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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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Viteri, Marquez Elisa Andrea. "Literary masculinities in contemporary Egyptian dystopian fiction : Local, regional and global masculinities as social criticism in Utopia and The Queue." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-184262.

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In the aftermath the 25th January Revolution of 2011, two Egyptian dystopian novels stand out as particularly relevant: Utopia (2008) by Ahmed Khaled Towfik, and The Queue (2013), by Basma Abdel Aziz. Due to the absence of studies that pay attention to how gender relations are portrayed in Arabic dystopian novels, this study focuses on the literary representation of men and masculinities in Utopia and The Queue. This thesis uses narratology and content analysis in order to show that, although patterns of local masculinities are different in both novels, regional and global models of masculinit

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Kan, Tabitha G. "Renderings of the abyss : some changing nineteenth-century literary perceptions of the animal/human divide." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19458/.

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The aim of this thesis is to amalgamate philosophy and history of science with literature to achieve an overview of changing ideas of the animal/human divide during the nineteenth century. Drawing on the ideas of Jacques Derrida, Friedrich Nietzsche, Julia Kristeva and Giorgio Agamben. I consider this divide and its contents, often regarded as an abyss. The study is written like a time line, starting at the beginning of the nineteenth century and finishing at the end. I split the nineteenth century into four time periods centred around the emergence of Darwinian theory, considered by this stud

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De, Bruin-Molé Megen. "Frankenfiction : monstrous adaptations and Gothic histories in twenty-first-century remix culture." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2017. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/106947/.

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In the twenty-first century, the remix, the mashup, and the reboot have come to dominate Western popular culture. Consumed by popular audiences on an unprecedented scale, but often derided by critics and academics, these texts are the ‘monsters’ of our age—hybrid creations that lurk at the limits of responsible consumption and acceptable appropriation. Like monsters, they offer audiences the thrill of transgression in a safe and familiar format, mainstreaming the self-reflexive irony and cultural iconoclasm of postmodern art. Like other popular texts before them, remixes, mashups, and reboots

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Van, Hove Hannah Jean. "'How to begin to find a shape?' : situating the mid-twentieth century fiction of Anna Kavan, Alexander Trocchi and Ann Quin." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8199/.

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This thesis is concerned with situating the works of Anna Kavan (1901-1968), Alexander Trocchi (1925-1984) and Ann Quin (1936-1973) within a discussion of British mid-twentieth century fiction. The relative neglect of these authors in academic criticism may be due to the fact that much British experimental writing has previously been ignored in surveys of this period. This thesis argues that a study of their work warrants a more nuanced understanding of the mid-twentieth century literary landscape than conventional accounts have allowed for. In that sense, it aims to contribute to research und

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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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Lewis, Dennis L. M. "Speech, voice and parable : reading and writing through Auden (letters to Auden, a reading of his poems, and a serial poem of Barack Hussein Obama)." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16955/.

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This thesis comprises three main components: firstly, close readings and critical analyses of four major poetical works by W.H. Auden—“The Watershed”, The Sea and the Mirror, “New Year Letter”, and “In Time of War”; secondly, ten semi-informal letters addressed to W.H. Auden; and thirdly, a serial poem consisting of short and long poems based on the speeches of the public figure, Barack Obama. The thesis proposes a creative writing discipline founded on the productive and intensive exchange between reading and writing poetry, and reflection through letter writing. The chapters of critical anal

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Mamo, Josianne. "Then the Cicadas Sang : a novel ; and, Two essays on translingual writing." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30637/.

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This thesis consists of two parts: a creative work and two critical essays on translingual writing. The creative component, Then the Cicadas Sang, is a novel set in 1940s Malta. It is a story about love and aspiration. As a teenage girl, Mari vouches she will do anything to leave the tiny island she lives on. Foreigners – the British who governed the island at the time – and books give her a glimpse of the world beyond her shores. But she craves for more, unaware of what she risks losing by chasing her dreams. The novel deals with how books shape our imagination, how the languages we speak giv

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Hamlin, Sarah Elizabeth. "Poetic politics : writers and the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8902/.

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This thesis considers the works of six major literary figures in the context of their engagement with the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum. These writers are, in order of analysis, Edwin Morgan, J.K. Rowling, Liz Lochhead, Alasdair Gray, Kathleen Jamie, and John Burnside. Each has produced a significant literary oeuvre which is examined here in relation to each other's work and to the Referendum debate. The multifaceted relationship between literature and politics is investigated through the lens of the Referendum, utilising these six figures as interrelated case studies. Chapter One expl

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Muscolino, Stephen J. "Writing in real-time, fictions of digitization : the novels of Don DeLillo and Dave Eggers." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8276/.

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By tracking the intersection of contemporary fiction and the information technologies of the digital age, this thesis argues that the narratives being produced over the past ten years have evolved into a distinct genre of literature, one where the aesthetics of fragmentation and postmodern uncertainty must confront the new realities of a digitally saturated culture and society. In order to demonstrate this alteration in contemporary fiction, this thesis considers novels written within the past ten years that reflect on this new form of textuality, namely Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis (2003) and Dav

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Ciofu, Natalia. "Internal punishment : a psychoanalytical reading of F.M. Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' (1866), L. Rebreanu's 'Ciuleandra' (1927) and P. Ackroyd's 'Hawksmoor' (1985)." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/22365/.

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This doctoral thesis examines the representations and dynamics of crime and inner punishment in a range of European literary works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: F.M. Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (Преступлeние и наказaние, 1866), L. Rebreanu’s Ciuleandra (1927) and P. Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor (1985), while tracing the developments of crime fiction and the changes in criminal legal system over the span of one hundred and nineteen years. Utilising the methodology of comparative literature, I argue that the interiorized punishment - which I identify, after Foucault, as a new episteme

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Vogel, Molly. "Florilegium." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7743/.

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This thesis is composed of two parts, encompassed in a third: a poetry collection; a critical dissertation; and an artist’s book. The thesis as a whole is entitled Florilegium. This title, from the Latin flos, or ‘flower’, and legere, ‘to gather’, refers to the medieval system of collecting extracts from various authors to form a larger body of work. It is also applicable to flower-treatises, dedicated to their ornamental nature rather than medicinal or scientific. The critical dissertation comes in the form of a glossary. It intends to show that the flower plays an essential role in linking M

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McCabe, Alexander. "Dostoevsky's French reception : from Vogüé, Gide, Shestov and Berdyaev to Marcel, Camus and Sartre (1880-1959)." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4337/.

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This history of Dostoevsky’s reception in France draws from critical responses, translation analysis, and the comparative analysis of adaptations as well as intertextual dialogues between fictional, critical and philosophical texts. It begins from the earliest translations and critical accounts of the 1880s and 1890s, such as Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé’s seminal moralist reading. It then traces modernist responses and adaptations from the turn of the century to the twenties. Existential readings and re-translations dating from the arrival of émigré critics and religious philosophers in the wake

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Persson, Örtman Lisa. "The suppressed goddess of Beowulf : A feminist reading of Grendel’s mother as a representation of Norse goddess Gefion in a changing world order." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-82020.

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The aim of this study has been to investigate in feminist terms whether or not the character Grendel’s mother symbolizes early matrilineal tribes in the form of the Norse goddess Gefion, also claimed to be the Earth goddess. The claim has been brought forward in an article by Frank Battaglia on the grounds that the chthonic deity is mentioned on several occasions in Beowulf. However, Grendel’s mother’s possible connection to the goddess has not been treated extensively in a feminist context, despite the apparent link between feminism and matrilineal tribes in a patriarchal hierarchy. The moder

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Davidson, Ryan J. "Affinities of influence : exploring the relationship between Walt Whitman and William Blake." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5590/.

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This project explores the nature and extent of the relationship between Blake and Whitman. I examine their works to find affinities in tone, style and themes and seek to understand the origin of these affinities. The resultant discoveries, however, lead to the conclusion that, because of Whitman’s lack of exposure to Blake’s work, these affinities must be accounted for through a coterie of indirect influences on Whitman. Over the course of the introductory chapter, I establish the critical proclivity of connecting William Blake and Walt Whitman, providing examples of such critical interpretati

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Williams, Vivien Estelle. "The cultural history of the bagpipe in Britain, 1680-1840." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5085/.

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Bagpipes and pipers, as cultural identifiers, are embedded within their national culture, charged with symbolisms. British authors have often viewed bagpipes as cultural icons, endowing them with connotations from devilish to virtuous, from rural to military. By analysing literary and artistic references one can perceive how the attitude towards the bagpipe changes with the evolution of Britain’s internal dynamics. Jacobitism contributed in casting a particular light on the bagpipe: it was the ‘voice of the rebellion’. In Scotland this constituted a reason for national pride, while in England

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De, Klerk Eugene Henry. "Subject to reading literacy and belief in the work of Jacques Lacan and Paulo Freire /." Thesis, Thesis restricted. Connect to e-thesis to view abstract. Move to record for print version, 2007. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/499/.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2007.<br>Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow, 2007. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

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Ysasi, Alonso Alejandro. "La obra gráfica de Pedro Quetglas “Xam” (1915-2001): la riqueza de un patrimonio." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/284394.

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És una investigació, anàlisis, i aproximació a l’obra gràfica de l’artista mallorquí, del segle XX, Pere Quetglas, conegut pel pseudònim de “Xam”. La seva activitat s'ha sistematitzat sobre la base la biografia, tècniques treballades i el seu entorn. Xam, es va exercitar en la caricatura, el dibuix, el cartell, el gravat xilogràfic, la pintura, els monotips, la serigrafia i en el gravat calcogràfic. Del conjunt de tota la seva producció l’autor se centra en l'obra gràfica produïda a partir de 1944, quan pot datar-se la seva primera xilografia, i la seva defunció, l’any 2001, en el qual realit

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C, Bergeron Fabrice. "Du jugement éthique et esthétique dans «Les misérables de M. V. Hugo» de Barbey d'Aurevilly." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21590.

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Létourneau, Sophie. "La mélancolie même de la photographie : Roland Barthes." Thèse, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/3267.

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Peu importe la discipline qui l’appréhende, de la médecine humorale à la psychanalyse aujourd’hui, de l’histoire de l’art à la philosophie, la mélancolie se définit par un manque. S’il ne succombe pas à l’apathie, le mélancolique s’efforcera de pallier cette insuffisance par ses activités intellectuelles et artistiques : la mélancolie est carence et génie. La mélancolie travaille : elle compose avec l’absence. De quel ordre est ce manque ? Dans les écrits savants et les œuvres visuelles, la mélancolie a l’image en défaut : un souvenir ou une représentation juste, idéale. La mélancolie ne donne

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Voyer, Kevin. "Les discours sur le roman français de 1734 à 1755 : analyse générique et rhétorique (Lenglet-Dufresnoy, Bougeant, Porée, Jacquin)." Thèse, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/6885.

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Cette étude examine comment différents textes du XVIIIe siècle traitent du roman. L’hypothèse est la suivante : le genre choisi pour parler du roman participe de manière intrinsèque à la critique ou à l’apologie véhiculée dans l’œuvre. Le corpus est composé de quatre textes plus ou moins (re)connus par les historiens de la littérature narrative : De l’Usage des romans (1734) de Lenglet-Dufresnoy, le Voyage merveilleux du Prince Fan-Férédin dans la Romancie (1735) du père Bougeant, De Libris qui vulgò dicuntur Romanenses (1736) du père Porée et les Entretiens sur les romans (1755) du père Jacqu

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Warren, James Edward Jr. "Literary knowledge in the reader : English professors processing poetry and constructing arguments." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/29688.

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This dissertation brings together aspects of writing-in-the-disciplines research, reader-response theory, and empirical reading research in an investigation of literary scholars reading poems and constructing arguments. I begin with a review of literary criticism published over the past 70 years on Donne's "The Flea," Milton's "Song: On May Morning," Hopkins' "God's Grandeur," and Eliot's "Conversation Galante." This review suggests that certain New Critical interpretive conventions persist in scholarship. In particular, literary scholars continue to read lyrics as dramatic utterances and as o

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SPADOLA, CARMELO. "El paisaje literario en las voces femeninas del Uruguay del Novecientos." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2158/1043468.

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La tesi di dottorato verte sullo studio della tematica paesaggistica in quattro autrici rappresentative dell'Uruguay del Novecento: María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, Delmira Agustini, Juana de Ibarbourou e Amanda Berenguer. Nella nostra ricerca il concetto di paesaggio letterario è analizzato dalla prospettiva della critica letteraria della Scuola di Ginevra. The PhD thesis is about the study of landscape theme in four representative female Uruguayan authors of the XX century: María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, Delmira Agustini, Juana de Ibarbourou e Amanda Berenguer. The approach we use in our research fo

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