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Newspaper Editors’ Attitudes Toward The Great Awakening, 1740-1748, Lisa Smith
Newspaper Editors’ Attitudes Toward The Great Awakening, 1740-1748, Lisa Smith
Lisa Smith
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“Robert Zemekis’ Contact As A Late Twentieth-Century Paradiso.”, Gregory M. Sadlek
“Robert Zemekis’ Contact As A Late Twentieth-Century Paradiso.”, Gregory M. Sadlek
Gregory M Sadlek
The film Contact employs a plot and literary motifs that are in many ways parallel to those in Dante's Paradiso. Although the film's philosophical and theological content has received mixed reviews, the film has deep significance because it not only seeks to convey a religious experience but also offers a kind of existential consolation similar to that offered by Dante. This is true even though the film is grounded in a vision of the numinous that is congruent not with the Dante's cosmos but with late twentieth-century science and cosmology. Contact, then, is a Dantean film that can be embraced …
Memoirs Of Angelique [Supplemental Material], Sarah Thompson
Memoirs Of Angelique [Supplemental Material], Sarah Thompson
Sarah E. Thompson
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