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Murphy, Katharine Anne. "Pio Baroja and English literature : a comparative approach to the novels." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267209.

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Kensky, Eitan Lev. "Facing the Limits of Fiction: Self-Consciousness in Jewish American Literature." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10716.

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This thesis explores the limits of fictional language by studying the work of Jewish American writer-critics, novelists who significantly engaged with literary criticism, and critics who experimented with the novel or short fiction. These writer-critics all believed in Literature: they believed that literature could effect social change and educate the masses; or they believed in literature as an art-form, one that exposed the myths underlying American society, or that revealed something fundamental about the human condition. Yet it is because they believed so stridently in the concept of Lite
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Costa, Alyni Ferreira. "Artes em diÃlogo. Poesia e Pintura: JoÃo Cabral de Melo Neto e Joan MirÃ." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2012. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=8955.

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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior<br>A Pintura e a Literatura, apesar de consistirem em atividades distintas, interagem entre si e se comunicam dentro de um campo abrangente, denominado Arte. O presente estudo pretende uma aproximaÃÃo, um diÃlogo, estabelecido entre poesia e pintura. Propomos uma abordagem comparativa entre algumas peÃas da obra do pintor catalÃo Joan Mirà (1893-1983), e os poemas presentes no livro A pedra do sono (1942) do poeta pernambucano JoÃo Cabral de Melo Neto (1920-1999), tendo como pano de fundo a estÃtica surrealista, postulada por Andrà Br
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White, James. "Anthologists and the literary market : a comparative study of al-Tha'ālibī's Yatīmat al-dahr and 'Awfī's Lubāb al-albāb." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f1e95949-e509-43a2-a8ac-904bc3ffaa9c.

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This thesis offers the first detailed study of publishing culture in the medieval eastern Islamic world by examining how two influential anthologists active in Central Asia mediated between authors and their audiences. It analyses the contents of al-Tha'ālibī's (d. 429/1037-8) Yatīmat al-dahr, a biographical anthology of Arabic poetry and prose concerned with the literature of the 4th/10th and the early 5th/11th centuries, comparing them with the material found in 'Awfī's (d. 640/1242 or before) Lubāb al-albāb, a biographical anthology of Persian poetry focused on verse produced between
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Nakagome, Patricia Trindade. "A vida e a vida do leitor: um conceito formado no espelho." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-09102015-131731/.

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O leitor é elemento fundamental para a teoria literária, tendo sido abordado por diferentes correntes críticas. Mesmo quando não é objeto específico de investigação, ele deixa suas marcas no discurso crítico. Isso porque o crítico é essencialmente um leitor, cujas experiências e valores se fazem presentes na avaliação de um texto. Quando tais referenciais são mobilizados para tratar de livros não canônicos, frequentemente constróise uma imagem negativa de seu público. A primeira vida do leitor seria, assim, aquela constituída no discurso crítico, como objeto de análise ou como consequência da
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Banks, Gemma. "Impressions of an analyst : reassessing Sigmund Freud's literary style through a comparative study of the principles and fiction of Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, Virginia Woolf & Dorothy Richardson." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8368/.

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The connection between Sigmund Freud and modernism is firmly established and there is an increasing (though still limited) body of scholarship that adopts methods of literary analysis in approaching Freud's texts. This thesis adds depth and specificity to a broad claim to literariness by arguing that Freud can be considered a practitioner of modern literary impressionism. The claim is substantiated through close textual analysis of key texts from James Strachey' s Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, alongside theory and fiction by significant impressionist au
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Rukavina, Alison Jane. "Cultural Darwinism and the literary canon, a comparative study of Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the Bush and Caroline Leakey's The broad arrow." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ61491.pdf.

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Palmore, Aaron G. "Desire Interrupted: Erotics, Politics, and Poetics in Horace, Odes 4." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460715373.

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Sereza, Haroldo Ceravolo. "O Brasil na Internacional Naturalista: adequação da estética, do método e da temática naturalistas no romance brasileiro do século 19." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8149/tde-13032013-125613/.

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Este trabalho procura ler o Naturalismo brasileiro como parte importante de um movimento internacional e analisa algumas das adequações estéticas, temáticas e de método pelo qual passou. Considera que, a partir do modelo de romance experimental proposto por Émile Zola, autores como Aluísio Azevedo, Júlio Ribeiro e Adolfo Caminha, entre outros, escreveram romances que transformaram em matéria literária o processo de modernização econômica conservadora do Brasil no final do século 19, construindo personagens e tramas que deixaram marcas mais profundas na literatura brasileira do que tradicionalm
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Silva, Daniel Souza da. "Ruggero Jacobbi crítico-tradutor de poesia brasileira: da Litania dos Pobres à Invenzione di Orfeo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8160/tde-22032019-130209/.

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Tendo atuado no meio artístico e intelectual brasileiro do segundo pós-guerra até o fim da década seguinte, o veneziano Ruggero Jacobbi (1920-1981) foi um destacado crítico, tradutor e difusor da literatura brasileira, especialmente do drama e da lírica. A pesquisa procura, na perspectiva dos Estudos Descritivos da Tradução, recorrer ao instrumental da crítica genética aplicado à grandiosa tradução Invenzione di Orfeo, trabalho que lhe teria tomado décadas de dedicação, a partir da obra maior do poeta nordestino Jorge de Lima. O levantamento de documentos em acervos na Itália permitiu a consol
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Petersson, Niklas. "Horrifying Empathy : A comparative study of empathy in Stephen King's Pet Sematary and The Shining, with a discussion of the use of horror literature in the EFL-classroom." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-75435.

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This essay is a comparative analysis of the novels Pet Sematary and The Shining by Stephen King, where the empathy that the characters may invoke is analyzed. The focus lies on the children, mothers and fathers of the two families featured in the novels, who are analyzed in terms of Leake’s division of easy or difficult empathy. The essay also discusses the use of horror fiction in the EFL-classroom and how it may train students’ ability to empathize and motivate reluctant readers. The child characters mainly offer easy empathy since they experience negative emotions and victimization. The adu
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Riggi, Fabio Leonardo de. "Ideograma do caos: poesia e experiência de Mário Faustino entre 1956 e 1959." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-28042010-124733/.

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Esta dissertação tem por objetivo abordar dois recortes da obra de Mário Faustino. O primeiro deles abrange os anos 1956-1959, conhecidos como sua fase experimental. Esse período tem por vetor uma tensão centralizada no principal instrumento da poesia, o verso. O segundo recorte se volta para a análise da crítica literária realizada durante esses anos, concentrada nas páginas de Poesia-Experiência, publicadas no Suplemento Dominical do Jornal do Brasil. Os poemas anteriores a 1956, a partir dos quais se esboça uma crise entre o objeto e sua representação, são o assunto do primeiro capítulo. Em
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Wall, Brian Robert. "The Man in the Transatlantic Crowd: The Early Reception of Edgar Allan Poe in Victorian England." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1422.

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An important anomaly in transatlantic criticism is the contrast between transatlantic theory and the applied criticism of literature through a transatlantic lens. While most transatlantic scholars assert the value of individual strands of thought throughout the globe and stress the importance of overcoming national hegemonic barriers in literature, applied criticism generally favors an older model that privileges British literary thought in the nineteenth century. I claim that both British and American writers can influence each other, and that mutations in thought can travel both ways across
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Freire, Zélia Ramona Nolasco dos Santos. "A concepção de arte em Lima Barreto e Leon Tolstói : divergências e convergências /." Assis : [s.n.], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94029.

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Orientador: Sílvia Maria Azevedo<br>Banca: Homero Freitas de Andrade<br>Banca: Maria Aparecida Junqueira<br>Banca: Luiz Roberto Velloso Cairo<br>Banca: Tânia Regina de Luca<br>Resumo: A presente tese tem por objetivo avaliar a concepção de arte dos escritores Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881-1922) e Leon Tolstói (1828-1910) sob um viés comparatista, em busca das divergências e convergências entre ambos. Concepção de arte que apresentam nas respectivas obras, "O destino da literatura" e O que é Arte?. Os escritores desempenharam o papel de "semeador de idéias" e de "batedor do futuro" ao
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Santos, Natália Gonçalves de Souza. "Um leitor inconformado: Álvares de Azevedo e o periodismo do século XIX." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-25022019-122347/.

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Esta tese de doutorado tem por objetivo principal analisar o conjunto da produção ensaística de Manuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo (1831-1852), composta por Literatura e civilização em Portugal; Lucano; Alfredo de Musset: Jacques Rolla e George Sand: Aldo o rimador. A pesquisa elenca as principais questões levantadas pelo autor enquanto crítico literário e delineia as polêmicas em que cada um desses quatro ensaios se insere. Simultaneamente, a análise identifica as características formais e estilísticas desses textos, nos quais pode se perceber um elemento recorrente que os unifica: a prática d
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Freire, Zélia Ramona Nolasco dos Santos [UNESP]. "A concepção de arte em Lima Barreto e Leon Tolstói: divergências e convergências." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94029.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-07-31Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:15:55Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 freire_zrns_dr_assis.pdf: 661554 bytes, checksum: 3e8ea567fecb8890662a073770930245 (MD5)<br>Universidade Estadual do Mato Grosso do Sul<br>A presente tese tem por objetivo avaliar a concepção de arte dos escritores Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881-1922) e Leon Tolstói (1828-1910) sob um viés comparatista, em busca das divergências e convergências entre ambos. Concepção de arte que apresentam nas respectivas obras, “
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Brandini, Laura Taddei. "Imagens de Roland Barthes no Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8146/tde-13022014-102229/.

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Roland Barthes nunca colocou os pés em território brasileiro. O que não quer dizer que ele nunca tenha estado no Brasil: seus escritos, carregados com suas ideias, suas noções, seus paradoxos e suas idas e vindas, trataram de assegurar sua presença na história da crítica literária brasileira do século XX. As relações entre Barthes e os intelectuais constituem o tema deste trabalho, que tem por objetivo encontrar, descrever e problematizar as imagens do escritor francês, produtos de sua recepção no Brasil, de 1953, data da publicação do primeiro livro de Barthes, Le Degré zéro de lécriture, até
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Gervasi, Paolo. "Anamorfosi della critica : forme ibride e saggistica letteraria del Novecento." Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/86089.

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Fresquet, Roso Maria. "Estudio sobre el género, las funciones y la calidad literaria del best seller. Los best seller híbridos en España y estudio comparativo con los autores más vendidos en Francia." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/403875.

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En esta tesis se aborda el corpus poco estudiado de los best seller. Se ofrece una visión panoràmica desde su primer boom en España y se identifica el tipo de obras que venden más que, como veremos, son las de naturaleza híbrida. La selección que realizamos de las obras se da desde el punto de vista del lector, es decir, las obras que estan a su alcance, ya sean de autores nacionales o bien traducciones. Adems, hemos contrastado los resultados del anàlisis con los superventas en Francia en el mismo periodo de tiempo para poder ofrecer a nuestro estudio un término de comparación y que no resten
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Ortega, Molinos Neus. "Enciclopedisme i cànon. La literatura moderna a Dell’origine, progressi e stato attuale d’ogni letteratura de Joan Andrés." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668515.

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En el meu treball d'investigació analitzo l’estudi sobre la literatura universal de l’abate Joan Andrés i Morell (1740 Planes, Alacant – 1817, Roma), comprès en la seva magna obra: Dell’origine, progressi e stato attuale d’ogni letteratura (1882-1899). Es tracta d’una obra historiogràfica que esdevé una recopilació crítica del coneixement humà i dels principals inventors, creadors i investigadors que han destacat fins al segle XVIII. La repercussió d’aquesta obra és cabdal en vida de l’autor a l’Europa Occidental, però cau en l’oblit immediatament després de la seva mort i durant tot el segle
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Molla, Rodríguez Guillem. "Ramon Esquerra (1909-1938?) : geografia vital i crítica d'un esperit comparatista." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7830.

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La intenció d'aquesta tesi ha estat analitzar la dimensió biogràfica i crítica de Ramon Esquerra (1909-1938?). Es pretén arribar a la seva teoria a través de la seva pràctica, reconstruir el pensament global d'Esquerra a partir de l'obra dispersa que ens ha llegat i deixar constància d'un pensament literari -un pensament que mai no formularia de manera completa, però que existia i evolucionava a través de la ressenya de les obres d'altri o de la publicació de manuals i estudis-. L'activitat vital i professional de Ramon Esquerra parteix d'una autèntica passió per la literatura i la crítica lit
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David, Juan Felipe Restrepo. "Líneas de fuga: valores menores en la critica literaria de Mário de Andrade, Baldomero Sanín Cano y Alfonso Reyes." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8145/tde-24092013-105139/.

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Esta disertación tiene como objetivo realizar el análisis de la crítica literaria en tres autores: el brasilero Mário de Andrade (1893-1945), el colombiano Baldomero Sanín Cano (1861-1957) y el mexicano Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959), dentro de los contextos histórico-culturales del Modernismo Hispanoamericano de entre siglos y el Modernismo Brasilero de los años 20 y 30, así como de la Revolución Cultural mexicana de inicios del siglo XX. El concepto que sustenta tal análisis es el de valor menor que remite, a partir de la idea barthesiana de imagen, a una palabra que, estando dentro del texto crí
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Wisch, Stephen H. "Teaching Literary Criticism Through Independent Reading." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oduhonors1556705309193909.

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Atherton, Carol. "Defining literary criticism : scholarship, authority and the possession of literary knowledge, 1880-2002." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275951.

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Bailey, Raymond Frederick. "Some preoccupations of Australian literary criticism 1945-83." Thesis, University of London, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282412.

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Birdsall, Stephanie. "Meaning and the literary text." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=24076.

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Often debates over literary meaning can get swept up into larger discussions about social significance, political responsibilities, identity struggles and deification of cultural objects. Literary meaning becomes, in these deliberations, not just a theoretical entity but a powerful social force. All of these queries, however, inasmuch as the literary enterprise is a part of human interaction, are dependent on the brute fact of communication. Any notion of literary meaning must ultimately rest upon a concept of meaning that explains, or attempts to explain, how communication is possible. This,
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Phegley, Jennifer. "Educating the proper woman reader : Victorian family literary magazines and the professionalization of literary criticism /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488192119261626.

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McVeigh, Jane. "Literary biography and its critics." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2013. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/literary-biography-and-its-critics(a8f5e71a-c008-4fe2-b56b-2f3ab633e6d7).html.

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This thesis analyses Anglo-American criticism of biography, during the late twentieth century from within and outside the academy. It moves on to discuss the work of three contemporary British biographers, Claire Tomalin, Richard Holmes and Hermione Lee, in the context of recent debate about the genre. Claire Tomalin, is an independent freelance biographer; Hermione Lee, is a lifelong academic who writes biography for the general and academic reader; and Richard Holmes has had a foot in both camps in his experience both as an independent biographer and an academic. The aim is to make the case
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Black, Devin Charles. "An economic model of literary studies /." View online, 2010. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131524871.pdf.

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Kolbas, E. Dean. "Critical theory and the literary canon." Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07706.

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Coleman, Robert L. "A literary study of the novels of Paule Marshall /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1990. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10938412.

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Winchester, Rachel. "Dance as Literary Criticism: Literary Analysis and Dramaturgy in a Dance Theatre Choreographic Process." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18356.

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In my research into interdisciplinary choreographic processes, I found there to be a lacking representation of recent scholarship dedicated to exploring the relationship between literature and dance. As a dance theatre choreographer who often utilizes textual sources as impetuses for artistic creation, I have employed methods of traditional dramaturgy in my practice and, in seeking scholarship on this subject, have noted a need for clear examples of dance dramaturgy in practice. In this thesis study, I employed methods from literary studies and dramaturgy in the process of adapting a work of s
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Brennan, Zoe. "Representations of older women in contemporary literature." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271040.

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This study argues that novels by contemporary women writers, such as Doris Lessing, May Sarton, Barbara Pym and Jenny Diski, through their representation of older female protagonists, create alternative discourses of ageing to those that dominate Western society. By placing these figures at the centre of their narratives, the texts counteract the silence and pejorative stereotyping that routinely surrounds the lives of the aged. The technique of studying literary representations of women is not new; in fact, it is a trusted part of feminist methodology. However, one of the assertions of this d
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MacGregor, Catherine. "Writing lives of addiction: A context for literary biography and criticism." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9180.

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This thesis presents a series of case studies demonstrating that literary biography and literary criticism concerning writers who abused alcohol or who lived in relationships with those who abused alcohol can be enriched by an interdisciplinary appreciation of contemporary addiction theory. It begins with an overview of the various constructions of addiction to alcohol and to other substances and activities, ways of thinking about harmful dependencies which have dominated Western attitudes since the eighteenth century. It then identifies the directions current addiction research and therapy ha
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Masnatta, Clara Lucia. "Freund-schaft: Capturing Aura in an Unframed Literary Exchange." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10658.

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This dissertation charts an intellectual history of collaborations centered on the beginning of socio-critical discourse on photography. I study the critically misread oeuvre of photographer and sociologist Gisèle Freund to reconfigure a transatlantic map of concrete personal, literary, and critical connections during the 1930s and ’40s. In examining Freund’s oeuvre, I suggest a crucial intervention on the notion of aura — Walter Benjamin’s trademark for understanding the dialectics of the original and its reproduction. I advance a reading in support of aura that challenges the canonical “The
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O'Reilly, Séan A. (Séan Anthony). "Guy Davenport's literary primitivism." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23347.

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This thesis shows how literary primitivism is the pivot around which Davenport's literary designs spin. Thematically as well as technically the material in his first four collections of short stories is all derived from a desire to explore the beginnings, or the primitive wellsprings, of writing and art. The collage-like construction of picture and sentence will be shown to evolve from a knowledge of palaeolithic cave painting, humanity's first writing system, while Davenport's use of cataloguing and paratactic systems will be shown to evolve from ancient Greek. His primitivism also reveals it
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McMullen, Albert Joseph. "Echoes of Early Irish Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467346.

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This study traces the cultural interplay between Irish and Old English literary landscapes. Combining an ecocritical approach to reading representations of the landscape with a comparatist perspective, each chapter shows that the landscape and the natural world were not only static motifs, but that they allow for the observation of literary influence. The first chapter investigates the political use of the landscape in Irish and Anglo-Saxon saints’ Lives. I argue that the anonymous author of the Life of Cuthbert was following a common Irish hagiographic practice of using place-names to claim c
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McLean, Ralph R. "Rhetoric and literary criticism in the early Scottish Enlightenment." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/802/.

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In recent years the importance of the Scottish contribution to rhetoric and literary criticism has begun to be fully recognised by historians and literary critics. Men such as Hugh Blair, Adam Smith and George Campbell have now been afforded a just place in the canon of literary critics. However, the period before the 1760s which saw a great flourishing in Scottish intellectual activity has, by in large, remained untouched. The main purpose of this thesis is to rehabilitate those thinkers in Scotland who were active in the period before this, and who began to change the boundaries of rhetoric
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Haase, Donald. "Self-Referential Features in Sacred Texts." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3726.

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This thesis examines a specific type of instance that bridges the divide between seeing sacred texts as merely vehicles for content and as objects themselves: self-reference. Doing so yielded a heuristic system of categories of self-reference in sacred texts based on the way the text self-describes: Inlibration, Necessity, and Untranslatability. I provide examples of these self-referential features as found in various sacred texts: the Vedas, Āgamas, Papyrus of Ani, Torah, Quran, Sri Guru Granth Sahib, and the Book of Mormon. I then examine how different theories of sacredness interact with th
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Ferretter, Luke. "Towards a Christian literary theory." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15232.

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Most contemporary literary theories are either explicitly or implicitly atheistic. This thesis describes a literary theory whose principles are derived from or consistent with Christian theology. It argues against modern objections to such a theory that this is a rationally and ethically legitimate mode of contemporary literary theory. The first half of the thesis constitutes an analysis of deconstruction, of Marxism and of psychoanalysis. These are three of the most influential discourses in modern literary theory, each of which constitutes a significant argument against the existence of God,
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Clarke, Joni Adamson. "A place to see: Ecological literary theory and practice." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187115.

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"A Place to See: Ecological Literary Theory and Practice" approaches "American" literature with an inclusive interdisciplinarity that necessarily complicates traditional notions of both "earliness" and canon. In order to examine how "Nature" has been socially constructed since the seventeenth century to support colonialist objectives, I set American literature into a context which includes ancient Mayan almanacs, the Popol Vuh, early seventeenth and eighteenth century American farmer's almanacs, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu's autobiography, the 1994 Zapatista National Liberat
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Elston, Suzanne Poteet. "Garrison Keillor and American Literary Traditions." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500338/.

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Although Garrison Keillor is perhaps best known as the creator and host of Minnesota Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion (1974-1987), the focus of this study is his literary career. Keillor's literary accomplishments include a successful career as a writer for The New Yorker and two best-selling books about the fictional town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, entitled Lake Wobegon Days (1985) and Leaving Home (1987). His literary style incorporates elements from several traditions in American literature--the precise, sophisticated "New Yorker style" practiced by writers such as E. B. White and J
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Smith, Mark Ryan. "The literature of Shetland." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3938/.

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This thesis is the first ever survey of Shetland’s literature. The large body of material the thesis covers is not well known, and, apart from Walter Scott’s 1822 novel The Pirate, and Hugh MacDiarmid’s sojourn in the archipelago, Shetland is not a presence in any account of Scottish writing. ‘The Literature of Shetland’ has been written to address this absence. Who are Shetland’s writers? And what have they written? These are the fundamental questions this thesis answers. By paying close attention to Shetland’s writers, ‘The Literature of Shetland’ extends the geographical territory of the Sc
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Maserow, Joshua. "Responsible responding: the ethics of a literary criticism of the Other." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13939.

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Derek Attridge’s insight that, ‘Coetzee’s works both stage, and are, irruptions of otherness into our familiar worlds, and they pose the question: what is our responsibility towards the Other?’ (Attridge 2005: JM Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event, xii), is conceptually rooted in Attridge’s tour de force on the theory of literary invention, The Singularity of Literature. In it he spins a complex, nuanced and powerful idea about the nature of literature as event in which the notion of otherness, or alterity, plays a primordial part in the advent of the literary
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TANTALO, LUCIA. "PADRE LUIGI PIETROBONO COMMENTATORE DELL'OPERA POETICA DI GIOVANNI PASCOLI. CON UN'APPENDICE DI LETTERE A MARIA PASCOLI." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/46249.

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Il presente lavoro si pone l'obiettivo di analizzare la produzione critica di ambito pascoliano del Pietrobono, con una particolare attenzione per l’influsso da lui esercitato nella costruzione della tradizione interpretativa e letteraria pascoliana. Il progetto di ricerca si è focalizzato sull’analisi di Pietrobono letterato, interprete e amico di Giovanni Pascoli, studiandone l’attività alla luce dei commenti alle Poesie di Pascoli approntate dal Padre scolopio, e alle relazioni comuni evidenziate dallo studio critico delle rispettive opere. Particolare rilievo si è posto alla ricostruzione
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TANTALO, LUCIA. "PADRE LUIGI PIETROBONO COMMENTATORE DELL'OPERA POETICA DI GIOVANNI PASCOLI. CON UN'APPENDICE DI LETTERE A MARIA PASCOLI." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/46249.

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Il presente lavoro si pone l'obiettivo di analizzare la produzione critica di ambito pascoliano del Pietrobono, con una particolare attenzione per l’influsso da lui esercitato nella costruzione della tradizione interpretativa e letteraria pascoliana. Il progetto di ricerca si è focalizzato sull’analisi di Pietrobono letterato, interprete e amico di Giovanni Pascoli, studiandone l’attività alla luce dei commenti alle Poesie di Pascoli approntate dal Padre scolopio, e alle relazioni comuni evidenziate dallo studio critico delle rispettive opere. Particolare rilievo si è posto alla ricostruzione
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Barga, Rachel M. "Sex Theory: Theology of the Body as Literary Criticism." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1304527876.

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Sutassi, Smuthkochorn Renner Stanley W. "Postmodernism and comparative mythology toward postimperialist English literary studies in the Thailand /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9721398.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1996.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed May 26, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Stanley W. Renner (chair), Ronald Strickland, William W. Morgan, Jr. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-146) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Brown, Joanne Elizabeth. "Reinterpreting Troilus and Cressida : changing perceptions in literary criticism and British performance." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7359/.

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Troilus and Cressida is the unusual instance of a Shakespearean play which had long been read and commented upon before stage practitioners explored it in the theatre. My thesis examines the changing perceptions of the play’s characters, paying attention to the chronological relationship between revisions in literary criticism, much of which was written with little proximity to performance, with reinterpretations during its British stage history. The thesis has a particular focus on issues of gender and sexuality. Both the theatre and literary criticism reflected and responded to social change
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Lu, Lian. "Penelope Fitzgerald's fiction and literary career : form and context." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1999. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1773/.

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The investigation of Fitzgerald's equivocal success, of the decisive change in Britain's recent cultural perspective, involves raising questions around canon-formation, the consolidation of a national identity, strategies of writing, and the politics of reading. I have found it necessary to examine aspects of theme, form, genre and context in Fitzgerald's writing, focusing successively on convention and subversion in her work. This 'doubleness' has generated the two-part structure of the present thesis, the first book-length study of Fitzgerald's work. Part One examines the canonical literarin
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