Search for dissertations about: "Belles Lettres"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Belles Lettres.

2. 1. The Discourse of Oratory : The New Rhetoric and Romantic Writing in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain

   Author : Michael Davis; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Rhetoric; Oratory; Belles Lettres; History of Rhetoric; Romanticism; Britain;

   Abstract : The Discourse of Oratory: The New Rhetoric and Romantic Writing is a study of the cultural anxieties about the power of public speaking that pervaded the mid eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Its argument is that those anxieties formed a discursive center for two of the most important forces in the history of British letters and literary studies -- Romanticism and the New Rhetoric -- and that those forces engaged it primarily through a shared concern with the rise of religious evangelism. READ MORE

4. 2. Mark and Mission : Mk 7:1-23 in its Narrative and Historical Contexts

   Author : Jesper Svartvik; Kyrko- och missionsstudier; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jewish-Christian relations; missiology; church fathers; Gospel of Thomas; purity; food; anti-Judaism; third quest; narrative criticism; Judaism; Gospel of Mark; Jesus; Bible; New Testament; rabbinic literature; evil speech; Bibelvetenskap;

   Abstract : Few passages in the New Testament Gospels can compete with Mk 7:1-23 when it comes to the history of influence in biblical scholarship. Generations of scholars have turned to this pericope in order to find the message of the historical Jesus, the theology of early Christianity or even the essence of Christianity. READ MORE