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從《個人的體驗》看存在主義文學, Zhiyong Shi

Dissertations from all years

隨著現代文明的不斷進步，社會仿佛一個堅固的牢獄，人類的自我逐漸喪失在社會的普遍性裡，存在主義哲學家與許多現代作家都看到這種人類的生存危機，於是大聲疾呼，企圖喚醒人類沉睡的靈魂。

一九九四年度諾封爾文學獎得主大江健三郎，企圖把個人從時代的痛苦中恢復過來，並使人們心靈上的創傷得到醫治，這便是大江健三郎文學的永恆形式。

《個人的體驗》是大江健三郎最膾炙人口的小說作品。他將自己的個人生活體驗滲透進小說之中。因為兒子是一個身體殘障弱智兒，所以他描寫小說主人公眼見親生骨肉有殘疾，終日酗酒，情緒低落，搞婚外情，甚至不堪精神重負而設計殺子，所幸最後能幡然覺悟，擔起為人父親的責任。正因為他自身深有體會，剖析人性黑暗更力透紙背，引起社會巨大的迴響。

在這篇論文中，我要帶出的觀點是：存在主義並非消極的理念，而人類在面對困苦及面臨選擇時，必須勇敢地承擔，只有這樣，我們才能意識到自我的真實存在，以及存在的價值。

Concert Recording 1999-02-06, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Boston Mountain Chamber Players

Concert Recordings & Programs

Quartet in G Major for flute, oboe, violin and continuo / Georg Philipp Telemann -- Divertimento for marimba and alto saxophone / Akira Yuyama -- Scena della opera (1997) / Robert Mueller;Sonata in A Major for flute and continuo, BWV 1032 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Trio No. 1 in D minor for violin, cello, and piano, Op. 49 / Felix Mendelssohn

John Skorupski, Ed., "The Cambridge Companion To Mill.", Dale E. Miller

Philosophy Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Model Of Interpersonal Christian Prayer, E. James Baesler

Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications

A model of interpersonal Christian prayer (ICP) was created based on a review and synthesis of traditional and social scientific prayer literatures. The ICP model accounts for global theoretical constructs such as active and receptive types of prayer and includes a subcategory of receptive prayer called radically Divine communication. The ICP model describes prayer progressions, specifically the developmental and cyclical nature of prayer. A list of 12 research questions based on the ICP model are provided. Two specific suggestions for future research dealing with the relational quality of prayer and intercultural receptive types of prayer are outlined.

The Legend Of Bill Dark: Guerrilla Warfare, Oral History, And The Unmaking Of An Arkansas Bushwhacker, Michael A. Davis

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

"Through The Eye Of A Needle": The Role Of Pietistic And Mystical Thought Among The Anglican Elite In The Eighteenth Century Lowcountry South, Samuel C. Smith

Faculty Dissertations

This dissertation examines the transmission and eventual manifestation of Christian pietistic and mystical thought into the Colonial and Revolutionary lowcountry South. The facilitators of this transmission include the Continental Pietists, who were themselves heavily influenced by the mystics, and British Evangelicals such as John Wesley and George Whitefield, who, even in their public denials of mysticism, nevertheless demonstrated its strong influence in their ministries. Mystical and pietistic expressions impacted the religious, social, and political life of the lowcountry more than has been previously recognized. Evangelical Pietism's mid-eighteenth century infusion prompted some to correctly recognize its subjective (i.e. inwardly focused and …

The German Side Of The Hill: Nazi Conquest And Exploitation Of Italy, 1943-1945, Timothy D. Saxon

Faculty Dissertations

The view that German and Allied forces fought a senseless campaign for Italy during the Second World War prevails in many histories of that conflict. They present the battle for Italy as a bitterly-contested, prolonged fight up the peninsula, wasting Allied men and resources. Evidence contradicting this judgment shows that Italy's political, economic, geographic, and military assets between the years 1943 and 1945 made it a prize worth winning . Allied leaders never grasped this fact nor made an effective effort to deny Germany this valuable asset. The German defense of Italy secured the loyalty of Axis allies in Eastern …

Manuscript With Publisher's Suggested Edits., Tony Hillerman

Hunting Badger Manuscripts

This is a copy of the manuscript of Hunting Badger with a Publisher's letter addressing some minor edits.

The Representation Of Female Desire In Early Modern Pornographic Texts, 1660-1745, Manuela MourãO

English Faculty Publications

Analyzes the process through which female and male sexual objectification is constructed in early modern pornographic texts released between 1660 and 1745.

Alcoholism In Third-World Literature: Buchi Emecheta, Athol Fugard, And Anita Desai, Nancy Topping Bazin

English Faculty Publications

ALCOHOLISM IS A MAJOR PROBLEM IN MOST COUNTRIES; yet in only a few countries has it become a social issue and a topic to be discussed seriously and openly. Within universities, substantive knowledge about alcoholism appears co be confined mainly to medical and sociology departments. Certainly, alcoholism is a neglected topic in literary studies. Almost all critics and teachers of literature are blind to its impact on a surprising number of characters and their relationships- even when alcoholism is the primary cause of suffering. Unless a teacher is a recovering alcoholic or knows well someone who is, ignorance or self-censorship …

Androgyny Or Catastrophe: Doris Lessing's Vision In The Early 1970s, Nancy Topping Bazin

English Faculty Publications

Doris Lessing's novels of the early 1970s offer readers a rare kind of wisdom one which has been nourished by Sufism, a form of Islamic mysticism, which she admires. Unlike Lessing's earlier fiction which was simply influenced by the ideas of Sufism, three of her novels-Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971), The Summer Before the Dark (1973), and The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974)-are literally Sufi fables-that is, symbolic stories, each of which "illuminates truth" (qtd. in Shah, The Sufis 14). The Sufi truth illuminated by these novels is that "life is One," and that because we have …

The Spinster (1999), Hollins University

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins University (previously College)

The Pursuit Of Absence, Hazem Mohamed Azmy El Tonsy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Manzara: Its Form And Function In Fatimid Egypt, Jehan Ismail Reda

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Southern Sudanese Women In Refuge, Christine Mori Nyoka

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Jacob Cist (1782-1825) And The Pennsylvania Anthracite: Local Expertise, Scientific Authority, And Global Correlation, John E. Huss

Philosophy Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

Tötösy De Zepetnek, Steven Curriculum Vitae, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Edge Of House, Dzvinia Orlowsky

English Faculty Publications

Joseph Brodsky, in one of the essays in On Grief and Reason, writes that the twentieth century is the century of the displaced person. Writers in this century more than any other—from James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway to Paul Celan and Czeslaw Milosz to Seamus Heaney and Brodsky himself—have explored the ordeal of abandoning, voluntarily or involuntarily, a home that had become culturally or socially oppressive. Ukrainian-American poet Dzvinia Orlowsky, in Edge of House and Cuban-American poet Aleida Rodriguez, in Garden of Exile, while eschewing the political concerns of many of these writers, similarly draw on the impact of displacement …

Creating High-Quality Marriages: A Qualitative Study Of Religious Couples, Jerry Lyman Redd

Theses and Dissertations

This study is a qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with thirty-two couples who have been married for eight years. Although the couples in this sample have similar religious, economic, and cultural backgrounds, the quality of each marriage is quite different. Ten couples have exceptionally high-quality marriages, eighteen have average-quality marriages, three are struggling, and one couple has been divorced. The purpose of this study was to better understand what the ten couples with high-quality marriages are doing to create successful relationships. I conclude that high-quality marriages are created by a couple's participation in a particular process with a specific paradigm …

Religiosity And Life Satisfaction Among Lds College Students, Po Nien Chou

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between religiosity and life satisfaction among Latter-day Saints (LDS) college students. The scales used were the religiosity scale by Chadwick and Top (1993), and the life satisfaction scale by Neugarten, Havighurst and Tobin (1961). The analysis was based on data obtained from 222 students (55.5%) who responded. A prediction model was used to develop a regression equation. Pearson correlation analysis was used to evaluate the correlation between religiosity and life satisfaction. The regression equation is as follows: life satisfaction = 1.436815592 + 0.045915152 (spiritual experiences) + 0.042888274 (integration in congregation). …

Family-Of-Origin Distress And Intimacy In Later-Life Couples, Paul James Birch

Theses and Dissertations

Married couples aged 55-98 were surveyed regarding their perceptions of family-of-origin distress, their affective communication and problem solving communication skills, and their emotional intimacy. Two 2-way ANOVAs were performed with husbands' (model 1) and wives' (model 2) emotional intimacy scores as dependent measures and family-of-origin distress scores as the independent measures. Then both models were re-analyzed with affective communication and problem solving communication entered as co-variates. Results suggested that for both husbands and wives, emotional intimacy was affected by family-of-origin distress. Additionally, intimacy was affected by the distress in their spouses' family-of-origin in both models. Post-hoc analyses suggested that as …

The Hierarchical Structure Of Beowulf, Aaron Sinkovich

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

Contents, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

Noble Groping: The Franklin's Characterization In The Canterbury Tales, Jason De Young

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

Jane Eyre's Quest For Truth And Identity, Christina J. Jnge

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

Down And Out With Thoreau: Reversals Of Perspective And Paradox In Walden, Peter J. Capuano

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

Salvation And Rebirth In The Catcher In The Rye And The Bell Jar, Erica Lawrence

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

An Hour Of Millennium: A Representation Of The Communion Ritual In "Babette's Feast", Pamela Lane

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

The Oswald Review Undergraduate Research And Criticism In The Discipline Of English: Volume 1 Fall 1999

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.

Front Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

No abstract provided.