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Lindsey, Travis B. "Arthur William Upfield : a biography /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2005. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20051003.113934.
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Killinger, Margaret O'Neal. "Helen Knothe Nearing: A Biography." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2004. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/KillingerMON2004.pdf.
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Morris, Penelope. "Giovanna Zangrandi : a life in fiction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:94e6a200-531e-431b-9726-487c981383d0.
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This thesis constitutes the first detailed study of the life and works (published and unpublished) of the writer Giovanna Zangrandi (1910-1988). It is a study of the relationship between autobiography, fiction and history in her writing, in the light of recent developments in the criticism of autobiography and of feminist historiography and literary criticism. It aims to place Zangrandi's work in its historical and literary context and pays particular attention to the periods of fascism, the Resistance and neorealism. The thesis considers the nature of autobiography, and the implications of women writing about themselves, and analyses Zangrandi's use of autobiography, highlighting the inevitable intrusion of fiction into such writing. It uses that analysis, along with material including Zangrandi's unpublished diaries and testimonies of people who knew her, to write a biography of Zangrandi and to examine the way that she writes about the fascist period and the Resistance. The question of representing real life in fiction, rather than autobiography, is also discussed, with reference to Zangrandi's first novel and to neorealism. It is shown that, as well as her constant interest in the lives of women, her attitude to history and traditions of the Cadore, the mountainous region in the north of the Veneto, where she lived all her adult life and where nearly all her novels, short stories and autobiography are set, is of considerable importance. Her writing about the Cadore can be seen both as an attempt to write herself into those traditions, and as a means of expressing her commitment to improving society. Moreover, it is argued, her commitment takes the form of both autobiography and fiction as her concern to write about lived experience is balanced by a constant interest in the story-telling tradition of the Cadore and an interpretation of fiction that judges it to be an integral part of everyday life.
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Kynoch, Hope. "The life and works of Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson." Monash University, National Centre for Australian Studies, 1999. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8564.
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Pelser, Abraham Christoffel. "Die literere biografie : 'n terreinverkenning /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2001. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08272002-142815.
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Thesis (M.A.(Afrikaans))--Universiteit van Pretoria.<br>Afrikaans text with summaries in English and Afrikaans. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 183-189). Also available on the Internet via World Wide Web.
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Hoenle, Sandra Vivian Berta. "Walter Benjamin : the production of an intellectual figure." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0021/NQ48647.pdf.
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Li, Boting, and 李博婷. "Leonard Woolf: towards a literarybiography." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45697735.
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Kirton, Teneille. "Racial exploitation and double oppression in selected Bessie Head and Doris Lessing texts." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/232.
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During the era of discrimination and disparity in Southern Africa, racial inequality silenced many black writers. It was the white authors that dominated the literary environment presenting their biased views on social and political concerns; the black authors standpoints were seen as unimportant and they were deemed inferior to the white authors. Consequently, it was particularly difficult for black writers to voice their experiences of living in a society riddled with oppression, prejudice and unequal opportunities. The purpose of this study is to critically compare selected texts by African authors Doris Lessing and Bessie Head, which depict the political and social struggles within Southern African society during the era of unequal opportunities. Lessing and Head’s works present incidents of life experiences in Southern Africa from two contrasting viewpoints. The selected texts explored are: The Grass is Singing and “The Old Chief Mshlanga” by Doris Lessing, a white author, in contrast and comparison to the texts: A Question of Power and “The Collector of Treasures” by Bessie Head, a coloured author. The research for this thesis is conducted from an ethnic literary perspective with careful consideration to critical race theory and cultural studies. From this perspective, the focus of the study is on the struggles that affected both the victim and perpetrator during the apartheid era as well as on the idea that those in power determined what was deemed acceptable and unacceptable, behaviourally and ideologically. Specifically, the plight experienced by the female characters living in a patriarchal society, and the segregation and racial inequality faced by the characters of colour is explored by analysing these characters’ influences, pressures and societal manipulations and constraints in the texts. Thus, this study will provide a more in-depth understanding of Southern African society during the apartheid era and the strategic use of literature to spotlight the subjugation and disparity.
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Li, Ha, and 李夏. "A study on Ji Xiaolan's (1724-1805) life, couplets and theories of couplets = Ji Xiaolan (1724-1805) sheng ping zi liao jiao zheng ji dui lian, lian lun yan jiu." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206454.
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Diffley, Paul Brian. "Paolo Beni : a biographical and critical study." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fcd4391e-4bfc-41bb-abbd-37ae4ba33158.
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The thesis is divided into three parts. Part One treats Beni's life and works from his birth in 1553 to 1604. His birth, his ancestry, his early education, his early careers, his Jesuit career and its aftermath are described from documentary evidence. His works of this period, most of which are inextricably connected with his life, are also briefly treated, Part Two narrates the events of the remainder of his life: his writing, his teaching, his publishing, his polemical writing, his relationship with his family, his last illness and death. Part Three provides a more ample critical assessment of his major writings after 1604, grouped according to subject-matter. Chapters are devoted to his criticism of Tasso, to his linguistic writings, to his theory and practice of poetry, history and rhetoric. The conclusion summarizes the pattern of his life and reassesses his importance. The Bibliography is divided into two parts. The first contains Beni's writings in three sections: (a) published works, with a note on the Opera omnia; (b) MS works; (c) a chronological reference list of his (mostly unpublished) letters. Part Two contains all other works consulted, MS and printed.
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Mitchell, Gregory Paul. "A psychobiographical study of John Henry Newman." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1021145.
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This study is a psychobiographical study, aiming to explore and describe the life of John Henry Newman (1801-1890), a theologian, priest, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, through the application of Erik Erikson’s theory of Psychosocial Development. Newman is a significant figure in the English-speaking Christian world and his life and thought remains of interest and importance, particularly in the fields of philosophy, theology, ecclesiology and education. Newman was beatified in 2010 and therefore this study also considers the hagiographical nature of biographical data. This study utilises a qualitative single case study approach and the subject was selected through purposive sampling based on interest value. Data were collected from primary and secondary sources to enhance validity. The data were analysed by organising and reducing information obtained regarding Newman’s life and then displaying it for discussion. The study considers Newman’s life, reconstructed from birth, through adolescence and adulthood to his death and also considers his posthumous legacy. The main themes of discussion revolve around Newman’s development of his religious identity and his life as a churchman and an academic. It considers how a psychosocially functional individual such as Newman manifests certain dystonic, maladaptive or malignant tendencies such as doubt, shame, guilt and overextension, and how these impact the formation of religious identity and the experience of God and the spiritual life. Basic trust, celibate intimacy and generativity emerged as three significant areas of importance in the Newman’s life and identity. The study highlighted the value of psychobiographical studies and of Erikson’s theory in understanding development. Recommendations for future research in this field are made in the hope of further uncovering and understanding personality, religious identity and psychosocial development.
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Hans, Birgit. "Surrounded: The fiction of D'Arcy McNickle." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184452.
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This study of D'Arcy McNickle (1904-1977) focuses primarily on his literary work: his two novels, The Surrounded (1936) and Wind from an Enemy Sky (1978), the manuscript versions of the two novels, and his short fiction. McNickle regarded fiction as a vehicle to explore his own identity as an American Indian. Of mixed French-Cree-American ancestry McNickle grew up on the Flathead Reservation in western Montana. Cut off from the Reservation and its traditions by a rather unhappy childhood, he struggled throughout his life to reestablish the severed bonds to his roots. In addition to this personal involvement in his fiction, McNickle also considered fiction a proper medium for writing tribal history, one that could include such diverse materials as oral tradition, literature, history, anthropology, etc. The first three chapters of the dissertation provide some background information on the Flathead tribal history, as well as the problems and prejudices McNickle encountered while growing up as a "breed," which led to a rejection of his American Indian heritage. This section ends with a consideration of his pivotal years in New York City when he started to rethink his earlier experiences and took the first step on his journey back to his tribal roots. The middle section, chapter four, gives a brief summary of McNickle's activities during the years he was involved with federal Indian policy. Even though McNickle did not work on any new fiction during those years, he continued his journey in a more detached way through non-fiction and biography. The last two chapters of the dissertation, the final stage of his journey, analyzes McNickle's disassociation from the abstract policies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and how he turned to fiction once more in order to complete the painful but successful journey back to his tribal roots.
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Muchena, Kudakwashe Christopher. "Dambudzo Marechera: a psychobiographical study." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020777.
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Marechera the Zimbabwean writer, poet and novelist emerged in the late 1970s as a new voice in African literature, but his writing career lasted less than a decade. It was his iconoclastic, dense style that expressed the psychological disintegration prevalent in Africa during this period and challenged the central beliefs of both the nationalist and post-independence eras. Defying the limitations of nationality, race and culture, Marechera’s writing explores universal issues, particularly urban existence in the late twentieth century. Marechera’s life and work were closely linked. His outspoken views and unorthodox lifestyle brought him into frequent conflict with the authorities and contributed to him being perceived as a cult figure. Through his work and personality he became a major inspiration and role model for the younger generation of writers in Zimbabwe and other African countries. The present study is a psychobiographical case study with the primary aim being to explore and describe the personality development of Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) using Alfred Adler’s theory of Individual Psychology. It was through the use of a theory of psychological development that a better understanding of Marechera’s personality, based on his cultural and historical background was achieved and a new interpretation and explanation was reported. The findings of the study can be generalised to the theory of individual psychology through the process of analytical generalization.
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MANLEY, VICTOR EUGENE. "A CONSERVATIVE REFORMER IN T'ANG CHINA: THE LIFE AND THOUGHT OF HAN YU (768-824) (BIOGRAPHY, CONFUCIANISM)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183823.
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Han Yu is famous in Chinese history both for his literature and for his defense of Confucianism at a time when it was being seriously challenged by Buddhism and religious Taoism. Although his influ- ence was limited during his own lifetime, in later times Han Yu came to symbolize the conservative Confucian values that are often identi- fied with the traditional Chinese state. This study examines Han Yu's life and thought in an attempt to determine to what extent his later image as an ideal Confucian was or was not justified. A chapter on the historical background provides the context for Han Yu's biography, which is divided into five chap- ters. This is followed by a chapter discussing the intellectual back- ground of Han Yu's thought. Two further chapters discuss, first, the basis of Han Yu's conservative image, and, second, a number of his writings which illustrate the limits of his conservatism. Han Yu's ideas are related to the political and social circumstan- ces of his times, and it is found that while he is indeed a conservative and a Confucian, the extent of both his conservatism and his Confucian orthodoxy have been exaggerated.
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Attarian, Hourig. "Lifelines : matrilineal narratives, memory and identity." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115621.
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This inquiry explores matrilineal autobiographical narratives in the contexts of family stories and memories. This self-study traces the stories of a collective of five women of a common Armenian heritage, who represent various generational, homeland and diasporic portraits and experiences. Carrying the burden of being descendants of genocide survivors, the memories we reconstruct and interpret deal with issues of inherited exile, dispossession, loss, trauma, survival and healing. In exploring these narratives, I engage in self-reflexivity as we construct, re-construct, re-present our narratives and their impact on our constructions and negotiations of self and identity.<br>I use the family album metaphor as a foundation for my narrative framework and weave together the participants' and my autobiographical reconstructions through the intertwined stories of memory, trauma and displacement. The self-reflexive nature of our multilayered autobiographical narratives reconnects our selves with our pasts. Within a diasporic frame, I use the narratives as interpretive tools to explore the effects of multigenerational diasporic experiences on constructions of identity and agency.<br>The relationships we develop using face-to-face group conversations, virtual discussions through a Web forum and emails, personal reflexive journals, photo props and collaged images, highlight a dialogic process of imagined possibilities for the transformative power of storying. The autobiographical inquiry bridges voice to self and self to voice. This authoring process is an essential medium to writing ourselves as women. The process also allows us to reclaim our vulnerabilities as sources of inner strength and to embrace this understanding as the locus of writing.
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Mbatsha, Thembisa. "A critical analysis of the screen adaptation of Saule’s Unyana womntu." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1018674.
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This research will concentrate on various aspects of the screen adaptation of “Unyana womntu” (Saule, 1989). This study comprises of six chapters. In Chapter 1 of this study, the research aims and objectives are formulated. The research methods that are to be followed will involve a thorough reading of the written text, as well as a comprehensive repetitive viewing of all the episodes of the screen version. In the final part of Chapter 1, background information is provided on the personal life of the author as well as on his contributions to the African literary tradition. Background information on the production of the screen version is also provided. In the Chapter 2, the theoretical aspects of the phenomenon of literary adaptation are discussed. This discussion provides a framework for the analysis of the adaptation of “Unyana womntu” (Saule, 1989) in the remaining chapters of this study. The aim of this chapter is to identify and discuss the most important principles which come into play when the written text is adapted into a screen production. Since the screen production belongs to the genre of the performing arts, this chapter is introduced with a discussion on the performing arts and on the drama, in particular. The section will be concluded with a discussion on the different sub-types of the drama which can be found, including the screen production. The main emphasis is on an analysis of the basic features and principles of the drama in screen format. Since the screen play Unyana Womntu (1998) is based upon a novel by the same title, the literary features of the novel are to be discussed here as well. The specific features of the Xhosa novel will also receive attention.
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Huang, Qiaole 1976. "Writing from within a women's community : Gu Taiqing (1799-1877) and her poetry." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=81496.
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This thesis examines the life and poetry of the woman poet Gu Taiqing (1799-1877) within the context of a community of gentry women in mid-nineteenth century Beijing. This group of women was a "community" in the sense that their contact, sociability, friendship and poetry writing were meaningfully intertwined in their lives. The thesis is divided into three interconnected chapters. Two separate biographical accounts of Gu Taiqing's life---one centered around the relationship with her husband, and the second around her relationship with her female friends---are reconstructed in the first chapter. This biographical chapter underlines the importance of situating Gu in the women's community to understand her life and poetry. The second is comprised of a reconstruction of this women's community, delineating its members and distinctive features. In the third chapter, a close-reading of Gu's poems in relation to the women's community focuses on the themes of xian (leisure), parting, and friendship. This chapter shows how each of these themes are represented by Gu and how her representations are closely related to the experiences of this women's group.
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Greenshields, Mary Clare, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "The Amazon in the drawing room : Natalie Clifford Barney's Parisian salon, 1909-1970 / Mary Clare Greenshields." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of English, c2010, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/2606.
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This thesis is organised into two chapters and an appendix. The first chapter explores the significant American expatriate movement in France in the early part of the twentieth century, in an effort to answer the question ―Why France?‖ The second chapter examines the life and work of Natalie Clifford Barney, an American expatriate writer in Paris, who wrote predominantly in French and ran an important weekly salon for over sixty years. Specifically, her aesthetic and subject matter, her life, and her fraught publishing history are considered. The appendix is a translation of Barney's 1910 book of aphorisms entitled Éparpillements.<br>v, 110 leaves ; 29 cm
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McFarland, Michele. "The intellectual life of Catherine Helen Spence." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2004. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/60437.
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This thesis will argue that Catherine Helen Spence, a writer, preacher and reformer who migrated from Scotland to Australia in 1839, performed the role of a public intellectual in Australia similar to that played by a number of women of letters in Victorian England. While her ideas were strongly influenced by important British and European nineteenth-century intellectual figures and movements, as well as by Enlightenment thought, her work also reflects the different socio-political, historical and cultural environment of Australia. These connections and influences can be seen in her engagement with what were some of the "big ideas" of the nineteenth century, including feminism, socialism, religious scepticism, utopianism and the value of progress. In arguing that Spence was a public intellectual, I will consider the ways in which she used the literary genres of fiction and journalism, as well as her sermons, to try to help her fellow citizens make sense of the world, attempting to organise and articulate some of the significant ideas affecting the political, social and cultural climates in which they lived. Through the exploration of Spence's intellectual work, I will show how she can be regarded as making a significant contribution to nineteenth-century Australian intellectual life, one that has been under-recognised and under-valued.<br>Doctor of Philosophy
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Mangan, John Timothy. "Bertolt Brechts Exilleben und Parallelen zur Entstehung des Werkes Leben des Galilei." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5255.
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When Bertolt Brecht flees Nazi Germany in 1933 he spends fourteen years in exile where he writes some of his most significant works, among them, Leben des Galilei. In his Leben des Galilei, Brecht explores the relationship between the individual and society. Using the historical Galileo Galilei as context, Brecht elucidates the responsibility that scientists must accept for how their discoveries are put to use. With his Galilei figur, Brecht expresses his belief that scientific advancement should be employed for the societal advancement of the common person. Brecht wrote three versions of his Galilei work, each showing significant parallels to Brecht's experiences during the corresponding time period of his exile. This thesis will illustrate these parallels. It will first show that the Galilei thematic is to be found in the very first years of Brecht's exile. It then deals with the influences surrounding the writing of the first version while Brecht is in Denmark. The second part of the thesis focuses on Brecht's exile in America and the resulting second version of his Galilei work. Here, working with Charles Laughton on an English translation of the work, Brecht's Galilei undergoes a fundamental change. Brecht attempts to alter the positive perception of the first version's Galileo who cleverly outwits the Inquisition and secretly has his work the Discorsi smuggled out of Italy. Brecht now wants to portray Galileo as a traitor of the people, who missed his chance to help the common people overcome the suppression they were subjected to. This change is strongly influenced by Brecht's experiences in America and the dawning of the Atomic Age. The last section of the thesis deals with Brecht's return to Europe and the third version of Leben des Galilei written in East Berlin. This is a result of translating the American version into German and the addition of scenes and individual elements cut from the first version to make it more appropriate for American audiences. Brecht maintains and tries to heighten the negative portrayal of Galileo as traitor of the common people.
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Martin, Margaret Kathleen. "Discovering Lily Lewis, a Canadian journalist and new woman." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq63899.pdf.
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Domareki, Mary. "La Voix Defie: Une Etude de L'oeuvre Autobiographique de Claire Martin - The Voice that Defied: A Study of the Autobiographical Works of Claire Martin." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2004. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/DomarekiM2004.pdf.
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Letcher, Valerie Helen. "Trespassing beyond the borders Harriet Ward as writer and commentator on the Eastern Cape frontier." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002283.
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The aim of this thesis is to provide an introduction to the work of writer and journalist Harriet Ward, resident in the Eastern Cape from 1842 to 1848. She was a prolific correspondent to various periodicals published both in South Africa and in London. It would be true to say, to judge from the evidence, that she fulfilled a need felt by the British public for information on life and events in South Africa, and that she became the trusted guide of the middle-class reader. Her range covers reports from the frontiers of war, journalistic articles, memoirs, short stories, novels, autobiography, and editions of other writers' work. After the publication of her articles on the Seventh Frontier War (1846-7), she was recognised and respected as a commentator on the situation at the Eastern Cape, an unusual role for a woman at this time. She was also amongst the foremost victorian women writers published from the early eighteen forties until the end of the eighteen-fifties. Harriet Ward has left a vivid historical and sociological account of the Cape frontier, and her observations and judgements provide a hitherto virtually unknown perspective on an important part of South African history and letters. What makes her even more interesting, as this study seeks to show, is that she was far from conventional in her response to her new environment, both as as a woman and as a representative of a colonialist power. The record she has left of her thoughts on the people, landscape and situations of the time has the capacity to surprise the post-colonial literary critic and historian. Her struggle to find a discursive mode in which to express her consciousness of the oppression, patriarchal and colonial, of the marginalised, whether woman, indigene, Afrikaner, or creole, reveals a significantly transgressive or subversive response to the issues of the day. In re-discovering Harriet Ward, we are forced to reassess our assumptions regarding the period of colonial history to which she was a witness.
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Beauchamp, Claude. "Henry-Emile Chevalier et le feuilleton canadien-français (1853-1860)." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61277.
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Henry-Emile Chevalier was forced in exile by the December 1851 Coup d'Etat in France. In March 1853, he came to Montreal and joined Georges-Hippolythe Cherrier who had just started a new periodical called La Ruche Litteraire Illustree. In addition, during his stay in Montreal, Chevalier worked for several periodicals, was an active member of the Institut canadien de Montreal, and wrote many novels and serials depicting Canada's exoticism. This thesis will provide the most accurate biography of Chevalier up to date, it will also present an analysis of the exoticism in his novels and serials (1853-1960), and of his contribution to the evolution of serials in French Canada.
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Calvo, Martin Beatriz. "La recuperación de la memoria en la obra de Dulce Chacón y de Marie-Célie Agnant: guerra, migración, esclavitud, represión." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209793.
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Tras un trauma histórico, la memoria colectiva puede sufrir patologías similares a las de la memoria individual. Para tratar esta memoria herida, las sociedades – o los segmentos de estas aquejados de una memoria herida – deben iniciar un proceso de anamnesis para realizar un trabajo de duelo. Una de las manifestaciones de ese proceso anamnésico es la cultura de la memoria, de la que forma parte la “escritura de la memoria” en la que se inscriben Dulce Chacón y Marie-Célie Agnant.<p><p>Dulce Chacón desea recuperar la memoria de las vencidas en la Guerra Civil española, víctimas de la represión de la postguerra. En el caso de Marie-Célie Agnant, se trata de la voluntad de recuperar la memoria de las inmigrantes haitianas llegadas a Quebec huyendo de la represión del régimen duvalierista. Esta memoria herida remonta hasta la herida originaria de la esclavitud y rinde homenaje a las esclavas cimarronas. <p><p>En esta Tesis, proponemos un análisis comparativo desde una perspectiva transdisciplinar de la recuperación de la memoria en la obra de estas dos autoras.<p><p>L’objet de ce travail est l’étude comparée de l’œuvre de Dulce Chacón et de Marie-Célie Agnant sous l’angle de l’écriture de la mémoire. Bien que fondamentalement littéraire, cette étude est abordée sous un angle transdisciplinaire, puisqu’elle a recours à des outils psychanalytiques, sociologiques, philosophiques ou historiques.<p><p>L’écriture de la mémoire, dans laquelle s’inscrivent ces deux auteures, fait partie de façon active du procesus d’anamnèse collective. <p><p>Tout aussi bien Marie-Célie Agnant, écrivaine québécoise d’origine haïtienne, que Dulce Chacón, écrivaine espagnole, se positionnent en tant qu’écrivaines-témoin pour récupérer la mémoire blessée. Dans le cas d’Agnant, il s’agit de la mémoire de la migration, de la répresion du régime duvalieriste et, plus loin encore, de la mémoire de l’esclavage et du marronnage. Dans le cas de Chacón, il s’agit de la mémoire de la guerre civile espagnole et de la répresion franquiste de l’après-guerre. <p><p>À travers l’analyse de l’oeuvre littéraire de ces deux auteures issues de deux contextes différents, ainsi que du constat des caractéristiques communes, cette thèse doctorale propose une poétique de l’écriture de la mémoire basée sur une grille d’analyse qui comprendra des aspects contextuels, paratextuels et intratextuels au niveau discursif, sémantique et stylistique.<p><p><br>Doctorat en Langues et lettres<br>info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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Pan, Yu Lan. "Desire for the other in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts." Thesis, University of Macau, 2010. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2456358.
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Vale, Julio. "O modernista no antiquário = Pedro Nava, as Memórias e o modernismo." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270231.
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Previous issue date: 2011<br>Resumo: Este estudo pretende compreender as Memorias de Pedro Nava enquanto um produto tardio do movimento modernista. Para isto, investiga especialmente as relações desta obra com o modernismo de Mário de Andrade, de cujas ideias o memorialista julga-se devedor. Progressivamente, a análise encaminha-se de modo a demonstrar as peculiaridades da obra de Nava, notadamente a sua atração pela literatura fin de siècle e, sobretudo, a sua peculiar concepção de tempo - traço mais visível quando comparada à obra de outros colegas de movimento, como Carlos Drummond de Andrade e Murilo Mendes (outros memorialistas tardios) ou ainda Oswald de Andrade. Esta peculiar concepção de tempo colaborará para, na "Conclusão" do trabalho, compor a feição tardia do ciclo naviano, então entendido numa chave saidiana (isto é, de acordo com Edward Said em Estilo Tardio). Com isto, espera-se justificar, mais especificamente, a posição insular das Memórias no contexto do modernismo brasileiro<br>Abstract: This work examines the Pedro Nava's Memorias as a late product of the Modernist movement. In this sense, we study the relationship of this text with the Modernism conceived by Mario de Andrade (whose ideas have influenced a lot Nava in the 20s). Subsequently, the analysis aims to demonstrate the peculiarities of Nava's Memorias, highlighting the importance of Symbolist-Decadent movement and the peculiar concept of time proposed in this memorial narrative. In the latter case, the Memorias are compared with other modernist works: late memoirists as Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Murilo Mendes (besides, in another chapter, Oswald de Andrade's poems) illustrate this critical path. In the "Conclusion", this peculiar conception of time is important to understand this memories as late work (according to the ideas of Edward Said in his book On Late Style). This is intended to describe the insular position of Nava's Memorias in the context of Brazilian Modernism<br>Doutorado<br>Literatura Brasileira<br>Doutor em Teoria e História Literária
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Staebler, Marie-Anne. "Reflets narcissiques dans l oeuvre de Jack-Alain Leger." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95965.
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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Jack-Alain Léger committed suicide on 17 July 2013 at the age of 66, leaving behind him a large
amount of work that has not formed the object of any academic study, not even partially. Many
articles have been written about the author but none about his novels. Léger was especially
known for his multitude of pseudonyms, his manic-depressive tendencies, his conflicts with all
his editors, his homosexuality, the controversy linked to the alias Paul Smaïl or for his
Islamophobia, his hatred towards his biological father and towards an alleged brother who died
before his birth but also for his literary talent, his wide erudition and his brilliant and provocative
mind. Underneath these characteristics hides an author whose work, that appears incoherent at
first sight, reflects a profound reflection on the aesthetic, the essence and the ultimate purpose of
art. Although Léger’s art involves the domain of aestheticism, it is also intended to subvert and
oppose a society that limits imagination and individual potential by imposing a uniform identity.
In this way, Léger illustrates in all his works the separation and alienation of the self through the
dead child motive, emphasizing his refusal to acknowledge having been born as an alienated self.
Lost in the ambiguity of an image that had not been received by society, Léger wanders in the
infinite game of mirrors like Narcissus searching for an ideal self and an ideal beauty in the
lake’s waters where he gazes upon his reflection.
In this multidisciplinary research, I will study the entirety of Léger’s work in the light of the
notion of narcissism and the multiple reflections that it includes. The narcissistic force that
serves as a fermenting agent for the creation of Léger’s work is developed through a literary,
sociological, psychoanalytical and philosophical interpretation. The final chapter discusses the
elements these different perspectives have in common and they are drawn together in the concept
of tertiary narcissism, as a mechanism of self-protection and self-recreation which is, however,
not without danger as revealed in the tale of Narcissus.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Jack-Alain Léger het op 17 Julie 2013 in die ouderdom van 66 selfmoord gepleeg. Hy laat ‘n
talryke oeuvre agter wat nog nie die onderwerp gevorm het van ‘n akademiese ondersoek nie,
selfs nie gedeeltelik nie. Die skrywer word wel dikwels genoem in artikels en tekste maar nie sy
werk nie. Léger was veral bekend vir sy verskeidenheid pseudonieme, sy bipolêre tendense,
gedurige konflik met sy uitgewers, sy homoseksualiteit, die polemiek rondom die gebruik van
die pseudoniem Paul Smaïl of sy Islamofobie, die haat vir sy pa en vir ‘n putatiewe broer wat
voor geboorte dood is – maar ook vir sy literêre talent, sy uitgebreide kennis en sy briljante
uitdagende gees. Onder al hierdie eienskappe is daar egter ook ‘n skrywer waarvan die oeuvre
met die eerste oogopslag onsamehangend mag voorkom maar in werklikheid ‘n diep besinning
inhou oor estetika, die essensie en die einddoel van kuns. Alhoewel Léger se kuns raak aan die
veld van estetika, is die bedoeling daarvan ook subversief en gemik teen ‘n samelewing wat die
verbeelding probeer hok slaan en die individu se potensiaal beperk deur die oplegging van ‘n
eenvormige identiteit. Só illustreer Léger in sy werk die afsondering en die vervreemding van die
self deur die motief van die dooie kind ; die versinnebeelding van sy weiering om gebore te word
as ‘n vervreemde self. Verlore in die dubbelsinnigheid van ‘n beeld wat nie deur die samelewing
ontvang kon word nie, dwaal Léger tussen die oneindige spel van spieëls soos Narcissus wat ‘n
ideaal soek van homself en van skoonheid in die water van die meer waarin hy staar na sy beeld.
Hierdie multidissiplinêre studie ondersoek Léger se oeuvre in sy geheel in die lig van die begrip
van narcissisme en die veelvoudige weerspieëlings daarvan. Die narcissistiese krag as gis vir
Léger se kreatiewe werk word ingeknie in ‘n literêre, sosiologiese, psigoanalitiese en filosofiese
ontleding. In die laaste hoofstuk, bespreek ek dit wat hierdie verskillende perspektiewe in
gemeen het en verwerk dit deur die konsep van ‘n tersiêre narcissisme, ‘n meganisme van
beskerming en selfherskepping want nietemin ook sy eie gevaar inhou, soos dit onthul word in
die verhaal van Narcissus.<br>RESUME: Jack-Alain Léger qui s’est donné la mort le 17 juillet 2013 à l’âge de 66 ans laisse derrière lui
une oeuvre considérable qui n’a pas - même partiellement - fait l’objet d’études. Bien des articles
ont été écrits sur l’auteur même mais aucun sur ses romans. Léger était surtout connu pour sa
multitude de pseudonymes, sa tendance maniaco-dépressive, ses conflits avec tous ses éditeurs,
son homosexualité, les controverses liées au pseudonyme de Paul Smaïl ou à son islamophobie,
sa haine de son géniteur et d’un frère putatif mort avant sa naissance mais aussi pour son talent
littéraire, son érudition, son esprit brillant et provocateur. Au-delà de ces attributs se dissimule
un écrivain dont l’oeuvre qui paraît au premier abord incohérente reflète une réflexion profonde
sur l’esthétique, sur l’essence et les finalités de l’art. Si l’art de Léger touche au domaine de
l’esthétisme, il se veut aussi subversif et s’oppose à une société qui restreint l’imagination et les
potentialités de chacun en imposant une uniformisation de l’identité. Léger illustre ainsi dans
toute son oeuvre la séparation et l’aliénation du moi par le motif de l’enfant mort soulignant son
refus de naître à un moi aliéné. Perdu dans l’ambiguïté d’une image qui n’a pas été capturée par
le social, Léger erre dans le jeu infini des miroirs tel Narcisse qui cherche un idéal de soi et de
beauté dans l’eau du lac où il se mire.
Cette recherche multidisciplinaire explore l’intégralité de l’oeuvre de cet auteur à la lumière de la
notion du narcissisme et des multiples reflets que celui-ci englobe. La force narcissique en tant
que ferment du travail de création de Léger sera mise en valeur par l’interprétation littéraire,
sociologique, psychanalytique et philosophique. Au chapitre final, je relèverai ce que ces
différentes perspectives analytiques ont soulevé de commun et synthétiserai cela par le concept
du narcissisme tertiaire, un mécanisme de protection et de recréation de soi qui n’est cependant
pas sans danger comme nous le révèle le conte de Narcisse.
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Gaudette, Stacey Leigh, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Genêt unmasked : examining the autobiographical in Janet Flanner." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 2006, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/531.
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This thesis examines Janet Flanner, an expatriate writer whose fiction and
journalism have been essential to the development of American literary modernism in
that her work, taken together, comprises a remarkable autobiographical document which
records her own unique experience of the period while simultaneously contributing to its
particular aesthetic mission. Although recent discussions have opened debate as to how a
variety of discourses can be read as autobiographical, Flanner’s fifty years worth of
cultural, political, and personal observation requires an analysis which incorporates
traditional and contemporary theories concerning life-writing. Essentially,
autobiographical scholarship must continue to push the boundaries of analysis, focusing
on the interactions and reactions between the outer world and the inner self. This thesis,
therefore, will situate Janet Flanner as an important writer whose experience among the
modernist literary community in Europe informs, and is recorded in, her writing.<br>v, 93 leaves ; 29 cm.
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O'Connor, Clémence. "'Pour garder l'impossible intact' : the poetry of Heather Dohollau." Thesis, St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/791.
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Heywood, David. "British combatant writers of the Spanish civil war." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61706.
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Williams, Carol. "Whose story is it anyway? : the screenwriter as author in the process of adaptation." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/74500/1/Carol_Williams_Thesis.pdf.
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This project explores issues confronted when authoring a previously authored story, one received from history. Using the defection of Soviet spies, Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov as its focal point, it details how a screenwriter addresses issues arising in the adaptation of both fictional and biographical representations suitable for contemporary cinema.
Textual fidelity and concepts of interpretation, aesthetics and audience, negotiating factual and fictional imperatives, authorial visibility and invisibility, moral and ethical conundrums are negotiated and a set of guiding principles emerge from this practice-led investigation.
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Clarke, Sally. "In the space behind his eyes : Donald R. Stuart : a biography." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2004. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/857.
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The major part of this thesis, In the Space Behind His Eyes, is a biography of Western Australian author, Donald Robert Stuart (1913-1983), a colourful life story woven around accepted and persistent myths found in the Australian psyche. In his childhood, Donald Stuart listened to stories about his Scottish immigrant grandfather finding gold on the Victorian fields and his father's part in the 1891 Queensland Shearers strike. His poverty-stricken, but peaceful, upbringing in suburban Perth, Western Australia, was overtaken by the 1930s Depression and, as a rebellious fourteen-year old, he left home and took to the road. In the next decade or so, as he adopted the north-west outback life, he was exposed further to Australia's traditional yarns and philosophies. He emerged from this period as the outrageous ‘Scorp’ Stuart, who drank too much and took advantage of the freedoms on offer. At the start of World War II, Scorp volunteered for the 2nd AlF. He served in the Middle East and somehow survived three-and-a-half years as a Prisoner of the Japanese, including a time on the infamous Burma-Thailand railway. On his return to Australia, he began to tread the writer's path, supplementing his memories with renewed visits to the outback of his youth and working on yet another railway. Encouraged by his sister and her friends, supported by two of his wives and recognised by the Western Australian writh1g community, Donald R. Stuart played the role of noted author, a construct only possible because of Scorp Stuart's adventures. Calling on these experiences, in eleven novels and many short stories, he set down his record of a particular Australian life. The varying facets of his complex character come together in his writing, notably through his deep love of the land and in his sympathetic examination of the north-west Aborigines' position since white settlement. This biography of a writer sets out to trace the life of Donald Stuart, examine the disparity between Stuart the bushman and Stuart the noted author, and to shed light on the man behind the writing. In the essay following In the Space Behind His Eyes, I explore the biographical form, consider directions the genre has taken in recent years, discuss aspects of biography generally and support choices made in the writing of this biography.
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Leipzig, Internationale Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die Musikgeschichte in Mittel und Osteuropa an der Universität. "Die Autoren der Beiträge." Musikgeschichte in Mittel- und Osteuropa ; 4 (1999), S. 259-263, 1999. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15543.
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Clarke, Patricia, and n/a. "Life Lines to Life Stories: Some Publications About Women in Nineteenth-Century Australia." Griffith University. School of Arts, Media and Culture, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040719.150756.
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This thesis consists of an introduction and six of my books, published between 1985 and 1999, on aspects of the history of women in nineteenth-century Australia. The books are The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies 1862-1882 (1985); A Colonial Woman: The Life and Times of Mary Braidwood Mowle 1827-1857 (1986); Pen Portraits: Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia (1988); Pioneer Writer: The Life of Louisa Atkinson, Novelist, Journalist, Naturalist (1990); Tasma: The Life of Jessie Couvreur (1994); and Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist (1999). At the time they were published each of these books either dealt with a new subject or presented a new approach to a subject. Collectively they represent a body of work that has expanded knowledge of women's lives and writing in nineteenth-century Australia. Although not consciously planned as a sequence at the outset, these books developed as a result of the influence on my thinking of the themes that emerged in Australian social and cultural historical writing during this period. The books also represent a development in my own work from the earlier more documentary-based books on letters and diaries to the interpretive challenge of biographical writing and the weaving of private lives with public achievements. These books make up a cohesive, cumulative body of work. Individually and as a whole, they make an original contribution to knowledge of the lives and achievements of women in nineteenth-century Australia. They received critical praise at the time of publication and have led to renewed interest and further research on the subjects they cover. My own knowledge and expertise has developed as a result of researching and writing them. The Governesses was not only the first full-length study of a particular group of letters but it also documented aspects of the lives of governesses in Australia, a little researched subject to that time. A Colonial Woman, based on a previously unpublished and virtually unknown diary, pointed to the importance of 'ordinary' lives in presenting an enriched view of the past. Pen Portraits documented the early history of women journalists in Australia, a previously neglected subject. Three of the women I included in Pen Portraits, Louisa Atkinson, Tasma and Rosa Praed, the first two of whom were pioneer women journalists as well as novelists, became the subjects of my full-length biographies. In my biographies of women writers, Pioneer Writer, Tasma, and Rosa! Rosa!, I recorded and interpreted the lives of these important writers placing them in the context of Australian cultural history as women who negotiated gender barriers and recorded this world in their fiction. My books on Louisa Atkinson and Tasma were the first full-length biographies of these significant but largely forgotten nineteenth-century women writers, while my biography of Rosa Praed was the first for more than fifty years. Each introduced original research that changed perceptions of the women's lives and consequently of attitudes to their creative work. Each provided information essential for further research on their historical significance and literary achievements. Each involved extensive research that led to informed interpretation allowing insightful surmises essential to quality biography.
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Clarke, Patricia. "Life Lines to Life Stories: Some Publications About Women in Nineteenth-Century Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365578.
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This thesis consists of an introduction and six of my books, published between 1985 and 1999, on aspects of the history of women in nineteenth-century Australia. The books are The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies 1862-1882 (1985); A Colonial Woman: The Life and Times of Mary Braidwood Mowle 1827-1857 (1986); Pen Portraits: Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia (1988); Pioneer Writer: The Life of Louisa Atkinson, Novelist, Journalist, Naturalist (1990); Tasma: The Life of Jessie Couvreur (1994); and Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist (1999).
At the time they were published each of these books either dealt with a new subject or presented a new approach to a subject. Collectively they represent a body of work that has expanded knowledge of women's lives and writing in nineteenth-century Australia. Although not consciously planned as a sequence at the outset, these books developed as a result of the influence on my thinking of the themes that emerged in Australian social and cultural historical writing during this period. The books also represent a development in my own work from the earlier more documentary-based books on letters and diaries to the interpretive challenge of biographical writing and the weaving of private lives with public achievements. These books make up a cohesive, cumulative body of work. Individually and as a whole, they make an original contribution to knowledge of the lives and achievements of women in nineteenth-century Australia. They received critical praise at the time of publication and have led to renewed interest and further research on the subjects they cover. My own knowledge and expertise has developed as a result of researching and writing them. The Governesses was not only the first full-length study of a particular group of letters but it also documented aspects of the lives of governesses in Australia, a little researched subject to that time. A Colonial Woman, based on a previously unpublished and virtually unknown diary, pointed to the importance of 'ordinary' lives in presenting an enriched view of the past. Pen Portraits documented the early history of women journalists in Australia, a previously neglected subject. Three of the women I included in Pen Portraits, Louisa Atkinson, Tasma and Rosa Praed, the first two of whom were pioneer women journalists as well as novelists, became the subjects of my full-length biographies. In my biographies of women writers, Pioneer Writer, Tasma, and Rosa! Rosa!, I recorded and interpreted the lives of these important writers placing them in the context of Australian cultural history as women who negotiated gender barriers and recorded this world in their fiction. My books on Louisa Atkinson and Tasma were the first full-length biographies of these significant but largely forgotten nineteenth-century women writers, while my biography of Rosa Praed was the first for more than fifty years. Each introduced original research that changed perceptions of the women's lives and consequently of attitudes to their creative work. Each provided information essential for further research on their historical significance and literary achievements. Each involved extensive research that led to informed interpretation allowing insightful surmises essential to quality biography.<br>Thesis (PhD Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Philosophy by Publication (PhD)<br>School of Arts, Media and Culture<br>Full Text
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Forsyth, Michael. "Julia Kavanagh in her times : novelist and biographer, 1824-1877." Thesis, n.p, 1999. http://oro.open.ac.ukk/18817/.
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Birkwood, M. Susan. "(D)ifferent sides of the picture, four women's views of Canada, 1816-1838." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq21279.pdf.
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Roddy, Rhonda Kay. "In search of the self: An analysis of Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2262.
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In her bibliography, Incidents in the life of a Salve Girl, Harriet Ann Jacobs appropriates the autobiographical "I" in order to tell her own story of slavery and talk back to the dominant culture that enslaves her. Through analysis and explication of the text, this thesis examines Jacobs' rhetorical and psyshological evolution from slave to self as she struggles against patriarchal power that would rob her of her identity as well as her freedom. Included in the discussion is an analysis of the concept of self in western plilosophy, an overview of american autobiography prior to the publication of Jacobs' narrative, a discussion of the history of the slave narrative as a genre, and a discussion of the history of Jacobs' narrative.
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Modzelewski, Ann Shirley. "Internal dialogues: Construction of the self in The Woman Warrior." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2468.
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This thesis considers past autobiographical theory and questions whether it addresses the autobiography of the female writer. Autobiographies of Harriet Jacobs, Margaret Sanger, and Maxine Hong Kingston are examined to reveal their polyvocality, use of the autobiographical "I", and rhetorical strategies maintained in order to create a close relationship with the reader. Particular attention is paid to Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism and Sidonie Smith's autobiographical "I."
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Rock, Brian. "Irish nationalism and postcolonial modernity : the 'minor' literature and authorial selves of Brian O'Nolan." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2495.
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In the immediate post-independence period, forms of state-sponsored Irish nationalism were pre-occupied with exclusive cultural markers based on the Irish language, mythology and folk traditions. Because of this, a postcolonial examination of how such nationalist forms of identity were fetishised is necessary in order to critique the continuing process of decolonization in Ireland. This dissertation investigates Brian O’Nolan’s engagement with dominant colonial and nationalist literary discourses in his fiction and journalism. Deleuze and Guattari define a ‘minor’ writer’s role as one which deterritorializes major languages in order to negotiate textual spaces which question the assumptions of dominant groups. Considering this concept has been applied to postcolonial studies due to the theorists’ linguistic and political concerns, this dissertation explores the ‘minor’ literary practice of Brian O’Nolan’s authorial personae and writing techniques. Through the employment of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the deterritorialization of language alongside Walter Benjamin’s models of the flâneur and translation, and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s concept of bricolage, this thesis examines the complex forms of postcolonial narrative agency and discursive political resistance in O’Nolan’s work. While O’Nolan is often read in biographical terms or within the frameworks of literary modernism and postmodernism, this thesis aims to demonstrate the politically ambivalent nature of his writing through his creation of liminal authorial selves and heterogeneous narrative forms. As a bi-lingual author, O’Nolan is linguistically ‘in-between’ languages and, because of this, he deterritorializes both historical and literary associations of the Irish and English languages to produce parodic and comic versions of national and linguistic identity. His satiric novel An Béal Bocht exposes, through his use of an array of materials, how Irish folk and peasant culture have been fetishized within colonial and nationalist frameworks. In order to avoid such restricting forms of identity, O’Nolan positions his own authorial self within a multitude of pseudonyms which refuse a clear, assimilable subjectivity and political position. Because of this, O’Nolan’s authorial voice in his journalism is read as an allusive flâneur figure. Equally, O’Nolan deterritorializes Irish mythology in At Swim-Two-Birds as a form of palimpsestic translation and rhizomatic re-mapping of a number of literary traditions which reflect the Irish nation while in The Third Policeman O’Nolan deconstructs notions of empirical subjectivity and academic and scientific epistemological knowledge. This results in an infinite form of fantastical writing which exposes the limited codes of Irish national culture and identity without reterritorializing such identities. Because O’Nolan’s ‘minor’ literary challenge is reflective of the on-going crisis of Ireland’s incomplete decolonization, this thesis employs the concept of ‘minor’ literature to read Ireland’s historical past and contemporary modernity through O’Nolan’s multi-voiced and layered narratives.
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Werner-Birkenbach, Sabine. "Hugo Ball und Hermann Hesse, eine Freundschaft, die zu Literatur wird : Kommentare und Analysen zum Briefwechsel, zu autobiographischen Schriften und zu Balls Hesse-Biographie /." Stuttgart : H.-D. Heinz, 1995. http://books.google.com/books?id=oElcAAAAMAAJ.
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Karlik, Ozge. "From The." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12611232/index.pdf.
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This study is an attempt to examine the literary house-museums located in istanbul. In the
chronological order of their transformations from houses into museums, these are Tevfik
Fikret house-museum in ASiyan, Rumelihisari (1945), Sait Faik Abasiyanik house-museum
in Burgazada (1964), and Hü<br>seyin Rahmi Gü<br>rpinar house-museum in Heybeliada (2000). By
pointing out their ambiguous position between privacy and publicity, this research seeks to
juxtapose the uses of these museums as houses in the past with the uses of these houses as
museums in the present. While doing that, it aims to read their spatial stories/histories by
focusing not only on the writers/inhabitants of the houses and the owners/organizers of the
museums, but also on the guests/visitors of these house-museums.
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Michaels, Cindy Sheffield. "Determining Quality through Audience, Genre, and the Rhetorical Canon: Imagining a Biography of Eudora Welty for Children." unrestricted, 2005. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04222005-134328/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2005.<br>Title from title screen. Elizabeth Sanders Lopez, committee chair; Pearl A. McHaney, Mary E. Hocks, committee members. Electronic text (167 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed July 17, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-159).
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Conte, Susannah. "The Fifth Sparrow: In Memory of Mollie Skinner." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2018. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2080.
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This thesis offers a case study in adapting Australian literary biography to the theatre, specifically in the form of a one woman show or monologue performance. The thesis consists of a novel play script, together with exegetical writing which outlines the source materials used and the process and themes under consideration. These themes include those of family (specifically a difficult relationship with her mother), love (including a lesbian affair), life as an aspiring writer, and the protagonist’s difficult to shake sense of damage, pain and struggle. The play offers a portrait of West Australian writer Mollie Skinner (1876- 1955). Sources included her autobiography (both the original manuscript and that edited and published by Mary Durack), Mollie’s novels and her letters—particularly her extensive correspondence with the British author D.H. Lawrence, who she met in WA—and secondary writings. Skinner’s writing has been described as akin to an “untended garden,” rich in imagery, but scattered and often difficult to follow. In recognition of this, my play takes the form of a series of vignettes and images, a succession of heightened moments, choreographed with sound and movement elements for dramatic impact. Mollie’s life thereby emerges as one marked by pain and suffering, yet suffused with rich language and visions. Although Mollie was more than just a friend of D.H. Lawrence, it is nevertheless clear that the better known author offered her support and encouragement that few others did. Together with her Sybil these two figures emerge as Mollie’s only true loves and companions, figures physically separated from her, yet who enabled her life and many of her joys. Skinner emerges then as a modest but indomitable spirt, poised on the veranda, looking at the world through her failing eyesight; touched by the beauty of it all.
The aim of the play is thus to do justice to the spirit of Skinner, without presenting an exhaustive account of her entire life, and in doing so, to present her story to a new generation of West Australians.
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Weiler, Sylvia. "Jean Amérys Ethik der Erinnerung: die Materialisierung des Geistes im Körper." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210403.
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In dieser Dissertation wird Jean Amérys Ethik der Erinnerung auf ihre philosophischen, politischen und literarischen Implikationen hin untersucht. Dabei wird sie als ein moegliches philosophisches Fundament fuer den westdeutschen Auschwitz-Diskurs und die westdeutsche Nachkriegsliteratur vorgestellt. Ihre Besonderheiten gewinnen auf der Grundlage eines Vergleichs von Amérys erinnerungspolitischen Positionen mit jenen Theodor W. Adornos Kontur, der allgemein als der philosophische Begruender der deutschen Literatur nach 1945 gilt. Beide Intellektuelle denken ausgehend von ihrer Verfolgungserfahrung als Juden deutscher (Adorno) bzw. oesterreichischer (Améry) Herkunft. Doch anders als Adorno, dem 1938 die Emigration nach Amerika gelang, wurde Améry als politischer Widerstandskaempfer gefoltert und nach Auschwitz deportiert. Vor diesem Hintergrund geht es um die Frage nach der erkenntnistheoretischen Bedeutung der koerperlichen Erfahrung der Vernichtung beim Versuch, ein der Zaesur Auschwitz angemessenes Denken zu begruenden. Hierzu werden erstmals Amérys Anleihen bei dem Phaenomenologen Maurice Merleau-Ponty systematisch analysiert. Wie er geht auch Améry davon aus, dass die koerperliche Wahrnehmung eines Menschen in entscheidender Form ueber sein Engagement in Kultur und Gesellschaft mitbestimmt.<p>Im Rahmen der Forschungsarbeit werden saemtliche Werke Amérys beruecksichtigt, inklusive seiner zum Teil noch unveroeffentlichten Nachlass-Arbeiten. Sie ist in drei Teile aufgegliedert, in denen jeweils eine der Werkepochen, die Améry auf seinem Werdegang als politischer Schriftsteller durchlaeuft, zentral steht: sein politisches Erwachen 1934/35 in Wien, seine ersten Schreibversuche nach der Befreiung aus dem Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen zwischen 1945 und 1949, und zuletzt die Ethik der Erinnerung des kanonischen Améry, die er in zwei Werkepochen erarbeitet hat, in denen er sich jeweils unterschiedlichen Fragestellungen widmet.(1966-1974 und 1974-1978). <p>Aus der Literaturzeitschrift "Die Bruecke", die der 22jaehrige 1934 gemeinsam mit einem Freund herausgab, und Amérys Jugendroman "Die Schiffbruechigen" werden in den ersten beiden Kapiteln die fruehen philosophischen und aestetischen Urspruenge von Amérys Ethik eroertert. Im folgenden Kapitel rueckt die Vernichtungserfahrung des Autors in den Brennpunkt. Die Parameter ihrer ersten literarischen Verarbeitung in seinen Schriften aus der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit werden herausgestellt, die Améry in seinem Spaetwerk weitergedacht hat. Auf den vorangehenden Forschungsergebnissen aufbauend wird im letzten Kapitel Amérys Ethik der Erinnerung im Vergleich zu jener Theodor W. Adornos erarbeitet. Ihr phaenomenologisches Fundament wird dem geschichtsphilosophischen Fundament des Adornoschen Denkens gegenuebergestellt. Dabei wird gezeigt, dass nicht nur Amérys Denken, sondern auch seine Aesthetik phaenomenologisch ausgerichtet ist. Durch die Analysen in diesem Hauptteil der Dissertation, in dem erstmals alle Essay-Baende auf ihren erinnerungspolitischen Gehalt im Zusammenspiel untersucht wurden, wird Amérys Beitrag zur Begruendung einer postmodernen Ethik und der Gattung der Shoah-Literatur einsehbar.<p><br>Doctorat en Langues et lettres<br>info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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James, John-Gabriel H. "A lens of liminality : an interpretive biography of Charles Warren Stoddard, 1843-1909." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11647.
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Ogg, Mariette. "Mess to the Press: Navigating Alex Haley's Journalistic Roots." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-85gt-ed78.
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Mess to the Press is a narrative of the life of Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (Alex Haley), the author and twenty-year United States Coast Guard veteran who wrote his way into annals of the nation’s literary, journalistic, and military histories. While the Pulitzer Prize-winning Haley is best known for authoring The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) and the genealogical epic Roots (1976), this study archives and considers over two decades of writerly practices that precede publication of these seminal texts. More specifically, the narrative history presented here—charted from a complex network of archival materials and oral histories that span oceans and continents—critically examines Haley’s origins as a master storyteller, a griot of sorts, whose literary and journalistic contributions subverted the forms, functions, and outlets of traditional narrative accounts for his mid-twentieth-century audiences. Drawing on stories told within and across government documents, special collections, oral histories, periodicals, physical artifacts, and retired Coast Guard members’ personal letters and photographs, the researcher employed historiographical methods to examine the following questions: (1) How does Haley become a writer? (2) How does Haley come to recognize, develop, hone, and share his writing as an active duty Coast Guard member (1939-1959) at a time when African American service members endured the realities of a segregated service while fighting for Democracy and Civil Rights on both home and warfronts? and (3) To what extent do literacy practices, skills, and experiences from Haley’s Coast Guard service emerge in his early post-Coast Guard retirement research, writing, and journalism?
As this study traces Haley’s journey from scrubbing pots in a shipboard galley to composing galley proofs for some of the country’s best-selling periodicals, the reader is asked to consider how this revisionist account is less of a traditional critical literary biography and more of an autobiographical assemblage. Textual and material analysis of periodicals, special collections holdings, and oral histories navigated by its female, active-duty Coast Guard author works to navigate and expose the roots of Haley’s early writing life and journalistic journey.
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"閨中的學者: 汪端(1793-1839)的生命歷程、詩歌編撰及歷史關懷". 2010. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5894550.
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盧志虹.<br>"2010年9月".<br>"2010 nian 9 yue".<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 245-253).<br>Abstract in Chinese and English.<br>Lu Zhihong.<br>引言 --- p.1<br>Chapter 第一章 --- 緒論 --- p.5<br>Chapter 第一節 --- 才女與歷史研究 --- p.5<br>Chapter 第二節 --- 前人關於汪端的研究 --- p.13<br>Chapter 第三節 --- 本文章節安排與材料說明 --- p.22<br>Chapter 第二章 --- 江南文化精英的生活和汪端的成長 --- p.25<br>Chapter 第一節 --- 文化實力一振綺堂汪氏的冒起 --- p.25<br>Chapter 第二節 --- 經濟基礎 --- p.35<br>Chapter 第三節 --- 汪端的成長和教育 --- p.39<br>Chapter 第四節 --- 汪端與汪、梁、許氏諸人關係的進一步思考 --- p.54<br>Chapter 第三章 --- 汪端與陳家:婚姻生活中的空間 --- p.59<br>Chapter 第一節 --- 陳汪聯姻 --- p.60<br>Chapter 第二節 --- 力爭上遊的陳氏父子 --- p.65<br>Chapter 第三節 --- 陳氏父子與汪端 --- p.75<br>Chapter 第四節 --- 注端與陳家女眷 --- p.88<br>Chapter 第五節 --- 才女與家庭 --- p.106<br>Chapter 第四章 --- 汪端的詩歌編選及其意義 --- p.109<br>Chapter 第一節 --- 編選詩文的傳統 --- p.109<br>Chapter 第二節 --- 汪端和〈明三十家詩選〉 --- p.111<br>Chapter 第三節 --- 〈明三十家詩選〉獲得的好評 --- p.119<br>Chapter 第四節 --- 其他清代女性的詩選活動 --- p.124<br>Chapter 第五節 --- 汪端和個人詩集的編選與刊行 --- p.132<br>Chapter 第六節 --- 汪端編選行為的再思考 --- p.140<br>Chapter 第五章 --- 汪端的歷史關懷 --- p.145<br>Chapter 第一節 --- 汪端的詩、史愛好 --- p.146<br>Chapter 第二節 --- 知人論世之途一作詩 --- p.151<br>Chapter 第三節 --- 〈明三十家詩選〉中的明史 --- p.163<br>Chapter 第四節 --- 汪端歷史關懷的主要特點和所受的影響 --- p.169<br>Chapter 第五節 --- 汪端研究對才女歷史關懷的意義 --- p.177<br>結語 --- p.180<br>附錄一汪端(1793-1839)年譜 --- p.183<br>"附錄二梁德繩〈小韞甥女于歸吳門以其愛詩為吟五百八十字送之即書明湖飲餞圖後〉及汪端的和詩〈辛未春日返棹武林賦呈楚生姨母,即用賜題明湖飲餞圖原韻〉" --- p.215<br>附錄三振綺堂及汪氏出版物清單 --- p.219<br>附錄四《清代學者像傳》中的汪端與陳裴之畫像 --- p.223<br>附錄五《自然好學齋集》 (振綺堂本)與《自然好學齋詩鈔》 (十卷本)的對比 --- p.224<br>附錄六《明十家詩選》的參閱者和校對者 --- p.236<br>附錄七能否斷定汪端的《元明逸史》為白話小說? --- p.239<br>參考書目 --- p.245
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Landon, Clare Eve. "India through eastern and western eyes : women's auto/biography in colonial and post-colonial India." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2964.
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During the course of my dissertation I demonstrate the way in which Anglo-Indian women writers of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century diverge from the genre of the "feminine picturesque" as explained by Sara Suleri in her book, The Rhetoric of English India. I look too, at what Indo-English women use as a genre, instead of the "feminine picturesque". I also apply Spivakean ideas on representation to their writing in order to see the similarities and differences between my primary texts and the theory. I begin my dissertation by explaining what Sara Suleri means by the "feminine picturesque" and how I intend using it to better understand the primary texts I look at. I also explain Spivak's ideas on representation and how I intend using them to further my appreciation of Anglo-Indian and Indo-English writing of this period. I conclude my thesis by discussing my findings with regard to the theorists looked at, and how their ideas have been reflected in the four principal texts I examined.<br>Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2001.