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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hinton-Johnson, KaaVonia Mechelle. "Expanding the power of literature African American literary theory & young adult literature /." Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1054833658.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 175 p. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Caroline Clark, College of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-175).

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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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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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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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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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Kubis, Daniel John. "Fighting for a common culture| Literary theory in the age of Reagan." Thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3573260.

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<p> This dissertation examines the Possibilities for creating social change through literary criticism by focusing on three American critics: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Frank Lentricchia, and Edward Said. All three wrote Politically minded literary criticism during the 1980's and 1990's, decades that witnessed a broad-ranging attempt to roll back the change and turbulence associated with the 1960's. With regard to criticism, this attempt amounted to a challenge to literary theory, which was a radical way of thinking that crystallized in the 60's and early 70's and often carried revolutionary soci

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Woodward, Suzanne. "The androgynous ideal in twentieth-century feminist literature : Woolf, Carter, Winterson and Harpman." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9737.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>This thesis is an investigation of the concepts of androgyny used in the work, both theory and fiction, of Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson and Jacqueline Harpman. Androgyny is an idea which is thousands of years old, and an overview of its presence in religion, mythology and psychology is included as background to its representation in the work of these writers. The basic concept of androgyny in this context, is one in which the psychological aspects of 'masculine' and 'feminine', as generally understood by Western society, are synthesi

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Grant, C. B. "Literature as a form of social communication : literary theory and literary practice in the GDR in the Honecker era." Thesis, University of Bath, 1993. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.317954.

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Kyriakou, Poulheria. "Aristotle's "Poetics": its theoretical foundations and its reception in Hellenistic literary theory /." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487864485228575.

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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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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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Kolbas, Eugene Dean. "Politics and aesthetics of the literary canon : critical theory and the contemporary debate." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268878.

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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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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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Williamson, Margaret. "Some problems of literary theory considered with particular reference to the interpretation of Pindar." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.262562.

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au, t. tansley@murdoch edu, and Tangea Tansley. "Writing from the Shadowlands: How Cross-Cultural Literature Negotiates the Legacy of Edward Said." Murdoch University, 2004. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20041221.112154.

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This thesis examines the impact of Edward Saids influential work Orientalism and its legacy in respect of contemporary reading and writing across cultures. It also questions the legitimacy of Saids retrospective stereotyping of early examples of cross-cultural representation in literature as uncompromisingly orientalist. It is well known that the release of Edward Saids Orientalism in 1978 was responsible for the rise of a range of cultural and critical theories from multiculturalism to postcolonialism. It was a study that not only polarized critics and forced scholars to re-examine orie

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Casto, Andrew Christopher. "Reading Consciousness: Analyzing Literature through William James' Stream of Thought Theory." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32531.

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Proceeding from the assumption that psychoanalytic theory has yielded insightful literary interpretations, I propose that equally legitimate readings result from analyzing consciousness in literature. William Jamesâ â Stream of Thoughtâ offers a psychological theory of consciousness from which I develop a literary theory that counterbalances the Freudian emphasis on the unconscious. Examining two works by Henry James, I demonstrate how assessing the elements of a characterâ s consciousness leads to conclusions at which other theories do not arrive. This analytical approach leads to not o

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Haidar, Otared. "The prose poem and the journal Shi'r : a study of literature, literary theory and journalism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424887.

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Watson, Ken (Ken D. )., University of Western Sydney, and School of Education and Early Childhood Studies. "Documenting pedagogical change : the teaching of literature in NSW secondary schools, 1990-2001, with special reference to the teaching of Shakespeare." THESIS_XXX_EEC_Watson_K.xml, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/788.

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The teaching of literature in New South Wales secondary schools has shifted significantly in the period 1990-2001, influenced both by the newer literary theories and by the belated application to the teaching of Shakespeare of active approaches designed to encourage students to think dramatically, think theatrically when approaching playscripts. This essay explores the way in which the author's research papers and the pedagogical materials that they have generated have supported and indeed to some extent been instrumental in bringing about these changes. Beginning with an overview of literatur

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Brown, Leiza Renee. ""The thick dark current runs": As I Lay Dying -- A Multi-Theoretical Approach." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2008. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/9968.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>This dissertation focuses on one of the greatest, yet most problematic, novels in William Faulkner's canon. As I Lay Dying, Faulkner's self-proclaimed "tour de force," is a multilayered, multi-voiced text that leaves many critics wondering how to approach it, which has led to there being only a handful of full length critical texts devoted entirely to the book. The narrow approach used by most articles and critical texts leads to a necessarily cursory glance at the novel. The complexity of this narrative demands a multi-theoretical approach where no one theory is the primar

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Cordle, Daniel. "Literature and science writing in contemporary culture : the challenge to history in post-Enlightenment discourses of literature, science and literary theory." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34845.

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This thesis examines the relationship between literature and science in contemporary culture. Section one explores the histories of literature, science and literary theory, from the Enlightenment to the present day, charting the ways in which parallel developments take place in each field. This version of history is justified by an analysis of the canon of texts and ideas to which 'postmodern' discourses make reference in explaining their current status. This history also involves the replacement of a traditional model of the culture, in which literature and science stand in direct opposition

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Krasny, Karen A. "Imagery, affect, and the embodied mind: implications for reading and responding to literature." Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/3274.

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Since Plato first banished poets from his Republic, the relationship between the aesthetic and moral value of literature has been subject to philosophical, critical, and pedagogical debate. In this philosophical investigation, I sought to explain how the evocation of the senses during literary transactions shapes the phenomenal experience of the reader. Recent developments in neuroscience (Damasio, 1999, 2003; Edelman, 1992) provide strong evidence in support of embodied theories of cognition in which imagery and affect play a central role. The purposes of this philosophical investigation were

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Bonner, Sarah K. "Woolf's philosophy of literary subjectivity : Virginia Woolf's 'To the lighthouse' and Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist theory." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10091.

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Sartre's theory of existentialism is used as a lens to interpret Woolf's approach to literature as the philosophy of "literary subjectivity." The notion of subjectivity is explored within theoretical existentialism and then applied to Woolf's life and her moment of awakening to subjectivity. To the Lighthouse is examined theoretically and textually to demonstrate Woolf's philosophy of literary subjectivity.

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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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Francis, Conseula. "(Re)Making a difference : theorizing experience and racial individuality in twentieth century African American literature and literary theory /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9447.

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Wallace, Brendan. "The origins of British Modernism : a study of literary theory and practice from Walter Pater to Ezra Pound." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301510.

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Noriega-Rivero, Gerardo. "La carrera de Letras Inglesas en el cuidado editorial." Thesis, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64907.

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Budruweit, Kelly. "Believing in books: twenty-first century fantasy and the re-enchantment of literary value." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6378.

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This dissertation considers why fantasy has been so slow to be valued in literary circles, how those conditions are changing, and the implications of these changes for the broader topic of literary value. What makes literature worthy of study? It has become commonplace to observe, on the one hand, the increasing significance and ubiquity of cultural productions, and on the other hand, the waning significance of the humanities in higher education. Literary study, in particular, has seemed to be in danger of losing the basis for its justification. Over the last several decades, critique has beco

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Partyja, Jaclyn. "The Author’s Doppelgänger: Celebrity, Canonicity, and the Anxiety of the Literary Marketplace in the Contemporary Novel." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/401342.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>This dissertation investigates how and why contemporary canonical authors such as Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, J.M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie incorporate their celebrity and canonical status as authors into the fictional worlds of their novels. The contemporary celebrity author in general is at the mercy of a more globalized publication industry that depends on a circuit of international circulation, translation, and the diverse reactions of a transnational readership. More specifically, each of the authors I focus on in this dissertation have become notorious, both for

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Davis, Thomas A. "The evolution of literary theory towards a bio-cultural approach to literature through Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey /." Diss., Click here for available full-text of this thesis, 2006. http://library.wichita.edu/digitallibrary/etd/2006/t075.pdf.

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Davis, Thomas Arthur. "The evolution of literary theory: towards a bio-cultural approach to literature through Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/390.

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This thesis attempts to develop a synthesis of two traditionally conflicting epistemological approaches to literary theory and criticism. Over the past ten years, poststructuralist theory and the developing branch of cognitive and evolutionary literary theory have been at odds with one another. The overall purpose of this thesis strives to find a common ground between the two epistemological approaches to literature. In recent years, the emergence of a third epistemological position, situated between the two binary dichotomies, has sought to resolve the realist/relativist polemic through biocu

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Brewster, Hilary. "Rhetorical Narrative Theory: An Interpretive Framework for Literary Analysis in the High School English Classroom." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374061572.

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Mogoboya, Mphoto Johannes. "African indentity in Es'kia Mphahlele's autobiographical and fictional novels : a literary investigation." Thesis, University of Limpopo, Turfloop Campus, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/972.

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Thesis (Ph.D. (English studies)) -- University of Limpopo, 2011<br>This thesis explores the theme of identity in Es’kia Mpha-hele’s fictional and autobiographical novels, with special attention given to the quest for the lost identity of Afri-can cultural and philosophical integrity. In other words, the revival of the core African experience and the efforts to preserve and promote things African. Mphahlele wrote most of his novels during the time when Africa was under colonial influence. His native land was under the abhorred apartheid system which sought to relegate the African expe-rience to

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Leahy, Conor. "Rhetoric realigned : the development of poetic theory in English and Scottish writing, c.1470-1530." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/274929.

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This dissertation examines the evolution of poetic theory in English and Scottish writing between c.1470 and 1530. By examining important but neglected works by Stephen Hawes, Gavin Douglas, and Alexander Barclay, as well as influential poetry by Robert Henryson and John Skelton, it demonstrates that the contours and preoccupations of rhetorical poetics in England and Scotland emerged long before the appearance of such seminal works as Philip Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie (c.1580) and George Puttenham’s Arte of English Poesie (1589). The poets at the heart of this dissertation did not assert t

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Barlow, Lauren Nicole. "Criticism as Redemption: Jonathan Safran Foer's Theory of Meaning." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2123.

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Not long after the release of his first novel, Everything is Illuminated, critics and authors alike began showering Jonathan Safran Foer with both praise and disparagement for his postmodern style. Yet, this large body of criticism ignores the theoretical work taking place within Foer's fiction. This thesis attempts to fill this gap by highlighting specific aspects of Foer's theoretical work as it relates to the creation of meaning in a text and to explore what this work might imply for the broader literary community. Much of Foer's work toys with the capacity of language to express meaning, i

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Nutters, Daniel. "HENRY JAMES AND ROMANTIC REVISIONISM: THE QUEST FOR THE MAN OF IMAGINATION IN THE LATE WORK." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/440381.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>This study situates the late work of Henry James in the tradition of Romantic revisionism. In addition, it surveys the history of James criticism alongside the academic critique of Romantic-aesthetic ideology. I read The American Scene, the New York Edition Prefaces, and other late writings as a single text in which we see James refashion an identity by transforming the divisions or splits in the modern subject into the enabling condition for renewed creativity. In contrast to the Modernist myth of Henry James the master reproached by recent scholarship, I offer a new criti

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Odendaal, Dirk Hermanus 1954. "A hermeneutic description of a therapeutic interview using reader response concepts from literary theory." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007749.

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Certain approaches in the discipline Psychology, use the term narrative to describe how they work. Upon investigation one finds that the term narrative is seldom informed from Literary Theory, the background from which it originated. Instead, other disciplines that were also influenced by Literary Theory are invariably used as a means of cross fertilisation, e.g. the work of Geertz from an anthropologist background. Therapists make use of techniques described in the theories in an attempt to come to an understanding of the interactions in the therapy session. Some of the later theories emanati

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Ribeiro, Esio Macedo. "O riso escuro ou o pavão de luto: um percurso pela poesia de Lúcio Cardoso." Universidade de São Paulo, 2001. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-20092001-182623/.

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Este trabalho procura levantar os passos da obra poética de Lúcio Cardoso (1912-1968), desde seu provável primeiro poema (Poema do ferro e do sangue, 1934) até a publicação de seu segundo livro (Novas poesias, 1944), enfocando alguns inéditos e fazendo observações sobre seu livro póstumo (Poemas inéditos, 1982), com vistas a apreender a evolução temática de sua poética. Também apresenta traços do diálogo de sua poesia com o romantismo da segunda geração, o simbolismo, o expressionismo, o surrealismo e o modernismo. O trabalho pretende demonstrar, ainda, o entrelaçamento da temática de sua poét

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Ellis, Jason W. "Brains, Minds, and Computers in Literary and Science Fiction Neuronarratives." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1337654951.

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Gutt, Blake Ajax. "Rhizomes, parasites, folds and trees : systems of thought in medieval French and Catalan literary texts." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278413.

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This thesis investigates conceptual networks —systems of organising, understanding and explaining thought and knowledge— and the ways in which they underlie both text and its mise en page across a range of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century French and Catalan literary texts and their manuscript witnesses. Each of the three chapters explores a separate corpus of texts, using two of four interrelated network theories: Michel Serres’ notion of parasites and hosts as the basic interconnecting units that combine to constitute all relational networks; the ubiquitous organizational tree; Gilles Deleu

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