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Chestertonian dramatology
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/30301 Chestertonian dramatology Du Preez, Amanda duncan.reyburn@up.ac.za Goosen, Daniel P. (Danie) Reyburn, Duncan Chesterton’s ontology Chesterton’s epistemology Analogy Democracy Terrence malick Visual interpretation The tree of life (film) Visual hermeneutics Defamiliarisation Paradox Participation Gk chesterton Dramatology Chesterton’s cosmology Human dignity Common sense Common man UCTD Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012. This study proposes an answer to the question of what the contemporary relevance of the writings of GK Chesterton (1874-1936) may be to the field of visual culture studies in general and to discourse on visual hermeneutics in particular. It contends that Chesterton’s distinctive hermeneutic strategy is dramatology: an approach rooted in the idea that being, which is disclosed to itself via language, has a dramatic, storied structure. It is this dramatology that acts as an answer to any philosophical outlook that would seek to de-dramatise the hermeneutic experience. The structure of Chesterton’s dramatology is unpacked via three clear questions, namely the question of what philosophical foundation describes his horizon of understanding, the question of what the task or goal of his interpretive process is and, finally, the question of what tools or elements shape his hermeneutic outlook. The first question is answered via an examination of his cosmology, epistemology and ontology; the second question is answered by the proposal that Chesterton’s chief aim is to uphold human dignity through his defenses of the common man, common sense and democracy; and the third question is answered through a discussion of the three principles that underpin his rhetoric, namely analogy, paradox and defamiliarisation. After proposing the structure of Chesterton’s dramatology via these considerations, the study offers one application of this dramatology to Terrence Malick’s film 'The tree of life' (2011). This is sustained in terms of the incarnational paradox between mystery and revelation that acts as the primary tension and hermeneutic key in Chesterton’s work. Visual Arts unrestricted 2013-09-07T18:44:00Z 2013-06-27 2013-09-07T18:44:00Z 2013-04-11 2012 2013-02-18 Thesis Reyburn, DB 2012, Chestertonian dramatology, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30301 > B13/4/122/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30301 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02182013-222121/ © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Chesterton’s ontology Chesterton’s epistemology Analogy Democracy Terrence malick Visual interpretation The tree of life (film) Visual hermeneutics Defamiliarisation Paradox Participation Gk chesterton Dramatology Chesterton’s cosmology Human dignity Common sense Common man UCTD Chestertonian dramatology |
| title | Chestertonian dramatology |
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| topic | Chesterton’s ontology Chesterton’s epistemology Analogy Democracy Terrence malick Visual interpretation The tree of life (film) Visual hermeneutics Defamiliarisation Paradox Participation Gk chesterton Dramatology Chesterton’s cosmology Human dignity Common sense Common man UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30301 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02182013-222121/ |