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Gwunder, Martin Gasser
Gwunder, Martin Gasser
Theses
This is the written report of a thesis project which was done in the form of a book. This book was produced as a dummy consisting of fifty-five double pages (spreads). The book was planned and executed in all details and it is ready to be printed. The visual part includes a number of photo-sequences: seventy-seven black and white photographs and five postcards. Within these series of images are sequences of seven Swiss poems, seven exerpts from American TV commercials, seven Malay proverbs, seven quotations from the MFA Handbook, passages from seven books dealing with different concepts of photography and …
Evembe's Sur La Terre En Passant And The Poetics Of Shame, Richard Bjornson
Evembe's Sur La Terre En Passant And The Poetics Of Shame, Richard Bjornson
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In Sur ta terre en passant, Evembe fashions a poetics of shame from the ordinary experiences of life in a large African city (Yaounde). He does it in such a way that the hallucinatory qualities and scabrous details of one individual's state of consciousness mirror the malaise which characterizes the larger social reality. The protagonist Iyoni (whose name means «shame» in the dialect of Evembe's native Kribi) experiences both misery and social respectability in an environment where traditional values have been lost, only to be replaced by artificial, dehumanizing hierarchies and an attitude of materialistic acquisitiveness. Despite the mysterious …
Spiritual Discipline And Psychological Dream-Work: Some Distinctions, Philip Novak
Spiritual Discipline And Psychological Dream-Work: Some Distinctions, Philip Novak
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
"The world's great religious traditions and spiritualities commonly contain two essential elements. The first doctrine, a distinction between the Real and the unreal; the second is method, a way for human consciousness to concentrate upon the Real. 'Prayer' and 'yoga' are probably the two most inclusive generic terms coming under what I here designate as method. they are ways that human beings, in their living consciousness, endeavor to lessen the existential 'distance' between themselves and ultimate Reality. For the purpose of this essay, let us group those psychotransformative strategies known to religious traditions under the common heading of 'contemplative discipline.''' …