Dissertations / Theses: 'Irving john'

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Weiß, Elke. "John Irving und die Kunst des Fabulierens /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/337452474.pdf.

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Farris, Sara. "Desperate laughter /." View online, 1985. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211130497836.pdf.

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Coltman, Caroline. "The redemptive imagination, the fiction of John Irving." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0005/MQ28411.pdf.

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Ward, Peter Joseph. "Animals in the Fiction of John Irving and Haruki Murakami." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Humanities, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7544.

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This thesis examines animals in the fiction of John Irving and Haruki Murakami, two authors who have much in common, contemporaries whose work is both commercially successful and regarded as literary. Different in that Irving works within a traditional realist framework while Murakami delves into the magical, each includes animals in his fiction. They employ anthropomorphism and zoomorphism in a variety of ways and demonstrate how animals, as Claude Levi-Strauss puts it, are “good to think with”. I draw on the work of Erica Fudge in an overview of thinking with animals and examine the role of anthropomorphism and how it complements animal advocacy and liberationism in Irving’s Setting Free the Bears. I compare and contrast anthropomorphism and zoomorphism in The Hotel New Hampshire. In doing this, I complicate and challenge Wendy Doniger’s assertion that “sexuality makes humans into animals; language makes animals into humans”. This also applies to Murakami’s animals, who have further roles including enabling engagement with a magical dimension. I argue that, as instantiated in both writers’ fiction, animals evoke thought effectively largely because they are, as John Berger puts it, “both like and unlike”, and as Fudge identifies, that the “paradox of like and not like…exists in our fascination with animals”. My argument is that it is this very paradox, that they are simultaneously both “them” and “us”, along with other factors, such as the diversity, versatility and the inherent ambiguity of animals, that renders them fascinating. Furthermore, Murakami’s magically real animals link conceptual realms that are conventionally separate and facilitate criticism and challenging of conventional human hegemonic structures while operating outside national and cultural boundaries. In summary, Irving’s and Murakami’s animals are good to think with for many reasons, not despite their enigmatic furry ambiguity, but largely because of it.

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Johnson, Lucas Stacey. "'A different kind of truth' : fictionality in the novels of John Irving." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396457.

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Critical responses to John Irving's fiction have generally adhered to the well-rehearsed notion that there is an unbridgeable divide between certain literary forms and traditions. The oppositional thinking that has tended to dominate twentieth-century literary criticism has consequently produced a distorted and rigidly binaristic view of Irving, as either realist or postmodemist, populist or experimentalist. This thesis sets out to establish a more complex language or framework for discussing Irving's work, which, rather than erasing or ignoring those features that appear anomalous when placed within the narrow parameters of a single literary tradition, is more able to accommodate and analyze the tensions and contradictions that arise through the juxtaposition and interaction of multiple literary codes. In particular, this approach is designed to facilitate a more complex and fluid exploration of the deployment of metafictional strategies in Irving's novels, as I argue that his work demonstrates the acute interest in the issue of fictionality that is characteristic of metafictional writing, without either rupturing the reader/writer contract or rejecting the referential function of literary fiction. Irving's work thus both explores and reasserts the capacity of narrative fiction to convey different kinds of truth.

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Fentem, Matthew A. [Verfasser], and Dieter [Akademischer Betreuer] Schulz. "Dark Apprenticeships: The Novels of John Irving / Matthew A. Fentem ; Betreuer: Dieter Schulz." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1179785711/34.

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Stenekes, Willem Jacob. "History denied a study of David Irving and Holocaust denial /." Sydney : UWS, 2002. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030704.164555/.

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Remåker, Daniel. "Promoting Sexual Tolerance : A study of Sexual Dissidence in John Irving’s The World According to Garp, The Hotel New Hampshire, and In One Person." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-35183.

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Abstract The purpose of this essay is to show that John Irving uses differentiating sexuality in his novels as a means of promoting sexual tolerance. This is done by using Jonathan Dollimore’s theoretical framework called sexual dissidence, which stems from a deconstruction of the Freudian usage of perversion, and applying this framework to The World According to Garp (1978), The Hotel New Hampshire (1981) and In One Person (2012). The results show that, in these novels, Irving uses sexual dissidence through exaggeration and normalization, thereby promoting tolerance of differentiating sexuality. In conclusion, while the usage of sexual dissidence is present in all three novels, In One Person must be considered the so far clearest example of Irving's usage of sexual dissidence. Sammanfattning Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att visa att John Irving använder icke-normerande sexualitet i sina romaner för att gynna sexuell tolerans. Detta görs genom användandet av Jonathan Dollimores teoretiska struktur kallad sexuellt oliktänkande, vilken har sitt ursprung i demonteringen av den Freudianska användningen av termen perversion, och applicerandet av denna struktur på Garp och hans värld (1978), Hotell New Hampshire (1981) och I en människa (2012). Resultatet visar att det finns bevis för att Irving använder sexuellt oliktänkande genom överdrift och normaliserande och därigenom gynnar sexuell tolerans. Uppsatsen drar slutsatsen att medan användandet av sexuellt oliktänkande är närvarande i alla tre romanerna måste I en människa betraktas som det hittills tydligaste exemplet på Irvings användande av sexuellt oliktänkande.

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Barvainytė, Greta. "Translation Strategies for Culture-Specific Items in "The World According to Garp" by John Irving." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20140225_124847-14767.

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Translation process of fiction is a complex activity. In order to get a translated product with the same effect and value as of the original different competences of a translator are necessary, including intercultural awareness. Different cultures have different experiences of life. Therefore, whenever a cultural gap appears a translator has to decide how to deal with it while translating. The study seeks to answer what possible ways for translating CSIs exist and which of them were applied while translating the novel “The World According to Garp” by John Irving. Grožinės literatūros vertimas – sudėtingas procesas. Tam, kad vertimas atitiktų originalo vertę, vertėjui būtinas tarpkultūrinis sąmoningumas. Skirtingos kultūros turi skirtingą gyvenimo patirtį. Todėl vertėjas turi nuspręsti kaip elgtis esant kultūriniam atotrūkiui. Darbe aptariama kultūrinių realijų samprata bei analizuojamos vertimo strategijos, taikytos verčiant Džono Irvingo romaną „Pasaulis pagal Garpą”.

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Hobbs, Holly. "Traduire l'américain : le cas d'Une prière pour Owen." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68103.

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Various problems which occur during the translation of a literary text are often linked to the linguistic and extra-linguistic particularities of the original text. This thesis, which focuses on A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving and its French translation, Une priere pour Owen by Michel Lebrun, deals with several of these problems. The analysis is based on two axes of reflection. The first, theoretical, is discussed in chapter one and bears on three fundamental elements of the act of translation: the notion of the ethics of translation (which concerns, among other things, the question of accuracy, or "faithfulness"); the actual process of translation, that is the operation during which certain characteristics of the source text are necessarily modified; and, finally, the polysystem theory. This approach allows the consideration of "external" elements, for example, the target culture and reader. The second axis of reflection is in fact inspired in large part by the polysystem theory because of this consideration. As both the original and its translation refer to a specific linguistic context, literary intertext and socio-cultural milieu, chapter two deals with John Irving's and Michel Lebrun's bio-bibliography as well as certain characteristics of the American and French polysystems and of the best-seller markets in the two countries. We felt it would be useful to study these factors in order to better evaluate the translated text and to better understand the translator's choices. In the third and final chapter the translation itself was analysed. The study of the solutions chosen by Michel Lebrun to solve the problems posed by the source text leads us to believe that the translator produced a text responding to the expectations of the average reader, fond of best-sellers.

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Rösch, Thomas. "Medienkritik im angloamerikanischen Gegenwartsroman dargestellt an Romanen von John Irving, Douglas Coupland und Ian McEwan; mit einer Auswahlbibliographie /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2003. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB11675841.

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Beltz, Bettina [Verfasser]. "«Fortsetzung folgt...» : Zum intertextuellen Trialog zwischen Günter Grass, Salman Rushdie, John Irving und ihrem Ahnherrn Laurence Sterne / Bettina Beltz." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1042420564/34.

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Conklin, Robert Brian. "A fools' parade through three modern American novels : Catch-22, Slaughterhouse-five, and the World according to Garp /." Connect to resource, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1243521288.

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Edwards, Ross Stephen. "Glimpsing the balance between earth and sky: a meeting ground for postmodernism and Christianity in four selected novels by Jeanette Winterson and John Irving." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002228.

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The phrase “glimpsing the balance between earth and sky” in the thesis title is taken from Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. In this novel, the central character Jeanette believes she has glimpsed the possibility that human relationships can find their mirror in the relationship with God, as she understands the divine Other. This glimpse has set her wandering, trying to find such a balance. This examination of four selected novels by Jeanette Winterson and John Irving shows that for Irving, “glimpsing the balance” means in part, giving voice to a strongly “Christian” view of humankind and human nature but in an age where the prevailing intellectual worldview is strongly sceptical of any Grand Narrative. The “voice” expressed in Irving’s work has to be situated, like Winterson’s, as one among many possibilities. Irving’s voice is itself masked as different, other/Other, freakish, in the narrative worlds he creates. Through his use of grotesque comedy as a vehicle for deeper philosophical concerns, Irving asks us: What after all in the postmodern world is the main show? This thesis argues that if Winterson and Irving are testing or re-presenting a Christian worldview in a postmodern context, than they are asking whether Christianity is capable of assimilating and rising above the worst circumstances the world, writer, and life can throw at it. In Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Winterson tells a story of “forbidden love”, posed as a direct challenge to the prevailing way of knowing in her character’s community. In Gut Symmetries, she expands this challenge by employing the insights of quantum physics to make sense of the complexities raised by a triangular love relationship. Irving offers the story of Owen in A Prayer for Owen Meany as the kind of story which might possibly make a believer out of him; in short, that he would have to be a witness to some kind of miracle, something utterly inexplicable. In A Son of the Circus Irving narrates the quest for identity undertaken by an Indian doctor who is in every way a Displaced Person – the condition, he implies, of anyone who purports to find their piece of the truth. The theoretical concerns of the postmodern project are examined through Lawrence Cahoone’s argument that postmodern writing offers criticism of: presence, origin, unity and transcendence through an analytical strategy of constitutive otherness. In each of their texts, Irving and Winterson are seen to use these four critical elements and to offer a postmodern strategy of re-presenting meaning through “constitutive otherness”. Both writers also employ a strategy of historiographic metafiction (as defined by Linda Hutcheon) as a means of constructing and re-presenting their narrated stories. Postmodern paradox is compatible with what could be called a Christian plan for living, if the latter is in turn given an appropriate 1990s interpretation. The selected novels by Winterson and Irving are offered as contemporary evidence for this view. This thesis argues that the connection between postmodernism and other worldviews, particularly Christianity, is found in both projects’ process of making meanings through encounters with an other/Other.

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Brimson, Cooper Jennifer. "The Weinzweig School: The flute works of Harry Freedman, Harry Somers, R. Murray Schafer, Srul Irving Glick and Robert Aitken." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1342103922.

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Virbukienė, Eglė. "The Poetics of the Bildungsroman in “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens, “Of Human Bondage” by William Somerset Maugham and “The Cider House Rules” by John Irving." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130802_123415-73676.

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The object of the present research is the features of the Bildungsroman genre “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens, “Of Human Bondage” by William Somerset Maugham and “The Cider House Rules” by John Irving. The aim of the Bachelor Thesis is to explore structural and poetic elements (canons) of the Bildungsroman in the aforementioned novels. To achieve the aim the following objectives have been set: 1) to overview the history of the Bildungsroman and to present theoretical poetic elements of such a genre; 2) to identify the key features of the Bildungsroman in the aforementioned novels; 3) to carry out the comparative analysis of the novels in the aspect of the Bildungsroman. The methodology of the Bachelor Thesis includes Jerome Buckley’s conception of the Bildungsroman, which was employed to trace the features of the Bildungsroman in chosen novels. Also, Gintaras Lazdynas’s structural and poetic elements (canons) of the Bildungsroman, presented in his book, were referred to in the present research were used. The comparative literature as a method (the definition of Tötösy de Zepetnek) enabled to analyze novels in the comparative aspect. Novels portray typical protagonists of the Bildungsroman genre whose quest towards self-identity is long, gradual and full of challenges. However, such journey towards spiritual maturity is crucial, as it provides heroes with a life education and new experiences. Therefore, at the end of their journey, after completion... [to full text] Darbo objektas – bildungsromano žanrinės ypatybės Charleso Dikenso romane „Didieji lūkesčiai“, Williamo Somerseto Maughamo romane „ Aistrų našta“, bei Johno Irvingo romane ‚ „Sidro namų taisyklės“. Bakalauro darbo tikslas – atskleisti, kaip pasirinktuose romanuose atsispindi tradiciniai bildungsromano žanro struktūriniai ir poetiniai elementai (kanonai). Tikslui pasiekti buvo iškelti šie uždaviniai: 1) apžvelgti bildungsromano istoriją, bei pristatyti šio žanro kanonus (poetinius ir struktūrinius elementus); 2) atpažinti pagrindines bildungsromano žanro ypatybes pasirinktuose kūriniuose; 3) analizuoti romanus lyginamuoju bildungsromano aspektu. Bakalauro darbo metodologija apima Jerome’o Buckley’o bildungsromano koncepciją, norint identifikuoti šio žanrinio tipo romano ypatybes pasirinktuose kūriniuose. Taip pat darbe buvo naudojami Gintaro Lazdyno išskirti bildungsromano struktūriniai ir poetiniai elementai (kanonai). Komparatyvistinė literatūra kaip metodas (Tötösy de Zepetneko apibrėžimas) leido analizuoti tris grožinės literatūros romanus lyginamuoju aspektu. Romanai vaizduoja klasikinius bildungsromano protagonistus, kurių kelias link harmonijos bei savęs suradimo yra ilgas, laipsniškas bei pilnas išbadymų. Toks kelias, vedantis link dvasinės brandos, yra labai svarbus, nes būtent šios kelionės metu herojai pereina gyvenimo mokyklą bei įgyja naujos patirties. Būtent dėl šios priežasties savo kelionės pabaigoje, įveikę įvairias dvasinio vystymosi... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

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Placquet, Karine. "'The Authority of the Written Word' : ecriture et transgressions dans The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany et A Widow for One Year de John Irving." Phd thesis, Université Toulouse le Mirail - Toulouse II, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00639587.

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Romans de l'écrivain américain contemporain, John Irving, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany et A Widow for One Year proposent des univers fictionnels distincts mais dirigés par une question identique : le processus de création, qu'il soit identitaire ou littéraire. Construits autour de la représentation des relations entre les personnages et leur environnement, les trois récits accordent une importance particulière à la transgression, toujours envisagée comme un acte de rébellion mais prenant également une connotation positive lorsqu'elle est entendue comme étape primordiale de la création identitaire. Cette double acception ressurgit dès lors que l'on considère le narrateur ou les techniques narratives, eux aussi caractérisés par une alliance de respect et d'écart par rapport aux normes ou conventions. La combinaison des forces antagonistes identifiées à l'échelle de l'histoire et au niveau narratif produit des romans singuliers alliant tradition et modernité, gravité et ironie. En fin de compte, les romans poursuivent un même but : divertir et contester tout à la fois.

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Arnot, Elizabeth. "Responding to fate's disguises : affirmation in the novels of John Irving." Thesis, 1993. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/4110/1/MM87297.pdf.

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Částková, Tereza. "Absence of Nuclear Family and its Consequences in the Work of John Irving." Master's thesis, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-277511.

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This thesis deals with one aspect of the literary work of the American writer John Irving, that is the frequent absence of nuclear family in his novels and its consequences. Irving's heroes grow up very often without either one or both parents and this thesis analyses how the deprivation has influenced them in their lives, especially in their adulthood. The beginning of the thesis presents at first theoretically the consequences of the absence of nuclear family in a human life and its basis is in psychological literature, then it introduces John Irving and his work. The core of the thesis is the analysis of the selected novels where the theme is the most prominent.

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Romylos, Salomé. "The convergence of sacred and- secular space in selected postmodern novels / Salomé Romylos." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/11961.

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This dissertation focuses on the return and revitalization of traditional Christian themes in contemporary postmodern novels. It offers an examination of how these themes materialize in novels written by writers who are not explicitly religious, or in novels which do not have an overtly religious focus. Some contemporary novels generate a privileged space in which the return of the religious can take place. The sacred is back, not just as a re-enchantment, but manifests itself in fundamentally new and productive ways (Ward, 2001:xv). The first matter under consideration is the fact that the co-existence of belief and unbelief is apparent in all the novels under discussion. As such, the reader as active participant in the novel is bound to be affected by these mutually inter-dependent and inextricably inter-connected sides of a coin. The themes of providence, sacrifice and the miraculous become evident in John Irving‟s A prayer for Owen Meany while the themes of sin, guilt and redemption feature in Ian McEwan‟s Atonement. Secondly, the study compares two novels that deal with the same supernatural phenomena, namely visions, faith healing and stigmata. Jodi Picoult is a non-believer and is the author of Keeping Faith, while Ron Hansen is a devout Catholic who wrote Mariëtte in ecstasy. These works, on the one hand, create a space for supernatural phenomena even though fiction cannot prove the reality of their existence. Postmodern people seem to have a definite longing for the miraculous and these novels seem to satisfy that yearning. On the other hand, both novels portray disbelief in the miraculous while subtly allowing room for characters or readers in a liminal space between belief and disbelief. The theories of Jean François Lyotard and specifically his notion of “incredulity towards metanarratives” provide a framework to explore this matter. Lyotard proposes “petit recits” or many small stories instead of the grand narratives. He contends that there is no objective knowledge and that narrative and scientific knowledge are subject to legitimization. The Christian story therefore needs no scientific basis as justification, which means that it is being newly considered after the mistrust created during the Enlightenment period. Gianteresio Vattimo‟s ideas on the role of religion in contemporary life and the possible convergences of postmodernity and the Christian faith also come into play. He advocates weak thought as opposed to strong thought and sees caritas (charity or neighbourly love) as essential. This concept of weak thought allows for plurality and tolerance. Vattimo sees Christ‟s kenosis (self-emptying) as essentially linked to a secularization in which humankind needs to retrace the path to the original Biblical message of love. Emphasis is on a non-doctrinal, anti-dogmatic spirituality and this manifests in the novels discussed. This study employs diverse reader-response theories to gauge the reaction of the reader to texts containing Biblical themes and supernatural phenomena. Stanley Fish‟s interpretive communities and Wolfgang Iser‟s implied reader are helpful and Michael Edwards‟s pattern of sin, the fall and redemption is of particular interest to this dissertation. Edwards believes that most novels, whether written by religious or non-religious writers, follow this pattern. Readers find themselves either on the side of the believing or unbelieving camp in the novels discussed. However, many readers may hover in the liminal space between belief and unbelief. Interpretation depends on many factors that constitute the world view of the reader, hence the plurality of interpretations. MA (English), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014

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Röll, Michaela [Verfasser]. "No place like home : Tendenzen zentrierter und dezentrierter Raumvorstellungen in den Romanen John Irvings und Margaret Atwoods / vorgelegt von Michaela Röll." 2002. http://d-nb.info/967893771/34.

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