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Cardwell, M. John. "Arts and arms : political literature; military defeat and the fall of the Newcastle Ministry 1754-56." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297337.

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Grimm, Gunter E. "Von menschlichen Maschinen : Androiden in Literatur und Kunst About human machines : Anroids in literature and fine arts." Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet Duisburg, 2002. http://www.ub.uni-duisburg.de/ETD-db/theses/available/duett-11242002-083721/.

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Smith, Janet L. "Integrating language arts and social studies through the use of literature." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/736.

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Rhee, Nakyung. "An Exploration of New Seniors in Arts Participation literature and practice." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1386775161.

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Cutler, Carolyn E. "From science to the arts: Gertrude Stein's writing, 1894-1914 /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148794610356554.

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Koc, Bartosz. "Literature According to Teachers." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-33829.

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This study investigates four teachers’ views and approach on teaching literature in the English classroom. The main reason for this study is to give an insight in some different ways of approaching this specific part of the national curriculum. The study is based on four separate interviews. The results are somewhat varied and provide an in-depth understanding of the subject. The study shows that there are different approaches for various reasons. These reasons are not only based in methodology but also personal preference and attitude to the subject. The results of the study also show that there is emphasis on teaching literature for various reasons, be it linguistic or cultural The study also serves as an introductory guide for future pedagogues and teachers on some issues that need to be considered when teaching literature. Last but not least, this study serves as a possible starting point for further research in methodology concerning teaching literature in the English classroom. The possible directions for further study can be linguistic- or knowledge-based.

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Waschneck, Katja. "Screening 'Oulipo' : from potential literature to potential film." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/22413/.

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This thesis documents a research and art project that explores the creative value of using constraints in film. The starting point is the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Oulipo), the Potential Workshop of Literature, whose members explore the Potential of Literature by writing with constraints, and the films of the early twentieth century avant-garde, which demonstrate the promise of experimentalism in cinema. From these points of inspiration, the idea of using constraints to explore the potential of a field is transferred to film. As the practice of filmmaking with constraints is yet to be fully formalised and currently lacks substantial academic recognition, this thesis presents a theorisation of constraint filmmaking as a creative practice that cuts across cinematic genres and already established areas of filmmaking practice – those of short, feature, and documentary film. The cinematic work emerging from the Ouvroir de Videographie Potentielle (Ouvipo), the Potential Workshop of Video, and the movement of Dogme 95, are shown to be influential in the theorisation of constraint filmmaking practice, and several other examples of constraint films across cinema will be addressed to show how the use of constraints can enhance a filmmaker’s creativity. The thesis is accompanied by three constraint films: Project Cube, A Day in your Life, and Tales and Tellers, which were made in adherence to the stages of the constraint filmmaking process. Project Cube is an exploration of mathematically inspired constraints and is grounded in the idea of permutation. Twelve shots are used to create several different films, with their order being determined by the rolling of dice. A Day in Your Life focuses on the interplay between linguistic constraints and their visual counterparts, reality and fiction, and past and present. Tales and Tellers is a project that shows the power of images, as fairy tales from participants are illustrated in moving images, using constraints to create these pictures. These short films demonstrate both my theorisation of constraint filmmaking as a practice that can be adopted by other artists also, and my journey from Potential Literature to Potential Film.

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Smith, Rachel M. "Examination of interactions among eighth-grade language arts students during literature circles /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2549.pdf.

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Khorll, Angela E. "Creating Dramatic Scene Work for Literature in a Secondary Language Arts Classroom." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2008. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/KhorllAE2008.pdf.

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Smith, Rachel Marie. "Examination of Interactions Among Eighth-Grade Language Arts Students During Literature Circles." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1534.

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This study examined the nature of interactions that took place among eighth-graders as they participated in literature circles. The teacher/researcher organized students into literature circles based on the students' novel selection. Students completed a different role assignment each week. The role assignments included word wizard, passage picker, connector, summarizer, and question asker. As the students participated in literature circles, the teacher/researcher tape recorded their conversations and took observational field notes. Analysis of the data four weeks later showed that some students' voices were silenced and students went through the motions of completing and talking about their role assignments with little discussion and inquiry. These findings may be due to the way the role assignments were used and the role of the teacher during literature circles.

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Buckley, Signe A. "Integrating literature and illustration in seventh and eighth grade language arts curriculum." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/615.

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Stråhed, Ellinor. "Classic literature in the ESL classroom." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-31837.

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The aim of this study is to investigate how some teachers use classic literature in the ESL classroom. It is a qualitative study based on interviews with six teachers, all of them at upper secondary school.The classic literature of the English-speaking world has done much in shaping Western society as we know it, and thus it is important for the students of English as a second language to have at least some knowledge of the literature of the past. The syllabuses for English B and C also require it.My findings were that the teachers interviewed all saw classic texts as very important but challenging. Therefore, the texts introduced must suit the needs and interests of the students. There is also a language barrier to consider. However, classic texts can also be introduced through the use of films.Key words: English as a foreign language, classic literature, teacher views and attitudes, teacher experience

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Bitoun, Claire. "Gautier, Wilde, and the visual arts : artistic media and movement." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a765fb6d-2b26-4f38-9a27-9d33836c0998.

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In nineteenth-century literary studies and histories, Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) is still largely remembered as the instigator of the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake, mostly because of his novel Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835) and its controversial preface. This recognition is usually accompanied by a retrospective appreciation of Gautier's work in light of the more famous authors who succeeded him and developed some of the precepts of the doctrine, such as Baudelaire. This thesis is a comparative study of Gautier and Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) as the two main exponents of the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake respectively in France and Britain. While comparisons between Gautier and Baudelaire have tended to highlight the superiority of the latter, a comparison with Wilde allows Gautier to be seen and understood in his own terms, and simultaneously casts a new light on Wilde's contribution to the development of the doctrine. My study is the first to examine the works of the two authors comparatively from the vantage point of their aesthetic theories. I argue that in order better to assess their contribution, it is necessary to start with an analysis of their experimentations with literary form. The overall aim of the thesis is to re-evaluate their fictional works which, as a result of their commitment to the doctrine, are often seen as lacking in depth and content, and as being too descriptive and decorative. The central argument is that the very decorative form of their works should be seen as the starting point of an ambitious reflection on literature, its aims and its relation to other artistic media, the visual arts in particular.

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Westraadt, Georina. "The potential for facilitating a rich variety of learning opportunities through the learning area arts and culture (visual arts)." Thesis, [S.l. : s.n.], 2007. http://dk.cput.ac.za/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=td_cput&preview_mode=1&z=1243931944.

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Gutiérrez, Manuel. "Mexican poets and the arts 1900-1950 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=2023846601&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Wilson, Clayton Shane. "A handbook for hosting a district-wide festival for literature and the arts." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1932.

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Suffel, Brent D. "Determining the Benefits of Implementing Literature Circles into a Secondary Language Arts Classroom." Defiance College / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=def1281705400.

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Smith, Jessica Lynn. "Bloom (Dispatches From)." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1431697300.

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Richetti, Bethany A. Richetti. "Learning to Re-present: Realism & Education in Literature and Visual Arts, 1800-1880." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503067718362243.

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Simpson, Kim. "The 'little arts' of amatory fiction : identity, performance, and process." Thesis, University of Kent, 2014. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/48720/.

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From its initial publication until the feminist recovery project, amatory fiction was mostly depicted as a popular, but immoral, trivial, and aesthetically underdeveloped genre in comparison to the emergent realist novel. More recently, the genre’s feminocentric treatments of gender difference, erotic love, seduction and betrayal have been discussed in terms of their proto-feminism, whilst its thematic explorations of duty and disobedience have been recognised as evidence of the genre’s Tory-oriented intervention in partisan politics. Tracing the origins of some of today’s critical perspectives on femininity, writing, performativity, and the body, ‘The “Little Arts” of Amatory Fiction: Identity, Performance and Process’ argues that these texts are characterised not so much by their proto-feminism or political alignments, as by their proto-queer strategies. The structure of the chapters works from the outside of amatory texts – their reception and their construction in chapters one and two – to their content in chapters three and four, and then back outwards again in the final chapter which considers their lasting influence. The chapters redefine the genre according to its self-conscious and theoretically sophisticated engagements with identity, authorship, materiality, power, and desire, and suggest that such a redefinition serves to widen the pool of amatory texts for consideration. Chapter one explores the interrogation of prescriptive gender constructions in amatory texts and the feminist readings that this interrogation has provoked, suggesting that a reading that attends to the queerness at work in amatory fiction can yield a clearer understanding of the genre’s ambiguous ideological position, which goes beyond transgression. Chapter two identifies the ways in which self-conscious textuality, evasive strategies of authorship, and (dis)embodiment function within these texts to posit a constructivist understanding of identity, and as demonstrations of artistry and agency. It argues that identifying amatory fiction according to its play with notions of authorship, rather than as author-based, allows for the inclusion of lesser known writers such as Mary Hearne, writers not traditionally considered amatory, such as Penelope Aubin and Jane Barker, and anonymous and pseudonymous amatory texts, within an amatory canon traditionally constituted by Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood. Chapter three reads amatory fiction alongside Judith Butler’s work on performativity, and charts the way in which amatory fiction experiments with the possibility of disrupting processes of identity construction using masquerade and mimicry, and creating its own discursive forms of repetition and performativity in ways that prefigure Butler. Chapter four examines how amatory texts subject these configurations to the material effects of passion and power, using materialist feminist theory to posit that the body is recognised in these texts as a place of excess beyond the limits of discursive performance. The final chapter outlines the afterlife of amatory fiction, demonstrating the ways in which intertextuality and borrowings are used to create a community of readers and writers working in an amatory tradition both within the early eighteenth century and beyond. At a time when some scholars are turning away from the popular fiction by women unearthed during the recovery project in favour of revisionist formalist approaches, this work is both crucial and timely, demonstrating amatory fiction as formally innovative, theoretically engaged, and vital both to understandings of the queer eighteenth century, and to genealogies of feminist and queer theories.

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Albuquerque, Mariana Ferraz de. "Breve espaço entre cor e sombra: literatura e artes plásticas." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2010. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/2098.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:45:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariana Ferraz de Albuquerque.pdf: 1066470 bytes, checksum: 3c2022588e8faafe9f1ad47648adcbbc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-11<br>The present work aims to analyze the novel Breve espaço entre cor e sombra (Brief space between color and shade) by Cristovão Tezza. The work transits between the literature and the plastic arts, becoming, therefore, essential to conceptualize what art is, understand the paths that it has been covering since early times and to highlight some present marks in the modernity artists artwork. Once the thread of the story revolves around a false head sculptured by the Italian Amedeo Modigliani, through Walter Benjamin s theoretical assumptions, questions as technical reproduction and manual reproduction will be understood. Knowing that the concepts of art permeate the whole novel, the present work has, as reference sources, the works of Mario Praz, Paulo Menezes, Jorge Coli, Alfredo Bosi and Aguinaldo Gonçalves. It will be analyzed not only the concepts of art, but also, the description of the paintings that correspond to the "narrative paintings", present in the novel, paintings these that transform the words into images.<br>O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar o romance Breve espaço entre cor e sombra, de Cristovão Tezza, seguindo os preceitos da literatura comparada. A obra transita entre a literatura e as artes plásticas, tornando-se, portanto, imprescindível conceituar o que é arte, entender os caminhos que ela vem percorrendo desde os primórdios e destacar algumas marcas presentes nas obras de artistas da modernidade. Uma vez que o fio condutor do romance gira em torno de uma falsa cabeça esculpida pelo italiano Amedeo Modigliani, por meio dos pressupostos teóricos de Walter Benjamin, entender-se-ão questões como a reprodutibilidade técnica e a reprodutibilidade manual. Sabido que os conceitos de arte perpassam todo o romance, o presente estudo tem, como fontes de referência, as obras de Mario Praz, Paulo Menezes, Jorge Coli, Alfredo Bosi e Aguinaldo Gonçalves. Analisar-se-ão não somente os conceitos de arte, mas, também, as descrições das telas que correspondem aos "quadros narrativos" presentes no romance, quadros estes que transformam as palavras em imagens.

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Bridges, Melissa J. "Virtual Literature Circles| An Exploration of Teacher Strategies for Implementation." Thesis, Piedmont College, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3722949.

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<p> This qualitative study explored the strategies that teachers use to implement virtual literature circles in middle and high school classes and university Reading programs. Through questionnaires, interviews, and document analysis, several strategies that support student learning were identified, including guided questions, rubrics with clear expectations, and targeted feedback. Making the process student-centered rather than teacher-centered, using appropriate platforms with small groups, and including a face-to-face component also supported student learning. </p><p> Additionally, an examination of teacher perceptions of benefits and challenges of virtual literature circles revealed more advantages than disadvantages. Benefits included improved writing, specificity, and critical thinking; connections to other subject matter; peer interactions; ease of differentiation; technology integration; flexibility; teacher collaboration; engagement; and student-centered practice. Challenges included technology access issues and glitches, student apathy, superficial student responses, and time issues.</p>

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Marshall, Jamie. "Character education instruction integrated through literature in elementary classrooms." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2006. http://165.236.235.140/lib/JMarshall2006.pdf.

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Williamson, Sara. "Halting but intimate confidences : sexuality and romance in utopian literature." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1524.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Humanities<br>English

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Shea, Anne. "Visual Response: A Curriculum Unit Integrating Book Arts and Literature in the Elementary Classroom." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/93.

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This study focused on the integration of book arts in a fifth grade classroom. As an art teacher turned regular education teacher I was interested in the effects of integrating art into the area of reading. The curriculum unit consists of two lessons in which the students were invited to use books arts as a means of expression and comprehension. The lessons correlated with the novel Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry. The results include my observations and reflections as a practicing elementary teacher.

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Chang, Shu-Ching. "ASSESSING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE AND EXPLORING PRACTICES OF MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE AMONG ELEMENTARY LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHERS." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1517080175951363.

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Palmer, Jane Elizabeth. "Medical mythologies : iconographies, histories and counter-discourses in medicine, the arts and popular culture." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282587.

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Smith-Laing, Tim. "Variorum vitae : Theseus and the arts of mythography in Medieval and early modern Europe." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0f4305c6-3c62-4f89-a3b2-d8204893fdfb.

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This thesis offers an approach to the history of mythographical discourse through the figure of Theseus and his appearances in texts from England, Italy and France. Analysing a range of poetic, historical, and allegorical works that feature Theseus alongside their classical and contemporary intertexts, it is a study of the conceptions of Greco-Roman mythology prevalent in European literature from 1300-1600. Focusing on mythology’s pervasive presence as a background to medieval and early modern literary and intellectual culture, it draws attention to the fragmentary, fluid and polymorphous nature of mythology in relation to its use for different purposes in a wide range of texts. The first impact of this study is to draw attention to the distinction between mythology and mythography, as a means of focusing on the full range of interpretative processes associated with the ancient myths in their textual forms. Returning attention to the processes by which writers and readers came to know the Greco-Roman myths, it widens the commonly accepted critical definition of ‘mythography’ to include any writing of or on mythology, while restricting ‘mythology’ to its abstract sense, meaning a traditional collection of tales that exceeds any one text. This distinction allows the analyses of the study’s primary texts to display the full range of interpretative processes and possibilities involved in rewriting mythology, and to outline a spectrum of linked but distinctive mythographical genres that define those possibilities. Breaking down into two parts of three chapters each, the thesis examines Theseus’ appearances across these mythographical genres, first in the period from 1300 to the birth of print, and then from the birth of print up to 1600. Taking as its primary texts works by Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate and William Shakespeare along with their classical intertexts, it situates each of them in regard to their multiple defining contexts. Paying close attention to the European traditions of commentary, translation and response to classical sources, it shows mythographical discourse as a vibrant aspect of medieval and early modern literary culture, equally embedded in classical traditions and contemporary traditions that transcended national and linguistic boundaries.

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Magalhães, Marcelo Lins de. "Presságios literários e herança plástica: Emerson e Thoreau; Richard Serra, Waltercio Caldas e outros." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2013. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=6098.

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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro<br>O presente estudo ambiciona examinar as escritas literárias de Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) e Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) considerando-as como uma forma de presságio de arte na América, ou seja, como uma escrita literária que parece ter sido herdada no ambiente artístico das obras plásticas contemporâneas de Richard Serra (1939-) e Waltercio Caldas (1946-), entre outras. Tal herança endossa a noção de linguagem ordinária, compreendida como o ponto de acolhimento, ou de uma inquietação, que se faz presente nas circunstâncias da contemporaneidade. Por sua vez, o gesto de endereçamento que envolve estas escrituras expressa a marca de uma indecibilidade acerca da continuidade ou descontinuidade da existência de categorias como literatura, filosofia e artes. Assim, a problematização dessas remissões ganha vulto no presente estudo, por meio de uma abordagem em perspectiva comparada entre Thoreau, Emerson, Waltercio, Serra e outros. E deste modo, a questão que se estabelece nesse panorama diz respeito aos problemas do pensamento, que em âmbito plástico parecem se estender para uma tradição crítica no Novo Mundo<br>The following study aims to examine Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) and Henry David Thoreaus (1817-1862) literary writings considering them as a form of omen of art in America, in other words, as a literary writing that seems to have been inherited from the artistic environment of the contemporary art works by Richard Serra (1939-) and Waltercio Caldas (1946-), among others. Such heritage endorses the notion of ordinary language, understood as the point of reception, or the point of an uneasiness, that was present in the contemporary circumstances. In turn, the addressing gesture which involves these scriptures express the mark of an undecidability on the continuity or discontinuity of the existence of categories such as literature, philosophy and arts. Thus, the problematization of these remissions obtains prominence in this study, by means of a comparative approach among Thoureau, Emerson, Waltercio, Serra and others. In this way, the question that is established in this panorama concerns the thought problems, which in the plastic scope seem to be extended up to a criticism tradition in the New World

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Wolf, Johannes. "The art of arts : theorising pastoral power in the English Middle Ages." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278517.

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Gregory the Great described the government of souls as ‘the art of arts,’ a sentiment that the Fourth Lateran Council would echo in 1215. This thesis takes as its fundamental proposition that this ‘art’ can be understood as a ‘craft’, one that is responsible for producing and maintaining a Christian subjectivity marked by introspection, inwardness, and a strong distrust of externalities. Using a theoretical framework influenced by Michel Foucault I suggest a tradition of administering and producing these subjects through ‘pastoral power.’ Charting the trajectory of these ideas from the ascetics of the early church through to fifteenth-century Middle English texts, I explore the dynamics produced by texts invested in producing this specific form of subjectivity as they expand their reach from a specialised audience of monks to an increasingly laicised vernacular sphere. This investigation is broken into two halves. The thesis begins with a re-reading of Michel Foucault’s theories of power and subjection. Here I suggest that there are important conceptual connections between Foucault’s concept of ‘discipline’ and medieval approaches to the care of the soul. The first half of the thesis stresses the longue durée development of pastoral power, focussing on two particular historical moments. The first of these chapters engages with the pastoral and monastic thinkers of the early church, who developed two overlapping regimes – that of body and spirit. The second turns to the Ancrene Wisse, arguing that the it responds to the developments of twelfth-century spirituality by suggesting a form of spiritual engagement that is increasingly imbricated in the mundane world. The second half of the thesis focuses on a number of texts produced in Middle English during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. Two chapters focus on a collection of pastoral texts produced in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The first focuses on the hermeneutic dynamics of these texts whilst second chapter assesses the use of documentary imagery and theories of legal accountability in the same texts. The final chapter suggests that certain proto-autobiographical texts, represented by the work of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, are conditioned by the concerns and dynamics of pastoral power, which also affects the practices modern readers bring to bear on them.

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Johnson, Larry D. Jr. "Dismantling and (Re) constructing notions of masculinity and femininity in African women literature." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2011. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/240.

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This study examines gender (re)presentation in three carefully selected works: Brown Girl, Brownstones; The Color Purple; and When Rocks Dance. Employing the scholarship of women writers of the Diaspora, I contend that the works dismantle and (re)construct gender identities. Where traditional notions of sexuality depict men as masculine and women as feminine, this analysis interrogates and subverts the traditional paradigm. Methodologically, the dissertation combines literary analysis, post-colonial studies, and gender schema theory into an interdisciplinary approach. I begin by exploring gender construction to establish a theoretical perspective for characters who reject traditional heteronormative paradigms. I then extend recent critical discussions on gender and post-colonialism by examining the relationships between the men and women in each literary text. I contend that traditional notion of characters as homosexual or lesbian is dismantled and (re)constructed, thereby resulting in characters who embrace their femininity or masculinity in a more balanced construction of personality, which is the key to their self-actualization.

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Hinojosa, Manuel Matthew. "Teaching Outre Literature Rhetorically in First-Year Composition." Diss., Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona, 2005. http://etd.library.arizona.edu/etd/GetFileServlet?file=file:///data1/pdf/etd/azu%5Fetd%5F1189%5F1%5Fm.pdf&type=application/pdf.

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Benson, Natalie Jane Allen. "The (un)cut painter's book: redefining a literary-arts genre." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6056.

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The purpose of this dissertation is to present a clear characterization and history of the painter’s book in France, and distinguish the genre from other book arts; to examine the works as inseparable objects through bibliographic, auratic, and site-specific theory; and to explore specific instances that illuminate the socio-cultural context and historic era of the work, and the necessary interdependence of image-text. Painter’s book projects are novels, poems, plays, and short compilations, with original prints by an artist whose principal medium is other than graphic, published by a gallery owner or small publishing house in an artisanal format, and in a small edition under 501 examples. A painter’s book is meant to be experienced through space and time, where the act of reading-viewing while turning pages synthesizes the concurrent arts. Many images from painter’s book projects are reconstituted as independent graphic works for sale, and I argue that the books must remain intact. In the first chapter, I argue, through theories of bibliographic code, Benjamin’s concept of aura, and site-specific artwork, that the purpose, understanding, and experience of the painter’s book is corrupted and lost when the artwork is removed from its original location. In Chapter Two, I explore two genres of the book, the illustrated and artist’s books, explain why the painter’s book cannot be considered an illustrated or artist’s book, and provide evidence that delineates the genres through specific examples, research, analysis, and hermeneutical consideration. I explore what constitutes the painter’s book in Chapter Three, and suggest the name of the genre be accepted and adopted as painter’s book in English. I also indicate precedents and the history of the painter’s book, and give succinct characteristics for the genre. Through specific examples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries I demonstrate how the painter’s book reflects modern historical processes, and how this literary-arts genre helped shape cultural discourses in the final two chapters. This project will bring awareness to a genre whose very name has been misconstrued and mislabeled, whose works tell a tale of collaboration and harmonious expression in literary and visual form, whose individual instances inform the reader-viewer of important cultural, societal, and historical moments, and whose perpetuation is in danger.

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Crawford, Meredith Meagan. "Envisioning Black Childhood: Black Nationalism, Community, and Identity Construction in Black Arts Movement Children's Literature." W&M ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626475.

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Pereira, André Luiz Tavares 1972. "Fronteira : literatura e artes visuais a partir da obra de Cornelio Penna." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284012.

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Orientador: Lygia Arcuri Eluf<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T01:55:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pereira_AndreLuizTavares_D.pdf: 26598850 bytes, checksum: 4c15e05ac598f4feceb979e22c79845d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009<br>Resumo: Esta tese procura investigar o universo visual e literário do autor fluminense Cornélio Penna - particularmente a partir do estudo do romance Fronteira (1935) - bem como as ilustrações executadas pelo autor para o mesmo romance. Além de apresentar a situação atual dos debates sobre os limites entre texto e imagem, entre poesia e ilustração, a tese compõe-se de uma série de desenhos, fotografias e pinturas produzidas pelo artista-investigador e que operam como uma tradução em imagens da narrativa, temas e personagens da narrativa corneliana. Todo o processo criativo é descrito e debatido, oferecendo uma reflexão detida sobre o modo de produção dos objetos de arte.<br>Abstract: This thesis investigates the boundaries between Literature and Drawing taking the novel Fronteira (1935) written by Cornelio Penna, novelist and illustrator, as its main subject. The body of the present work includes not only a theoretical discussion on poetry and illustration but also presenting the actual drawings produced for Penna's text by the researcher. The creative process' analysis is also one of the author's aim, providing the reader a comprehensive view of the making of the art objects included here ad art producing as a whole.<br>Doutorado<br>Doutor em Artes

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Horton, Aaron Dennis. "Catastrophe and Identity in Post-War German Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1061.

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The purpose of this study is to examine selected German literature dealing with issues of history and identity in light of the catastrophic reshaping of society after World War II and reunification. The research process will involve an examination of selected authors and their works that are most relevant to the topic. In order to provide a clear understanding not only of important literary themes but also of the appropriate historical context, attention will be devoted to providing biographical information in addition to critical literary analysis. Because this study is primarily historical in nature, context is important for determining a given author's possible motives in writing. The research will not only provide a better understanding of how history and identity have been addressed in modern German literature, identifying common and recurring themes in significant periods, but also demonstrate the value of using fiction in historical research.

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Sharp, Krista. "The Epistolary Form| A Familiar Fiction." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10118620.

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<p> During the 18th century, the novel was criticized for a lack of representation of reality and in turn a public distrust of fiction was established. The epistolary form addressed these issues by presenting a narrative that was bound by a real-life structure that allowed for the illusion of reality and authenticity. Today, this distrust of fiction is nonexistent but the epistolary form is still present and a frequently used literary device, providing the real-life structure for an escape from reality. However, while commercial fiction has embraced the form and moved past the historical justification of the epistolary novel, most artists’ books have not. This paper will prove how the artist book has struggled to move past the historical epistolary form and what lessons it can take from the world of contemporary commercial fiction.</p>

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Cochrane, Victoria Rae. "Literacy through multicultural literature." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1601.

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Li, Yan. "The challenges to Deng Xiaoping's policy of indirect leadership over the arts in China, 1979-1989." Thesis, City University London, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283185.

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Fabrizio, Alexis Marie. "Dark Ride: A Novel in Verse." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1363789108.

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Bustos, Idalith. "Backpacking Through My Suburban Barrio| Eco-Latina Diaries." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10263306.

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<p> <i>Backpacking Through My Suburban Barrio: Eco-Latina Diaries</i> is a collection of poems and critical reflection written during my Master of Fine Arts for Creative Writing at California State University, Long Beach. The front matter examines the ways in which my poems dismantle socio-economic boundaries in order to reveal depictions of femininity, community, nature, and empowerment. The primary focus of this work rests upon the development and creation of these poems. Poems that offer renditions of suburban, urban, and natural landscapes in various ways that subvert and expose the fragility of boundaries—constantly urging the speaker and reader towards possible transcendental moments where freedom and universal unity are possible.</p>

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Waller, Ellyn Jo. "Beyond Lip Service: How teachers in a private school utilize multicultural literature." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/169331.

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CITE/Language Arts<br>Ed.D.<br>This qualitative dissertation is an investigation of the experiences of four middle grade teachers, three female and one male, three Caucasian and one African American who use multicultural literature in their language arts classrooms and the responses of the students of color they teach. The teaching experience of the teacher participants ranged from nine to twenty-five years. This bounded case study was investigated through the interpretivist paradigm over a seven-month period during the 2009-2010 school year. The teaching of six texts defined by the school as multicultural (one of the texts would not be viewed as multicultural by other definitions), Esperanza Rising and Journey to the River Sea were the fifth grade texts, Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry was the sixth grade text, The House on Mango Street and To Kill a Mockingbird were the seventh grade texts and A Raisin in the Sun was the eighth grade text. Through the lens of multiculturalism, specifically Banks' (1994) dimensions of multicultural education and Groban's (2007) tenets of critical multiculturalism, and the participant teachers, enactments were explored. The data gathered over the seven-month investigation included audiotaped classroom observations, focus groups, and two types of teacher interviews, faculty interviews, observational field notes, and teacher pedagogical artifacts. The interpretivist paradigm was utilized to coded and analyzed the data using modified analytic induction, descriptive activity codes (Bogdan & Bilken, 2003), and cross case analysis (Strauss & Corbin, 1994). Enactments of multiculturalism, relationship between philosophy and pedagogy, and experiences of the teaching of multicultural literature were the three groups of thematic findings related to the teachers. The thematic findings related to the students of color who participated include: pondering pedagogy, multicultural literature mindsets, and dealing with diversity. This investigation concludes that teacher pedagogy, peer response, and literature discussion appear to influence the student participants' cultural understandings. Implications for practice and further research are included.<br>Temple University--Theses

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Kim, Jeongsuk. "Literature, visual culture and domestic spheres, 1799-1870." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45926/.

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McCabe, Bryan Thomas. "Cars, collisions, and violence in Southern literature." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003133.

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Pender, Debra J. "Integrating science through literature." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/724.

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Mackarey, Amelia. "Representation and Imagination of the Holocaust in Young Adult Literature." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1613.

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The intent of this thesis is to examine and interpret the representation of the Holocaust in young adult literature. The tone, style, and emotion used to convey the Holocaust experience, both in fiction and nonfiction stories, in eyewitness and indirect accounts, affects its representation to a young adult audience. I will study the effects of sentimentality, realism, and fun and their impact on our understanding and remembrance of the Holocaust. I will analyze several texts, including Island on Bird Street, The Book Thief, and Night. The paradox of finding an appropriate balance between presenting a realistic portrayal of the Holocaust and understanding that we could never fathom the horrors of the Holocaust is one that plagues both writers and readers of this genre of literature and I plan to critique the ways in which different works discuss the subject. Ultimately, I will consider the conflict of how we negotiate between complete repression versus obsessive memorialization. What is the role of memory? What is the proper way to move on from the horrors of the past while still honoring the innocent people who lived and died? Through my analysis, I hope to attempt to answer these questions and, perhaps, provide suggestions for appropriate representation and memorialization.<br>B.A.<br>Bachelors<br>English<br>Arts and Humanities<br>English Literature

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Cooper, Allison Ann. "Disanimate modernism literature, painting and aesthetics in wartime and post World War I Italy /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1693038441&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Silva, Nara Amelia Melo da. "SOBRE UM CÉU FEITO DE ABISMO: NARRATIVAS EM POÉTICAS VISUAIS." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2009. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/5184.

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This research is founded in my plastic production and investigates in theoretical and practical way the narrative from the series that relate image and text in configurations that explore the visual and textual meanings of a book's page. For this research, in a first moment, I begin with a theoretical approach that involves visual arts and literature, creating a midfield that in visual arts relates image and text. In a second moment, I relate methodological aspects of my creative process with researches of others artists, and I call attention to the equivalence of meanings in my plastic research with the means of action of knowledge s areas involved in this researches.<br>Esta pesquisa está fundada na minha produção plástica e investiga nos âmbitos teórico e prático a narrativa a partir das séries que relacionam imagem e texto em configurações que exploram a visualidade e a literalidade da página de livro. Para este estudo, em um primeiro momento, parto de uma abordagem teórica dos conceitos que envolvem artes visuais e literatura para a criação de um campo intermediário que relaciona imagem e texto no âmbito das artes visuais. Em segundo momento, relaciono aspectos metodológicos do meu processo de criação com pesquisas de outros artistas, e aponto correspondências dos meios de significação do meu trabalho com os meios de atuação das áreas de conhecimento envolvidas nesta pesquisa.

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Wilson, Mary E. "Gothic cathedral as theology and literature." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002826.

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Hodge, Audre. "Home is where the heart is : patterns of displacement in West Indian and Black American literature." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 1997. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/172.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Sciences<br>English Literature

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