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A Bridge from Artificial Places: An Empirical Phenomenology of Mystical Reading in Rilke and Eliot
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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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Narrating Identity: The impact of literary reading on storied autobiographical memory development
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This dissertation describes the development and validation of a questionnaire (Narrating Identity Questionnaire; NIQ) that captures the differential contribution of expressive and integrative forms of literary reading on narrating identity development (storied autobiographical memory – Goldie,...
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Fall 2010
The objectives of this study were to explore (a) the relationships between dream reflective awareness and different types of impactful dreams, (b) the relationships between waking reflective awareness and dream reflective awareness following loss and trauma, and (c) the self-transformative...