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Seo, Joanne Mira. "Allusive characterization from Apollonius to Statius." [S.l. : s.n.], 2004. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/174205418.html.
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Matheny, Kathryn. "The Freedom of Flexibility: Lessons from the Child Characters in Flannery O'Connor." TopSCHOLAR®, 2005. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/508.
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Flannery O'Connor had a penchant for repetition, often revisiting the same character types, plot devices, and overriding ideas in two or more stories. This repetition always goes hand in hand with reinterpretation. Even when the characters and plots seem suspiciously similar, the differences signal both O'Connor's fascination with her subject and her persistent attempts to understand it. This thesis will explore O'Connor's revisions of stories in which child characters play an integral part. The later story in the three pairs I will examine gives a clearer picture of what O'Connor believed were the freedoms of childhood. O'Connor's adults rarely arouse much pity because they move decisively toward either redemption or damnation. Her child characters, however, aren't quite as rigidly written. They do not suffer from O'Connor's predestination; they can accept or reject the future offered to them in a way the adults cannot. While some of these children seem to serve only as pawns in the adults' confrontations with grace, others are the focus of their own stories. All, however, control their own fates, even when they are least likely to have that power. The depiction of childhood in O'Connor's short stories goes beyond simply seeing the world as it is, reporting the inflexibility of adulthood. O'Connor asks her readers to recognize the benefits of becoming childlike themselves. A simple faith opens adults' eyes and allows them to accept both their weaknesses and the strength of God that accompanies awareness of weakness. O'Connor also shows us that if we refuse to become childlike, if we do not let a child's life influence ours, we may end up influencing theirs. Just as it is important to soften ourselves for our own sakes, it is doubly important that we do so to keep them from learning our bad habits.
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Hehir, Sylvia. "Writing characters from under-represented communities : a perspective from an emerging young adult fiction writer." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30716/.
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The category of young adult (YA) fiction encompasses a wide range of genres; but despite this generic diversity, it has so far failed to represent the full range of communities that make up contemporary British society. Discussions are ongoing between professionals in the publishing industry and campaigning individuals and organisations who are aiming to redress this imbalance. Writers making new work are in a position to help effect a change, but acknowledging and responding to the call for inclusion can be far from straightforward, with questions being raised such as: ‘how far can a writer stray from their own lived experience?’ and ‘how can a writer avoid tokenism or cultural appropriation when writing for inclusion?’ This thesis consists of a new YA contemporary novel, Sea Change, and an accompanying critical essay, which reflects on the challenges I encountered while aiming to write for inclusion. Set in the Scottish Highlands, Sea Change is a contemporary YA crime novel, in which the world of the sixteen-year-old protagonist, Alex, is thrown into turmoil when he discovers a dead body next to his fishing boat. The decisions Alex makes following this discovery set in motion the plot of the story. The narrative, as it unfolds, facilitates the exploration of themes frequently associated with adolescence, such as friendship, risk-taking and the maturation into an adult identity, along with themes specifically linked to Alex’s status as a member of marginalised communities because of his sexuality and social class, such as prejudice, acute stress brought on by economic pressure, and low self-esteem. This thesis, then, reviews the opinions and recommendations being expressed by campaigners for greater diversity, and exposes the uncertainties and challenges a writer faces when aiming to write for inclusion.
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Sisic, Aldijana. "Images of female characters in the works of three contemporary male writers from the former Yugoslavia : Ivan Aralica, Mesa Selimovic, Slobadan Selenic." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265872.
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Bean, Joann Ruth MacLachlan. "From Thraso to Herod : Hrotsvitha meets the bragging soldier /." *McMaster only, 1999.
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Österberg, Elisabeth. "Adapting the Men in Jane Eyre : A Comparative Analysis of Two Movie Adaptations (from 1943 and 2011) of the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, with a Focus on the Male Characters." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-151487.
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This is a comparative analysis of two film adaptations (from 1943 and 2011) of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, with a focus on the male characters. My aim is to study how patriarchal control is adapted for the screen, compared to the original novel. The focus is on the characters John Reed, Mr. Brocklehurst, Mr. Rochester and St. John Rivers. The analysis is about how the filmmakers depict the essence of the characters, why they chose to do so and what determinants influenced the two films; furthermore, how this affects Jane’s character and her pursuit for independence. The thesis of this essay is that there is a difference in the interpretation of the male characters in the two films compared to the novel Jane Eyre and this affects Jane’s pursuit for independence. My conclusion is that although the films differ in narration and filming technique, the strongest impact on the discourse is the changed script due to politics and production code.
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Olchowy, Rozeboom Gloria. "Bearing men : a cultural history of motherhood from the cycle plays to Shakespeare." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ56598.pdf.
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Beeler, Connie. "Miscegenated Narration: The Effects of Interracialism in Women's Popular Sentimental Romances from the Civil War Years." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67958/.
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Critical work on popular American women's fiction still has not reckoned adequately with the themes of interracialism present in these novels and with interracialism's bearing on the sentimental. This thesis considers an often overlooked body of women's popular sentimental fiction, published from 1860-1865, which is interested in themes of interracial romance or reproduction, in order to provide a fuller picture of the impact that the intersection of interracialism and sentimentalism has had on American identity. By examining the literary strategy of "miscegenated narration," or the heteroglossic cacophony of narrative voices and ideological viewpoints that interracialism produces in a narrative, I argue that the hegemonic ideologies of the sentimental romance are both "deterritorialized" and "reterritorialized," a conflicted impulse that characterizes both nineteenth-century sentimental, interracial romances and the broader project of critiquing the dominant national narrative that these novels undertake.
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Kanon, Nillen. "Foreign character language : A case study on Kagura from Gin Tama." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Japanska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-35925.
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Role language in Japanese is a term defined in 2000 by Satoshi Kinsui. Role language usesdifferent pronouns, copula and sentence-ending particles to depict a certain type of characterusing language. This thesis compares the language of the character Kagura from the mangaGin Tama , written and illustrated by Hideaki Sorachi, to the role language definitions featured inSatoshi Kinsui’s work Virtual Japanese: Enigmas of Role Language , as well as the standardizedJapanese language. Kagura is an alien character landing on planet earth in Edo -period Japan,her character is portrayed with Chinese details and her language is known as the aruyo rolelanguage, which has been used to represent the Chinese in fiction.The case study consisted of 530 lines from the original manga gathered from seven differentvolumes spanning ten years between the first and the last.The analysis featured in the result section produced statistics of how many lines contained acertain phrase or sentence-ending particle and began analyzing the meaning of particles andhow they are used in the context of the manga . The conclusion brings forth new discoveriesregarding the command conjugation and its equivalence in role language.
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Lee, Dong-Ill. "Character from archetype : a study of the characterization of Beowulf with reference to the diction of direct speech in Beowulf." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321774.
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Costa, Sueli. "From traditional archetypal to feminist archetypal criticism : William Faulkner's female characters in AS I Lay Dying and Light in August." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1995. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/157939.
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Análise das personagens femininas nos romances As I Lay Dying e Light in August de William Faulkner baseada na crítica tradicional dos arquétipos e revisada através da crítica feminista dos arquétipos. As personagens femininas apresentadas nos dois romances, quando analisadas sob uma perspectiva revisionista, passam de meros arquétipos estáticos nos romances a indivíduos ativos na sociedade e com os mesmos direitos e deveres atribuídos aos indivíduos do sexo masculino.
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Pereira, Lucie. "Representing Éire : the transmission of the Deirdre legend from the Middle Ages to 1910." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b47f05bb-592f-4fb8-81a4-f806c5a06f06.
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This thesis analyses the transmission of the Deirdre legend in adaptations from the earliest written sources to the versions of the writers of the early twentieth century Irish Literary Revival. Its aim is to trace the way that the refashioning of the story is informed by the cultural and political contexts within which each writer was working, as well as the more personal and aesthetic motivations behind the various adaptations. The texts chosen for close study represent key moments in the transmission process, both for their treatment of the legend and for the specific context to which this treatment responds. After an introduction dealing with the medieval versions, the thesis is divided into six chapters which chart these key moments in chronological order, ending with J. M. Synge's play Deirdre of the Sorrows, published in 1910. Part of the conclusion is given over to tracing the legend's fate in adaptations since the advent of Irish independence. The chronological framework adopted allows a new perspective to emerge which reveals that the Deirdre legend provided a means of reflecting on the various cultural and political conflicts in which Irish identity has been implicated. The thesis demonstrates that the ancient Irish material was used to valorise the writers' contemporary Irish or Scottish culture at times when this culture was under threat, and that following independence the connection between Deirdre and Eire largely disappeared. The particular use to which the legend was put therefore depended on two factors: the specific conflicts with which each writer was engaging and the various connections which they perceived between the present and the mythical past.
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Dunkel-Duerr, Evamaria. "Otome Game localization : A case study of the character Toma from Amnesia." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-35913.
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Using the Otome game Amnesia and its localized version Amnesia: Memories as a case study, the phenomenon of Otome games was explored from a translation- and Japanese studies' perspective. This paper investigated how translation choices shape character personality, and, as such, Western views. Toma, the most popular character from the Amnesia franchise according to Japanese popularity rankings, was received differently by the Western audience. This study aimed at exploring how translation choices might be related to this difference in reception. As such, it posed the questions: In what respect could changes that occurred during the localization process have led to an alteration of Toma's personality? How could these changes explain the discrepancy between player reception in Japan and the West? Upon analyzing the scripts, a connection between the effect created by certain translation strategies and Western player reception became apparent. Effects identified included the erasure of entry points for "self-inserting" players, the creation of a distorted first impression and the infringement of the players' spaces in ways not present in the original. The connection between character personality and the creation of an "equivalent gameplay experience" was explored. It resulted in the confirmation of the hypothesis surrounding their overall inseparability in an Otome game context, with the exception of a minority of justifiable cases where personality alterations were conducted in favor of a culturally equivalent gameplay experience. The impact of pre-filled gaps in the text led to decreased opportunities for players to contribute to the creation of meaning, while the presence of mistranslations sparked feelings of confusion regarding the character's sanity. Taking the role of the translator, the player and the virtual love interest into consideration, this paper suggests an approach derived from acting as a tool for future character personality preservation in Otome game translation.
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Dannemiller, Alexander S. "A Place to Be: The Relationship Between Setting and Character in Short Stories." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1366114007.
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Lundmark, Camilla. "Alienation in the Main Character Henry Jones in Anthony Trollope’s Cousin Henry : From a Social-Psychological Point of View." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-35907.
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Glass, Stephen. "Two from the Underworld: Short Fiction." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1016.
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The following thesis contains two works of short fiction. The first, “Afterlife,” is narrated by Jeff Carlton, whose unenthusiastic passage into fatherhood is complicated by his girlfriend Charlene’s obsession with mummification. The second, “Jolly,” is the story of Calvin Edwards, a young bus station attendant haunted by his father’s ghost and visited by a cadaverous stranger, Jolly, who also sees the dead. The stories are preceded by an introduction in which the author discusses his views on implied motivation in character development.
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Freitas, Patrícia Maciel de. "From novel to film : the transposition of some character roles in Emma Thompson's screenplay of Sense and Sensibility." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/72749.
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Sense and Sensibility (1811), o primeiro romance publicado de Jane Austen, foi transposto para o cinema em 1995, conferindo seis prêmios de melhor diretor a Ang Lee e dezenove a Emma Thompson, oito como melhor atriz e onze pelo melhor roteiro adaptado. Nesta dissertação eu apresento minha leitura da transposição feita por Emma Thompson do romance de Jane Austen, focando especialmente na maneira em que os personagens principais são transpostos para a tela. Para isso, utilizo três apoios, o texto do roteiro, os diários de Thompson e as performances dos atores. Em cada um desses eixos foram feitas escolhas que merecem ser investigadas, revelando o processo pelo qual o trabalho original se molda às regras da nova mídia e ao público pretendido. Atenção especial é dada aos recursos usados na transposição dos personagens do romance para o filme. O lastro teórico-crítico da pesquisa se apoia nos estudos de Linda Hutcheon sobre adaptação e nos textos de Gerald Mast e Christian Metz sobre a linguagem cinematográfica. A dissertação vem estruturada em duas partes. A primeira, dividida em três seções, apresenta os elementos de contextualização necessários para a discussão empreendida no trabalho. A primeira seção trata sobre o filme produzido em 1995 e sobre Ang Lee, responsável pela direção do mesmo. A segunda seção retraça alguns referentes do romance Sense and Sensibility e sua autora, Jane Austen. A terceira seção considera o processo de criação e adaptação do roteiro de Emma Thompson. A segunda parte do trabalho enfoca as escolhas de transposição, em especial no que diz respeito ao tratamento dos personagens. Ao término da pesquisa, espero identificar os traços que caracterizam Thompson como leitora diferenciada de Austen, e explicitar fatores que motivam as escolhas favorecidas no processo de transposição analisado.Sense and Sensibility (1811), the first novel published by Jane Austen, was transposed to the movies in 1995, granting six awards to Ang Lee as best director and nineteen to Emma Thompson, eight as best actress and eleven for best adapted screenplay. In this thesis, I present my reading of Emma Thompson´s reading of Jane Austen´s novel, focusing mainly on the way the major characters are transposed into the screen. In order to do that, I direct the analysis from three cornerstones, the text of the screenplay, Thompson’s diaries, and the actors’ performances. In each of these instances choices that deserve to be investigated have been made, which reveal the process through which the original work molds itself to the rules of the new media and to the audience it is intended. Special attention is given to the resources used in the transposition of the characters from the novel into the film. The theoretical support of the research is based on Linda Hutcheon’s studies on adaptation, and on Gerald Mast’s and Christian Metz’s texts about filmic language. This thesis is composed in two parts. Part one comes divided into three sections, and presents the contextualization necessary for the discussion held in the work. The first section introduces the film produced in 1995, and Ang Lee, responsible for its direction. The second retraces some referents from the novel Sense and Sensibility and its author, Jane Austen. The third considers Emma Thompson´s process of creation and adaptation of the screenplay. Part two focuses on the choices made in the transposition, especially the ones regarding the treatment of the characters. At the end of this research, I hope to identify the traces that characterize Thompson as a differentiated reader of Austen, and show the factors that motivate the favored choices in the analyzed transposition process.
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Rosinholi, Nátalia Gaubeur. "As representações do diabo na literatura de tradição oral do Brasil: variação e repetição nas funções da personagem." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2011. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14668.
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The aim of this dissertation is to give some thought to the representations of the Devil as a character in literature within Brazilian oral tradition. In order to discover what elements connected to the actions of this personality either remain the same and/or vary in such representatives, we have applied Propp s function theory, which has been especially developed in Morphology of the marvellous tale, with possible alterations, to a corpus made up of 31 tales taken from eight classical anthologies of our popular culture, as follows: Histórias da avozinha and Histórias da baratinha, by Figueiredo Pimentel, Contos tradicionais do Brasil and Literatura oral no Brasil by Luís da Câmara Cascudo; Estórias do diabo, by Altimar Pimentel; Folclore brasileiro: contos populares do Brasil, by Sílvio Romero; Contos populares brasileiros by Lindolfo Gomes; and Território da danação, by Mário Souto Maior. During this investigation, special attention has been given to the way in which the character concerned carries out his role in the narrative pieces studied, particularly in regard to his role as an antagonist and a false hero: the standards as defined by Propp are followed with regard to functions; such standards suffer radical transgression; or there is an indication of a certain ambivalence between good and evil, normally associated to certain popular representations of popular culture. For this purpose, this work has been divided into three chapters: the first seeks a better understanding of the universe which includes the Devil as a literary character in Brazil, therefore being subdivided into: popular culture; literature from the oral tradition; the myth, the tale and the brief story. The second chapter is dedicated to the methodology adopted, including the identification, within the literary corpus, of the excerpts in which the Devil takes on the role of an antagonist or a false hero, showing such a survey through a series of comparative tables, each of which is dedicated to one of the Propp functions selected for the study considered. The second chapter also tries to discuss and analyse the data collected and presented in the tables, with the reference for this discussion being the work of the Russian formalist. Finally, the third chapter presents the conclusions obtained from these analyses
Esta dissertação tem por finalidade refletir sobre as representações do diabopersonagem na literatura de tradição oral do Brasil. A fim de descobrir que elementos ligados às ações dessa personagem se mantêm e/ou variam em tais representações, aplica-se, com as possíveis adequações, a teoria das funções de Propp, especialmente desenvolvida em Morfologia do conto maravilhoso, a um corpus constituído por 31 contos extraídos de oito antologias clássicas da cultura popular brasileira: Histórias da avozinha e Histórias da baratinha, de Figueiredo Pimentel, Contos tradicionais do Brasil e Literatura oral no Brasil, de Luís da Câmara Cascudo; Estórias do diabo, de Altimar Pimentel; Folclore brasileiro: contos populares do Brasil, de Sílvio Romero; Contos populares brasileiros, de Lindolfo Gomes; e Território da danação, de Mário Souto Maior. No decorrer desta investigação, atenta-se especialmente para o modo como a personagem em questão desempenha seu papel nas narrativas estudadas, especialmente no que toca às funções do antagonista e do falso herói: se segue os padrões definidos por Propp em relação às funções; se transgride radicalmente tais padrões; ou se aponta para certa ambivalência entre bem e mal, geralmente vinculada a certas representações próprias da cultura popular. Para tanto, este trabalho divide-se em três capítulos: o primeiro destina-se à melhor compreensão do universo que abarca o diabopersonagem no Brasil, subdividindo-se assim em: cultura popular; literatura de tradição oral; o mito, o conto e o causo. O segundo capítulo, por sua vez, se dedica à metodologia adotada, qual seja, a identificação, no corpus literário, das passagens em que o diabo assume os papéis de antagonista ou falso herói, demonstrando tal levantamento por meio de tabelas comparativas, cada qual dedicada a uma das funções de Propp selecionadas para o estudo em questão. O segundo capítulo procura ainda discutir e analisar os dados levantados e apresentados nas tabelas, tendo como referencial dessa discussão o trabalho do formalista russo. Finalmente, o terceiro capítulo oferece as conclusões dessas análises
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Alwandi, Roaa. "From "Abnormal" Orphan to Celebrated Hero: A discussion of Harry's development in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-10216.
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This essay will exlopre the character of one of our times most beloved fictional characters, Harry Potter. The purpose of this esay is to investigate Harry's character in J.K. Rowling's first novel and to show that it is his his character that is one of the chief reasons for the popularity of the book, and indeed, of the entire series. The various different passages in Harry's role are well-illustrated by close reading of the significant passages in different parts of the novel.
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White, Kayla A. Ms. "Comics and Illustration from the Written; The Conversion of a Story from Prose to Graphic Depiction." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/210.
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This is a thesis that details the process of writing a short 30 page novel, and then converting the subsequent story into a graphic format via illustrations and into a comic book layout. The story itself deals in reworking our learned assumptions of good and evil, specifically in the supernatural and human possibility for both. The comic book format is an exploration of my reader’s different responses to the written and the graphic.
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Matzner-Gore, Greta Nicole. "From the Corners of the Russian Novel: Minor Characters in Gogol, Goncharov, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D87D2SFF.
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This dissertation examines a famous formal peculiarity of nineteenth-century Russian novels: the scores upon scores of characters they embrace. Drawing on terminology developed by Alex Woloch--"character space" and "character system"--I ask how Russian writers use their huge, unwieldy systems of characters to create meaning.
In each of the four central chapters I analyze a different "overcrowded" nineteenth-century Russian novel: Gogol's Dead Souls, Part I (1842), Goncharov's Oblomov (1859), Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1875-77), and Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1879-80). I address questions such as: what artistic purpose do the many superfluous-seeming minor characters in Gogol's, Goncharov's, Tolstoy's, and Dostoevsky's works serve? What effect does their presence have on the structure of the novels themselves? Why was Dostoevsky so worried by the criticism, which he received throughout the 1870s, that he was "overpopulating" his novels? And how did Dostoevsky's own compositional dilemmas inform both the architectonics and the thematics of The Brothers Karamazov?
As I argue, there is an increasingly strong sense in nineteenth-century Russian letters that literary characters not only resemble human beings, but even demand of us the same sort of moral obligations that people do. The perceived personhood of literary characters gives particular significance to the narrative decisions realist Russian writers make (such as how to characterize the major vs. minor figures in a novel, and how much or what kind of narrative attention to grant to each), and Gogol, Goncharov, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky take full artistic advantage of it. They use the enormous number of characters who appear on the pages of their novels in order to pose, through the narrative structure of their works, many of the most important moral, social, and political questions that preoccupy them: What, in essence, is a human being? Are we capable of recognizing (or even simply acknowledging) the psychological complexity of the many, many people who surround us? Can we establish universal brotherhood on earth, a harmonious, unified society that truly includes everyone, even the most disruptive and destructive ones?
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"Evolution of a heroine: from Pride and prejudice to Bridget Jones's diary." 2004. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5892000.
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Chan Ka-ling.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 160-167).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Acknowledgements --- p.iv
Introduction --- p.1
Chapter Chapter One --- Bridget Jones's Diary： A Novelistic Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice --- p.18
Chapter Chapter Two --- The Image of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Its Adaptations --- p.4 7
Chapter Chapter Three --- The Image of Bridget Jones in Bridget Jones' s Diary and Its Film Adaptation --- p.85
Chapter Chapter Four --- Evolution of a Heroine: From Pride and Prejudice to Bridget Jones's Diary --- p.110
Conclusion --- p.142
Notes --- p.157
Works Cited --- p.160
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Dorn, Claudia Vanessa. "Melodramatic silencing the transition from page to stage to screen of female characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin /." Diss., 2002. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/52345701.html.
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Seaman, Susan. "An examination of award-winning Canadian children’s literature from 1982 to 1992 for evidence of gender equality in presentations of male and female characters." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1445.
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This study examined male and female characters in award-winning English language Canadian children's literature for evidence of gender equality. The sample consisted of seventy-eight books that had been winners or runners-up of national awards between 1982 and 1992. Qualitative and quantitative methods of content analysis were used to collect data from which the ratio of male characters to female characters was calculated for the titles, cover illustrations, text, illustrations in the body of the books, and main and supporting characters. A list of eighteen activities, categorized as active/mobile or passive/immobile, was used to identify the activities engaged in by the main and supporting characters. A list of four locations was used to determine the location of each activity. Careers/occupations were listed for all characters. Results indicated more references to females than males in the titles of the books, and an equal number of males and females portrayed on the cover illustrations. However, results from the text and the illustrations in the body of the books revealed twice as many male characters as females. There was a higher ratio of male to female main and supporting characters as well. Results of data collected on activities/locations indicated that female main and supporting characters dominated the passive/immobile activities. Active/mobile activities were dominated by female main characters and male supporting characters. Females dominated the home and outdoors locations, while males dominated place of business and school locations. Male characters performed a greater diversity of careers/occupations than did female characters, and were involved in 66% of the total number of careers/occupations. Findings of this study support the trend toward a reduction in gender bias found in earlier studies. However, the overall results suggest some gender biases in the representation and portrayal of male and female characters.
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Lin, Kai-Wei, and 林凱薇. "「From Classical Literature to Modern Musical」－Analysis and Characterization of the Leading Character in the Musical “Mu-Lan” by Tainaner Ensemble." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59935742109540847573.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
表演藝術研究所
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In the author’s viewpoint, the charm of a musical play comes from the sparkles between characters. There are numerous characters with different personalies on the stage, which might be a reflection of people around you, or even of yourself. The conflict, harmony separation and reconstruction of these characters are like blocks of pigments which were gradually interacted and developed into a colorful and beautiful painting. Overall, the interaction between characters is the key of a play. “Human” is the soul of a play, therefore analyzing the character is an important preparation for the performer. This study aims to discuss the leading character of the play “Mu-Lan” on the personality and characterization, and to further understand her role play, features and appearance throughout the story line and her interaction with other characters; in the meantime, the context of this play is analyzed as well as discussed the meaning of each scene. In the end, the 6 songs of the play, namely ＜我非（飛）我願＞、＜美麗的錯誤＞、＜愛喲＞、＜貫甫再見＞、＜我的思念＞、＜終曲＞are analyzed to express the transformations and emotions of Mu-Lan at different stages: escape- confront- confused- find true love- heartbreak- bravely let go. The analysis helps to have a comprehensive understanding of the character, instead of describing her through vague imagination or lopsided view, and it helps the performer to present the inner emotion and outer expression through multi-dimensions.
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Wu, Yan-Fang, and 吳雅芳. "The study of characters’ transition from closure mindset to the social interaction in Haruki Murakami’s literatures- case studies among Norwegian Wood, South of the Border, West of the Sun and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/xja379.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
日本語文學研究所
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Abstract As a well-loved modern writer in his native Japan, Haruki Murakami’s literatures also gain widespread popularity internationally. Compared to substantial researches focusing on his single novel, the topic on thinking shift of certain novels during a period are relatively fewer. According to Hear the Wind Sing, Pinball, 1973 and A Wild Sheep Chase, one of the most noticeable features in Haruki Murakami’s literatures is main characters’ “closure ”. Main characters always keep a certain distance from social interaction world, enjoying themselves in their own closed world. This closure lifestyle not only associates interpersonal isolation, but also reflects current condition nowadays. However, this closure feature seems to have turned in his subsequent novels after Norwegian Wood. With the emergence of someone who main characters want to interact, they show shift from closure mindset to living with others in the real world. This study focused on Norwegian Wood, South of the Border, West of the Sun, and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Then, illustrated characters’ anxiety and mental change based on the examples of common plots’ repetitiveness, physical change inside the novels. When main characters’ mindset change, the study also explored issues “how they try to find ways out of closed world, further seeking possibilities in the real world” and “other characters’ survival modes”. After these analyses, the study concludes main characters’ growth from self-centeredness to fighting for others. Meanwhile, describes how to overcome life''s unexpected problems, inevitable difficulties in communication during interpersonal interaction, as well as the survival mode lived with others. Keywords: Haruki Murakami, Closure, Derealization, Empathy, Recovery, Growth, Survival mode
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Shaw, Rayford Wesley. "A Structural analysis and visual abstraction of the pictorial in the Aeneid, I-VI." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16021.
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The pictorial elements of the first six books of the
Aeneid can be evidenced through an examination of its
structural components. With commentaries on such
literary devices as parallels and antipodes, interwoven
themes, cyclic patterns, and strategic placement of words
in the text, three genres of painting are treated
individually in Chapter 1 to illustrate the poet's
consistency of design and to prove him a craftsman of the
visual arts.
In the first division, "Cinematic progression," attention
is directed to the language which conveys movement and
frequentative action, with special emphasis placed on
specific passages whose verbal components possess
sculptural or third-dimensional traits and contribute to
the "spiral" and "circle" motifs, the appropriate visual
agents for animation.
Depiction of mythological subjects comprises the second
division entitled "Cameos and snapshots." Three
selections, dubbed monstra, are explicated with such
cross references as to illustrate the poet's use of
epithets which he distributes passim to elicit verbal
echoes of other passages.
The final division, "The Vergilian landscape," addresses
two major themes, antithetical in nature, the martial and
the pastoral. Their sequential juxtaposition in the text
renders a marked contrast in mood which is manifested
pictorially in the transition from darkness to light. A
panoramic chiaroscuro emerges which is the tapestry
against which Aeneas makes his sojourn through the
Underworld. It is the perfect backdrop to accompany the
overriding theme of "things hidden," res latentes, which
encompasses a greater part of the epic and becomes the
culminant motif of the paintings which comprise the
visual presentation.
Chapter 2 functions as a catalogue raisonne for art
inspired by the Aeneid from early antiquity up to the
present day. Such examples of artistic expression
provide a continuum with which to appropriate Horace's
maxim, ut pictura poesis, in their evaluation.
The verbal exegeses in Chapter 1 have been programmed to
comport with the thematic content of the visual
presentation in Chapter 3, a critique exemplifying the
transposition of the verbal to the pictorial. With these
canvases I have attempted to render a new perspective of
Vergil's epic in the genre of abstract expressionism.Art
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