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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
An Anthropologist at Work: Ruth Benedict's Poetry
No full textRuth 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
Design for a saddle seat chair : sketch no. 13 [picture] /
No full textPart of collection: Furniture designs for Prime Minister's Lodge and Government House, Canberra.; Inscriptions: signed "Ruth Lane-Poole, 14/10/26." -- in ink; "P M." -- in pencil, upper left.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3353412. "Specification: Wood: Queensland Walnut; Filling: All hair; Saddle Seat Covering: Calico. Nails to approval."
Death Certificate of Ruth Drake
No full textText document death certificate for Ruth Drake aged 23 cause of death " Miss Ruth Drake came to her death as a result of a premeditated Suicide caused by taking internally cyanide of potassium"Converted from .jpg to .pdf for compatibilit
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Arthur M. Alpert to Ruth Kempner discussing payments she owes for a rental car
Letter from Ruth Roberts to Bill Martin Jr. 1974-07-15
No full textA typewritten letter from Ruth Roberts to Bill Martin Jr. In this letter she discusses the success of her choral pageant Our Country \u27Tis of Thee.https://lair.etamu.edu/scua-martin-correspondence/1015/thumbnail.jp
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