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Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick

Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick

George Cotkin

1–19; Petra Mundik, “'Striking the Fire Out of the Rock': Gnostic Theology in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian,” South Central Review 26 (Fall, 2009), pp. 72–97. CHAPTER 88 New York Times (May 15, 1949), sec. BR18; (July 3, 1950), p.
If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise ...

If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise ...

Christopher Douglas

A similar problem exists for another approach to the religious dimension of Blood Meridian: that of reading it for its Gnostic suggestions, championed by Leo Daugherty in 1992 and Petra Mundik in 2009. The substantial virtue of this approach ...
Dark Nature: Anti-Pastoral Essays in American Literature and ...

Dark Nature: Anti-Pastoral Essays in American Literature and ...

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As Petra Mundik states, for McCarthy “nature itself is cruel” (78) and there is no “ dichotomous opposition between natural and moral evil” (78). One can detect the signs of an evil nature in the inorganic world itself, in the barren landscapes ...
Religion in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction: Apocryphal Borderlands

Religion in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction: Apocryphal Borderlands

Manuel Broncano

gnostic analysis still has its gifted partisans, notably Dianne Luce's elegant 2009 study of McCarthy's Appalachian works, Reading the World, and more recently, Australian Petra Mundik's series of essays in Southwestern American Literature.
Philosophical Approaches to Cormac McCarthy: Beyond Reckoning

Philosophical Approaches to Cormac McCarthy: Beyond Reckoning

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Notes 1 Leo Daugherty, “gravers False and True: Blood Meridian as gnostic Tragedy,” The Southern Quarterly 30.4 (1992): 124; Petra Mundik, “This Luminosity in Beings So Endarkened: gnostic Soteriology in Blood Meridian,” in They Rode ...
A Bloody and Barbarous God: The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy

A Bloody and Barbarous God: The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy

Petra Mundik

Meyer, Marvin. “Marvin Meyer on Judas the Heroic Priest and Gnostic Philosophy .” The Voices of Gnosticism. Ed. Miguel Conner. Dublin: Bardic P, 2011. 183–200 . Milton, John. The Poetical Works of John Milton. London: Watson, 1853. Monk ...
Petra's Legacy: The South Texas Ranching Empire of Petra ...

Petra's Legacy: The South Texas Ranching Empire of Petra ...

Jane Clements Monday

Armando C. Alonzo, Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734‒1900 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998), 3. 18. Information provided by Homero Vera from the Matamoros 27 Abril 1842 census Exp. 1 ...
Exaptation and Language Change

Exaptation and Language Change

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Van de Velde, Freek, Petra Sleeman & Harry Perridon. 2014. “The Adjective in Germanic and Romance: Development, differences and similarities”. Adjectives in Germanic and Romance ed. by Petra Sleeman, Freek Van de Velde & Harry ...
Impressionen des Großstadtlebens - Die Zusammenarbeit des ...

Impressionen des Großstadtlebens - Die Zusammenarbeit des ...

Valerie Schmidt

33 Rehling, Petra: Schöner Schmerz. Das Hongkong-Kino zwischen Traditionen, Identitätssuche und dem 1997-Syndrom, Mainz: Bender, 2002, S. 175 34 vgl. Rehling, Petra: Schöner Schmerz. Das Hongkong-Kino zwischen Traditionen, ...
Contact Spaces of American Culture: Globalizing Local Phenomena

Contact Spaces of American Culture: Globalizing Local Phenomena

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Globalizing Local Phenomena Petra Eckhard, Klaus Rieser-Wohlfarter, Silvia Schultermandl ... and social ostracizing, an act which shatter's Ralph's American dream of social Introduction Petra Eckhard, Klaus Rieser und Silvia Schultermandl.
Images de l'artiste: Kunstlerbilder

Images de l'artiste: Kunstlerbilder

Pascal Griener

Contient: Portrait of the artist as a young man : Self-invention and promotion in the early self-portraits of Gustave Courbet / Petra ten-Doesschate Chu: p. 59-80.
Eight

Eight

James R. Vance

Petra Rebovka aka Louise Charrière, an operational officer with the security services, travels on her first assignment to the Limousin region of France to infiltrate a people trafficking operation.
Roman Arabia

Roman Arabia

Glen Warren Bowersock

The book opens with the arrival of the Nahataean Arabs in their magnificent capital at Petra and describes the growth of their hellenized culture based on trade in perfume and spices.
The Nabataeans: Builders of Petra

The Nabataeans: Builders of Petra

Dan Gibson

Discover the fascinating story and mystery that surrounds this ancient people: The Nabataeans. To learn more, visit http: //nabataea.net
The Sacrifice

The Sacrifice

Margaret Iggulden

Petra, the ancient city of rose-coloured rock 'half as old as time', feels strangely familiar to Margaret and Barbara as they explore it. But why? Is it possible to discover in the present... and, if so, can it be changed?
Crimson

Crimson

CG Blade

What unfolded in front of President Roger Harrison's green eyes was unimaginable to any compassionate human being as he locked his fingers together tight and pressed them to his lips. Petra watched him as his eyes began to well up.
Simiolus:

Simiolus:

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Searching for a professional photographer w ho could make good reproductions of an archival glass negative, Or Petra Lewey, head of the museum's art collection, asked her colleague Dr Lutz Mahnke, director of the Ratsschulbibliothek in ...
Trinity Series Mixture

Trinity Series Mixture

CG Blade

What unfolded in front of President Roger Harrison's green eyes was unimaginable to any compassionate human being as he locked his fingers together tight and pressed them to his lips. Petra watched him as his eyes began to well up.
The PDS – A symbol of eastern German identity?

The PDS – A symbol of eastern German identity?

Adrian Webb

an angry retreat and Petra Pau confined herself to a barbed observation that she would no longer be working closely with the chair.58 Although two of the three new deputy chairmen, Diether Dehm and Peter Porsch, were members of the ...
Stephen Hutchings: Landscapes for the End of Time

Stephen Hutchings: Landscapes for the End of Time

Petra Halkes

This book is based on a major exhibition of Stephen Hutchings's monumental landscape paintings organized by the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta.
Anti-Judaism

Anti-Judaism

David Nirenberg

See also Petra Schöner, Judenbilder im deutschen Einblattdruck der Renaissance:einBeitrag zur Imagologie, Saecula Spiritalia 42(BadenBaden: Verlag Valentin Koerner, 2002).OnLuther and theWittenberg Judensau, see Isaiah Shachar,The ...
The crystal circle

The crystal circle

Petra Soreia

In October 2013 Kiesha Crowther initiated a call to energize clear crystals and to send them to Japan for being placed in the water. The idea behind this is to connect the crystals with the grid of Lady Gaia. The activation of the energy field is ...
The Sinner

The Sinner

Petra Hammesfahr

Elwood Reid uses this true story as a starting point, imagining Cooper as Phil Fitch, a Vietnam vet with a failed marriage who decides the time has come to do something that will save him from a life of punching time cards and wondering what ...
Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies: Judaism in Christian ...

Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies: Judaism in Christian ...

David Nirenberg

2, 146, provides references to the numerous editions of the print. See also Petra Schöner, Judenbilder im deutschen Einblattdruck der Renaissance: ein Beitrag zur Imagologie. Saecula Spiritualia 42 (BadenBaden: Valentin Koerner, 2002).
Marq – Or

Marq – Or

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Claudia Noth: E. E. N. (1909–83). Bibliogr. Ffm. 2002. – Jürgen C. Thömig: E. E. N. als Film-Revival. Ergänzung der Forsch. durch Unterhaltungsmedien. In: Laboratorium Vielseitigkeit. Zur Lit. der Weimarer Republik. Hg. Petra Josting u.
Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology

Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology

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" --Ram Dass "I recommend this book to all those with an open heart who struggle for more compassion and the greening of the self. If we are to survive, as the message of this book declares, we must develop a peaceful heart."--Petra Kelly

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