Relevant bibliographies by topics / Sand, George – Criticism and interpretation / Dissertations / Theses
To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Sand, George – Criticism and interpretation.

Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Sand, George – Criticism and interpretation'

Author: Grafiati
Published: 4 June 2021
Last updated: 13 February 2022

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Consult the top 41 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Sand, George – Criticism and interpretation.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.

1

Désilets, Nathalie. "La thématique de l'éducation chez Stendhal et chez Sand /." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69567.

Full text
Abstract:
The 19th century French novel has a well-know model called Bildung Novel. The inspiration for this name comes from Wilhem Meister by Goethe published in 1795. In this type of writing we witness the education (Bildung) of a hero or a heroin who has to face and overcome a series of difficulties.<br>In this memoire we will analyze the theme of education in the works of two authors Stendhal and George Sand. We have chosen two novels from each author, one dating back to the beginning of their career, and the other to the end. For Stendhal we have selected Le Rouge et le Noir (1830) and Lucien Leuwe
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
2

Iezzoni, Nadia. "L'héroïne et la symbolique de l'amour dans trois romans de George Sand." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21234.

Full text
Abstract:
One seldom comes across felicitous love in nineteenth-century French literature. Viewed in an unfavourable light, being looked upon as sheer utopianism, felicitous love never quite made it as a major theme in fiction. But idealized as it is in the works of George Sand, this particular topic never ceases to be true to life: the "weltanschauung" in which it originates is far too focused on the realm of reality for love to be put through senseless poetising. To highlight this singularity, this essay focuses on the love symbolic in three George Sand's novels, Indiana (1832), Le Meunier d'Angibault
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
3

Mallia, Marilyn. "L'Importance du Roman Gothique Anglais dans les premiers Romans de George Sand." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/374730/.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
4

Goddard, Kevin Graham. "Defined by wine : a study of sacramentalism in George Herbertʾs poetry". Thesis, Rhodes University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001828.

Full text
Abstract:
This dissertation proposes that George Herbertʾs poetry may profitably be understood as a sacramental means by which the divine is made present in temporal existence. In order to support this claim, the relation between sacramental symbolism and literary symbolism, particularly Herbertʾs, is examined from a number of perspectives. The symbolic meanings suggested by Herbertʾs title (The Temple), and their relation to sacramentalism are considered in the opening chapter. This includes a consideration of some of the background to the analogical thinking prevalent in both the seventeenth-century a
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
5

George, Carla Elizabeth. "Identity and the children's literature of George MacDonald." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96975.

Full text
Abstract:
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACTThe Victorian period, often heralded as the golden age of children‘s literature, saw both a break and a continuation with the traditions of the fairy tale genre, with many authors choosing this platform to question and subvert social and literary expectations (Honic, Breaking the Angelic Image 1; Zipes, Art of Subversion 97). George MacDonald (1824-1905), a prolific Scottish theologian, whose unspoken sermons, essays, novels, fantasies and children‘s fairy tales deliberately engage with such issues as gender, mortality, class, pove
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
6

Koopman, Jennifer. "Redeeming romanticism : George MacDonald, Percy Shelley, and literary history." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102805.

Full text
Abstract:
This dissertation examines George MacDonald's preoccupation with his literary predecessor Percy Shelley. While eminently Victorian in many ways, MacDonald was equally a late Romantic, who was inspired by the Romantic poets and positioned himself as the heir to their radical tradition. While he channeled their visionary ardor, he also made it his duty to correct what he saw as their flaws. I read MacDonald through the figure of Shelley, with whom MacDonald seems to have personally identified, but to whose atheism MacDonald, a devout believer, objected. MacDonald's fascination with Shelley works
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
7

Henchey, Karen. "The keen, settled mind : the language of the citizens in George Eliot's fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66141.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
8

Pazdziora, John Patrick. "George MacDonald's fairy tales in the Scottish Romantic tradition." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4460.

Full text
Abstract:
George MacDonald (1824-1905) is one of the most complex and significant Scottish writers of the nineteenth century, especially as a writer of children's fiction and literary fairy tales. His works, however, have seldom been studied as Scottish literature. This dissertation is the first full-length analysis of his writings for children in their Scottish context, focusing particularly on his use of Scottish folklore in his literary fairy tales. MacDonald wrote in the Scottish Romantic tradition of Robert Burns, Walter Scott, and James Hogg; by close reading his works alongside similar texts by h
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
9

Canton, Licia 1963. "The fate of the fallen woman in George Eliot and Thomas Hardy /." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65544.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
10

Fox, Deborah H. "George MacDonald--a messenger unfettered depictions of spiritual conversion in MacDonald's realistic adult fiction /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/82470.

Full text
Abstract:
Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2004.<br>Bibliography: leaves 270-277.<br>Introduction -- George MacDonald's religious heritage -- George MacDonald's philosophical and literary roots -- Of friends and teachers -- Conversion studies and critical application -- Children on the path -- Waking from slumber -- Courageous stances -- Toppled pride -- Broken vessels -- Implications of MacDonald's conversion depictions.<br>Victorian author George MacDonald is best remembered for his writing in the genres of fairy tale and fantasy. MacDonald was, howeve
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
11

Stelle, Ginger. "A swipe at the dragon of the commonplace : a re-evaluation of George MacDonald's fiction." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1974.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis offers a re-evaluation of the fiction of George MacDonald (1824-1905), both fantasy and non-fantasy. The general trend in MacDonald studies is to focus primarily on his works of fantasy, either ignoring the rest (which includes non-fantasy fiction, sermons, poetry, and criticism) or using them to illuminate the fantasies. The overall critical consensus is that these works, particularly MacDonald’s non-fantasy fiction, possess little inherent value. Though many critics acknowledge similarities between MacDonald’s fantasy fiction and his non-fantasy fiction, MacDonald has been the vi
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
12

Christie, James. "Love and fine thinking : ethics and the World state in the writings of H.G. Wells." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65484.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
13

Casey, James Edward. "The Paradox of the Christian Poet: George Herbert's Problematics." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2654/.

Full text
Abstract:
The thesis examines the paradoxes in Herbert's poetry and attributes the many contradictions and vacillations within The Temple to Herbert's own "spiritual conflicts" as a Christian poet. The thesis explores the poems as interconnected expressions of Herbert's dual nature as Christian-Poet. The thesis discusses over sixty of Herbert's poems, concentrating on close readings and intratextual connections. Chapter One reviews critical approaches to Herbert's poetry and outlines the study. Chapter Two examines Herbert's life and the expression of his struggles in poetry. Chapter Three discusses Her
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
14

Schweers, Ellen H. "Moral Training for Nature's Egotists: Mentoring Relationships in George Eliot's Fiction." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2868/.

Full text
Abstract:
George Eliot's fiction is filled with mentoring relationships which generally consist of a wise male mentor and a foolish, egotistic female mentee. The mentoring narratives relate the conversion of the mentee from narcissism to selfless devotion to the community. By retaining the Christian value of self-abnegation and the Christian tendency to devalue nature, Eliot, nominally a secular humanist who abandoned Christianity, reveals herself still to be a covert Christian. In Chapter 1 I introduce the moral mentoring theme and provide background material. Chapter 2 consists of an examination of F
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
15

Feenstra, Robin E. (Robin Edward) 1972. "Modern noise : Bowen, Waugh, Orwell." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115604.

Full text
Abstract:
The modern soundscape buzzes with noise. In the 1930s, telephones, radios, and gramophones filled domestic spaces with technological noise, while crowds shouting in the streets created political clamour. During the war in the 1940s, bombs and sirens broke through buildings and burst through consciousness. This dissertation examines the response of three British modernist writers to the cultural shifts brought about by technology and politics, which altered everyday experience and social relations. Elizabeth Bowen, Evelyn Waugh, and George Orwell represent noise in their fiction and nonfiction
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
16

McInnis, Jeff. "Shadows and chivalry : pain, suffering, evil and goodness in the works of George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2881.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis argues that George MacDonald's literary influence upon C. S. Lewis-concerning the themes of pain, suffering, evil and goodness-was transforming and long-lasting. It is argued in the opening chapter that MacDonald's work had a great deal to do with the change in young Lewis's imagination, helping to convert him from a romantic doubter to a romantic believer in God and his goodness. A review of both writers' first works suggests that such influence may have begun earlier in Lewis's career than has been noticed. The second chapter examines how both authors contended with the problems
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
17

Roberts, Timothy Paul English UNSW. "Little terrors:the child???s threat to social order in the Victorian bildungsroman." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. English, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/23930.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis is a study of rebellious child protagonists in Victorian bildungsroman. It discusses five novels ??? Jane Eyre, The Mill on the Floss, What Maisie Knew, Vanity Fair and Kim ??? that feature ???radical child??? protagonists who use indirect methods of narrative control to resist conservative models of character development. It argues that these novels form a subset of subversive English bildungsromane, which threaten the genre???s traditionally liberal values. Theories of narrative desire, reader seduction and discursive manipulation are used to reveal how the radical child in th
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
18

Gabelman, Daniel. "'Divine carelessness' : the fairytale levity of George MacDonald." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2584.

Full text
Abstract:
Though known for his fantastical writings George MacDonald is often considered to be a typical Victorian teacher of religious and moral seriousness. Approaches to MacDonald’s works normally seek to find his ‘message’ by expositing the moral, social, pedagogical, psychological or theological ‘content’ of his work. This study recasts MacDonald in the light of his shorter fairytales for the ‘childlike’ and argues that these seemingly small and insignificant works are a golden key to his artistic enterprise. This is not because of any particular ‘message’ that they carry but because of their pecul
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
19

Boetzkes, Amanda. "Berlin in disorder : the representation of nature in the works of George Grosz." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79288.

Full text
Abstract:
George Grosz's paintings and drawings of Berlin during the Weimar period demonstrate a complex matrix of tensions between nature and the urban experience. In his work, mechanization, sexuality, gender and animality are recurring themes that cue the viewer to the profound anxiety that modernity had unleashed a chaotic force into the city. Using an ecofeminist analysis, I show how the disorder of the city was imagined as a primordial human condition in which a previously disavowed connection to nature was suddenly foregrounded. Though Grosz's renditions of Berlin scenes are ironic, they a
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
20

Kling, Jutta Cornelia. "On knowingness : irony and queerness in the works of Byron, Heine, Fontane, and Wilde." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11824.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis identifies strategies of queer/irony in the writings of Lord Byron, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Fontane, and Oscar Wilde. Key to the understanding of irony is Friedrich Schlegel's re-evaluation of the concept. The thesis establishes an approach to the multifaceted concept of irony and identify key concepts of queer theory. The focus, however, is close reading. First, Lord Byron's epic satire Don Juan is read with regards to the interplay of narrative strategies and the depiction of gender, homoeroticism and the concept of the child. Furthermore, reviews published at the time of the pub
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
21

Bell, Alan Nigel. "The male novelist and the 'woman question' George Meredith's presentation of his Heroines in The Egoist (1879) and Diana of the Crossways (1885)." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002245.

Full text
Abstract:
Focusing on four early works, then three from his middle period and three from the 1890s, this dissertation explores Meredith’s role as a novelist in the unfolding of a social and literary paradox, namely, that with the death of George Eliot in 1880, the dominant writers of fiction were male, and this remained the case until the advent of Virginia Woolf, while at the same time the woman’s movement for emancipation in all spheres of life—domestic, commercial, professional and political—was gathering in strength and conviction. None of the late nineteenth-century male novelists—James, Hardy, Moo
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
22

Goodman, Ralph. "The dialogics of satire : foci and faultlines in George Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51961.

Full text
Abstract:
Dissertation (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis uses Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism, as well as postmodernism, to open up faultlines in satire, and to explore and challenge various perceptions and discourses surrounding and related to it. Both dialogism and postmodernism are used to suggest fresh approaches to satire, by repositioning it in relation to other discourses and reframing it as a complex dynamic, rather than a closed and inflexible system. Chapter 1 of the thesis opens with an historical survey of the beginnings and subsequent devel
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
23

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.

Full text
Abstract:
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 atte
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
24

Viviers, Marni. "Die voorstelling van die Noordweste as ruimte in George Weideman se digbundel 'n Staning onder sterre." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/799.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
25

Gilbert, Bennett. "Some Neglected Aspects of the Rococo: Berkeley, Vico, and Rococo Style." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1872.

Full text
Abstract:
The Rococo period in the arts, flourishing mainly from about 1710 to about 1750, was stylistically unified, but nevertheless its tremendous productivity and appeal throughout Occidental culture has proven difficult to explain. Having no contemporary theoretical literature, the Rococo is commonly taken to have been a final and degenerate form of the Baroque era or an extravagance arising from the supposed careless frivolity of the elites, including the intellectuals of the Enlightenment. Neither approach adequately accounts for Rococo style. Naming the Rococo raises profound issues for understa
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
26

Wright, Catherine. "The unseen window : 'Middlemarch', mind and morality." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15066.

Full text
Abstract:
Middlemarch is the novel at the centre of this thesis. George Eliot's writing, and Middlemarch in particular, is the paradigm of what has come to be known as Classic Realist fiction. In reading Middlemarch, it seems, one is introduced to a fictional world. The characters are psychologically complex, and they are presented with moral and social problems which are created and discussed with subtlety and intelligence. Until recently, critical assessment of Middlemarch has focussed on evaluation of Eliot's achievement in just these terms. The thesis begins with a question, how, and indeed is it po
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
27

Jeon, Eun Deok. "A Study of Neoclassical Elements in Ernst Krenek's George Washington Variations, op. 120." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849780/.

Full text
Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to explore neoclassical elements present in Krenek’s George Washington Variations. By identifying the stylistic features associated with the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the study will examine Krenek’s application of his neoclassical tendencies. Key neoclassical elements include musical form and structure, key relationships, melody and harmony, and chromaticism. Since at this time there is little research on Krenek’s piano works, and none on the George Washington Variations, the result of this examination provides pianists and instructors with historically c
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
28

Lee, Sung-Ae. "Utopias, dystopias, and abjection pathways for society's others in George Eliot's major fictions /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/45363.

Full text
Abstract:
Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2003.<br>Bibliography: p. 250-270.<br>Introduction -- Female subjectivity, abjection, and agency in Scenes of clerical life -- A questionable Utopia: Adam Bede -- Dystopia and the frustration of agency in the double Bildungsroman of The mill on the floss -- Abjection and exile in Silas Marner -- Justice and feminist Utopia in Romola -- Radicalism as Utopianism in Felix Holt, the radical -- The pursuit of what is good: Utopian impulses in Middlemarch -- Nationalism and multiculturalism: shaping the future as tran
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
29

Koo, Seung-Pon. "The Politics of Sympathy: Secularity, Alterity, and Subjectivity in George Eliot's Novels." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12145/.

Full text
Abstract:
This study examines the practical and political implications of sympathy as a mode of achieving the intercommunicative relationship between the self and the other, emphasizing the significance of subjective agency not simply guided by the imperative category of morality but mainly enacted by a hybrid of discourses through the interaction between the two entities. Scenes of Clerical Life, Eliot's first fictional narrative on illuminating the intertwining relation of religion to secular conditions of life, reveals that the essence of religion is the practice of love between the self and the othe
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
30

Hooker, Jennifer. "From paternalism to individualism : representations of women in the nineteenth century English novel." Scholarly Commons, 2000. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/546.

Full text
Abstract:
Three of the most notable English women authors, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot, explore similar themes of the individual, particularly the young woman, in relation to a hierarchical, patriarchal society, more specifically a crumbling paternalist society. My focus is on three Victorian novels' representations of society's transformation from a paternalistic nature to one of greater individualism; and in particular, I explore how women defined for themselves positions of power within these structures. So this study is twofold, one on representations of gender and the other of c
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
31

Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn. "A hermeneutical study of the Midrashic influences of biblical literature on the narrative modes, aesthetics, and ethical concerns in the novels of George Eliot." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002279.

Full text
Abstract:
The thesis will examine the influence of Biblical literature on some of the novels of George Eliot. In doing so it will consider the following aspects of Eliot criticism: current theoretical debate about the use of midrash; modes of discourse and narrative style; prophetic language and vision; the influence of Judaism and Jewish exegetical methods on Adam Bede, "The Lifted Veil", The Mill on the Floss, Felix Holt, and Daniel Deronda. Literary critics have, for a long time, been interested in the influence of the Bible and Biblical hermeneutics on literature and the extent to which Biblical nar
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
32

Earle, Edward A. "The balance of the mind : Byron and Popeian ethics." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63975.

Full text
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
33

Harvie, Ronald. "Passion and patronage : Van Dyck, Buckingham and Charles I." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68100.

Full text
Abstract:
The 1632 appointment of Van Dyck as Court Painter by King Charles I changed the course of art in England. But in spite of its importance, the dynamics and mechanics of this event remain imperfectly understood. This paper suggests that one determining factor was the influence of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. An early admirer of Van Dyck, Buckingham in turn incarnated the young artist's own aspirations to aristocratic status. For Charles, the Duke was a personal partner and aesthetic alter-ego whose presence in the King's psyche remained strong long after Buckingham's assassination in 162
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
34

Hedström, Julia. "La marche des morts-vivants : une sociologie praxéologique de la médiation critique." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO30008/document.

Full text
Abstract:
En remontant à la genèse de la réception de La Nuit des Morts-vivants (Romero, 1968) dans la presse américaine entre 1967-1971, la présente recherche vise à élucider sa trajectoire médiatique et, ce faisant, montrer le caractère progressif de sa consolidation en tant que film culte, œuvre d’art et phénomène digne d’intérêt public. L’investigation cherche ainsi à comprendre comment un film qualifié d’« orgie sadique » par sa première critique nationale dans le magazine Variety devient digne d’une projection au Musée d’Art Moderne à New York et donne naissance à de nombreuses interprétations, la
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
35

Jeffrey, Johnson Kirstin Elizabeth. "Rooted in all its story, more is meant than meets the ear : a study of the relational and revelational nature of George MacDonald's mythopoeic art." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1887.

Full text
Abstract:
Scholars and storytellers alike have deemed George MacDonald a great mythopoeic writer, an exemplar of the art. Examination of this accolade by those who first applied it to him proves it profoundly theological: for them a mythopoeic tale was a relational medium through which transformation might occur, transcending boundaries of time and space. The implications challenge much contemporary critical study of MacDonald, for they demand that his literary life and his theological life cannot be divorced if either is to be adequately assessed. Yet they prove consistent with the critical methodology
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
36

Burkhart, Claire Lovell. "Reading and writing women : representing the femme de lettres in Stendhal, Balzac, Girardin and Sand." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-2836.

Full text
Abstract:
This dissertation explores the numerous literary representations of the femme de lettres during the first half of the nineteenth century in order to illustrate the complexities of women’s entrance into the male-dominated domain of literature and also to suggest the impact these fictional characters might have had on the reception of actual women writers as well as their omission from the century’s literary canon. The works that will be included in this analysis include: Mme de Staël’s Corinne, ou l’Italie, Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le noir, Honoré de Balzac’s Béatrix, La Muse du département and
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
37

Murray, E. M. "The significance of utterance and silence in the shift from rebellion to continuity in George Eliot's novels." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/9383.

Full text
Abstract:
D.Litt. et Phil. (English)<br>This study investigates George Eliot's approach to the existential dilemma of her times, the collision of the individual with the general. It takes into account the historical context in which political radicalism and religious controversy threatened the stability and continuity of the individual and of society. The novels fictionalize the philosophical ideas expressed in earlier writings in terms of the individual experience of the characters. Each of the eight chapters is devoted to one ofthe novels and is discussed in chronological order of publication. Referen
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
38

VYKYPĚLOVÁ, Klára. "Deux représentations de l'arrivisme dans le roman français du XIXe si\`{e}cle: Horace de George Sand et Bel-Ami de Guy de Maupassant." Master's thesis, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-47776.

Full text
Abstract:
The aim of the literary work is to put near a production of two important french writers, George Sand and Guy de Maupassant, in the kontext of epoch. The literary work apprises of the life and piece of the both authors, main literary tendences of 19th century (realism and naturalism) and a romance, as a genre in general. The literary work addresses the analysis of George Sand{\crq}s piece {--} Horace and Guy de Maupassant{\crq}s piece {--} Bel-Ami. In the both romances appears the theme of "arrivism", or the endeavour of the main hero to get from the bedrock of the society up to its top. The a
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
39

Hemmings, Jonathan Michael. "Dead reckoning : an analysis of George Romero's 'Living dead' series in relation to contemporary theories of film genre and representations of race, class, culture and violence." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/302.

Full text
Abstract:
This thesis is an in-depth analysis of George Romero's 'Living Dead' tetralogy of films, comprising Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn ofthe-Bead (1978), Day of the Dead(\985) and Land of the Dead (2005), examined through the lensf of contemporary film genre theory. The project focuses specifically on issues of the representation of race, class, culture and violence in the four films, and how these representations, along with the concomitant social critique evident in Romero's work, change in response to the upheavals and developments which have occurred in the American social, cultural and
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
40

Pierce, Robyn. "Consciousness embodied: language and the imagination in the communal world of William Blake." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/15280.

Full text
Abstract:
This dissertation examines the philosophical and spiritual beliefs that underpin William Blake’s account of the imagination, his objections to empiricism and his understanding of poetic language. It begins by considering these beliefs in relation to the idealist principles of George Berkeley as a means of illustrating Blake’s own objections to the empiricism of John Locke. The philosophies of Locke and Berkeley were popular in Blake’s society and their philosophical positions were well known to him. Blake and Berkeley are aligned against Locke’s belief in an objective world composed of matter
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
41

Bothma, Mathilda Cecilia. "Postkoloniale perspektiewe in enkele romans van André P. Brink." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1778.

Full text
Abstract:
Text in Afrikaans<br>This study investigates postcolonial aspects of the prose oeuvre of André P. Brink, with specific reference to his historiographical texts `n Oomblik in die wind, Houd-den-Bek, Die eerste lewe van Adamastor, Inteendeel, Sandkastele and Donkermaan. The texts can be described as links in a textual history of South Africa: a history corresponding to the official version, revisioning it in an imaginative way. The texts also criticize political (mal)practices, and the pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial social contexts of the country are critically scrutinized. The texts
APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles
We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!

To the bibliography