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Holt, Travis V. "The legacy of a failing father dysfunctional father figures in William Faulkner's fiction /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
Full textPeters, Audrey D. "Fatherhood and Fatherland in Chimamanda Adichie's "Purple Hibiscus"." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1769.
Full textZeni, Bruno Gonçalves. "Sinuca de malandro: narradores, protagonistas e figuras paternas em João Antônio." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-13032013-120103/.
Full textThis thesis analyses João Antonios short stories and autobiographical narratives where father figures are crucial and intimately related to main characters. The critical work identifies essential elements of fiction (such as narrator, characters and plot) and the way they interact. Our research is based upon Antonio Candidos essays on João Antônio and on literature and society. The effort of interpretation combines literary criticism, history of literature, biographical approach and bibliographic research, also including psychoanalysis and sociological theoretical references. The interpretations lead to conclusions about the journey of the main characters, the concept of trickery (malandragem), the short story form in João Antonio and the relationship between life and work of this Brazilian writer.
Stewart, James C. "The ghost of Godwin intertextuality and embedded correspondence in the works of the Shelley circle /." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2008. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2008m/stewart.pdf.
Full textAdditional advisors: Randa Graves, Daniel Siegel, Samantha Webb. Description based on contents viewed Feb. 10, 2009; title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-71).
Martínez, Samper Pablo. "Padre e hijo: una historia del cine a través de las figuras de Ulises, Abrahan y Hamlet." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668174.
Full textThis research work sets out a "history of the cinema" through the research of two figures that are present in all its histories, the father and the son. The main hypothesis is that the filial-paternal model is a storyline that the cinema inherits from the literary tradition and, from its beginnings, takes this inheritance on imagining possible solutions. How does the father appear represented in the history of the cinema? What are the traits that define him? How was this relationship, father/son, configured in each cinematographic "period"? How are the formal solutions by each author and each movement reflected around the representation of this relationship? The place and the role of parents and children are not predetermined beforehand but are transformed according to historical changes and the construction of the figures at the same time. Therefore, this research proposes to study the couple father-son as the place from which the formal and historical tensions of each cinematographic period are read.
Remic, Andy. "The Ghost of Your Father." Thesis, Edge Hill University, 2018. http://repository.edgehill.ac.uk/10442/.
Full textFankhauser, Rochelle A. "Dear Father." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1998. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTAF,34215.
Full textHamou, Patricia. "Figures de l'Aborigene dans l'imaginaire français." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1327.
Full textHamou, Patricia. "Figures de l'Aborigene dans l'imaginaire français." University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1327.
Full textJones, Ffion Wynne. "Relative strangers : father-daughter incest in contemporary literature." Thesis, Bangor University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432794.
Full textBrown, Andrew Stephen. "Roland Barthes : the figures of writing." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292859.
Full textMcWilliams, Sara E. "Disturbances: Figures of hybridity and the politics of representation /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9411.
Full textCox, Kempton John. "Visualizing Borges: Figures of Interpretation." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5245.
Full textDeutsch, Katherine Ariela. "Platonic Footnotes: Figures of Asymmetry in Ancient Greek Thought." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:26566091.
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Eastin, Jennifer Flood. "Impact of Absent Father-Figures on Male Subjects and the Correlation to Juvenile Delinquency: Findings and Implications." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4332/.
Full textShugart, Helene Anna. "Disinheriting the father: the nature and function of feminist rhetorical appropriation /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487854314871775.
Full textMann, Erin Irene. "Relative identities: father-daughter incest in Medieval English religious literature." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4873.
Full textYegenoglu, Dilara. "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Quest for the Father." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279212/.
Full textWhite, Barbara A., and mikewood@deakin edu au. "'Beyond God the father' : The metaphysical in a physical world." Deakin University. School of Literary and Communication Studies, 2002. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050825.154051.
Full textSpieker, Sven. "Figures of memory and forgetting in Andrei Bitov's prose." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335709.
Full textvon, Sneidern Maja-Lisa 1945. "Figures of appetite and slavery from Milton to Swift." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289300.
Full textTillson, H. "The image of the father in the novels of Claude Mauriac." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370651.
Full textTyers, Meryl Lois Sylvia. "Figures of fiction : a study of Nerval's Les Illumines." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282008.
Full textMasse, Vincent. "Figures de l'Amérindien dans la littérature québécoise, 1855-1875." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79792.
Full textThe analysis itself is a close inspection of a large quantity of poetry and fiction read in search of pan-textual recurrences. Constant features found as such are presented in a quasi-index of characteristics and quasi-characters-like figures, both seen as cliche, or topoi, and both linked to various imaginary constructs about cruelty, fear and security, forestry, religion, womanhood, alcoholism, etc. The poetics constraints in which those figures take place are considered: for example, what role may or may not play an Amerindian character in a narrative? Also analysed are underlying micro-narratives, particularly those linked to progress and decay.
The whole is not a unified system which would account for every possibility; it may instead be conceptualized as series of trends which may or may not combine or clash.
Those cliches are read as signs of larger and collective questionings, most notably about Quebec's self-image.
Magnani, Roberta. "Constructing the father : fifteenth-century manuscripts of Geoffrey Chaucer's works." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2010. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54128/.
Full textDias, Claire. "Under his roof : father-daughter relationships under renovation." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82700.
Full textThe required afterword to my narratives discusses the theoretical problem of the distinction between fiction and non-fiction as well as the living nature of material culture and space as reflections and mediators of father-daughter relationships.
Brownlee, Victoria Margaret Roberta. "Reforming figures : biblical interpretation and literature in early modern England." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.580119.
Full textLeavens, Janet Kristen. "Figures of sympathy in eighteenth-century Opéra comique." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/844.
Full textLorenz, Johnny Anderson. "Haunted cartographies : ghostly figures and contemporary epic in the Americas /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
Full textStrauss, Werner. "The representation of male figures in the fiction of Irmtraud Morgner." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11289.
Full textNeel, Travis E. "Fortune’s Friends: Forms and Figures of Friendship in the Chaucer Tradition." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492705588117003.
Full textPhipps, Gregory. "Figures in American literary pragmatism: Henry James and the metaphysical club." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=96930.
Full textCette thèse examine les intersections littéraires et philosophiques entre les œuvres de fiction d'Henry James et les écrits de William James, de Charles Peirce, et d'Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Ces trois derniers étaient des personnages clés dans le développement du pragmatisme, un mouvement philosophique qui met l'accent sur l'émergence de la valeur d'une croyance ou d'une idée à travers une action ou des conséquences sociales tangibles. Appliquer une approche pragmatiste à la fiction d'Henry James nous permet de clarifier de nouvelles interprétations de ses récits, tandis qu'en même temps le fait d'appliquer une approche littéraire au pragmatisme nous amène à des nouvelles compréhensions de cette philosophie. Le but principal de ce projet est donc d'articuler et d'examiner le fonctionnement d'un pragmatisme littéraire en traçant l'emploi des métaphores et du langage figuratif semblables dans les œuvres de Peirce, d'Holmes, et de William et Henry James. D'un côté, ces composants littéraires établissent des liens entre les écrits fictifs et philosophiques en faisant fonction de véhicule rhétorique important dans différentes constructions de la subjectivité qui sont étroitement liées. D'un autre côté, ce langage figuratif relie aussi les œuvres de ce quatre écrivains à un environnement culturel partagé en incluant des références à des développements et des transformations de grande échelle dans l'Amérique de la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, notamment, la guerre civile, l'expansion d'une économie capitaliste et corporative, l'expansion du chemin de fer, et les échos de la Révolution américaine. De cette façon, l'application de l'approche pragmatiste à des vieux problèmes philosophiques est infléchie par des intégrations littéraires des dynamiques et des tendances majeures qui sont primordiales au fonctionnement de la culture américaine de la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, ce qui donne une perspective exclusivement américaine sur la relation entre la subjectivité individuelle et l'environnement externe. La fiction d'Henry James sert de laboratoire où les ramifications des représentations pragmatistes de la subjectivité se jouent à travers les relations négociées par ses personnages entre leurs croyances et leurs idées privées et l'évaluation de celles-ci dans leurs domaines sociales. Entre autres, les œuvres littéraires de James démontrent que les processus à travers lesquels « la vérité arrive à une idée » sont complexes, multi-stratifiés, et souvent inattendus.
Lowe-Dupas, Hélène Marie. "Figures de la coupure : une etude de l'oeuvre fictionnelle de Charles Nodier /." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487843688959534.
Full textFranson, Craig. "Suspended pangs : figures of agony in the discourse of Romanticism /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1421623051&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textTypescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 222-230). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
Feltrin-Morris, Marella. "Hanging by a thread marionette figures in twentieth-century Italian literature /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2005.
Find full textMcNeil, Andrea F. ""Moments of being" Elizabeth Dalloway: A study of Virginia Woolf's daughter figures." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6363.
Full textTopping, Margaret Eileen. "Christian and mythological figures of speech in the works of Marcel Proust." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244230.
Full textEmmett, Christine. "Devouring the father: family and recuperation in Triomf and the Native Commissioner." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14142.
Full textBaderoon, Gabeba. "Oblique figures : representations of Islam in South African media and culture." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7965.
Full textIn 1996 stories in South African newspapers about the group Pagad articulated a new vision of Islam. In this thesis I conduct a long reading of the ways in which Islam has been represented in South Africa to provide a context for analysing the Pagad stories. Drawing on Edward Said's Orientalism and later elaborations that emphasise gender, the thesis is attentive to the latent weight of fantasies of 'race' on non-fictional representations. In the introduction I look at the use of the offensive word 'kaffir' in colonial South Africa and contend that, in the context of slavery and the displacement of indigenous people, the proliferating use of the term functioned to recast indigeneity as misplaced and unfit, facilitating settler claims to the land. Through the example of this deformation of a word originally drawn from Islam, I show how the meanings and experiences of Islam are transformed by specific circumstances and histories. Islam arrived in South Africa when Dutch colonists brought slaves and servants to the Cape from 1658. The context of slavery and colonial settlement is crucial to the way Islam has been represented in South Africa. Muslim slaves were characterized as industrious, placid and picturesque. I contend in analyses of nineteenth century landscape paintings that the figure of the 'Malay' played a role in discursively securing a settler identity in the Cape Colony. This occurred through their 'oblique' positioning near the edge of the frame, where they appear to certify the boundaries of the settled space of the colony. I follow these readings of the picturesque vision of Islam by exploring instances of its underside - the discourse of oriental fanaticism.
Baginski, Nathalie. "Figures de Dionysos dans l'oeuvre de L.-F. Céline." Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2000. http://books.google.com/books?id=N3FcAAAAMAAJ.
Full textWilliams-Duplantier, Rebecca. "Amazon figures in German literature : the theme and its variations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487775034179755.
Full textShiga, Esther Melo 1985. "Reflexões sobre o desamparo : a questão do pai na religião e na psicanálise." [s.n.], 2015. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269512.
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Resumo: A partir de algumas questões trazidas pela clínica, este trabalho traz uma reflexão teórica sobre o que se passa com a "fé religiosa" no processo de análise. Como nos aponta Lacan ([1960] 2005), a psicanálise não apenas surge no meio judaico-cristão, mas toda sua referência ética gira em torno dessa tradição, assim como todas as questões a respeito da função pai. A morte de pai primordial anunciada pelo mito criado por Freud nos aponta o mito do nosso tempo: Deus está morto. No entanto após o assassinato do pai, os filhos, com saudades, criam um substituto ¿ o totem ¿ a primeira religião. Todavia a psicanálise nós aponta um outro caminho diante a falta do pai: realizar seu luto. Realizar o luto desse pai Onipotente é algo que se pode esperar de uma análise, e que pode colocar em jogo a relação do sujeito com a religião. O mito de Freud permite a Lacan afirmar, não apenas que Deus está morto desde sempre, mas que Deus é inconsciente, o que aponta a irrepresentabilidade de Deus ¿ muito diferente da figura do Pai zeloso que olha por nós - e supõe encarar a falta do pai como um fato de estrutura. A psicanálise dá assim um outro valor ao pai, ele ganha uma dimensão espiritual. No livro do Êxodo, Deus se apresenta como "ehyeh asher ehyeh", e duas traduções são feitas, cada uma trazendo um discurso diferente; a primeira nos apresenta um Deus, cujo nome é impronunciável, um Deus feito de nada; a segunda, Deus é apontado como um ente suficientemente superior e onipotente, a ponto de preencher o homem em sua falta. Essa diferença se articula na separação entre o Gozo de Deus e o Desejo de Deus, algo fundamental para pensar as mudanças do lugar do pai em análise
Abstract: This research draws a reflection upon what happens with "religious faith" inside the analysis process, having as a starting point issues brought by the clinic. As pointed out by Lacan (2005, 1960), psychoanalysis not only comes up in the judeo-christian community, but all its ethical reference revolves around this tradition, as well as all the questions about the function of the father. The death of the primordial father announced by the myth created by Freud presents the myth of our time: God is dead. However, after the father¿s murder, the sons, missing him, create a substitute ¿ the totem ¿ the first religion. Nonetheless, psychoanalysis shows us another way to face the lack of the father: mourning for him. Mourning for this Omnipotent father is something that one can expect from an analysis, and that the relation of the subject with religion can be put at stake. Freudian myth enables Lacan to say not only that God is dead forever, but that God is unconscious, which means that God is not representable ¿ differently from the zealous father figure who watches over us ¿ and assumes facing the lack of the father as a fact of structure. Psychoanalysis, therefore, gives a different value to the father, who is raised to a spiritual dimension. In the book of Exodus, God introduces himself as "ehyeh asher ehyeh", and two translations are made, each bringing a different speech; the first presents us with a God, whose name is unpronounceable, a God made of nothing; the second, God is designated as an omnipotent and sufficiently superior entity, ready to fill the man in his lack. This difference is articulated in the division between the Jouissance of God and the Will of God, something fundamental to think the changes of the father¿s place in analysis
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Imran, Mamdouh Yousef. "A study of the plays of Howard Barker, with special reference to the artist figures." Thesis, University of Kent, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328722.
Full textReck, Casey M. "Laying Bare the Sins of the Father: Exploring White Fathers in Post-Apartheid Literature." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/63.
Full textZamostny, Jeffrey. "FAUSTIAN FIGURES: MODERNITY AND MALE (HOMO)SEXUALITIES IN SPANISH COMMERCIAL LITERATURE, 1900-1936." UKnowledge, 2012. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/4.
Full textRapoo, Connie. "Figures of sacrifice Africa in the transnational imaginary /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1610482411&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textNakajima, Taro. "Les figures religieuses dans l'oeuvre de Gustave Flaubert." Thesis, Paris Est, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PEST1021.
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Holder, Laura L. "Common Christs| Christ Figures, American Christianity, and Sacrifice on Cult Television." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3687688.
Full textShifts in social attitudes towards American Christianity have resulted in a changed representation of Christ figures, specifically in their representation on television. Traditional Christ figures, those who believed in unconditional love and self-sacrifice for the greater good, clung to the church view and were figures of virtue and innocence. Modern Christ figures have become what I call "Common Christs"—people who are less likely to be the image of sinless perfection and more often violent and profane saviors. These modern stand-ins are usually from blue-collar or lower class backgrounds; they are the Christs of the common man. Generally, these Common Christs are in opposition with the dogmatic authority of the Christian church. The storylines that have Common Christs as their heroes often depict the organized religion of the church as an enemy, a negative institution trying to prevent the salvation of the common man by the common man. The purpose of my dissertation is to examine Common Christs as they appear in cult television shows that embrace and make strong use of Christian mythology without being considered Christian television, specifically The X-Files, Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, and Supernatural, to show how this changed image works as evidence of what I call the development of a textual religion. Ultimately, I hope that my discussion of Common Christs and textual religion will lead into a larger discussion between the academic camps of religious studies, pop culture studies and literary criticism about the importance of cross-disciplinary focus.
Hodge, Anita Obermeier. "Handmaidens of God : the female figures Judith, Juliana, and Elene in Old English heroic poetry /." View online, 1985. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211130497875.pdf.
Full textSchnippering, Claudia. "Literature of the Holocaust perpetrator. A comparative literary analysis of Jonathan Littell's "The Kindly Ones" with German Väterliteratur (Father literature)." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political Sciences, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10338.
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