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Ettari, Gary. ""That within which passeth show" : the dialectics of early modern subjectivity /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9383.

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Little, Philippa Susan. "Images of self : a study of feminine and feminist subjectivity in the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Margaret Atwood and Adrienne Rich, 1950-1980." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1990. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1501.

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The thesis explores the poetry (and some prose) of Plath, Sexton, Atwood and Rich in terms of the changing constructions of self-image predicated upon the female role between approx. 1950-1980.1 am particularly concerned with the question of how the discourses of femininity and feminism contribute to the scope of the images of the self which are presented. The period was chosen because it involved significant upheaval and change in terms of women's role and gender identity. The four poets' work spans this period of change and appears to some extent generally characteristic of its social, polit

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Condon, James Joseph. "Playing with lives theatricality, self-staging, and the problem of agency in Renaissance English revenge tragedy /." Diss., [Riverside, Calif.] : University of California, Riverside, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1957417671&SrchMode=2&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1269383638&clientId=48051.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.<br>Includes abstract. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Title from first page of PDF file (viewed March 23, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-202). Also issued in print.

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Arvan, Andrews Elaine J. "The Physiognomy of Fashion: Faces, Dress, and the Self in the Juvenilia and Novels of Charlotte Brontë." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1107275437.

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Brearey, Oliver James. "Peripheral subjectivity and English-language Hong Kong literature." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2007. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?1451242.

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Walby, Celestin J. "Answering looks of sympathy and love : subjectivity and the narcissus myth in Renaissance English literature /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3144464.

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Mallory-Kani, Amy. "Medico-politics and English literature, 1790-1830| Immunity, humanity, subjectivity." Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3620301.

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<p> In 1796, Dr. Edward Jenner began vaccinating individuals against small pox by using matter from the pustules of the cow pox. Though extremely controversial because of its discomforting mixture of animal and human, by the end of the Romantic period, vaccination was celebrated as the safest way to immunize the British population. Through the practice of vaccination, Britain found a way to save its body politic from a destructive epidemic while affirming the strong connection between individual health and collective well-being that writers of the period like Mary Wollstonecraft, William Words

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Smuts, Merriman Eckard. "Embedded subjectivity in the work of J.M. Coetzee." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/18698.

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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is the result of an immersion in the work of J.M. Coetzee. I have taken various of Coetzee’s novels, namely Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons, Disgrace, The Master of Petersburg, Foe, Life & Times of Michael K and Slow Man, and constructed readings of these novels from the inside out. The overarching concern of the dissertation is the notion of subjectivity and Coetzee’s methods of representing subjectivity. It is my contestation that the experience of authentic subjective awareness arises from the process of

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Wong, Tee-vee Vivian, and 黃天慧. "Between self and subjectivity: women in threenovels by Jean Rhys." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31227995.

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Fleming, Carolyn Evine Mary Elizabeth. "Ideas of the self in Medieval English literature." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328079.

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Bailey, Elaine. ""A singular person": Portraits of subjectivity in the poetry and prose of Matilda Betham." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28949.

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'A Singular Person': Portraits of Subjectivity in the Poetry and Prose of Matilda Betham represents the first book-length study of Matilda Betham's literary output. A poet, biographer, and portrait artist, Betham is best remembered for her friendships with S. T. Coleridge, the Lambs, and Robert Southey. Referring to manuscript and printed material, this thesis uses feminist and New Historical critical methods to examine Betham's contribution to British Romanticism. It offers a biography of Betham and a historically contextualised analysis of her own construction of women's role in civic affair

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Fick, Angelo Carlo. "Limited possibilities : agency and subaltern subjectivity in four South African allegories." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17940.

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Bibliography: pages. 197-211.<br>This thesis examines the representation of the negotiation of black women's subjectivity in four South African allegorical novels. Using aspects of postmodern discourse, and feminist and postcolonial literary and cultural theories on identity formation and subjectivity, I propose that it is in the allegorical mode that the four writers are able to offer black women as female gendered subalterns the space to negotiate subjectivity and to assert agency. Given the history of sexism, racism and imperialism in South Africa, the politics of place impact crucially on

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Parkhurst, Joseph Lanius. "The rhetoric of subjectivity: The written self in the autobiographical writings of Hawthorne, Adams and James." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185137.

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The study takes the measure to which "self" and "self-representation" do not coincide in autobiography. Each of the writers in this study--Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Adams, and Henry James--writes an autobiography that consciously divides the writing-self from the written-self. Each does this at least in part as a result of his discomfort with the patriarchal culture of nineteenth-century America. Never fitting the normative models of male action in the areas of commerce and politics, each uses his autobiographical writing to construct himself along the model of the "other." This gesture requi

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Franck, Kaja. "The development of the literary werewolf : language, subjectivity and animal/human bounderies." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17669.

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The werewolf is a stock character in Gothic horror, exemplifying humanity's fear of 'the beast within', and a return to a bestial state of being. Central to this is the idea that the werewolf is, once transformed, without language. Using an ecoGothic approach, this thesis will offer a new approach in literary criticism regarding the werewolf. It argues that the werewolf has become a vehicle for our ambivalence towards the wolf, which itself has become a symbolic Gothic Other. Using interdisciplinary source materials, such as natural histories, fairy tales, and folklore, the notion of the 'symb

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Cumpsty, Rebekah. "Emerging HIV communities and self : the representation of self and community in South African HIV/AIDS literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12371.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-75).<br>HIV/AIDS is a prominent part of contemporary South African experience that has found expression in many forms, one of which is literature. This thesis analyses the relation between self and community as it is represented in South African HIV/AIDS literature. The argument of the thesis is underpinned by a dual theoretical strand.

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Sturgess, Charlotte Jane. "A politics of location : subjectivity and origins in the work of Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1993. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1603.

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This thesis attempts to discover the links between concepts of identity and origins, and Canadian women's writing. The work of three English-speaking Canadian women writers, Mavis Gallant, Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro, will be examined in order to discover the ways in which their writings problematize feminine subjecthood, and in doing so shed light on a specifically Canadian 'discourse' of identity. I posit thereby, that perceiving the absences and silences structuring their modes of representation is a (symbolic) means of perceiving Canada as a dualistic, fractured, and contradictory unit

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Geustyn, Maria Elizabeth. "Representations of slave subjectivity in post-apartheid fiction : the 'Sideways Glance'." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85854.

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Thesis (MA)-- Stellenbosch University, 2013.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the past three decades in South Africa, the documentation of slave history at the Cape Colony by historians has burgeoned. Congruently, interest in the history of slavery has increased in South African letters and culture. Here, literature is often employed in order to imaginatively represent the subjective view-point and experiences of slaves, as official records contained in historiography and the archive often exclude such interiority. This thesis is a study of the representations of slave subjectivity in two novels

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Paul, Nalini Caroline. "Identities displaced and misplaced : aspects of postcolonial subjectivity in the novels of Jean Rhys." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/474/.

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This thesis examines various aspects of female subjectivity in the characters of Jean Rhys’s five novels: Quartet (1928), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, (1930), Voyage in the Dark (1934), Good Morning, Midnight (1939), and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). These aspects are informed by race, gender and class, unique to each of the novels, and all involving a degree of performance and/or mimicry. Although the phrase, “Stages of Postcolonial Subjectivity” was considered, it was replaced with “Aspects”, as a term that more accurately reflects subjectivity in these novels. The word “stages” denotes progress,

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Tranter, Rhys Edward. "Ill seen Ill said : trauma, representation and subjectivity in Samuel Beckett's post-war writing." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/59995/.

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Over the last two decades, our understanding of Samuel Beckett’s life and work has been expanded by an unprecedented number of biographies, memoirs and personal correspondence published for the first time. As a result, academic research has been able to plot a series of connections between the writer’s literary work and the cultural and historical moments that shaped it. Beckett has been hailed as a poet whose work engages like no other with the atrocities of the Second World War. This thesis takes as its starting point an issue that often arises in evaluations of the writer, but which has nev

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Anandan, Prathim. "Child/subject : children as sites of postcolonial subjectivity and subjection in post-Independence South Asian fiction in English." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711768.

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Dashiell, John C. "Time's Ungentle Tide: Disillusion, Isolation and Self-Mastery in Byron and Hemingway." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625460.

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Yang, Haihong. ""Hoisting one's own banner:" self-inscription in lyric poetry by three women writers of late imperial China." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/766.

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This dissertation examines the innovative subjectivity of feminine voices constructed in poetry by three women writers from seventeenth- and early nineteenth-century China: Li Yin, Wang Duanshu, and Wang Duan. Drawing primarily on their individual collections, I argue that the writers fashion poetic selves that deviate from literati representations of feminine subjectivity through the writers' intertextual dialogues with mainstream literary and cultural traditions and also their poetic exchanges with contemporary women writers. I explore specific methods employed by the three writers to create

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Guldimann, Colette. ""A symbol of the New African" : Drum magazine, popular culture and the formation of black urban subjectivity in 1950s South Africa." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2003. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1814.

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This thesis examines the emergence of black urban subjectivity in South Africa during the 1950s, focussing on the ways in which popular American genres were utilised in the construction of black urban identities that served as a means of resistance to apartheid. At the centre of this process was Drum magazine: founded in South Africa in 1951 , it became the largest selling magazine on the African continent in 1956. Drum's success was due to the way in which it enabled the relocation of black identity from the "traditional" towards the "modern'. The 1940s gave rise to widespread migration of bl

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Bonner, Sarah K. "Woolf's philosophy of literary subjectivity : Virginia Woolf's 'To the lighthouse' and Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist theory." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10091.

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Sartre's theory of existentialism is used as a lens to interpret Woolf's approach to literature as the philosophy of "literary subjectivity." The notion of subjectivity is explored within theoretical existentialism and then applied to Woolf's life and her moment of awakening to subjectivity. To the Lighthouse is examined theoretically and textually to demonstrate Woolf's philosophy of literary subjectivity.

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Bigley, Michael Erik. "Musicality, subjectivity, and the Canterbury tales." CONNECT TO THIS TITLE ONLINE, 2007. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05312007-110614.

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Yamamoto, Traise. "Writing "that other, private self" : the construction of Japanese American female subjectivity /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9436.

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Taylor, Natalie. "Mapping mystic spaces in the self and its stories: Reading (through) the gaps in Ernest Buckler's "The Mountain and the Valley", Alice Munro's "Lives of Girls and Women", Peter Ackroyd's "The House of Doctor Dee", Adele Wiseman's "Crackpot", and A S Byatt's "Possession"." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29374.

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In their novels, Ernest Buckler, Alice Munro, Peter Ackroyd, Adele Wiseman and A. S. Byatt have each explored moments when their characters experience expanded states of consciousness. Narratives such as these, as well as those of various mystical literatures, posit the idea that the barriers of the known self can be broken through, often repeatedly. Each of the novels to be studied here portrays a gap- or flaw-ridden self in the act of perpetuating and/or penetrating various forms of narrative and identity constructs. Each also features an encounter with what is other when these narrative and

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Anker, Willem. "Die nomadiese self : skisoanalitiese beskouinge oor karaktersubjektiwiteit in die prosawerk van Alexander Strachan en Breyten Breytenbach /." Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1088.

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Weise, Wendy Suzanne. "Gender, Genre, and the Eroticization of Violence in Early Modern English Literature." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195129.

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In an analysis of literary and historical documents from the sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, Gender, Genre, and the Eroticization of Violence in Early Modern English Literature examines depictions of love, beauty, and desire and identifies within these discourses a rhetoric of violence. It explores how eroticized violence can be deployed to privilege male speakers and silence female voices. It also reveals, by pairing female- and male-authored works that make specific claims to represent gendered experience that early modern writers both recognized the mechanisms of violent repres

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Bartlett, Laura. "Reflection/Reflected The Construction of Female Subjectivity in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and The Death of the Heart." TopSCHOLAR®, 1997. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/333.

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As I read Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and The Death of the Heart, questions arose, persisted, and remained unanswered until I undertook the project of applying poststructuralist theories to these novels. Reading The Last September, I puzzled over the female protagonist's relationship to an ancillary character, which Bowen repeatedly represents in terms of the father-daughter relationship. Reading both The Last September and The Death of the Heart, I was struck by the fact that although Bowen is typically categorized as a "classical realist," she embarks upon the quest of depicting the

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Broumels, Monique Juliette. "The ambiguous female voice : recovering female subjectivity in Elizabeth Cary's The tragedy of Mariam, the fair queen of Jewry." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13933.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-110).<br>The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry (circ) 1604 deals with the difficulties of a woman to express herself in a society that enjoins women to silence and to the private realm of the home. In the play Cary debates the actions of several female characters, presenting the reader with the understanding that they are wilful subjects who act to push the boundaries of the patriarchal confines of the royal household in which they find themselves. But Cary does not unequivocally endorse these women's actions. The main protagonist of the

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Chou, Hsing-chun. "Joyce, Bakhtin, and postcolonial trialogue : history, subjectivity, and the nation in Ulysses." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1800/.

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In the light of Bakhtinian theories, this research focuses on Ulysses as a postcolonial modernist text, in which Joyce appropriates modernist aesthetic strategies to serve the purpose of narrating the nation. Bakhtin is helpful here, not only because his theories serve especially well to explain the meeting and intersection of social, political, and cultural forces in periods of transition, but also because his attempt to establish a “historical poetics” helps both to explore discourse as social/individual ideology constituting the text and to interpret the dialogue interaction between sociohi

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CHENG, On Yee Franziska. "A lacanian perspective on literature, translation and the reader's (inter-)subjectivity : read my text and tell me who you are." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2012. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/eng_etd/7.

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My purpose in this research is to raise some theoretical issues in the study of literature and translation. One dominating attribute of a piece of literary text is its poetic linguistic features, e.g. ambiguity, irony, contradictions and linguistic tension. However, these traits of literary texts are theorized by Julia Kristeva as the manifestation of the drive’s dismantling of what Jacques Lacan characterizes as the Symbolic, hence an almost schizophrenic collection of disruptions of the relation between the signifiers and the signifieds. I intend to push this argument further into the realm

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Mulder, F. Adele. "Bodies and borders : space and subjectivity in three South African texts." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2444.

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Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis interrogates the relationship between body, subjectivity and space in three antipastoral novels. The texts which I will be discussing, Karel Schoeman’s This Life, Anne Landsman’s The Devil’s Chimney and J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country, all foreground the female protagonist’s relationship to a specifically South African landscape in a colonial time-frame. The inter-relatedness between the body, subjectivity and space is explored in order to show that there is a shifting interaction between these

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Xiong, Shuangting. "The Problematic Formation of the Modern Self in Lu Xun’s “In Memoriam” and Ding Ling’s “Miss Sophia’s Diary”." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22702.

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The crisis of the Chinese nation in the early twentieth century compelled May Fourth intellectuals to search for a modern self in order to modernize and strengthen the nation. They did so by self-consciously experimenting with literary forms and genres, from which the first-person narratives arose. This thesis explores how particular formal or generic characteristics produce, problematize, or even impede the formation of a modern self modeled on the Western Enlightenment notions of the self as autonomous, coherent, and bounded. I argue that despite the two authors’ attempt to create an aspirat

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TSANG, Fei Yue. "Histrionic translation : a methodology for promoting the translator's inter-subjectivity as co-producer." Digital Commons @ Lingnan University, 2013. https://commons.ln.edu.hk/eng_etd/9.

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This thesis will focus on Ezra Pound’s poem, Histrion, its associations with Stanislavskian method acting and their interface with translation studies. The title of “Histrion” is derived from the Latin word for an actor and Pound clearly wishes to suggest strong parallels between the voice of the poet and the voice of the actor. The work evokes a clairvoyant state of heightened consciousness achieved by the poet, in which he melds the subjectivities of the modern writer and the “souls of all men great” (earlier poets such as Dante and Villon) in a translucent flame of fused form. The thesis wi

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Wolf, Johannes. "The art of arts : theorising pastoral power in the English Middle Ages." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278517.

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Gregory the Great described the government of souls as ‘the art of arts,’ a sentiment that the Fourth Lateran Council would echo in 1215. This thesis takes as its fundamental proposition that this ‘art’ can be understood as a ‘craft’, one that is responsible for producing and maintaining a Christian subjectivity marked by introspection, inwardness, and a strong distrust of externalities. Using a theoretical framework influenced by Michel Foucault I suggest a tradition of administering and producing these subjects through ‘pastoral power.’ Charting the trajectory of these ideas from the ascetic

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Ganze, Ronald J. "Conceptions of the self in Augustine, King Alfred, and Anglo-Saxon England /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3153785.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 192-211). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Saraçoğlu, Semra. "Self-reflexivity in postmodernist texts a comparative study of the works of John Fowles and Orhan Pamuk /." Ankara : METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1104231/index.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Middle East Technical University, 2003.<br>Keywords: Self-reflexivity, Self-reflection, Mirror, Dreams, Fantasies, Reference and Difference, Self- Other Dichotomy, "I"dentity Crisis, Overt/Covert, Metafiction, Creative Process, Form, Linguistic Medium.

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Buckalew, Faye Roberta. ""Thro' Sleep as Thro' a Veil": Losing the Self to Find the Self in the Poetry of Christina Rossetti." W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625824.

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Botha, Fourie. "Symbolic masters/semiotic slaves : subjectivity and subjection in Atwood, with reference to The circle game and Two-headed poems." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13932.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-86).<br>This dissertation explores the construction of the subject via a relationship of power in two poem sequences, 'The circle game' and 'Two-headed poems', by Margaret Atwood. I argue that Atwood proposes a subject similar to the kind of subject found in psychoanalysis. Like the psychoanalytic subject, Atwood's subject is formed in relation to its other. This relation is essentially a power relation and can become unbalanced, forcing one of the two parties into a subjugated position. Atwood not only exposes these skewed relations of power, but

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Gilmore, Christine Cecelia. ""Our poet the Monarch" : Sir Philip Sidney and Renaissance subjectivity /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9495.

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Taylor, Michelle Marie. "From sentiment to sagacity to subjectivity: dogs and genre in nineteenth-century British literature." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6303.

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My dissertation examines the ways that canine roles affect genre—the categories into which we place works of literature, which shape their forms and which in turn shape our expectations of what we read. For instance, if epitaphs and elegies are at least partially meant to usher the dead into heaven and praise the dead’s suitability for a Christian afterlife, what happens when the subject is a dog denied a soul by Christianity? These are the kinds of questions I address. In addition to epitaphs and elegies, I consider detective and sensation fiction as well as dog autobiographies—works of ficti

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Cook, Kristin A. "Executing character : of sympathy, self-construction and Adam Smith, in early America, 1716-1826." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9688.

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This PhD thesis asks the following question: how does Adam Smith's moral sense philosophy, particularly his notion of sympathy, as articulated through his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (delivered 1762-63), rationally and relationally inform an understanding of socio-political character in Early America? Prioritising the American Revolutionary period, broadly marked by the years 1716 and 1826 (introduced by the opening of the first theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia), my analysis employs Smith's theory as a rhetorical device for understanding d

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Efstratiou, Dimitris. "Disintegration of essence and subjectivity : the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and T.S. Eliot." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/79630/.

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This thesis elaborates upon Charles Baudelaire and T. S. Eliot's poetic negotiation of the erosion of the essentialist cognitive and moral foundations that hypothetically monitor human praxis and cement a stable subjectivity on the basis of the human subjects' co-inhering in a common horizon of understanding. I contend that Baudelaire's work consciously belaboured the collapse of vaulting cognitive frameworks and testimonial accountability in a way that reveals both the historical and trans-historical dimensions of the non-integratability of experience within a modem economy of existence. His

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Rex, Cathy Wyss Hilary E. "Indianness and womanhood textualizing the female American self /." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/SUMMER/English/Dissertation/Rex_Cathy_12.pdf.

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Millim, Anne-Marie. "Preaching silence : the disciplined self in the Victorian diary." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1532/.

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This thesis examines the representations of the self as a cultural agent, both reacting to and actively shaping codes of social and artistic respectability, as displayed in the diaries of the canonical Victorian writers Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, Henry Crabb Robinson, George Eliot, George Gissing, John Ruskin and Gerard Manley Hopkins. It analyses the impact of wider ideological and social imperatives on the diarists’ subjective experience and reads their tendency to silence the self as a symptom of the cultural pressure to merge their private and public persona. These diaries represented a foru

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Steele, Warren Donald. "Body of glass : cybernetic bodies and the mirrored self." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/163/.

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This thesis examines the ontology of the cyborg body and the politics inherent to cultural manifestations of that image, and focuses on the links between glass and human-machine integration, while tracing the dangerous political affinities that emerge when such links are exposed. In the first chapter, the cyborg’s persistent construction as a cultural Black Box is uncovered using the theories of Bruno Latour and W. Ross Ashby. It examines why the temptation to explore the cyborg solely through close readings of contemporary incarnations leads only to confusion and misreading. The second chapte

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Barker, Carol. "To suffice to herself : female self-sufficiency in the work of women writers 1740-1814." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2002. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1417.

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This thesis takes as its focus the concept of self- sufficiency in the works of women writers 1740-1814, in order to re-evaluate the relationship between moral and economic modes of eighteenth-century female (in)dependence. This focus comprises two more refined aims: to formulate an appropriate methodology for using the term self-sufficiency within the project by establishing its definitions and applications, both contemporary and modern (addressing, in effect, whether it can be said to establish its own discourse); and to discuss a range of work by female writers whose thematic and strategic

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Meier, Björn. "Subversive narrative techniques and self-reflexivity in Vladimir Nabokov's the real life of Sebastian Knight, Lolita, Pnin, Pale Fire and Ada, or Ardor: A family Chronicle." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18694.

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This dissertation has three aims. First, the establishment of the theoretical foundations of deconstruction and its appropriation by literary criticism. Second, the application of deconstruction to the novels of Nabokov; it has to be stressed that this application is not itself a deconstructive reading, rather that deconstruction offers the interpretative horizon for an analysis of the inner logic of self-reflexivity in the novels in question. which is defined with de Man and against Derrida as a procedure of textual self-deconstruction. The procedure, evident in the proliferation of textual s

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