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Tovey, Paige Elaine. "Countless cross-fertilizations : Gary Snyder as a Post-Romantic poet." Thesis, Durham University, 2011. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/672/.
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This thesis examines Romantic (including American Transcendentalist) legacies in the poetry of Gary Snyder. It traces connections and conversations between Snyder and his Romantic predecessors, especially Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Emerson and Thoreau, and it seeks to demonstrate the workings of what Snyder himself calls “cross-fertilizations.” Snyder’s understanding of cultural influence is based on the Buddhist concept of interconnection. My thesis applies Snyder’s recurrent theme of interconnection and interdependence to his own relationship with Romantic visions, ideas and forms. Through examining Snyder’s poetic achievements in the light of the Romantic tradition, the thesis attempts to deepen current understanding of his work by suggesting that he should be considered not only as an ecological, post-modern or Beat poet, but also and centrally as a post-Romantic writer. My thesis is structured upon four main, interlocking concerns: eco-Romanticism, the Romantic poet as visionary and prophet, Romantic poetic form, and mountains and rivers as holistic Romantic emblems. It covers a wide range of Snyder’s poetry and prose from across his career in relation to these concerns. The first two chapters, centred on eco-Romanticism, address Snyder’s ecological inheritance from the Romantics; they examine the British Romantic pastoral tradition alongside Snyder’s contemporary eco-Romantic verse. Chapters Three and Four build on the poet’s sense of necessary individuality by focusing on the Romantic role of the poet as prophet in Snyder’s work. They trace the notion inherited from Romanticism of the poet who is conflicted by divergent roles: isolated visionary seer, on the one hand, and the prophetic poet whose role is to speak to and for society, on the other. In my chapters (Five and Six) on the forms through which the post-Romantic poet expresses his vision, I take as my point of departure Shelley’s assertion, from A Defence of Poetry, that “every great poet must inevitably innovate upon the example of his predecessors in the exact structure of his peculiar versification,” and I examine how Snyder’s “peculiar versification” follows and yet innovates upon the tradition of experimental and unconventional form set forth by his Romantic predecessors in such seminal works as Lyrical Ballads. In my final two chapters, I bring the thesis to a close by focusing on Snyder’s use of two Romantic emblems, mountains and rivers, as dialectical, interdependent elements of nature. Responding to their interaction, Snyder renews Romantic modes of representing the universe and the mind. The thesis draws on other American poets (including Williams, Pound and Stevens) in studying how a major American poet has shaped his art, meanings and identity out of a Romantic and post-Romantic poetic and cultural tradition.
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Pepper, Allison M. "Ishmael the dissolution of a romantic and the emergence of a poet /." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2002. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0711102-124143/unrestricted/PepperA072402.pdf.
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Gibson, Matthew Ian. "Yeats and Coleridge : the identity of the poet and romantic metaphors of mind." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389030.
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Estevez, Cristina. "Creating identity : the role of George Gordon, Lord Byron, in realizing the Romantic poet." FIU Digital Commons, 2009. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3279.
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The Romantic Age in literature was a time of change and revision, especially in the world of heroes and the fictional worlds in which they lived and played. Many socalled "heroes" came into play at this time, but this was not enough for the Romantic poets, especially George Gordon, Lord Byron. The Byronic hero became the solution to the problem created by an unsatisfactory hero. In creating the Byronic hero, Byron changed literature, allowing poets and readers alike to participate actively in the processes of writing and reading. This work will examine Byron's development of his hero in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and how other poets, such as Karel Hynek Macha in his Maj, used the Byronic hero as a model that would help them foster a revival of both literature and nationhood. This work explores why the Byronic hero was adopted and embraced by those in England and abroad.
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Gräslund, Christian. "The Romantic Poet in the Imaginary Future - John Keats in the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-118173.
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The four novels Hyperion, The Fall ofHyperion, Endymionand The Rise of Endymionconstitute the Hyperion Cantosby the American science fiction writer Dan Simmons. Thisgalactic-empire,epic,science fictionnarrative containsa plethora ofliterary references. The dominant part comes from the nineteenth-century Romantic poet John Keats. The inclusion of passages from his poetry and letters is pursuedin my analysis.EmployingLubomír Doležel’scategorizations of intertextuality—“transposition,” “expansion,” and “displacement”—I seek to show how Keats’s writings and his persona constitute a privilegedintertext inSimmons’s tetralogyand I show its function.Simmons constructs subsidiary plots, some of which are drivenby Keats’s most well-known poetry. In consequence, some of the subplotscan be regarded as rewrites of Keats’s works.Although quotations of poetry have a tendency to direct the reader’s attention away from the main plot,slowing down the narrative,such passages in the narrativesevokeKeats’s philosophy of empathy, beauty andlove,which is fundamental for his humanism.ForKeats, the poet is a humanist, giving solace to mankind through his poetry. I argue that the complex intertextual relationships with regards toKeats’s poetryand biographyshow the way Simmons expresses humanism as a belief in man’s dignity and worth, and uses it as the basis for his epic narrative.
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Кравець, А., та К. Васильченко. "Незгасна лебединська зірка Михайла Петренка". Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2018. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/67152.
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Для багатьох поколінь українців ця пісня – не просто улюблена,
вона ввійшла у золотий пісенний фонд. Ця пісня звучала і 12 серпня
1962-го року в космічному польоті, коли з Байконуру стартував
корабель «Восток-4», на борту якого був перший космонавт
українського походження Павло Попович. Проте, як відомо, у пісні є
автор, який має безпосередню причетність до Лебедина. Це поет-
романтик Михайло Петренко.
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Pomerantsev, Yevgeniy. "Enchanted truths : romantic and post-romantic models of poetic knowledge /." Ann Arbor, Mich : UMI, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?sys=000281612.
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Sybert, Darlene. "Two ways of knowing and the romantic poets /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3052219.
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Jolly, Louise Yvonne. "The pursuit of the sublime in post Romantic France." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249730.
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My thesis takes the notion of the sublime out of its usual Romantic context to look at what it can reveal about post-Romantic France. This is a period of rapid capitalist and urban development, often described as the age of the prosaic - an age of cliche, platitude and banality. It is also, however, a period in which Romantic aspirations survive: this is often accepted by critics in terms of literary projects, but less so in terms of broader social developments. I will use the notion of the sublime to trace the presence of these aspirations in post-Romantic discourses - across the supposed divide between literature and society. The first section of the thesis is a theoretical introduction to the notion of the sublime in Western philosophy, with a particular focus on its appropriation in France. It includes three chapters, the first of which looks at Longinus and Boileau, the second, Kant and Hegel, and the third, modem and postmodern theoretical perspectives. The aim of this section is both to frame the problems and questions that the sublime poses for French culture and literature, and present the critical concepts that I will bring to bear on readings of specific texts in the second part of the thesis. The second section contains chapters 4 to 7 of the thesis. In chapter 4, I look at how Flaubert parodies rhetorical over-inflation in Madame Bovary and strips it away in 'Un Coeur simple'. Chapter 5 focuses on the sublime in Zola's Au Bonheur des dames, a text that shows how capitalist discourse makes use of the imagery of the Romantic sublime. In chapter 6, I move on to the sublime in working-class discourses, especially revolutionary oratory and performance, before bringing the thesis to a close in chapter 7 with an examination of the metaphysical underpinnings of some of the major artistic developments in the period.
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Chambrelan, Jordi Doce. "Traduciendo la experiencia : presencia del romanticismo ingles en la poesia espanola contemporanea." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340453.
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Ross, Catherine Elizabeth. "Rivals in the public sphere : Humphry Davy and romantic poets /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Skretta, James Edward. "Perceiving meter in romantic, post-minimal, and electro-pop repertoires." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2013.
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Kenning, Douglas W. "A failed religion : necessity and freedom in the Romantic poets." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19007.
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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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Schultz, Barbara Jean. "The romantic trance: mesmeric themes in Coleridge, Hoffmann, Shelley, and Poe." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392713254.
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Fahr, Mignon. "As Runs the Deer." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2003. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/11.
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These eleven chapters comprise Part One of a novel of thirty-seven chapters, entitled As Runs the Deer. It is a dialectic play on the processes of Time, as well as a play with evolving dialects. Nominally set in the 19th c., in an Appalachian-like terrain, it shows the difficulties James Ian Pierson meets when emerging out of his wilderness to re-enter his former life. Opening his own story by means of his sycamore cane, the 19- yr.-old amnesiac must soon reconcile his past with the invading "Now!" He evades the intrusion of a drunken hunter, is overcome by the wintry elements, brought from his icebed by Welsh woodsman Eustace, befriended by Mercury, ancient herbalist, keeper of the Myths. Frivolous Emily Marie Marchault must also reconcile herself with Ian's uneasy re-entry. Shackled by gilded chains of manners, she sees herself as overprotected by her guardian, Breton, and chips away at his ivory tower.
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Karadas, Firat. "Imagination, Metaphor And Mythopoeia In The Poetry Of Three Major English Romantic Poets." Phd thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12608579/index.pdf.
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This thesis studies metaphor, myth and their imaginative aspects in the poetry of William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. The thesis argues that a comprehensive understanding of metaphor and myth cannot be done in the works of these poets without seeing them as faces of the same coin, and taking into consideration the role of the creating subject and its imagination in their production. Relying on Kantian, Romantic, and modern Neo-Kantian ideas of imagination, metaphor and myth, the study tries to indicate that imagination is an inherently metaphorizing and mythologizing faculty because the act of perception is an act of giving form to natural phenomena and seeing similitude in dissimilitude, which are basically metaphorical and mythological acts. In its form-giving activity the imagination of the speaking subjects of the poems studied in this thesis sees objects of nature as spiritual, animate or divine beings and thus transforms them into the alien territory of myth. This thesis analyzes myth and metaphor mainly in two regards: first, myth and metaphor are handled as inborn aspects of imagination and perception, and the interaction between nature and imagination are presented as the origin of all mythology<br>second, to show how myth is something that is re-created time and again by poetic imagination, Romantic mythography and re-creation of precursor mythologies are analyzed. In both regards, poetic imagination appears as a formative power that constructs, defamiliarizes and re-creates via mythologization and metaphorization.
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Cartwright, Andrew L. "Implementing land reform in post-Communist Romania." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1999. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3843/.
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This thesis examines the implementation of ownership reforms following the collapse of Communist rule in Romania in 1989. It concentrates upon the rural sector and, in particular, the question of what to do with the collective farms. The aim has been to provide a critical account of the roots of the post-Communist land question, going back as far as the agrarian situation in the last century. To this end, regard is had to the land question in the pre-Communist era, concentrating on the efforts made by the state to create a sustainable system of land tenure. The second part of the work investigates how the Communist regime reformed land use and agricultural production, in particular, the methods by which the private control of land was transformed during collectivisation. In this way, the recent land reforms are linked to a much longer history of struggle over land. The objective has been to examine the legal process of implementing post-Communist land reforms as a means whereby history is rewritten, both nationally and locally. The land reforms are, partly, the official recognition of abuses committed by the former regime and yet, they are also a means of restructuring the country's agricultural sector. As in other countries in eastern Europe, Communist rule in Romania transformed a predominantly agrarian society into an industrial one. Before the Communists almost three-quarters of the population lived and worked on the land. By the time President Nicolae Ceausescu fell, the proportion was less than a third. The land question in post-Communist Romania centred on the extent to which the need to compensate former landowners could direct the content of reform.
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Milovac-Carolina, Sanja Marie. "The Romantic zeitgeist in post-Cold War international relations and the disintegration of Yugoslavia." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2006. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1868/.
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The post-Cold War 1990s were pervaded by a popular sense of pessimism and decline. The thesis argues that such sentiments were part of a general mood in international relations towards Romanticism. It examines how this Romantic sensibility affected interpretations of conflict in Yugoslavia, outlines Romantic predictions about post-Cold War conflict, and compares the Romantic view with a structural perspective of Yugoslavia's demise. The thesis uses a variety of methods, including a philosophical exploration of Romanticism in the nineteenth century and the 1990s, a literary analysis of key texts on conflict, an empirical investigation of armed conflict data, and a theoretical treatment of structural factors in conflict. The thesis historicises nineteenth-century Romanticism as a reaction to the uncertainties created by three transformations: political revolution in France, Industrial Revolution in Britain, and cultural revolution in Germany. It then examines Romanticism through five themes-anti-rationalism, pessimism, nostalgia, relativism, and nature. It compares the 1990s and its 'revolutions'-fragmentation and globalization-developing the concept of Postmodern Romanticism within these themes and applies them to trends in 1990s international relations. Further, the thesis examines Romantic interpretations of conflict in the works of Robert Kaplan, Samuel Huntington, and Martin van Creveld, specifically scrutinising their interpretations of conflict in Yugoslavia. It then empirically investigates various Romantic predictions about conflict, providing empirical evidence that these predictions are inaccurate. Building on the empirical analyses that find state creation rather than identity differences an important factor in conflict, the thesis develops an alternative theoretical framework for assessing state stability based on four structural risk factors: colonial legacy, political institutions, economic structure, and demographic shifts, introducing agency through the concepts of exit, voice, and loyalty. The thesis uses this framework to compare Romantic and structural views of conflict in Yugoslavia. Finally, it provides some reflections on 1990s Romanticism and conflict.
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Bobbitt, Elizabeth Kathleen. "Romantic antiquaries and silent conversations : Ann Radcliffe's post-1797 works and Sir Walter Scott." Thesis, University of York, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21407/.
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This study aims to redress the almost complete critical marginalisation of Ann Radcliffe’s post-1797 works, published in a four-volume collection entitled "Gaston de Blondeville, or the Court of Henry III Keeping Festival in Ardenne, a Romance; St. Alban’s Abbey: A Metrical Tale, with some Poetical Pieces by Ann Radcliffe, to which is Prefixed a Memoir of the Author with Extracts from her Journals" (1826). I examine the major works of this collection, beginning with Radcliffe’s last novel, "Gaston de Blondeville," before providing a critical analysis of her two longest narrative poems, "St. Alban’s Abbey" and "Salisbury Plains: Stonehenge." In arguing for a widening of the bounds of Radcliffean scholarship to include not just her well-known Gothic romances of the 1790s, but also her later works, I contextualise Radcliffe’s post-1797 texts alongside Sir Walter Scott’s "Ivanhoe" (1820) and his earlier narrative poetry. Examining Radcliffe’s later work in the context of Scott’s historical fiction allows us to see Radcliffe’s innovation as a writer post-1790s. It also highlights the striking thematic reciprocity which exists between Radcliffe’s post-1797 texts and Scott’s historical fiction. These works display varying responses to a larger revival of interest in Britain’s early heritage, exemplified through Radcliffe’s and Scott’s exploration of the nature of antiquarian study and medieval romance forms. In tracking this thematic reciprocity, this study uncovers a little-acknowledged "conversation," initiated by Radcliffe’s post-1797 works with Scott’s oeuvre. The forthcoming chapters define the specific nature of this "conversation," in which Radcliffe first anticipates and then responds to Scott’s unprecedented literary success in the field of historical fiction.
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Osborne, Désha Amelia. "A private poem and a hidden nation : nature, providence and romantic history in Hiroona." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648663.
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Cinpoes, Radu Petru. "Continuity and discontinuity in Nationalist discourse : the Greater Romania Party in post-1989 Romania." Thesis, Kingston University, 2006. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20243/.
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After the collapse of communism in Romania, in December 1989, nationalism played an important role in the development of political life. This thesis proposes an explanation for why this has been the case. I identify the Greater Romania Party as the most representative nationalist political formation in post-communist Romania and examine it as my case-study. My analysis distinguishes the core aspects of the PRM's ideology and studies how its discourse is constructed. In doing so, I argue that the success of the party could only be explained by the fact that it employs a nationalist discourse that has been consistently and continuously used over a long period of time in Romania. I begin by engaging with the debates about nationalism in order to establish a theoretical framework, which in turn provides my analytical device to examine Romanian nationalist movements in three different political, social and cultural time frames. I use this analytical tool to identify a set of themes that characterise the nationalist discourse in all the periods I examine, and to show that these themes cut across chronological sequence, political purpose and social and cultural contexts. Alongside with the continuity of the nationalist discourse across time, I argue that authoritarian tradition and the conditions of the transition from communism in Romania are also factors that contribute to the persistence of nationalist tendencies in post-1989 Romanian politics. The analysis of the case-study draws on these findings and shows that the same core ideological elements used effectively in the past are exploited again, by the PRM, in yet another context, with the same degree of success. The thesis, therefore, aims to examine the most significant nationalist party in post-communist Romania, to explain the background in which it operates and to focus on the ideological tools it uses in order to rally the support of the electorate, by mapping out the particular type of nationalist discourse, which recurs in different historical political and social circumstances in Romania.
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Heintz, Monica. "Changes in work ethic in post-socialist Romania." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288813.
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Popa, Silviu Daniel. "NATO influence on Romanian national security in the post Cold War era." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2002. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/02Jun%5FPopa.pdf.
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Nistor, Mihai M. "The development of post-Socialist urban areas in Romania." Thesis, University of Kent, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413275.
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Le, Van Curtis Donald. "Interpreting with "All Possible Caution, on Mental Tiptoe": Nabakov's Post-Romantic Renewal of Perception in Lolita." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3201.
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Although presenting the concept of love in a form not accepted by societal conventions does indeed estrange the conception of love in Nabakov's Lolita, it does nothing to explain how readers accept Humbert's passion, without immediately and consistently disregarding it as lewd and inappropriate. I will argue that Nabakov estranges the romantic conceptions not by defamiliarizing the occasion of love (i.e. by making the romance a manifestation of pedophilia), but rather by defamiliarizing and complicating the acts of both reading and interpreting. First, I will make associations between the Romantics and Nabokov, regarding their shared desire to renew the habitual acts of both perceiving and interpreting human life, which they accomplish through methods of isolating the emotions effected by acts--not the acts themselves. After which, I will examine the theories of phenomenology and externalist philosophy to cement the concepts of anticipation and hermeneutics, starting in general and then narrowing to the act of reading. In following, I will demonstrate how Nabokov agitates this anticipation for readers, making the very act of reading Lolita a new experience, in which Romantic themes do not appear cliché and outdated. On the whole, I will maintain that it is this disruption in interpretation that absolves Humbert's ills, allowing Lolita to maintain its status as one of the greatest love stories of the twentieth century.
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Burns, Aimee Jeanne. "Identity and Romantic Relational Meaning-Making After Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1627034532114917.
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Meritt, Mark Dean. "Body-snatchers of literature : embodied genius and the problem of authority in romantic biographical sketches /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3061958.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 251-257). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Ferriby, Megan. "Preliminary efficacy, feasibility, and acceptability of support figure attendance throughout Bariatric pre- and post-surgery clinical encounters." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563375605350785.
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Balogh, Andrea. "Inside the pyramid of power: the evolution of strategic elites in post-communist Romania /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2006. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2712.
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Mitrut, Andreea. "Four essays on interhousehold transfers and institutions in post-communist Romania /." Göteborg : Dep. of Economics, School of Economics and Commercial Law, 2008. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=017594449&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Stan, Lavinia. "Leaders and laggards, governance, civicness and ethnicity in post-communist Romania." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ59066.pdf.
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Popescu, Ana-Cristina. "Headteachers and the decentralisation of public education in post-communist Romania." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/headteachers-and-the-decentralisation-of-public-education-in-postcommunist-romania(784ae3fa-0a80-48ec-8cd2-04dd66d6f18e).html.
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The project outlined in this thesis examines the ways in which headteachers position themselves as professionals following the shift from communism to neo-liberal markets and the decentralisation of the public education system in post-communist Romania. Following this shift, Romanian headteachers faced new accountability frameworks and witnessed a reconceptualisation of their professional responsibilities. The methodology adopted is policy scholarship because, by looking at decentralisation through a historical-cultural lens, i.e. Romania’s recent history of communism and transition to a more democratic state, it best addresses the three key-research questions. The methods used are official policy documents and interviews with different stakeholders located at three different levels in the Romanian education system. These were: secondary heads and county school inspectors. Four key national policy-makers were also interviewed. In the thesis, the Romanian situation is presented (as captured) in the period 2009-2011. The decentralisation of Romanian education is dichotomous. It is a hybrid between neo-liberalism and communist throwbacks that I call politicised decentralisation. On the one hand, decentralisation and quasi-markets are being introduced into public education at the recommendation of international donors (the World Bank, the European Union). On the other hand, the endurance of communist practices makes it difficult for professionals to adapt to new professional responsibilities and accountability frameworks. A new conceptual framework emerged from the international literature, national policy documents and empirical study and was used to explore the findings. This examines the components, levels and dimensions of decentralisation in education in Romania. The key-findings show the complexities of decentralisation in headteachers’ professional activity. Importantly, the politicisation of the education system is the biggest challenge faced by the interviewees. For example, in 2012 alone there have been three different cabinets and seven ministers of education in the last five years. This has resulted in instability in post at all three levels, not least because with each change in minister both county school inspectors and headteachers are usually replaced. The findings show that new accountability frameworks emerged and impacted upon headteachers’ relationships with different stakeholders such as inspectors, local authorities, as well as parents and students as consumers of education. This thesis is important in showing how policy implementation and enactment differs depending on the socio-economic, political and cultural context. The conceptual framework developed in the thesis and the findings have relatability for educationalists, policy-makers, practitioners and researchers, both nationally and internationally, especially since the existing empirical base predominantly refers to liberal democracies.
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Volintiru, Clara. "Clientelism and cartelization in post-communist Europe : the case of Romania." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2016. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3611/.
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The present thesis makes a twofold contribution to the existing literature. Firstly, it shows that clientelism complements cartelization, providing parties with stability in condition of weak mass mobilization. Secondly, it traces the specific mechanisms through which cartel parties channel public resources, within the institutional setting of the post-communist Europe. It provides an important extension to the cartel party literature in the context of new democracies. The main finding of this project is that cartel parties can survive and achieve stability through clientelistic distribution of benefits, both within, and outside their organisations. Furthermore, I find that cartelization generates a new model of clientelism, as public resources (e.g. procurement contracts) are also used to finance the party organisations, not only the clients. Through the in-depth case study of Romania, we can see that when political parties have little time to develop territorial networks and mobilization capacity, clientelism becomes an effective tool for establishing roots in society. The context of post-communist countries presents distinctive conditions for clientelistic linkages and the cartelization process. Multi-party systems in these countries have reappeared simultaneously with the institutions of the democratic state. Consequently, party-state interpenetration has been more profound, building upon previous legacies, as well as the permissive transitional circumstances. The present thesis analyses the following sequences of clientelistic exchanges: (1) internal party selection – patrons within the party organisations, (2) party patronage – political interference in public institutions, (3) politicization—political appointments in key positions of the Central Government (i.e. Senior Civil Servants), and finally (4) preferential resource allocation—public funding channelled through party networks. In addition to the chapters devoted to each of these clientelistic mechanisms, the thesis also contains a comparative chapter overseeing the challenges and opportunities for clientelism and cartelization in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
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Craciun, Emil. "Dissidence within the Soviet Bloc : the case of Romania." FIU Digital Commons, 1986. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2662.
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This study examines why Romania's dissidence within the Soviet bloc has not provoked a military response from the Soviet Union during the 1965-1985 period. The hypothesis assumed is that Soviet tolerance is granted to Romania in exchange for its internal orthodoxy.
Based on English and Romanian sources of information and on the author's experience having lived in Romania, the following factors are analyzed: Party internal control, its organization, leadership and ideology.
The study concludes that Romania's internal orthodoxy, closely resembling Soviet society, has neutralized the country's dissident foreign policy saving it from a Soviet military intervention.
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Parvu, Raluca. "Spaces of representation, places of identity : the case of post-communist Romania." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2005. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2246/.
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Cercel, Cristian Alexandru. "Philo-Germanism without Germans : memory, identity, and otherness in post-1989 Romania." Thesis, Durham University, 2012. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4925/.
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The recent history of the German minority in Romania is marked by its mass migration from Romania to Germany, starting roughly in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and reaching its climax in the early 1990s, following the fall of Communism. Against this background, the present thesis investigates a phenomenon that can be termed “philo-Germanism without Germans”, arguing that the way the German minority in Romania is represented in a wide array of discourses is best comprehended if placed in a theoretical framework in which concepts such as “self-Orientalism”, “intimate colonization” and other related ones play a key role. This dissertation departs from the existence of predominantly positive representations of Germanness in Romanian society. Furthermore, by examining a series of post-1989 Romanian identification/memory discourses, originating from three different discursive fields (politics, mass-media, historiography), it argues that the underlying reasons for this prestige are strongly connected with Romanian Europeanizing endeavours. In other words, the dissertation maintains that “loving the Germans” in post-1989 Romania is strongly connected with the production and reproduction of symbolic geographies aiming to discursively insert Romania into what is perceived to be the “civilized” Western/European World. Thus, Germans in Romania, former 12th and 18th century colonists, become actually a resource for Europeanness, a way of emphasizing Romania’s European belonging. They are “cultural Others”, possessing “all that we lack”, embraced in Romania with “love, ardour, and desire”, a clear case of discursive “selfcolonization”.
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Matei, Silviu. "Romania at voting age : 18 years of electoral change in post-communism." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010IEPP0057.
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Quel est le bilan électoral après les premières 18 années de démocratie en Roumanie ? Comment ont voté les Roumains aux six premières élections libres ? Le but de cette étude est, tout d’abord, de mesurer le degré de stabilisation du système de partis en utilisant quatre indicateurs consacres : la fragmentation électorale, la volatilité, la polarisation et le niveau d’abstention. Ensuite, à l’aide des modèles de régression écologique, on analyse les déterminants sociaux et contextuels de la participation électorale en Roumanie sur la base des données agrégées au niveau de la commune. Quels sont les variables qui ont le plus d’influence sur l’abstention électorale ? Le modèle stiatistique intègre des variables démographiques (âge, niveau d’étude, fragmentation ethnique, niveau d’urbanisation) et des variables systémiques et contextuelles (niveau d’abstention aux élections précédentes, fractionalisation et polarisation électorale locale, taux du vote pour les partis gagnant ou perdant aux élections précédentes). Des analyses d’inférence écologique viennent à l’appui pour soutenir les résultats. Enfin, on détermine les axes majeurs des divisions sociales et de leurs alignements électoraux. A cette fin, on utilise un modèle d’analyse géométrique des données (ACP) et des méthodes géostatistiques et de géographie électorale<br>How does the electoral scene looks in Romania after the first 18 years of democracy? How did the Romanians vote at the first six free elections? The purpose of this study is, first, to measure the degree of stabilisation of the party system using four classic indicators: the electoral fragmentation, volatility, the polarisation and the level of abstention. Then, using ecological regression models, we analyse the social and contextual determinants of turnout in Romania based on aggregated data at the commune level. What are the variables that have the greatest influence on abstention? The statistical model includes demographic variables (age, education, ethnic fragmentation, urbanisation level) and systemic and contextual variables (level of turnout at previous elections, local electoral polarisation and fractionalisation, vote share of the winner and looser parties at the previous elections). Ecological inference analyses are used to support the results. Finally, we determine the major axes of social divisions and their electoral alignments. To this end, we use a model of geometric data analysis (PCA), geostatistical methods and electoral geography
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Haliliuc, Alina. "Public languages of identification in post-Socialist Romania: Limits to pluralistic citizenship." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2510.
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This dissertation argues that a strong ethos of homogenization is pervasive in post-socialist Romanian public discourse. By focusing on highly popular rhetorics that try to define Romanians, I illustrate that the discursive homogenization of the national body relies on rhetorics of national victimization that stigmatize the Balkans and the communist past. I develop my argument by exploring, in Chapter Two, how Romanian national identity has been constructed, historically, as a homogeneous one: particularly in ethnic terms before communism, and in class and gender terms during communism. In Chapter Three, I analyze a cluster of texts - journalistic essays, hip-hop hits, and a television campaign - as they rhetorically construct public identities vis-à-vis the popular music genre of the Manele. I illustrate that the discourse of Balkanism, which scholars of post-socialism have identified as present in other European countries, is also an influential rhetoric constitutive of identities in contemporary Romania. Because the recent past remains a puzzle, galvanizing identity-related anxieties in Romania, Chapters Four and Five turn to landmark texts in the public memory of communism: The Museum of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance and Cristian Mungiu's film, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days. I argue that the museum articulates political resistance and victimhood to a homogenized national body. I analyze next how Romanian journalists read 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days, an award-winning film about women's abortion-related victimization. I argue that the reviewers's gender-blind interpretation of the film indicate that the articulation of political victimhood with the homogenized national body is a strong one in contemporary Romania. I conclude by interrogating about the consequences that a homogenizing public rhetoric of collective victimization have on the democratic affirmation of social pluralism.
This study is the first concentrated effort to analyze the limits and possibilities of minority identity, political agency, and democratic politics in Romania, in the face of homogenizing discourses about the past and the present. It enriches rhetorical scholarship with the case study of a post-socialist society and Eastern European areas studies with research on discursive resources available to contemporary Romanians for self- and collective definition.
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Vujanovich, Kara L. "The Application and Effects of Architecture and Development Strategies in Rural Romania." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522418556855324.
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Haines, Robert M. "Inter." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849627/.
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This dissertation is has two parts: a critical essay on the lyric subject, and a collection of poems. In the essay, I suggest that, contrary to various anti-subjectivists who continue to define the lyric subject in Romantic terms, a strain of Post-Romantic lyric subjectivity allows us to think more in terms of space, process, and dialogue and less in terms of identity, (mere self-) expression, and dialectic. The view I propose understands the contemporary lyric subject as a confluence or parallax of imagined and felt subjectivities in which the subject who writes the poem, the subject personified as speaker in the text itself, and the subject who receives the poem as a reader are each repeatedly drawn out of themselves, into others, and into an otherness that calls one beyond identity, mastery, and understanding. Rather than arguing for the lyric subject as autonomous, expressive (if fictive) "I,” I have suggested that the lyric subject is a dialogical matrix of multiple subjectivities—actual, imagined, anticipated, deferred—that at once posit and emerge from a space whose only grounded, actual place in the world is the text: not the court, not the market, and not a canon of legitimized authors, but in the relatively fugitive realm of text. In this way, there is no real contradiction between what Tucker terms the intersubjective and the intertextual. The lyric space I am arguing for is ultimately a diachronic process in which readers take up the poem and bring that space partially into their bodies, imaginations, and consciousness even as the poem brings them out, or to the edge, of each of these.
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Chun, Sara Myung-Su. "The Sun Through My Hair: A Response to (Un)Romantic Imaginations of Asian/American Women." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/268.
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Women of color are still trapped in the colonialist trajectory of Delacroix’s sexualized Women of Algiers (1834) and alienated from the world of Sargent’s Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882) in contemporary media images that serve to exocitize, fetishize, and commodify non-white female bodies. These historical and contemporary images form a psychological weight both imposed on women of color by outside perceptions and by now-cemented internal perceptions. While women do not passively absorb media images, it cannot be ignored that the hypersexual Asian/American woman in representation “haunts the experiences and perceptions of Asian women” despite attempts to reject these images and efforts to identify empowering aspects of images of sexual power (Shimizu 2007). Ideas and expectations of sexual openness in women of color seep into our consciousness at many moments in our personal lives and cast doubt on Asian/American women’s engagements with sexuality. Resistance of and escape from objectification as an erotic racial signifier of difference are attempted through abstraction and self portraiture.
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Hussein, Ronak Hassan. "Nature and death in the poetry of al-Malā'ika, al-Shābbī and Shukrī, and certain English Romantic poets : a comparative study." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7138.
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The first part of this thesis, divided into two chapters, deals with the early background of European Romanticism; the reasons behind its appearance and problems of definition. There follows a discussion on the question of the originality of Arabic Romanticism, with ,a brief review of the roots and main literary groups of this movement in Arabic poetry. Part two examines the influence of English poetry and thought on three Arab Romantic poets: Nāzik Sādiq al-Malā'ika, Abū al-Qāsim al-Shābbī and Abd aI-Rahmān Shukrī. This is discussed parallel with the channels of this influence. The main focus of this research is however, to show the ways in which al-Malā'ika, al-Shābbī and Shukrī perceived and reflected nature and death in their poetry. Their attitudes towards certain phenomena in nature such as the countryside, night, the sea, childhood and moral and social lessons of nature are compared with certain attitudes of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats and Shelley. Themes such as life and death, fear of death, fatalism, immortality and death as a welcome experience are also the concern of this thesis, with a comparison of these themes in the poetry of the Arab and English Romantic poets. However, owing to the popularity of Keats and Shelley with the three Arab Romantic poets, this thesis concentrates on their poetry. This research has selected only certain phenomena and themes from nature--and death because of the dominance of these subjects in the poetry of al-Malā'ika, al-Shābbī and Shukrī. The translations of Arabic poetry in this thesis are intended to convey the general sense of the source texts, rather than to give a precise rendering of these texts into English.
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Freidus, Rachel Amanda. "Experiences of Men who Commit to Romantic Relationships with Women Under Fifty Post Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment: A Qualitative Study." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73501.
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This qualitative study examined the experiences of men who commit to romantic relationships with women under 50, post breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. Twelve men from throughout the United States, who were dating these women for at least six months, participated in semi-structured interviews. The data were analyzed using Moustaka's Transcendental Phenomenological approach. Findings focused on initial disclosure timing, previous experience/knowledge about the cancer, initial reactions and concerns, acceptance of the cancer history, focusing on love/connection, respecting and admiring the survivor, and the ongoing impact of cancer on the relationship. The men seemed to experience dating a survivor with acceptance, understanding that though the cancer continues to be a part of their lives, it does not seem to be the focus of their lives or of the relationship. Clinical implications are discussed, highlighting the systemic effect that breast cancer may have on a couple even after treatment is complete. Limitations and future research are examined.<br>Master of Science
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Linville, Deanna Christine. "Family Experiences Concerning Adopting a Previously Institutionalized Child from Russia or Romania." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28022.
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The number of families choosing to adopt a child internationally in the United States has increased exponentially on an annual basis (Johnson, 1997; Miller, 2000). The purpose of this study was to understand the adoption process experiences of families who have adopted a child between the ages of three and five years old from Russia or Romania after 1992. In this clinical sample, all participantsâ adopted children had been referred for and undergone neuropsychological, medical, speech, and/or language evaluation. Specifically, the research questions were designed to help therapists understand the role mental health care professionals, schools, family members, and friends played in the adoption process and how the participantsâ experiences compared with their preadoptive expectations. Twenty families were interviewed and several observations were conducted. Data analysis consisted of thematic analysis which elicited codes and themes across the interviews. This studyâ s findings suggest that: 1) parents would have found more preparation before adoption helpful in the process; 2) health care professionals and schools need to be better educated about problems, concerns, and appropriate treatments specific to post-institutionalized children; 3) raising (a) special needs child(ren) puts significant strain on the caregiver(s) and their significant relationships; and 4) families with special needs children are extremely resilient. These findings are important for education and healthcare professionals, families who are planning to adopt internationally in the future and current adoptive families.<br>Ph. D.
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Sandu, Adriana Iuliana. "Poverty, institutions and child health in post-communist rural Romania a view from below /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU0NWQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=3739.
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Tamborrino, Elettra <1980>. "The fiction of reconciliation: il paradigma della rivelazione in cinque romanzi sudafricani post-apartheid." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2011. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/3856/.
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Alexandrescu, Liviu Gabriel. "Legally high, officially lost: injecting NPS use and drug abjection in Post-Communist Romania." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.716377.
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Since the late 2000s the distribution of what seemed to be unregulated ‘recreational’ drugs by street and online retailers has prompted media hype and public anxiety in Europe and elsewhere. These ‘legal highs’ or ‘new psychoactive substances’ (NPS) were often associated with health risks and antisocial behaviour, and they eventually inspired policy debates along with new scheduling measures. This project explores NPS’ general reception in Romania and their more specific integration into injecting drug users' repertoires, a segment of the local drug market traditionally dominated by heroin. By drawing on mainstream media texts and field data collected around treatment facilities such as a methadone maintenance clinic, it focuses on the troubling moral identities of intravenous substance users and the disciplinary practices of the medico-legal apparatus meant to monitor them. In setting out a moral panic model re-imagined as bouts of collective disgust or social abjection, it seeks to connect lived experiences and moral understandings of emerging drugs with historical layers of prohibition discourses that stratify drug using bodies into abject identities. NPS are thus revealed to shape two types of moral panic as drug abjection in post-communist Romania. The first emerges from media discourse and concerns the clean or valuable youth of the nation, calling for the containment of the new drugs trade to assure the sanitisation and survival of the social body. The second surfaces among injecting drug users, with ‘legalists’ or NPS users being increasingly seen by both drug workers and opiate users as a source of disruption to the regulatory devices and collaborative goals of rehabilitation. This ultimately raises larger questions about the liberal governance of pleasure and consumption in Romania’s transition to market democracy. The fluidity o f ‘NPS’ as a medical and policy object thus seems to indicate the ontological spilling of the rational choice-making self out of the flows of capital, power and historical time
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Kusnetz, Ilyse M. "The return of romantic irony : modes of feminist and post-colonial identity in the work of Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie and Ben Okri." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/28384.
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In Chapter One, I discuss definitions of romantic irony, and the various ways in which romantic irony might be viewed in conjunction with the work of these three authors. In order to approach a working definition of 'the romantic', I briefly frame the relationships between romance, romanticism and romantic irony, and establish a particular set of ideas and themes which I view as central to this concept. In this chapter I also develop a theoretical framework for the rest of the thesis, examining points of convergence and divergence between 'the romantic', feminism, post-colonialism, and postmodernism. In Chapter Two, I examine how Carter ironises the dynamic of the Romantic sublime in her work, and how her work develops from an exploration of abjection in her first novel, to an exploration of the sublime in proceeding novels. I view her work in conjunction with Bakhtin's ideas of the grotesque and Kristeva's ideas of the abject. This chapter also explores the role Romantic love plays in shaping the subjectivity of Carter's fictional characters, and connects this with the sublime, transgressive nature of love as Carter describes it in her fiction and journalism. In Chapter Three, I examine how Rushdie ironises and refigures various ideas within romance and romanticism, such as Romantic imagination, Romantic love, the Romantic artist as a hero and/or prophet, and the Romantic sublime (with regard to the dynamic between artist and (M)other). I discuss how these revisionings of Romantic ideas relate to issues of post-colonial identity such as the fate of nationalism and the construction of hybrid/migrant identities. I also question if Rushdie's reinvention of Romantic ideas doesn't to a certain extent reproduce the difficulties with representations of gender found within, especially, the dynamic of the Romantic sublime.
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Torrens, Arnal Míriam. "Pagesos del Post-Socialisme. Un Estudi de Comunitat a Transilvània." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/129105.
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El final de les dictadures socialistes europees va iniciar transformacions econòmiques, polítiques, socials i ideològiques importants i va obrir una sèrie de debats entorn els models que havien de guiar els canvis. La restitució dels drets de propietat privada va ser una de les preocupacions prioritàries dels nous governs post-socialistes. Considerant-se com l’element central pel progrés econòmic, polític i social d’aquests països, havia de ser la base per a la construcció d’una economia de mercat. En la última dècada, l'antropologia ha generat una visió crítica d’aquestes promeses del post-socialisme a partir de diverses experiències i de la crítica teòrica als plantejaments unilineals neoliberals.La privatització tan anhelada pels defensors del model liberal i la recuperació dels drets de la propietat tan anhelada també per part la població pagesa perseguien motivacions diferents i incompatibles.
Contràriament a les expectatives generades durant la transició, la devolució de les terres als seus antics propietaris ha anat acompanyada d’un ‘retorn’ a una economia de subsistència i desmonetaritzada, de la revitalització d’institucions socials, econòmiques i polítiques costumàries pròpies de l'època pre-socialista. Aquest 'retorn' s'ha produït en un context macro polític, econòmic i demogràfic completament nou, caracteritzat per fenòmens com l'emigració massiva, la inflació, les conseqüències de l'anomenada revolució verda i la globalització de l'agricultura.
La tesi pretén oferir una millor comprensió d’aquesta realitat dominant a tants llocs de l'Europa post-socialista rural mitjançant l'estudi de cas d’una comunitat pagesa a Transilvània. D'una banda, la cultura econòmica pagesa va ser un inconvenient per a la necessitat que tenia l'Estat socialista de dominar la producció agrària per tal d'alimentar el creixement industrial. D'altra banda, l'economia pagesa tampoc ha encaixat amb la teoria liberalque ha guiat el post-socialisme, segons la qual la possibilitat d'adquirir i alienar la terra, combinada amb la seguretat en la propietat, ofereix els incentius necessaris per a treballar més eficientment i innovar (Hann, 2003:7).
Partint de l'etnografia, la tesi defensa que l’estudi de l’eficiència econòmica i de les regulacions legals de la propietat ha d’emmarcar-se necessàriament en el context social i cultural local. En aquest cas, el context social i cultural es relaciona amb el model de convivència propi de la comunitat pagesa que es regeix per valors morals, mitjans de subsistència, dret costumari, formes de producció i de propietat. Tot plegat s'ha de contextualitzar en l'actual sistema globalitzat de producció i comercialització dels productes agraris.És per això que l’àmbit d’estudi de la tesi se situa concretament en la intersecció entre l’economia i les relacions socials (de parentiu, de veïnatge i comunitàries) en el marc dels canvis macroeconòmics i polítics.
Es tracta en definitiva de veure quines han estat les discrepàncies i conflictes ideològics, econòmics, socials, o morals i en quina mesura aquestes discrepàncies fan inviables els projectes polítics i econòmics imposats pel socialisme o pel liberalisme a nivell local. La proposta defensa que la fidelitat etnogràfica pot proporcionar una interpretació de la situació actual que consideri els marcs polítics i econòmics que en les darreres dècades han configurat el seu context, però alhora que eviti que l'explicació vingui donada des dels paradigmes que han inspirat aquests marcs polítics i econòmics (el marxisme o el neoliberalisme).<br>The collapse of European socialism was the start for a broad range of economic, political, social and ideological changes. These changes led to a series of debates about the models that should guide the process. The restitution of private properties was one of the key issues for the new post-socialist governments, and necessary condition of political and social progress in the framework of a market economy. But two decades later, the economic situation of the countries of Eastern and Central Europe compels us to inquiry on the shortcomings of the neoliberal agenda.
In the last decade, Anthropology has developed a critical view of the post-socialist promises based on ethnographical experiences and on the theoretical criticism of neoliberal approaches. Private property rights were wanted by both, liberals (or neoliberals) and peasants, but they pursued different and in most cases incompatible goals.
What it happened during the transition was against the expectations previously generated: the devolution of lands to their former owners was accompanied by a 'return' to a subsistence and demonetarized economy and to the reestablishment of rather old customary institutions. This process has taken place in a new macro-political, economic and demographic context, defined by mass emigration, inflation, the consequences of the so-called green revolution, and the agricultural globalization.
The aim of the thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the complex situation of therural areas in post-socialist Europe through a case study of a Transylvanian peasant community. On the one hand, the economic peasant culture was seen as an obstacle for the socialist state as far as it wanted to control the agrarian production for feeding the industrial growth. On the other hand, the peasant economy did not fit with the neoliberal schemes, which have been dominant in the post-socialist period. These schemes expect that the market alienation of land, combined with the legal security of ownership, would give to the farmer the incentives he needs in order to innovate, and to increase productivity (Hann, 2003:7).
Following the ethnographic account, this thesis poses that the economic efficiency and the legal rules of property must be confronted to the socio-cultural local context. In our case, the local context means a peasant community defined by moral values, customary law, and customary forms of production and property handling. The economic activity in the community is constantly defined by the overlapping of two spheres of social exchange: kinship and neighborhood. In addition, the local culture needs to be contextualized in the current globalized agricultural system of production and trade.
The thesis focuses on the ideological, economic, social and moral conflicts, in order to understand the tensions provoked for the economic and political projects imposed first by socialism and afterwards by liberalism.The reliability of the ethnographic account should provide us with a fine-tuned interpretation of the present situation. This can help us to avoid the oversimplifications of both orthodox Marxism and orthodox neoliberalism perspectives.