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Görtz, Stefan. "Realistic simulations of delta wing aerodynamics using novel CFD methods." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-125.

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The overall goal of the research presented in this thesis is to extend the physical understanding of the unsteady external aerodynamics associated with highly maneuverable delta-wing aircraft by using and developing novel, more efficient computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools. More specific, the main purpose is to simulate and better understand the basic fluid phenomena, such as vortex breakdown, that limit the performance of delta-wing aircraft. The problem is approached by going from the most simple aircraft configuration - a pure delta wing - to more complex configurations. As the flow computations of delta wings at high angle of attack have a variety of unusual aspects that make accurate predictions challenging, best practices for the CFD codes used are developed and documented so as to raise their technology readiness level when applied to this class of flows.

Initially, emphasis is put on subsonic steady-state CFD simulations of stand-alone delta wings to keep the phenomenon of vortex breakdown as clean as possible. For half-span models it is established that the essential characteristics of vortex breakdown are captured by a structured CFD code. The influence of viscosity on vortex breakdown is studied and numerical results for the aerodynamic coefficients, the surface pressure distribution and breakdown locations are compared to experimental data where possible.

In a second step, structured grid generation issues, numerical aspects of the simulation of this nonlinear type of flow and the interaction of a forebody with a delta wing are explored.

Then, on an increasing level of complexity, time-accurate numerical studies are performed to resolve the unsteady flow field over half and full-span, stationary delta wings at high angle of attack. Both Euler and Detached Eddy Simulations (DES) are performed to predict the streamwise oscillations of the vortex breakdown location about some mean position, asymmetry in the breakdown location due to the interaction between the left and right vortices, as well as the rotation of the spiral structure downstream of breakdown in a time-accurate manner. The computed flow-field solutions are visualized and analyzed in a virtual-reality environment.

Ultimately, steady-state and time-dependent simulations of a full-scale fighter-type aircraft configuration in steady flight are performed using the advanced turbulence models and the detached-eddy simulation capability of an edge-based, unstructured flow solver. The computed results are compared to flight-test data.

The thesis also addresses algorithmic efficiency and presents a novel implicit-explicit algorithm, the Recursive Projection Method (RPM), for computations of both steady and unsteady flows. It is demonstrated that RPM can accelerate such computations by up to 2.5 times.

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Görtz, Stefan. "Realistic simulations of delta wing aerodynamics using novel CFD methods /." Stockholm, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-125.

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Valerio, Pierfrancesco. "Realistic shear assessment and novel strengthening of existing concrete bridges." Thesis, University of Bath, 2009. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507766.

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The actual shear capacity of existing concrete structures is often unable to meet current standard requirements. This may be attributable to increased load requirements, inadequate shear provisions in the original design or increased demand in shear capacity owing to flexural strengthening. However, available methods of assessment are often conservative, and the actual strength may be sufficient to sustain the specified assessment load. Therefore, it is important that realistic assessment methods are employed. This research comprises an investigation into the shear capacity of prestressed concrete bridges and into the feasibility of a novel strengthening approach, both through comprehensive laboratory experimentation and theoretical analyses. The laboratory testing indicates that the shear capacity of prestressed concrete bridges, post-tensioned transversely to form a deck, can be significantly greater than suggested by the relevant standards. The strengthening method proposed, namely deep embedment of steel or fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) bars, is found to be feasible and very effective for reinforced concrete (RC) and prestressed concrete (PSC) beams of any size. Analytical models based on the upper-bound theorem of plasticity theory are successfully developed and applied, resulting in much more realistic predictions than those from current standards and codes when assessing shear capacity. For the strengthened beams, in addition to an upper-bound model, a strengthening design method based on a truss analogy is developed, which can be directly implemented into codes of practice. The analytical methods permit the assessment of existing longitudinally and laterally prestressed concrete bridges for shear capacity in a rational manner, and then to determine the capacity of a practical shear strengthening system if the bridge turns out to actually be understrength. Use of the proposed methodology will allow significant savings, as the costs associated with replacing or strengthening the structure can be avoided or minimised, encouraging a sustainable approach.
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Lines, Stephen. "The photo-realistic synthesis of novel views from example images." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11034.

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Sesk, David Andrew. "Poetics and the realistic novel, contextual equivalence systems in Michael Ondaatje's In the skin of a lion." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23700.pdf.

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Gautier, Vänskä Aino Elina. "Pour une nouvelle description. Etude textuelle et stylistique des premiers romans d'Alain Robbe-Grillet et de Robert Pinget dans leur relation au protocole descriptif réaliste." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA098.

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Bien que fort différents, les romans des années 1950 d’Alain Robbe-Grillet et les romans des années 1960 de Robert Pinget ont prétendu contester les formes littéraires que le XXe siècle a héritées du siècle précédent, et notamment la description dite « balzacienne ». Nous interrogeons ici les modalités linguistiques de cette contestation et l’ambiguïté littéraire de ce déni d’héritage. La relation entre la description telle que l’ont pratiquée d’une part ces deux « Nouveaux Romanciers » et d’autre part les grands auteurs réalistes du XIXe siècle est ici envisagée selon une triple perspective : le maintien ou non d’une textualité prototypiquement méronymique ; la construction langagière d’une réalité dont l’existence est soudain moins sûre ; l’effacement énonciatif et ses conséquences esthétiques. Selon une approche résolument technique, les descriptions romanesques de Pinget et de Robbe-Grillet sont donc ici systématiquement mises en regard de descriptions canoniques de Balzac, mais aussi de Flaubert et de Zola. La contestation du protocole réaliste repose en effet sur une reprise et un refus : la complexité textuelle, la confusion dénotative et reférentielle, l’instabilité énonciative permettent aux deux romanciers de procurer des descriptions à la fois hyperréalistes et antiréalistes. Tout en prenant acte de la différence radicale des deux auteurs, il s’agit finalement de montrer comment l’un et l’autre sont parvenus à mettre au point un protocole descriptif résolument nouveau, qui rende compte du monde en tant qu’il est et en tant qu’il échappe
Although very different, the novels of the 1950s by Alain Robbe-Grillet and of the 1960s by Robert Pinget claimed to challenge the literary forms that the twentieth century has inherited from the previous century, including the description of Honoré de Balzac. We question here the linguistic modalities of this confrontation, as well as the literary ambiguity of this denial of inheritance.The relationship between the description as have practiced these two "New Novelists" and on the other hand the great realistic writers of the nineteenth century is considered here in a triple perspective: maintenance / defence - or not – of a textuality, which is prototypically based on meronymy ; the linguistic construction of a reality whose existence is suddenly uncertain ; the enunciative erasure and its aesthetic consequences. In a decidedly technical approach, the descriptions of the novels of and Robbe-Grillet and Pinget are systematically opposed to the canonical descriptions of Balzac, but also to some extent to Flaubert and Zola. Challenging the realistic protocol is indeed based both on a recovery and a refusal: the textual complexity, the denotative and referential confusion and the enunciative instability allow these two novelists to provide descriptions which can be considered hyperrealistic as well as antirealistic. Eventually, while acknowledging the radical difference between the two authors, the aim is to show how both writers have managed to develop a considerably new descriptive protocol that reflects the world as it is and as it escapes
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Boulade, Sophie. "Qui ? du roman. Henry Miller, Paul Auster, Michel Houellebecq." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA061.

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La catégorie du roman du qui ? comprend des romans écrits par des romanciers qui ne sont pas strictement contemporains les uns des autres, tels Henry Miller, Paul Auster et Michel Houellebecq. Ces romanciers suggèrent une problématicité de la parole, marquée par des indices référentiels contradictoires et ambigus. Ils compensent l’incertitude de ces indices par la stabilité qu’ils prêtent aux personnages et parce qu’ils se veulent réalistes : ils inscrivent leurs romans nettement dans leur époque et font de leurs personnages les témoins de cette époque. Cette dualité — incertitude du statut de la parole et réalisme — explique qu’au cadre spatial et temporel réaliste soient liés des jeux instables d’énonciation et d’identité. Cela justifie la catégorie de « roman du qui ? » et permet de lire, chez Henry Miller, Paul Auster et Michel Houellebecq, une problématicité, celle de la parole, celle des temps qu’évoquent ces romans
The category of the novel of the whom? includes novels written by novelists who are not strictly contemporaries of each other, such as Henry Miller, Paul Auster and Michel Houellebecq. These novelists suggest a problematics of speech, marked by contradictory and ambiguous referential indices. They compensate the uncertainty of these indices by the stability they lend to the characters and because they want to be realistic: they write their novels clearly in their time and make their characters witnesses of this time. This duality - uncertainty of the status of the speech and realism - explains that the realistic spatial and temporal framework are linked by unstable games of enunciation and identity. This justifies the category of the “novel of the whom?” and allows Henry Miller, Paul Auster and Michel Houellebecq to read a problematic, that of speech, of the times evoked by these novels
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Vladimir, Kirda Bolhorves. "Utopija u delu Herberta Džordža Velsa i Gabrijela Kosteljnika." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Filozofski fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2016. https://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=101178&source=NDLTD&language=en.

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U ovoj disertaciji istražuju se mnogobrojni oblici utopije unekolikim, prvenstveno u književnim segmentima složenog i obimnogopusa H. Dž. Velsa, kao i u nekolikim, prvenstveno u književnimsegmentima ne tako obimnog, ali takođe složenog opusa G. Kosteljnika.Studiju čine trinaest poglavlja.Prvo je uvodno, te se u njemu najpre objašnjavaju predmet, cilj imetodologija istraživanja, a potom se razmatraju najfrekventniji pojmovi:opšta i naučna fantastika, i, iznad svih, glavni pojam, utopija. Osvetljavajuse i njena geneza, i njene karakteristike, i njene funkcije.U drugom poglavlju su najpre izloženi faktori nastajanja, postojanja inestajanja utopija, a u nastavku je prezentirana iscrpna tipologija utopija.U trećem i četvrtom poglavlju govori se o formiranju stvaralačkihličnosti H. Dž. Velsa i G. Kosteljnika.Narednih šest poglavlja ispunjeno je odeljcima putem kojih seosvetljava romaneskno, pripovedačko i diskurzivno (esejističko,sociološko, politikološko, naučnopopularno i publicističko) stvaralaštvo H.Dž. Velsa, kao i poetsko, pripovedačko, dramsko i diskurzivno (esejističko,teološko, književnokritičko, lingvističko i publicističko) stvaralaštvo G.Kosteljnika.Jedanaesto poglavlje je zaključno. U njemu je još jednom razmotrenznačaj utopije uopšte, a naročito u delu dvojice protagonista ove disertacije:H. Dž. Velsa i G. Kosteljnika.
This thesis researches numerous forms of utopia in several, primarilyliterary segments from complex and comprehensive opus of H. G. Wells, aswell as in several, primarily literary segments of not so comprehensive, butalso complex opus of G. Kosteljnik.The study consists of thirteen chapters.The first chapter is introductory, where the subject matter, aim andmethodology of the research are explained, and the most frequent notionsare considered: general fantasy and science fiction, and, above all, the mainnotion, utopia. Some light is being shed on its genesis, its characteristicsand its functions.In the second chapter, the factors for its emergence, existence anddisappearance are presented, along with exhaustive typology of utopias.The tird and fourth chapter deals with formation of creativepersonalities of H. G. Wells and G. Kosteljnik.The following six chapters include the extracts through which Ithrow light on romanesque, narrative and discursive (essayistic,sociological, politicological, popular scientific and publicistic) artisticcreation of H. G. Wells, as well as poetic, narrative, dramatic anddiscursive (essayistic, theological, literary-critical, linguistic andpublicistic) artistic creation of G. Kosteljnik.The eleventh chapter is conclusion. It once again considers thenotion of utopia in general, and particularly in the works of the twoprotagonists of this thesis: H. G. Wells and G. Kosteljnik.
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Corey, Emily. "Beyond Sex: Arotic Desire in the Victorian Realist Novel." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587666198069013.

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Clemens, Lisbeth. "Images of masculinity : ideology and narrative structure in realistic novels for young adults." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85898.

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The development of media and academic debate on "the crisis in masculinity" has led to a growing focus on the lives of teenage boys. Studies done on teenage girls have revealed the physical, emotional, and educational costs of cultural expectations. It is important that similar studies be done to examine the cultural forces which influence the development of a teenage boy's sense of self. This thesis looks at one of these cultural influences---the books boys read.
Using Robert Connell's theoretical approach of hegemonic masculinity and sociologist Blye Frank's work with a group of teenage boys, criteria have been developed for collecting and categorizing images of masculinity in 103 realistic novels for young adults. These images are organized under body image, sport, other recreational proving grounds, relationships with men and women, school, and work; these are cross referenced by four areas of analysis: being male, competition, violence, and sexuality.
The second part of this thesis is concerned with using the theory of narrative discourse analysis, informed by the work of John Stephens, to examine the way in which the ideology of masculinity is mediated by narrative structure. The cultural expectations of the male characters in the novels are compared with experiences of real boys. Race, class, and cultural heritage are all discussed as emerging issues within the study.
The thesis addresses the following questions: Do books written for young adults mirror the subtlety and complexity of boys' choices? Is the ideology present in the books concentrated on reinforcing the hegemonic image? Does this literature provide a "space" for both the readers and the characters to develop their own highly relational form of masculinity?
The thesis concludes that while the images of hegemonic masculinity remain powerful, the majority of novels studied mirror the everyday struggle of real boys, and that generally, ideological statements in the selected novels move beyond reinforcing specific hegemonic images to supporting more general humanistic concerns.
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Hill, Cecily Erin. "Formal Education: Early Children’s Genres, Gender, and the Realist Novel." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429278003.

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Parker, Cynthia Ann. "The malaise of patriarchy : Spanish women's voices in the realist novel /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9840025.

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Anjaria, Keya Shailendra. "The poetics of modernity in the Turkish realist novel, 1950-1960." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.656052.

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Vermeiren, Koenraad. "Under the influence sympathetic narration in the nineteenth-century English realist novel /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. 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:3380146.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2009.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 14, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4692. Adviser: Andrew Miller.
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Buckland, Adelene. "Truth lies hidden deep in Mines : Geology and the Victorian realist novel." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503946.

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Fernandez-Llorente, Esther. "Material morality : success, material culture and the realist novel, 1848 to 1883." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/396524/.

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This thesis explores how the Victorian concept of success – fundamental to Victorians’ understanding of themselves as such – was characterised and problematised by the demonstration of moral worth through material wealth. Critics, including David Trotter, ask ‘under what generic conditions have objects appeared as objects in a literary text?’ (Trotter 2008). I argue that between the 1840s and 1880s it is frequently the reflection of the discourse of success and failure in society, reflected through objects, that gives material things symbolic value within plot and form of realist novels, where success and failure are persistent themes. I analyse gender roles and the circulation of objects to uncover the instabilities of Victorian characterisations of success. Focus within Victorian society on the material qualities of objects and the sense of permanence that they could create led, I argue, to the creation of a Victorian ‘Reality Effect’ (Barthes 1968). Things were emptied of meanings created through their production or circulation in order to signify the moral and material success of their current possessor through an ostensibly uncomplicated materiality which was nonetheless deeply unstable. I suggest that the exhibitionist, performative nature of this culture of success offered a potentially powerful role for middle-class women, which realist novelists challenged on moral and political grounds while making use of its aesthetic. My three chapters trace reflections of this discourse in arenas from the triumphalist ‘public’ sphere of the Great Exhibition to the ostensibly ‘private’ sphere of the home. I evaluate Vanity Fair, Great Expectations, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, Villette and The Portrait of a Lady in particular, but allude to other novels to prove the range and depth of the theme, as well as works by Thomas Carlyle, Karl Marx, and John Ruskin. Through their attitude to Victorian material culture, I attempt to see, as Dehn Gilmore puts it, ‘not what but rather how the Victorians saw’ in this culture of intensely moralised display. This reveals the conflicted attitudes of Victorian realist novelists to the culture of success and its role in the moral, economic and social challenges of Victorian culture.
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Ellenbogen, Sara. "Wittgenstein's account of truth, a novel perspective on the semantic realist/antirealist debate." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0017/NQ53905.pdf.

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Pedersen, Susan. "FROM DISSENT TO DISBELIEF Gaskell, Hardy, and the Development of the English Social Realist Novel." Thesis, Université Laval, 2010. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2010/27724/27724.pdf.

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L’unitarienne Elizabeth Gaskell rejetait les doctrines anglicanes qui aliéneraient Thomas Hardy de sa religion. Elle était aussi championne de plusieurs penseurs qui exerceraient une forte influence sur les convictions d'Hardy. La continuité de la religion de Gaskell avec la vision du monde d'Hardy est évidente dans leurs écritures personnelles et aussi dans leurs romans. L'authenticité de voix que tant Gaskell que Hardy donnent aux caractères marginalisés, et spécialement aux femmes, provient aussi de leurs valeurs chrétiennes communes. Les convictions religieuses des deux auteurs et l'influence de la religion sur leurs travaux ont été abondamment étudiées, mais une comparaison entre elles doit encore être entreprise. Après avoir examiné les liens entre la foi de Gaskell et les convictions d'Hardy, je compare les attitudes des deux auteurs envers la classe dans North and South et The Woodlanders et leurs sympathies envers la femme tombée dans Ruth et Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
As a progressive Unitarian, Elizabeth Gaskell rejected the Anglican doctrines that would later alienate Thomas Hardy from his religion. She also championed many of the thinkers who would exert a strong influence on Hardy’s beliefs. The connection between Gaskell’s religion and Hardy’s worldview is evident in their personal writings and in their novels. The authenticity of voice that both Gaskell and Hardy give to marginalized characters, specifically to women, also springs from their common Christian-based values. Both authors’ religious convictions and the influence of religion on their works have been extensively studied, but a comparison between them has yet to be undertaken. After examining the links between Gaskell’s Unitarianism and Hardy’s beliefs, I compare the two authors’ attitudes towards class in North and South and The Woodlanders and their sympathies with the fallen woman as expressed in Ruth and Tess of the d’Urbervilles to demonstrate their intellectual and artistic affinities.
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Pedersen, Susan. "From dissent to diselief : Gaskell, Hardy, and the development of the English social realist novel." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/21605.

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L’unitarienne Elizabeth Gaskell rejetait les doctrines anglicanes qui aliéneraient Thomas Hardy de sa religion. Elle était aussi championne de plusieurs penseurs qui exerceraient une forte influence sur les convictions d'Hardy. La continuité de la religion de Gaskell avec la vision du monde d'Hardy est évidente dans leurs écritures personnelles et aussi dans leurs romans. L'authenticité de voix que tant Gaskell que Hardy donnent aux caractères marginalisés, et spécialement aux femmes, provient aussi de leurs valeurs chrétiennes communes. Les convictions religieuses des deux auteurs et l'influence de la religion sur leurs travaux ont été abondamment étudiées, mais une comparaison entre elles doit encore être entreprise. Après avoir examiné les liens entre la foi de Gaskell et les convictions d'Hardy, je compare les attitudes des deux auteurs envers la classe dans North and South et The Woodlanders et leurs sympathies envers la femme tombée dans Ruth et Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
As a progressive Unitarian, Elizabeth Gaskell rejected the Anglican doctrines that would later alienate Thomas Hardy from his religion. She also championed many of the thinkers who would exert a strong influence on Hardy’s beliefs. The connection between Gaskell’s religion and Hardy’s worldview is evident in their personal writings and in their novels. The authenticity of voice that both Gaskell and Hardy give to marginalized characters, specifically to women, also springs from their common Christian-based values. Both authors’ religious convictions and the influence of religion on their works have been extensively studied, but a comparison between them has yet to be undertaken. After examining the links between Gaskell’s Unitarianism and Hardy’s beliefs, I compare the two authors’ attitudes towards class in North and South and The Woodlanders and their sympathies with the fallen woman as expressed in Ruth and Tess of the d’Urbervilles to demonstrate their intellectual and artistic affinities.
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Waller, Rhian. "Fantastical journeys : an investigation of magical realist travel fiction, including 'Eithe's Way', a magical realist novel, and 'Fantastical Journeys: a fusion form', a critical thesis." Thesis, Bangor University, 2013. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/fantastical-journeys--an-investigation-of-magical-realist-travel-fiction-including-eithes-way-a-magical-realist-novel-and-fantastical-journeys-a-fusion-form-a-critical-thesis(4c837fb7-f2e7-4d4c-97b6-8463a5b3e4c9).html.

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Magical realism is a mode of literature that does not fit easily in anyone genre. In contrast, travel fiction has existed for so long that it has evolved into a straggling, cross-genre narrative form. Nevertheless, when coupled together, magical realist and travel fiction narratives share in common a number of features that allow the resulting text to traverse, create and challenge notions of space, territory and borders. I theorise that a number of key authors have already harnessed these features to criticise and deconstruct dominant hegemonic ideologies, including those of class, gender inequality and racial constructs. This thesis is an examination and discussion of how the two forms intertwine and complement each other, and how the features and characteristics encountered in one fonn augment and inform the other. I also posit clear examples of the phenomenon of intermingling in established texts. This thesis includes an in-depth discussion of key magical realist travel texts and the production of a new novel. The critical essay stretches to 27,000 words. The novel, a 71,000 word work, is written with these concerns as a central feature. It incorporates travel fiction and magical realist gemes in an attempt to update and re-deploy the form in a contemporary setting. The process of creating both texts necessitated a great deal of background reading from plimary and critical sources. My analysis of source texts and critical texts led to the conclusion that my initial theory was correct. Select examples of travel and magical realist literature employ narrative features to reinforce challenges to the established status-quo. However, the thesis further argues the two forms are interrelated in other ways, containing contradictory elements, a preoccupation with place and identity and the deconstruction and re-creation of myth. These features are also examined and discussed. Analytical reading and the writing of a related novel indicate that the use of magical realism and travel fiction results in a dynamic and effective challenge to the construction of oppressive societal norms.
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Stott, Luke. "Ipseity : using the Social Identity Perspective as a guide to character construction in realist fiction." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2016. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/23379.

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"Instead of studying, for example, how the psychology of personality limits and prevents real social and political change, we should be studying how political and ideological changes create new personalities and individual needs and motives." The above quotation is from social psychologist Professor John Turner, who is one of the two theorists, the other being Henri Tajfel, most responsible for the Social Identity Perspective, the principle subject of this thesis. The Social Identity Perspective is an approach to Social Psychology that incorporates two sub-theories: Tajfel's Social Identity Theory and Turner's Self-Categorization Theory. This thesis is based upon using the perspective for the purposes of creating more realistic and believable fictional characters in realist fiction. For the purposes of this thesis Pam Morris' definition of realism will be used, that being, 'any writing that is based upon an implicit or explicit assumption that it is possible to communicate about a reality beyond the writing.' According to both theories, individuals can develop two principal identities: the personal self, which is to say a collection of idiosyncratic qualities that define them as a unique individual, and a collective self (or social identity) that encapsulates the status and characteristics of the social groups they belong to in opposition to other social groupings. Turner theorised that the personality of a human being is heavily influenced by their social context at an unconscious level. This influence can be made manifest by their parents, by their school friends and work colleagues, by their romantic partners, and especially by the collective cultural expectations native to the area they choose to reside in. Turner put forward the concept that our personality and actions are therefore influenced by society at the level of how the individual defines himself or herself. This occurs without agency on the part of the individual. These social belief systems therefore mould what the individual thinks, their actions, and their motivations. This thesis will demonstrate a method of usage for elements of Social Psychology, specifically the Social Identity Perspective that underpins the actions, interactions and motivations of the fictional characters contained within the thesis's creative element. It is the contention of this thesis that The Social Identity Perspective will assist an author in marrying together ever more realistic characterisation to other areas of writer research already extensively drawn upon by the author such as those projects focused upon creating a more realistic setting in a historical novel for instance. As previously stated it is the intention of this thesis to apply aspects of social psychology to the creation of realist texts only, the findings however may also be of use to authors who write in other genres, after all even the writer of fantastic fiction still requires characters whose actions are fundamentally recognisable and justifiable to the reader in order for them to be able to make sense of the fiction and as Henry James said, 'one can speak best from one's own taste, and I may therefore venture to say the air of reality (solidity of specification) seems to me to be the supreme virtue of a novel'. It is the aim of this thesis that its findings may highlight the potential of using The Social Identity Perspective and other adjuncts of Social Psychology as tools for both plot construction and character development that is completely realistic. This may then lead to other areas of research, some of which are suggested in the concluding chapter of this thesis.
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Vanterpool, Gail. "Bright ambiguities of heaven, fantastic and magic realist elements in the novels of Charles Williams." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq21143.pdf.

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Addei, Cecilia. "Childhoods dis-ordered: Non-realist narrative modes in selected post-2000 West African war novels." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5447.

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This study explores how selected West African war novels employ non-realist narrative modes to portray disruptions in the child’s development into adulthood. The novels considered are Chris Abani’s Song for Night (2007), Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah is Not Obliged (2006), Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation (2005) and Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen and Me (2005). These novels strain at the conventions of realism as a consequence of the attempt to represent the disruptions in child development as a result of the upheavals of war. A core proposition of the study is to present why the authors in question are obliged to employ non-realist modes in representing disrupted childhoods that reflect the social and cultural disorder attendant upon war. The dissertation also asks pertinent questions regarding the ideological effect of these narrative strategies and the effect of the particular stylistic idiosyncrasies of each of the authors in figuring childhood in postcolonial Africa. The novels in question employ surrealism, the absurd, the grotesque and magical realism, in presenting the first person narratives of children in war situations, or the reflections of adult narrators on children affected by war. This study further analyses the ways the aesthetic modes employed by these authors underscore, in particular, children’s experiences of war. Through strategic use of specific literary techniques, these authors highlight questions of vulnerability, powerlessness and violence on children, as a group that has been victimised and co-opted into violence. The study further considers how these narrative transformations in the representations of children in novels, capture transformations in ideas about childhood in postcolonial Africa.
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Maufort, Jessica. "Ecological Magic Realism and Magic Realist Ecopoetics: Storying Place in Postcolonial Canadian and Australasian Novels." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2018. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/276457/5/Contrat.pdf.

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This comparative reading of contemporary Australasian and Canadian fiction privileges a reciprocal interaction between ecocriticism and magic realism within the field of postcolonial studies. My research shows that few works examine magic realism as a distinct aesthetic mode, while many ecocritical and postcolonial studies favour colonialist and pessimistic perspectives. Seeking to balance thematic and aesthetic concerns, my concepts of ecological magic realism and magic realist ecopoetics re-evaluate this still often misunderstood mode: its techniques in postcolonial narratives not only transcribe the cultural plight of the postcolonial subject, but also translate the missing ecological link between the environment and human beings. Informed by ecopoetic reflections on figurative language, Delbaere-Garant’s notion of mythic realism, and material ecocriticism, my concepts take the narrative and physical agency – or poiesis – of the non-human world as their focal point. Recognizing the dialogical web of human and non-human energies raises the issues of eco-imperialism as well as those of environmental and social justice. My thesis discusses two main configurations of ecological magic realism common to Anglo-Celtic and Indigenous texts within my corpus: synergy and crisis. These shifting interspecies relations are explored through the contexts of eco-spiritualities, scientific approaches to Nature, Nature writing, gothic-like metamorphoses, eco-apocalypse, and the Anthropocene. Rejecting dualistic worldviews, magic realism in these collaborative or competitive humans/Nature interactions remains ambivalent: on the one hand, it re-enacts human beings’ failed embeddedness in their non-human surroundings; on the other, it also re-opens the possibility of a mutually-enriching symbiosis.
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Chalykoff, Lisa. "Space and identity formation in twentieth-century Canadian realist novels : recasting regionalism within Canadian literary studies." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ56523.pdf.

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Freire, Zélia Ramona Nolasco dos Santos. "A concepção de arte em Lima Barreto e Leon Tolstói : divergências e convergências /." Assis : [s.n.], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94029.

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Resumo: A presente tese tem por objetivo avaliar a concepção de arte dos escritores Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881-1922) e Leon Tolstói (1828-1910) sob um viés comparatista, em busca das divergências e convergências entre ambos. Concepção de arte que apresentam nas respectivas obras, "O destino da literatura" e O que é Arte?. Os escritores desempenharam o papel de "semeador de idéias" e de "batedor do futuro" ao se posicionarem contrários aos "mandarins literários". Uma arte voltada para o social, aliás, uma literatura militante. Lima Barreto criou uma arte literária que rompeu com os moldes convencionais na virada do século XIX, que tinha como principais representantes: Machado de Assis, Rui Barbosa, Coelho Neto, entre outros; enquanto Leon Tolstói rompeu com a poética romântica e o realismo francês. Ambos foram, terminantemente, contrários à estética da arte pela arte. A referência aos escritores russos é constante na obra barretiana, até porque Lima Barreto jamais omitiu suas leituras. Desde o romance Vida e Morte de M. J. Gonzaga de Sá, o primeiro a ser escrito por Lima, é possível detectar a presença de Leon Tolstói. Presença essa que permeia todo o projeto literário de Lima Barreto e que se faz sentir através da posição que ambos assumem em relação a temas em comum, tais como: a Propriedade, a Igreja, o Estado, a educação da mulher, o serviço militar obrigatório, entre outros. Revelando assim, um eixo em comum: o ideário anarquista. Mas, principalmente, por refletirem sobre a função da literatura e o fazer literário.
Abstract: This dissertation was carried out to evaluate the conception of art found in the works of Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881-1922) and Leo Tolstoi (1828 -1910) according to a comparative point-of-view, in order to find out agreements and disagreements between them. Conception of art found in their works "O destino da literatura" and "O que é Arte?". Both writers played the role of "sowers of ideas" and "beaters of the future" as they put up opposition to the so-called "literary mandarins". An art oriented to the social issue, that is, a militant literature. Lima Barreto created a literary art which broke off the ties with conventional models in the turn of the 19th century, whose main representatives were Machado de Assis, Rui Barbosa, Coelho Neto, among others; Leo Tolstoi, in his turn, broke off the ties with Romantic poetry and French Realism. Both were utterly opposed to the esthetics of art for art's sake. References to Russian writers are often found in Lima Barreto's works, since he never omitted his readings. As early as his first novel Vida e Morte de M. J. Gonzaga de Sá, one can notice Leo Tolstoi's influence. Influence which permeates all of his literary project and which is felt through the opposition both writers assume in connection with issues they have in common such as: Property, the Church, the State, women's education, obligatory military draft, among others. Thus, they showed the axis they had in common: the anarchist belief system. But, mainly, because they pondered over the function and the making of literature.
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Hester, Hillary Dawn. "Breaking the Bonds of Silence: The Immigrant Experience in Magical Realist Novels of Katherine Vaz and Chitra Divakaruni." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2003. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-1108103-143649/unrestricted/HesterH120803f.pdf.

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Freire, Zélia Ramona Nolasco dos Santos [UNESP]. "A concepção de arte em Lima Barreto e Leon Tolstói: divergências e convergências." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94029.

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A presente tese tem por objetivo avaliar a concepção de arte dos escritores Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881-1922) e Leon Tolstói (1828-1910) sob um viés comparatista, em busca das divergências e convergências entre ambos. Concepção de arte que apresentam nas respectivas obras, “O destino da literatura” e O que é Arte?. Os escritores desempenharam o papel de “semeador de idéias” e de “batedor do futuro” ao se posicionarem contrários aos “mandarins literários”. Uma arte voltada para o social, aliás, uma literatura militante. Lima Barreto criou uma arte literária que rompeu com os moldes convencionais na virada do século XIX, que tinha como principais representantes: Machado de Assis, Rui Barbosa, Coelho Neto, entre outros; enquanto Leon Tolstói rompeu com a poética romântica e o realismo francês. Ambos foram, terminantemente, contrários à estética da arte pela arte. A referência aos escritores russos é constante na obra barretiana, até porque Lima Barreto jamais omitiu suas leituras. Desde o romance Vida e Morte de M. J. Gonzaga de Sá, o primeiro a ser escrito por Lima, é possível detectar a presença de Leon Tolstói. Presença essa que permeia todo o projeto literário de Lima Barreto e que se faz sentir através da posição que ambos assumem em relação a temas em comum, tais como: a Propriedade, a Igreja, o Estado, a educação da mulher, o serviço militar obrigatório, entre outros. Revelando assim, um eixo em comum: o ideário anarquista. Mas, principalmente, por refletirem sobre a função da literatura e o fazer literário.
This dissertation was carried out to evaluate the conception of art found in the works of Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881-1922) and Leo Tolstoi (1828 -1910) according to a comparative point-of-view, in order to find out agreements and disagreements between them. Conception of art found in their works “O destino da literatura” and “O que é Arte?”. Both writers played the role of “sowers of ideas” and “beaters of the future” as they put up opposition to the so-called “literary mandarins”. An art oriented to the social issue, that is, a militant literature. Lima Barreto created a literary art which broke off the ties with conventional models in the turn of the 19th century, whose main representatives were Machado de Assis, Rui Barbosa, Coelho Neto, among others; Leo Tolstoi, in his turn, broke off the ties with Romantic poetry and French Realism. Both were utterly opposed to the esthetics of art for art’s sake. References to Russian writers are often found in Lima Barreto’s works, since he never omitted his readings. As early as his first novel Vida e Morte de M. J. Gonzaga de Sá, one can notice Leo Tolstoi’s influence. Influence which permeates all of his literary project and which is felt through the opposition both writers assume in connection with issues they have in common such as: Property, the Church, the State, women’s education, obligatory military draft, among others. Thus, they showed the axis they had in common: the anarchist belief system. But, mainly, because they pondered over the function and the making of literature.
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Oersen, Sheridene Barbara. "The representation of women in four of Naguib Mahfouz's realist novels: Palace walk, Palace of desire, Sugar street and Midaq alley." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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This thesis involved the various discourses around Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz's representation of women in four of his most well-known novels, which were originally written in Arabic. At the one extreme, he is described as a feminist writer who takes up an aggressive anti-patriarchal stance, delivering a multi-faceted critique on Egyptian society. Mahfouz's personal milieu, as well as the broader social context in which he finds himself, was given careful consideration. It was also considered whether the genre in which the four novels have been written has a significant influence on the manner in which Mahfouz has represented his female characters.
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Dycus, Dallas. "Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: Honing the Hybridity of the Graphic Novel." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/47.

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The genre of comics has had a tumultuous career throughout the twentieth century: it has careened from wildly popular to being perceived as the source of society’s ills. Despite having been relegated to the lowest rung of the artistic ladder for the better part of the twentieth century, comics has been gaining in quality and respectability over the last couple of decades. My introductory chapter provides a broad, basic introduction to the genre of comics––its historical development, its different forms, and a survey of comics criticism over the last thirty years. In chapter two I clarify the nature of comics by comparing it to literature, film, and pictorial art, thereby highlighting its hybrid nature. It has elements in common with all of these, and yet it is a distinct genre. My primary focus is on Chris Ware, whom I introduce in chapter three, a brilliant creator who has garnered widespread recognition and respect. His magnum opus is Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, the story of four generations of Corrigan men, most of whom have been negligent in raising their children. Jimmy Corrigan, as a result, is an introverted, insecure thirty–something–year–old man. Among comics creators Ware is unusual in that his story does not address socio–political issues, like most of his peers, which I discuss in chapter four. Jimmy Corrigan is an isolated tale with a very specific focus. Ware’s narrative is somewhat like those of William Faulkner, whose stories have a narrow focus, revolving around the lives of the inhabitants of Yoknapatawpha county, rather than encompassing the vast landscape of national socio–political concerns. Also, in chapter five I explore the intriguing combination of realist and Gothic elements––normally at opposite ends of the generic continuum––that Ware merges in Jimmy Corrigan. This feature is especially interesting because it is another way that his work explores aspects of hybridity. Finally, in my conclusion I examine the current state of comics in American culture and its future prospects for development and success, as well as the potential for future comics criticism.
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Beinstingel, Thierry. "La représentation du travail dans les récits français depuis la fin des Trente Glorieuses." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017UBFCH024/document.

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Le sujet du travail dans la littérature française connaît un renouveau depuis la fin des Trente glorieuses. Groupé au départ autour de quelques livres emblématiques, il se dégage au cours des années suivantes une polysémie d’expression dont l’unité semble difficile à appréhender. Cependant, une littérarité spécifique à ce sujet se développe et montre une créativité souvent originale, reconnue comme une particularité au milieu de toute la production littéraire. Semblant hésiter en permanence sur la meilleure manière de relater les activités humaines, les écrivains doivent justifier leur place et leur statut beaucoup plus pour le sujet du travail que pour n’importe quel autre. La notion de fiction est ainsi bousculée et hésite en permanence entre l’ancrage dans le monde réel et la manière romancée. Le travail, identifié jusqu’alors comme le sujet spécifique d’une littérature réaliste existante depuis Zola, est en passe de devenir un sujet neutre dans un romanesque banalisé
There has been a resurgence of interest in the theme of work, since the end of the Thirty Glorious Years. Initially centered on a few emblematic works, there has emerged in subsequent years, multifaceted forms of expression that do not lend themselves easily to unifying categorisation. However, a specific literariness has emerged on this theme that reflects an originality that is unique within the realm of literary production. Whilst all writers hesitate about the best means to narrate human activities, those who write about work face particular difficulties in defining their position and status. The notion of fiction itself is challenged as it shifts between the domain of the real and the imaginary. Although the theme of work had been identified with realist literature since the time of Zola, it has since become a neutral subject in a trivialised corpus of fiction
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Woo, Chimi. "Cross-Cultural Encounter And The Novel: Nation, Identity, And Genre In Nineteenth-Century British Literature." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1204725332.

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Langendorfer, Anne Therese. "Feeling Real: Emotion in the Novels of William Dean Howells and Henry James." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1499858033212105.

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Martins, Israel Pompeu Farias. "Madri: matéria novelable em Fortunata y Jacinta de Benito Pérez Galdós." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/4734.

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La Madrid galdosiana es un lugar que potencializa una experiencia estética, donde las relaciones que en ella se construyen nos llaman a mirar su estructura, configuración y materialidad, estableciendo así, relaciones políticas, sociales, artísticas y sus interferencias en el tiempo histórico. Pérez Galdós funde su visión de Madrid del siglo XIX a las técnicas formales a las que recurre para expresar adecuadamente esa visión. El tema, la estructura, el enredo, los personajes, los espacios se convierten en agentes empleados por Pérez Galdós para vitalizar su propia percepción de la ciudad. Pérez Galdós puede ser considerado el primer autor español de novela de la gran ciudad que aborda Madrid como fuente y objeto del texto literario. El presente estudio tiene por finalidad analizar la representación de la ciudad de Madrid en Fortunata y Jacinta (1887), abordando, principalmente, las relaciones entre espacio y personajes. Como Pérez Galdós sistematiza la relación espacio-tiempo dentro de una dimensión histórica y social de la novela. Además, analizamos la presencia de frontera y sus implicaciones en la espacialidade de la novela. Es la literatura y en especial, la novela haciendo una interconexión entre arte y sociedad, estética y vida. Así, este trabajo pretende analizar el espacio representado en el texto literario debido al hecho de vincularse con las identidades sociales específicas, cuyos valores se confunden con el propio espacio, valor cuya resonancia simbólica juzgamos relevante dentro y fuera del universo literario.
A Madri galdosiana é um lugar que potencializa uma experiência estética, onde as relações que nela se constroem chamam-nos a olhar sua estrutura, configuração e materialidade, estabelecendo assim, relações políticas, sociais, artísticas e suas interferências no tempo histórico. Pérez Galdós funde sua visão social da Madri oitocentista às técnicas formais a que recorre para expressar adequadamente essa mesma visão. O tema, a estrutura, o enredo, as personagens, os espaços se tornam agentes empregados por Pérez Galdós para vitalizar sua própria percepção da cidade. Pérez Galdós pode ser considerado o primeiro autor espanhol de romances da grande cidade que aborda Madri como fonte e objeto do texto literário. O presente estudo tem por finalidade analisar a representação de Madri no romance Fortunata y Jacinta (1887), abordando, principalmente, as relações entre espaço e personagens. Como Pérez Galdós sistematiza a relação espaço-tempo dentro da dimensão histórica e social do romance. Além disso, analisamos a presença da fronteira e suas implicações na espacialidade do romance. É a literatura e em especial, o romance interligando arte e sociedade, estética e vida. Assim, esse trabalho pretende analisar o espaço representado no texto literário em função do fato de se vincular com as identidades sociais específicas, cujos valores se confundem com o próprio espaço, valor cuja ressonância simbólica julgamos relevante dentro e fora do universo literário.
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Pimentel, A. Rose. "'The divine voice within us' : the reflective tradition in the novels of Jane Austen and George Eliot." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2583.

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This thesis argues that a ‘tradition of moral analysis’ between Jane Austen and George Eliot — a common ground which has been identified by critics from F.R. Leavis to Gillian Beer, but never fully explored — can be illuminated by turning to what this thesis calls ‘the reflective tradition’. In the eighteenth century, ideas about reflection provided a new and influential way of thinking about the human mind; about how we come to know ourselves and the world around us through the mind. The belief in the individual to act as his/her own guide through the cultivation of a reflective mind and attentiveness to a reflective voice emerges across a wide range of discourses. This thesis begins with an examination of reflection in the philosophy, children’s literature, novels, poetry, educational tracts and sermons that would have been known to Austen. It then defines Austen’s development of reflective dynamics by looking at her six major novels; finally, it analyzes Middlemarch to define Eliot’s proximity to this aspect of Austen’s art. The thesis documents Eliot’s reading of Austen through the criticism of G. H. Lewes to support a reading of Eliot’s assimilation of an Austenian attention to mental processes in her novels. Reflection is at the heart of moral life and growth for both novelists. This thesis corrects a tendency in Austen’s reception to focus on the mimetic aspect of her art, thereby overlooking the introspective sense of reflection. It offers new insights into Austen’s and Eliot’s work, and it contributes to an understanding of the development of the realist novel and the ethical dimension in the role of the novel reader.
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Cárdenas, Moreno Mónica. "Genre et société à Lima pendant la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle : analyse de l'oeuvre de Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (1842-1909)." Phd thesis, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00979746.

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Pendant la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, Lima était une ville en train de se moderniser grâce à la richesse du guano. Dans les années 1870 émerge un groupe de femmes de lettres qui s'appuient sur la presse et les institutions littéraires. Elles trouvent des espaces ouverts à leur expression artistique et à leurs idées comme les Veladas Literarias. Après la Guerre du Pacifique (1879-1883), après l'occupation de la ville de Lima par l'armée chilienne, quelques intellectuels ont évolué vers une écriture plus critique de la société. Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (1842-1909) est la première romancière au Pérou avec une production très importante. Elle construit ses romans à partir d'un regard sociologique sur la condition de la femme, car elle croit que de cela dépend la transformation morale de la société, et par conséquent le progrès.Nous développons notre recherche en trois parties. Dans la première, nous nous occupons du contexte politique, social et culturel et de l'éducation en particulier des femmes de lettres comme Cabello. Dans la deuxième partie, nous analysons les articles et les six romans de Cabello divisés en trois périodes (les romans traditionnels, les romans de la réécriture et les romans de la transgression) ; finalement, dans la dernière partie, nous établissons une comparaison avec d'autres femmes de lettres de l'époque : Soledad Acosta, Colombienne, et Emilia Pardo Bazán, pour distinguer la singularité du réalisme péruvien, et la représentation de la femme, par rapport à la production littéraire d'autres pays hispanophones.
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"Footwork: A Novel." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2015-09-2231.

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My thesis is a contemporary realistic novel using alternating perspectives. Footwork explores the modern day-to-day struggles and temptations that face monogamous relationships. How do we negotiate truth within society and expectations that others have of us? What are the deals we make with ourselves and each other in order to live within society? Footwork examines how truth and pain interact. Does truth always have to come forward at the cost of pain? There are three books that represent the contemporary cannon where Footwork could be situated. Infidelity by Stacey May Fowles encompasses alternate perspectives and deals with an affair as the central theme. Love and the Mess We’re In by Stephen Marche focuses on two perspectives of an affair and much of the book uses dialogue with the characters’ inner thoughts also written. Roddy Doyle’s The Snapper concentrates on a dysfunctional family, infidelity and is primarily dialogue. All three novels explore realistic portrayals of truth and infidelity. Footwork goes further by examining the intricacies of how people deal with deception and also forces the reader to have an emotional reaction. One of the ways this emotional reaction is achieved is by Footwork primarily being written in dialogue form. The dialogue encourages the reader to become emotionally invested in the characters’ struggles. The novel does not employ flashbacks, but instead focuses on the immediacy of the characters’ lives to create a story authentic to contemporary relationships. Footwork also uses alternating perspectives as a device to make the reader question which character he/she should be fighting for or against. All the characters have motives for why and how they deceive. The reader understands one character’s perspective only to be challenged by another character’s perspective. All three main characters at the end of Footwork find and/or speak their truth despite the pain that is inflicted.
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Suresh, S. "Novel Concepts In Divisible Load Scheduling With Realistic System Constraints." Thesis, 2005. http://etd.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2005/1479.

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Sood, Neeraj. "Realistic Assessment of Novel Wireless Systems with Ray-tracing Based Techniques." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32492.

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Ray tracing based on geometric optics can be utilized for generating propagation models for arbitrary and complex environments. These methods can be employed to determine important wireless channel characteristics such as path gain and the channel impulse response which in turn can be used to deduce channel capacity. In this thesis, a fully vectorial 3-D ray-tracer is developed. The simulator is applied to study novel wireless systems such as ultra-wideband pulse propagation in complex railway tunnels and MIMO systems employing closely spaced low mutual coupling meta-material antennas. The computational complexity of the ray-tracing algorithm is reduced using optimizations and via the development of a novel hybrid method that combines the efficiency and accuracy of waveguide models with the flexibility of a ray-tracer. The resulting simulator is validated against measured results and demonstrated to show good agreement. Convergence of the solution using the ray-tracing method is also discussed.
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Sidhu, Reetinder P. S. "Novel Energy Transfer Computation Techniques For Radiosity Based Realistic Image Synthesis." Thesis, 1995. http://etd.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2005/1737.

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Cheng, Wan-ju, and 鄭婉茹. "Sung Tse-Lai''s realistic solicitude in the novel study." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13979258961231278517.

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國立臺南大學
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The main scope of the study is Sung Tse-Lai''s realistic solicitude in the novel. The main area of research in this paper focused on the achievement Sung Tse-lai literary position of five native realist novels, "Da Niou Nan Cun", "Deng Dai Deng Long Hua Kai Shih", "Peng Lai Jhih Yi", "Bian Cian De Niou Tiao Wan", "Gu Cheng Su Miao" and the three political magical realist novels after silence for some time, "Fei Syu Tai Wan", "Sie Se Bian Fu Jiang Lin De Cheng Shih", "Re Dai Mo Jie". Finishing implication of realistic concern in the novel dealt with, in accordance with the care oriented to be summed up, and supported by the prevailing social situation of historical data, as well as major events or policies for corroboration through analysis can show Sung Tse-Lai caring social consciousness in the novels. This paper will explore the novels of Sung Tse-lai, writing about the reality of caring what? These writing as background transfers, changes in social structures, as well as different life experiences of writer, concerns what happened to the aspect, expect to understand the profound view of the Sung Tse-lai, living in social real scene appearance and works, to highlight the significance of the area of the novels. The local realism period in the novel of Sung Tse-lai, to cherish the memory of the original township scenery, memories of childhood saw, in addition to rural areas outside the more extensive description of the underlying social reality of the port city, town. Novel of magical realism period, broad perspective, not just a small town in the past, but as large as the future of the nation as a whole in the past, even from the society in the future look now, but still tightly held hostage to Taiwan''s history and environment. Through analysis of the two periods referred to in the novels of social phenomena and life of the masses, and widely collected social problems faced in different times, used as grounds to write a study of the important parameter. Hope that through the perspective of the reality of caring, through the works of these two periods, to confirm the works of fiction in the Sung Tse-lai, the breadth and depth of real concern, let us understand the works implies the number of writers on the growth of land a strong concern.
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Badie, Nima. "The Roles of Realistic Cardiac Structure in Conduction and Conduction Block: Studies of Novel Micropatterned Cardiac Cell Cultures." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/3032.

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The role of cardiac tissue structure in both normal and abnormal impulse conduction has been extensively studied by researchers in cardiac electrophysiology. However, much is left unknown on how specific micro- and macroscopic structural features affect conduction and conduction block. Progress in this field is constrained by the inability to simultaneously assess intramural cardiac structure and function, as well as the intrinsic complexity and variability of intact tissue preparations. Cultured monolayers of cardiac cells, on the other hand, present a well-controlled in vitro model system that provides the necessary structural and functional simplifications to enable well-defined studies of electrical phenomena. In this thesis, I developed a novel, reproducible cell culture system that accurately replicates the realistic microstructure of cardiac tissues. This system was then applied to systematically explore the influence of natural structure (e.g. tissue boundaries, expansions, local fiber directions) on normal and arrhythmogenic electrical conduction.

Specifically, soft lithography techniques were used to design cell cultures based on microscopic DTMRI (diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging) measurements of fiber directions in murine ventricles. Protein micropatterns comprised of mosaics of square pixels with angled lines that followed in-plane cardiac fiber directions were created to control the adhesion and alignment of cardiac cells on a two-dimensional substrate. The high accuracy of cell alignment in the resulting micropatterned monolayers relative to the original DTMRI-measured fiber directions was validated using immunofluorescence and image processing techniques.

Using this novel model system, I first examined how specific structural features of murine ventricles influence basic electrical conduction. (1) Realistic ventricular tissue boundaries, either alone or with (2) microscopic fiber directions were micropatterned to distinguish their individual functional roles in action potential propagation. By optically mapping membrane potentials and applying low-rate pacing from multiple sites in culture, I found that ventricular tissue boundaries and fiber directions each shaped unique spatial patterns of impulse propagation and additively increased the spatial dispersion of conduction velocity.

To elucidate the roles that natural tissue structure play in arrhythmogenesis, I applied rapid-rate pacing from multiple sites in culture in an attempt to induce unidirectional conduction block remote from the pacing site--a precursor to reentry. The incidence of remote block was found to be highly dependent on the direction of wave propagation relative to the underlying tissue structure, and with a susceptibility that was synergistically increased by both realistic tissue boundaries and fiber directions. Furthermore, all instances of remote block in these micropatterned cultures occurred at the anterior and posterior junctions of the septum and right ventricular free wall. At these sites, rapid excitation yielded more abrupt conduction slowing and promoted wavefront-waveback interactions that ultimately evolved into transmural lines of conduction block. The location and shape of these lines of block was found to strongly correlate with the spatial distribution of the electrotonic source-load mismatches introduced by ventricular structures, such as tissue expansions and sharp turns in fiber direction.

In summary, the overall objective of the work described in this thesis was to reveal the distinct influences of realistic cardiac tissue structure on action potential conduction and conduction block by engineering neonatal rat cardiomyocyte monolayers that reproducibly replicated the anatomical details of murine ventricular cross-sections. In the future, this novel model system is expected to further our understanding of structure-function relationships in normal and structurally diseased hearts, and possibly enable the development of novel gene, cell, and ablation therapies for cardiac arrhythmias.


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Liao, Jian-xiong, and 廖健雄. "Two Kinds of Realistic Route--A Dissertation On The Mutual Influences Of The "New Novel" and "Essays" During The late Ching and Early Republican Era." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35399180397727681642.

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Glovinsky, Will. "Unfeeling Empire: The Realist Novel in Imperial Britain." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-4cyr-hb47.

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This dissertation considers the role of affective management in realist aesthetics and British imperial culture. Drawing on formalist analyses of English novels, nineteenth-century theories of emotion, and postcolonial accounts that identify the colonizer’s affective desensitization as the ground from which ongoing violence can be perpetrated, this study explores how domestic English novels developed new techniques for deflating the heightened feelings surrounding empire and distant intimacy. Through satires of sensibility, the replacement of epistolary style with impersonal omniscience, and newly dispassionate presentations of villains and protagonists alike, realist novelists explored affective restraint as at once a generic characteristic and an increasingly central element of British imperial and racial identities. This dissertation therefore argues, through readings of works by Jane Austen, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, and Joseph Conrad, for the deep influence of imperial culture on the realist novel’s distinguishing formal features. At the same time, it prompts critics to revisit longstanding accounts of the relationship between the novel and sympathy. Since the Victorian era, critics have readily understood the realist novel as concerned with the expansion of readers’ sympathies: this study reframes this important account by examining how the insistence on sympathy in novels often rerouted more turbulent reactions to empire’s dislocations—such as longing, desire for vengeance, and guilt—into cooler, more tractable feelings.
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Lo, Chia-Chen, and 羅佳辰. "THE SLIT OF THE REALISTIC──The Research of Ciou Miao-Jin’s novels." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jwdr6t.

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This paper will compare “The diary of Ciou Miao-Jin” and the other Ciou Miao-Jin’s novels in order to discuss the issue that these novels are not her autobiography but her fiction created by the prototype of diary. Ciou Miao-Jin applies the prototype of diary to her fiction which reconstructs the enthusiasm and passion of death by deconstructing her diary.The methods Ciou Miao-Jin creates her fiction, such as notes, diaries and epistolary, are imitation and representation of her traumatic experiences from erotic passion, reality and betrayal. The publication of “The diary of Ciou Miao-Jin” shows us how “The crocodile Note” and “Montmartre posthumous letter” create her fiction which is basic on the reality.
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Liseţchi, Cristina. "A Contemporary Representation of Reality: the Hysterical Realist Novel." Master's thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/20427.

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Literary critics are faced with the difficult task of categorizing a wide corpus of contemporary narratives that have conquered the hearts of millions of readers worldwide, through their sardonic way of representing today’s reality and their particular interpretation of the novel’s traditional form. It is the case of hysterical realist novels, a new literary genre that constitutes the object of this present study, which explores the main aspects of this type of narratives by considering their perspective of the world and their means of achieving the effect of reality. The research commences with an overview of the main theories that have shaped literary realism as we know it today, with a primary emphasis on the reader-response approach and its corresponding methods. The textual analysis employs some of these theories in order to discuss why hysterical realist novels fail to convince the readers of their verisimilitude, despite of the fact that their stories comply with the laws of logic and plausibility. One of the main findings highlights the idea that fulfilling the condition of truthfulness within the internal world of the novel does not guarantee a realist actualization of the text, as the reader fails to displace the presented facts within his own observed reality. This is the result of an overuse of reality, as these novels display complicated webs of events that incorporate a large quantity of interconnected characters, in this way trying to accomplish their task of pinning down the latest cultural tendencies of today’s constantly changing society. The research also offers the perspective of hysterical realist authors on the form of the contemporary novel, and discusses the way in which these authors reinterpret the traditional function of paratextual elements in order to reinforce their authority as reliable sources of knowledge.
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Belgum, Kirsten L. "Interior meaning the design of the bourgeois home in the realist novel /." 1989. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/21172751.html.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1989.
Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 322-342).
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Wang, Gui-Qi, and 王瑰琦. "Estudio analitico de la novela realista "Pepita Jimenez" de Juan Valera." Thesis, 1986. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94570971735035409158.

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"?Historias no narradas? Intencion y forma en la novela realista espanola." Tulane University, 2002.

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Compared to the transparency characteristic of a non-literary work, literary texts are aesthetic craftings where meaning often gets expressed in a concealed way. In narrative, two of the most distinguished features are the linear organization of events and the telling itself of those events. When analyzed as part of a larger context, each narrative is irremediably connected to time, author, and conscious or subconsciously, to ideology itself This dissertation attempts to study, some of the different shapes modern 'realist novels' develop through a semiotic study and reinterpretation of four intriguing texts: Juan Valera's Pepita Jimenez and Emilia Pardo Bazan's Los pazos de Ulloa in the 19th century, Nada by Carmen Laforet and Miguel Delibes' Cinco horas con Mario in the 20th. My point of departure is the examination of modern literature not as the diaphanous, impartial activity which a committed, progresist author would like to say he or she embarks in, but as terrain of potential ideological conflict that needs of careful resolution between creator, characters, reader and text Beyond the main story, in the four texts selected there is a latent, difficult conflict, extratextual in nature, which is not presented openly. It surfaces as a second 'narrative,' told in a subtle way but revealing important information about the ideological frame from which the writing emerged. My interest lies in the analysis of the narrative strategies devised in order to present and handle a similar human struggle---the conflict between love and power---and whether or not we can consider them successful in the end. Product or reaction to the constraints intrinsic in ideology, the internal coherence of each text is more completely determined by what it excludes as much as what it includes: how and which events get narrated are ultimately, for us readers, as important as the (apparent) story itself
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Erwin, Zachary Thomas. "Uneven Modernities, Uneven Masculinities: Manliness and the Galician Hinterland in the Novels of Emilia Pardo Bazán (1882-1896)." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/3103.

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The late-nineteenth-century realist canon in Spain is filled with male characters who are physically weak, effeminate, ineffectual, infantilized, or impotent, and, thus, decidedly "unmanly," which indicates a collective societal anxiety about masculinity in Spain at the end of the nineteenth century. I argue that this anxiety about masculinity stems from another societal worry about Spain's backwardness with respect to its more modern European neighbors and the uneven rate of modernization with its own borders. I explore these issues in four novels by Galician-born realist author Emilia Pardo Bazán: La Tribuna (1882), Los Pazos de Ulloa (1886), La Madre Naturaleza (1887), and Memorias de un solterón (1896). I analyze these texts in light of historical and theoretical work on post-Enlightenment masculinity by scholars, such as George Mosse, John Tosh, Christopher Forth, and R. W. Connell.

In the first chapter, I trace the development of the post-Enlightenment, Western, model of manliness, a primarily urban, bourgeois phenomenon, which privileged rational intellect and individual hard work. I then compare the pace and extent of modernization in Spain and England to show how Spain lacked the material conditions that would allow most Spanish men to embody modern masculinity in the late nineteenth century. For the remaining chapters, I turn my attention to Los Pazos de Ulloa, La Madre Naturaleza, and Memorias de un solterón. Each of these novels shows, in different ways, how the modern masculine ideal coexists and conflicts with other pre-Enlightenment models of manliness--based on aristocratic leisure, military prowess, or brute force. I argue that the problems faced by the male characters in these novels are a direct result of this clash of masculinities, which in turn reflects Spain's economic stagnation in the nineteenth century. In Chapter II, I show how the refusal of the rural, Galician aristocracy to embrace certain hallmarks of the modern masculine ideal, such as hard work and Enlightenment thought, leads to a destabilization of feudal hierarchies in Los Pazos de Ulloa. I then argue that this destabilization results in the pervasiveness of violence in the novel. Chapter III focuses on La Madre Naturaleza. I contend that its narrator recognizes that change must come to rural Galicia and, thus, makes a gesture toward reconciling traditional and modern values, as well as pre-Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment models of masculinity. I then show how this reconciliation ultimately fails because the narrator condemns the social mobility upon which modernization and modern masculinity depend. In Chapter IV, I discuss the importance of marriage and fatherhood to the enactment of modern masculinity in Memorias de un solterón. I then illustrate how, in the Galician provincial capital in which the novel is set, social and economic conditions make life as a bourgeois husband and father undesirable at best, and ruinous at worst.


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