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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"historical criticism"”.
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The Transatlantic Renewal of Textual Practices: Philology, Religion, and Classicism in Madame de Staël, Herder, and Emerson
This dissertation demonstrates how the rise of historical criticism in Germany transformed practices of reading, writing, and public address in the related fields of classicism and biblical criticism in a transnational context. In the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, writers on both …
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Influence and Its Opposite: Presence and Absence in the Work of Harold Bloom
… A Map of Misreading (1975), and Kaballah and Criticism (1975), Harold Bloom's theory of the "anxiety of influence" has engendered more ambivalence than serious investigation into his theory and its influences. In part, the ambivalence is due to Bloom's persona, which irritates the academic …
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Paper Dolls Ride Shotgun
… myth” (Rafter 7). Thirdly, the novel engages the historical criticism of the crime genre itself, through Scaggs, Hilfer, and Malpas. This historical contextualization is pivotal to understanding the “implicitly or explicitly political stance” on the societies of a crime writer’s day (Malpas 113). …
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Shakespeare and superstition: A study of how shakespeare uses superstition and vision in Macbeth and Julius Caesar.
… to superstition. The study used the New Historical Criticism as the theoretical framework. This theory looks at a text by considering all the historical aspects that might have influenced the writer to write the type of text that he or she has written. The study reveals that Shakespeare …
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Reading Daniel as a theological hermeneutics textbook
… hermeneutics. Employing such disciplines as historical criticism, literary criticism, narrative theology and hermeneutics, this thesis seeks to maintain an interdisciplinary critical outlook on the book of Daniel. Two particular perspectives come to light in this reading of Daniel, both of …
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History, Moral Philosophy, and Social Theory in David Hume’s Intellectual Development, 1739-1752
This thesis shows how David Hume developed his historical thought between the Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740) and the Political Discourses (1752). It approaches Hume’s historical thought from two perspectives: historical method and historical structure. On the methodological side, the thesis …
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Scripture in the Theologies of W. Pannenberg and D. G. Bloesch: an Investigation and Assessment of its Origin, Nature, and Use
… theology from its beginning. The rise of modern historical criticism, however, has led to a crisis at this very foundation of Protestant theology. In this context this dissertation seeks to set forth, analyze, compare, and evaluate theconcept of Scripture in the theologies of two contemporary …
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Historiography and Extra-Biblical Sources Related to Daniel
… historiographical methods in recent history: historical criticism and postmodernism. It introduces some major proponents of each approach and their contributions to historiography. It critiques both camps, highlighting strengths that should be maintained and problem areas that require further …
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An examination of narrative approach in homiletics training in theological institutions in the Pietermaritzburg area (KwaZulu- Natal)
… impinges upon narrative preaching. The literary criticism of the Bible is singled out as being distinct from historical criticism and is examined as the best basis for narrative homiletics. In investigating the contribution of interpretation to meaning, attention is paid to the rote of language …
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Disrupted Conventions: Gender Roles in Mildred Walker's The Curlew's Cry and Winter Wheat
… My theoretical framework synthesizes literary criticism and historical criticism that focuses on the American West. Drawing from my studies of feminist criticism, I first explain my interpretation of what it means to offer a feminist reading of Walker’s work. In chapter one, I contextualize the …
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Disrupted Conventions: Gender Roles in Mildred Walker's The Curlew's Cry and Winter Wheat
… My theoretical framework synthesizes literary criticism and historical criticism that focuses on the American West. Drawing from my studies of feminist criticism, I first explain my interpretation of what it means to offer a feminist reading of Walker’s work. In chapter one, I contextualize the …
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Masculinity and the whoremonger in mid-eighteenth century memoirs does whoremongering conform to contemporary ideals of masculinity?
… is coming to the fore of literary and historical criticism, the focus being on understanding masculinity beyond the 'standard', looking at the complexities and contradictions in masculine identity. Yet despite this recent attention on masculinity there remains a male character type that …
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The person of Christ in the Seventh–day Adventism: doctrine–building and E. J. Wagonner’s potential in developing christological dialogue with eastern Christianity
… Eastern Christianity,” this thesis presents the historical context and the essence of the debates in which the Seventh–day Adventists adopted the belief that Jesus Christ is fully divine and eternal, and abandoned the Arian, and semi-Arian teachings of its pioneers. The thesis also demonstrates …
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History in Australian popular culture : 1972-1995
… projects. Rather, I examine the role played by historical discourse in popular cultural practices, and how those practices contest and modify public debate about history; I take 'historical discourse' to include argument about as well as representation of the past, and so to involve a rhetorical …
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Passionate craftsmanship: the artistry of Charlotte Brontë's <i>Jane Eyre</i> and <i>Villette</i>
… <p>While I feel that biographical and historical criticism has certainly added significantly to a knowledge and appreciation of Charlotte Brontë's works, I do not think it can elucidate the particular way in which the novels’ language is manipulated so as to produce those universally …
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Historical Linguistic Analysis of Traditional English Christmas Carols.
<p>Through the process of historical linguistics it is possible to determine approximate dates of authorship and meaning that establish the conventions of a particular genre. To accomplish such a study, elements of phonology, morphology, and syntax are compared and the results create a field of …
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Diseño estructural de arcos, bóvedas y cúpulas en España, ca. 1500- ca. 1800
… 'the state of the question' of structural historical research. To provide an adequate reference frame a summary of the development of vault theory is provided. The previous contributions has been limited, mainly, to simple, plane, vaults. We discuss, also, spatial vaults such as domes, …