Essays about: "Mircea Eliade"

Found 2 essays containing the words Mircea Eliade.

1. 1. The Bee & the Crown : The Road to Ascension in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Author : Stenskär Eva; [2021]
   Keywords : Key words: Sylvia Plath; Emily Dickinson; Outsiders; Threshold; Space; Ascension; Windows; Performativity; Violence; Divine; Walter Benjamin; Gaston Bachelard; Subha Mukheriji; Mircea Eliade; Suzanne Juhasz; Sandra Gilbert; Susan Gubar; Interiors; Pathology; Ecstasy; Fear;

   Abstract : Though born a century apart, American poets Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath share several similarities: Both were born in New England, both fought for their rights by writing, and both broke new poetic ground.          In this thesis, I look at their poetry through a movement in space, which begins with the poets’ precarious position as societal outliers and ends with ascension. READ MORE

3. 2. Where Life Takes Place, Where Place Makes Life : Theoretical Approaches to the Australian Aboriginal Conceptions of Place

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Religionsvetenskap

   Author : Tomas Stenbäck; [2018]
   Keywords : place; space; sacred place; sacred space; religion; Dreamtime; Dreaming; Altjiringa; Abiding Events; Abiding Law; Law; Australia; Aboriginal; Indigenous; animism; Arrernte; Aranda; Achilpa; Tjilpa; axis mundi; Mircea Eliade; Jonathan Z. Smith; Tim Ingolds; Tony Swain; Monica Engelhart; plats; religion; Australien; australier; urfolk; animism;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay has been to relate the Australian Aboriginal conceptions of place to three different theoretical perspectives on place, to find what is relevant in the Aboriginal context, and what is not. The aim has been to find the most useful theoretical approaches for further studies on the Australian Aboriginal conceptions of place. READ MORE