descartes’s theory of mind/body dualism to the heroines in Susan Johnson’s Seized by Love and E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey reveals not only a separation between the heroines’ minds and bodies, but proves that both heroines are depicted as …
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Nickel-based superalloy operating temperature determination via analysis of gamma/gamma' microstructure and coating/base material interdiffusion
The average operating temperature of RENÉ N5® high pressure turbine blades was evaluated via [gamma]/[gamma]' microstructure and coating/base metal interdiffusion methods. The [gamma]' volume fraction was measured by point counting and direct area measurement. The data, however, were found …
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