Browsing by Subject "decreation"

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  • Divisive Synecdoche in A.C. Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse 

    Cranch, Eva (2023-08-23)
    This thesis is about the semantics of Algernon Charles Swinburne’s long poem, Tristram of Lyonesse. It examines the poem’s atypical use of synecdoche, which divides part and whole more than it unites them. The use of ...

  • Secular Decreation: Acts of Undoing in Priscilla Becker's Internal West 

    Deleskie, Caroline (2016-08-31)
    In the collected journal entry excerpts gathered in Gravity and Grace (1952), twentieth-century French philosopher and Christian mystic Simone Weil introduces her concept of “decreation.” Here, “decreation” refers to an ...