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Reading Ruth : towards a postmodernist, literary and womanist analysis
No full textBibliography: leaves 132-140.This dissertation examines the book of Ruth from a postmodemist, literary and womanist perspective. The main methodology is postmodemist literary criticism, but it employs intertextual and autobiographical approaches as well. Chapter 1 is an exploration of the plot of Ruth and reveals that in order for the end goal of the plot to be achieved "emptiness has to return to fullness." It is shown that Ruth's action (her decision to return with Naomi) is the catalyst that begins the process that ultimately leads to the denouement of the plot. The fact that it is the two women, Ruth and Naomi, who drive the plot forward, indicates that the Book of Ruth is a woman's story. Chapter 2 demonstrates that the significance of narrative time for any literary analysis lies in the fact that the amount of time allowed for the retelling of the events rarely corresponds to the time it took for the events to happen. Since Ruth is a short story, the choice of what to tell, what to omit as well as how long to dwell on details are indeed significant. In other words it is shown that literary time is only spent on those aspects which are crucial for the advancement of the narrative. Since the reader's main goal is to see how the conflicts are resolved, the literary time spent on the resolution of the conflicts is an indication of where the weight of the story needs to lie. In this case, it is certainly with Ruth and Naomi judging from the amount of time spent on dialogues between the two women. They are therefore the ones that contribute to the resolution of the conflicts of the plot. Chapter 3 reveals that in the book of Ruth the narrative voice or the perspective of attitudes, conceptions and worldview are those of a woman. The fact that the book of Ruth is named after a woman; the fact that at the very outset all the males in the story die and it is the women that take over the narrative; the fact that in the end the women of Bethlehem declare that Ruth is better to Naomi than seven sons are just some of the reasons that substantiate the argument that the narrative voice in the book of Ruth was that of a woman. It is also shown that this narrative voice (whether overt or covert) subverts gender and ethnic expectations. Chapter 4 outlines the way in which biblical characters are portrayed. The subsections of chapter 4 deal with the characterisation of each major character: Naomi, Boaz, and Ruth. Chapter 4 is the longest chapter since it is difficult to evaluate characterisation without engaging the other facets of literary criticism as well, such as plot and dialogue
Protecting Animals 28: Ruth Hatten
No full textIn this episode we are joined by Ruth Hatten. Ruth is a long-standing animal advocate who has worked as legal counsel for Voiceless, the animal protection institute. Ruth has also been involved with the Barristers Animal Welfare Panel. More recently, Ruth has established her own company in which she offers nutritional advice to people wishing to transition to a plant based diet, as well as complementally therapies for dogs and cats
Ruth Beckwith
No full textRuth was born on 13 January 1865 in Adelaide to the Reverend Charles Manthorpe and his wife, one of six children. Ruth married Ralph James Beckwith in Adelaide on 15 January 1888. Their eldest son Ralph Norman Beckwith was born on 20 January 1888 in Glenelg. A second son, Kenneth, was also born in South Australia in 1889. In 1895, when Ruth was 30, she was one of the 82 women who enrolled to vote after the franchise was granted to South Australian and Territory women in 1894. Ruth registered at the Howley polling place listing her occupation as 'married woman'. Evidence in the local newspaper from 1900 indicates that the couple was in Port Darwin from this time. Ralph was promoted to Pine Creek as Postmaster in 1906 from his position as telegraphist and then to Burrundie where he was also appointed as JP. They had two children registered at Palmerston: Maurice Rodman born 12 May 1893 and Ruth born 24 February 1895. Ralph was appointed Postmaster at Saddleworth, South Australia in 1908. By 1910, the Beckwiths were at Streaky Bay in South Australia relocating to Port Lincoln possibly after Ralph's retirement from the post office. Ruth died in Perth in 1941 aged 77 .Pionee
Note from Ruth First to Alpheus Manghezi
No full textA note left for Alpheus by Ruth First, arranging their first meeting in Maputo in 1978
Embroidery quilt, by Ruth Richards Payne
No full textImage of Embroidery quilt created in 1940 by Ruth Richards Payne. Also includes questionnaires describing the quilt completed by Ruth R. Payne as part of the Utah Quilt Guild\u27s documentation days held from 1988-1994. Quilter made quilts for pleasure; this quilt was given to Ruth Payne from her aunt as a wedding gift in 194
An Anthropologist at Work: Ruth Benedict's Poetry
Full text linkRuth Benedict, an influential twentieth-century anthropologist best known for her Patterns of Culture (1934), has written a considerable range of poems, a good number of which have been published in distinguished poetry journals such as Monroe's Poetry. Considering her double interest in poetry and anthropology and her use of modernist poetic techniques, this writer's works are privileged sites for an interrogation of the complex relations between cultural alterity (ethnic otherness) and poetic alterity (poeticity, literariness). Benedict emerges as a modernist poet of a different sort. Her rhymes and religious subject matter testify to her rootedness in nineteenth-century aesthetics, but her complex interweaving of cultural and poetic forms of alterity place her at the heart of a modernist enterprise, whose frantic search for new forms of artistic expression has from its beginnings been bound up with a sustained interest in the language and practices of cultural others
Photo of Ruth Drake editing tests
No full textBlack and white photo of before and after softening filter is placed on ruth-seedpearls.jp
Art Forum - Maddison, Ruth
No full text4 May 2000. Ruth Maddison is a well-known Australian photographer who works in a variety of media. Ruth is Visiting Artist in the CSA Photomedia Workshop and will speak about her current work which includes several commissioned portrait series
[Home of photographer Ruth Maddison] [picture] /cRuth Maddison.
No full textTitle supplied by cataloguer.; Condition: Good.; Inscriptions: "Ruth Maddison August 1988"--In pencil on reverse. Part of a collection of 40 photographs by Ruth Maddison: 31. Mantelpiece in the home of photographer Ruth Maddison
Ruth Heathcock
No full textNursed the aboriginal victims of leprosy when it was illegal to do so. Was awarded an MBE for rowing 145 km to save a man who shot himself accidentally. Ruth was convinced that her work would amounted to nothing had it not been for the aborigines who worked with her.Nurs
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