Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Newspapers in fiction'

This dissertation examines various texts that were published in Mexican newspapers during the Revolution (1910-1917) and attempts to determine to what extent the authors of those texts combined journalism with literary creativity as they wrote about the Revolution. The main argument is that many of the texts that appeared in newspapers during the 1910s and covered topics related to the Revolution displayed language, style, and structural elements similar to those found in the official literary narratives of the Mexican Revolution that emerged in the 1920s. The argument is founded on the understanding that sociopolitical and ideological changes in Mexican society, as well as the desire for a new national literature, led intellectuals to re-classify some of the texts that appeared in newspapers in the 1910s from journalism to literary works and adopted their stylistic and thematic elements for the new literature. This is evident in Mariano Azuela’s novel, Los de Abajo and Ricardo Flores Magón’s well-known short stories “Dos revolucionarios” and “El apóstol.” The theoretical framework of this study is informed by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, Tzvetan Todorov, and Juan Carlos Parazuelos that contend that the value of a narrative changes continuously in response to changes in the society that creates it. Furthermore, the study utilizes Anibal Gonzalez’ notion that there is a gray area between literary narrative and journalism and, therefore, narratives that fall inside the borders of journalism and literature can be classified as one or another or both depending how they interact with social elites, governments, and political affiliations. Finally, this study maintains that journalism, in combination with artistic expression, provided the foundations upon which the later narrative of the Revolution began its development. It was in the realm of journalism that the authors first applied the elements of brevity, direct speech, expressive, yet concise language, episodic narration, and emphasis on action over description and characterization that characterize the literature of the Mexican Revolution.

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The newspaper was the main support for the circulation of writing and dissemination of literary work in nineteenth - century Brasil. In view of this finding, this research was developed with the objective of investigating the circulation and dissemination of prose fiction in the newspapers of São Luís and de Caxias, in the First Cycle of Literature in Maranhão (1832-1868), considering the Maranhão political-social context and the possibility of the formation of a Literary System of Maranhão, in this textual form, in order to know better the History of Reading and Literature, in this state, in the nineteenth century. It is a study in primary source, since newspapers were used; As well as bibliographical, since books, journals, theses, dissertations and articles were also searched, involving qualitative and critical-analytical procedures. The theoretical foundation is based on Cultural History, History of Brazilian Literature, History of Maranhão Literature, History of Reading and History of Newspapers. As for Cultural History, the notions of practice, appropriation and representation, studied by Roger Chartier (2001; 2002; 2004, 2005; 2011), were followed, according to which literary objects are studied as a result of the cultural practices of an era. For the History of Brazilian Literature, we take as reference the texts of Antonio Candido (2012), regarding the Brazilian literary context, in the nineteenth century. In relation to the History of Maranhão Literature, the main basis was the essay by Antônio dos Reis Carvalho (1912), who presents this literature by canonical bias; Followed by the study of Ricardo André Ferreira Martins (2009), about newspapers as sources of this literature, but also valuing the canon. On the History of Reading and the Newspapers, the ideas of Socorro de Fátima Pacífico Barbosa (2007, 2005, 2013), Márcia Abreu (2007), Marisa Lajolo and Regina Zilberman (1996) and Marlyse Meyer (2005) were used. Specifically, regarding the Maranhão newspapers, the main references were the studies of Joaquim Serra (2001) and Quincas Vilaneto (2008).
O jornal era o principal suporte de circulação do escrito e de divulgação do trabalho literário no Brasil do século XIX, em vista dessa constatação, foi desenvolvida esta pesquisa, com o objetivo de investigar a circulação e a divulgação da prosa de ficção, nos jornais de São Luís e de Caxias, no Primeiro Ciclo da Literatura no Maranhão (1832-1868), considerando o contexto político-social maranhense e a possibilidade da formação de um Sistema Literário do Maranhão, nessa forma textual, a fim de que se conheça melhor a História de Leitura e da Literatura, nesse estado, no século XIX. Trata-se de um estudo em fonte primária, visto que foram utilizados jornais; bem como bibliográfico, uma vez que foram também pesquisados livros, revistas, teses, dissertações e artigos, envolvendo os procedimentos qualitativos e crítico-analítico. A fundamentação teórica é pautada na História Cultural, História da Literatura Brasileira, História da Literatura Maranhense, História da Leitura e História dos Jornais. Quanto à História Cultural, foram seguidas as noções de prática, apropriação e representação, estudadas por Roger Chartier (2001; 2002; 2004, 2005; 2011), segundo as quais os objetos literários são estudados como resultado das práticas culturais de uma época. Para a História da Literatura Brasileira, tomamos como referencial os textos de Antonio Candido (2012), a respeito do contexto literário brasileiro, no século XIX. Em relação à História da Literatura Maranhense, a principal base foi o ensaio de Antônio dos Reis Carvalho (1912), que apresenta essa literatura pelo viés canônico; seguido pelo estudo de Ricardo André Ferreira Martins (2009), a respeito dos jornais como fontes dessa literatura, mas também valorizando o cânone. Sobre a História da Leitura e dos Jornais serviram de apoio as ideias de Socorro de Fátima Pacífico Barbosa (2007, 2005, 2013), Márcia Abreu (2007), Marisa Lajolo e Regina Zilberman (1996) e Marlyse Meyer (2005). Especificamente, a respeito dos jornais maranhenses, as principais referências foram os estudos de Joaquim Serra (2001) e de Quincas Vilaneto (2008).

This thesis brings together eighteenth-century attitudes to the abduction of women portrayed by the law, by newspapers, and in fiction. I focus attention on the interest these different forms of narrative share in scrutinizing women’s behaviour and argue that the abduction plot is more important than its status as a stock literary convention would imply. Rather, it is a pliant, complex, and nuanced motif that allows writers the space to explore the difficult and contradictory position of women and attitudes to sexual relations. This thesis is divided into two parts. The first part comprises two chapters that look at abduction from an historical perspective. The first chapter examines the legal context of abduction as a criminal act and the second chapter examines the social context of ‘abduction’ as a euphemism for a sexual adventure. This part includes preliminary analysis of abduction plots in Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle (1788) and Ann Radcliffe’s The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story (1789). The second part comprises three chapters in which I read a range of novels for their abduction plots and scenes. Chapter three focusses on reviewing and on lesser known novels that are not widely read today. It examines the uneasy dialogue between novels and the way they were conveyed to readers. I argue that reviewing presents a discourse of aggression towards women. Chapter four considers abduction plots in domestic fiction focussing on a short story from Eliza Haywood’s The Female Spectator (1744-46), Samuel Richardson’s The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753-54), and Sarah Fielding’s The History of Ophelia (1760). Chapter five considers the gothic abduction plot in Frances Burney’s Camilla, or a Picture of Youth (1796), Charlotte Smith’s The Young Philosopher (1798) and Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest (1791). I take an historicist approach and underpin my analysis of fictional abduction plots with newspaper research that suggests ‘abduction’ had a meaning in social and cultural discourse that associated it with gossip and innuendo. This research demonstrates that newspapers played an important role in establishing the ambiguity of ‘abduction’ in the public consciousness. I argue that this journalistic discourse contributed to the suppression of abduction as a violent crime that endangered women. I suggest that the introduction of comprehensive reviewing created the space for a discourse of aggression to flourish. Many reviews are short, pithy comments criticising a novel as derivative, badly written, and immoral. I argue that a series of reviews appearing on a single page gives the impression that violence towards women is a normal everyday occurrence and abduction is a familiar hazard on the road to domestic felicity. I conclude that ‘abduction’ is a porous term in which disparate ideas – sexual aggression, violent crime, and euphemistic social commentary – are held in tension with each other. This tension enables a complex interpretation of what at first appears to be a simple narrative of violent male aggression and female culpability. The ambiguity this tension creates reveals the abduction plot as a versatile motif that challenges the social hierarchy and posits an alternative narrative for women.

No fim do século XIX, início do XX, começam a tomar forma grupos sociais nascidos das fímbrias de homens livres e pobres: são os remediados. Também denominados intermediários, esses grupos são os setores que migram para a cidade do Rio de Janeiro na passagem do século e iniciam o processo de ocupação das instituições do Estado. Ser remediado é condição suspensa, um estado indefinido cujas características, às vezes, só o próprio sujeito que se denomina como tal sabe quais são. Nesta tese, procuramos encontrar os remediados na literatura de Lima Barreto a fim de aproximar realidade de literatura: consideramos esta expressa aquela e contém as tensões históricas que cabem ao historiador explicitar. Para isso, recorremos à obra ficcional, às crônicas e aos artigos circunstanciais de Lima Barreto, cujas personagens foram selecionadas com base nessa situação de suspensão. Procuramos reconstruí-las e interpretá-las conforme a estrutura econômica, social e cultural do período. Lima Barreto foi um crítico desse processo, pois sua experiência histórica, de homem comum e escritor arguto oscilou nos limites entre ser pobre e remediado. Essa situação particular contribuiu para que o escritor percebesse as ideologias que enformavam a constituição desses grupos que circulavam na cidade do Rio de Janeiro.
In the late nineteenth century, early twentieth, certain social groups born in the fringe of free and poor men the remediados (neither rich nor poor) started to be constituted. Also called intermediate groups, they are people who migrated to the city of Rio de Janeiro at the turn of the century and begun occupying the state institutions. Being in these groups is to be in an undecided condition, an undefined state whose characteristics sometimes are known only by those ones who are in such condition. In this work we try to find out theses groups in Lima Barretos literature to see the extent to which fiction converges to reality and vice versa. In so doing, we consider that fiction expresses reality and contains those historical tensions whose explicitness falls into the historian work. To do so, we recur to the Lima Barretos fictional work, his newspaper/magazine chronicles and his circumstantial articles. We have chosen his fictional characters based on that situation of undecidedness and searched to rebuild and interpret them according to the economical, social, and cultural structure at the time. Because of his historical experience of a common man and sharp writer oscillated between the limits of being neither poor nor rich, Lima Barreto criticized this process. This condition helped him to perceive the ideologies that gave shape to the constitution of those social groups who circulated in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

This thesis explores women’s writing and its place in the formation of female film culture in the British silent cinema era. The project focuses upon women’s literary engagement with silent cinema as generative of a female film culture, looking at materials such as fan letters, fan magazines, popular novels, short story papers, novelizations, critical journals and newspaper criticism. Exploring this diverse range of women’s cinema writing, the thesis seeks to make an original contribution to feminist film historiography. Focusing upon the mediations between different kinds of women’s cinema writing, the thesis poses key questions about how the feminist film historian weights original sources in the reclamation of silent female film culture, relative to the varying degrees of cultural authority with which different women commentated upon, reflected upon, and creatively responded to film culture. The thesis moves away from conceptualization of cinema audiences and reception practices based upon textual readings. Instead, the thesis focuses upon evidence of women’s original accounts of their cinemagoing practices (fan letters) and their critical (newspaper and journal criticism) and creative (fiction writers) responses to cinema’s place in women’s everyday lives. Balancing original archival research with multiple overarching methodological frameworks—drawing upon fan theory, feminist reception theory, audience studies, social history and cultural studies—the thesis is attentive to the diversity of women’s experiences of cinema culture, and the literary conduits through which they channeled these experiences. Shifting the recent focus in feminist silent film historiography away from the reclamation of lost filmmaking female pioneers and towards lost female audiences, the thesis thus constructs a nationally specific account of British women’s silent era cinema culture.

This thesis focuses on a transformational but disregarded period in New Zealand’s twentieth century history, the era from the arrival of the Marines in 1942 to the arrival of Rock Around the Clock in 1956. It examines one of the chief agents in this metamorphosis: the impact of American culture. During this era the crucial conduits of that culture were movies, music and comics. The aims of my thesis are threefold: to explore how New Zealanders responded to this cultural trinity, determine the key features of their reactions and assess their significance. The perceived modernity and alterity of Hollywood movies, musical genres such as swing, and the content and presentation of American comics and ‘pulps’, became the sources of heated debate during the midcentury. Many New Zealanders admired what they perceived as the exuberance, variety and style of such American media. They also applauded the willingness of the cultural triptych to appropriate visual, textual and musical forms and styles without respect for the traditional classifications of cultural merit. Such perceived standards were based on the privileged judgements of cultural arbiters drawn from members of New Zealand’s educational and civic elites. Key figures within these elites insisted that American culture was ‘low’, inferior and commodified, threatening the dominance of a sacrosanct, traditional ‘high’culture. Many of them also maintained that these American cultural imports endangered both the traditionally British nature of our cultural heritage, and New Zealand’s distinctively ‘British’ identity. Many of these complaints enfolded deeper objections to American movies, music and literary forms exemplified by comics and pulps. Significant intellectual and civic figures portrayed these cultural modes as pernicious and malignant, because they were allegedly the product of malignant African-American, Jewish and capitalist sources, which threatened to poison the cultural and social values of New Zealanders, especially the young. In order to justify such attitudes, these influential cultural guardians portrayed the general public as an essentially immature, susceptible, unthinking and puritanical mass. Accordingly, this public, supposedly ignorant of the dangers posed by American culture, required the intervention and protection of members of this elite. Responses to these potent expressions of American culture provide focal points which both illuminate and reflect wider social, political and ideological controversies within midcentury New Zealand. Not only were these reactions part of a process of comprehension and negotiation of new aesthetic styles and media modes. They also represent an arena of public and intellectual contention whose significance has been neglected or under-valued. New Zealanders’ attitudes towards the new cinematic, literary and musical elements of American culture occurred within a rich and revealing socio-political and ideological context. When we comment on that culture we reveal significant features of our own national and cultural selves.

La tesi doctoral tracta sobre la producció cinematogràfica realitzada pel moviment anarcosindicalista a Barcelona durant la Guerra Civil espanyola (1936-1939). Un corpus total de vuitanta tres títols, malgrat a l'actualitat només es conserven quaranta i quatre cintes i no totes complertes.
La investigació està centrada en la recopilació i catalogació exhaustiva de tota la filmografia existent: reportatges de guerra, documentals de propaganda i pel·lícules de ficció. Se ha realitzat l'anàlisi de tots els films i s'ha elaborat una classificació cronològica i temàtica per establir una caracterització de la filmografia anarquista en els seus aspectes temàtics i estilístics. Finalment, s'ha fet una valoració del interès i la seva singularitat de en relació amb la cinematografia de la Guerra Civil.
La tesis doctoral trata sobre la producción cinematográfica realizada por el movimiento anarcosindicalista en Barcelona durante la Guerra Civil española (1936-1939). Un corpus total de ochenta y tres títulos, aunque en la actualidad sólo se conservan cuarenta y cuatro cintas, no todas ellas completas.
La investigación se centra en la recopilación y catalogación exhaustiva de toda la filmografía existente: reportajes de guerra, documentales de propaganda y películas de ficcción. Se ha realizado el análisis de todas las películas y se ha elaborado una clasificación cronológica y temática para poder establecer una caracterización de la filmografía anarquista en sus aspectos temáticos y estilísticos. Finalmente, se ha hecho una valoración sobre el interés y la singularidad de los filmes en relación con la cinematografía completa de la Guerra Civil.
The subject of this dissertation is the film production carried on by Anarcosindicalist movement in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). It represents a total of eighty three titles, but only forty are found today, and not all of them completed.
The investigation is centered in the recollection and exhaustive catalogation of the total existed filmography: war reports, propaganda documentaries and fiction films. The study includes an analysis of all the films and a chronological and thematic classification of the anarquiste filmography, in order to be able to establish its thematic and stylistic aspects. Finally, the dissertation also includes an evaluation of the interest and uniqueness of the films in relation to the total filmography produced during the Civil War.

碩士
東海大學
中國文學系
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Yao Yuan-Chu was born in Jiangu Songjiang, he was not only a novelist, but also a newspaper editor in different paper, such as Shum Pao（申報）, Republican Daily（民國日報）, chun sheng （春聲） and poet of Nan-She, which was the largest organization of literature and poetry during the late Qing Dynasty and the early period of the Republic of China,he played an important role in different area of the literature. 　　Despite his great quantity of creation in the literature, his work has not been taken seriously. In this thesis, different terms of methods were applied, including the Theories of the Press, Sociology of Literature and Narratology. There are four points in this thesis,besides introduction and conclusion. 　　First, focus on analyzing the writer’s biography and discover the background of his writing. In order to find out what impact Yao’s Literary creation, the Literati circle theory was utilized. 　　Second, to discuss Yao’s works which were published in newspapers and those he was edited in this paragraph is the major point , by positioning his importance in both area of newspaper and magazine can clarify different characteristics in his work. 　　Third, though my study, it can conclude that Yao’s fiction mostly using the method of romance. Though Narratological to study angle, characteristic , time, place to conclude his fiction’s ending. 　　Fourth, according to my study, it shows that Yao’s ideal of writing types was not just Romance, but others, that is Social, martial arts, detective, educational. His factual social fictions covered his and his friends’ growing histories. His martial arts and chivalry fiction redefined the spirit of the knight-errant compare to the Chinese traditional character. His detective fictions used diary as clue and focused on logical reasoning. His educational fiction focus on the importance of education. These various materials of fiction show the richness of the writer’s creativity.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2004.
Advisor: Virgil Suarez, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 6, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 204 pages.

In Marked Men: Sport and Masculinity in Victorian Popular Culture, 1866-1904 I examine the representation of the figure of the Victorian sportsman in different areas of nineteenth-century popular culture – newspapers, spectacular melodrama, and series detective fiction – and how these depictions register diverse incarnations of this figure, demonstrating a discomfort with, and anxiety about, the way in which the sporting experience after the Industrial Revolution influenced gender ideology, specifically that related to ideas of manliness. Far from simply celebrating the modern experience of sport as one that works to produce manly men, coverage in the Victorian press of sporting events such as the 1869 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race, spectacular melodramas by Dion Boucicault, and series detective fiction by Arthur Conan Doyle and Arthur Morrison, all recognize that the relationship between men and modern sport is a complex, if fraught one; it produces men who are “marked” in a variety of ways by their sporting experience. This recognition is at the heart of our own understandings of this relationship in the twenty-first century.
Thesis (Ph.D, English) -- Queen's University, 2012-08-01 15:16:09.384

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1988.
Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 404-413).

PhD - Arts
Popular fiction columns have been among the most resilient and versatile of the newspaper sub-genres in Kenya. Since the 1970s, these columns have remained a permanent feature in the Kenyan newspapers. Among the most popular of these columns is Whispers, a satirical column written by one of Kenya’s most talented writers of the 1980s—90s decades, Wahome Mutahi. At a time when the state had all but monopolised public sites of expression in the country, Whispers kept the Kenyan popular media porous, opening up spaces for the discussion of social and political issues that could only be ‘whispered’. This study gives a detailed discussion of this column against the historical dynamics of post-independence Kenya. I examine how Whispers became a public space where Kenya’s postcolonial existence, in its many contradictory faces was constantly interrogated. I argue that this column provided its readers certain ‘moments of freedom’; it was a site where the limits of social and political taboos were boldly tested. In Whispers, people could heartily laugh at authority, and at themselves, but ultimately reflect on the reasons for their laughter. By providing such a space for self-reflection and for the critique of society, I argue that the Kenyan newspaper became an important site of cultural production especially in the 1980s through the 1990s. The introductory parts of this thesis attempt a theorisation of the ‘popular’ and later trace the emergence of popular fiction as a category of critical literary exegesis in Kenya. I examine the beginnings and growth of popular fiction, focusing mainly on the role of the popular press. The median chapters examine how the Kenyan newspaper provides the space within which popular fiction interfaces with journalism to constitute ‘publics’, by drawing on popular cultural resources to mediate contemporary and topical issues. The thesis gives a detailed reading of the cultural forms that offer subject populations interpretive frameworks within which to make sense of their world. The last part of the thesis continues this discussion with an analysis of how the ‘popular’ mediates questions of power in postcolonial Kenya.

FENCLOVÁ, Anna. Principy zatraktivňování současné české beletrie ve vybraných denících a jejich online verzích. Praha, 2021. 84 s. Diplomová práce (Mgr.). Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, Institut komunikačních studií a žurnalistiky FSV UK. Katedra Mediálních studií. Vedoucí diplomové práce prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. Abstract This diploma thesis deals with the reports on the contemporary Czech fiction in selected Czech print and online media. In particular, it seeks to find the main principles of making articles about the new Czech fiction more attractive in selected serious daily newspapers (Právo, Mladá fronta DNES, Lidové noviny, Hospodářské noviny, Metro) and their online versions (novinky.cz, iDNES.cz, lidovky.cz, iHNed.cz, metro.cz and aktuálně.cz). The first, theoretical part is explaining and mapping the state of Czech literature, media and their interconnectedness and the basic concepts relating directly to the topic are explained here. The second part focuses on the quantitative content analysis, which answers questions about the number of articles related to contemporary Czech fiction in the selected media during the two months in 2020 (February 2020 and November 2020). Subsequently, a qualitative content analysis of articles published by the selected media is described. The...