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Svensson, Johan. "Neural Correlates of Pleasure : A Review of the Neuroscientific Literature of Pleasure." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-9890.
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Pleasure is part of hedonic well-being, with roots back to Epicurus 2000 years ago. With the new evolving neuroscientific methods of the late 20th and beginning of the 21st century, we are now able to study the biological components of pleasure. This thesis aims to review empirical studies on the neural correlates of pleasure, which can have important implications for well-being, and treatment of addiction and affective disorders. Recent studies have suggested that pleasure can be separated into coding and causing. Discoveries show that causing of pleasure is created in so called hedonic hot spots, areas of the brain that intensely creates pleasure in the shell of nucleus accumbens and in the ventral pallidum. Areas that codes pleasure on the other hand is represented into more cortical areas of the brain, including orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex and anterior insular cortex. There has been a growing understanding about how pleasure is represented in the brain, and a discussion on interpretations and limitations are provided followed by future research suggestions in the final section.
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Davis, Sara Elizabeth. "Food and Pleasure in Modern American Literature." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/407544.
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English<br>Ph.D.<br>Food and Pleasure in Modern American Literature is a study of the dynamics of pleasure in literary scenes of food, eating, and hungering in American poetry and novels from the early 20th century to the present. From infamous poetic instances of plums and memorialized moveable feasts in the early twentieth century to present-day preoccupations with overdetermined foods and bodies, food scenes in literature help develop character, play out cultural or social dynamics, or dramatize appetite and desire. In many instances, pleasure (or its absence) is what gives such scenes weight and dimension. I apply tools and concepts from both structuralism and phenomenology to explore the tensions between seemingly opposing ideas introduced in food-focused texts, which have been selected from a broad range of genres and eras. Chapters 2 through 6 focus specifically on poetry, which offers the opportunity to explore specific structuralist and phenomenological concepts within the space of a few lines, for closer attention. Chapters 7 through 10 examine fiction and non-fiction prose at lengths which permit many more layers of conflict and desire in regard to food and pleasure. The culminating chapters examine contemporary food writing and recent novels that shed light on the food issues of the present day.<br>Temple University--Theses
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Mizukoshi, Ayumi. "Keats, Hunt and the aesthetics of pleasure." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363626.
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Ruberg, Bonnie. "Pixel Whipped| Pain, Pleasure, and Media." Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3733365.
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<p> At a time when technology seems increasingly poised to render the material realities of its users obsolete, putting the body back into digital media has become a matter of pressing social significance. Scholars like Lisa Nakamura have written compellingly about the importance of attending to the embodied identities of those who sit behind the screen: a crucial step toward disrupting the systems of inequality that characterize much of twenty-first-century Western digital culture. Similarly dedicated to issues of social justice, this project argues for turning attention to another essential element of the relationship between technology and the body: how digital media makes users feel. Far from being disembodied, digital tools have become crucial platforms for expressions of selfhood and desire. Yet, on a phenomenological level, virtual experiences also have a surprising capacity to directly affect the real, physical body. To demonstrate this, this project maps a network of key examples that illustrate how pain and pleasure—commonly imagined as the most embodied sensations—have in fact been brought to life through a range of media forms. </p><p> Beginning with the novels of the Marquis de Sade, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and Pauline Réage, this project contends that concepts of sadomasochism and literature have evolved side by side for more than two centuries. Moving from textual to visual forms, the project turns to Pier Pasolini’s <i> Salò,</i> a film that notoriously “hurts to watch,” to investigate the intersection of violence, complicity, and viewership. Next, the project moves into the digital realm, offering a reading of the erotic power exchange that drives video-game interactivity. In the final chapter, the project explores digital BDSM: practices of bondage, discipline, sadism, and masochism that take place entirely in virtual spaces. Across these chapters, the project argues for the value of “kink” as a critical lens, much like the “queerness” in queer studies, which underscores the cultural and personal significance of experiences that hurt. Together, the works and cultures considered here bring much-needed attention to the place of non-normative desires in media, both digital and non-digital. They also serve to productively challenge the perceived divide between the “virtual” and the “real.”</p>
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Mizukoshi, Ayumi. "Keats, Hunt and the aesthetics of pleasure." Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York : Palgrave, 2001. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol051/00048339.html.
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Russell, Daniel Charles. "Plato on pleasure and our final end." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289169.
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The task of this dissertation is to answer the question, "Of all the parts of the best whole life, where, according to Plato, does pleasure fit in?" While Plato believes that pleasure is neither the good nor a good, he nonetheless believes that pleasure does have an important place in the good life. In the dissertation, I show what this "important place" is. For Plato, although pleasure is not a good it has value inasmuch as it both reflects an agent's commitment to virtue and reinforces it. I develop this evaluation of pleasure, and amplify it in two connected ways. First, I show how this evaluation of pleasure is related to Plato's conception of the human good, or "final end," which for Plato is to "become like God." I argue that "becoming like God" is for Plato an especially illuminating way of understanding the virtuous life, which both explains why pleasure cannot be a good and shows more clearly how pleasure is related to virtuous activity: a fundamental part of virtue is the proper harmonization of pleasure with reason. Hence pleasure is a part of the life of virtue, because pleasure is a part of virtuous activity itself. Second, I locate Plato's evaluation of pleasure within his moral psychology. Plato's ethical evaluation of pleasure seeks to make pleasure something transformed by virtue. However, in order for pleasure so to be transformed by virtue, it must be in harmony and agreement with virtue. But in Plato's moral psychology the capacities in virtue of which the soul experiences pleasure are not able to agree with virtue, but must be merely controlled or contained by it. Consequently, this tension in Plato's moral psychology places a severe limit on Plato's attempts to provide a more satisfying account of the place of pleasure in the good life.
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Lawrie, Alexandra Patricia Duff. "Pedagogy, prejudice, and pleasure : extramural instruction in English literature, 1885-1910." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7727.
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This thesis considers the teaching of English literature within extramural organisations for adults in England between 1885 and 1910. This challenges the assumption that the beginnings of English as a tertiary-level academic subject can be traced back only as far as the foundation of the Oxford English School at the end of the nineteenth century; in fact extramural English courses had been flourishing for decades before this, and these reached their zenith in the final years before it was introduced at Oxbridge. Oxford created an Honours School of English in 1894, and the Cambridge English Tripos was established in 1917; in ideological terms, such developments were of course crucial, yet it has too often been the case that the extramural literary teaching being conducted contemporaneously has been sidelined in studies of the period. My first chapter will consider the development of English in various institutional and non-institutional environments before 1885, including Edinburgh University, Dissenting Academies, and Mechanics’ Institutes. Thereafter I will explore the campaign, led by University Extension lecturer John Churton Collins, to incorporate English literature as an honours degree at Oxford. Focusing on the period between 1885 and 1891, this second chapter will assess the veracity of some of Collins’s most vehement claims regarding the apparently low critical and pedagogical standards in existence at the time, which he felt could only be improved if Oxford would agree to institutionalise the subject, and thereby raise the standard of teaching more generally. Collins’s campaign enjoyed more success when he drew attention to the scholarly teaching available within the University Extension Movement; my third chapter is underpinned by research and analysis of previously unexplored material at the archives of London University, such as syllabuses, examination papers, and lecturers’ reports. I examine the way in which English literature, the most popular subject among Extension students, was actually being taught outside the universities while still excluded from Oxbridge. Thereafter my penultimate chapter focuses on an extramural reading group formed by Cambridge Extension lecturer Richard G. Moulton. This section considers Moulton’s formulation of an innovative mode of literary interpretation, tailored specifically to suit the abilities of extramural students, and which also lent itself particularly to the study of novels. Uncollected T. P.’s Weekly articles written by Arnold Bennett highlight the emphasis that he placed on pleasure, rather than scholarship. My final chapter considers Bennett’s self-imposed demarcation from the more serious extramural pedagogues of literature, such as Collins and Moulton, and his extraordinary impact on Edwardian reading habits. A brief coda will compare the findings of the 1921 “Newbolt Report” with my own assessment of fin-de-siècle extramural education.
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Fu, Luella. "Tragic Pleasure in Shakespeare's King Lear and Othello." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/57.
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This thesis is an examination of reader or audience response to Shakespeare’s tragedies. Primarily, it identifies key pleasures that Shakespeare’s King Lear and Othello offer. The complementary nature of these two plays is such that the analysis of their various pleasures allows for an in-depth treatment of the topic and also reflects the diversity of emotional response elicited by Shakespeare’s tragedies. The kinds of pleasure addressed in this study are catharsis as explained by Aristotle, the delight of violent passion as advocated by DuBos, pleasure from details in the work, satisfaction from the coherence of the tragedy, and pleasure in the idealization of tragedy.
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Wilson, Emma Fiona. "The pain of the pleasure of the text : Tournier, reading and sexuality." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/265402.
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This dissertation is concerned with relations between fiction and desire, and reading and pleasure, in sorne works of Michel Tournier. It discusses the contiguity between the often sexual imagery of Tournier's theoretical texts and the obsessions of his novels. Throughout the dissertation there is a double emphasis: on textuality and sexuality. Textuality in Tournier is rendered tense and sentient as the writer tries to inscribe his texts in the pain and pleasure of the flesh of the reader. Sexuality, conversely, takes on a metatextual value where desire is read in terms of a metaphor of fictional seduction. My aim is to deconstruct the double binds and duplicity inherent in Tournier's games of reflection and his play with the reader. The first chapter analyses Tournier's writing on reception with reference to the construction of gender positions and of sexual metaphors. Barthes, Cixous and others are cited as examples of theorists offering alternative eroticized scenarios which re-orient power relations between writer and reader. The next five chapters discuss representations of sexuality in specific texts and the troubling involvement of the reader in desiring relations. Two chapters are devoted to childhood sexuality and paedophilia. In these I consider issues of initiation, idealization and detournement. de majeur in Tournier's contes; and I raise questions of decoding in the case of the rape of the pre-pubescent Martine in Le Roi des aulnes, while also presenting child seduction in the same novel as a charged metaphor for Fascism. Readings of 'Lucie ou La femme sans ombre' in the fourth chapter lead into a discussion of the 'phallic mother' and fetishism in Tournier's fiction. In the fifth chapter I examine Tournier's creation of a desiring reader and (gay) reader of desire in Les Meteores. Finally, in the last chapter, I focus on Tournier's own self-imaging in terms of his quest for a double, in the form of his reader. More generally, illusion, instability and the imaginary can be seen as inhabiting the borders between textuality and sexuality: so, while this thesis looks at Tournier's works, it inevitably discusses other texts too, and ends by suggesting further analyses of reading, gender and desire.
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Fogelström, Christoffer. "The bildung of Fanny Hill : John Cleland's Memoirs of a woman of Pleasure." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-13573.
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This essay explores the concept of the bildungsroman in relation to the first pornographic novel, John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. The main protagonist and her bildung is described through the different roles she takes on as the novel progresses. The writer argues that the bildung she receives is mainly focused on sex and more specifically, that one should achieve pleasure in moderation. The bildung also deals with matters pertaining to love and relationships. A historical perspective is used discussing gender roles, the one-sex model versus the two-sex model, libertine ideology and the language use of the writer. The essay does not solve the multi-faceted mystery that is John Cleland, but does further our understanding of the writer and of pornography in the period.
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Pereira, Katia Silva. "The sublime and its different perspective in the gothic literature." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2015. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=9033.
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O objetivo da presente dissertação consiste em analisar o sublime, um conceito estético que vem sendo estudado desde os primeiros séculos. Tomamos como base a definição do sublime como algo paradoxal que cria o prazer e o medo ao mesmo tempo. Porém, o sublime apresenta especificidades que variam de acordo com o filósofo analisado. Neste trabalho, três críticos foram estudados: Longinus, Edmund Burke e Immanuel Kant. Assim, o sublime pode ser representado através da imensidão da natureza, do poder de uma criatura sobrenatural ou, até mesmo, através da sexualidade feminina. E, com o intuito de exemplificar essas diferentes perspectivas do sublime, buscamos obras da Literatura Gótica. Sendo esta uma vertente literária que buscava a oposição ao racionalismo trazido pelo movimento iluminista, as características sublimes foram essenciais para enfatizar a emoção. Para tal exemplificação, utilizamos trechos de dois romances góticos dos séculos XVIII e XIX, respectivamente: The Monk escrito por Matthew Lewis e Dracula escrito por Bram Stoker<br>The objective of the present work is to analyze the sublime, an aesthetic concept which several theorists have been studying since the first centuries. Taking into consideration a definition which considers the sublime as something paradoxical raising pleasure and pain at the same time. However, there are some specificties which vary according to the philosopher being analyzed. This work deals with three of them: Longinus, Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant. So, the sublime can be represented by the vastness of nature, the power of a supernatural creature or, even, by the female sexuality. And, in order to exemplify these different perspectives of the sublime, we chose important novels in the Gothic literature. Since this type of fiction is aimed at opposing to the rationality brought by the Enlightenment, the sublime characteristics were essential to emphasize emotions. In order to exemplify this, two gothic novels were taken into consideration: The Monk written by Matthew Lewis in the 18th century and Dracula by Bram Stoker in the 19th century
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Troyer, Margaret E. ""Stuff You Really Want to Read:" Pleasure and Negotiation in Teen Magazine Reading." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1411379673.
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Holland, Anika R. "Grokking Gender: Understanding Sexual Pleasure & Empathy in 1960s Science Fiction." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1492389983184444.
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Jack, Rosemary. "The power and pleasure of women's laughter : an exploration of the use of humour in contemporary fiction written by women." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249815.
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Reisberg, Mira. "An A/r/tographic study of multicultural children's book artists : developing a place-based pedagogy of pleasure." Online access for everyone, 2006. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Summer2006/m%5Freisberg%5F062206.pdf.
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Roma, Stoll Rebecca Evonne. "The aesthetic pleasures of pain, 1688-1805." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6258.
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My dissertation examines how representations of physical and mental suffering in literary texts reveal paradoxes in the structure of sympathy that remain under-explored by literary scholars. In the philosophical thought of Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith, sympathy was a feature of the "moral sense," an aesthetic intuition that, with proper training, could compel individuals to act ethically in society. However, because sympathy allowed individuals to feel the experiences of others, not just through the imagination, but in connection with the body itself, the motivation for sympathizing with pain presented a significant problem for Enlightenment philosophy. Largely divested of its religious contexts, pain was increasingly classified as a mechanism that registered distress or pathology in the body, and as an experience that human beings instinctively avoid. Terry Eagleton, Adela Pinch, and G. J. Barker-Benfield, among others, have analyzed sympathy and the culture of sentimentality in terms of their moral relativism, derivative emotionality, and regulatory influence on gendered behavior and social norms. My dissertation makes a needed contribution to the field by focusing on the ways pain reveals structural contradictions in sympathy's claim to penetrate the boundaries of subjective experience, an experience that was becoming "buffered"-- to use Charles Taylor's term -- from the influence of others.
Each chapter of my dissertation positions a landmark text--Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688), Samuel Richardson's Clarissa (1748), Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), and William Wordsworth's The Prelude (1805) -- within the context of Enlightenment moral sense philosophy to highlight the intentional and unintentional ways literary authors modified philosophical formulations of sympathy to create the ethically complex pleasure of sympathizing with the pain of others. Because the concepts of pain and subjectivity were taking on modern shapes in these texts, literary critics must reconsider how ethical claims were made by the aesthetic practice of connecting representations of pain with the pleasure of sympathizing. Globalized media are bringing increasingly distant experiences of pain to our attention in increasingly intimate ways. These technologies can be invaluable for promoting a sense of social responsibility for the pain of even the most distant others, but only if we hold ourselves accountable for how and why we look.
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Tavela, Maria Cristina Weitzel. "Letramento literário no ensino médio: análise das experiências de ensino de literatura no Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII, da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2013. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/1009.
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Previous issue date: 2013-10-04<br>Este estudo buscou desenvolver uma pesquisa acadêmica acerca da formação de leitores literários – o que, como, quando, onde e por que leem textos literários – considerando um grupo de 50 alunos do ensino médio do Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII, da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. De maneira a analisar as experiências de ensino de literatura nessa escola, também foram selecionados 3 professores de literatura do ensino médio. As questões levantadas neste estudo se referem à formação literária dos jovens, às dificuldades encontradas na leitura do texto literário, aos motivos que os levam a escolher os best-sellers e não os textos literários clássicos, à relação atual dos jovens com a leitura de uma maneira geral, à escolha dos textos literários pelos professores (como é feita e que critérios utiliza), ao papel do professor na formação de leitores literários, entre outras. Para isso, optou-se por uma pesquisa qualitativa do tipo etnográfico, em que foram utilizadas observações, entrevistas, análise de documentos e gravações em áudio. Sendo a leitura uma preocupação que vai além da escola, é dela, ainda, que se espera a formação de um leitor que não apenas compreenda o texto lido, mas que goste de ler e mantenha frequência na leitura. É nossa hipótese que a investigação teórica e a pesquisa sobre o ensino de literatura possam otimizar metodologias e estratégias alternativas capazes de atrair e despertar, nos jovens leitores, o gosto e a fruição para a boa literatura.<br>This study aimed at developing an academic research on the process of growing literary text readers – what,how,when,where and why they read literary texts—with a group of fifty high school students from Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII, from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. As a way to analyze the experience of teaching literature at school, three Literature teachers were chosen. The questions which were raised in this study refer to the students’ literary background, to the difficulties they face to read this kind of text, to the reasons which lead them to choose the best-sellers instead of the classic literature, to the current relation between the youth and reading itself, to the literary text choices made by the teachers (how it is done and which criteria are used for the selection), to the teachers’ role in the process, among other relevant ones. For the research, it was used the qualitative research method, on its ethnographic branch, and observations, interviews, document analysis and audio records were implemented all through the study. Even thought the process of reading is a goal that goes beyond the school time, it is at the school itself that it is expected the development of strategies and attitudes which help the reader to do better than understanding the text he reads but also increasing his pleasure on reading and his doing the reading as a frequent activity. We understand that the theoretical investigation and the research on literature teaching can help to optimize it deeply.
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Walker, Judith Elaine. "'To amaze the people with pleasure and delight' : an analysis of the horsemanship manuals of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle (1593-1676)." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2005. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5920/.
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'To Amaze the People with Pleasure and Delight': an analysis of the horsemanship manuals of William Cavendish, the first Duke of Newcastle (1593-1676). William Cavendish published two horsemanship manuals in 1658 and 1667, setting out his method for the noble art of the riding house. This thesis argues that within the canon of Newcastle's writing, his horsemanship manuals are key texts, offering insights into his writing practice, personal philosophy and motivation. To understand the importance of the manuals in their cultural context, Newcastle's contribution to the development of riding as an art is considered, with particular reference to the way in which his attitude towards other authors influenced each manual. A detailed examination of the technical aspects of the manuals illustrates that to ignore the method in favour of the historical and political material is to overlook a vital element. Newcastle's understanding of the horse's mind is a key to his approach, therefore this study argues that his royalist ideologies are supported and paralleled through his treatment and expectation of his horses. The engraved plates that illustrate the first manual are analysed as multi-layered images, offering a notional journey through his estates. The thesis will conclude with consideration of near-contemporary responses to Newcastle's work and argue that the manuals' importance to his own self actualisation and emotional security is written as much into the practicalities of the method as the theatricalities of its presentation.
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Pépin, Elsa. "Agréable désordre? : le domaine du plaisir dans deux romans de Prévost." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83138.
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The objective of this thesis is to analyse the evolution of the concept of pleasure in the literature and the history of ideas of the beginning of the 18th Century in France, through the study of the upheaval of sensibility carried out by Prevost's worried hedonism. In order to better understand the progressive transition of the semantic and lexicological concept of pleasure in the theoritical literature, we examine the philosophical and moral treaties on pleasure as well as the definitions found in the dictionnaires of the time. The study then focuses on two novels by Prevost: L'Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut and L'Histoire d'une Grecque moderne. These novels stage two experiences of pleasure which contribute to shape a new architecture of man characterised by instability and inconsistance. Prevost's hedonism redefines the position of the social, moral and psychological being according to certain features which lead to a particular aesthetic of disharmony.
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Fardin, Gabriela. "A construção das memórias íntimas de uma personagem feminina em "Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure", de John Cleland, e na peça "The Life and Times of Fanny Hill", de April de Angelis : aproximações e distanciamentos /." São José do Rio Preto, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/181109.
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Orientador: Peter James Harris<br>Banca: Márcio Scheel<br>Banca: Flávia Andrea Rodrigues Benfatti<br>Resumo: Este trabalho realiza uma leitura crítica da primeira obra erótica publicada em língua inglesa, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748-49), que conta as aventuras de uma jovem prostituta, e a adaptação teatral da autora feminista April de Angelis: The Life and Times of Fanny Hill (1996), que relata os processos pelos quais Fanny Hill, uma prostituta mais velha, enfrenta ao escrever um livro encomendado. Além da análise das duas obras, este estudo apresenta uma comparação direta entre o romance e a peça, utilizando como ponto de partida para a reflexão o modo como cada uma das histórias foram contadas ao leitor, a escolha linguística dos autores, a maneira como a temática sexual foi tratada por Cleland e por Angelis e a construção das duas personagens, tão próximas e tão distantes entre si<br>Abstract: This paper makes a critical reading of the first erotic book published in English, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748-49), which tells the adventures of a young prostitute, and the theatrical adaptation of feminist author April de Angelis: The Life and Times of Fanny Hill (1996), which chronicles the processes Fanny Hill, an older prostitute, faces in writing a commissioned book. In addition to the analysis of the two works, this study presents a direct comparison between the novel and the play, using as a starting point for reflection how each of the stories were told to the reader, the linguistic choice of the authors, the form sexual themes were treated by Cleland and Angelis, and the construction of the two characters, so close and so far apart<br>Mestre
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Lönnroth, Sandra. "Female Eyes on Gay Guys : A study of female fans and their relation to slash fan fiction." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-68543.
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This paper takes a look at the phenomenon slash fan fiction. Slash is a genre which often focuses on romantic and sexual relationships between same-sex characters, most of whom are men. It is not unusual that these characters are not homosexual in their original stories. The objective of this paper is to study why some women read and write slash fan fiction, with the focus on slash as a source of pleasure and as a source of identification. While the methodology employed is empirical, the theoretical framework consists of Henry Jenkins and Shoshanna Green as the main researchers on fandom and slash, and queer theory with Judith Butler as the main source. This is a rather small study, consisting of interviews with only four women. The findings suggest that the participants at times do identify with the different characters in slash stories, however they do more frequently take pleasure in just being a bystander and being able to experiment with the gender stereotypes regarding men.
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Koch, Cassandra M. "The impact of age on intermediate students' self-selection of literature." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1300319511.
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Prawitz, Susanna. "Det läsundvikande barnets tankar om att läsa skönlitteratur i skolan. : En studie om läsmotivation, läslust och hur litteraturen påverkar barns utveckling." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-55411.
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Syftet med detta arbete är att få reda på vad som kan skapa motivation att läsa skönlitteratur i skolan för elever som saknar motivation att läsa. Det handlar om elever som inte har problem med sin läsförmåga utan att de inte har någon lust att läsa. Jag vill även ta reda på om de förstår syftet med att läsa skönlitteratur i skolan. Jag tar upp vad tidigare forskning säger om läsmotivation och hur vi påverkas och utvecklas genom att läsa skönlitteratur i skolan och i hemmet under barndomen. För att få en bättre bild av läsundvikarnas attityd till läsning har jag intervjuat fem elever som saknar motivation att läsa. Jag har i min studie kommit fram till att tiden och upplägget för undervisningen är av stor vikt när det gäller litteraturläsning. Läsning måste ha ett syfte som är förståeligt för eleverna. Lärare måste därför ge alla elever mer tid att läsa och mer tid för att hjälpa dem att hitta rätt böcker för att de ska känna lusten och nöjet att läsa.<br>The purpose with this work is to find out what can create motivation to read fiction in school for students without motivation to read. It’s about students who don’t have problems with their reading skills, but they don’t have the pleasure to read. I also want to find out if they understand the purpose of reading fiction in school. I study what previous research says about reading motivation and how we are influenced and developed by reading in school and at home during childhood. To get a better picture of what attitude the students that I call read avoiders have towards reading, I have interviewed five students who have no motivation to read. In my study, I have come to the conclusion that the time and structure of teaching is of great importance in reading literature. Reading must have a purpose that is understandable to the students. Teachers must therefore provide all students with more time to read and more time to help them to find the right books to make them feel the desire and the pleasure of reading.
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Oliveira, Jo?o Daniel Guimar?es. "Sem Pen?lopes ? espera: uma leitura da Pornopop?ia, de Reinaldo Moraes." Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, 2015. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/477.
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Previous issue date: 2015-12-16<br>This study performs a reading of Pornopop?ia (2009), the romance wrote by Reinaldo Moraes, borned in S?o Paulo. In my analysis, I try to identify the manifestations of street smarts and cynicism present in Zeca figure, the protagonist. In the erotic and irresponsible adventure of romance, this guy of metropolis finds himself at the mercy of consumerism and moral vacuum. The individualism and the hero's hedonism, mostly geared toward to the enjoyment, are the result of the logic of a society where the consumer is not a subject but its object. Zeca integrates a particular line of characters that possibly originated in Spain with so-called picaresque novels. Such a line had in Manuel Antonio de Almeida a pioneer in Brazil, with the book Mem?rias de um sargento de mil?cias, in which the author, though inheriting characteristics of the Spanish rogue, absorbs the folk style of local historical figures like Peter Malasartes, creating, so in Leonardo (protagonist of Mem?rias), the prototype of the Brazilian trickster. While in the first chapter i select some individuals who, given their representation throughout history, would be formative parts for the creation of Zeca, in the second i choose for bringing literary examples listed as examples of the types listed in the previous chapter, as well as notabilizam themselves while Reinaldo Moraes' precursors. In the third chapter I dwell on the text and develop my reading from three directions: the Zeca relations with pleasure, with morality and with the void. Therefore, reflect, in this dissertation, on the possible belonging of this character, given its sharp bend to the marginal and peripheral zone.<br>O presente trabalho realiza uma leitura da Pornopop?ia (2009), romance do escritor paulista Reinaldo Moraes. Em minha an?lise, busco identificar as manifesta??es da malandragem e do cinismo presentes na figura de Zeca, o protagonista. Na aventura er?tica e irrespons?vel do romance, esse indiv?duo da urbe se v? ? merc? do consumismo e do vazio moral. O individualismo e o hedonismo do her?i, majoritariamente voltados para o gozo, s?o frutos da l?gica de uma sociedade para a qual o consumidor n?o ? o sujeito, mas seu objeto. Zeca integra uma linha particular de personagens que possivelmente originou-se na Espanha com os chamados romances picarescos. Tal linha teve em Manuel Antonio de Almeida seu pioneirismo aqui no Brasil, com a obra Mem?rias de um sargento de mil?cias, na qual o autor, embora herdando caracter?sticas do p?caro espanhol, absorve o estilo folcl?rico de figuras hist?ricas locais como Pedro Malasartes, criando, assim, em Leonardo (protagonista das Mem?rias), o prot?tipo do malandro brasileiro. Enquanto no primeiro cap?tulo elenco alguns sujeitos que, dada a sua representatividade ao longo da hist?ria, seriam pe?as formativas para a cria??o de Zeca, no segundo opto por trazer exemplos liter?rios que figuram como exemplos dos tipos listados no cap?tulo anterior, bem como notabilizam-se enquanto precursores de Reinaldo Moraes. No terceiro cap?tulo me debru?o sobre o texto e desenvolvo minha leitura a partir de tr?s dire??es: as rela??es de Zeca com o prazer, com a moral e com o vazio. Assim sendo, reflito, nesta disserta??o, acerca do poss?vel pertencimento desta personagem, tendo em vista sua n?tida curvatura para a zona marginal e perif?rica.
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Malm, Amanda. "Lustfylld läsinlärning : Fyra pedagogers syn på lustfylld läsinlärning i förskoleklass." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-44002.
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The study seeks to investigate four preschool teachers’ views of making literacy learning a pleasurable experience in preschool class and to identify any differences in their views. The study is based on interviews with four teachers with at least ten years’ experience of work in preschool class. The teachers work in three different municipalities. The result shows that making literacy learning pleasurable is a complex concept, which means that a varied way of working is necessary so that as many pupils as possible will find learning to read a pleasurable experience. Above all, the teachers make learning to read a pleasure through shared activities, in which play, reading aloud and linguistic awareness are important elements in the teaching. The Bornholm model is a common denominator in the work of learning to read for the four preschool teachers, as a consequence of which the teachers’ views of making literacy learning pleasurable are relatively similar.
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Edwards, Margaret A. "Barbara Pym : the pleasures and virtues of uncertainty." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244356.
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Bethune, Carol. ""The pleasures of the mind" : themes in early feminist literature in England, 1660-1730." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69608.
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This thesis examines the writing in poetry and prose of a small group of English feminist writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The best known of these authors was Mary Astell (1666-1731). The influence on the feminists' ideas of the philosophies of Descartes and of the most prominent English thinkers of the period, the Cambridge Platonists, is described.<br>The thesis focuses on three main themes in the seventeenth century feminists' writing. These were occupation, education and marriage. Emphasis is put on education as the most important of the feminists' concerns. They believed that the poor education women received in comparison with that received by men put women at a disadvantage in society in general and in personal relationships with men. They also believed that education was vital for personal happiness and spiritual fulfillment. In their writing about occupation, the feminists stated that the things that middle and upper class women were expected to do were unfulfilling. They wanted the right to occupy themselves with reading and writing without facing ridicule. On the subject of marriage the feminists' main concern also centred around education. They believed that women were at a disadvantage in the marriage relationship because they were not as well educated as their husbands. They thought that more equitable marriages were desirable, and that they would exist if women were better educated.
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Hammond, Elizabeth Mary. "Pleasures of the herd : readers, reading and class in England 1880-1914." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270389.
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Scott, Emily Jane. "Traversing trauma and consuming perverse pleasures in the neo-Victorian novel." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2014. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/traversing-trauma-and-consuming-perverse-pleasures-in-the-neovictorian-novel(d3f477f9-f105-414c-9f60-573e590ef2b4).html.
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This thesis focusses upon evidencing a pervasive contemporary interest in Victorian traumas and corporeal suffering as a means of examining the extent to which this interest manifests itself as a form of ‘perverse nostalgia’ - which proffers the ‘degraded’ past as a seeming nostrum for the taboo or prurient interests of a contemporary readership - within the neo-Victorian novel. Recognising perverse nostalgia as a distinct mode through which the neo-Victorian engages with the Victorian past while also reflecting upon and exploring a contemporary fascination with trauma and the wounded or suffering body, the forthcoming discussion reveals trauma itself to have become intertwined with a myriad of seemingly diffuse – but in fact intrinsically related – contemporary consumption practices relating to or featuring the corporeal; the erotic, or pornographic; the visual; and historical (trauma) ‘tourism’ and exploration, all of which feature as modes of consumer-centred exoticism in the neo-Victorian novel. This revelation enables – and indeed compels – an assessment of the motivations for, and implications of, the exoticisation of historical traumas. Contributing an interdisciplinary perspective to a currently underexplored area in the field of neo-Victorian studies, and proffering an approach to the function of nostalgia in the neo-Victorian novel which departs from its traditional deployment and the negative connotations which frequently accompany the concept, this thesis examines the specific ways in which representations of historical traumas both facilitate and frustrate the exoticist desires of the reader, simultaneously working to summon and eschew their engagement with the ‘exoticised’ Victorian past. In doing so, this project illuminates how the neo-Victorian novel (or, more specifically, a set of texts which operate in critical and often subversive ‘obeisance’ to the late-Victorian adventure novel, and which I have termed the ‘neo-adventure’ novel) ‘imports’ contemporary anxieties, preoccupations, and concerns to its pages while representationally ‘exporting’ them into different historical moments, locations, and scenarios in the nineteenth-century. In this way, the ‘neo-adventure’ novel enables an exploration of prohibited, antithetic, or contentious subjects at a reassuring temporal remove, revealing ambiguities and problematic perspectives while also promoting consideration of the moral and ethical implications inherent to the literary appropriation of historically-situated traumatic representations themselves.
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Margalit, Yael. "Creaturely pleasures : the representation of animals in early modern drama." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115607.
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This dissertation addresses the profound influence that the shared experience of humans and animals had on the poetics of early modern drama. With reference to a selection of early modern comedies and a range of non-literary texts that includes natural history encyclopedias and animal husbandry manuals, I argue that the vernacular knowledge of animals shaped the early modern imagination generally and the early modern playwright's imagination particularly. I propose an original approach to early modern literature, one which urges integrating a consideration of the real-world referent for animal representation, the collective life lived by humans and animals, and the poetics of early modern drama.<br>In my introduction, I take up the dissertation's general claims about the ethical and historiographical dimension of interpreting early modern animal representation. I continue to work at this theoretical level in Chapter One, where I consider how the animal-focused disciplines of sociobiology and ecology can help and hinder readers interpret early modern drama. In the following chapters, I work closely with a selection of early modern plays, contexts, and literary and theatrical devices. Chapter Two focuses on a web of comic plays that feature instantiations of animals in stage properties and actor's gestures. The web of plays in Chapter Two includes the anonymous Mucedorus; Lording Barry's Ram Alley; John Fletcher's Women Pleased; Thomas Nashe's Summer's Last Will and Testament ; William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, and John Ford's The Witch of Edmonton; Shakespeare's Love's Labor Lost; and Shakespeare and Fletcher's Two Noble Kinsmen. Chapter Three is devoted to the anthropomorphism of the allegorical representations of animals in Ben Jonson's plays Volpone and The Alchemist. In my reading of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in Chapter Four, I move on to consider animals whose representation is removed from reality not merely by anthropomorphism, but also by magic. All of these instances of representation draw animals into a sphere of existence that is commonly understood as the exclusive domain of humans at the same time that they draw humans in the other direction, which is to say into the muck and mire that is the origin of all life.
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Vallsten, Diana. ""Double crap. Am I in trouble?" : Makt, vetande och njutning i Fifty Shades of Grey." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-172965.
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The Fifty Shades-trilogy by E. L. James has become a cultural phenomenon, and is widely debated as such. The main issue of the debate is often concerning the story’s relation to women’s position in society. Common standpoints are that it is either contributing to women’s sexual liberation or that it perpetuates violence against women. The story is also considered to be of poor literary quality. In my thesis, I seek for approaches to understand the story beyond polarisation. I am performing a reparative reading of the first novel of the trilogy, Fifty Shades of Grey, through Michel Foucault’s notions of knowledge, power and pleasure. The purpose is to examine how these work in relation to each other, and how they relate to the presentation of sexuality and subjectivity in the novel. Furthermore, I engage in dialogue with previous research on Fifty Shades in the feminist field. In my analysis, I illustrate how knowledge, power and pleasure are synergetic and under constant negotiation. They are woven together and move between characters, laying the foundation for the subjects and their sexualities. I demonstrate how the power relations operate in multiple directions between Christian, Ana and Ana’s friend Kate, which is something that Ana shows awareness of. Further, I find that a conflict between mind and body occurs. Ana assumes the position of the knowing subject, through which she approaches corporality, and thereby gains new independence. Finally, I reflect on corporality’s intrusion of language in relation to the (de)valuation of the literary quality of the novel. As a question to bring to future studies, I ask whether the reading of Fifty Shades of Grey might be understood as consumption of body rather than consumption of literature, sexism or heteronormativity.<br>Fifty Shades-trilogin av E. L. James har blivit ett populärkulturellt fenomen som omdebatterats kraftigt. Temat för diskussionerna gäller ofta berättelsens förhållande till kvinnors sociala position i samhället. Vanliga åsikter är att den antingen bidrar till kvinnors sexuella frigörelse eller att den normaliserar våld mot kvinnor. Berättelsen anses även vara litterärt undermålig. I denna uppsats söker jag efter sätt att förstå berättelsen utanför polariseringen. Jag genomför en reparativ läsning av trilogins första del, Fifty Shades of Grey, genom Michel Foucaults begrepp vetande, makt och njutning. Syftet är att undersöka hur begreppen fungerar i relation till varandra samt hur de förhåller sig till framställningen av sexualitet och subjektivitet i romanen. Jag går även i dialog med tidigare forskning om Fifty Shades i det feministiska fältet. I min analys belyser jag hur vetande, makt och njutning samverkar med varandra och är under ständig förhandling. De rör sig mellan karaktärerna och vävs ihop till ett nät som lägger grunden för subjekten och sexualiteterna. Jag visar hur maktrelationerna är verksamma åt flera håll mellan Christian, Ana och Anas vän Kate, vilket Ana genom berättelsen också är medveten om. Jag finner även att det uppstår en konflikt mellan sinne och kropp. Ana intar rollen som ett det vetande subjektet. Genom denna roll närmar hon sig kroppsligheten, i vilken hon finner ny självständighet. Avslutningsvis reflekterar jag över kroppslighetens inträngande i språket, i relation till (ned)värderandet av romanens litterära kvalitét. Inför framtida studier ställer jag frågan om läsandet av Fifty Shades of Grey skulle kunna förstås som konsumtion av kropp snarare än som konsumtion av litteratur, sexism eller heteronorm.
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Diniz, Diego Corrêa. "Do Vazio ao Gozo: intersecções entre o efeito estético e o prazer do leitor." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2014. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=7038.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>Este trabalho tem como objetivo propor um diálogo teórico entre as obras O Ato de Leitura: uma teoria do efeito estético (1996, 1999), de Wolfgang Iser, e O Prazer do Texto (2006), de Roland Barthes. Da primeira obra, interessa-nos particularmente a formulação teórica sobre o vazio que, a nosso ver, pode ser articulada a outras elaboradas por Barthes na sua referida obra, sobretudo à delicada distinção entre gozo e prazer. A partir do entretecimento de uma rede teórica fundamentada nesta inter-relação, poderemos propor um ponto de vista concatenador que permita observar o objeto literário simultaneamente sob algumas noções oriundas da Teoria do efeito e outras vindas do pensamento barthesiano. A nosso ver, é possível demonstrar que as noções barthesianas de texto de prazer e textos de fruição ou gozo podem se adequar à observação do texto literário, quando considerado em relação à forma e à abundância dos vazios que eclodem na sua relação dialética com o leitor<br>This research proposes a theoretical intersection between The Act of Reading: a theory of aesthetic response (1996, 1999), written by Wolfgang Iser, and The Pleasure of the Text (2006), by Roland Barthes. From the first book, our interests reside particularly at the concept of empty spaces, which can be articulated to another notional formulations conceived by Barthes, especially to the subtle distinction between enjoyment and pleasure. As from, we intend to interweave a theoretical net based upon this interrelation, a comprehensive point of view, which allows us to examine literature both under the notion of aesthetic response, and Barthess deconstructionist ideas. We think it is possible to demonstrate that some Barthess notions, such as text of pleasure and text of bliss can fit into the observation of literary texts, if we thought about them under the considerations of form and abundance of the empty spaces that emerge during the dialectic relation between the book and the reader
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Smith, Bethany. "Guilty pleasures: piety, profanity, and incongruity in The Land of Cokaygne, The Miller's Tale, and The King of Tars." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6644.
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This project considers profane moments in three Middle English texts which use an incongruous combination of religious elements and exaggerated misbehavior to entertain the reader, as well as to critique, question, or mock established values and their all-too-human representatives. Each text draws its form from popular, entertaining genres, yet inserts learned and pious elements. The resulting collisions of cultural registers including high and low, sacred and profane, create ludic and layered explorations of those categories. In each text, undercurrents of incongruity and inversion blur, invert, or exaggerate the shocking or entertaining effect of bad behavior. I read this combination of contrasting influences as a carnivalesque and at times subversive form of social commentary, and suggest that both the popularity and the religiosity of each text are key to its provocative incongruity.
In addition to the transgressive elements that knowingly elicit a strong audience reaction, each text has its unintentionally offensive aspects— passages likely be read differently by readers today than in the fourteenth century. In each chapter, I consider some of the pedagogical challenges and opportunities afforded by not only aesthetically but ideologically shocking elements, and the tensions these moments stand to expose in both their medieval context and the contemporary literature classroom. My approach combines cultural studies and pedagogy to ask how abstract hierarchies of low and high, profane and sacred, can be explored through the use of these entertaining, yet challenging, texts in a college classroom setting, using moments of exaggerated transgression to generate practical approaches to discussion with students.
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Bahar, Saba. "Mary Wollstonecraft's social and aesthetic philosophy : "an Eve to please me" /." Basingstoke [etc.] : Palgrave, 2002. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/2001054887.html.
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Harrysson, Kimaryo Gina Alexandra. "Black Koreans in Korean children’s literature : A study of Won You Soon’s book “Please find Chartlon Sunja Kim”." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Avdelningen för koreanska, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-131420.
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The purpose of this study is to depict and examine the perception of black Koreans in South Korean children’s literature. This study examines my research questions through four theoretical frameworks: “culture and identity”, “post-colonialism, nationalism and racism”, “blackness and black Koreans’ portrayal in Korean media” and “multiculturalism in Korea”. My study raises the question how multicultural literature can help or not promote a new perception of otherness in South Korea. The method used for this study is qualitative text analysis. The primary source of information is a close-reading of Won You Soon’s book “Please find Charlton Sunja Kim” and interviews with the author of this book. The findings show that there are still some stereotypes about black Koreans and blackness that prevail in South Korean society and can still be found in recent literary works.
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Smith, Andrew H. "Sex please, we're British exempla, polemic, and history in John Bale's Actes of the Englysh Votaryes /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1375.
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Al-Athari, Lamees. ""This rhythm does not please me" : women protest war in Dunya Mikhail's poetry." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/865.
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Moberg, Emilia. "The Shameless Little Sister : A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Conduct of Lydia Bennet in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-34835.
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In Jane Austen’s renowned Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813, the reader encounters love and marriage in the British middle-class during the nineteenth century. While the main focus of the novel is the love story between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, the reader also encounters the youngest Bennet sister, Lydia. Lydia is depicted as loud, vain, rude and ignorant and even though this is a correct description of Lydia’s behavior, there are underlying reasons for that foolish and naïve behavior. Thus, the aim of this essay is to examine and explain the underlying reasons as to why Lydia behaves as recklessly and selfishly as she does. By close reading of the novel and by using psychoanalysis and relevant Freudian concepts, mainly the id, the ego and the super-ego, the analysis concludes that there is an evident connection between Lydia’s unruly behavior and her dysfunctional relationship to her parents. Due to the lack of parental guidance, Lydia has been left uncontrolled and heavily ruled by her id. Moreover, this essay will demonstrate that there is a shift in Lydia’s behavior as the novel progresses. As a result of certain events in the novel, Lydia’s behavior shifts even further towards her being driven by the pleasure principle and her id.
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Arneaud, Javan André. "La liberación de Calibán-el negro esclavizado y colonizado en Une tempête de Aimé Césaire y The pleasures of exile de Georg Lamming." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2018. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/169826.
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Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Estudios Latinoamericanos<br>La tesis que a continuación se presenta es una aproximación al campo de las apropiaciones de The Tempest de William Shakespeare, en el cual destacan dos versiones afrocaribeñas articuladas por George Lamming y Aimé Césaire en The Pleasures of Exile (1960) y Une tempête (1969), respectivamente. Se trata de un análisis literario y comparativo entre los dos textos con el propósito de investigar la manera en que los dos pensadores antillanos resisten y desmantelan el legado colonial para los afrodescendientes y sus países dependientes en el periodo tanto de los procesos de descolonización caribeña, como del movimiento por los derechos civiles en los Estados Unidos. El análisis se conduce por las líneas de las propuestas teóricas de pensadores caribeños anticoloniales del siglo XX que denuncian las secuelas del colonialismo para los colonizados y en sus países dependientes. Estudia, además, la representación de afrodescendientes en el personaje de Calibán, el cual los dos autores vinculan con líderes antillanos y norteamericanos de la lucha anticolonial: Toussaint Louverture y Malcolm X. Desarrolla también los temas de la transculturación y la revalorización de las identidades culturales y el desmantelamiento de la construcción de alteridad de sus Calibanes negros. Así, la tesis propone que las contraescrituras de The Tempest por estos autores afrocaribeños logran agregar al drama canónico los mecanismos para la liberación del personaje de Calibán, representante del sujeto negro del siglo XX.
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Ouakaoui, Noussayba. "Figures du couple dans l'oeuvre de Jean Giraudoux." Phd thesis, Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand II, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01065695.
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Mon sujet de thèse a porté sur les nombreuses figures du couple dans l'œuvre romanesque et théâtrale de Jean Giraudoux. La lecture des œuvres de cet auteur m'a conduit naturellement vers cette problématique. Nous retrouvons dans les pièces de théâtre et dans les romans, différentes représentations du couple qui questionnent la relation conjugale. Les personnages mis en scène par Giraudoux cherchent à déconstruire la représentation traditionnelle et à imposer de nouveaux rapports. Ma thèse reprend tous ces enjeux et se présente en trois parties. La première offre une vue assez large sur la notion de couple. J'y traite notamment de la question des origines et je reviens sur les influences qui ont pu marquer notre auteur. Cette partie définitionnelle a été capitale pour circonscrire notre problématique mais aussi pour évoquer la culture de l'écrivain. Dans cette partie, j'interroge aussi le langage du couple, j'y analyse le discours ainsi que les mots qui ont tendance parfois à se transformer en véritable maux. Enfin, dans cette partie, j'évoque la relation de l'altérité en montrant ses points d'application au sein du couple. Dans la deuxième partie, la réflexion se précise, j'analyse essentiellement la rupture du couple, les facteurs déclencheurs. Par ailleurs, pour comprendre la déroute que vit le couple, il était nécessaire de revenir au contexte de l'époque. En effet, la relation classique entre l'homme et la femme a subi un changement dû à un mouvement d'émancipation féminine accentuée par la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale. L'adultère se lit alors dans tous les comportements. Après avoir été conçu mentalement, il est revendiqué par les femmes qui entendent mettre fin à toutes les supercheries. Je m'interroge aussi dans cette partie sur la position même de l'auteur qui est quelquefois ambigüe. En effet si Jean Giraudoux est un fervent féministe, c'est aussi un écrivain conservateur qui pense que la guerre des sexes ne peut aboutir. La position de Giraudoux est donc beaucoup plus nuancée que celle d'un Margueritte, par exemple. Dans la troisième partie, j'élargis ma problématique à la question du bonheur qui est aussi une thématique intrinsèque à celle du couple. Je montre qu'il y a tout d'abord dans l'œuvre un conflit entre le plaisir et le bonheur. Ce dernier est une pure façade qui accule les personnes à vivre ensemble. Les hommes sont d'ailleurs particulièrement attachés à leur bonheur, ils se l'arrachent comme du gibier. La femme quant à elle, fière et digne, se moque et se détourne de ce bonheur fait de prosaïsme et célèbre un art de vivre qui se fonde sur la jouissance totale. Elle abroge le système de valeurs revendiqué par les hommes qui veulent notamment en faire une figure sacrificielle. L'œuvre est à ce titre iconoclaste à plusieurs niveaux, elle bouscule les repères traditionnels et rend compte de nouveaux comportements qui sont un écho des mutations que connaît la France à cette époque.
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Löfstrand, My. "Lust till att läsa : Att väcka barns läsmotivation i skolan." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-72238.
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This paper presents how the students’ motivation for reading pleasure is caught in school. It is also about how the teachers choose which kind of reading materials they use in the education to give the students the best possible conditions for a lifelong reading pleasure. What motivates the students in the primary school to read, not just because they must, but also by their own free will? Through my work, I put previous research on reading interest, motivation and self-confidence against what pupils in grade 3 consider the education in reading give them. The pupils’ experiences about whether they can influence the content in their educational material also effects how well motivated they are to assimilate the ability in reading. My survey is based om questionnaires for pupils in grade 3 and active Swedish teachers in the same year, the reading motivation and the choice of materials were studied, but also how much access to other books they have. A great access to books favors reading enthusiasm, both at school and at home. But it takes more than books to make students motivated to enjoy reading.<br>Den här uppsatsen handlar om hur elevernas motivation till nöjesläsning väcks inom skolan. Den handlar även om hur lärarna väljer vilken typ av läsläror de använder sig av i undervisningen för att ge eleverna så bra förutsättningar som möjligt för en livslång läslust. Vad motiverar eleverna på lågstadiet till att läsa, inte enbart för att de måste utan även av egen fri vilja? Genom mitt arbete ställer jag tidigare forskning kring läsintresse, motivation och självförtroende mot vad elever i årskurs 3 anser om undervisningen i svenska. Elevernas upplevelser kring huruvida de kan påverka undervisningens innehåll spelar även den in på hur pass motiverade de är att tillgodogöra sig förmågan i läsning. Min undersökning utgår ifrån enkätundersökningar till elever i årskurs 3 samt verksamma svenska lärare i samma årskurs studerades läsmotivationen och valet av material, men även tillgång till andra böcker. En stor tillgång till böcker gynnar läslusten, både i skolan och i hemmen. Men det krävs mer än böcker för att göra elever motiverade till nöjesläsning.
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Alexander, Sarah. "Shopping for pleasure : the fashion lover in Victorian fiction /." 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3314718.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-05, Section: A, page: 1791. Adviser: Peter Garrett. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 165-171) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.
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"The pursuit of pleasure: Representations of quadroons in Louisiana literature of Americanization." Tulane University, 2021.
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archives@tulane.edu<br>New Orleans quadroons were desired by white men for their beauty and the combination of their almost white racial performance and the promise of sexual excess of their African blood as represented in nineteenth century Anglo-American travel accounts. This dissertation considers how nineteenth century Louisiana literary representations of quadroons, free mixed-race women, challenged racialized and gendered stereotypes. By putting the marginalized figures at the center of their narratives, Louisiana authors showed how the quadroons’ hybrid identity and status as free women of color allowed them to serve as a literary nexus for the continual redefinition of the increasingly marginalized francophone communities that, faced with the encroaching Americanization, would need to transcend race or cease to exist in Louisiana. Antebellum French collection of poetry Les Cenelles (1845) written by Creole free men of color responds to the extramarital interracial relationships that are now seen through the lens of the trope of plaçage. The poets present themselves as legitimate marriage partners for quadroons and combat stereotypes of free women of color by grounding their opposition to interracial relationships in moral rather than racial terms. Alfred Mercier’s L’Habitation Saint-Ybars (1881) and George Washington Cable’s stories “‘Tite Poulette” (1879) and “Madame Delphine” (1881) manipulate the American Tragic Mulatta trope to show that Louisiana Creoles need to confront myths of racial purity and look towards a community based on shared cultural heritage among Louisianans rather than one divided by the calculus of racial distinction. Sidonie de la Houssaye’s tetraology Les Quarteronnes de la Nouvelle-Orléans (1894-98) confronts white men’s hypocritical behavior that punishes quadroons for their racial performance by staging those performances and punishing characters who engaged in them. The legacies of quadroons can be seen through cultural productions featuring the ongoing complexities of race relations today through Horace Jenkin’s film Cane River (1982) and Brit Bennett’s novel The Vanishing Half (2020). A renewed interest in free people of color in the nineteenth century has led to attempts to recognize their important place in American history and recent publications address how today’s rhetoric echoes that of Reconstruction era Louisiana discussions on racial justice.<br>1<br>Emily Hathaway
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Bobsien, Geraldine. "The pleasure narrative: sexual agency and teen feminism in young adult fiction." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1305628.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>This submission includes a novel and exegesis exploring connected issues of adolescent sexual desire, bodily empowerment and teen feminism. My novel is the story of a young woman (and her mother) coming to terms with the big changes that take place in the time between finishing school and leaving home. In writing this novel, I wanted to provide a place for girls to explore varied forms of desire and to present a protagonist who was specific about her desires, and who possessed an active sexual agency that unashamedly referenced her own body and the object(s) of her desires. I wanted her to have confidence about what she could do with her body (or not) and it was my intention to be specific about how she experienced pleasure. The exegesis addresses two distinct but related issues: the first looks at how adolescent female desire is portrayed (or not) in Young Adult fiction and what literary and cultural critics say these representations reveal about our culture; the second issue explores how an emerging groundswell of young feminists are responding to social and individual issues of bodily empowerment and how this is reflected in what could be viewed as a growing field of contemporary Young Adult feminist fiction. Ultimately, the exegesis asks several questions: How is it possible to portray adolescent female desire in a culture that ignores or contains the wanting of young women? How do we promote a clearer sense of sexual agency without the muddied messages of commodified empowerment? And finally, how do we remove judgment and promote a healthy representation of adolescent girl desire?
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Bacon, Catherine M. "Beyond sexual satisfaction : pleasure and autonomy in women’s inter-war novels in England and Ireland." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-2674.
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My dissertation offers a new look at how women authors used popular genres to negotiate their economic, artistic, and sexual autonomy, as well as their national and imperial identities, in the context of the changes brought by modernity. As medical science and popular media attempted to delineate women’s sexual natures, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Winifred Holtby, Kate O’Brien, and Molly Keane created narratives which challenged not only psychoanalytic proscriptions about the need for sexual satisfaction, but traditional ideas about women’s inherent modesty. They absorbed, revised, and occasionally rejected outright the discourses of sexology in order to advocate a more diffuse sensuality; for these writers, adventure, travel, independence, creativity, and love between women provided satisfactions as rich as those ascribed to normative heterosexuality. I identify a history of queer sexuality in both Irish and English contexts, one which does not conform to emergent lesbian identity while still exceeding the limits of heteronormativity.<br>text
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Beutner, Katharine. "Writing for pleasure or necessity : conflict among literary women, 1700-1750." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-2878.
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In this dissertation, I examine antagonistic relationships between women writers in the first half of the eighteenth century, focusing on the works of Delarivier Manley, Martha Fowke Sansom, Eliza Haywood, and Laetitia Pilkington. Professional rivalry among women writers represents an under-studied but vital element of the history of print culture in the early eighteenth century. I argue that the shared burden of negotiating the complicated literary marketplace did not, as critics have at times suggested, inspire women who wrote for print publication to feel for one another a sisterly benevolence. Rather, fine gradations in social class, questions of genre status and individual talent, and -- perhaps most importantly -- clashing literary ambitions spurred early eighteenth-century women writers into vicious rivalries recorded in print and driven by print culture. Women documented their literary battles in poems, in prefaces, and in autobiographical texts replete with self-justification and with attacks on former friends or disappointing patronesses. This dissertation recognizes rivalry as a crucial mode of interaction between eighteenth-century literary women and analyzes the ways in which these professional women writers labored to defend themselves not just against patriarchal pressures but against one another. In doing so, it contributes to the construction of a more complete literary history of the first half of the eighteenth century by exploring how early eighteenth-century women writers imagined their own professional lives, how they imagined the professional lives of other women, and how they therefore believed themselves influenced (or claimed themselves influenced) by the support or detraction of other women.
The first two chapters of this dissertation focus on Delarivier Manley's career and writings, while the second two address the entangled writing lives of Eliza Haywood and Martha Fowke Sansom. The concluding chapter briefly examines Laetitia Pilkington's Memoirs. I investigate the way these women employed the practice of life-writing as a means of self-construction, self-promotion, and public appeal.<br>text
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Stepanova, Olga. "Women, sources, and rhetoric in George Pettie’s A petite pallace of Pettie his pleasure." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11660.
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Ce mémoire, Women, Sources, and Rhetoric in George Pettie’s A Petite Pallace of Pettie his Pleasure, étudie la collection de romans courts de l’anglais moderne intitulée A Petite Pallace of Pettie his Pleasure (1576) et l’identifie comme une collection pour les femmes et comme un précurseur du style euphuistique.
Le mémoire est constitué de trois chapitres. Dans le premier chapitre, j’analyse la position des femmes au début de l’Angleterre moderne, alors que A Petite Pallace est dédié aux femmes. Le deuxième chapitre traite des éléments structuraux de chaque histoire comprise dans la collection. Je relève également les modifications faites par l’auteur à des histoires d’origine afin de les adapter à ses lecteurs et afin d’attirer davantage d’attention. Le dernier chapitre porte principalement sur les figures de style utilisées par Pettie pour éblouir ses lecteurs et démontrer toute la richesse de la langue anglaise<br>This thesis, Women, Sources, and Rhetoric in George Pettie’s A Petite Pallace of Pettie his Pleasure, studies the early modern English collection of novellas A Petite Pallace of Pettie his Pleasure (1576) and indentifies it as a collection for women and a forerunner of the euphuistic style.
The thesis consists of three chapters. In the first chapter I consider women’s position in early modern England, as A Petite Pallace is dedicated to ladies. The second chapter deals with structural elements of each story included in the collection. I also trace modifications made by the author to his source stories in order to adapt them for his readers and to attract more attention. The last chapter focuses on linguistic devices used by Pettie to dazzle his audience and to demonstrate the possibilities of the English language.
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"Slash, fandoms and pleasures." 2006. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5892835.
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Li Fung Kwan.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-98).<br>Abstracts in English and Chinese.<br>Abstract --- p.i<br>Acknowledgement --- p.iii<br>Chapter Chapter One: --- Introduction --- p.1<br>Chapter Chapter Two: --- On slash and De Certeau --- p.18<br>Chapter Chapter Three: --- The Pleasure of Escape --- p.30<br>Chapter Chapter Four: --- The Fan Community --- p.58<br>Chapter Chapter Five: --- Conclusion --- p.86<br>Reference --- p.92
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Wiet, Victoria. "Eccentric Conduct: Theatre and the Pleasures of Victorian Fiction." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-68wh-p128.
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This dissertation uses the concept of erotic conduct to rethink theatre’s role in Victorian society and its influence on the novel more specifically. Though uncommon today, the term “conduct” was widely used by Victorian commentators seeking to identify what facets of erotic experience were most important to social life and the formation of individual character. Instead of parsing the pathologies of desire, as Michel Foucault would lead us to expect, commentators directed their attention to volitional—and often habitual—behaviors that took pleasing erotic sensations as their primary end. Such conduct transpired in all spaces of everyday life, but this project turns to a diverse set of archival sources to make the case that it was conduct at the theatre that held the greatest fascination. A mass culture of an exceptional magnitude, situated in discrete physical spaces, the Victorian commercial theatre provided ample opportunities for both fleeting and enduring encounters between people who weren’t married or even necessarily of the opposite sex. This dissertation shows how new varieties of sexual character emerged at the theatre, where they were either tacitly permitted or flamboyantly indulged: the imperious actress; the ardent female spectator; the cruising sodomite; and the female dandy.
Drawing on a breadth of archival research, "Eccentric Conduct" makes the case that just as the theatre affected the erotic habits of many Victorians, so did it influence the storytelling habits of many Victorian novels. Explicit depictions of performers and theatergoing have led many critics to characterize the Victorian novel as anti-theatrical, eschewing the fleshly and meretricious matter of live performance in favor of representing the superior qualities of privacy, domesticity and moral continence associated with the bourgeois home. This project counters this view by uncovering the subtler yet more pervasive influence theatre had on the characters, vocabulary, images and narrative devices of realist fiction. Novelists most often deployed theatrically-derived storytelling habits when seeking to represent pleasures inconsistent with the institution of patriarchal marriage. Instead of imitating the disciplinary conduct of the police or patriarch, to which the novel is often compared, novels by Eliot and Hardy sought to convey and thus promote the pleasures they also represented. In order to make theatre’s effect on the metalanguage of Victorian fiction intelligible, I reconstruct the conduct to which novelists elude by juxtaposing artifacts such as theatergoing diaries, scrapbooks, trial records and cabinet photographs alongside the “actress novel” genre, Middlemarch, Teleny, The Heavenly Twins, and Jude the Obscure.
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"Aversive pleasures: Urban violence and poverty in contemporary Brazilian and Colombian literature and film." Tulane University, 2009.
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My dissertation examines contemporary Brazilian and Colombian literature and film that focus on urban poverty and violence. Frequently, these texts question the conflation of slum residents, drug traffic and extreme violence through the theme of the gangster. The gangsters of these texts look different than the classic gangsters of American film and the hard-boiled detective fiction of the 1930s. They rather construct elaborate parodies of journalistic and sociological texts that purport to explain marginalized and criminalized groups by juxtaposing them with the aesthetic of the guapos celebrated in tango and salsa music in the case of Colombia, and the aesthetic of malandragem in samba in the case of Brazil I also chose to look at emblematic texts that are frequently invoked in discussions of violence and poverty from a variety of ideological perspectives. For this reason, I analyze and compare Cidade de Deus by Paulo Lins, Virgen de los sicarios by Fernando Vallejo, and Rosario Tijeras, by Jorge Franco. These novels were adapted into major feature films, and in the case of Cidade de Deus, a television miniseries entitled Cidade dos Homens, that were important experiments that served to amplify a debate about how poverty and violence are represented in Latin America to both Latin American and foreign audiences This dissertation therefore sees these texts as part of an emerging group of multidisciplinary artists engaged in a shared project to reframe 'common sense' solutions to crime and urban poverty that advocate ongoing police repression. Instead, these texts call attention to notions of second-class citizenship based on class and race difference and a critique of a shared societal notion of masculinity that encourages violence. Theoretically, this dissertation contextualizes the texts and films as interventions in debates in subaltern studies, postcolonial studies and testimonio criticism through their complex relationship to reality and aesthetic<br>acase@tulane.edu