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  • Expression & identity : the word made flesh

    Creator:
    Beach, J. M.
    Abstract:
    This essay is an exploration of identity formation and expression. Humanity's identity formations create the orientations and languages with which we use to create our knowledge and understanding of the surrounding external environment (both social and physical) and our internal environment (psychological). This essay traces the sources of identity formation...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , philosophy, religion, and psychology. Identity's value lies in its personal and communal modes of expression

  • Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : hermeneutics and epistemology in Ishmael's seafaring

    Creator:
    Goodrum, Emily A.
    Abstract:
    This paper defends a reading of Hennan Melville's Moby-Dick that elevates Ishmael's status from mere narrator of Ahab's tragedy to that of protagonist of his own story, a novel of epistemological seafaring. As a metaphysical quester, Ishmael provides the novel's only reliable and complex vision of the condition of man...
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    skepticism toward philosophy contribute to the novel's ambiguity. In dispelling orthodox beliefs, Melville's