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Hamilton, Juliet Elizabeth. "Representations of folly in late thirteenth century French literature." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323134.

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Cuthbertson, Thomas H. "The fool's replies| Toward a poetics of folly in Shakespeare's comedies." Thesis, Indiana University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3613685.

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<p> This project examines the ethical implications of relationships between Shakespeare’s fools and their audiences. More specifically, I argue that in instances within certain comedies Shakespeare presents different kinds of fool/observer interactions in order to investigate whether fool figures, as literary devices, could produce the moral reflection and amendment that humanists like Erasmus often associated with such characters. Typically, Shakespeare portrays these humanist conceptions of the fool’s utility as being limited by complications of the specific rhetorical situations

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Spadaro, Katrina Lucia. "Epistemologies of Play: Folly, Allegory, and Embodiment in Early Modern Literature." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25949.

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This thesis argues that the textual stylistics, and embodied forms, of Early Modern folly are complicit in constructing and maintaining networks of knowledge. This function emerges from a Menippean history that positions the Silenus Box – an interface of grotesque form and hidden knowledge – as an allegory for exegesis. In applying this allegory to the aesthetics and bodies of Early Modern folly, this thesis suggests that folly assumes an arbitrative role in epistemic networks. A prominent marker of this function is the discursive communities forming around, and through, foolery, rendering it

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Long, Louise Ann. "The Contempt of Folly: Hamlet's View of Polonius." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625749.

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Conklin, Robert Brian. "The performance of folly in plays by O'Neill, Williams, and Shepard /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487779914825025.

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Bulman, Helen Lois. "Concepts of folly in English Renaissance literature : with particular reference to Shakespeare and Jonson." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3475.

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Chapter 1 considers Barclay's 'Ship of Fools' in relation to other folly literature in English, particularly Lydgate's 'Order of Fools', Skelton's 'Bowge of Courte', and 'Cocke Lorrel's Bote'. Motifs, allegories and the woodcuts of the text are discussed and some are included in an Illustrations section. Chapter 2 discusses Erasmian folly looking back to the Neoplatonic writings of Nicholas of Cusa, and to the debt Erasmian exegeses owe to Origen. Erasmus' own philosophical and theological views are examined, particularly as they are found in his 'Enchiridion', and in the influence of Thomas à

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Richardson, Julie. "At a loss for words, probing subjectivity in Anne Sexton's The book of folly." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq20984.pdf.

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Jones, Andrew Cessna. "Exposing romantic folly comic performance in Mark Twain's foreign travel writing /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Brudevold, Siri M. "The Wisdom in Folly: An Examination of William Shakespeare's Fools in Twelfth Night and King Lear." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/681.

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This thesis explores the complexities to be found in the characters of Lear's Fool from King Lear and Feste from Twelfth Night. It begins with an investigation of the history behind the taxonomy of fools that William Shakespeare created in his works. The rest of the thesis is devoted to examining the many facets of the two aforementioned fools, with the goal of discovering just how important and influential they are to their respective plots and to the world of literature. Finally, there is a brief coda that explores the other striking similarities that the two plays have in common.

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Dryden, Linda. "Romance and anti-romance in Conrad's Malay fiction : Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, Kerain and Lord Jim." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321238.

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Ready, Oliver. "From Aleshkovsky to Galkovsky : the praise of folly in Russian prose since the 1960s." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:874dcddf-7aed-4ff7-ab29-827ff3ac26ce.

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This thesis illustrates and analyses the appeal of folly to writers of, principally, the late- Soviet era (1960s-1980s). This appeal expressed itself not only in numerous portrayals of evidently foolish characters, but also in the widespread use of first-person narrative in which various masks of folly are worn by narrators to assert their detachment from societal norms and from the scholarly and 'objective' discourse which Soviet culture sought to promote. These tendencies towards folly and subjectivity are examined in their various historical, religious and philosophical implications. Parall

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Morin, Sonia. "Le regard dans Génie la folle d'Ines Cagnati." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9594.

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Tarquini, Valentina. "I folli in cammino : saggio sulle rappresentazioni e i significati della figura del folle nelle letterature dell'Africa nera, francofone e anglofone, dalle indipendenze ai giorni nostri." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012STRAC011.

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La récurrence de la figure du fou errant dans le roman d’Afrique noire suscite bien des questionnements sur les raisons de sa mise en oeuvre dans l’époque tumultueuse des prétendues indépendances. Cette étude couvre un laps de temps allant des années 1950 à la première décennie du nouveau siècle ; et elle inclut les textes narratifs francophones et anglophones en vue de fournir une vue d’ensemble permettant de retracer l’évolution de la représentation du fou d’un point de vue diachronique. L’étude typologique de fous errants précède une analyse du discours dans le texte littéraire focalisée su

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Pranič, Martina. "Early Modern Players of Folly." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-338455.

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Early Modern Players of Folly Thesis Abstract This thesis examines the ways in which folly is used in early modern literature. It asks: how is it that such an ephemeral concept proliferated and endured in the culture of early modern Europe? My understanding of early modern folly as a discursive phenomenon that was used as a way of questioning the knowledge of the ostensibly reasonable world is illustrated by case studies of four characters-four players of folly. Dedicated a chapter each, they are Till Eulenspiegel, the great German jester; Pomet Trpeza, a typically Ragusan wit of Marin Držić's

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Younsi, Dalia. "Le jeu littéraire : appropriation et transformation discursive et textuelle dans Certainement Pas de Chloé Delaume ; suivi de Jouer le je." Thèse, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/5976.

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Dans Certainement Pas, je m’intéresserai à la problématique du jeu littéraire dans son rapport à la contrainte. Comment Chloé Delaume réussit-elle dans un premier temps à s’approprier un certain nombre de discours culturels et de formes a priori extralittéraires pour ensuite les transformer? Dans un second temps, comment s’y prend-elle pour « phagocyter » dans son écriture une pléthore de références littéraires? Conséquemment, quelle conception de la littérature livre-t-elle? Veut-elle, par l’aspect ludique de son roman, rendre un hommage filial aux auteurs d’hier et ainsi adopter une positio

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Risenga, David Jinja. "A comparative study of satire and humour as communicative strategies in the poems of four Tsonga poets." Diss., 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17619.

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This study involves an investigation into the use of satire and humour as strategies of communication. The poetry of four Tsonga poets selected for study includes these strategies which are investigated for the purpose of determining the extent to which they function as strategies of communication. The study consists of four chapters which can be summarized as follows: CHAPTER 1 contains the introduction, aim, scope and method of approach of the entire study. Theories and definitions of satire and humour are also presented here. In CHAPTER 2 the poems selected for study are analysed in

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Joubi, Pascale. "Mythes et monstres dans Folle et À ciel ouvert de Nelly Arcan." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11956.

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L’œuvre de Nelly Arcan s’inscrit dans un pan de la littérature contemporaine accueillant les monstres comme figures de la transgression qui, par leur é-normité, interrogent la norme dont ils s’écartent. Ces êtres à la fois fascinants et inquiétants hantent la littérature depuis les récits fondateurs de la mythologie antique. Arcan, à l’instar de plusieurs femmes auteurs, recourt au procédé de la réécriture de plusieurs grands mythes grecs dans Folle (2004) et À ciel ouvert (2007). Dans les deux récits, elle met en scène des personnages en fuite qui, face à leur destin néfaste, se métamorphosen

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Fortin, Antoine. "Se tirer hors du monde : absence, vide et disparition dans Folle de Nelly Arcan et Les Particules élémentaires de Michel Houellebecq." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/18711.

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Massé, Cynthia. "Bonne fille, suivi de Figures de la compétition entre femmes dans l’œuvre de Nelly Arcan." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22493.

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