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Easeman, Geoffrey. "War and the writing of Henry Green." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30268.
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Henry Green belongs to a generation of English writers formed by the following experiences: born in the early years of the twentieth century; educated at private preparatory school, public school and Oxbridge; their formative years at school coinciding with the First World War; having been prepared by their schools to fight in a war which, once it had settled into a trench bound war of attrition, appeared to have no end; schoolboy consumers of stories of the heroism of war but also aware, after the battle of the Somme, of the horror of trench warfare; consigned, by the relatively sudden ending of the war, to be the generation just too young to have fought. These experiences led Green's generation to develop a dichotomy of heroism and horror as their reaction to the First World War. Henry Green embodied the dichotomy into the form of his writing, producing a complexity and ambiguity of expression. This thesis argues that the dichotomy of heroism and horror as a reaction to war, learned by Green at school, present, in varying degrees, in the writings of the contemporary writers that form his generation, can be found in the form and subject matter of all his novels and his interim autobiography, Pack My Bag. The dichotomy remains constant, deriving its force of expression from the changing historical context in which Green's writings were published, similar to a musical motif, which remains constant as the underlying chords change.
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Tsakoumagos, Nicole. "The Sting in the Green City." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1527011110092336.
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Sahaidachny, Rachel. "Only One Went through the Green Door." Digital Commons @ Butler University, 2019. https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/grtheses/511.
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Written in three parts, Only One Went through the Green Door, explores abandonment, homelessness, childhood, womanhood, and choices made or unmade that create the complicated and winding path of life. The poems use narrative and lyric to examine the effects of childhood trauma on the development of a persona, and its shadow. Emotional realities explored through natural landscapes, and at times through child-like language, create an unsettled speaker who quests for some final understanding that might lead to peace.
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Yau, Vickie Wai Ki. "Parody and nostalgia : contemporary re-writing of Madame White Snake." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/855.
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Between 1950s and 1990s, Hong Kong had a frenzy for writing and re-writing materials from classical literature and myths. The myth of Madame White Snake is one of the most well known stories that survived a long period of time. The earliest known version of Madame White Snake was a supernatural story in 1550, which later became a prototype of numerous subsequent versions starting in 1624. This prototype was repeatedly re-written throughout history and was also made into different genres including plays, playlets, novels, films and television dramas. One of the latest versions was written by Li Pikwah, a popular novelist in Hong Kong, in 1993, titled, Green Snake. Green Snake is a parody of Madame White Snake written from the perspective of Little Green, the servant of Madame White and an auxiliary figure in the tradition. The novel is also an autobiography of Little Green, who satirically criticizes the story of Madame White Snake in retrospect. Little Green’s autobiography is a nostalgic reflection of the past as well as a critique of the structure of the story that has survived throughout history. These implications made in the story hint at the author’s personal yearning for traditional China as a Chinese resident in Hong Kong. Her nostalgia for traditional China is not idealistic but paradoxical, because her re-writing of the story was an avenue to understand and re-negotiate her identity. Li is also well-known for her other novels, which are parodies of classical literature, traditional myth and legend. Many of these works were also made into films in the 80’s and 90’s. These novels and films were part of a phenomenon in contemporary Hong Kong literary and popular culture that tried to grasp a cultural connection with traditional China in order to embrace the return to mainland China in 1997 after a hundred years of British colonial rule.
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Reed, Kaylara Ann. "Writing reform in fourteenth-century English romance, from the agrarian crisis to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Thesis, University of Hull, 2017. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16556.
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This thesis investigates five fourteenth-century Middle English romances—Sir Isumbras, The King of Tars, The Earl of Toulouse, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight—for their resonances with fourteenth-century reformist ideology. The fourteenth century witnessed the emergence of Middle English complaint writing and also culminated in two reformist movements in the 1380s: the Peasants’ Revolt and Lollardy. Each romance considered in the thesis share resonances with reformist ideology and complaint poems—like William Langland’s Piers Plowman—as well as texts relating to the Peasants’ Revolt and Lollardy. Such evidence suggests that romance and complaint shared ideologies and both types of texts may have contributed to reformist activities—writing, acting, or both—throughout the century. Sir Isumbras is explored in relation to the Agrarian Crisis, related complaint texts such as The Simonie and The Song of the Husbandman, and the penitential philosophy it shares with Piers Plowman. Isumbras shows landowners causing peasant suffering, and problematises orthodox penitential prescriptions. The King of Tars is read in relationship to complaint texts like The Sayings of the Four Philosophers and with later Lollard writing. Tars reforms nations by highlighting the consequences of immoral kingship—both Christian and Saracen—and replacing it with an ethically superior woman. The Earl of Toulouse, examined alongside texts relevant to the Peasants’ Revolt, represents armed revolt as a means of stopping obstinate tyranny and envisions that heroic men—even to the point of breaking the law—will insist upon truth and justice. The Wife of Bath’s Tale shares resonances with an array of Middle English Lollard writings, from its stance on execution, nobility, poverty, the power of sermons, and female autonomy and power. Finally, I analyse Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alongside Ricardian complaint texts, illuminating tyrannical character traits in Arthur and his negative influence on Gawain.
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Glasshoff, Carolyn M. "Gore's science the kairos of An inconvenient truth and the implications for science writing." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4901.
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Modern Americans are exposed to scientific and technical information on a daily basis that urges them to react as well as learn about new ideas. The popular science writing that circulates this information must be portrayed in a way that makes it easy for lay people to understand complicated ideas while at the same time remaining complex enough to convince readers that the information is reliable, accurate, and worth learning. In making decisions about how to accomplish this balancing act, science writers make decisions that influence the audience's opinion about new scientific ideas, how easily the audience will accept or reject these ideas, and how the audience will react to the new information. In order to be as influential as possible on their audience, science writers must take full advantage of rhetorical kairos, or opportune timing. For this, they must keep in mind not only the chronological time and physical space, but issues including political maneuverings, society's morals, popular culture, and a myriad of other considerations. Any text must be influenced by the kairos that exists both before the text is created and during the presentation. In addition, each text helps create a new kairos for texts that come after. This is especially true in the field of popular science writing. Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is a useful text for analysis of this process, as he portrays scientific information to a lay audience in order to promote acceptance of a controversial idea and to encourage action based on that acceptance. Because he is working on a delicate topic for the time, Gore had to rely heavily on the kairos of the moments before and during his presentations, and he created a fertile kairos for continuation of the environmental discussion.ID: 030423309; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-139).
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Mauk, Brianna C. "General Studies Writing (GSW) Digital Communication at Bowling Green State University: To Web 2.0 or not to Web 2.0?" Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1491237430908769.
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Sprague, Adam. "Analyzing the Feedback Preferences and Learning Styles of Second-Language Students in ESOL Writing Courses at Bowling Green State University." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1489519863691965.
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Mendou, Mendou Véronique. "L'écriture de l'enfance au XXe siècle à travers l'étude de Gide, Montherlant, Green, Bazin et Sartre." Thesis, Mulhouse, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018MULH6751.
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L’écriture de l’enfance à travers l’étude de Gide, Montherlant, Bazin, Sartre et Green consiste à examiner les motifs qui permettent de représenter ladite enfance au XXe siècle. Des théories élaborées par les pédagogues, telles que le morcellement, le tâtonnement, l’inachèvement, le désordre, le libre choix etc, placent l’enfance dans le contexte de la modernité. De l’autobiographie à la fiction, l’enfant est désormais exploité comme un sujet de discours souffrant d’une hybridité de genre. Qu’elle soit heureuse ou malheureuse, l’enfance reste une source inépuisable de création. Elle implique les relations familiales et permet de comprendre l’écriture réactionnaire ! L’enfance est ainsi liée au milieu originel. Chez Gide, l’enfant est façonné par son milieu comme dans les romans de Zola. Se développant sous l’autorité maternelle et dans le cadre d’une éducation puritaine, l’enfant est une victime de la bourgeoisie, il n’est pas encore né à lui-même ou à sa conscience. Il est également une source de naissance en soi, c’est l’attrait de « l’enfant autre ». Chez Bazin, l’enfant est chosifié par la mère. Le comportement de Jean Rezeau va basculer dans la dérive, car il va vivre avec ses frères une enfance et une adolescence compliquées sous l’autorité d’une mère résolue à détruire ses trois fils. L’objectif, avec Montherlant, est de montrer comment les enfants ont une influence sur les adultes. L’enfant est source d’ambivalence : il provoque à la fois des relations conflictuelles et constitue une entité d’espérance. Chez Green, les interférences avec l’enfance sont multiples et le transfert de l’enfance n’est possible que par le canal de la mère. Les souvenirs du Sud ou du royaume du bonheur de l’enfance sont rapportés par la mère. L’enfance est restée du côté de l’Amérique ou du pays perdu. L’enfant imaginaire de Sartre participe également à la naissance à soi. Ces auteurs font de l’enfance un motif de discours détourné et un motif de renouvellement esthétique. Ainsi, l’ouverture sur l’adolescence ou la jeunesse tend à ne pas se limiter sur un âge précis de l’enfanceThe writing of childhood in the XXth century by Gide, Montherlant, Bazin, Sartre and Green consists in examining the use of the theme in the context of a particular representation. Family relations, the child and the grown-up world, belonging to a social class, a puritanical education or the influence of religion, such are the main subjects which. Whether it is about reporting one’s real-life experience or transposing one’s vision of childhood, it also means a different mode of existence. It is a question of representing oneself by treating the memories. Theories developed by the teachers such as the division, the experimentation, the incompletion, the disorder, the free choice, place childhood in the context of the modernity. Of the autobiography in the fiction, the child is exploited from now on as a subject of speech suffering from a hybridity of kind.The writers fight with techniques of ordinary language and opt for an irrational and misleading speech which partake of the idea of an impossible word. Thus the narrative of childhood is reminiscent of a known etymology. The word comes from the Latin "in fans" and means "the one who does not speak" which echoes the Greek "fémi", that is "the one who cannot show his thought by the word". The study of the theme in the whole of the corpus, shows that these authors choose an approach which aims at presenting childhood as a motive for break. From the fragmentation effect to the unspoken, what is being made manifest is a strong will of renewal which is influenced by the new approaches such as the sociological approach of literature and psychoanalysis. Witnesses of their time, of their environment, these writers act as doctors who point at the problems and at the crises of the nation in the XXth century. In so doing, they give the novels a social relevance, while they make childhood "a motive for writing
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Gerleigner, Georg Simon. "Writing on archaic Athenian pottery : studies on the relationship between images and inscriptions on Greek vases." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610545.
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Yates, Kenneth Wayne. "The content of eucharisteo in Pauline writings." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Powers, Shawn Maureen. "The Lived Life in the Writings of Maxine Greene." Thesis, Plymouth State University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3588430.
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For a long time my ears were pricked whenever I came across the term lived life in Maxine Greene's writings. In reviewing the works of Greene scholars I was unable to find any mention of this term. I was motivated to write this dissertation as a means of coming to understand the possible meaning of lived life though a review of Greene's books: Teacher as Stranger (1973), Landscapes of Learning (1978), The Dialectic of Freedom (1988), Releasing the Imagination (1995) and Variations on a Blue Guitar (2001). My inquiry uses a hybrid of qualitative methodologies (Alvesson & Sköldberg, 2000; Richardson & St. Pierre, in Denzin & Lincoln, 2005; Sinner, Leggo, Irwin, Gouzouasis & Grauer, 2006; Smith, 1992; Sullivan, 2010) that assembles autobiography, inquiry, and reflexive writing as a meta-analytic exhibition of possibility (Sullivan, 2010). My inquiry concludes that Greene's use of lived life is a further developed prereflective state whose antecedents include Husserl's (1954) life-world and MerleauPonty's (1945) primordial silence. Through my findings I determine that lived life is emblematic of Greene's distinction within the field of philosophy given the intersubjective and human qualities of the term that catalyze an individual's choice in creating the existential project of change. I also conclude that lived life is characterized by its presence for the aesthetic encounter to occur. These findings have considerations for OF Leadership True Merleau-Ponty's leadership in considering how opportunities can be made for students, colleagues, and citizens to engage their lived lives in constructing change in education, the workplace, and the community at large.
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Guethenke, Constanze. "The topos of freedom : the importance of Greek landscape and locality in German and Greek writing, 1770-1840." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395055.
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Skordi, Ioanna. "The 'regiment of pleasure' : Cavafy and his homoerotic legacy in Greek writing." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-regiment-of-pleasure(0058f819-5e43-47c2-8fa9-c25976bc9e6f).html.
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Cavafy has been the key inspiration of a line of younger – and very different – Greek writers who employ homoerotic modes. This thesis, covering the years 1905-2010, concentrates on some major examples (Sikelianos, Lapathiotes, Ritsos, Ioannou, Christianopoulos) chosen for their variety of responses to the homoerotic Cavafy. In aggregate these writers, along with Cavafy himself, can be considered a ‘regiment’: the ‘Regiment of Pleasure’, in Cavafy’s term. In presenting these writers in this fashion, I attempt to illuminate both the work of the successors and that of their influential precursor. In the three broad yet selective chapters that constitute the main body of my thesis, I seek to display the culture-specific elements of the Modern Greek contribution to homoerotic writing, as these can be extrapolated from a critical examination of the poetic legacy of Cavafy, within three themes: Chapter 1, ‘The Appropriation of Ancient Greek Eros’, delineates the ways in which modern Greek homoerotic writing exploits Greek Love in Plato (Symposium and Phaedrus) and the Palatine Anthology. Chapter 2, ‘Homoeroticism and the Notion of Sin’, approaches literary homoeroticism as associated with sinfulness and confession. Chapter 3, ‘The Favoured Class and Games of Class- Crossing’, examines literary homoeroticism as connected to class barriers. The writers listed above appear as appropriate in each chapter. Always in relation with the analysis of the discussed writings, I draw as appropriate on queer theory, theories about tradition and reception, and the writers’ historical and social context. My aim is to show that different aspects of Cavafy’s queer radicalism have been exploited by a diverse range of Greek successors whose work has not hitherto been fully discussed, either in itself or in relation to Cavafy. Seeing his successors as a cluster is something new, as it also is the interpretative discussion of both poetry and prose in this direction.
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Blakeley, John Paul. "'This scribling generation' : the writing careers of Thomas Nashe and Robert Greene." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391975.
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Eldridge, Michael David. "Dying Adam with his multiethnic family : understanding the 'Greek life of Adam and Eve'." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2000. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/dying-adam-with-his-multiethnic-family--understanding-the-greek-life-of-adam-and-eve(6f882d7a-2845-4f54-9594-a81ec2135010).html.
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Abou-Aly, Amal Mohamed Abdullah. "The medical writings of Rufus of Ephesus." Thesis, Online version, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.246073.
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Slusser, Wayne T. "The structural analysis of Philemon." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Kazmina, Jekaterina. "The Concept of Human Nature in G. Greene's Writing." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2007. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2007~D_20070816_165800-46111.
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The purpose of this study was to explore the concept of human nature in the writing of the British author Graham Greene and the ways it is revealed in his works. Two novels by G. Greene were subjected to analysis – The Heart of the Matter (1948) and A Burnt-Out Case (1960). The research method chosen for the study was textual analysis. The research demonstrated that according to Greene, it is impossible to draw a clear line between good and evil. The characters that seem to be failures – in comparison with what they wished and hoped to do – are seen as being nearer to God than those more successful in worldly ways and in the end the greatest sinners turn out to be the truest believers. The research also demonstrated that to reveal his vision of the human nature, Greene applied paradox mixed with severe irony and social satire. Further studies must be conducted in order to go deeper into certain aspects of the human nature in other G. Greene’s fictional works.Savo kūriniuose britų rašytojas G. Greene‘as nagrinėjo daugybę socialinių, filosofinių bei religinių klausimų, tokių kaip nuodemė, išganymas ir pasmerkimas, blogis ir jo kilmė, išdavystė, fizinė ir dvasinė kančia, vaikystės nekaltumo praradimas, ir t.t. Tačiau labiausiai Greene‘ą traukė paslaptinga žmogaus prigimtis, vis kitaip pasireiškianti įvairiausiose situacijose bei santykiuose. Jo turbūt svarbiausias klausimas – Kaip gali žmogus, gyvenantis netobulame pasaulyje, išlikti sąžiningas bei išsaugoti garbę? – apibrėžia pagrindinį šio tyrimo klausimą: kas, pagal Greene‘ą, yra žmogaus prigimtis? Kaip ji pasireiškia jo kūryboje? Klausimo suformulavimas leidžia apibrėžti tyrimo tikslą – ištirti žmogaus prigimties sąvoką G. Greene‘o kūryboje ir tai, kaip ji atsiskleidžia jo kūriniuose. Analizei buvo pasirinkti du G. Greene‘o kūriniai – „Būties esmė“ (1948) ir „Neišdildoma žymė“ (1960). Šie romanai buvo pasirinkti dėl jų brandumo bei gylaus žvilgsnio į žmogaus prigimties gelmes. Norint pasiekti užsibrėžtą tikslą buvo numatyta: ištirti G. Greene‘o filosofinius ir estetinius požiūrius, taip pat pateikti periodo po Antrojo Pasaulinio karo bendro istorinio ir literatūrinio fono analizę ir nustatyti, kokios įtakos turėjo minėti elementai žmogaus prigimties sąvokos pasireiškimui pairinktuose kūriniuose; pateikti pasirinktų romanų analizę; atskleisti G. Greene‘o žmogaus prigimties sąvoką; nustatyti, kokios stilistinės bei kontekstinės priemonės buvo naudojamos žmogaus... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Dorsten, Sara E. "Priest of Wisdom: A Historical Novel Studying Ancient Greek Culture through Creative Writing." Ohio Dominican University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oduhonors1430788202.
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Vagena, Eftychia. "Writing the next Chapters of our Books : Every-day resistances by Greek women in Sweden." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-143482.
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This work is dedicated to exploring the possibilities of everyday knowledges and practices to re-address the issue of resistance, problematise the existing notions and create re-articulations. In what follows, I am investigating the main intersections of discrimination in the experience of the latest wave of Greek women migrants in Sweden in order to single out and analyze the ways and tools of their everyday resistance and re-existence. Grounded in the geo-politics and body-politics of knowledge this research begins with challenging the Greek crisis and migration to transgress all-encompassing categories such as crisis, migrant, woman, everyday, resistance and at the same time propose alternative ways and tropes to comprehend and handle their content. In order to reconfigure everyday resistance and expose the marginal layers between “obedience” and “disobedience”, I will unlearn and relearn the Greek history, decolonize the Greek identity, and at last reaffirm the experiential knowing through being, a knowledge that has been durably repressed.
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Nock, Emma L. "Make yourself at home : home and the pursuit of authenticity in the writing of Graham Greene." Thesis, Bangor University, 2006. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/make-yourself-at-home--home-and-the-pursuit-of-authenticity-in-the-writing-of-graham-greene(01b33c4a-ae40-4102-bc3c-a00bb59c966d).html.
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This thesis examines Graham Greene's treatment of ideas of home through the full course of his writing career and finds that, while the sense of home proves elusive for Greene's characters, they nonetheless consistently search for such a place. As Greene's career progresses it becomes ever more apparent that "home" is not necessarily the home of traditional expectation, but may be found in a variety of unforeseen places and experiences. Chapter One deals with the 1930s-the upheaval of the inter-war period and nostalgia for the lost security of the Victorian world-as experienced by Greene's youthful characters, all of whom are, in varying degrees, either actually or metaphorically homeless. Chapter Two sees the characters moving on into adulthood, becoming settled (or trapped) into conventional family homes. The background of the Second World War brings a sense of danger into ordinary life: many characters revel in this intrusion of the unheimlich into the everyday. In Chapter Three, which considers Greene's work in the 1950s and 1960s, Greene's characters struggle with the new uncertainty of the post-war, atomic age. Facing the fear of total destruction, many retreat into detachment, leaving behind old notions of home. Their aim is to go ever further, never back. Chapter Four covers Greene's last years and his fiction in the 1970s and 1980s, as he sought and found his own final home. His characters discover a more abstract sense of home, as Greene plays with ideas of fiction and reality and finds a blurred line between the two. Ultimately, my thesis finds that Greene and his characters are made more, not less, concerned with ideas of home by their homeless status, and that eventually, a sort of home is available to almost all who will look beyond the obvious, conventional means to it. These characters will attain a sense of personal authenticity without which, in Greene's work, no real home may be found.
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Parrish, Christopher John. "The doctrine of heaven in the writings of St. John of Damascus and earlier Greek tradition." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001550.
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This thesis investigates the subject of Heaven or Paradise in the De Fide Orthodoxa of St. John of Damascus (c.675 - c.749) , a Greek Father and theologian who gave the Church a definitive heritage of the Greek Fathers' teaching. After a preliminary consideration of the meanings of "Heaven" and Paradise as a state or a place, a substantial part of this thesis is then given to a detailed treatment of the Greek Fathers' teaching on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life in Paradise. The questions of the indispensability of the tree of life to the final bliss of the saints, and the doubtful place of the tree of knowledge also receive attention. The meaning of the trees for St. John of Damascus is expounded in order to show his use of the ideas of Greek Fathers prior to him, for example, Gregory Naziazenus and Maximus the Confessor. After this, the questions of entry into Paradise and the Greek teaching of the intermediate state of the departed are raised. The descent of Christ to Hades precedes discussion of whether St. John of Damascus taught a doctrine of Purgatory or not. The practice of prayer for the departed is examined with respect to its effect on the intermediate state of the faithful departed. Lastly, this thesis explores the necessity of the resurrection for the final bliss of the faithful, and establishes the relevance of this teaching for modern thought on the preservation of integral personality. In conclusion, the writer suggests that St. John of Damascus bequeathed to the Church rich insights into the Greek Fathers' doctrine of Heaven.
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Stewart, Columba Andrew. "Working the earth of the heart : the language of Christian experience of the Messalian controversy, the writings of Ps-Macarius, and the Liber graduum." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314937.
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Kamal, Sabrina Sharmin. ""Come on powerful, come on my fresh green" : representations of the child and constructions of childhood in Rabindranath Tagore's writings for children." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267967.
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The present study investigates Asia’s first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s (1861-1941) writings for children, situating his work in the tumultuous time of colonial India marching towards independence. The study makes an original contribution to Tagore scholarship and the field of children’s literature arguing that Tagore’s designated protagonist, the Bengali child, subverts social and political structures of power and authority, and is a vehicle for the author’s hopes for future. The discourse of Tagore’s literature for children posits, hopes for, and construes an implied child reader - the imagined nation’s future citizens. His constructions of childhood, the study claims, are symbolic, oscillating between the reflective and the transformative and synthesising the author’s intentions, fears, desires, values and attitudes towards childhood. In order to reach its overarching conclusions, the present study has considered the political and social contexts of the original production of the texts which is reflected in the study’s theoretical assumption - the historicist reading of childhood informed by postcolonial and power-oriented theories of children’s literature. Close reading of a selection of Tagore’s writings for children suggest that Tagore’s own ideologies about childhood were decisively shaped by the colonial time and the colonised place in which he lived, and his images of childhood concentrate on physical landscapes of the indigenous Bengal in order to construct an imagined decolonised landscape, and form consciousness of national identity. The present study has also argued that Tagore’s fictional world(s) of children are a result of restorative re-imagining and re-inventing, not just manifestation of his personal grief and experiences. Additionally, Tagore has employed fictive children for a variety of conflicting and complementary uses: mighty and empowered children in fantasy critique fascist regimentation, but their images are juxtaposed elsewhere with realistic portrayals of helpless and disempowered children who are unable to seek agency against societal oppression. Tagore’s persistent but persuasive portrayals of uninspired children in mechanised colonial education and of coercive teachers and teaching methods illuminate his educational ideologies and confirm a prescriptive authorial presence in the narrative. Yet, the present study has contended that Tagore’s imagined childhood is an empowered time and space in which fictive children are able to acquire agency and self-awareness through a variety of pleasurable and unpleasurable experiences, functioning as a democratic channel where child-adult power relations are constantly being negotiated.
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Brown, Andrew. "The common voice of the people : the importance of proclamation in Archaic and Classical Greece with special respect to Athens." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e7521ced-6aee-4a2e-81bd-f1b28acb52f7.
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The Common Voice of the People is a study of the importance of heralds and their proclamations to the communal life of the ancient Athenian polis in the Archaic and Classical periods. This dissertation aims to contribute to the growing body of modern scholarship on issues of public communication, the tension between literacy and orality, the importance of ritual in the ancient polis, and the varied roles and identities of Greek heralds. While there has been a great focus in recent scholarship on literacy and the written record, the official place of orality within the Classical polis has been neglected, and until now there has never been a full scale study of heralds and their place within the community. Building upon the recent scholarship on news dispersal within the polis I have explored the positions and roles of the ancient Athenian heralds within their community, and the historical progression of the herald’s position from Geometric Greece to the end of the Classical world. I have sought to determine what their importance and the importance of their proclamations was to the proper functioning of the Athenian community. Marshalling evidence from both literary and epigraphic evidence I employed these deductions about heralds to further explore the importance of both official state and unofficial citizen proclamations in the spread of news and within established ritual. This work explores a range of topics concerning polis life such as religion, civil communication, public notice, private citizen disinheritances and manumissions, international communication, Imperial Athenian attitudes towards subject allies, and the necessity of proclamation to the conferral of honor. The Common Voice of the People demonstrates the depth of integration of heralds and oral communication within a variety of aspects of polis life, the surprising absence of heralds from certain central aspects of internal Athenian communication, and the continued importance of orality as both a practical and ceremonial aspect of official forms of communication and ritual in an increasingly literate classical Athens.
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Woods, David. "The Giving Up of Greer: The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the Janus-Faced Empire : Writing Back Against the British Imperial Discourse." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35862.
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The aim of this essay is to examine the tension at the heart of the British colonial discourse as it affects the relationship of Travis and Joyce in the chapter "Somewhere in England", in Caryl Phillips's 1993 novel, Crossing the River. The thesis of the essay is that the colonial discourse of the British insists on a racial signifier in the imagined community of the British, and thus resists the idea that a person can be both black and British. The postcolonial analysis shows that it is Joyce's rejection of the national discourse along with the displacement of Travis from a segregated America into a superficially kinder environment that allows their relationship to develop. Yet, along with Travis's death, the contradictions and hypocrisy of the colonial discourse serve to undermine Joyce's lack of racial prejudice and contribute to her giving up her baby at the end of the war.
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Rosett, Isabelle George. "Voices of Ancient Women: Stories and Essays on Persephone and Medusa." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1008.
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This thesis combines art historical analysis and creative writing in a collection of essays and short stories centered on the myths of Persephone and Medusa. Ancient art, text, and context is considered in the essays, while the stories approach these subjects on a more contemporary and personal level.
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Stevenson, Rosemary B. "Fourth century Greek historical writing about Persia in the period between the accession of Artaxerxes II Mnemon and that of Darius III (404-336 B.C.)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670401.
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Little, Bliss Sheryl. "Folk song and the construction of Greek national music : writings and compositions of Georgios Lambelet, Manolis Kalomiris and Yannis Constantinidis /." Ann Arboe (Mich.) : UMI, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40034603r.
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Roubou, Erifili. "The effects of the word processor on writing quality, revisions and attitudes towards its use : a classroom-based study of Greek learners of L2 English." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496262.
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Francisco, Gilberto da Silva. "Grafismos gregos : escrita e figuração na cerâmica ática do período arcaico (do século VII-VI a.C.)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-15052007-095155/.
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Esta dissertação trata da interação entre linguagem escrita e figurativa, aproveitando um debate geral, mas concentra-se na experiência grega sobre o tema. Assim, partindo da compreensão antiga dessa aproximação, serão perseguidos os aspectos gráficos (que integravam conceitualmente escrita e desenho - como indica o verbo graphêin), presentes na cerâmica ática ornamentada do período arcaico. Questões sobre a articulação de fontes escritas e materiais na pesquisa arqueológica também serão tratadas. Estruturalmente, este texto se divide em questões teórico-metodológicas relativas à natureza da documentação e seu tratamento no campo da Arqueologia Histórica e Epigrafia; e as justificativas das delimitações espaço-temporais. Depois, uma discussão sobre o gráfico, de forma geral, caminhando para o caso grego. Por fim, a apresentação de questões gráficas e relacionadas, próprias da documentação selecionada; bem como um estudo de caso: as ânforas panatenaicasThis work deals with the interaction between written and figurative languages in the general debate, but concentrates in the Greek experience about this subject. Therefore, we will begin with the ancient understanding of this approach; the graphical aspects present at Attic decorated ceramics of the archaic period will be pursued (due to the fact that these graphical aspects conceptually included writing and drawing, as it is indicated by the verb graphêin). Questions about the relationship between written and material sources in the archaeological research will be also considered. Structurally, this text is divided in theoretical-methodological questions about the nature of the documentation discussed in the field of Historical Archaeology and Greek Epigraphy and the justifications of time and space limits. After that, it is also included a general debate over the graphic, restricting to the Greek example. Finally, there will be a presentation of graphical questions and the ones related to the chosen documentation, as well as a case study: the panathenaic amphorae.
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Sebbfolk, Annie. "L'union fait la force (géologique) : une analyse écocritique des Fourmis de Bernard Werber." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160984.
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The paper is an ecocritical analysis of the Empire of the ants, a book written in 1991 by Bernard Werber. Through this green reading, the author seeks to better understand how climate change is created from a social point of view and why, by inherence, it is so difficult to avert. As the book is largely a juxtaposition of the human society and that of ants, the author compares the two species in order to determine which one is better equipped to tackle climate change, as well as which factors, cultural, political or biological, allow for the necessary measures to be taken. The study finds that the complexity of climate change exceeds our understanding of time and space, making it impossible for us to imagine and consequently tackle in any satisfactory manner. Though ants display features superior to ours when it comes to carrying out this task, the study further concludes that there is an accompanying moral dilemma to such actions, as the environmentally profitable not always is in the best interest of individual lives.
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Visser, Liezel. "The contextual compass : a literary-historical study of three British women’s travel writing on Africa, 1797 – 1934." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2673.
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Thesis (MA (English Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Texts by women travellers describing their journeys date back almost as far as those produced by their male counterparts, yet women’s travel writing has only become an area of academic interest during the past ten to fifteen years. Previously, women’s travel writing was mostly read for its entertainment value rather than its academic merit and – as Sara Mills notes in her Discourses of Difference – appeared almost exclusively in the form of coffee table books or biographies offering romanticized accounts of heroic, eccentric women who undertook epic journeys to Africa (4). The growing interest in women’s travel writing as part of colonial discourse coincides with the emergence of gender studies and related subjects. The emergence of these areas of academic enquiry can be attributed to the systematic dismantling of the patriarchal structures, which previously dominated social and academic domains. The aim of this study is to examine European women’s travel writing as a subversive discourse which, while sharing some characteristics with traditional male-produced travel texts from the colonial era, was informed by the discursive constraints of femininity. These texts thus differ from male-produced texts in the sense that, because of the different discursive constraints informing women’s travel writing, they offer commentary on aspects of Africa and its peoples which men had omitted in their travel accounts. Three specific texts by British women who recorded their travels in Africa form the basis of the discussion in this dissertation: the travel writing of Lady Anne Barnard (South African Cape Colony, 1797 – 1801), Mary Kingsley (West Africa: Gabon and the Congo, 1896 – 1900) and Barbara Greene (Liberia, 1935). Since, as Mills argues, “feminist textual theory has restricted itself to the analysis of literary texts and has been concerned with analysis of the text itself” (12), which limits the extent to which one can provide interesting, discerning, and relevant comment on women’s writing, the readings of these texts are not limited to feminist theory of women’s travel writing. Social expectations until as recently as the early twentieth century located women firmly in the domestic sphere. It was almost unthinkable for women to undertake travels other than the traditional Grand Tour. To attempt to venture into the predominantly male territory of travel writing was to expose oneself to harsh criticism and to risk being labelled as eccentric and unfeminine. Thus women had to find a way of making both their travels and writing seem acceptable by social standards, while still presenting as true as possible a picture of Africa in their writing. These constraints of the discourse of femininity on their texts necessarily make women’s writing seem concerned almost exclusively with matters of feminine interest. Mills attributes this to women travel writers’ “problematic status, caught between the conflicting demands of the discourse of femininity and that of imperialism.” (Mills, Discourses of Difference 22)
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Reisbeskrywings deur vroue dateer byna so ver terug as dié wat deur mans geskryf is. Tog het vroue se reisbeskrywings eers in die afgelope tien tot vyftien jaar akademiese belangstelling begin ontlok. Voorheen is vroue se reisbeskrywings meestal vir vermaak eerder as akademiese meriete gelees, en – soos Sara Mills in haar Discourses of Difference opmerk – het dit byna uitsluitlik verskyn as koffietafelboeke of verromantiseerde biografieë van heldhaftige, sonderlinge vroue wat epiese reise na Afrika onderneem het (4). Die toenemende belangstelling in vroue se reisbeskrywings as deel van koloniale diskoers val saam met die verskyning van gender-studies en verwante vakgebiede. Die ontstaan van hierdie akademiese vakgebiede kan toegeskryf word aan die stelselmatige aftakeling van die paternalistiese strukture wat sosiale en akademiese arenas voorheen oorheers het. Die doel van hierdie studie is om Europese vroue se reisbeskrywings te ondersoek as ‘n ondermynende diskoers wat, hoewel dit sekere eienskappe van tradisionele reisbeskrywings deur manlike skrywers uit die koloniale tydperk toon, gegrond is in die beperkende diskoers van vroulikheid. Hierdie tekste verskil dus van tekste deur manlike skrywers in die opsig dat dit, as gevolg van die verskillende diskoersbeperkinge waarin dit gegrond is, kommentaar lewer op aspekte van Afrika en sy bevolking wat mans in hul reisbeskrywings uitgelaat het. Drie spesifieke tekste deur Britse vroue wat hul reise beskryf het vorm die grondslag van hierdie verhandeling; dit is die reisbeskrywings van Lady Anne Barnard (Suid-Afrikaanse Kaapkolonie, 1797 – 1801), Mary Kingsley (Wes- Afrika: Gaboen en die Kongo, 1896 – 1900) en Barbara Greene (Liberië, 1935). Mills voer aan: “Feminist textual theory has restricted itself to the analysis of literary texts and has been concerned with analysis of the text itself” (12). Dít beperk die mate waartoe interessante, skerpsinnige en toepaslike kommentaar oor vroue se reisbeskrywings gelewer kan word; dus is die interpretasie van hierdie tekste nie beperk tot feministiese teorie met betrekking tot vrouereisbeskrywings nie. Tot so onlangs as die vroeë twintigste eeu het die samelewing se verwagtinge vroue streng tot die huishoudelike sfeer beperk. Afgesien van die tradisionele Grand Tour was dit bykans ondenkbaar vir vroue om te reis. As ‘n vrou inbreuk sou probeer maak op die tradisioneel manlike gebied van die skryfkuns sou sy haarself blootstel aan skerp kritiek en onwenslike etikettering as eksentriek en onvroulik. Dus moes vroue ‘n manier vind om sowel hul reise as hul skryfwerk sosiaal aanvaarbaar te maak en terselfdertyd so ‘n egte beeld as moontlik van Afrika te skets in hul skryfwerk. Die beperkinge wat die diskoers van vroulikheid op hul tekste plaas, lei noodwendig daartoe dat vroue se skryfwerk as byna geheel en al beperk tot sake van vroulike belang voorkom. Mills skryf dít toe aan vroue-reisbeskrywers se “problematic status, caught between the conflicting demands of the discourse of femininity and that of imperialism.” (Mills, Discourses of Difference 22)
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Carvalho, Rafael Virgilio de. "O heroísmo na poética de Platão: uma biografia filosófica no drama dos diálogos." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/153035.
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Para interpretar historicamente o pensamento de Platão é preciso, inicialmente, fazer uma pergunta essencial: quem foi Platão? A resposta tende a ser múltipla quando dada por um historiador que vive o cotidiano da Pós-Modernidade. Assim, pode-se dizer que Platão foi um grego que viveu de 429 a. C. a 348 a. C., membro de uma família aristocrática que descendia do legislador Sólon, cidadão de Atenas, filósofo e discípulo de Sócrates, escritor que compôs inúmeros diálogos socráticos e chefe de um thiasos filosófico chamado Academia. Porém, esses aspectos só ficam claros se Platão for visto como um sujeito histórico, o que implica compreender o seu pensamento como ação recortada por práticas socioculturais que o sujeitavam, fazendo-o incorporar certas disposições que lhe permitia transitar por entre os diferentes campos da sociedade. Para tanto, os diálogos platônicos terão que ser lidos com preocupações historiográficas, mediante pressupostos teóricos, que consigam projetá-los como meio pelo qual este sujeito se relacionava com o campo literário de Atenas. Com o objetivo de reconstruir a biografia de Platão, a análise tem que ser direcionada para a materialidade que determina a sintaxe através da qual a filosofia platônica foi enunciada, isto é, a sua prática de escrita. A dramaticidade, sob a forma do heroísmo socrático, torna-se ponto de convergência da investigação dado que indica as escolhas peculiares vividas por um sujeito e efetivadas em meio às regras socioculturais que definiam o campo literário no qual Platão escreveu os seus diálogos.
To interpret Plato's thought historically, one must first ask an essential question: who was Plato? The answer tends to be multiple when given by a historian who lives the daily postmodernity. Thus it can be said that Plato was a Greek who lived from 429 BC. C. to 348 a. C., member of an aristocratic family that descended from the legislator Solón, citizen of Athens, philosopher and disciple of Sócrates, writer that composed numerous Socratic dialogues and head of a philosophical thiasos called Academy. However, these aspects are only clear if Plato is seen as a historical subject, which implies understanding his thought as an action cut by sociocultural practices that subjected him, making him incorporate certain provisions that allowed him to move through the different fields of society . For this, the Platonic dialogues will have to be read with historiographical concerns, by means of theoretical presuppositions, that can project them as a means by which this subject was related to the literary field of Athens. In order to reconstruct Plato's biography, the analysis has to be directed to the materiality that determines the syntax by which Platonic philosophy was enunciated, that is, its writing practice. Dramaticity, in the form of Socratic heroism, becomes a point of convergence of inquiry, since it indicates the peculiar choices lived by a subject and made effective in the midst of the sociocultural rules that defined the literary field in which Plato wrote his dialogues.
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Vauloup, Jeanne. "D’une Grèce l’autre : l’écriture de l’histoire dans les récits de voyage en Grèce de Chateaubriand et Edgar Quinet." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017CLFAL013/document.
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Au sortir de la domination ottomane, les voyageurs français se rendent en Grèce dans l’optique de parcourir une terre chargée d’histoire, au passé glorieux mais au présent décevant. Chateaubriand et Quinet sont de ces écrivains-voyageurs qui rendent compte de la situation de crise vécue au tournant de la guerre d’indépendance hellène (1821-1830). Au travers de leur regard d’ « hommes-frontières » – à la fois écrivains et historiens – ces peintres français du paysage grec ont décrit une Hellade plurivoque, au début et à la fin de la guerre de soulèvement national. Cette étude questionne l’intrusion de l’histoire dans leurs récits de voyage fictionnels et rend compte de la fabrique de leur pensée grecque sise au cœur de leurs carrières respectives. L’historiographie romantique en est alors à ses prémisses dans la mesure où l’histoire émerge à peine comme discipline scientifique. C’est pourquoi, par le prisme de la littérature et de l’imagination, le récit de voyage se présente comme un genre idoine à l’écriture de l’histoire, propre à la fragmentation des discours par le travail du palimpseste. Tels des Janus aux yeux tournés vers le passé autant que vers l’avenir, Chateaubriand et Quinet en Grèce s’inscrivent dans l’histoire de leur temps, au tournant des Révolutions européennes, par le biais d’une écriture de l’histoire immédiate tout en peignant des paysages à portée historiqueEarly after the fall of the ottoman domination, the French travelers went to Greece in order to wander through a land full of history, with a glorious past but a deceiving present. Chateaubriand and Quinet were writers and travelers who reported the crisis lived at the turning point of the Hellenic war of independence (1821-1830). Through their gaze of “borders-men” – both writers and historians – these French painters of the Greek landscape described a plurivocal Hellade, at the beginning and the end of the war of national uprising. This study question the intrusion of history in their fictional travel narratives and report the making of their Greek thought situated at the heart of their respective career. The romantic historiography was just at its premises because history as a scientific discipline was barely emerging. Thus, through the prism of literature and imagination, travel narrative was a fitting genre for writing history, propitious to the fragmentation of speeches by the work of palimpsest. As Januses with their eyes turned to the past as well as to the future, in Greece, Chateaubriand and Quinet inscribed themselves in the history of their time, at the turning point of the European Revolutions, through a writing of the immediate history while painting landscapes with historical dimension
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Baker, Renan. "A study of a late antique corpus of biographies (Historia Augusta)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4722d4da-5f09-4306-837f-45c6cf69ec21.
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This thesis provides a fresh investigation of a collection of Roman imperial biographies conventionally known as the 'Historia Augusta'. The thesis supports the authenticity of the texts included in this corpus, in particular the claims they make about their dates, authorship, and scope, through philological, literary, prosopographical, and historical arguments. It shows that this corpus of texts, if the main conclusions are accepted, potentially improves our understanding of the tetrarchic-Constantinian era. It also explores the wider implications for the historiography of the fourth century; the transmission and formation of multi-author corpora in antiquity and the middle ages. It also suggests that the canon of Latin imperial biographies be widened. The thesis has two parts. Part I explores the actual state of the corpus, its textual transmission, and relation to other texts. It shows that the ancient and medieval paratexts presented the corpus as a collection of imperial biographies. The paratexts are compatible with the authorial statements in the main text. It then explores the corpus' medieval transmission, and the interest medieval scholars had in such texts. This part suggests that the corpus’s current state explains well the inconsistencies found in it. Finally, it shows that words and phrases, once thought peculiar to the corpus and the holy grail of the forgery argument, are intertextual links to earlier texts. Part II explores chronological statements and historical episodes relevant to the Diocletianic-Constantinan period. It establishes the actual dates of each author, and suggests that the confusion found in these biographies is similar to that of other contemporaries. The few apostrophes are shown to be authentic, and the historical and prosopographical passages are shown to represent, and improve our understanding of, the zeitgeist and history of the period. The final conclusion weaves the various arguments together, and emphasises the authenticity and significance of the corpus' texts. It suggests separating the composition of the texts from the disinterested formation of the corpus as a whole, as part of a new hypothesis and further lines of enquiry.
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Kordoni, Angeliki. "La Littérature dans les Départements de Langue et de Littérature françaises en Grèce : enjeux, représentations, méthodes, propositions didactiques." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA051.
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Ce travail de thèse a pour objectif d'étudier l'enseignement de la littérature française dans le système universitaire grec afin d’en dégager ses principales caractéristiques. Les départements de Français langue étrangère (FLE) des universités d'Athènes et de Thessaloniki seront les lieux de notre observation. Dans cette perspective, notre étude s’attachera à présenter l‘enseignement et l'apprentissage de la littérature en croisant les attentes et les conceptions des étudiants avec celles induites par les manuels mais aussi avec celles proposées par les professeurs et l‘institution universitaire. Toutefois, cette présentation ne pourra se faire sans une évocation préalable des environnements institutionnels et des programmes officiels de cette discipline parfois contestée voire en danger. A cette occasion, nous pourrons identifier le statut et la fonction de la littérature par rapport aux autres enseignements des départements FLE, puis mettre en lumière les objectifs et les méthodes d’enseignement de la littérature. Pour la réalisation de notre étude, nous mettrons en place des questionnaires auprès des étudiants et des entretiens auprès des professeurs afin d’identifier d’une part les représentations, les motivations et la nature des choix effectués en matière de textes et d’autre part les méthodologies adoptées. On s'interrogera enfin sur les évolutions possibles et souhaitables de cet enseignement de la littérature au sein des cursus de FLE dans les universités grecques. Des suggestions, des améliorations et des propositions didactiques seront faites afin de mieux atteindre les objectifs visés et de réduire l’échecThis doctoral thesis aims to examine the teaching of French literature in the Greek university system in order to establish its main features. The departments of French as a foreign language (FLE) of the universities of Athens and Thessaloniki will be under observation.From this point of view, our study will attempt to present teaching and learning of the literature by crossing expectations and the concepts of the students with those induced by the handbooks as wells as those proposed by the professors and the university institution. However, this presentation could not be done without a preliminary evocation of the institutional environments and official programs of this discipline which sometimes contested or even in danger. From this scope, we will be able to identify the status and function of the literature compared to the other courses of the departments FLE and, then, to clarify the objectives and methods of teaching literature.For the realization of our study, we will distribute questionnaires to the students and interview the professors in order to identify, on the one hand, the representations, motivations and the nature of choices made in relation to texts and on the other hand, the adopted methodologies. Finally, this work will explore the possible and desirable evolutions in literature education within the courses of FLE in the Greek universities. Suggestions, identification of areas for improvement and didactic propositions will be made in order to attain the pursued goals and to reduce student failure
Η παρούσα εργασία με αντικείμενο τη Διδακτική των Γλωσσών και των Πολιτισμών έχειστόχο να μελετήσει τη διδασκαλία της Γαλλικής Λογοτεχνίας στην ελληνική τριτοβάθμιαεκπαίδευση και να ανακαλύψει τα κύρια χαρακτηριστικά της. Η έρευνα πραγματοποιήθηκεστηριζόμενη στην παρατήρηση των πρακτικών των τμημάτων «Γαλλικής Γλώσσας καιΛογοτεχνίας» της Αθήνας και της Θεσσαλονίκης. Αρχικά, περιγράφονται τα δύο Τμήματα, οοδηγός σπουδών τους καθώς και η θέση των λογοτεχνικών μαθημάτων, η χρησιμότητα τωνοποίων ορισμένες φορές αμφισβείται με αποτέλεσμα να βρίσκονται σε κίνδυνο. Βασισμένησε ερωτηματολόγια και συνεντεύξεις τα οποία πραγματοποιήθηκαν με τη συνεργασίαφοιτητών και καθηγητών, η έρευνα αυτή επιχειρεί να ανιχνεύσει τις αναπαραστάσεις καθώςκαι τη φύση των επιλογών σχετικά με τα κείμενα και τις προσεγγίσεις που υιοθετούνται γιατη διδασκαλία της λογοτεχνίας. Η παρούσα διατριβή διασταυρώνει τις προσδοκίες και τιςαντιλήψεις των φοιτητών με αυτές που προάγουν τα εγχειρίδια και προτείνουν οιπανεπιστημιακοί εκπαιδευτικοί. Τέλος, παρουσιάζει διδακτικές προτάσεις ικανές νασυνάδουν με τα ενδιαφέροντα των Ελλήνων φοιτητών και να ικανοποιούν τις ανάγκες τους.Έχοντας εκθέσει το θεωρητικό πλαίσιο και τους στόχους, προτείνεται η εισαγωγή θεατρικώνπρακτικών καθώς και τεχνικές δημιουργικής γραφής με σκοπό να μυηθούν οι φοιτητές σε μιαπιο διαδραστική και συνεργατική μάθηση
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Costa, Ivonete Ferreira da. "INTERTEXTUALIZAÇÃO NA OBRA DE MARINA COLASANTI: O TEAR E O TECIDO." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2016. http://tede2.pucgoias.edu.br:8080/handle/tede/3563.
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The text brings the analysis of aspects of the literary discourse as the processes of construction of the scenes and the magical universe, in which the narratives of Marina Colasanti are realized, having as it shows the tales of the works Doze reis e a moca no labirinto do vento (2006): "The woman ramada", Uma ideia toda azul (2006): "Beyond the frame", "Between the leaves of green ó" and "Yarn after yarn". The general and specific objectives are to highlight and distinguish the encompassing and generic scenes present in the narratives, to identify the nature of the verbal sign in its relation to the nonverbal sign, and to analyze intertext resources, paratext, among others, as an artistic procedure. The narrative plans are approached, in which the characters are realized mimically, starting from the initial assumption formulated by Dominique Maingueneau. Non-verbal language is an invitation to read verbal language and vice versa. Both are associated with the signs that are constructed through the textual writing: loom and fabric. They can be seen now either explicitly or implicitly, and put in the service of a power that is realized by the act of reading. Thus, in the narrative text, there are traces of a speech in which the text is staged.
O texto traz a análise de aspectos do discurso literário como os processos de construção das cenas e o universo mágico, em que se realizam as narrativas de Marina Colasanti, tendo como mostra os contos das obras Doze reis e a moca no labirinto do vento (2006): “A mulher ramada”, Uma ideia toda azul (2006): “Além do bastidor”, “Entre as folhas do verde ó” e “Fio após fio”. Os objetivos geral e específicos são destacar e distinguir as cenas englobante e genérica presentes nas narrativas, identificar a natureza do signo verbal na sua relação com o signo não verbal e analisar recursos de intertexto, paratexto, entre outros, como procedimento artístico. Abordam-se os planos narrativos, nos quais se dá a realização dos personagens mimeticamente, partindo do pressuposto inicial formulado por Dominique Maingueneau. A linguagem não verbal é um convite à leitura da linguagem verbal e vice-versa. Ambas se associam aos signos que se constroem por meio da escritura textual: tear e tecido. Elas podem ser vistas ora de modo explícito, ora implícito, e se colocam a serviço de um poder que se realiza pelo ato de leitura. Assim, no texto narrativo, há rastros de um discurso em que o texto é encenado.
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Bastos, Ana Rita Naia. "Green photonics: photonic integrated circuits for optical communications and sensing based on organic-inorganic hybrids." Doctoral thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/25027.
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The present work aims the production and characterization of cost-effective photonic integrated circuits (PICs) to encounter green photonics goals, namely in the optical communications and sensing fields. Therefore, organic-inorganic hybrids (di-ureasil and tri-ureasil), doped with zirconium propoxide stabilized with methacrylic acid, were synthesized by the versatile sol-gel methodology, at room temperature, as planar waveguides processed in the form of monoliths, with controlled shape and size, and films with variable thickness (10−5-10−6 m) in vitreous or silicon oxide substrates. They exhibit stable and tunable properties, mechanical and thermal stability resulting from the synergy between the organic and inorganic counterparts. Their main feature is the heavily facilitated control of the surface optical properties by the inherent flexibility offered by these materials that are easily self-patterned by direct UV laser writing, and the refractive index tuning through chemical doping.
The influence of different concentrations of zirconia-based clusters (20-60 mol%) in the local structure of di-ureasils and tri-ureasils was studied through X-ray diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance of 13C and 29Si atoms, infrared spectroscopy by Fourier transform, Raman spectroscopy by Fourier transform and thermogravimetry analysis. The relevant optical features for applications in PICs were determined, showing acceptable attenuation values (∼1-5 dB·cm−1) for low dimension circuits, and reduced insertion losses arising from the fibre-device similar refractive index (1.49-1.52). Taking advantage of the material photosensibility, direct UV laser writing was used to pattern the desired optical architecture on the surface of organic-inorganic hybrids.
In what concerns optical communications, passive and active devices were produced: a thermo-optic integrated variable wave plate device to control the state of polarization of an optical signal, showing a linear retardation coefficient of 17±1 °/°C; a 90° hybrid coupler to demodulate a 20 Gb/s quadrature phase shift keying transmission over 40 km of fibre, yielding a 2.5 dB power penalty, relatively to back-to-back; an electro-optic phase modulator based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) with a voltage shift required for a π phase change of 2.9±0.3 V; an optical amplifier in the blue spectral region for visible light communications with a maximum optical gain efficiency of 1.62±0.02 cm∙μJ−1.
In the sensing field, the development of portable low-cost PICs based biosensors for lab-on-a-chip devices are of great interest. Thus, a biosensor based on an MZI was produced to monitor the growing concentration of bacteria in a liquid medium, presenting a sensitivity of 2×10−4 RIU and limit of detection of 2.0 pg·mm−3.O presente trabalho tem como objetivos a produção e caracterização de circuitos de ótica integrada (OI) eficientes e de baixo custo, no contexto dos requisitos de fotónica sustentável, nomeadamente na área das comunicações óticas e dos sensores. Para isso, híbridos orgânico-inorgânicos (di-ureiasil e tri-ureiasil), dopados com propóxido de zircónio estabilizado com ácido metracrílico, foram sintetizados pela metodologia sol-gel, à temperatura ambiente, como guias de onda planares processados na forma de monólitos, com forma e tamanho controlados, ou filmes de espessura variável (10−5-10−6 m), em substratos vítreos e de silício oxidado. Estes materiais exibem propriedades óticas estáveis e ajustáveis, estabilidade mecânica e térmica resultantes da sinergia entre os componentes orgânicos e inorgânicos. A sua principal propriedade é o fácil controlo das propriedades óticas devido à inerente flexibilidade dos materiais que são auto-padronizados pela escrita direta por radiação ultravioleta (UV), e o controlo do índice de refração por dopagem química. A influência de diferentes concentrações de aglomerados de zircónio (20-60 mol%) na estrutura local dos di-ureails e tri-ureasils foi analisada através de difração de raio-X, ressonância magnética nuclear dos átomos de 13C e 29Si, espectroscopia de infravermelho por transformada de Fourier, espectroscopia Raman por transformada de Fourier e análise termogravimétrica. As características óticas relevantes para aplicações em OI foram determinadas, revelando coeficientes de atenuação aceitáveis (∼1-5 dB·cm−1) para circuitos de baixas dimensões, e baixas perdas de inserção devido à similaridade entre os índices de refração do dispositivo-fibra (1,49-1,52). Tomando partido da fotossensibilidade do material, foi utilizada a escrita direta por radiação UV para padronizar a arquitetura ótica desejada na superfície de híbridos orgânico-inorgânicos. No que respeita às comunicações óticas, foram produzidos dispositivos passivos e ativos: controlador de polarização termo-ótico para monitorizar o estado de polarização de um sinal ótico, apresentando um coeficiente de retardamento linear de 17±1 °/°C; um acoplador híbrido de 90° para demodular uma transmissão de quadratura de chaveamento de fase com 20 Gb/s em 40 km de fibra, resultando numa penalidade de potência de 2,5 dB comparativamente à configuração sem fibra; um modulador de fase eletro-ótico baseado num interferómetro Mach-Zehnder (MZI) com uma diferença de potencial para uma variação de fase de π de 2,9±0,3 V; amplificador ótico na região espectral do azul para comunicações óticas no visível com uma eficiência máxima de ganho ótico de 1,62±0,02 cm∙μJ–1. Na área dos sensores, o desenvolvimento de biosensores portáteis de baixo custo baseados em OI para dispositivos é de grande interesse. Sendo assim, um biosensor baseado na arquitetura de um MZI foi produzido para monitorizar a concentração de bactérias num meio líquido, apresentando uma sensibilidade de 2×10−4 RIU e um limite de deteção de 2,0 pg·mm−3.
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Dosoudilová, Anna. "Kánon zelené literatury? Co, jak a proč čtou "pestří a zelení"." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-324440.
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The thesis is based on questionnaire survey conducted among 136 so called "green and colourful" respondents. The term "the colourful and the green" comes from the professor of environmental sociology, Hana Librová, and refers to people living the ecologically beneficial lifestyle that can be characterized by voluntary or intentional modesty. The target of the survey was to find out whether these people are influenced in their lifestyle by books or which books would articulate their worldview the best; what books they resonate with. Often repeated titles formed a "green influential literary canon" that is further analyzed in the thesis. First, the canon as a whole is examined, second the three most frequent books are studied with an ecocritical approach. In the canon, a minimum titles from the field of deep ecology, nature writing as well as science fiction or utopia were registered. Despite the expectation, there were many books related to New Age movement in the canon as well as pop-cultural spiritual writings. Nevertheless, books concerning native americans, together with eco- philosophical works largely dominated. Functions that the publications fulfill for the readers are seen as a clamp of diverse books in the canon. There are three main functions defined and further explained:...
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Choi, Don H. "Slanty-eyed architecture?: Orientalism and Japanism in the works and writings of Ralph Adams Cram, Greene & Greene, and Frank Lloyd Wright." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/13707.
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Architectural knowledge of Japan, although often implicitly considered to be objective, is the product of personal, political, and subjective circumstances. Ralph Adams Cram's works and writings suggest that the dominant American attitudes depended on the Orientalist assumption of the essential difference between East and West, the textual treatment of Japan, and American political hegemony. The critical reaction of the work of Greene & Greene reveals that early twentieth-century American knowledge of Japanese architecture was extremely cursory and heavily stereotyped by Arts and Crafts filters. Frank Lloyd Wright's writings suggest that his attitudes were originally derived from the same context as Cram's, but from this Orientalist base he created a complex and frequently contradictory architectural and cultural understanding of Japan. The work of all of these architects implies that American architectural knowledge of Japan is tightly confined by Orientalist assumptions and narrow, Western architectural frameworks.
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Wall, Rachel G. "Everyday Ecologies in the Writings of Georgia Authors Tina McElroy Ansa, Melissa Fay Greene, Mary Hood, and Janisse Ray." 2016. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_diss/168.
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Four Georgia women authors focus on different but equally important components of life: the natural environment of Janisse Ray, relationships in Mary Hood, culture in Tina McElroy Ansa, and sociological history in Melissa Fay Greene. While the focus of the writings by these authors overlap, their various approaches examined together reveal the essential areas where contemporary society has lost its way. All four argue how not to live by pointing out examples of negative actions and the consequences of human carelessness. Through compelling stories, these four authors show us how to preserve and improve our environment, our relationships, our culture, and our history. Ansa, Greene, Hood, and Ray are all from Georgia and write about both Georgia and the world from the perspective of contemporary Georgia. However, these four authors do not defend or deny the atrocities of the South but rather attempt to make reparations through better ideas, improved behavior, and a portrayal of southern places and people that acknowledges the wrongs of present and past and brings healing and growth to humans and to the environment. What unites all four authors is their dual purpose and more importantly a dual positive effect. Readers are entertained, but they are also motivated to act more consciously in their own relationships and in their environments. All four authors promote the theme of nurture and care, often by revealing real people or characters who are careless or who fail to nurture.