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Raguz, Christopher. "Paranoid Epistemologies: Essays on Thomas Pynchon and the Scene of Disappearance." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2118.

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The following five essays are connected by their reference to a scene – imagined by the author Thomas Pynchon. The disappearance of historical cause, the subject, and the human constitute this epistemological scene. Each essay can be read without logically building off of any other – yet they form a wider assemblage of interpretative theory. These are fragments capable of recombination in any order. They shun systematization but welcome kinship. Pynchon's fiction is the substrate underlying each. Abstract machines of theorists thinking on similar wavelengths are used as catalysts in an effort
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Li, Xu. "A postmodernist parodic allegory : Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49." Thesis, University of Macau, 2009. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2554106.

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Zadworna-Fjellestad, Danuta. "Alice's adventures in wonderland and Gravity's rainbow a study in duplex fiction /." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm, Sweden : Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1986. http://books.google.com/books?id=Q5laAAAAMAAJ.

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Eigeartaigh, Aoileann N. "'I shop, therefore I am' : consumerism and the mass media in the novels of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Bret Easton Ellis and Douglas Coupland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1790.

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This thesis argues that consumerism and the mass media wield an unparalleled influence over contemporary North American society, and that these forces constitute the primary means through which identity is constituted. The historical and theoretical developments that have led to the foregrounding of these forces are outlined in the introduction - developments, it is argued, that are intrinsically connected to the social upheava1 that characterized America in the late 1960's and early 1970's, while their presence in and effects on the fiction of four contemporary North American writers - Thomas
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Dvorak, John N. "Lukácsian aesthetics in a post-modern world: understanding Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon through the lens of Georg Lukács’ the historical novel." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/3896.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of English<br>Timothy A. Dayton<br>This thesis project seeks to reconcile the literary criticism of Marxist critic and advocate of literary realism Georg Lukács with the writing of postmodern author Thomas Pynchon in order to validate the continued relevance of Lukácsian aesthetics. Chapter 1 argues that Lukács’ The Historical Novel is not only a valid lens with which to analyze Pynchon’s own historical novel, Mason & Dixon, but that such analysis will yield valuable insight. Chapter 2 illustrates the aesthetic transition from the historical drama to the histo
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Bewernick, Hanne. "The storyteller's memory palace a method of interpretation based on the function of memory systems in literature ; Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Thomas Pynchon and Paul Auster." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2008. http://d-nb.info/1001701801/04.

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Klose, Yvonne [Verfasser]. "«How had it ever happened here?» : A Constructivist Reading of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 and its Role in the Pynchon Canon / Yvonne Klose." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1042414904/34.

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Sigvardson, Joakim. "Immanence and transcendence in Thomas Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon" : a phenomenological study /." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39265658c.

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Ashford, Joan Anderson. "Ecocritical Theology Neo-Pastoral Themes in American Fiction from 1960 to the Present." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/52.

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Ecocritical theology relates to American fiction as it connects nature and spirituality. In my development of the term “neo-pastoral” I begin with Virgil’s Eclogues to serve as examples for spiritual and nature related themes. Virgil’s characters in “The Dispossessed” represent people’s alienation from the land. Meliboeus must leave his homeland because the Roman government has reassigned it to their war veterans. As he leaves Meliboeus wonders why fate has rendered this judgment on him and yet has granted his friend Tityrus a reprieve. Typically, pastoral literature represents people’s longin
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Davis, Robert Lawrence. "History and Resistance in the Early Novels of Thomas Pynchon." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392046961.

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Dix, Andrew. "Ideology and Utopia in novels by William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283702.

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Woodhead, David P. "The necessity of innovation : an interpretation of the novels of Thomas Pynchon." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.277904.

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Meresse, Bastien. "Thomas Pynchon ou les territoires de la faille." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA110.

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Géographe picaresque à cheval sur les côtes atlantique et pacifique, Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Junior signe une œuvre orientée vers l’origine défectueuse et la trajectoire entropique du continent américain, sept générations après la grande migration puritaine à laquelle son ancêtre William fut l’un des premiers à participer. L’enjeu de cette thèse est de revenir sur la façon dont le roman pynchonien cherche à circonscrire les figures de cette latence de la grande faute américaine, un « vice caché, » puisque tel est le titre de son avant-dernier roman, pour retrouver la prairie pe
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Adams, Brittany N. "From Postmodernism to Psychoanalysis: Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1302656178.

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Engelhardt, Nina Malaika. "Mathematics in literature : modernist interrelations in novels by Thomas Pynchon, Hermann Broch, and Robert Musil." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7769.

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The focus of this thesis is on four novels’ illustrations of the parallels and interrelations between the foundational crisis of mathematics and the political, linguistic, and epistemological crises around the turn to the twentieth century. While the latter crises with their climax in the First World War are commonly agreed to define modern culture and literature, this thesis concentrates on their relations with the ‘modernist transformation’ of mathematics as illustrated in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day (2006) and Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Hermann Broch’s The Sleepwalkers (1930-1932), and
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Dalsgaard, Inger Hunnerup. "The fabrication of America : myths of technology in American literature and culture." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327046.

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Siwiec, Kamil [Verfasser], Simone [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gutachter] Winko, and Claudia [Gutachter] Stockinger. "Strategien der Desorientierung in der postmodernen Prosa : Thomas Pynchons The Crying of Lot 49, Elfriede Jelineks Lust, Witold Gombrowicz‘ Kosmos / Kamil Siwiec. Betreuer: Simone Winko. Gutachter: Simone Winko ; Claudia Stockinger." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1105036197/34.

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Chagas, Pedro Ramos Dolabela. "Da impossibilidade da lucidez: a dissolução do Século XX em O arco-íris da gravidade, de Thomas Pynchon." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2007. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4315.

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Esta tese analisa a relação entre a ficcionalização da História Moderna e o desenvolvimento de uma ética da vida cotidiana no romance O arco-íris da gravidade, do norte-americano Thomas Pynchon. Para a sua análise e interpretação, será desenvolvido, no primeiro capítulo, um aporte teórico-metodológico que coteje a complexidade formal da narrativa (que dificulta a sua síntese temática) para se estabelecer, a partir daí, as condições de possibilidade de detecção de núcleos temáticos recorrentes que, numa rede de interconexões não-concêntrica ou dispersiva , perspectivizam no romance uma totaliz
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Slagle, Judith Bailey. "Thomas Shadwell." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/482.

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Book Summary Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the poetry, drama, fiction, and literary and cultural criticism produced from the Restoration of the English monarchy to the onset of the French Revolution Comprises over 340 entries arranged in A-Z format across three fully indexed and cross-referenced volumes Written by an international team of leading and emerging scholars Features an impressive scope and range of subjects: from courtship and circulating libraries, to the works of Samuel Johnson and Sarah Scott Includes coverage of both canonical and lesser-known authors, as
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Li, Chi-fang Sophia. "Thomas Dekker and Chaucerian re-imaginings." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1091/.

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This study aims to offer a new literary biography of Thomas Dekker (c. 1572-1632) and demonstrates the ways in which he refashions his principal source, Geoffrey Chaucer. The first chapter considers Dekker in both literary and theatre histories, situating him amongst his collaborators: Anthony Munday, Henry Chettle, Michael Drayton, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster. This chapter also aims to re-evaluate Dekker’s achievement in history, starting from Dekker’s presence in Henslowe’s Diary, his ‘part’ in the War of the Theatres, his theatre writing, followed by his observations of London writte
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Malton, Sara. "Commanding language, linguistic authority and female autonomy in Thomas Hardy's fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ58482.pdf.

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Grinnell, George C. Clark David L. "On hypochondria: interpreting romantic health and illness (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Thomas de Quincey, Thomas Beddoes, Charles Brockden Brown) /." *McMaster only, 2005.

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El-Baaj, Habib. "Thomas Hardy and Theodore Dreiser : a comparative study." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1989. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5539/.

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With the publication of Jude the Obscure (1985) Hardy had finished his work with the novel. Just five years later Dreiser published Sister Carrie (1900), thus making it possible that he could have found in Hardy a model. The resemblances to the Hardyan novel in both the early and later works of Dreiser are striking and varied enough to give encouragement to a hypothesis of direct influence. The evidence in support of this hypothesis we propose to take note of carefully in this study. The study is divided into six chapters. Chapter One focusses on the broadly pessimistic and deterministic philo
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Pepperney, Justin R. "Religious Toleration in English Literature from Thomas More to John Milton." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1245245934.

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Pokotylo, Heather. "The film break : Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow, Gilles Deleuze's Cinema, and the emergence of a new history." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99743.

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This thesis uses the film philosophy of Gilles Deleuze in Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (1983, trans. 1986) and Cinema 2: The Time-Image (1985, trans. 1989) as a methodology for examining the subject of film in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow (1973). The first half of the thesis provides a review of the literature on the subject of film in Gravity's Rainbow, as well as a review of current scholarship on Deleuze's Cinema books, before providing a close reading of both Cinema books that summarizes and explicates the elaborate taxonomy of cinematic signs and images developed by Deleuze. T
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Vye, Shelly Shires Linda M. "Tourist geographies spectatorship, space, and empire in England, 1830--1910 (Mary Kingsley, Thomas Hardy) /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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El, Inglizi Najwa Yousif. "Negotiating the gothic in the fiction of Thomas Hardy." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2003. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/112/.

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The purpose of this research is to investigate Thomas Hardy’s relation to the Gothic tradition, especially that deriving from the classic period 1760-mid-1820s. The main novels chosen for such an investigation are Two on a Tower, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. Parallels with the following texts form the heart of the thesis: Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, William Godwin, Caleb Williams, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer. This investigation has
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Groom, Nicholas Michael. "Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry : its context, presentation and reception." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359575.

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Westover, Daniel. "R. S. Thomas: A Stylistic Biography." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. http://a.co/0Kggfyi.

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Daniel Westover traces Thomas's poetic development over six decades, demonstrating how the complex interior of the poet manifests itself in the continually shifting style of his poems.<br>https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1100/thumbnail.jpg
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McNamara, Rebecca Fields. "Code-switching in medieval England : register variety in the literature of Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Usk and Thomas Hoccleve." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669980.

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Bulaila, Abdul Aziz Mohammed. "Marriage in the novels of Thomas Hardy and D.H. Lawrence." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1992. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13834/.

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This thesis is a developmental and comparative study of marriage in the novels of Thomas Hardy and D.H. Lawrence. Although this subject is frequently alluded to in recent criticism of both authors, it is rarely discussed in detail. The main interest of the study here is to show how marriage and its sub-themes of love, sex and women, as well as society's perceptions of them in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly in the period between 1870 and 1930, have developed in their social and psychological dimensions, and how these developments are reflected in the novels. Par
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Harris, Nicola Joy. "'The means of seeing' : looking at reality in the novels of Thomas Hardy." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1998. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8018/.

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Hardy approached the problem of nineteenth-century realism as an ontological and literary concern largely through images of perception. This thesis suggests that Hardy adopted an innovative approach in an effort to identify the term, and argues that his subversive contribution to the Great Debate occasioned the necessary impetus for the experimental fictions of the twentieth century. In rejecting the orthodox, aesthetic prescriptions established by such authorities as George Eliot and Henry James, it is suggested that Hardy released the Victorian novel from its restricting reliance on ostensib
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Salmons, Kim. "The representation of food in modern literature : Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad." Thesis, St Mary's University, Twickenham, 2015. http://research.stmarys.ac.uk/912/.

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This thesis will examine the representation of food in the works of Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad to demonstrate how food is used to chart the progress of modernity from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the continuing emergence of capitalism and consumerism to the first decade of the twentieth century when the stability of the British Empire was being questioned. Food becomes the measure of how modern society responded to new innovations in transport, technology and the way in which British society viewed both itself and the colonies from which much of its food was being import
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Kim, Bomin. "Recycling History| Early Modern Fasting and Cultural Materialist Awareness in Thomas Middleton." Thesis, New York University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3557008.

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<p> This dissertation explores the possibility of an early modern cultural materialism in selected dramatic works of Thomas Middleton in which fasting plays a prominent thematic role. The once venerable Christian practice of fasting was compartmentalized into secular and religious components in the wake of the Protestant Reformation in England even as its overall practical contour was preserved largely intact. It was subjected to conflicting representations and programs for reform, and appropriated by differing political and ecclesiastical factions. The vicissitudes that beset fasting offered
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Hood, David James Sarty. "A place called 'nowhere': Towards an understanding of St Thomas More's 'Utopia'." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28419.

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St. Thomas More's Utopia has been the subject of considerable debate over the past 75 years. It claims to be concerned with the 'best state of a commonwealth', but how is it concerned? It is a strange little book that records a fictional dialogue between More, his friend Peter Giles, and a very impulsive and opinionated traveler named Raphael Hythloday. Hythloday has recently returned from a voyage, and the Utopia is mostly taken up with a detailed account of the bizarre customs, laws, and rituals of a people he encountered in a place called Utopia. Hythloday praises them as the best and wises
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Gillota, David. "Belly Laughs: Body Humor in Contemporary American Literature and Film." Scholarly Repository, 2008. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/42.

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Belly Laughs: Body Humor in Contemporary American Literature and Film Scholars are more than happy to laugh at but seem somewhat reluctant to discuss body humor, which is perhaps the most neglected form of comedy in recent criticism. In this dissertation, I examine the ways in which contemporary American writers and filmmakers use body humor in their works, not only in moments of so-called "comic relief" but also as a valid way of exploring many of the same issues that postmodern artists typically interrogate in their more somber moments. The writers discussed in this project-Philip Roth, T
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Moss, Rhiannon Sarah. "Irish modernism in an international frame : Thomas MacGreevy, Sean O'Faolain and Samuel Beckett in the 1930s." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2009. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1592.

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In 1930s Ireland, modernist writing developed at a conjuncture of national and international influences. The second generation of Irish modernism responded to national culture in the context of international debates about literary form. The purpose of this thesis is to present a nuanced understanding of the relationship between Irish and European literary discourse in the work of Thomas MacGreevy, Sean O'Faolain and Samuel Beckett: three writers who formulated Irish writing within a self-consciously international frame. Drawing on recent critical approaches to modern Irish writing and on conte
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Santilli, Nicola. "The problem with the prose poem in English literature : towards a definition." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1998. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-problem-with-the-prose-poem-in-english-literature--towards-a-definition(591aae5a-a4c6-424a-8e14-56444c8915d4).html.

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Green, Brian. "Penned in the first person : setting and theme in the lyrics of Thomas Hardy." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21810.

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Bibliography: pages 240-258.<br>This thesis arises from the conviction that the Hardyan quality of mind, a mind at once tentative and courageous, is of supreme importance in our time and is most distinctly and decisively present in Hardy's short poems. The chief aim of this thesis has been to offer students of Hardy thematic and aesthetic guidelines for reading his poems so as to encounter that quality of mind first-hand. In order to develop those guidelines, I have rooted them in primary materials and biographical details germane to demonstrating Hardy's achievement as a poet. The main title
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Abuzeid, Ahmad Elsayyad Ahmad. "The theme of alienation in the major novels of Thomas Hardy." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 1987. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/660/.

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Charlwood, Catherine. "Models of memory : cognition and cultural memory in the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/91139/.

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This thesis brings together the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost, revealing their respective work as peculiarly engaged with memory. Poetic memory is examined at different levels: not just what it means actively to remember, but also how a poem might be more or less characteristically memorable. Hardy and Frost are also revealed as poets who see the unique properties of poetry as a genre in which certain phenomena, people and places might be remembered, if not preserved. While having a strong basis in close analysis and literary history, the project breaks new ground in setting concepts
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Young, Primrose May Deen. "Bourgeois ambivalence : a comparative investigation of Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7250/.

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The thesis explores important similarities and differences between responses to bourgeois society in Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg (1924) and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922). It examines these texts’ presentations of the shifting morality of bourgeois culture, the prevailing sense of paralysis and fragmentation at the beginning of the twentieth century, and compares the authors’ use of allusions to myth, and their explorations of concepts of time. However, by considering the ambivalent responses to bourgeois society as they are presented within these texts, and a selection of Mann and Eliot
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Rawson, Katherine W. "A Tale of Two Vicars: Thomas Stothard's and Thomas Rowlandson's Illustrations of "The Vicar of Wakefield"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626171.

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Darcy, Jane. "Critical attitudes to the novels of Thomas Hardy 1870-1985." Thesis, University of Hull, 1986. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:6981.

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In this thesis an examination is made of criticism of Thomas Hardy's novels from the earliest comments of his publishers and reviewers in the late nineteenth century to the apparently more sophisticated studies of the mid-1980's. The thesis is organised chronologically with each chapter dealing with a specific historical period of not more than a few decades which marks a particular phase of criticism of Hardy's novels and which often reflects more general developments in critical attitudes to the novel as an art form. Thus, while much light is thrown on Hardy's own art as a novelist in the co
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Wenjing, Chen Alexandra. "The Role of Women in Thomas Ostermeier's Production of "Hamlet"." Thesis, Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germany), 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10291096.

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<p> This research looks at the production of <i>Hamlet</i> by Thomas Ostermeier, the director of the Schaub&uuml;hne Berlin. The production presents two female characters with a single female performer, and persents the concept that coporeality is an impossible exteriority. This research uses the playscript of Ostermeier's production of <i>Hamlet</i> as reference, and Judith Butler's book <i>Bodies that Matter</i> for its theoretical method, as well as contemporary critics of feminist study on the gendered body, to interpret the role of female characters in Ostermeier's production of <i> Hamle
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Adams, Aaron. "Victorian representations and transformations : sacred place in Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2397/.

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Victorian literary criticism has within it a longstanding tradition of inquiring about the degree to which literature of the period reflects the realities of nineteenthcentury Christian faith. Many of these studies are admirable in the way that they demonstrate the challenges confronting religion in this period of dynamic social, cultural, economic, political, and scientific change and growth. Similarly, this study will examine the critical intersections between nineteenth-century Christianity and literature. However, this project is unique by virtue of the methodology used in order to access
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Simes, Peter A. "Literature in the Age of Science: Technology and Scientists in the Mid-Twentieth Century Works of Isaac Asimov, John Barth, Arthur C. Clarke, Thomas Pynchon, and Kurt Vonnegut." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30511/.

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This study explores the depictions of technology and scientists in the literature of five writers during the 1960s. Scientists and technology associated with nuclear, computer, and space science are examined, focusing on their respective treatments by the following writers: John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke. Despite the close connections between the abovementioned sciences, space science is largely spared from negative critiques during the sixties. Through an analysis of Barth's Giles Goat-boy, Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49,
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Sceats, Sarah Anne. "Food and eating in fiction since 1950 with particular reference to the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1996. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1594.

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Eating is a fundamental activity. What people eat, how and with whom, what they feel about food, what they do or do not want to eat and why - even who they eat - are of crucial significance in any reading of human behaviour. In this thesis, I consider the diverse and complex uses of food and eating in fiction since 1950, especially that written by women. I argue both that food and eating carry much of the meaning of a novel or story and that the acts of cooking, feeding and eating depicted are inseparable from issues of power and control: individually, interpersonally, culturally, politically.
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Webb, Andrew. "'His country ... not the country he had fought for' : British literatures and world lit. theory : the case of Edward Thomas." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3812/.

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My Ph.D. is an intervention on three levels: it works on the theoretical level as an investigation into the usefulness of Pascale Casanova’s theory of world literature; it sheds new light on the relation between Welsh and Anglocentric British literary spaces in the twentieth century; and it radically re-positions Edward Thomas, the ‘quintessential English poet’, as a pioneering writer in an Anglophone Welsh literature. This dissertation begins by setting out some revisions to Casanova’s model before investigating whether this modified theory can be applied to dominant and dominated literatures
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Majeske, Andrew J. "Equity in English Renaissance literature : Thomas More [sic] Utopia and Edmund Spenser's The faerie queene /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2003. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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