Syncretism and identity: Finding I – Thou in historical dialogue

Philosophy & literature   |   Humanities/philosophy   |   Term papers   |   06/25/2009   |   .doc   |   12 pages
Document abstract : « In the light of the persecution of the more militant Ghost Dance, the peyote rituals look to peaceable preservation of Amerindian identity in the face of ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction. Distinction between faiths and cultures. Meaning of anxiety, tension, and syncretism. Overview of Judaic roots against syncretism. Historic dialogical tensions in early Christianity. A brief study of modern Western missiology. Relating...»

Shakespeare's plays illustrated by Blake and Fuseli: The artists as critics

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Presentation   |   01/16/2009   |   .doc   |   11 pages
Document abstract : « Henry Fuseli, Hamlet and the Ghost (1789). The fairy world of dreams and fantasy. William Blake, The Dance of Albion (1794). The human condition and history. ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction.. The supernatural and the world of nightmare.. William Blake, Hecate (1795).. Henry Fuseli, Garrick and Mrs. Pritchard in Macbeth (1812).. Henry Fuseli, The Three Witches (1783).. Henry Fuseli, Hamlet and the Ghost (1789).. The fairy...»

Lula and the myth of the Flying Dutchman: The play written by Amiri Baraka

Political science   |   Social sciences   |   Presentation   |   08/01/2008   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : « in the present and future, is as unlikely and unrealistic as seeing a ghost. and Lula leaps into the aisle of the train and proceeds to dance around, mocking ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Lula's symbolism as the stereotypical white conceptions of black men.. Lula's subversion of Clay.. Lula's fantasy and Clay.. The title in relation to the myth of the Flying Dutchman.....»

Fellini's Otto e mezzo

Arts & media   |   Film studies   |   Term papers   |   11/19/2007   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Document abstract : « of his school to watch a local prostitute named Saraghina dance erotically by As Stubbs writes; the ghost of Guido s deceased father (Annibale Nichi) returns ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction. The film Otto e mezzo. The times when Guido feels most pressured. The film's most somber daydream sequence. The way Fellini presents the artistic process. The film's longest fantasy scene . Specific themes and images . The character of...»

A room with a view: Narrating intersubjectivity in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse

Philosophy & literature   |   Literature   |   Term papers   |   05/08/2009   |   .doc   |   23 pages
Document abstract : « to Doyle, Language itself, for both thinkers, depends on the dance of distance also means a life-affirming intersubjective encounter with Mrs. Ramsay s ghost . ...»

Synopsis abstract : «Introduction. Woolf's characters: Void of internal definition. Savage: Thinking of subjectivity as contained in one coherent, internally defined unit. Clarissa's inability to define herself in opposition to people. Subjectivity in Woolf. Woolf's...»

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