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Bullock, Edward L. "Considering the Human and Nonhuman in Literary Studies: Notes for a Biographic Network Approach for the Study of Literary Objects." UKnowledge, 2014. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/8.
Full textKhaldi, Boutheina. "Arab women going public Mayy Ziyadah and her literary salon in a comparative context /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. 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:3332477.
Full textTitle from home page (viewed on May 14, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-09, Section: A, page: 3537. Adviser: Suzanne P. Stetkevych.
McVeigh, Jane. "Literary biography and its critics." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2013. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/literary-biography-and-its-critics(a8f5e71a-c008-4fe2-b56b-2f3ab633e6d7).html.
Full textAtlee, Carl W. "Poetry and politics: A literary biography of GomezManrique (c.1415-1490)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280139.
Full textMacGregor, Catherine. "Writing lives of addiction: A context for literary biography and criticism." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9180.
Full textWestover, Daniel. "R. S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biography." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. http://a.co/0Kggfyi.
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Sprenger-Holtkamp, Brigitte Roxanne. "Miss Epictus, or, the learned Eliza : a literary biography of Elizabeth Carter." Thesis, University of London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.338509.
Full textBlack, Devin Charles. "An economic model of literary studies /." View online, 2010. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131524871.pdf.
Full textClarke, 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.
Full textField, Roger Michael. "Alex la Guma: a literary and political biography of the South African years." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2001. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
Full textSmart, Kirsten. "National consciousness in Postcolonial Nigerian children's literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22880.
Full textChaghafi, Elisabeth Leila. "Early modern literary afterlives." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c46edf04-50ed-4fc0-8d4f-74dfdfdb470e.
Full textPressman, Hannah Simone. "Confessional Texts and Contexts| Studies in Israeli Literary Autobiography." Thesis, New York University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557024.
Full textIn Jewish Studies in general and Jewish literary studies in particular, the autobiography has taken on renewed significance in the twenty-first century. A recent wave of Hebrew autobiographical writing has reinvigorated long-standing debates about the connections between family drama and national history in the modern state of Israel. This dissertation examines the discourse of selfhood generated by a select group of authors from the 1950s-1990s, the decades immediately preceding the genre's current boom. The "confessional mode of Israeli literary autobiography," as I designate this discourse, exposes the religious underside of early Israeli life writing.
The proposed genealogy uncovers a heretofore unacknowledged stream of autobiographical writing positioned at the nexus of public and private expression. Starting with Pinhas Sadeh's Hah&barbelow;ayim kemashal (1958), I deconstruct the author's sacred-profane terminology and his embrace of sacrificial tropes. I then explore David Shahar's Kayitz bederekh hanevi'im (1969) and Hamasa le'ur kasdim (1971), two works engaging with the Lurianic kabbalistic mythology of fracture and restoration ( tikkun). The next turn in my discussion, Hanokh Bartov's Shel mi atah yeled (1970), focuses on the development of individual memory and artistic identity. Haim Be'er's confessional oeuvre anchors the final two chapters, which reveal the therapeutic and theological motivations behind Notsot (1979) and H&barbelow;avalim (1998).
My interdisciplinary engagement offers fresh readings of these autobiographical performances. The narratives by Sadeh, Shahar, Bartov, and Be'er deploy memories as a conscious, aesthetic act of self-construction. Riffing on the portrait of the artist as a young man, each author reveals the intimate connections among memory, trauma, and artistic creation. Concurrently, they mediate their religious identities in the new Jewish state, Oedipally rejecting the father's faith. The combination of literary self-reflexivity with spiritual self-accounting (h&barbelow;eshbon nefesh) links these Israeli writers with the classic confessional "double address," which engages both God and the human reader. My analysis thus contributes a new consideration of the relationship between author and audience in modern Hebrew culture.
Austen, Benjamin. "Raceball : African Americans and myths of America in baseball literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18419.
Full text文英玲 and Ying-ling Man. "A study of Tao Hongjing (456-536) and his Taoist literary works." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31214423.
Full textLidström, Brock Malin. "Telling feminist lives : a study of biography as ideological background." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669944.
Full textKendall, George Henry. "The healing power : mythology as medicine in contemporary American Indian literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20184.
Full textThis study explores the symptoms of alienation witnessed in Indian characters and the healing they achieve through myth in three contemporary American Indian novels. In James Welch's historical novel, Fools Crow, I explore the methods through which Welch tells the story of Fools Crow. I draw comparisons between oppositions such as oral and written language, oral and written history, and history and narrative. I examine the ideas of many theorists, including Walter J. Ong's Orality and Literacy and Hayden White's inquiry into historiography in Tropics of DiscouT'Se. My conclusions suggest that myth is the foundation of history and that Welch effectively uses myth to rehabilitate Fools Crow. Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony presents its main character, Tayo, as alienated. He operates in a confusing world of dualities whereby the hegemonic culture brutalizes a feminine universe, and the counter-culture embraces a feminine universe. This study of Ceremony necessitates exploring the differences between Indian and Euro-American perceptions of landscape. Greta Gaard's studies on ecofeminism and Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality help to focus the theories v presented in this chapter. In addition, I consider the opposition between European patriarchal and American Indian matriarchal cultures, a difference that may affect the way the two cultures perceive the landscape. Finally I look at the Laguna captivity narrative that heals Tayo and compare the Laguna captivity genre to Euro-American captivity tales. The juxtaposition of cultural captivity narrative types reveals further differences in Laguna and Euro-American perceptions of the land. Annette Kolodny's theories on landscape and feminism prove useful in focusing my conclusions. N. Scott Momaday's The Ancient Child explores the parameters of representation and struggles with the question of how an Indian author can effectively describe the condition of an alienated American Indian to an audience who is, for the most part, Euro-American. This novel ties together many of the themes explored in Fools Crow and Ceremony. Momaday shows myth as originating in oral language and oral language as invented by vision: The story's main character, Set, has to overcome his alienation by understanding the origin of a myth which exists in his 'racial memory.' As an Indian, Set must discover the importance of non-textual spatiality and not the spaces contained within and influenced by written texts such as the very one Momaday creates to depict this character. The term non-textual spatiality refers to the imaginative space created by oral language and myth and the notion of non-textual spatiality opens a path for Set's healing. W.J.T. Mitchell's Picture Theory and Nelson Goodman's Languages of A rt are the main critical studies I use to amplify theories that grow out of The Ancient Child.
Naim, Ibrahim Ali 1962. "Imam Musa al-Sadr: An analysis of his life, accomplishments and literary output." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282708.
Full textWilson, Sandip LeeAnne. "Coherence and Historical understanding in children's Biography and Historical Nonfiction Literature: A Content Analysis of Selected Orbis Pictus Books." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2001. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/WilsonSLA2001.pdf.
Full textSutassi, Smuthkochorn Renner Stanley W. "Postmodernism and comparative mythology toward postimperialist English literary studies in the Thailand /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9721398.
Full textTitle from title page screen, viewed May 26, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Stanley W. Renner (chair), Ronald Strickland, William W. Morgan, Jr. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-146) and abstract. Also available in print.
Gress, Priti Chitnis. "Tar Baby and the Black Feminist Literary Tradition." W&M ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626111.
Full textGriffin, Julia. "Studies in the literary life of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d29ff5bd-8c7b-404e-91de-237954b1c55d.
Full textCheng, Maorong. "Literary modernity : Studies in Lu Xun and Shen Congwen." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0018/NQ46330.pdf.
Full textGreene, Justin R. "I Am an Author: Performing Authorship in Literary Culture." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5346.
Full textAusten, Gillian. "The literary career of George Gascoigne : studies in self-presentation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5b53ad11-58c3-4ce9-a3eb-e46e35b237e4.
Full textGanz, Shoshannah. "Canadian literary pilgrimage: From colony to post-nation." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29292.
Full textClay, Jason. "Seneca's Agamemnon: A Literary Translation with Annotations." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491308000521512.
Full textFee, Margery. "Canadian Literature and English Studies in the Canadian University." Essays on Canadian Writing, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11661.
Full textClarke, 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.
Full textMashigoane, Mncedisi Siseko. "Art as craft and politics : the literature of Mongane Wally Serote." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7875.
Full textGrigoriadis, Iordanis. "Linguistic and literary studies in the 'Epitome Historion' of John Zonaras." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15491.
Full textHarding, Warren. "Dubbin' the Literary Canon: Writin' and Soundin' A Transnational Caribbean Experience." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1370484912.
Full textPeleg, Kristine. "Rachel Calof's text(s): Family, collaboration, translation, 'Americanization'." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280320.
Full textPioter, Jill. "(False) portrait of the artist as a woman: Editorial strategy in the diaries of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278790.
Full textDinnerstein, Noe. "Ladakhi traditional songs| A cultural, musical, and literary study." Thesis, City University of New York, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3601923.
Full textThis dissertation examines the place of traditional songs in the Tibetan Buddhist culture of the former Himalayan kingdom of Ladakh. I look at how Buddhism and pre-Buddhist religion informed the texts and performance contexts of traditional songs, and how Ladakhi songs represent cultural self-images through associated musical, textual, and visual tropes. Many songs of the past, both from the old royal house and the rural Buddhist populations, reflect the socio-political structure of Ladakhi society. Some songs reflect a pan-Tibetan identity, connecting the former Namgyal dynasty to both the legendary King Gesar and Nyatri Tsangpo, the historical founder of the Tibetan Yarlung dynasty. Nevertheless, a distinct Ladakhi identity is consistently asserted. A number of songs contain texts that evoke a mandala or symbolic representation of the world according to Vajrayana Buddhist iconography, ritual and meditative visualization practices. These mandala descriptions depict the social order of the kingdom, descending from the heavens, to the Buddhist clergy, to the king and nobles, to the common folk.
As the region has become more integrated into modern India, Ladakhi music has moved into modern media space, being variously portrayed through scholarly works, concerts, mass media, and the internet. An examination of contemporary representations of “tradition” and ethnic identity in traditional music shows how Ladakhis from various walks of life view the music and song texts, both as producers and consumers.
Situated as it was on the caravan routes between India, Tibet, China, and Central Asia, Ladakhi culture developed distinctive hybrid characteristics, including in its musical styles. Analysis of the performance practices, musical structures, form, and textual content of songs clearly indicates a fusion of characteristics of Middle Eastern, Balti, Central Asian, and Tibetan origin. Looking at songs associated with the Namgyal dynasty court, I have found them to be part of a continuum of Tibetan high literary culture, combined with complex instrumental music practices. As such, I make the argument that these genres should be considered to be art music.
Bradford, Robert Dale. "When Southern Labor Stirred: The Literary Reaction to Gastonia." W&M ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625333.
Full textVan, Bolderen Patricia. "Literary Self-Translation and Self-Translators in Canada (1971-2016): A Large-Scale Study." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42749.
Full textPrown, Katherine Hemple. "Revisions and evasions: Flannery O'Connor, Southern literary culture, and the problem of female authorship." W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623836.
Full textYudkoff, Sunny. "Let It Be Consumption!: Modern Jewish Writing and the Literary Capital of Tuberculosis." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467299.
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anderson, Crystal Suzette. "Far from "everybody's everything": Literary tricksters in African American and Chinese American fiction." W&M ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623988.
Full textMarubbio, M. Elise 1963. "The edge of the abyss: Metamorphosis as reality in contemporary Native American literature." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291692.
Full textRowe, Martha L. 1953. "A poet revealed: Elizabeth Barrett Browning as portrayed in Libby Larsen's "Sonnets from the Portuguese" and Dominick Argento's "Casa Guidi"." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290604.
Full textMeek, Sabrina Lynn. "Literary shadow in Poe's selected works| Literature as conduit to psyche integration." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3730815.
Full textThe epitome of psychoanalysis is the process of psyche integration—making the unconscious conscious. As such, the unconscious material holds that which is feared most, the unknown. Buried within the unconscious, the shadow is born; an eerie abyss of repressed emotions, unwanted memories, and forgotten fantasies. Accessing this material can be wearisome, even distressing, without skillful clinical support. This dissertation postulates using literature as conduit in a therapeutic setting to facilitate psyche integration and healthy psychological development. The foundation of depth psychology lends a perfect lens through which to view a literary work because of the emphasis for considering the presence of the unconscious. A hermeneutic research methodology and imaginal approach are used to discuss unconscious material derived from the textual themes and characters in selected works of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe’s works provide an appropriate framework to hold shadow material as he utilized and personified psychological affects directly correlated to the shadow, and they still possess the ability to connect to their reader a century and a half after conception. The selected works for this dissertation analysis include: “Ligeia” (1838), “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839), and “William Wilson” (1840).
Keywords: Edgar Allan Poe, shadow, literature, textual hermeneutic wheel, imaginal, depth psychology.
Alcorn, Haili A. "Beauty and the Beasts: Making Places with Literary Animals of Florida." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7462.
Full textSoden, John. "Extending Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy to the Literary and Moral Imagination." Thesis, Union Institute and University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10592621.
Full textThis dissertation explores Martin Luther King, Jr.'s (1929-1968) ideas and philosophy in the context of dialogue with the moral and literary imagination. King was a leading thinker and voice for the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s in the United States.
Two fundamental philosophical ideas for King were love and empathy. This dissertation explores these ideas through discussion and dialogue. Notably, King's philosophy and claims are contrasted with the writings of John Dewey and Martha Nussbaum. The dialogue between the three scholars should afford readers the opportunity for different and perhaps meaningful questions related to the teachings and philosophy of King.
Goodman, Brian Kruzick. "Cold War Bohemia: Literary Exchange between the United States and Czechoslovakia, 1947-1989." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493571.
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Wei, Xin. "The literary Chinese cosmopolis." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b4bba502-e364-4b1b-a22d-8ffb6cc61890.
Full textClyburn, Tiffani A. "African American Literary Counter-narratives in the Post-Civil Rights Era." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313514090.
Full textTucker, J. E. "Plomer's portrayal of the family in relation to a hegemonic ideology." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17686.
Full textThis dissertation examines how ideology is constituted in texts, and how colonial texts generally support the hegemonic ideology, that is, they offer a point of view which is racialistic and a picture of blacks which is patronizing and denigratory. With regard to the colonial white population, colonial texts generally portray a strongly patriarchal, often authoritarian societal structure. William Plomer writes within the liberal tradition and therefore seeks to undermine the dominant ideology. He shows how contradictory the colonial attitude to the natives is and how the 'civilising' mission often runs counter to the colonial desire for the ease and luxury which require a subject and 'uncivilised' population. The dissertation looks particularly at the portrayal of family life in Plomer's South African short stories and in Turbott Wolfe. It sees that society limits the range of what the author can invent, that the author in many cases 'encounters the solution' (Macherey), and Plomer seems unable to present a work in which a couple of mixed race is able to find a role in society. In the short stories, Plomer portrays families as weak entities, with married people often yearning for partners of a different racial group. Marriage is shown to be undermined by the racialistic and authoritarian strictures placed upon it. In Turbott Wolfe, Plomer portrays several bigoted and vicious white families with the men having secret liaisons with black women and seldom acknowledging their progeny. The only couple of mixed race, seems to operate in a social vacuum and has symbolic value only. Plomer thus presents a society and a familial structure undermined by the very restrictions which are designed to safeguard them.
Barsby, Tina. "Olive Schreiner : women, nature, culture." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20138.
Full textThis dissertation locates Olive Schreiner as a nineteenth-century colonial woman writer who challenges the traditional association of men with culture, and women with nature. In Schreiner's writing the oppression of women is situated within an understanding of the social construction of "woman" as closer to nature than man. Through the lives of her central female characters, Schreiner shows how this definition of "woman" works to position women as "other" to culture, both preventing their access to public power and marginalising their fully social activities within culture. Schreiner attempts to displace definitions of culture constituted through a system of binary oppositions which inevitably privilege masculinity as opposed to femininity by redefining culture in three distinct ways. The patriarchal conception culture as the sole preserve of men is rejected in Schreiner's demands for women's educational and legal equality, and for their right to economic independence. Conventional notions of culture are equally refused in Schreiner's stress on women's traditional domestic labour as essential to the very emergence and continuation of culture. Finally, the deconstruction of sexual difference as a fixed immutable category within Schreiner's writing exposes the definition of "woman" as socially constructed and legitimated. The contradictions and tensions within and between these demands illustrate the limits of Schreiner's feminist and socialist politics, and point to how her writing both challenges and articulates aspects of dominant nineteenth-century ideology. At the same time, such contradictions were vitally important in motivating Schreiner's on-going attempt to change radically the position of women within culture. Moreover, the co-existence of apparently conflicting demands within Schreiner's redefinition of culture suggests the terms of a resolution of the perennial problem within feminist discourse around competing claims for women's equality or for a recognition of their difference.