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Kirwan, James. "Literary theory and literary aesthetics." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19020.

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FIGUEIREDO, REGINA MARIA DE BRITTO. "AN EXPANDING LITERARY THEORY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2006. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=8837@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>Baseada em teorias empíricas da literatura de orientação construtivista, a tese oferece um modelo para o desenvolvimento de uma conscientização literária em vista de uma socialização literária, que leva em conta as múltiplas articulações implicadas na visão da literatura como complexo processo cultural, social e estético. Partindo do desejo de contribuir para uma nova pedagogia dos estudos de literatura, o projeto se apropria de instrumentos teóricos recentes que facultam uma crescente expansão em direção a uma perspectiva sistêm
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Furlong, Anne. "Relevance theory and literary interpretation." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1995. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1349785/.

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The thesis aims to contribute to literary studies by characterising literary interpretation not as a unique activity but as a subset of general communication, driven by a global cognitive strategy: the search for relevance. It will use relevance theory to account for the production and evaluation of literary interpretations. It also attempts to shed light on the notion of literariness. The thesis briefly treats the major schools of thought on literature and literary interpretation, and criticises the communication model which underlies virtually all of them. A sketch of relevance theory is giv
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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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Smith, Stephen D. "Theory against itself : literary theory and the limits of theory." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334294.

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Parris, David. "Reception theory : philosophical hermeneutics, literary theory, and biblical interpretation." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1999. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12110/.

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The goal of this thesis is to explore the possibility of applying Hans Robert Jauss' hermeneutic of reception theory to biblical interpretation. The traditional methods employed in biblical interpretation involve a two-way dialogue between the text and the reader. Reception theory expands this into a three-way dialogue, with the third partner being the history of the text's interpretation and application. This third partner has been ignored by biblical interpreters but recently the need to include this has gained some attention. In the first part of the thesis, the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer w
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梁敏兒 and Man-yee Leung. "Naturalism and Mao Dun's literary theory." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31208733.

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Lury, Celia. "Feminist literary theory and women's writing." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.370953.

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Tong, Qing Sheng. "Romantic organicism as a literary theory." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339880.

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Harkusha, Dariia Ruslanivna. "Important issues of literary translation theory." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2019. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13189.

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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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Gibbs, Anna. "Gertrude Stein and feminist literary theory." Thesis, Gibbs, Anna (1989) Gertrude Stein and feminist literary theory. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1989. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52950/.

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This thesis attempts to render intelligible some significant issues in feminist literary theory - and perhaps 'feminist theory' more generally - through a reading of some of Gertrude Stein's writing, concentrating especially on The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and some of Stein's shorter prose. The issues explored all arise out of the confrontation of Anglo-American empiricism with what has been qualified - too neatly - as French theoretical work in the domains of philosophy, and literary theory. I refer particularly to a body of work that may be broadly termed 'postmodern', though in f
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Axelsson, Karin. "Interpreting and discussing literary texts : A study on literary group discussions." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1934.

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<p>Reading and understanding literature does not necessarily have to be an individual act. The aim of this essay is to investigate what happens when six students read a text by Kazuo Ishiguro A Family Supper and then discuss it in a communicative situation. The essay bases its ideas on the sociocultural theory and the reader-response theory. The sociocultural perspective argues that people develop and progress during social interaction, moreover by communicating with other people and by being inspired and subsequently educated through taking part in different social contexts. My idea with this
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Goodyer, Meigan Gates. "Literary theory, the novel and science media." Thesis, Montana State University, 2008. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2008/goodyer/GoodyerM0508.pdf.

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Al-Shamaa, Khaldoun. "Modernism and after : modern Arabic literary theory from literary criticism to cultural critique." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2007. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28817/.

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This thesis aims to provide the interested reader with a critical account of far-reaching changes in modern Arabic literary theory, approximately since the 1970s, in the light of an ascending paradigm in motion, and of the tendency by subsequent critics and commentators to view literary criticism in terms of a self-elaborating category morphing into cultural critique. The first part focuses on interdisciplinary problems confronting Arab critics in their attempt "to modernize but not to westernize", and also provides a comparative treatment of the terms, concepts and definitions used in the con
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Jolliffe, Christine. "After relativism, literary theory after the linguistic turn." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0026/NQ50196.pdf.

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Jolliffe, Christine. "After relativism : literary theory after the linguistic turn." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35901.

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In this dissertation I examine the issues concerning the problematics of historical-textual relations in the wake of the linguistic turn. I begin by showing how the emphasis on the generative rather than the mimetic properties of language has led a number of critics to reject the notion of knowledge as "accurate representation" (Richard Rorty), and then go on to demonstrate how this critical position has undermined the way in which literary and intellectual historians alike have traditionally understood such concepts as causality, human agency and social determination.<br>I show that, in the l
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Jajdelski, Wojceich. "Structuralist transformations in Polish literary theory after 1956." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410850.

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Conolly, Oliver Stephen. "Essential humanism as a theory of literary value." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.624862.

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Earnshaw, Steven. "Generations of meaning : the direction of literary theory." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34852.

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Distiller, Natasha. "Shakespeare in South Africa : literary theory and practice." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10346.

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Bibliography: leaves 237-256.<br>This thesis explores the development of a "South African Shakespeare". Relying on post-colonial theory as primary framework, it views colonised culture not as secondary and responsive, but as primary and creative. The main work of the thesis is to trace the role played by "Shakespeare", as a set of texts and as an icon, in a particular trajectory of writing in English in South Africa in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Anderson, Kristi S. "Post-poststructuralism : gender, race, class and literary theory /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487775034175898.

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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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Gibson, Jeremy James. "Negotiating theory : problems of value in literary study, critical theory and educational politics." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260919.

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This dissertation is an attempt to map contradictions faced by the student in his/her experience of literary study. These contradictions coalesce around an apparent struggle between proponents of difference in critical theory and forces of regulation in educational politics. In mapping the tensions arising from the ideological struggle between differing cultural values, which are both represented in and conditioning forces around literatures and forms of study and assessment, this dissertation locates the interests and values most effective In defining the identity of literary studies at the p
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Sarma, S. S. ubrahmanya. "Blending theory- its extensions and applications to literary discourse." Thesis, Bangor University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516129.

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Potts, Tracey. "Can the Imperialist read? : race and feminist literary theory." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/63653/.

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Since the mid 1980's it has been unthinkable for white feminist literary critics to neglect race in their theoretical work. Strong challenges from black feminists have been effective in placing race high on the critical agenda. No longer is the kind of exclusivity that marked early (white) feminist literary theory possible. However, despite the evident commitment to addressing the race question in their work, the black feminist challenge has been greeted with a considerable degree of anxiety by white feminist critics. I suggest that the main source of anxiety is a failure to square the pressin
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Somerville, James Alexander. "The concept of mimesis in sixteenth century literary theory." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239223.

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Iqani, Mehitabel. "The megatext : towards a literary theory of the media." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8658.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 169-172).<br>The Megatext: Towards a Literary Theory of the Media argues for a new conception of the media landscape; one that manages to critically engage the mass dimensions of the contemporary phenomenon of media without losing the value of particular socio-economic and cultorological approaches that have been established in the field thus far. Initially, the thesis reviews current approaches to media studies, including structural, sociological and philosophical approaches. Then, through a technique of descriptive observation gleaned from practical
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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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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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Filsinger, Judy Ann. "Literary criticism, composition, and "passing theory": Conflicts and connections." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/963.

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Bartholomew, Craig G. "Reading Ecclesiastes : Old Testament exegesis and hermeneutical theory." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/9b0201cc-01a9-4959-ae14-ee6957e11ed5.

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McClure, Amy Anderson. "Children's Responses to Poetry in a Supportive Literary Context." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392910662.

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Pilkington, Adrian. "Poetic thoughts and poetic effects : a relevance theory account of the literary use of rhetorical tropes and schemes." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1994. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317955/.

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This thesis proposes an account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes in the light of recent developments in pragmatic theory. More specifically it discusses and attempts to develop the relevance theory account of poetic effects. Much recent debate in literary studies has centred on the question as to whether literary communication is best explained in terms of text-internal linguistic properties or socio-cultural phenomena. This thesis considers such views in the light of the theories of language and communication they assume. It then proposes an alternati
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Whiteley, Sara. "Text world theory and the emotional experience of literary discourse." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2010. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15112/.

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This thesis investigates the emotional experience of literary discourse from a cognitivepoetic perspective. In doing so, it combines detailed Text World Theory analysis with an examination of naturalistic reader response data in the form of book group discussions and internet postings. Three novels by contemporary author Kazuo Ishiguro form the analytical focus of this investigation: The Remains of the Dt!)' (1989), The Unconso/ed (1995) and Never Let Me Go (2005), chosen due to their thematic engagement with emotion and their ability to evoke emotion in readers. The central aims of this thesi
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Roman, Zoltan. "«Text» as ldea and Object: The Lessons of Literary Theory." Bärenreiter Verlag, 1998. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A37056.

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Cheung, M. P. Y. "Making readers : Theory and practice in modern writing." Thesis, University of Kent, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377147.

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Wells, Merna. "Post-environmentalism, the deep ecology/ecofeminist debate, and Surfacing : rereading environmental theory." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18267.

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Includes bibliography.<br>I have taken my notion of 'Post-Environmentalism' from John Young's book of the same name which seemed to me to provide an eclectic and essentially deconstructive approach to the debate surrounding 'the environmentalist crisis'. As the term suggests, the debate is one subject to essentialist thinking which constitutes it as simple and singular. In particular I am interested in the ways in which that logic is one of specularity, forwarded by a scientific privileging of ocular epistemology. I therefore use the strategy of 'Post-Environmentalism' in so far as it provides
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Hicks, Pamela Jane. "A gaze of one's own : feminist film theory, with application to Klute." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18260.

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This study is concerned with the development of a field of film theory around the place of the female spectator. Chapter 1 presents an historical overview of some trends in the development of film theory, with emphasis on the emergence of a paradigm in which theories of semiotics, ideology and psychoanalysis intersect. It critically assesses the establishment of a dominant theory founded in the notion of film as art, proposing certain parallels between this and contemporary Leavisite literary theory, and notes auteurism as the point of departure from this into the consideration of film as popu
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Warfield, Angela Marie. "Utopia unlimited: reassessing American literary utopias." Diss., University of Iowa, 2009. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/271.

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This project argues that American literary utopias of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888) and William Dean Howells' Altrurian Romances (1907) to Aldous Huxley's Island and Ursula K. LeGuin's The Dispossessed (1974), offer a unique narrative site to approach the ethical and political concerns of postmodernity. Literary utopias are conventionally read as either dogmatic and totalitarian schemes or impractical and fanciful dreams; they are interpreted as representations of an archetypal ideology. I contend that these conventional interpretations o
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Cardoso, Sebastião Marques. "De personagens e anti-herois : um estudo sobre a trilogia do exilio, de Oswald de Andrade." [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270090.

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Orientador: Maria Eugenia Boaventura<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T11:00:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cardoso_SebastiaoMarques_D.pdf: 8536415 bytes, checksum: 7663e524743a7518e03231a88892f1da (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007<br>Resumo: Trataremos da atitude ¿anti-heróica¿ dos personagens centrais da Trilogia do Exílio, de Oswald de Andrade (1890-1954), como um elemento intertextual da obra, e averiguaremos até que ponto a inflexão desses personagens pode contribuir para o entendimento da
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Smith, Ian. "Through hell and high theory : Malcolm Lowry's 'Under the volcano' and contemporary issues of literary theory." Thesis, University of Hull, 1997. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3486.

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Cook, Guy William Davidson. "A theory of discourse deviation : the application of schema theory to the analysis of literary discourse." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1990. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/12996/.

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Schema theory suggests that people understand texts and experiences by comparing them with stereotypical mental representations of similar cases. This thesis examines the relevance of this theory (as developed in some Artificial Intelligence (AI) work of the 1970s and 1980s) to literary theory and the analysis of literary texts. The general theoretical framework is that of discourse analysis. In this approach, the usefulness of schema theory is already widely acknowledged for the contribution it can make to an explanation of 'coherence': the quality of meaningfulness and unity perceived in dis
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LiBrizzi, Marcus. "Interpretive ground and moral perspective, economics, literary theory, early modern texts." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ30322.pdf.

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LiBrizzi, Marcus. "Interpretive ground and moral perspective : economics, literary theory, early modern texts." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=42080.

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This dissertation provides a critical, systematic survey of economics in literary theory and practice. Since Aristotle, economic categories have been used as interpretive grounds on which to conceptualize the literary text and distinguish it as a moral or normative sphere. Because economic categories presuppose different norms of individual and social action, the use of a specific category as an interpretive ground generates a particular outlook or moral perspective.<br>In the first part of the discussion, we critique theories in which the literary text is conceptualized as an economy. After d
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Al-Abbood, Muhammed Noor. "The cultural politics of resistance : Frantz Fanon and postcolonial literary theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310373.

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Finer, Emily. "Viktor Shklovskii and Laurence Sterne : literary reception in theory and practice." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612072.

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Deng, Guoguang, and 鄧國光. "A study of Zhi Yu, 245-311, and his literary theory." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1990. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31231998.

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Banerjee, Rita. "The New Voyager: Theory and Practice of South Asian Literary Modernisms." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11044.

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My dissertation, The New Voyager: Theory and Practice of South Asian Literary Modernisms, investigates how literary modernisms in Bengali, Hindi, and Indian English functioned as much as a turning away and remixing of earlier literary traditions as a journey of engagement between the individual writer and his or her response to and attempts to re-create the modern world. This thesis explores how theories and practices of literary modernism developed in Bengali, Hindi, and Indian English in the early to mid-20th century, and explores the representations and debates surrounding literary moderni
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Schiff, Sarah Eden. "Family systems theory as literary analysis the case of Philip Roth /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0004875.

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