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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
From the other side of silence: Huguenot life-writing, a dialogic art of narrating the self
No full textThe writing of memoirs in seventeenth-century France was an activity
that took place on the margins. On the margins of society: those who
wrote memoirs usually did so from exile, from prison, because they had
fallen from grace into disgrace, or because they had come to a crisis
point in their lives. On the margins of history: memoirs and their writers
had a conflictual relationship with the official history of their time,
which they set out to contradict, correct, or amend with their own story,
their own outsider (yet also, insider) point of view. Memoir writing is a
literature of testimony, which points to a tension between individual
experience and culturally sanctioned narratives. Thus, to write memoirs
in the early modem period is to perform an act of inscription that is
always political. It is an act of resistance to the tendency of cultures to
remember and forget in partisan fashion, which exposes that tendency by
inscribing other experiences and voices into the collective memory of the
past
Repressive toleration: the Huguenots in early eighteenth-century Dublin
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De l'Humanisme aux Lumières, Bayle et le protestantisme : mélanges en l'honneur d'Élisabeth Labrousse
No full textTextes recueillis par Michelle Magdelaine, Maria-Cristina Pitassi, Ruth Whelan et Antony McKenna ; [introd. par Walter E. Rex]ISBN 2-7400-0021-
De l'Humanisme aux Lumières, Bayle et le protestantisme : mélanges en l'honneur d'Élisabeth Labrousse
No full textTextes recueillis par Michelle Magdelaine, Maria-Cristina Pitassi, Ruth Whelan et Antony McKenna ; [introd. par Walter E. Rex]ISBN 2-7400-0021-
Ruth Whelan : The Anatomy of Superstition : a study of the historical theory and practice of Pierre Bayle, 1989
No full textThomson Ann. Ruth Whelan : The Anatomy of Superstition : a study of the historical theory and practice of Pierre Bayle, 1989. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°22, 1990. Voyager, explorer. pp. 542-543
Dr. Ruth Westheimer: Sexually Speaking
No full textRuth Westheimer (born June 4, 1928), better known as Dr. Ruth, is a globally recognized psychosexual therapist, media personality, author, radio, television talk show host, and Holocaust survivor. Her media career began in 1980 with the radio show Sexually Speaking, which continued until 1990. She has hosted several series on the Lifetime Channel and other cable television networks from 1984 to 1993 and is the author of 45 books on sex and sexuality
Letter from Ruth Whelan to Barry-Walsh
No full textManuscript letter dated 20 March 1939, accompanying membership forms
Ruth Rewald 1987
No full textMaterials relating to the discovery of the formerly unknown author Ruth Rewald by German scholar Dirk Krueger in 1987. Krueger also found book by Rewald, which was given to the library.Dirk Krueger, 1988.Jewish children book author, born June 1906 in Berlin, deported to Auschwitz in July 1942.digitize
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