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To unveil the multilayered experiences which Christians undergo when engaging in nature-based experiences, this research utilized a multidimensional approach to address and further comprehend the characteristics of these moments. Specifically, this research aimed to understand h…

In my dissertation, I argue that the mother/son relationship stands at the heart of Camus's novelistic writing. Le Premier homme, a semi-autobiographical novel written in the last two years of Camus's life, and finally published posthumously in 1994, allows us to re-evaluate the…

Solitude is a common theme through Nabokov's and Ben Jelloun's respective works. However dissimilar, in many ways these two authors present certain similarities. Yet, comparing a present-day, expatriate Moroccan post colonial writer such as Ben Jelloun with Nabokov, a Russian ex…

This thesis proposes two distinct but connected ideas: that John Keats’s idiom of friendship was haunted by “sequestered” longings and that he ultimately valued specific, one-on-one partnerships as a basis for his poetical character. The Introduction places the thesis within its…

The aim of this thesis is to explore how imagination influences people who stay alone and how solitude impacts people’s imagination. In the first 2 parts, definitions of imagination and solitude are presented. These show that the historical evolution of imagination and its impor…

My dissertation examines a series of dialogues that the Roman politician and philosopher, Marcus Tullius Cicero, wrote in the single year between the death of his daughter in February 45 BCE and the assassination of Julius Caesar in March 44 BCE. I argue that as a corpus these t…