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Hall, Alexander Charles Oliver. "Reel Hope: Literature and the Utopian Function of Adaptation." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1372450824.

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O'Meara, Patrick Carleton University Dissertation English. "Invisibility and interpretation; history and hope in African literature." Ottawa, 1987.

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Curry, Diane Nybo, and Diane Nybo Curry. "The Influence of Hope on the Child with a Chronic Illness: An Integrative Review of the Literature." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/620982.

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Objective: To complete an integrative review of the studies on pediatric chronic illness utilizing the Children's Hope Scale to determine the association between hope and thechronically ill child. Method: A comprehensive review of PubMed, PsycINFO, Academic Search Complete, CINAHL, The Cochrane Library, ProQuest, and Dissertations Theses was completed. Titles were reviewed, selected abstracts were then assessed, and full papers were obtained. Results: Ten studies were found which met the specified inclusion criteria: participants less than or equal to 19 years of age, an illness of more than three months in duration, and hope measured by the Children's Hope Scale. The studies found some support for the positive effect of hope for children with chronic illness, but more research needs to be done with larger samples. Conclusion: This integrative review supports the positive impact of hope on the chronically ill child and the need for additional research on the role of hope in the chronically ill child.
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Herrick, Margaret. "Hope and incarnation in the works of J.M. Coetzee." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18441.

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Abstract Throughout his oeuvre J.M. Coetzee dismantles the Cartesian vision of human life in which the body is merely a cage enclosing the true self, the consciousness or soul. His fiction demonstrates that this dualistic vision turns the subject inward upon herself which alienates her from her body, the world and other people. For Coetzee, it was largely this dualistic vision that allowed for the conception of absolute otherness upon which the age of European expansion and colonization was premised. He draws on Merleau-Ponty's 'being-in-the-world' and on the Christian idea of the Incarnation to construct his own unique vision of a unified body-soul. This unified conception of being turns the subject outward into the world where she can reach out to other people. This reaching out can take the form of moments of 'ekstasis,' or standing outside the self, which, in the best of cases, is also caristas, or selfless love. For Coetzee, this love is a kind of earthly grace.
Résumé Dans son oeuvre, J.M. Coetzee démonte le concept Cartésien de la vie humaine, pour laquelle le corps perd so importance et n'est qu'un enrobage pour l'esprit, qui lui règne sur le tout. Ses romans démontrent que cette vision dualiste renferme le sujet dans ses propres pensées, ce qui l'éloigne de son proper corps, du monde, et d'autrui. Pour Coetzee, cette vision dualiste des Européens leur a causé de percevoir les indigènes comme des Autres absolus avec lesquels ils ne peuvent s'identifier. Cette vision est à la base de l'esclavage et de la colonisation. Pour constuire son proper concept de l'unité du corps et de l'esprit, Coetzee utilise l'idée chrétienne de l'incarnation et de 'l'être au monde' élaborée par Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Le concept d'un être unifié libère le sujet de son monde interne, et l'ouvre vers le monde d'autrui où il peut s'approcher des autres. Ce rapprochement permet au sujet de développer une charité, ou 'Caritas,' envers l'autre, ce qui constitue, pour Coetzee, une forme de grâce.
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Darukhanawala, Percy Soli. "Communication and hope in Thomas Bernhard's later prose writings." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:49d0fc22-617c-483d-82bd-733fed28e01e.

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The aim of this study is to make an original contribution to the body of scholarship on the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) by presenting a text-based investigation of his five-part autobiographical cycle (Die Ursache (1975), Der Keller (1976), Der Atem (1978), Die Kälte (1981), and Ein Kind (1982)), and the prose narratives, Beton (1982) and Auslöschung (1986). In the Introduction, I detail the method adopted to construct the argument of the thesis, after discussing pertinent aspects of Bernhard criticism and its reluctance to approach the prose fiction from a textual perspective. Chapter I examines specific stylistic devices and themes found in the autobiographies and relates them to the emergence of a greater narratorial desire to communicate with the reader and a nascent sense of personal hope. After the tortuous narratives of the sixties and early seventies which made Bernhard's reputation as a nihilistic, negative writer, the autobiographical pentalogy gives evidence of a lighter, more direct expression. The second chapter, on Beton, focuses on a number of themes (human contact, perfectionism, and music and literature) which reveal a more positive outlook in the aftermath of the autobiographical project. The third chapter, on Auslöschung, concentrates on a protagonist who has achieved considerable personal fulfilment and who manages to overcome the emotional and psychological obstacles which his predecessors in Bernhard's prose were unable to surmount. The aim of the thesis, to expose and analyse the aspects of communication and hope recurrent in Bernhard's prose works after 1975, is achieved through close reading reinforced by pertinent biographical and literary evidence. It is hoped that, by undertaking a critical examination of selected narratives, this thesis fills a critical lacuna in the substantial secondary material on Bernhard.
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Reber, Lauren Lewis. "Negotiating hope and honesty : a rhetorical criticism of young adult dystopian literature /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd720.pdf.

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Browning, Catherine Helen. "Life's bitter cup : faith, hope and charity in children's literature, 1818-1878." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498474.

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Futvoye, Carling E. "Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275497655.

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Ryan, Mike. ""no hope, just / booze and madness"| Connecting Social Alienation and Alcoholism in Charles Bukowski's Autobiographical Fiction." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1557574.

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The prevalence of alcoholic writers in 20th-century American literature reached what has been called epidemic proportions. Many of these writers wrote autobiographical accounts of their alcoholism through alter egos in their literary works. Of these, perhaps none is as extensive and detailed as Charles Bukowski's persona Henry Chinaski. This thesis is a case study of Chinaski's alcoholism through five of Bukowski's autobiographical novels. In it, I explore the complexities of Chinaski's alcoholism and make the claim that social alienation is a driving force for the onset and the intensity of his alcohol addiction. The novels span Chinaski's life from youth to old age, and factors such as childhood abuse and labor conditions in the post-Depression era work to alienate him. Through close, contextual reading of Bukowski's novels aided with sociological and medical scholarship on addiction, the relationship between alienation and alcoholism is explored.

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Roane, Nancy Lee. "Misreading the River: Heraclitean Hope in Postmodern Texts." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1431966455.

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Fredriksson, Sophia. "Abandon All Hope : An Analysis of American Psycho." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-6391.

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Tao, Jeanne. "Breaking with the Past: Memory, Mourning, and Hope in Lu Xun's Writing." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392118866.

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Cavalcante, Francisco Wilton Lima. "Sons de um futuro impreciso: a utopia dos Ensaios de Josà Saramago." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2015. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=16909.

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As discussões sobre utopia, costumeiramente, partem da obra que deu origem a essa palavra: Utopia, de Thomas More, no mesmo molde de enredo dâA cidade do sol, de Tommaso Campanella, e Nova Atlântida, de Francis Bacon â o relato de viagem a uma ilha âperfeitaâ. A esse debate junta-se o da distopia, termo criado nas primeiras décadas do século XX, pelo editor J. Max Patrick, que seria o oposto da utopia. Os estudos sobre o tema, no entanto, vão muito além dessas obras, e permitem diálogo com a literatura distópica, incluindo os gêneros a ela relacionados, como a ficção científica e a pós-apocalíptica, agregando narrativas que fogem ao enredo do relato de viagem, comumente apontado como o gênero literário utópico por excelência. Assim, o estudo das concepções de utopia, e das representações utópicas ou distópicas, incluindo as literárias, é possível em narrativas as mais distintas. Nesta pesquisa, propomos uma análise dos romances Ensaio sobre a cegueira (1995) e Ensaio sobre a lucidez (2004), do escritor português José Saramago (1922-2010), a partir da utopia. O Ensaio sobre a cegueira defende a organizaÃÃo como uma experiÃncia ainda nÃo vivida â essa à sua utopia; é a personagem âmulher do médicoâ que permite os deslocamentos dessa busca. Nesse romance, as personagens são desafiadas a imaginar outro mundo, o qual se contrapõe radicalmente ao mundo conhecido. Nos dois livros, são apresentados os valores fundamentais da nova sociedade. Esses romances dialogam muitas vezes, quando questionam a suposta organização e os modelos supostamente democráticos em que vivemos, mostrando que ainda não nos organizamos e que ainda não vivenciamos a democracia, pois, no Ensaio sobre a lucidez, essa sociedade âdemocráticaâ é representada como uma distopia. Ao negar-se a imaginar um novo mundo como fizeram os utopistas projetistas, que desenhavam milimetricamente suas propostas de sociedade, Saramago não tinha outra saída senão escutar, e converter para nós em suas ficções, os sons imprecisos do futuro.
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Johnston, Monique. ""With Hope, Hunger Does Not Kill," A Cultural Literary Analysis of Buchi Emecheta." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/166926.

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This dissertation interrogates Buchi Emecheta's motives in portraying Igbo culture through her novels. It attempts to situate the novels in reference to Igbo culture. It also highlights the ways in which the texts positively or negatively reflect traditional Igbo values. Overall it demonstrates how Emecheta's own psychological manifestations converge with socio-political Nigerian history in the creation of a body of literature that stands as significant in understanding the issues Igbo women face in their daily lives.
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Nugent, John Christopher. "Non-earthly conceptions of future hope in the Old Testament and Second Temple Jewish literature." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Stahman, Laura K. ""Degenerate" hope : philosophic and literary responses to antisemitism and the Holocaust /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9956.

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Edwards, Jessica Lee Lavina. "Critique, Hope, and Action: A Critical Content Analysis of Teacher-Selected Literature for the Elementary Classroom." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404607/.

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The purpose of this study was to analyze teacher-selected children's literature for its potential use with critical pedagogy in the elementary classroom. This multi-analytical study uses tenets from critical multicultural analysis (CMA) and components from visual analysis (VA) to guide a critical content analysis of teacher-selected children's literature. Since it is the only nationally-recognized book list solely selected by educators, the texts for this study were selected from the Teachers' Choices Reading List titles. Although prior research on teacher-selected literature for the potential use of critical pedagogy in the elementary classroom does not exist, the results of this study show many opportunities for such within the last three years of the Teachers' Choices Reading List. A discussion on these results is presented through Paulo Freire's concept of critical pedagogy, as described in three stages: critique, hope, and action. Implications for practice and research are suggested based on the results of the study.
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Kempton, Emily Rose. "Hope for Susan: Moral Imagination in The Chronicles of Narnia." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5989.

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The fate of Susan Pevensie has been one of the most controversial and interesting topics of debate about The Chronicles of Narnia since readers realized that she was no longer a friend of Narnia. Many critics have condemned C. S. Lewis for being sexist, thus making the stereotypically feminine Susan with her love of parties, nylons, and lipstick ineligible for salvation. This thesis proposes to look at Susan's choices and fate from the perspective of moral imagination. It argues that Lewis did not bar Susan from heaven to belittle femininity, but rather to comment on the consequences of choice, belief, and the vital exercise of moral imagination. Placing Susan in a fairy-tale world highlights the differences between what is real and what seems impossible and pushes both Susan and the readers to develop their own moral imagination in the pursuit of belief in the truth. Looking at Susan's ambiguous fate and comparing her story to other characters' journeys throughout the series shows readers the power of the imagination and offers hope that Susan, like the rest of her siblings, may make it to Aslan's Country after all.
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Alder, Emily. "William Hope Hodgson's borderlands : monstrosity, other worlds, and the future at the fin de siècle." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2009. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3597.

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William Hope Hodgson has generally been understood as the author of several atmospheric sea-horror stories and two powerful but flawed horror science fiction novels. There has been no substantial study analysing the historical and cultural context of his fiction or its place in the Gothic, horror, and science fiction literary traditions. Through analysing the theme of borderlands, this thesis contextualises Hodgson's novels and short stories within these traditions and within late Victorian cultural discourse. Liminal other world realms, boundaries of corporeal monstrosity, and the imagined future of the world form key elements of Hodgson's fiction, reflecting the currents of anxiety and optimism characterising fin-de-siècle British society. Hodgson's early career as a sailor and his interest in body-building and physical culture colour his fiction. Fin-de-siècle discourses of evolution, entropy, spiritualism, psychical research, and the occult also influence his ideas. In The House on the Borderland (1908) and The Night Land (1912), the known world brushes against other forms of reality, exposing humanity to incomprehensible horrors. In The Ghost Pirates (1909), the sea forms a liminal region on the borderland of materiality and immateriality in which other world encounters can take place. In The Night Land and The Boats of the ‘Glen Carrig' (1907), evolution gives rise to strange monstrous forms existing on the borderlines of species and identity. In Hodgson's science fiction—The House on the Borderland and The Night Land—the future of the earth forms a temporal borderland of human existence shaped by fin-de-siècle fears of entropy and the heat-death of the sun. Alongside the work of other writers such as H. G. Wells and Arthur Machen, Hodgson's four novels respond to the borderland discourses of the fin de siècle, better enabling us to understand the Gothic literature of the period as well as Hodgson's position as a writer who offers a unique imaginative perspective on his contemporary culture.
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Enemark, Nina. "'Recrossing the ritual bridge' : Jane Ellen Harrison's theory of art in the work of Hope Mirrlees." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6443/.

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This thesis considers the dominating element of ritual in the works of Hope Mirrlees, a theme and structuring framework that grows out of her relationship to the classicist Jane Ellen Harrison. Harrison's theory, which draws on modern theories of anthropology and psychology and up-to-date archaeological excavations of antiquities, comments on the modernist period through the unique lens of her ritual theory of art. I explore how the grounding of her theory in these fields as well as the visual-tactile practice of archaeology and the body-focused aesthetic of the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood point towards a materialist, performative aesthetic centred on process and desire. Her ritual theory, I argue, can be read as a diagnosis of the cultural, intellectual and aesthetic climate of her day, calling for a greater emphasis on emotional, embodied experience in religion as well as art, challenging the individualist intellectualism of theology and what she sees as the static, lifeless nature of realist representation. This thesis concerns itself with the way the writer closest to Harrison, who claims to owe her entire worldview to her, absorbs Harrison's ideas and takes on this challenge. Mirrlees’s work shows a preoccupation with the process of representation, particularly representation of aspects of experience that evades rational understanding and expression: dreams and the workings of the unconscious, and mystical experience. Mirrlees turns to the Romantic tradition for its engagement with these things, locating herself within a strain of Romantic writing that foregrounds dreams, gothic fantasy and mysticism – a strain that Mirrlees, using Harrison’s theory, argues has its roots in primitive ritual. Harrison’s formulation of the ritual origin of art provides a framework for her to pursue her quest of representing the unrepresentable, producing a highly performative literary aesthetic which, like Harrison, never loses sight of the religious, magical function of art. The gem of Mirrlees's oeuvre, this thesis argues, is Paris, which is discussed over two chapters. The first examines the presence of ritual elements in the poem's verbal content, considering how it enacts a post-war ritual of transition into a new age, fuelled by a desire and hope for spiritual renewal and yet marked by a deep ambivalence regarding the future. The second chapter on Paris, the third chapter of the thesis, shows the ground-breaking originality that Paris demonstrates in the way it harnesses typographical space to facilitate an integrated verbal-concrete enactment of ritual. This analysis highlights the importance of the hand-printing tradition from which Paris emerges, and makes use of a broad history of the book and reading habits to show how in itself this crafting tradition and the poem's use of space signify a ritualisation, in Harrison's sense, of book-making; I argue that in making this connection evident with its grounding in ritual theory, Paris marks a unique intersection between ritual and the history of the book. Mirrlees's antiquarianism is a central component of this analysis, as for her it is also a practice steeped in the materiality and mystical experience of ritual, and leads to the artefact-like quality of her concretely spaced, rare hand-printed and hand-bound masterpiece with its enclosed, esoteric ritual. Antiquarianism and a focus on the performativity of language are, this thesis argues, also central to Mirrlees’s fantasy novel Lud-in-the-Mist, which can be read as a self-reflexive investigation into the themes, tropes and function of the fantasy genre. I highlight the novel’s interrogation of language and narrative as signifiers of reality, and its defence of fantasy as a mode rooted in the psychological processes that give rise, in Harrison’s theory, to primitive ritual.
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Curry, Diane Nybo. "The influence of hope on the child with a chronic illness| An integrative review of the literature." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10139838.

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Objective: To complete an integrative review of the studies on pediatric chronic illness utilizing the Children’s Hope Scale to determine the association between hope and the chronically ill child.

Method: A comprehensive review of PubMed, PsycINFO, Academic Search Complete, CINAHL, The Cochrane Library, ProQuest, and Dissertations Theses was completed. Titles were reviewed, selected abstracts were then assessed, and full papers were obtained.

Results: Ten studies were found which met the specified inclusion criteria: participants less than or equal to19 years of age, an illness of more than three months in duration, and hope measured by the Children’s Hope Scale. The studies found some support for the positive effect of hope for children with chronic illness, but more research needs to be done with larger samples.

Conclusion: This integrative review supports the positive impact of hope on the chronically ill child and the need for additional research on the role of hope in the chronically ill child.

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Fawver, Kurt D. "Destruction in search of hope: Baudrillard, simulation, and Chuck Palahniuk's Choke." Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1219269969.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Cleveland State University, 2008. Thesis (M.S.)--Cleveland State University, 2008.
Abstract. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jan. 13, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 37). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center. Also available in print.
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Hageman, Elizabeth R. "Hopeless Decade: Post-apocalypse Literature in the Wake of 9/11." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1429216974.

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Langer, Sacha B. "Defining Dark Romanticism: The Importance of Individualism and Hope in the American Dark Romantic Movement." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/636.

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This paper examines the differences between the Romantic, the Gothic, and the Dark Romantic literary genres by looking at the manifestations of the trope of the double within the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. The notion of the individual versus that of individualism helps highlight the disparity between Gothicism and Dark Romance, and the implications that these differences hold.
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Hernandez, Alexander Anthony. "Voices of witness, messages of hope : moral development theory and transactional response in a literature-based Holocaust studies curriculum /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1087317918.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 246 p. : ill. (some col.). Advisor: Janet Hickman, College of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-246).
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Reber, Lauren Lewis. "Negotiating Hope and Honesty: A Rhetorical Criticism of Young Adult Dystopian Fiction." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2005. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/284.

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Young adult dystopian fictions follow the patterns established by the classic adult dystopias such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, but not completely. Young adult dystopias tend to end happily, a departure from the nightmarish ends of Winston Smith and John Savage. Young adult authors resist hopelessness, even if the fictional world demands it. Using a rhetorical approach established by Wayne Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction and The Company We Keep, this thesis traces the reasons for the inclusion of hope and the strategies by which hope is created and maintained. Booth's rhetorical approach recognizes that a narrative is a relational act. At issue in this study is the consideration of what follows from viewing a narrative as a dynamic exchange between text, author and reader. Through a focus on rhetoric as identification, the responsibilities of both the author and the reader to a text are identified and discussed. Three young adult novels, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, The Giver by Lois Lowry and Feed by M.T. Anderson will be analyzed as case studies. Together the analysis of these novels reveals that storytelling is an act of forging identifications and forming alliances. The reader becomes more than just a spectator of the author's rhetoric; the reader is a fully involved member of the interpretive and evaluative process.
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Samson, Kathleen. "From "sad black stories" to "useful tragedy": Trajectories of hope in Johannesburg from Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 to Perfect Hlongwane's Jozi." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24923.

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How do emerging black authors write about hope in contemporary Johannesburg, when the horizons of expectation for the present seem to have collapsed? This question informs this dissertation's engagement with Kgebetli Moele's Room 207 and Perfect Hlongwane's Jozi. The dissertation positions itself within the field of Johannesburg studies. It draws from writing which explores the concept of belonging in Johannesburg and the ways in which this is interposed by racisms and narratives of upward mobility. The dissertation places the novels beside one another in order to examine the availability of new scripts about black subjectivities in post-apartheid Johannesburg. It grapples with some of the narratives being drawn upon by emerging black South African fiction writing on the city, and begins to trace connections between the two novels and other texts which have come to define the literary landscape of this field. The novels allow different approaches to these narratives to surface, while enabling the establishment of a trajectory of conceptions of hope. The dissertation first focuses on Room 207 and argues that the novel exposes the limits of the scripts with which it is engaging, but is unwilling to offer an alternative narrative. It then turns to Jozi to argue that the novel presents a new space for hope in Johannesburg as endurance in the city through the work of care. Reading between the two novels, the dissertation seeks to open a space in research on Johannesburg literature for emphasising the concepts of care, community and endurance as alternative modes of being in the post-apartheid city.
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Love, Andrew Lawrence. "Musical improvisation as the place where being speaks : Heidegger, language and sources of Christian hope." Thesis, University of Hull, 2000. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:4640.

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The thesis enters several under-examined areas. First, improvisatory music will be considered as a human phenomenon in the widest sense (Chapter 1 ), and a phenomenon destined to suffer relative decline in the cultural environment of the modern West (Chapter 2). In consequence, the language in which improvisatory music is now discussed in the West will be shown to carry a negative charge (Chapter 3). Among various philosophies of music in the Western tradition, none appears to have foregrounded improvisatory music specifically. However Heidegger's philosophy, it will be suggested, harbours inner trends which favour the idea of music as a central component in philosophical discourse (Chapter 4) and may be used as a starting point for a re-emergent understanding of musical improvisation as a metaphysical principle (Chapter 5). Improvisation in music will be seen to be linked to the centrality of hope in human experience, and this will be exemplified in relation to certain cultures and twentieth-century composers (Chapter 6). Further to this connection between improvisation and hope, improvisation in a Christian liturgical context will be examined. There is a dearth of existing discussion, not only regarding improvisatory music in Christian liturgy, but liturgical spontaneity in general (Chapter 7).
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Alghamdi, Hana. "Pathways of Migrant Identity Maintenance and Revision: An Analysis of Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent163343324589925.

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Wynne, Hayley. ""Leave Sunny Imaginations Hope": The Fate of Three Women in Charlotte Bronte's Villette." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1292456479.

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Teal, Scott Allen. "Specters of poverty and sources of hope in the novels of Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ab0fd761-9143-4192-82bf-43336c48f070.

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This thesis attempts to reformulate the concept of hope represented in, and inflected by, the Indian English novel. This comparative literary study focuses primarily on Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry, whose novels offer myriad examples and resultant effects of a reflexive hope. I argue in light of their work to refigure hope in its varied and multiple articulations: positive and negative, for-life and for-death, dependency, waiting, nostalgia, narcissism. All of these, I suggest, manifest in a nominal-messianic hope that formulates a powerful critique of global capital most advantageously constellated in these Indian English novels. I arrive at this from the early writings of Jawaharlal Nehru and his unshakable belief in socialist progress that informs the productive tension within hope that inform the readings of Ghosh’s and Mistry’s novels. Concomitant to this thesis on hope is the recalibration of definitions of poverty to the principles of capabilities that allow for the simultaneous discussion of how the state can shape social opportunities for its citizens. This, I argue, is necessary for the flourishing of more nuanced understanding of hope. Moving away from purely quantitative measurements of poverty to more qualitative capabilities pushes the novel to the foreground of these arguments. Just as Nehru explores his own formulations of hope and hopefulness through the poetry of Matthew Arnold, the Indian English novel, here, is best able to enunciate a reflexive hope that is central to the notion of capabilities. This is why poverty studies in India needs the Indian English novel.
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Clark, Steven Curtis. "A Framework for Resistance: Violence, Hope, and Rebellion in the Novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2372.

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This study seeks to analyze the circular nature of violence and its relation to hope and rebellion in two of Manuel Zapata Olivella's earliest and most important novels: La Calle 10 and Chambacú, corral de negros. These works explore the themes of institutional violence and racial and cultural marginalization within the context of early twentieth century Colombian society. They also present the themes of hope and rebellion in varying ways. By presenting the topic of violence I explore important similarities and differences between the protagonists of the novels and demonstrate how the novels are interconnected thematically and historically.
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Silva, Diogo Cesar Nunes da. "Histórias do futuro e a arte do pensar-contra: utopia, esperança e pessimismo distópico." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2011. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5875.

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A protagonista do presente trabalho, a Utopia, a arte do pensar-contra, foi apresentada e definida, nas sendas da Filosofia da Esperança de Ernst Bloch, como uma consciência antecipadora que não se conforma com o está-aí das coisas, com a realidade fática; e como um logos, linguagem-ação que cria furos no tempo saltando para-adiante, para o topos-outro. Negativa e Esperançosa, ela representa a verdade-de-fora: não é o irreal, pois existe. E a existência do topos de fora, o topos-outro, se justifica pelo fato de que a vida e o mundo não são sistemas fechados, porque seus horizontes estão em aberto: atravessados por possibilidades, ainda-não-são. Contra o que é estático, o que é fatal e fático, se posiciona o sonho utópico, abrindo espaços no fluxo do mesmo. Ao fazê-lo, cria duas frentes reciprocamente reais: o aqui-e-agora de quem sonha e o aqui-e-agora do sonho, o u-topos. Assim, tanto seu caráter de projeção ao porvir quanto, na sua base, o descontentamento com o atual, revelam seu comprometimento com o presente. Negando e afirmando a história, transformou-se em conteúdo e, sobretudo, forma, de Morus a Fourrier, de Marx a Orwell. E é por comprometer-se com o futuro, o presente e o passado, que, nos tempos sombrios do início do século XX, ela subverte a si mesma e faz vir ao mundo sua versão pessimista: a Distopia. Articulando e fazendo dialogarem as obras distópicas de Orwell, Aldous Huxley e Jerome K. Jerome com os pensamentos de Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer, Hannah Arendt, Karl Kraus e Walter Benjamin, tentamos encaminhar a pergunta originária da nossa pesquisa: é possível uma utopia pessimista? Será este pessimismo, ainda, uma Utopia?
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Swain, Brian Sidney. "Empire of Hope and Tragedy: Jordanes and the Invention of Roman-Gothic History." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1398957067.

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Collins, Brenda. "Representations of landscape and gender in Lady Anne Barnard's "Journal of a month's tour into the interior of Africa"." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17744.

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis will focus on Barnard’s representations of gender and landscape during her tour into the interior of the South of Africa. Barnard’s conscious representation of herself as a woman with many different social roles gives the reader insight into the developing gender roles at the time of an emerging feminism. On their tour, Barnard reports on four aspects of the interior, namely the state of cultivation of the land, the type of food and accommodation available in the interior, the possibilities for hunting and whether the colony will be a valuable acquisition for Britain. Barnard’s view of the landscape is representative of the eighteenth century’s preoccupation with control over and classification of nature. She values order and cleanliness in her vision of a domesticated landscape. She appropriates the land in wanting to make it useful and beautiful to the colonisers. However, her representations of the landscape, as well as its inhabitants, remain ambivalent in terms of the discourse of imperialism because she is unable to adopt an unequivocal colonial voice. Her complex interaction with the world of colonialism is illustrated by, on the one hand, her adherence to the desire to classify the inhabitants of the colony according to the eighteenth century’s fascination with classification and, on the other hand, her recognition of the humanity of the individuals with whom she interacts in a move away from the colonial stance.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis fokus op Barnard se voorstellings van gender en landskap gedurende haar toer in die binneland van die suide van Afrika. Barnard se bewuste voorstelling van haarself as ‘n vrou met vele sosiale rolle gee die leser insig in die ontwikkelende genderrolle gedurende ‘n tydperk van ontluikende feminisme. Gedurende haar toer doen Barnard verslag oor vier aspekte van die binneland, naamlik hoeveel van die grond reeds bewerk is, die tipe kos en akkommodasie wat beskikbaar is, die jagmoontlikhede, en of die kolonie ‘n waardevolle aanwins vir Brittanje sal wees. Barnard se beskouing van die landskap is verteenwoordigend van die agtiende-eeuse obsessie met beheer oor en klassifikasie van die natuur. Sy heg groot waarde aan orde en netheid in haar visie van ‘n getemde landskap. Sy lê beslag op die land deurdat sy dit bruikbaar en mooi wil maak vir die kolonialiste. Haar voorstellings van die landskap sowel as die inwoners weerspieël egter haar ambivalente posisie jeens die koloniale diskoers omdat sy sukkel om ‘n ondubbelsinnige koloniale stem te gebruik. Haar komplekse interaksie met die wêreld van kolonialisme word weerspieël deur, enersyds, haar navolging van die koloniale neiging om die inwoners van die land te kategoriseer in lyn met die agtiende-eeuse obsessie met klassifikasie en, andersyds, haar herkenning van die menslikheid van die individue met wie sy kontak maak in ‘n skuif weg van die koloniale standpunt.
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Wood, Felicity. "Fantasy and politics in South African literature : a comparative study of the use of the fantastic in selected works of Christopher Hope, Ivan Vladislavic and Andre Brink." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8755.

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This thesis investigates the way in which Christopher Hope, Ivan Vladislavic and Andre Brink make use of the fantastic to respond to and explore historical and contemporary South African realities. In the Introduction, the imaginatively and aesthetically restricted nature of much English-language South African fiction during the apartheid era is examined. Many South African writers in English still seem unable to transcend these limitations. There is therefore a need for freer, more imaginatively charged literary approaches, such as the fantastic. In the first chapter, reasons for many South African writers' and critics' antipathy to this mode are touched upon. Various definitions of the fantastic are discussed and the role that this mode, particularly in its carnivalesque aspects, can play in South African literature is considered. In the second chapter, we see how, through his use of satire and black comedy, Christopher Hope emphasises the warped absurdities of life under apartheid. Authority is subverted and controls are eluded, as Hope suggests the possibility of creative, liberated ways of apprehending reality through his use of the carnivalesque. The playful nature of Ivan Vladislavic's fantastical engagement with 1980s and 19905 South Africa is manifested in the sense of Barthian jouissance his fiction evokes, his Nonsense elements and his teasing postmodern games with potential meanings. Sometimes his work suffers when intellectual concerns take precedence over their fictional realisation. More significantly, however, Vladislavic's fiction depicts carnivalesque freedoms that take place in spite of the various factors that appear to work against them. Through fantastical re-imaginings of South Africa's past, Andre Brink seeks to reclaim the latter, offering visions of healing and reconciliation. But Brink is too self-consciously programmatic in his approach, and he is unable to bring his fantastic elements to life. In conclusion, there are undoubtedly various difficulties associated with the fantastic and certain social, cultural and material factors presenting obstacles to the development of this mode in South African literature. Nonetheless, there is an ongoing need for the fantastic, with its special ability to investigate and illuminate aspects of this country's reality and to expand South Africans' still circumscribed imaginative horizons.
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Dahlstedt, Sara, and Pernilla Färdig. "Patientens upplevelse av akupunktur som behandling vid ångest." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-14992.

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Bakgrund: Ångest är en folksjukdom som cirka 25 % av befolkningen drabbas av någon gång i sitt liv. Behandlingsmetoderna är få, så som läkemedelsbehandling, och innebär ofta ett patogent förhållningssätt till patienten. Ett av sjuksköterskans ansvarsområden är omvårdnad, och enligt kompetensbeskrivningen ska hen främja hälsa och omvårdnad med ett salutogent förhållningssätt. Integrativ vård, så som akupunktur, riktar sig mot att främja just hälsa och det salutogena. Akupunktur används idag inom psykiatrin, men ingår inte i sjuksköterskans grundutbildning. Information om behandling och effekt förväntas ändå att ges trots den bristande kunskapen. Syfte: Syftet var att ur ett patientperspektiv beskriva upplevelsen av akupunkturbehandling vid ångest. Metod: Litteraturstudien bygger på sex kvalitativa artiklar, som hämtats från olika databaser. En manifest innehållsanalys gjordes för att få fram den data ur artiklarna som svarade an på syftet och som bildade resultatet. Resultat: Det framkom tre kategorier av patientens upplevelse, dessa var: lindring, oro samt hopp och välmående. Majoriteten av patienterna upplevde en stark ångestlindring och svarar då an på den här studiens syfte. Övriga upplevelser var att läkemedelsbehovet kunde minskas, och att akupunkturbehandlingen gav en känsla av hopp och ökat välmående. Ett visst obehag kunde infinna sig hos patienterna. Trots obehag upplevde samtliga patienter behandlingen som mycket positiv. Slutsats: Denna studie styrker akupunkturens lindrande effekt på ångest och positiva inverkan på omvårdnad. Författarnas förförståelse har blivit bekräftad. Det finns svagheter i studien gällande generaliserbarhet, grundat i det bristande underlaget, samt tillförlitlighet gällande författarnas bristande erfarenheter att utföra en liknande studie. Mer forskning krävs inom ämnet.
Background: Anxiety is a common disease that approximately 25% of Sweden's population suffers from at some point in their lives. The treatment methods are few and often imply a pathogenic approach to the patient, such as drug treatment. One of the nurse's area of responsibility is patient care, and according to the nurse's competence description he or she shall promote health and nursing with a salutogenic approach. Integrative medicine, as acupuncture, is aimed at promoting health and the salutogenic. Acupuncture is used today in psychiatry, but is not included in the nurse education, information about treatment and efficacy are expected to be given despite the lack of knowledge. Objective: The objective was that from a patient perspective describe the experience of acupuncture treatment for anxiety. Method: The literature study is based on six qualitative articles, taken from different databases. A manifest content analysis was done to obtain the data from the articles who responded to their purpose and which formed the result. Results: Three categories of patient experience were found, these were: relief, discomfort and hope and well being. The majority of patients experienced a strong anxiety relief and then responds to the purpose of this study. Other experience was that medicine needs were reduced and that the acupuncture treatment gave a sense of hope and increased well being. Some discomfort could appear in the patients. Despite the discomfort, all patients experienced the treatment as very positive. Conclusion: This study proves acupuncture effect on relieving anxiety and positive impact on nursing care. The authors' preconception has become probable. There are weaknesses in the study that concerns generalizability due to the lack of existing research as well as reliability in the authors' lack of experience to carry out a similar study. More research is needed on the subject.
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Ciritovic, Linda. "Socioeconomic Hardship and the Redemptive Hope of Nature in John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1430661081.

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Johnson, Gabrielle R. "No Hope For Rousseau in Tomorrowland: Limits of Civil Religion in E.L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel: A Novel (1971)." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/564.

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Current scholarly work on E.L. Doctorow’s (1931-2015) novel The Book of Daniel: A Novel (1971) often ignores the narrator Daniel Isaacson’s implicit critique of Rousseau’s civil religion. This paper will show the importance of civil religion within the novel despite its being overlooked by most scholars. In The Book of Daniel, Daniel frequently examines instances of American civil religion and even goes as far as to describe it as inevitable and intrusive on freedom. Daniel implies throughout the novel that the American government models their civil religion on Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s (1712-1778) conception as described in his treatise The Social Contract (1762). Daniel suggests that Rousseau’s approach to civil religion creates a false dilemma between the ideals of civil religious soldier and enemy. Daniel’s critique shows a limitation within Rousseau’s and possibly America’s understanding of civil religion. Despite there being evidence supporting his critique, Daniel’s extreme intersectional approach to identity makes his critique impossible to implement within societal, political, or legal realms since it allows people to be both soldier and enemy at the same time.
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Olsen, Cai Elisabeth. ""Duas Tribos:" Contradictions of Political and Social (Des)esperança in the Discography of Legião Urbana." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6772.

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Brazil's 1964-1985 military regime served as one of the principle catalysts for the leftist counterculture movement, Tropicália, which gave way to a new class of músicas engajadas. Later, during the period of redemocratization that followed the dictatorship, musicians extended the morphed the art into new forms, particularly through the use of rock-and-roll. The sociopolitical musical criticism that was formerly cloaked under the censorship stylistically transformed itself into an open, blunt, and much louder movement. Standing at the head of this new period of músicas engajadas was Renato Russo, frontman and lyricist of the Brock band Legião Urbana. At the height of political turmoil following the abertura, Russo confessed in a 1989 interview, "Até bem pouco tempo atrás, a gente realmente acreditava que poderia mudar alguma coisa. Depois, percebemos que não ia dar mais para mudar, mas continuamos acreditando" (Assad 207). This contradictory sentiment of both hope and despair in regards to the future of Brazil is present in a number of the lyricist's works. An analysis of Russo's músicas engajadas reveals a pattern of oppositions in Russo's relationship with the political and social state of Brazil, all of which can be categorized under the topic of hope versus disillusionment: an imagined utopian Brazil versus a perceived, present dystopia; progress versus stagnancy; and ironic criticism versus sincere aspirations for the future of Brazil. These contradictions are in part due to Russo's conflict as both an insider and outsider of the Brazilian experience, being raised physically close to the source of political unrest, but otherwise considered an outlier in terms of education, social circle, sexual orientation, and musical taste. This work analyzes the duality of hope and disillusionment in Legião Urbana's oeuvre in order to explore Russo's path in both criticizing and identifying the continuous missteps within the Brazilian state, and inspiring a new generation to correct the errors plaguing Brazil since colonial times.
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Boyle, Elizabeth. "'Home - or a hole in the ground'? : spaces of possibility in African American literature." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2008. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14920/.

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This thesis argues for a unique relationship between African American literature and liminal space, predicated on the historical facts of North American slavery. While recent critics of African American literature have argued for the importance of historical and civic space in shaping racialised discourse, the· role of liminal space has not been well examined. This thesis examines texts by three African American writers - Harriet Jacobs, Ralph Ellison and John Edgar Wideman - and one Canadian Caribbean author, Nalo Hopkinson, to argue that their literary representations of liminality perform two functions: firstly, symbolising the experience of slavery and its attendant experiences of incarceration; and secondly, problematising mainstream categories of race and identity. By investigating the narrative construction of these liminal spaces, this thesis will extend the categories of 'African American' and the 'novel' in two important directions: towards the future and into the 'black Atlantic'. The following five chapters will address how the symbolic use of narrative liminality enables black writers to resist or appropriate the cultural and ideological structures imposed by white Europeans in the New World and also those structures later developed within a rapidly urbanising society. Firstly, Harriet Jacobs's slave narrative addresses the restrictive architecture of slavery and domesticity and, through Linda Brent's attic hideaway, Jacobs expresses a ·concern with endurance and female authority. The Ralph Ellison chapter examines the shifting nature of liminality and subjectivity in the post-slavery migration environment; Invisible Man's cellar engages with racialised tropes of deterrito'rialisation and desire. John Edgar Wideman addresses ideas of race and artistic responsibility in his treatment of a contemporary suburban bombsite, assessing the difficulty of achieving spaces of possibility in the face of racialised urban decay. Jhe concluding chapter uses Nalo Hopkinson's speculative fiction to challenge the essentialist construction of an African American liminal aesthetic by enacting its subversive qualities across the geographical boundaries of the black Atlantic. Hopkinson's projection of a racialised underground onto the new spaces of technology also disturbs traditional models of genre and discourse.
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Holmlind, Ann-Louise. "The Adopted Daughter of Africa : A Close Reading of Joyce in Crossing the River from Postcolonial and Feminist Perspectives." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35935.

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Abstract   The aim of this essay is to explain why Caryl Phillips presents Joyce as "the adopted daughter of Africa" at the end of Crossing the River (1993). This will be done by performing a close reading. This essay will focus on Joyce’s actions and behaviour. Aspects of feminism and postcolonial theory will act as the theoretic basis for the analysis. The analysis of Joyce’s character will be put in relation to the whole of Phillips’ “Black Atlantic” narrative and to gender and third wave feminist theories. The analysis will show that Joyce, by breaking racial norms, renouncing her faith, defying her mother, divorcing her husband, and falling in love with Travis, is the person who defines hope in the novel. Her character, together with her son Greer, shows a path to reconciliation between races in the aftermath of colonialism.
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Mirze, Z. Esra. "Disorientation : "home" in postcolonial literature/." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2005. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/dissertations/fullcit/3209125.

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"August 2005." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 229-239). Online version available on the World Wide Web. Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2005]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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Buffa, Cristina. "Ἐλπίς and ἐλπίζω in greek literature, the Septuagint and Philo of Alexandria, and their further usage in selected New Testament passages." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Strasbourg, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023STRAK004.

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Cette thèse aborde à travers les termes ἐλπίς et ἐλπίζω la question de l’espérance dans le monde grec antique jusqu’au Nouveau Testament. Dans une première partie, l’étude de l’usage d’ἐλπίς et ἐλπίζω dans la littérature grecque classique, les papyri et les inscriptions hellénistiques menée sous une double approche alliant chronologie et genre littéraire révèle leur vaste gamme de significations. L’espérance y est souvent profane, non sans être parfois associée au divin. La seconde partie s’attache à montrer comment la Septante, qui se place dans une certaine continuité avec la littérature grecque, constitue néanmoins un tournant. Elle introduit et développe un vocabulaire de l’espérance étroitement lié au divin, notamment au moyen d’expressions typiques et novatrices. L’emploi de ces formules dans la littérature grecque postérieure donne une mesure de l’impact de la Septante. Philon d’Alexandrie en reprend certains codes, mais recourt également au langage de l’espérance conforme à la littérature grecque ainsi qu’à des usages qui lui sont propres. Une rapide incursion finale dans les écrits du Nouveau Testament notifie quelques prolongements dans les corpus paulinien et lucanien
Through the terms ἐλπίς and ἐλπίζω, this thesis addresses the question of hope in the ancient Greek world up to the New Testament. In the first part, the study of the use of ἐλπίς and ἐλπίζω in Classical Greek literature, Hellenistic papyri and inscriptions conducted under a double approach combining chronology and literary genre reveals their vast range of meanings. Hope is often profane, but sometimes associated with the divine. The second part shows how the Septuagint, while maintaining a certain continuity with Greek literature, nevertheless represents a turning point. It introduces and develops a vocabulary of hope closely linked to the divine, notably through typical and innovative expressions. The use of these formulas in later Greek literature gives a measure of the impact of the Septuagint. Philo of Alexandria adopts certain constructions from the Septuagint, but also resorts to the language of hope that is consistent with Greek literature, as well as his own particular phrasing. A brief final incursion into New Testament writings reveals some cases of continued usage in the Pauline and Lukan corpus
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McIntosh, Malachi. ""Home" : emigration, identity and modern Caribbean literature." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/35526/.

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Caribbean writing is an emigrant tradition. The first waves of native-born authors from the region all spent significant portions of their lives abroad and, almost without exception, built their fame upon the desires of metropolitan audiences for knowledge of their colonies. Accordingly, the famous names of Lamming, Naipaul, Selvon, Césaire and Glissant are all stamped with a slightly less famous departure date. While many critics have noted these facts, there has been little sustained analysis of how the unique social positions and preoccupations of emigrants have affected the works of these five writers or their peers. This thesis is an attempt to address this issue. Its argument is that Caribbean emigrant authors spoke from unique social and conceptual loci. Through detailed, comparative readings of these five authors’ first major works, alongside considerations of their self-assessments, critical opinion on their oeuvres, Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of the literary field and Antonio Gramsci’s theory of the organic intellectual, the argument advanced is that although these authors actively positioned themselves, and were positioned by their readers, in such a way that their emigrant status has had its importance elided, that status is present and potent in their post-emigration works. While the concerns of these writers all altered over the course of their careers, their early experiences of emigration shaped some of their most widely read texts and resulted in a harmony between them that transcends the authors’ differing islands of origin and their later thematic and political preoccupations.
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Anderson, Christina. "Exploring the effect of literature circles on reading comprehension and motivation /." Full text available online, 2005. http://www.lib.rowan.edu/home/research/articles/rowan_theses.

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Griffin, Philip George. "The middle-class home in Edwardian literature." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359658.

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Spengler, Birgit [Verfasser]. "Literary Spinoffs : Rewriting the Classics - Re-Imagining the Community / Birgit Spengler." Frankfurt am Main : Campus Verlag, 2015. http://www.campus.de/home/.

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Dorson, James [Verfasser]. "Counternarrative Possibilities : Virgin Land, Homeland, and Cormac McCarthy's Westerns / James Dorson." Frankfurt am Main : Campus Verlag, 2016. http://www.campus.de/home/.

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Graf, Margret [Verfasser]. "Erinnerung erschreiben : Gender-Differenz in Texten von Auschwitz-Überlebenden Mit einem Vorwort von Ruth Klüger / Margret Graf." Frankfurt am Main : Campus Verlag, 2015. http://www.campus.de/home/.

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