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Push

Golden, Tasha L.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1345477184

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2012, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
Push seeks to expose – and simultaneously exploit – religious feeling and language as gateways to and from supposedly distinct fields of human experience. To this end, it explores the heightened language of religion, violence, and sexuality, revealing language's collusion among these realms and affirming the extent to which an experience in one area is deeply and irrevocably affected by language borrowed from another. The wielding of this language in Push serves to question the boundaries between desire, devotion, and oppression, and illuminates the ways in which the experience of having and losing faith parallels not only that of (jilted) romantic love, but also of more common and/or less blatantly spiritual occurrences such as rage, bereavement, sexual tension, and domestic violence. In these explorations, Push seeks to draw this laden language out of its common source(s), into a felt sense of its immanent resonance and volatility.
Mr. David Schloss (Committee Chair)
Dr. Catherine Wagner (Committee Member)
Dr. Tuma Keith (Committee Member)
69 p.
Bible; Ethics; Families and Family Life; Gender; Language Arts; Literature; Philosophy; Psychology; Religion; Theology
religion; sexuality; grief; blasphemy; apostasy; Manley Hopkins; Henry Vaughan; homosexuality; faith; Bible; reproduction; womanhood; gender; doubt; blame; domestic violence; desire; rage; body; sex; oppression; spirituality

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  • Golden, T. L. (2012). Push [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1345477184

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Golden, Tasha. Push. 2012. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1345477184.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Golden, Tasha. "Push." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1345477184

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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