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A Bridge from Artificial Places: An Empirical Phenomenology of Mystical Reading in Rilke and Eliot
DownloadSpring 2012
Exploring whether, and to what extent, the poetry of T.S. Eliot and Rainer Maria Rilke can facilitate mystical poetic experiencing is the purpose of this thesis. In opposition to Reuven Tsur’s claim that readers simply recognize or detect elements that can be identified as mystical, I argue that...
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Spring 2021
Abstract This tome is both a “solar” dissertation and a “lunar” grimoire that performs its own argument. Adepts of Modernism argues that the infamous “little magazines” of modernism conjured their own enlightened, reading “counter-publics” by exploiting the same strategies and tactics of...
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Fall 2016
Much of the suffering today comes because people do not have a place to tell their story. C. J. Jung…This research recognizes the value of people narrating their awakening experiences. I used a process of narrative inquiry to discover the meaning of these stories, which disclose a sacred embodied...
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The English Manuscripts of Walter Hilton's _Scala perfectionis_: An Assessment of Reception
DownloadFall 2017
Abstract This thesis investigates the reception of the forty full-text English medieval manuscripts of Walter Hilton's Scala perfectionis in order better to understand their cultural influence in late medieval England. It presents evidence for and assesses the reception of the manuscripts...