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True Enough: Selected Poems, Leo Jeffrey Weddle
True Enough: Selected Poems, Leo Jeffrey Weddle
Morehead State Theses and Dissertations
A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of English, Foreign Languages and Philosophy at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements. for the Degree Master of Arts in English by Leo Jeffrey Weddle in October of 1990.
Deregulation And Other Stories, Wade Riddick
Knowing God In William Blake: A Study To Find Meaning In His Work Through Plato, Swedenborg, And Mystical Tradition, David B. Gabel
Knowing God In William Blake: A Study To Find Meaning In His Work Through Plato, Swedenborg, And Mystical Tradition, David B. Gabel
Institute for the Humanities Theses
This project takes a look into the philosophical and theological sources found in the work of William Blake as they culminate in his epic poem Jerusalem. This study includes an examination of the philosophies of Plato and Emanuel Swedenborg, the mystical pathway, the Jewish mystical tradition known as Kabbalah, and finally an examination of the works of Blake himself. We work from a three-fold premise: 1) that mystical experience occurs, 2) that archetypes exist in the collective unconscious, and 3) that these archetypes can be known through intuition and mystical experience. The focus is on those elements which are characteristic …
The Zen Of Stevens, Rebecca Dickens
The Zen Of Stevens, Rebecca Dickens
Masters Theses
Using comparative studies as background, I develop a Zen model for reading Stevens, arguing that his poetry works in the manner of Zen anecdotes and that it can be understood better by understanding Zen. Three critical studies of Wallace Stevens and Zen assert the Zen-like qualities of Stevens' poetry. Stevens has affinities with Zen writers in three areas: use of language, explorations into the nature of thought, and the structure of anecdotes and poems.
I develop a terminology in order to construct my model, giving attention to the definitions and interrelations of terms such as logical thought, figurative thought, paradox, …