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Goremusandu, Tania. "Gender possibilities in the African context as explored by Mariama Ba's So long a letter, Neshani Andrea's The purple violet of Oshaantu and Sindiwe Magona's Beauty gift." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/6469.
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Gender oppression has been a significant discussion to the development of gender, cultural and feminist theories. The primary focus of this study is to investigate how patriarchal traditions, colonialism, and religious oppression force women to struggle under constrictions oppositional to empowerment. Thus, the project provides a comparative analysis of three texts from different African postcolonial societies by three African female writers: Mariama Bâ, Neshani Andreas and Sindiwe Magona. The author‟s biographies and historical context of their novels will be analyzed, as well as a summary of their stories will be included in order to provide the context for gender criticism. These writer‟s work; So Long a Letter, The Purple Violet of Oshaantu and Beauty‟s Gift depict patriarchal, cultural and religious laws which exist in Senegal, Namibia and South Africa, respectively, that limit the position of women. Therefore, this study will interrogate the experience of African women as inscribed in these selected texts, uncovering the literary expressions of gender oppression as well as the possibilities of empowerment. The selected texts will be analyzed through the lens of Gender studies, African feminism and Cultural studies. From these theories, the focus of the study is on the struggles of the female characters living in patriarchal societies as well as on the idea that gender is constructed socially and culturally in the African context. In conclusion, the emergence of these renowned female African writers together with the emancipation of African countries from colonial supremacy has opened a space for women to compensate and correct the stereotyped female images in African literature and post- colonial societies. Most contemporary African writers like Buchi Emecheta, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Sindiwe Magona, Mariama Bâ and Neshani Andreas have shown that women are seeking to attain empowerment. As a result, this study can be viewed as an opportunity to highlight such experiences by continuing to interrogate the writings of African women writers and to explore their gender-based themes so as to inform and or inspire the implementation of women empowerment. It will broaden and encourage further academic discussion in the field of Cultural studies and gender criticism of women‟s literature within the African context.
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Rowe, Rochelle. "Imagining Caribbean Womanhood : Racialised Femininities, Colour-blind Nationalisms and Beauty Contests." Thesis, University of Essex, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520113.
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Thompson, Elisabeth Blumer. "Trailer park royalty Southern child beauty pageants, girlhood and power /." Click here to access dissertation, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/spring2007/elisabeth_b_thompson/thompson_elisabeth_b_200708_edd.pdf.
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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007."A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." Curriculum Studies, under the direction of William M. Reynolds. ETD. Electronic version approved: December 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-228) and appendices.
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Sebree, Adrien E. "Living Fairy Tales: Science Fiction and Fantasy's Visionary Retellings of "Beauty and the Beast"." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/204.
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This thesis explores how science fiction and fantasy retellings of the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" bring visionary insights to the fairy tale. Stories such as Tanith Lee's science fiction novella "Beauty" and Mercedes Lackey's fantasy novel The Fire Rose constitute living and developing incarnations of "Beauty and the Beast." To better explore the visionary leaps made by these stories, they are placed in contrast with one of the original recordings of the story by Madame Marie Le Prince de Beaumont and the 1991 Disney film version, Beauty and the Beast.
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Hart, Carina. "Fruit, water, ice, glass, gold : images of human beauty in post-1980 Anglophone fiction." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2012. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/42414/.
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The 1960s and 1970s witnessed a critique of the concept of beauty in art and philosophy (McGann 190), with Christopher Janaway characterising aesthetics as the Cinderella of philosophy who “doesn’t make it to the ball” (vii). However, since around 1980 an increasing number of artistic and critical voices have begun to speak about beauty once again. Anglophone novels of this period, from 1980 to 2012, show a particular engagement with the subject through their exploration of human beauty. By figuring the beauty of characters in metaphorical terms, they demonstrate that conceptions of human beauty as either a sinful, fleshly temptation or an abstract ideal can be transformed. Five specific metaphors through which this is achieved form the subject of analysis for this thesis: fruit, water, ice, glass and gold. Ten post-1980 novels are examined in their use of these metaphors to reformulate human beauty. ! The preoccupation with the transformation and rewriting of beauty will be shown to indicate a distinct trend in post-1980 fiction, one which enacts a notable move away from fiction regarded as postmodernist. It will be demonstrated that the present concern with beauty emerges from the emphasis on surfaces in postmodernist fiction (Waugh, Practising Postmodernism 4), but that contemporary novels are characterised by a reconstructive and transformative approach which is less evident in earlier fiction. This transformative approach is directed to the division of beauty into concrete and abstract by philosophers such as Plato, Augustine, Kant and Adorno. In post-1980 fiction and the critical work of Wendy Steiner, Denis Donoghue, James Kirwan and others, this dichotomy is profoundly challenged. This thesis engages with these aesthetic philosophies in close readings of the ten chosen novels, to expound how the relationship between concrete and abstract human beauty is represented and rewritten in post-1980 fiction.
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Pantelia, Maria. "Beauty unblamed : a study on ancient portrayals of Helen of Troy /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487332636477321.
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Gentile, Patrizia. "Searching for "Miss Civil Service" and "Mr. Civil Service"; gender anxiety, beauty contests and fruit machines in the Canadian civil service, 1950-1973." Ottawa, 1996.
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Senguttuvan, Vinoad. "Shutters." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/290.
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Shutters is a fragmented novel that employs various prose and poetic elements to document the life and endeavors of photographer-writer Ishi in present day New York City. The work follows his quest for emotional and physical connection, and his artistic project where he photographs and writes about suicide survivors. The work explores the observer-observed divide that often manifests in fiction and addresses the themes of physical beauty, art, death and the human condition.
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Ullrich-Ferguson, Loretta N. "The beauty of her survival : being Black and female in Meridian, The salt eaters, Kindred, and The bluest eye /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131464907.pdf.
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Li, Mengjun. "In the Name of A Love Story: Scholar-Beauty Novels and the Writing of Genre Fiction in Qing China (1644-1911)." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1406132481.
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Li, Mengjun. "Master of Heavenly Flowers Scripture: Constructing Tianhua zang zhuren's Three Personae as Publisher, Commentator, and Writer of Scholar-beauty Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250608011.
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Williams, Heather A. "Miss Homegrown the performance of food, festival, and femininity in local queen pageants /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1245452161.
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Klaber, Lara. "Taming the Perfect Beast: The Monster as Romantic Hero in Contemporary Fiction." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1408475965.
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Brown, Jeannette. "Little Town Blues." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1582.
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"Little Town Blues" is a novel about a woman burdened by a childhood accident and surviver's guilt. She sneaks into a vacation house on Friday nights to read a novel. Bored with her marriage and her work as a hairdresser, her behavior becomes increasingly riskier.
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Wang, Wanzheng Michelle. "Reclaiming Aesthetics in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1435584142.
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Maass, Alexandra. "La religion du corps en Californie." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040134.
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Le corps moderne est à la fois l’objet de rêves et d’interdits, un lieu de conflits, d’inégalités et d’investissements, mais il représente avant tout la quête contemporaine de la beauté ainsi que le rêve scientifique de la jeunesse et de l’immortalité. Le corps en Californie tient une place tellement importante qu’il n’est pas exagéré de parler de religion. La religion du corps crée dans un premier temps un lien vers le Divin puisque le corps est soit opposé à l’esprit soit il constitue un moyen d’accéder à la divinité, comme chez les orientaux. De la conception grecque antique à la version orientale, sans oublier de parler de la place du corps dans l’histoire californienne et de sa relation à un Dieu, nous nous rendrons compte que le corps considéré comme lien vers le Divin cède petit à petit sa place à une appropriation personnelle poussée à la fois par le narcissisme des années soixante puis par des impératifs normatifs. Le californien est alors à la quête de nouvelles expériences dont le médium est le corps, tout en étant à la recherche d’une perfection physique. Cela a donné vie à un vaste marché, créant ainsi une compatibilité entre la religion du corps et son aspect mercantile. Ce lien ne s’arrête pas seulement aux produits, ni à l’industrie que génère un tel marché, car le corps est devenu un investissement à capitaliser. Comme dans toute religion, il y a une part de fanatisme et de dérive dont il faut mesurer l’impact. L’ultime question est celle du rôle de la science dans l’évolution du corps. Cette nouvelle religion du corps, remplace doucement le lien premier vers le Divin, amenant l’homme vers plus de maîtrise, de connaissance et de contrôle sur son destinThe body’s new frontier is both an esthetic and scientific quest, with the wild dream of reaching an ideal beauty and immortality - or at least living better and longer. In California, the body and its cult are so important therefore we can safely say that it is a religion. This religion of the body is primarily linked to the Divine since in the classical point of view, the body is either linked to sin or is a way to reach God, as the oriental religions believe. From ancient Greece to the oriental influences, not forgetting how the body is perceived in California’s history and its relationship to the Divine, we will slowly become aware that this link is somehow being overshadowed by a personal appropriation of the body both triggered by the 1960’s narcissism and social norms. The typical californian seeks experiment and pushes boundaries using the body as a medium, while striving to reach physical perfection. Of course this cannot go without the growing of a massive market, hence the connexion between the religion of the body and its mercantile aspect. That link not only reflects the amount of products and services as well as the whole industry behind them, it also brings forward the fact that the body is considered as an object one has to invest in and capitalize on both the future and the present moment. As in all types of religion, there is a part of fanaticism and going astray. Its impact cannot be overlooked. The ultimate question is the role of science in the body’s evolution. What has become the new scientific religion of the body slowly replaces the initial link to the Divine, bringing mankind towards more knowledge, mastery, and control over its destiny
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Lyons, Kristin. "THE CASE OF LIMBO: THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY IN SYLVIA PLATH’S SHORT FICTION AND THE BELL JAR." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/556.
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Though Sylvia Plath’s poems and novel undergo frequent scholarly research, her short fiction is often overlooked. Plath’s journals influenced her short fiction writing, and her stories reflected Plath’s lived experiences. Plath’s short fiction, like her other works, explore themes of identity and detachment. Each of her protagonists exist in a personal limbo, and they strive to find their identities and to fit the roles in which they occupy. This thesis focuses on “Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom,” stories from Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, and additional research from scholarly journals and biographies, with comparisons to identity struggles shown in The Bell Jar and The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. I found the catalysts for their identity crises stem from observations surrounding femininity, societal roles, and psychological wellness. Furthermore, this research shows Plath’s subjective writing habits and highlights her protagonists’ commonalities throughout her writing career.
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Vogtman, Jacqueline. "The Preservation of Objects Lost at Sea." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1268930284.
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Odor, Erin M. "Re-versing the Eighth Genius: Invoking Partnerships and Poetics to Translate the Huajian ji." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1417015192.
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黃琬君. "Herding behavior in commodity futures market－the application of Keynes beauty contests." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63693007764458065926.
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國際經營與貿易研究所
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This paper primary follows the methods derived by Allen, Morris, and Shin (2003), using a contaminated, or with a supply shock, rational expectation model to build the linear relationship for commodity futures price. In this way, the price could not fully reflect the true information in commodity futures price. Besides, we also use the notion of iterated expectation in our futures price model, and try to figure out whether the price is influences mainly by the public information, but no the true information in the market. Thus, we can imply form this that when participants excessively depend on public information to make decisions, it may cause the futures price to deviate from its true information and thus its fundamental value. From the derivation of our model, we can have identical conclusion as Allen, Morris and Shin (2003) put it－when participants in the market doing expectations about the market’s average to guess other participants’ opinions, their expectation may be influenced mostly by public information in the market but not the true, or private, information they possess, which may result in futures prices dominating by the public information.
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"Legitimizing televised beauty pageants: an organizational study of cultural marketing." 1998. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5889572.
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by Maria Chen.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998.
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Chapter Ch. 1 --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1. --- The tension of the double goals in media organization --- p.2
Chapter 2. --- Research question --- p.3
Chapter 3. --- Significance --- p.3
Chapter Ch. 2 --- Beauty pageants and television --- p.5
Chapter 1. --- History --- p.5
Chapter (A) --- "Miss USA, Miss Universe" --- p.5
Chapter (B) --- Increasing popularity of beauty pageants in Hong Kong… --- p.5
Chapter 2. --- Formats of beauty pageants --- p.8
Chapter (A) --- TVB --- p.8
Chapter (B) --- ATV --- p.9
Chapter 3. --- Why beauty pageants? --- p.10
Chapter (A) --- A popular TV program --- p.10
Chapter (B) --- Controversial media product --- p.11
Chapter Ch. 3 --- Corporate image and the tension between profit-making and social responsibility: a theoretical linkage --- p.15
Chapter 1. --- Theoretical tension between the two goals --- p.15
Chapter (A) --- The goal of responsibility --- p.15
Chapter (B) --- The goal of profit --- p.19
Chapter (C) --- The relationship between profit and responsibility --- p.20
Chapter (D) --- The source of tension --- p.21
Chapter (E) --- The conflict and compatibility of the double goals --- p.22
Chapter 2. --- The method of tension resolution --- p.24
Chapter (A) --- Marketing --- p.24
Chapter (B) --- Corporate Image --- p.26
Chapter (C) --- The position taken in this thesis --- p.30
Chapter Ch. 4 --- Research methods --- p.32
Chapter 1. --- Hypotheses --- p.32
Chapter 2. --- Methodology --- p.33
Chapter (A) --- In-depth interview --- p.33
Chapter (B) --- Participant observation --- p.36
Chapter (C) --- Documentation analysis --- p.36
Chapter Ch. 5 --- Results --- p.38
Chapter 1. --- TV stations and their structure in Hong Kong --- p.38
Chapter (A) --- TVB's corporate image --- p.39
Chapter (B) --- ATV's corporate image --- p.41
Chapter (C) --- TVB's image for Miss Hong Kong --- p.42
Chapter (D) --- ATV's image for Miss Asia --- p.44
Chapter 2. --- Analysis of the tensions and resolutions in beauty pageants --- p.45
Chapter (A) --- Managing external uncertainty --- p.45
Chapter (B) --- Media frameworks for beauty pageants in Hong Kong --- p.47
Chapter (C) --- Managing internal uncertainty --- p.58
Chapter Ch. 6 --- Conclusion --- p.78
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Her, Yen-Mei, and 何燕梅. "The Impact of Regional Tea Industry Regarding the Government’s Sponsoring of Tea Evaluation Contests For Example:The Oriental Beauty Tea Industry in Miaoli." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rkzcr4.
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碩士亞太創意技術學院
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Oriental Beauty Tea, being one of the most famous teas in Taiwan and grown in Miaoli, is a kind of heavily fermented tea. Hand plucked, it is made with the sprouts of tea trees stung by small insects, namely green leafhoppers or Jacobiasca formosana. Carefully processed, it is pesticide free. Hand-mixed, it is possible to control its degree of fermentation. As a result, the tea gives a natural honey taste and fruit aroma, smooth and rich. No wonder it is regarded as a special tea of Miaoli with high economic values. This study examines not only the sponsoring of the tea contest by the county government but also the marketing manners in order to educate tea merchants and tea farmers to operate tea businesses. Promoting the quality of the tea, the farmers’ income will increase naturally. Moreover, it can promote local sightseeing business and help promote the development of tourism. As the Chinese tea culture prospers, passing down from generations to generations, people will be delighted in tasting the healthiest, safest and the hygienic tea in Miaoli. This is the motivation of this thesis. The research findings are summed up as follows: 1.The substantial meanings of the government’s sponsoring of the Oriental Beauty Tea Contest: (1) Achieve the goals of marketing; (2) safeguard consumers’ rights; (3) increase tea farmers’ income; (4) highlight the features; (5) promote tea industry; (6) improve tea processing technique; (7) promote tea quality; (8) packed and marketed by grades. 2.The changes of the mechanism of government’s sponsoring of tea evaluation contests: (1) Similar; (2) renting tea gardens; (3) operated by division of labor; (4) new thinking and new ideas; (5) profound studies of management and manufacturing techniques; (6) adjustment of contestants’ qualifications; (7) ferment, tea color, and taste changed; (8) food safety; and (9) adjustment of coding. 3.The impacts of the development of regional industry culture regarding the government’s sponsoring of tea evaluation contests: (1)Rooted firmly; (2) consumers’ identification; (3) promote tea trade; (4) win-win situations between the government and farmers; (5) give life force; (6) popularization of tea drinking culture; (7) catch up with the trends of the times; and (8) benefits oriented 4.The impacts on economic development regarding the government’s sponsoring of tea evaluation contests: (1)Sales improved; (2) increased consumers groups; (3) farmers’ benefits increased; (4) focus on tea garden management; (5) marketing benefits; (6) limited quantity; (7) clear classification; (8) featured; (9) brand confidence; (10) negative impacts; (11) promote economic development; (12) balance between production, manufacturing, and marketing 5.The impacts on consumers regarding the government’s sponsoring of tea evaluation contests: (1) Design standardized packing; (2) clear classification; (3) confidence in quality; (4) media campaign; (5) anti-counterfeit mechanism; (6) featured industry; (7) difficulties in brand standardization; (8) showing off; (9) too pricey; (10) limited; (11) gift oriented 6.The impacts on tourism regarding the government’s sponsoring of tea evaluation contests: (1)media campaign; (2) sponsor trade fair; (3) featured; (4) better planning of routes; (5) recreate its value; (6) addition sales of other farm produce; (7) too pricey 7.The impact of regional management of tea industry regarding the government’s sponsoring of tea evaluation contests: (1)Change in accordance with the trends; (2) capital income; (3) dedicated operation; (4) fallow of tea garden; (5) limited species; (6) certification of organic tea; (7) diverse operations; (8) integration of production, manufacturing, and marketing; (9) safety drink; (10) welcomed by consumers; (11) deriving leading function 8.The difficulties faced by the oriental beauty tea industry: (1) Shortage of tea picking labor; (2) decreasing number of tea gardens; (3) smaller green leafhoppers are difficult to prevent; (4) the legacy of tea; (5) low social status of tea artists; (6) chaotic market; (7) must have certain features.
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Kandl, Cecile E. "Beauty and the body in the fiction of Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, and Sarah Grand /." Diss., 2001. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3036263.
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Lee, Joori. "The Making of Beauty: Aesthetic Spaces in the Fiction of D. H. Lawrence, Muriel Spark, and Virginia Woolf." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151074.
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This dissertation rethinks textual images of the other’s beauty, depicted in works by D. H. Lawrence, Muriel Spark, and Virginia Woolf, whose fascination with the other, called by
this dissertation the beloved, urged them to inscribe the beloved’s original beauty in texts. Their
works make perceptible the singularity of the beloved, while revealing the writers’ predicament in
translating the beloved’s ineffability in texts. Taking the untranslatability of the beloved into
consideration, this dissertation traces the ways in which these writers’ texts capture the
beloved’s original beauty at moments of revelation, related to epiphanies entering the terrain of
literary modernism. My study thereby scrutinizes the dynamics of images of beauty and their impacts on art and politics in the context of modernism. In doing so, I argue that the texts I consider express the beloved’s singularity in challenge of the beautified images that many other artists invented for self-directed purposes in the early and mid-twentieth century.
First, I explore Lawrence’s creation of aesthetic spaces in Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) in
keeping with his desire for making palpable visual spectacles through the text. Analyzing how this
ambition helped to create the novel’s aesthetic scenes, I would like to define Lawrence as an aesthete whose aspiration lay in expressing the beauty of things. Then, I discuss Spark’s affection for her characters and her desire to visualize the figure’s originality in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) and The Girls of Slender Means (1963). Considering Spark in relation to both modernists and Fascists, I propose that her making of the image of her character breaks away from Fascism’s aestheticization of human figures. Finally, I investigate Woolf’s love for words by focusing on “The Duchess and the Jeweller” (1938), a short story written for expressing various modes of beauty in words. Drawing to the represented link between words and smell, considered the most “wasteful” sense, I examine how the sensory medium makes perceptible intrinsic qualities of words, and argues that her depiction of words, linked to smell, reveals the anti-utilitarian nature
of words, unconstrained by a craftsman’s manipulation of words.
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Mitras, Joao Luis. "Postmodern or post-Catholic? : a study of British Catholic writers and their fictions in a postmodern and postconciliar world." Diss., 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18636.
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This thesis is an investigation into the nature of the 'postmodern' narrative strategies and fictional
methods in the work of two British Catholic writers. The work of David Lodge and Muriel Spark is
here taken as an example ofthe 'Catholic novel'. In order to determine ifthe overlap ofpostmodern.
and Christian-influenced narrative strategies constitutes more than a convergence or coincidence of
formal concerns, narrative form in these novels is analyzed in the light of neo-Tho mist and Tho mist
aesthetics, a traditional Catholic Christian theory of the arts. The 'postmodern' in these 'Christian'
texts becomes largely a coincidence of terminology. Narrative forms which can be classified as
'postmodern' can also be categorized using the terminology of Thomas Aquinas. The apparent
similarities betray radically divergent metaphysical presuppositions, however. The nature of the
Catholic 'difference' lies in the way postmodern forms are used to challenge the metaphysical
bases of those forms.English Studies
M.A. (English)