"Examines Armenian, Arabic, English, and French lamentations over the loss of Jerusalem produced in the early crusading period."
"Examines Armenian, Arabic, English, and French lamentations over the loss of Jerusalem produced in the early crusading period."
"An interesting feature in the lament psalms is the sudden change of mood. Unfortunately, as the term that has come to be associated with the subject indicates - 'Certainty of a Hearing' - the change of mood is understood only in terms of a movement from lament to praise. This h…
"America's supposed moral decline from an imagined golden age, and the threat of divine punishment for straying from the path of righteousness, have been consistent themes in its political and religious rhetoric. But why is this myth so compelling to Americans? Murphy investigat…
Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Getting a Hearing Consuming Structures of Language Lamenting in Theory Terms of Plaint The Coming Chapters -- 1. Understanding Plaintive Language: Freud Complaint without a Cause: Treating Hysteria and Forgetting Laments…
"Analyses linguistic structures of complaint and lament in key works of the modern canon"--
"Analyses linguistic structures of complaint and lament in key works of the modern canon"-- Laments and complaints are among the most ancient poetical forms and ubiquitous in everyday speech. Understanding plaintive language, however, is often prevented by the resentment and fe…
This dissertation will explore the extent to which key poetic features in the book of Lamentations work together to bring cohesion or dissonance to the message in this book. More specifically, the dissertation observes how these features function in relation to one another in th…
That the biblical text was intended to be performed publicly and not read privately is an axiom in biblical scholarship, and yet, until recently, with the emergence of performance criticism, scholars have essentially ignored this axiom. As an interdisciplinary methodology borrow…