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Smith, Julian Patrick. "The poetry of Charles Bukowski." Thesis, University of Hull, 1989. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5866.
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BALBY, LUIS FERNANDO GONCALVES. "THE TRAGIC IN CHARLES BUKOWSKI." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2014. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=24610@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>Esta dissertação pretende lançar luz sobre a escrita poética de Charles Bukowski pela relação por ela estabelecida com a filosofia trágica de Nietzsche lida, a sua vez, com o auxílio da obra Nietzsche e a filosofia de Deleuze. Tal aproximação entre a atividade do poeta e o pensamento dos filósofos sustenta-se nas referências comuns pelos conceitos de força, corpo, vontade, potência e arte. Sendo assim, a perspectiva de análise da dissertação afasta-se das noções de biográfico e auto ficcional normalmente atribuídas a Bukowski — de onde sua escrita é avaliada reativamente a partir das categorias da metáfora, da antítese e da representação — para, de um ponto de vista ativo e paradoxal, tomar sua poesia como sintoma e registro reais da vontade do artista, vontade pensada pelos desdobramentos das tensões força-corpo propostas por Nietzsche. Dos devires impostos por tal tensão de forças, a pesquisa acompanhará a metamorfose da arte de Bukowski como sintoma de um corpo ora engajado nas radicais vivências de um niilismo que afirma a negação, ora manifestando-se pela dupla afirmação de Dionísio: a arte como potência da diferença, como poder de afirmar a afirmação.<br>This dissertation aims to shed light over the poetic writing of Charles Bukowski through its relation with Nietzsche s tragic philosophy, which, in its turn, follows the guidance of Deleuze s Nietzsche and Philosophy. This approach between the poet s activity and the philosophers thought holds up based on the common references provided by the concepts of force, body, will, power and art. Thus, this dissertation s analytical perspective differs from the biographical and self-fictional notions normally assigned to Bukowski — where his writing is reactively assessed by the categories of metaphor, antithesis and representation — to depart from a both active and paradoxical point of view that takes his poetry as a concrete symptom of the artist s will, which is conceived by the developments of the force-body tensions proposed by Nietzsche. From the becomings imposed by such tension of forces, the research will follow the metamorphosis in the art of Bukowski as a symptom of a body at times engaged in the radical experiences of a nihilism that affirms the denial, sometimes manifesting Dionysus double affirmation: art as a power of the difference, as the power that affirms the affirmation.
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SANTELLI, JEAN-MICHEL. "Etude medico-psychologique de l'ecrivain charles bukowski." Aix-Marseille 2, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989AIX20362.
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Thiltges, Alexandre. "Bukowski ou Les contes de la violence ordinaire /." Paris ; Budapest ; Kinshasa [etc.] : l'Harmattan, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb409584739.
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Cooke, James M. (James Michael). "The Grotesque Tradition in the Short Stories of Charles Bukowski." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501093/.
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The style and themes central to Bukowski's prose have roots in the literary tradition of the grotesque. Bukowski uses grotesque imagery in his writings as a creative device, explaining the negative characteristics of modern life. His permanent mood of angry disgust at the world around him is similar to that of the eighteenth-century satirists, particularly Jonathan Swift. Bukowski confronts the reader with the uglier side of America--its grime, its corruption, the constricted lives of its lower class--all with a simplicity and directness of style impeccably and clearly distilled. Bukowski's style is ebullient, with grotesquely evocative descriptions, scatological detail, and dark humor.
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Bigna, Daniel Humanities & Social Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Life on the margins : the autobiographical fiction of Charles Bukowski." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38717.
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Charles Bukowski devoted his writing career to turning his own life into poetry and prose. In poems and stories about his experiences as one of the working poor in post war America, and in those depicting his experiences as a writer of the American underground, Bukowski represents himself as both a literary and social outsider. Bukowski expresses an alternative literary aesthetic through his fictional persona, Henry Chinaski, who struggles to overcome his suffering in a world he finds absurd, and who embarks on a quest for freedom in his youth to which he remains committed all his life. This thesis examines Charles Bukowski's autobiographical fiction with a specific emphasis on five novels and one collection of short stories. In the novels, Post Office (1970), Factotum (1975), Women (1978), Ham on Rye (1982) and Hollywood (1989), and in a number of short stories in the collection Hot Water Music (1983), Bukowski explores different periods of Chinaski???s life with a dark humour, revealing links between Chinaski???s struggle with the absurd and those aspects comprising Bukowski???s alternative aesthetic. The thesis focuses on such aspects of Bukowski???s art as the uncommercial nature of his publishing history, his strong emphasis on literary simplicity, the appearance of the grotesque and Bukowski???s obsession with nonconformity, drinking and sex. These aspects illuminate the distinctive nature of Bukowski???s art and its purpose, which is the transformation of an ordinary life into literature. This thesis argues that Bukowski illuminates possibilities that exist for individuals to create an identity for themselves through aesthetic self-expression. The thesis traces the development of Chinaski's non-conformist personality from Ham on Rye, based on Bukowski's youth in Los Angeles during the Depression, to Hollywood, Bukowski's ironic portrayal of Chinaski's brush with the commercial film industry. Through meeting the many challenges he faced throughout his life with defiance, honesty and an irreverent sense of humour, Bukowski invites readers to identify with his alternative world view. The thesis argues this particular aspect of his writing constitutes his most valuable contribution to twentieth century American fiction.
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Moinzadeh, Irandokht Dina. "La voix incarnée : poétiques de la présence chez Charles Bukowski." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100033.
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Si Charles Bukowski n’a jamais énoncé de théorie présidant a son œuvre, ni fait de recherche métrique explicite, et ne s’est jamais réclamé d’une quelconque école littéraire, ce rejet de toute forme d’élitisme littéraire relève en réalité d’une poétique paradoxale, qui cherche à faire s’effondrer les barrières entre écriture et oralité, entre l’œuvre et le corps qui l’a produite, entre l’œuvre et la vie de son auteur. Une poétique de la présence est portée par une utopie où la frontière entre monde et langage disparait, pour remettre le corps du poète au centre du processus littéraire. L’écriture poétique refuse sa part d’absence, celle du corps et de la voix, celle du moment d’écriture, pour devenir presque performance. Il en résulte une transparence trompeuse, dont la clarté est si éblouissante que, plutôt que de l’exposer, elle dissimule sa profondeur entre les lignes du texte<br>If Charles Bukowski never formulated a theory presiding over his work, nor made explicit metrical research, and never claimed any literary school, this rejection of any form of literary elitism is, in fact, a paradoxical poetics, which seeks to break down the barriers between writing and orality, between the work and the body that produced it, between the work and the life of its author. A poetics of presence is carried by a utopia where the boundary between world and language disappears, to put the poet's body at the center of the literary process. The poetic writing refuses its share of absence, that of the body and the voice, that of the moment of writing, to become almost a performance. The result is a deceptive transparency, the clarity of which is so dazzling that, rather than exposing it, it conceals its depth between the lines of the text
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Thiltges, Alexandre. "Anatomie de la violence dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Charles Bukowski." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030044.
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La violence représente la clef de voûte des romans de Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), sur laquelle reposent tous les autres thèmes. L'étymologie de violentia indique que la vie, la survie et l'auto-conservation sont à l'origine de cette violence. L'écriture bukowskienne a ainsi pour fonction de re-vi-taliser la littérature : "Good literature is almost always disturbing" écrivait Bukowski. La violence étant la résultante d'un conflit entre les pulsions de vie et de mort, l'outil psychanalytique sera très utile pour faire apparaître l'étiologie de la violence dans l'œuvre bukowskienne. La violence textuelle, provenant tout d'abord de l'extérieur, est ensuite intériorisée, pour aboutir aux pulsions de destruction, d'autodestruction, qui, une fois sublimées, sont à l'origine de l'œuvre d'art. La sexualité se transforme en textualité et l'écriture de la violence devient intimement liée à la violence de l'écriture : violence textuelle qui puise ses racines au sein même du langage<br>Violence represents the central theme of Charles Bukowski's writing. Whether thematically or stylistically, Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) developed this topic in length within his work. The etymology of violence indicates that life and preservation of life reside at the source of this concept. The function of Bukowski's writing is therefore to re-vi-talize literature: "Good literature is almost always disturbing", wrote Bukowski. Because violence results from a conflict between life and death instincts, the psychoanalytical tool will be very useful to reveal the etiology of violence in Bukowski's novels. Textual violence, initiating from the exterior (family, school, working place), will be interiorized, creating a destructive and self-destructive drive, which can be sublimated. Thus appears the relationship between sexuality and textuality. For it is clear that the writing of violence is intimately linked to the violence of writing: a textual violence whose origin is language itself
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Känno, Annika. "Henry Chinaski : Charles Bukowskis romanfigur i ett mansforskningsperspektiv." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Humanities (HUM), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-3578.
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<p>Till min uppsats valde jag att koncentrera mig på två verk, <em>Post Office</em> och <em>Factotum</em>, av författaren Charles Bukowski (1920-1994). Huvudpersonen i båda romanerna kallas Henry Chinaski och är en mycket komplicerad karaktär. För att kunna analysera dennes självdestruktivitet samt syn på kvinnor och arbete anlade jag ett mansforskningsperspektiv, något som jag också utförligt beskriver.</p>
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Blohm, Gary. "Place and subjectivity in the works of Charles Bukowski and Raymond Carver." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408773.
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Westrin, Johan. "Henry och kvinnorna : Mötet mellan man och kvinna i Charles Bukowskis Postverket och Kvinnor." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Ämnesforskning, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-23444.
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Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka sexuella relationer och mötet mellan man och kvinna i Charles Bukowskis författarskap med fokus på den självbiografiske protagonisten Henry Chinaski i romanerna Postverket och Kvinnor. I analysen undersöker uppsatsen tre aspekter av mötet mellan man och kvinna: Det initierande mötet, det fysiska mötet och vad vi kallar kärlek. Uppsatsen utgår främst från Yvonne Hirdmans genusteorier och diskuterar tabun om särhållandet mellan manligt och kvinnligt. Genom att undersöka den manliga normen samt manlig och kvinnlig sexualitet appliceras dessa sedan genom närläsning av de bägge verken. Trots att protagonisten ständigt bekräftar den manliga normen dras slutsatsen att Bukowski i sitt författarskap utmanar det sexuella maktsystemet. Han visar på kvinnliga karaktärer som tar för sig och initierar till sexuella relationer i en tid där deras sexualitet fortfarande var tabubelagd.<br>This thesis examines sexual relations and the meeting between man and woman in Charles Bukowski’s authorship through the autobiographic protagonist Henry Chinaski in the novels Post Office and Women. The focus of the analysis is based on three aspects of the meeting: The initial meeting, the physical meeting and finally, love. Furthermore, the thesis discusses the taboo of dissociation between masculinity and femininity with focus on Yvonne Hirdman’s gender studies theories. By examining the male norm in addition to male and female sexuality these theories are applied to the novels by using a close reading method. In conclusion, the thesis finally declasres that, although the male norm is confirmed bythe protagonist, Bukowski challenges, and criticizes the balance of power between thesexes. The female characters portrayed in the novels express their sexuality and initializesexual relationships in a time when women’s sexuality still was stigmatized.
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Desjardins, Carl. "Une étude sociologique de la littérature : Charles Bukowski et les contestataires américains, 1955-1974." Thesis, Université Laval, 2011. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2011/28223/28223.pdf.
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Mariscal, André Affonso. "Exclusão na representação da personagem Henry Junior em Ham on Rye de Charles Bukowski." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2017. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/24254.
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Previous issue date: 2017-08-23<br>Esta dissertação identifica e analisa conflitos sociais, psicológicos e culturais entre o indivíduo e a coletividade humana, representados respectivamente, por Henry Junior, personagem principal de Ham on Rye (1982), de Charles Bukowski e a sociedade estadunidense. Investiga-se como os ambientes hostis presentes no romance geram traumas que resultam em um conturbado desenvolvimento do sujeito. Henry Junior, um imigrante alemão vivendo nos Estados Unidos da América (EUA) no período entre guerras do século XX (1919-1939), tem a personalidade constituída com base em dois confrontos centrais: com o mundo exterior, representado pela nação, colegas de escola e pela família; e com o „interior‟, feito das sequelas de embates constantes, que ocasionam a repulsa da personagem por si mesma. Empregando teorias sociológicas de mobilidade para abordar o „exterior‟ e psicanalíticas para o „interior‟, este estudo busca responder como tais confrontos geram a personalidade fragmentada do protagonista, que apesar de prejudicial, fazem com que a personagem adquira consciência de seu papel no mundo e questione como a sociedade estadunidense se articula coletivamente. A descoberta da leitura e do fazer literário, fundamentais na formação de Henry Junior, são também averiguadas. Por meio de uma abordagem político-dialética, examina-se como se dá o entrelaçamento de questões pessoais do protagonista de Ham on Rye com questões históricas, de classe e de formação de grupos, possibilitando-nos maior entendimento sobre o contexto histórico-social estadunidense no entre guerras e sobre como os indivíduos dos EUA respondem a demandas da coletividade em tal período.<br>This dissertation identifies and analyses social, psychological and cultural conflicts between the individual and the human collectivity, depicted respectively, by Henry Junior, the main character of Charles Bukowski‟s novel Ham on Rye (1982) and the American society. It is investigated how the hostile environments within the narrative produce traumas which result in a troubled development of the subject. Henry Junior, a German immigrant living in the United States of America (USA) during the inter-war period of the last century (1919-1939), has his personality constituted on the basis of two main confrontations: with the external world, represented by nation, class mates and his family; and with the „internal‟, resulted from the constant clashes, leading to the protagonist‟s repulsion for himself. Utilizing sociological theories about mobility to approach the „external‟ and psychoanalytical for the „internal‟, this study attempts to answer how the aforementioned confrontations generate a character with a fragmented personality, which though initially harmful, make Henry Junior aware of his role in the world, impelling him to question how the American society articulates itself as a whole. The discovery of reading and writing, both fundamental in Henry Junior‟s formation, are also discussed. Through a political-dialectic approach, it is ascertained how the interweaving between Ham on Rye‟s protagonist‟s personal issues and questions of history, class and group formation happens, giving us the opportunity to understand better the America socio-historical context during the inter-war period and how the Americans respond to collective demands at such time.
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Barbosa, Bruno de Paula. "Factotum: a tradução de Bukowski para o cinema." www.teses.ufc.br, 2015. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/15780.
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BARBOSA, Bruno de Paula. Factotum: a tradução de Bukowski para o cinema. 2015. 112f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, Fortaleza (CE), 2015.<br>Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-03-28T15:20:57Z
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Previous issue date: 2015<br>Adaptações fílmicas de textos literários são frequentes no meio cinematográfico na contemporaneidade e possuem grande alcance midiático sendo capaz de levar a imagem do autor e sua obra a públicos variados Sob essa perspectiva a adaptação fílmica age como uma tradução ao reescrever um texto produzido em determinada linguagem para outra Nesse sentido esta pesquisa visa analisar o processo de adaptação do romance Factotum (1975) do escritor norte-americano Charles Bukowski com foco na construção da personagem principal Henry Chinaski alter-ego do autor e herói de vários de seus contos e romances A obra foi adaptada para o cinema em uma produção homônima franco-norueguesa, escrita e dirigida pelo cineasta norueguês Bent Hamer em 2005 Partimos da ideia que a mudança de focalização entre os meios e o apagamento de determinadas características da escrita do autor como o humor e a ironia acarretam uma ressignificação do texto traduzido Para a análise utilizam-se principalmente fundamentos teóricos da teoria dos Polissistemas de Even-Zohar (1995) acerca dos fatores culturais envolvidos no processo de tradução e as relações do objeto resultado desse processo no meio que se insere assim como as discussões teóricas de Toury (1995) e Lefevere (2007) sobre os estudos de tradução Para as questões literárias (teórico e práticas) apresentadas são utilizadas as discussões de Bahktin (1988) Maingueneau (2001) Rosenfeld (1974) e Lejeune (2008) acerca da escrita autobiográfica No que diz respeito à fortuna crítica de Bukowski utilizam-se ainda biografias, compilações de cartas e entrevistas revisões críticas de seu trabalho assim como seus poemas contos e romances Conclui-se que houve perceptíveis mudanças de informação enquanto estratégia de tradução para adequar o produto traduzido ao texto de chegada como a mudança no ethos do personagem e a inserção de um tom sentimental nas suas relações amorosas, entre outros Dessa forma a tradução cinematográfica ressignificou para o espectador traços importantes do universo literário de Bukowski.
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Pratt, David Camak. ""Too many olives in my martini" W.C. Fields and Charles Bukowski as postmodern carnival kings /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1212601300.
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Vimr, Kallisto J. "Genre and Gender in Charles Bukowski's Notes of a Dirty Old Man." Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1244663777.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Cleveland State University, 2009.<br>Abstract. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on June 17, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 44-45). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center. Also available in print.
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Karlsson, Linda. "”It was easy to write about whores, but to write about a good woman was much more difficult” : En queer läsning av Charles Bukowskis Women och Love is a Dog from hell." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-26248.
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A Queer Reading of Charles Bukowskiʼs Women and Love is a dog from hell This thesis aims to examine how the representation of gender is portrayed in relation to sex and power in Charles Bukowski’s novel Women and poetry collection Love is a dog from hell. The theoretical frame of the analysis is based on Judith Butlerʼs queer theory regarding the heterosexual matrix and gender performativity. The analysis consists of a textual comparison where a specific selection of poems is analysed parallel to the novel to see how they interact and how they oppose each other, through a queer reading. The analysis is divided in three parts where the first one discusses the construction of masculinity in Charles Bukowskiʼs protagonist Henry Chinaski and how this is presented differently in the two literary genres. The second part reveals how sex is presented in relation to power and how active and passive women are considered as sexually acceptable. The final part of the analysis discusses how women are portrayed in the novel and in the poetry. Further it demonstrates the consequences for women who do not act as expected in relation to their gender roles. In addition to this, the thesis investigates how the poetry functions as a tool to apply depth to the characters in the novel. It also points out how the sexual relationships work as a way of maintaining the masculine superiority over women. The repetitive way in which the protagonist fails to fulfil his sexual performance points towards an image of Chinaski as queer, something that previous scholarship has failed to notice. In conclusion, this essay shows how a queer reading can work as an instrument to read a text that is generally interpreted as heteronormative, macho and misogynistic. The queer reading in the thesis demonstrates a different interpretation of predetermined gender roles in two of Bukowski’s literary works.
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Gamonal, Villarroel Mónica. "The alienated subject and the capitalist machine : the case of Henry Chinaski." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2012. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/110897.
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Informe de Seminario de Grado para optar al grado de Licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa<br>Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades<br>"Factotum‟, published in 1975, tells the daily life of Henry Chinaski, writer's own transcript, a writer who lives with resignation and weariness after being saved from going to war, and accepts all kinds of rubbish jobs to survive, and to clear his conscience while focused on pursuing what really fulfils him: writing. His self-destructive behavior seems to respond viscerally to a sort of instinctive urge in a universe declining and lacking self-pity. Chinaski is too conscious of his curse, he is destined to live a difficult existence in which he finds people predictable or he simply "do not like" them. For the purpose of the analysis of his writing style, „Factotum‟ and several poems from the anthology „The Pleasures of the Damned‟ will be necessary. It has been said that Bukowski with his terse, brusque and forceful prose, is the atrocious novelist of the great urban jungle: the destitute, prostitutes, drunks, in other words, he is the novelist of the human waste of the American Dream.
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Van, Aardt Peet Petrus. "Resources as part of the narrative in biography. A study of the extent to which letters contribute to the narrative in biography, with reference to JC Kannemeyer’s biography Leroux : ’n Lewe and Charles Bukowski by Barry Miles." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60428.
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The primary research question in my study is "[t]o what extent resources such as letters contribute to the narrative in biography?. With reference to JC Kannemeyer's biography Leroux: 'n Lewe and Charles Bukowski by Barry Miles.
The secondary research questions are:
? What roles do fact and fiction play in the construction of a biography?
? When can letters be trusted as the truth. Amd therefore as a 'vehicle', so to speak, to convey an accurate account?
? To what extent does an author have the right to manipulate or use official / authentic documents such as letters to complement his / her work of fiction?
? Seeing as the biographer makes a selection of letters he / she uses in the telling of the life story, does this not mean that the biographer inadvertently becomes a creator of a specific storyline?
My research is comprised of three elements: an unpublished manuscript of a novel under the working title Vier en veertig, agtien, an edited collection of letters by Etienne Leroux written to famous writers and artists, and lastly a thesis written in English on the extent to which letters play a role in establishing a narrative in biography writing.<br>Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2016.<br>Unit for Creative Writing<br>PhD<br>Unrestricted
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Azevedo, Mariana Rissi [UNESP]. "Women from the point of view of the Bukowskian narrator: the representation of the feminine universe in Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/138450.
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000864540.pdf: 1039983 bytes, checksum: 385664595ca05055e160d04f90391778 (MD5)<br>Russell Harrison (1994) reconhece a presença do chauvinismo machista na obra de Charles Bukowski e afirma que a redação de seus romances tem de ser vista no contexto da 'segunda onda do feminismo', época na qual Bukowski se consolidou como escritor, e como consequência recebeu influência. Esse momento da liberação feminina é representado por livros tais como Sexual Politics de Kate Millett (1969) e The Female Eunuch de Germaine Greer (1970). Bukowski, conhecido por apresentar a mulher como objeto do desejo masculino, demonstra uma sensibilidade diante da objetificação do corpo feminino no conto 'The Most Beautiful Woman in Town', no qual o autor retrata a protagonista Cass como vulnerável e carente de assistência. A dissertação situa esse conto no contexto dos 64 contos de Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972), para demonstrar a forma excepcional com que o autor mostra a sua sensibilidade em relação à figura feminina no contexto de uma coletânea caracterizada por sua misoginia<br>Russell Harrison (1994) recognises the male chauvinism of Charles Bukowski's work and argues that his novels must be seen in the context of the 'second wave of the feminism', a time in which Bukowski established himself as a writer, and which certainly influenced him. This point in the struggle for women's liberation is represented by books such as Sexual Politics, by Kate Millett (1969), and The Female Eunuch, by Germaine Greer (1970). Bukowski, known for his presentation of women as the objects of male desire, demonstrates a sensitivity concerning the objectification of the female body in the story 'The Most Beautiful Woman in Town', in which he depicts the protagonist, Cass, as vulnerable and in need of assistance. The dissertation situates this story in the context of the 64 stories of Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972) in order to demonstrate how exceptional its sensitivity with regard to women is in a collection characterised by its misogynism
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Ryan, Mike. ""no hope, just / booze and madness"| Connecting Social Alienation and Alcoholism in Charles Bukowski's Autobiographical Fiction." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1557574.
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<p> The prevalence of alcoholic writers in 20<sup>th</sup>-century American literature reached what has been called epidemic proportions. Many of these writers wrote autobiographical accounts of their alcoholism through alter egos in their literary works. Of these, perhaps none is as extensive and detailed as Charles Bukowski's persona Henry Chinaski. This thesis is a case study of Chinaski's alcoholism through five of Bukowski's autobiographical novels. In it, I explore the complexities of Chinaski's alcoholism and make the claim that social alienation is a driving force for the onset and the intensity of his alcohol addiction. The novels span Chinaski's life from youth to old age, and factors such as childhood abuse and labor conditions in the post-Depression era work to alienate him. Through close, contextual reading of Bukowski's novels aided with sociological and medical scholarship on addiction, the relationship between alienation and alcoholism is explored.</p>
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Maltais, Éric. "La figure de l'écrivain mauvais dans les contes de Charles Bukowski." Thèse, 2012. http://constellation.uqac.ca/2588/1/030428739.pdf.
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Mon mémoire s'intéresse à l'oeuvre d'un écrivain états-unien d'origine allemande cantonné dans le ghetto littéraire, Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), autoproclamé le dirty old man. Figure emblématique de la contre-culture, le dirty old man marqua tous les esprits par son langage ordurier et son humour noir. Mon mémoire a l'objectif de valider par l'étude du premier recueil de nouvelles de Bukowski, Erections, Exhibitions, Ejaculations and General Tales of Ordinary Madness, l'affirmation de Sollers : Bukowski est l'inventeur de la littérature mauvaise. La problématique de mon mémoire se formulera de la sorte : comment se construit la figure de l'écrivain mauvais ? Il s'agit d'opérer le renversement du statut de mauvais écrivain attribué à Bukowski par l'institution littéraire à celui d'écrivain mauvais à l'aide de la théorie du carnavalesque de Bakhtine. Ainsi, j'étudierai toutes les catégories de la perspective carnavalesque du monde dans les nouvelles les plus carnavalisées : rapprochement des contraires, suppression joyeuse des distances, profanation, parodie, etc. À la lumière de l'étude du carnavalesque dans le recueil, émergera la figure de l'écrivain mauvais qui désacralise à la fois l'institution littéraire et la contre-culture. Cette analyse montrera clairement que ce que certains considèrent comme des défauts, des vices rédhibitoires, est plutôt la manifestation de l'originalité de Bukowski.
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Reid, Bradford Jordan. "Body language the material bodily lower stratum in the poetry of Walt Whitman, Frank O'Hara, and Charles Bukowski /." 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1240710471&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=39334&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (M.A.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2007.<br>Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 06, 2007) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Stott, Andrew. Includes bibliographical references.