The purpose of this project is to take a specific period, 1942-1957, and examine the pattern of U.S.-Costa Rican relations. During the war and postwar era, both the United States and Costa Rica experienced dramatic changes. The United States assumed world leadership and the resp…
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The overall aim of this dissertation is to articulate an understanding of large-scale political violence, from a Christian point of view. The two main thinkers who will contribute to this task are Soren Kierkegaard and Rene Girard. Chapter 1 will consist of a survey of various a…
This dissertation examines and defines the original features of the poetic novel in twentieth century French and Francophone literatures, and how this genre differs markedly from the traditional novel, rooted in realist asthetics. This study of four representative texts by conte…
The research in this dissertation originated from two rather unrelated phenomena. First, this writer's interest in eschatology goes back to the years shortly after his conversion to Christ in 1973. Second, in the search for a topic for research, this writer was discussing eschat…
This dissertation examines a selection of fictional texts by Marguerite Duras, Andre Gide, Assia Djebar and Tahar ben Jelloun. In my readings of these colonial and post-colonial narratives, I explore the textual strategies which transform marginalized positions based on colonial…
The evolue(e) novelists of French expression, products of the colonial educational system, used the ideas and concepts learned there to "decolonize", first their own minds and then those of Algeria's indigenous peoples. Via the medium of the French novel and the agency of their …