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Jones, Gwilym John. "Shakespeare's storms." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2388/.
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This thesis seeks to provide a new perspective on storms in Shakespeare. Rather than a recurrent motif, the storm is seen as protean: each play uses the storm in a singular way. The works of Shakespeare's contemporaries are explored for comparison, whilst meteorological texts and accounts of actual storms are examined for context. Using close reading and theories of ecocriticism throughout, I show that Shakespeare's storms are attentive to the environmental conditions of experience. Although the dominant practice of staging storms in early modern England is to suggest the supernatural, Shakespeare writes storms which operate quite differently. I argue that this is a compelling opportunity to see Shakespeare develop a complex engagement with audience expectations. Five plays are explored in separate chapters, each with respect to performative conditions and through close reading of the poetry. Firstly, I argue that the Globe's opening in 1599 demanded a spectacular showcase, to which Julius Caesar responded, shaping the play's language and staging. With King Lear (c.1605), the traditional, non-Shakespearean location of the heath betrays a tendency to misread the play in terms of location rather than event. King Lear's storm withholds the supernatural, a manifestly different approach from that in Macbeth (c.1606); Shakespeare both adheres to and resists convention in this respect. The relationship between storm and the supernatural in Macbeth is shown to be fundamental to the play's equivocation. Shakespeare's next storm is in Pericles (c.1608), which also contains a storm by George Wilkins. The two writers' approaches are explored with respect to the Bible, alluded to extensively throughout the play. Finally, with The Tempest (c.1611), I argue that Shakespeare's manipulation of audience expectation through the storm demands a reading which combines the metatheatrical and the ecocritical. Foregrounded as expressions of dramatic and environmental awareness, I bring new insights to Shakespeare's storms.
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Forssell, Louise. ""Es ist nicht gut, so ganz allein zu sein-" : Männlichkeiten und Geschlechterbeziehungen in Theodor Storms später Novellistik /." Stockholm : Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis : Almqvist & Wiksell, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-1209.
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Souza, Caroline Garcia de. "When All Boundaries Fall Apart : woman’s experience and trauma in the bell jar, “Tongues of stone,” and “Mothers”." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/168949.
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Linda Hogan é uma autora Chickasaw cuja extensa obra inclui romances, contos, poesia, drama e ensaios. Da mesma forma, ela é uma ambientalista cujo ativismo se baseia em uma compreensão Nativo-Americano da natureza e das relações entre os seres humanos e não-humanos. Focando em dois de seus romances, Solar Storms (1995) e Power (1998), a presente dissertação explora os processos de cura de suas protagonistas, Angela e Omishto, respectivamente. Em ambos romances, as personagens se engajam em um movimento de abandono do modo de ser Euro-americano – um modo de ser fortemente orientado pela ideologia do Destino Manifesto –, em direção a um reencontro com sua ancestralidade nativa e a uma apreensão tribal da vida e do mundo. Especificamente, esse trabalho explora o gradual engajamento das personagens no que a autora Laguna Paula Gunn Allen (1992) define como um senso de tempo cerimonial – a ceremonial time sense: uma experiência temporal particular que engendra uma integração psíquica, e se opõe à experiência cronológica e mecânica do tempo, a qual produz fragmentação no sentido de fortalecer a sensação de separação entre tempo e espaço, pessoa e lugar, natureza e cultura. Esse trabalho analisa como o movimento das personagens em direção a um rico autorreconhecimento enquanto indígenas (OWENS, 1994) representa um movimento de abertura aos fluxos do mundo, bem como um processo de dissolução de categorias fortemente enraizadas, tais quais sujeito e objeto, eu interno e mundo externo. Além disso, a presente dissertação examina de que forma um senso de tempo cerimonial se conecta à noção de sacred hoop (Plains tribes) – uma unidade abrangente que abarca a existência como um todo, e na qual todos os movimentos estão conectados e se relacionam entre si.Linda Hogan is a Chickasaw author whose extensive work includes novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and essays. She is also an environmentalist whose activism is built upon a Native understanding of nature and the relations between human and nonhuman beings. This thesis focuses on two of her novels, Solar Storms (1995) and Power (1998), and explores the healing processes of their protagonists, Angela and Omishto, respectively. In both novels, the characters engage in a movement of abandoning a mainstream American way of being – a way of being highly informed by the ideology of Manifest Destiny – toward a reconnection with their Native ancestry and a tribal apprehension of life and the world. Specifically, this work explores the characters’ gradual engagement in what Laguna author Paula Gunn Allen (1992) defines as a ceremonial time sense, a particular experience of time that engenders a psychic integration, as opposed to a mechanical, clock-based time sense, which generates fragmentation and enhances a separation between time and space, person and place, nature and culture. This work explores how the characters’ movement toward a rich self-recognition as Indians (OWENS, 1994) represents a movement of opening to the motions of the lifeworld, as well as the dissolution of deep-rooted categories such as subject and object, internal self and external world. Furthermore, this thesis examines how a ceremonial time sense is connected to the Plains tribes’ conception of a sacred hoop – an all-encompassing unity that contains the whole of existence, and in which all movement is related to all other movement.
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Redmond, Dennis Robert. "Global storm : Theodor Adorno's Negative dialectics /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978596.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 377-380). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Nascimento, Fabiana Angélica do 1972. "A novela Pole Poppenspäler de Theodor Storm e o tema da oposição entre o artista e o burguês." [s.n.], 2015. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269865.
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Orientador: Mário Luiz FrungilloDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a novela Pole Poppenspäler como uma narrativa organizada ao redor do tema da oposição entre o artista e o burguês. Tal perspectiva de análise abrangerá não só o tratamento dado a essa temática, bastante cara à literatura alemã, mas também a sua representação no contexto do Realismo Poético e na própria evolução do gênero novela. Em Pole Poppenspäler o conflito gerado pela transição entre duas diferentes perspectivas, a do mundo pequeno burguês e a do artista, condensa-se, de forma simbólica, na trajetória das personagens Tendler e Paul, ao mesmo tempo em que está presente, de modo realista, a caracterização geográfica e humana das "pessoas simples" ("kleine Leute"), como camponeses, operários e artesãos. Também a regionalização geográfica e linguística estão de acordo com o repertório típico do realismo do século XIX, por meio da representação das paisagens alemãs e do uso de dialetos. Para que a nossa hipótese de interpretação fosse efetivamente realizada, a história do gênero novela foi revista em seus diferentes momentos de existência. Desse modo, pôde-se investigar de que maneira a alteração dos pressupostos históricos provoca alterações na representação do conflito entre as mentalidades do artista e do burguês
Abstract: The goal of this research is to analyze the short-novel Pole Poppenspaeler as a narrative organized around the theme of the opposition between the artist and the bourgeois citizen. Such an analysis perspective will comprehend not only the treatment given to the theme (very dear to German literature), but also the representation the theme has in the context of Poetic Realism, besides the way the genre of short-novel has develop itself. In Pole Poppenspaeler, the conflict generated by the transition between two different perspectives (one from the bourgeois world and another from the artist) condense itself, in a symbolic way, through the characters¿s Tendler and Paul journey; at the same time, it is present (in a realistic manner) the geographic and human characterization of "simple people" ("kleine Leute"), like countrymen, workmen and artisans. Also the geographic and linguistic regionalization are according to the typical repertory of the XIXth century realism. In order to our hypothesis of interpretation be effectively executed, the History of the short-novel as a genre was reviewed in its different moments of existence. Therefore, it is possible to investigate how the alteration of the hystorical processes provokes an alteration in the representation of the conflict between the artist¿s and the bourgeois citizen¿s mindsets. Keywords: German literature, Poetic Realism, motive, short-novel
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Teoria e Critica Literaria
Mestra em Teoria e História Literária
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Burke, Lucy. "Sexual subjects : discourse of sexuality, class and culture in selected works by Marie Stopes, Rebecca West, Dorothy L. Sayers and Storm Jameson in Britain in the inter-war period." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284645.
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Carnaby, Rachel. "Kitsch in the prose works of Theodor Storm." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1985. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1803/.
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The twofold purpose of this study is to clarify, on the one hand, the question of literary evaluation in general and of kitsch in particular, and, on the other, to analyse the prose works of Theodor Storm in the light of the theories of literary evaluation thus established. It therefore follows that the investigation falls into two main sections. The first is in essence theoretical. It consists of seven chapters, in which are examined the terminology, etymology and history of literary evaluation; the many different approaches to tackling and understanding the problem of kitsch (pedagogic, socio—economic, political, religious, moral, philosophical etc.); kitsch in its relationship to art; kitsch in literature and elsewhere (kitsch of both style and philosophy); kitsch and the consumer, especially the female consumer; kitsch's causes and functions under a variety of political and social regimes and, lastly, the possible dangers of kitsch and the remedies suggested to help counteract it. The second section commences with a survey of prominent trends in Storm research old and new, followed by an exploration of Storm's awareness of and relationship to his reading public and to his publishers, and the effect on his work of the demands of family finances. Three chapters are devoted specifically to Storm's wide—ranging techniques for appealing to his reading public, and four to one of the most important aspects of his work in relation to kitsch, the women figures and love and marriage in the 'Novellen'. Three more are given over to problems in his works, with particular emphasis on the function of social critic now widely claimed for him. Two chapters deal with Storm's literary aims, both in respect of artistic achievement and popular acclaim, how far he was successful in achieving them, and what shortcomings threatened to diminish the literary value of his works. Finally, there is a chapter on Storm's reception under various regimes and how prevailing ideological factions adapted the works for their own use, whilst Storm's reception in the immediate post—war era and in the present day is the subject of the conclusion.
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Góes, Fernando 1982. "A metáfora da tempestade marítima em A ostra e o vento." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270315.
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Orientador: Paulo Elias Allane FranchettiDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Moacir Costa Lopes se projeta na literatura brasileira em 1959 quando publica seu primeiro romance: Maria de cada porto. Desde essa primeira obra, Lopes já demonstra toda a peculiaridade de seu estilo fluido, do tratamento diferenciado dado ao tempo e principalmente da temática do mar, pouco abordada na literatura brasileira. A ostra e o vento, publicado em 1964, foi a quarta obra de Moacir C. Lopes e pode ser entendida como um marco em sua produção romanesca, pois representa o que se pode chamar de início da sua fase madura como romancista. Em A ostra e o vento o que se destaca é a afinidade amorosa e conflituosa entre uma garota, Marcela, e um ser chamado Saulo, espécie de força sobrenatural, relacionado ao vento. Essa relação pode ser projetada na metáfora da tempestade marítima, pois essa figura sugere, em essência, uma relação entre amantes, entre mar e vento. Este último seria o responsável pela formação das tempestades ao agitar as águas com sua força. Assim, Marcela, atormentada por Saulo acaba destruindo todos os habitantes da ilha, tal como um mar revolto destrói aqueles que ousam desafiá-lo. A utilização da metáfora da tempestade marítima na interpretação de A ostra e o vento se mostra proveitosa, sobretudo, por permitir um melhor entendimento de Saulo, aceitando-o como um person gem autônomo e não apenas uma alucinação de Marcela. Tal figura também permite uma melhor compreensão do mar e de sua importância nessa narrativa como caracterizador da protagonista. Desse modo, por meio da metáfora da tempestade marítima, pôde-se ler A ostra e o vento se afastando da visão comum que tende a relacionar o mar com José. Essa nova leitura permite compreender melhor as peculiaridades dessa obra de Lopes, principalmente as relacionadas à categoria narrador/foco narrativo
Abstract: Moacir Costa Lopes appears on Brazilian literature in 1959 when he published his first novel: Mary of each port. Since that first work, Lopes already demonstrates the peculiarity of his fluid style, the differential treatment given to time and especially the theme of the sea, little appreciated in the Brazilian literature. The Oyster and the Wind, published in 1964, was the fourth work by Moacir C. Lopes and can be seen as a landmark in his novelistic production, it represents what might be called the beginning of his maturity as a novelist. The oyster and the wind in what stands out is the affinity and conflicted love between a girl, Marcela, and be named Saulo, a kind of supernatural force, related to the wind. This relationship may be associated with the metaphor of a storm at sea, as this figure suggests, in essence, a relationship between lovers, between sea and wind. The latter would be responsible for the formation of storms to stir the waters with his strength. Thus, Marcela, plagued by Saulo destroys all the inhabitants of the island as a stormy sea destroys those who dare challenge him. Using the metaphor of the storm at sea in the interpretation of The Oyster and the Wind proves useful, particularly for allowing a better understanding of Saulo, accepting it as an autonomous character and not just a hallucination of Marcela. This figure also allows a better understanding of the sea and its importance in this narrative as the protagonist's characterization. Thus, through the metaphor of the storm at sea, we could view The Oyster and the wind moving away from the common vision that links the sea with Joseph. This new interpretation allows us to understand better the peculiarities of this work of Lopes, especially those related to the category narrator / narrative focus
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Literatura Brasileira
Mestre em Teoria e História Literária
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Sihvola, O. (Otto). "A literature review on pop-up stores and their potential to start new business ventures." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201712093292.
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Pizziuti, Floriana <1983>. "G.M.Trevelyan:A life between Literature and History." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/2930.
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Lo scopo del presente lavoro è quello di analizzare le fonti storiche e letterarie che hanno sviluppato la sensibilità di G.M.Trevelyan per la conservazione di una natura incontaminata. Tale condizione ha permesso al paesaggio di rappresentare in maniera univoca i valori spirituali della nazione inglese.
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Gresock, Joseph Aaron. "Finding Combinatorial Connections between Concepts in the Biomedical Literature." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32441.
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There are now a multitude of articles published in a diversity of journals providing information about genes, proteins, pathways, and entire processes. Each article investigates particular subsets of a biological process, but to gain insight into the functioning of a system as a whole, we must computationally integrate information across multiple publications. This is especially important in problems such as modeling cross-talk in signaling networks, designing drug therapies for combinatorial selectivity, and unraveling the role of gene interactions in deleterious phenotypes, where the cost of performing combinatorial screens is exorbitant. In this thesis, we present an automated approach to biological knowledge discovery from PubMed abstracts, suitable for unraveling combinatorial relationships. It involves the systematic application of a `storytelling' algorithm followed by a series of filtering and compression operations over the mined stories. Given a start and end publication, typically with little or no overlap in content, storytelling identifies a chain of intermediate publications from one to the other, such that neighboring publications have significant content similarity. Stories discovered thus provide an argued approach to relate distant concepts through compositions of related concepts. The chains of links employed by stories are then mined to find frequently reused sub-stories, which can be compressed to yield compact templates of connections. We demonstrate a successful application of storytelling to finding combinatorial connections between biological concepts using two application case studies.Master of Science
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Klein, Giovani Roberto. "O Edipo de Seneca : tradução e estudo critico." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270374.
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Orientador: Paulo Sergio de VasconcellosDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta uma tradução anotada da tragédia Édipo do autor latino Sêneca, acompanhada de uma introdução e de três estudos ensaísticos: o primeiro contrastando o papel do destino no Édipo rei de Sófocles e no Édipo de Sêneca, mostrando as influências da filosofia estóica neste último; o segundo sobre as imagens da peça, discutindo a propriedade de seu uso por parte de um filósofo estóico; o terceiro sobre o uso de descrições na peça, como isso subverte as leis aristotélicas da tragédia e qual o papel que elas podem desempenhar
Abstract: This work presents an annotaded translation of the tragedy Oedipus of the latin author Seneca, followed by an introduction and three essayistic studies: the first one contrasting the role of the fate in Sophocles¿ Oedipus king and in Seneca¿s Oedipus, showing the influences of stoic philosophy in the latter; the second focuses on the images of the play, discussing the property of its use by a stoic philosopher; the third one deals with the use of descriptions in the latin play, how this subverts the aristotelian laws of the tragedy and which is their function in the play
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Letras Classicas
Mestre em Linguística
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Cole, LaShawn Jon Janice. "The rhetoric of nonfiction: An examination of Sebastian Junger's The perfect storm." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3351.
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The thesis begins with a brief description and analysis of various genres Junger blends in his text. What follows is a look at the challenges of interpretation in historical writing and theoretical framing of the genre distinctions regarding new journalism and nonfiction narrative.
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Ivasa, Lídia Harumi. "Tradução comentada de três contos de Edogawa Rampo: uma investigação das primeiras obras da literatura policial no Japão." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8157/tde-26052017-111049/.
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A literatura policial teve origem com o surgimento das grandes cidades, que possibilitou o anonimato do criminoso e a criação de uma força policial para combater essa criminalidade. No Japão, após o período Meiji (1868-1912), são publicadas as primeiras traduções de contos policiais ocidentais, com autores como Edgar Allan Poe e Arthur Conan Doyle. Influenciado por essas leituras, Hirai Tar (1894-1965) escreve as primeiras histórias do gênero ambientadas no Japão, sob o pseudônimo de Edogawa Rampo, difundindo um dos gêneros mais populares no país hoje. Este trabalho apresenta o escritor Edogawa Rampo ao leitor brasileiro, além de propor uma tradução comentada de três contos policiais, mostrando as opções tradutórias e as diferenças culturais que permeiam o texto de partida e o de chegada, embasado pelas Teorias da Tradução. Selecionamos três contos do início da carreira de Rampo, a saber: Nisen dka, Dzaka no satsujin jiken e Shinri shiken, traduzidos respectivamente para o português como A moeda de cobre de dois sen, Assassinato na ladeira D e Teste psicológico. Além disso, apresentamos um breve contexto do gênero policial no Japão na época de Rampo e atualmente.Crime literature originated from the emergence of the big cities, which enabled the anonymity of the criminal and the creation of a police force to fight this criminality. In Japan, after the Meiji period (1868-1912), the first translations of Western crime short stories are published, with authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. Influenced by these readings, Hirai Tar (1894-1965) writes the first stories of this genre set in Japan, under the pseudonym Edogawa Rampo, spreading one of the most popular genres in the country today. This work presents the writer Edogawa Rampo to the Brazilian reader, besides proposing a commented translation of three crime short stories, presenting the translating options and the cultural differences which permeate the source text and target text, based on the Theories of Translation. We have selected three short stories from the beginning of Rampo\'s career, which are: Nisen dka, Dzaka no satsujin jiken e Shinri shiken, respectively translated to Portuguese as A moeda de cobre de dois sen, Assassinato na ladeira D and Teste psicológico. We also present a brief context of the crime genre in Japan at Rampo\'s time and at the present.
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Denison, Stephanie Susan. "The function of self-awareness in selected novellen by Theodor Storm." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1998. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1745/.
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Dozier, Kimberly S. Hesse Douglas Dean. "Reading Vietnam teaching literature using historically-situated texts /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9914567.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1998.Title from title page screen, viewed July 10, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Douglas Hesse (chair), C. Anita Tarr, Charles Harris. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 232-241) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Emmons, Ann. "Sermons in stones| Discovering the nation." Thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10108674.
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If there is a leitmotif to American criticism of the past fifty years it is that America, exceptionally, was not discovered but constructed. Those in a new world void of self-evident tradition or the conventional markers of history, the story goes, invented an organic truth to their past experience, current interests, and future intentions. They constructed cultural memory. Fiction from the early national period, critics argue, variously reflects, exposes, challenges, and participates in this hegemonic process.
This project is dedicated to another group of American writers who insisted that the land did speak: Mormon and Gentile immigrants who walked west the breadth of a new nation and in their journals described haunted rock cities and uncanny Indian massacres. In these descriptions, poetic patterns prove more powerful than manifest appearances. The complex erosion and accretion of these rock cities and these massacre stories prompts reassessment of nineteenth-century Euro-American settlers’ relationship with the land and the land’s inhabitants and alternate interpretations of the seminal texts of American Romanticism.
In Chapter 1, I consider Idaho’s City of Rock’s mythical Almo Massacre in the context of Mormon prophecy, theology, and history. In this reading, I am centrally concerned with the effects of the story’s poetics: how does the Almo-Massacre story invent and perform the nation? The Mountain Meadows Massacre, and its translation from its authentic site to the site of its mythical reenactment in the City of Rocks, is my central concern in Chapter 2. Chapter 2 reminds us that trauma narratives are never about authentic specifics of place, time, or experience but about synesthetic sense: how things feel. This sense is artifactual, and thus heritable and transportable. This revelation informs my readings of the journals of America’s nineteenth-century overland immigrants who walked west and described not the virgin land of American myth but contested space. In Chapter 4, I turn to three of America’s canonical nineteenth-century nation stories: Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle,” James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans , and Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . In these stories, the world-as-felt matters as fully as the world-as-seen.
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Stevens, Catherine Rose. "Spectre within : unburying the dead in Elizabethan literature." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5514.
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This thesis examines spectrality in Elizabethan literature, focusing on the ghost as a figuration of disjuncture within contemporary constructions of the dead. Taking account of the cultural unease and uncertainties about the afterlife generated during the Reformation, I explore how particular conceptualizations of the dead manifest instabilities that move the figure of the ghost into the disturbing role of the spectre. The literature I examine ranges from Elizabethan translations of Seneca and key theological treatises to examples of the English revenge tragedy produced by Shakespeare, Marston, and Chettle. In drawing upon this cross-section of work, I highlight the resonances between varying forms of spectrality in order to explore ways in which the ghost incorporates, but also exceeds, the theatre’s requirement for dramatic excess. It thus becomes clear that the presence of the spectre extends beyond the immediate purposes of particular writers or genres to expose a wider disruption of the relation between, and ontologies of, the living and the dead. The theoretical apparatus for this project is drawn primarily from deconstruction and psychoanalytic theory, with attention to the uncanny as an area in which the two intersect and overlap. These modes of analysis usefully highlight areas of disturbance and slippage within the linguistic and conceptual structures by which the living and dead are defined and understood. In adopting this approach, I aim to expand upon and complicate existing scholarship concerning the figure of the ghost in relation to sixteenth-century theological, philosophical, mythological, and popular discourses and traditions. I do so by demonstrating that the emergence of the uncanny arises through a culturally specific haunting of the form and language of Elizabethan treatments of the dead. The spectre thereby emerges as a figure that is as much the product as the cause of instabilities and erosion within the Elizabethan construction and containment of the dead.
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Petereit, Elisabeth. "Beunruhigungen vom Rand ˸ Weiblichkeit, Phantastisches und Ornament in der Literatur des deutschsprachigen Realismus (Keller, Storm, Fontane)." Thesis, Paris 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA030054.
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Cette thèse propose une lecture de textes canoniques du réalisme germanophone selon le prisme des inquiétudes que provoquent les éléments placés à la marge : le féminin, le fantastique et l’ornement. La base commune qui permet de relier ces catégories esthétiques, anthropologiques et sociales est qu’elles se définissent en tant qu’Autre dans une bipolarité : homme – femme, réel – fantastique, ›grand‹ art – ornement. La hiérarchie qui sous-tend ces oppositions s’avère néanmoins peu stable, de telle sorte que ces éléments marginalisés troublent le centre normatif. Le fantastique est abordé comme élément constitutif pour la mise en forme littéraire de problèmes sociaux actuels et ›réels‹, et les rapports entre les sexes tels que définis par la société bourgeoise, sont montrés comme mis en mouvement et ambivalents. L’analyse détaillée des textes de Theodor Fontane, Gottfried Keller et Theodor Storm se concentre d’abord sur la femme comme ›principe esthétique‹ et comme ›genre‹, capté et fixé dans l’image, et montre que ce féminin imagé et idéalisé se convertit au contraire en déclencheur d’une imagination débridée et déréglée, qui s’inspire de sources littéraires et mythologiques (Pénélope, Cendrillon, sorcières etc.). Elle s’attache ensuite aux modèles, aux rôles et aux normes liés au mariage bourgeois et aux enjeux qu’ils constituent pour l’acceptation ou le rejet de la femme comme égale. La troisième partie étudie enfin les rapports entre l’idéal familial bourgeois et la société patriarcale. Dans les romans le mariage bourgeois est hanté par les fantômes de rôles sexuels encore en vigueur, mais désormais obsolètes, ce qui confère aux foyers une inquiétante étrangeté au sens FreudienThis dissertation offers an analysis of canonical texts from German literary realism using the anxiety that is felt by readers and writers in what constitutes the margins of realist literature in the 19th century: the feminine, the fantastic and ornamentations.These aesthetic, anthropologic and social categories are linked as they are all defined by a binary opposition that turns them into the Other or the Inessential: male-female, reality-fantastic, art-ornamentation. The hierarchy upon which these oppositions are built is however not that stable as these elements at the margin do trouble and replace what constitutes the society’s normative core. The fantastic elements in the works of the authors are used as constituting materials to engage the literary discussion on present and real social problems at the time of writing. The relationships between the sexes and genders which were so clearly described in the bourgeois era are seen as ambivalent and in motion.The three parts of this dissertation provide an in-depth analysis of the works of Theodor Fontane, Gottfried Keller and Theodor Storm. The first section of the work will focus on the figure of the woman as an aesthetic which is both captured and fixed in the image. It will show that this idealised and pictured feminine becomes the catalyst for unbridled and unruly imagination. Then, the traditional roles and behaviours within patriarchal marriage will then be shown to be largely inspired by literary tradition, and in particular in the myths and the fairy-tale (Penelope, Cinderella, the Witch, etc.). Lastly, the relationships between the ideal bourgeois family and the patriarchal family will be analysed in the work of Fontane and Storm. As the era of German realist literature ended, patriarchal marriage was haunted by the ghosts of gender roles, which however obsolete, were still predominant. This paradox made families unheimlich in the Freudian sense
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Ask, Celia Cristina de Azevedo. "Sparkianas texto adentro : narrativa e relações humanas nos contos de Muriel Spark (1918-2006) /." Assis [s.n.], 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103660.
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Resumo: Este trabalho tem por objetivo realizar uma leitura dos contos da autora escocesa Muriel Spark, nos quais a importância das práticas narrarativas se manifesta como a característica mais evidente: a estrutura narrativa e as construções significativas agem em favor da expressão de um modo de estar no mundo e, mais regularmente, representam também o grande desafio que a leitura poderá abrigar ao tratar das personagens, em especial as femininas. No entanto, é necessária a identificação das referências que constituem os mundos ficcionais, geralmente atreladas à realidade e à proposição de novas formas de inteligibilidade. Em geral, estas formas estão implícitas no texto e cabe às leitoras e aos leitores acessá-las; para que isto ocorra, devemos reconhecer que estrutura narrativa e caracterização de personagens encontram-se intrinsecamente relacionadas. Por meio dos contos sparkianos, é possível ter uma ampla visão da obra da autora e, ao mesmo tempo, das práticas e experiências das mulheres historicamente situadas. Assim, a tese que defendemos é a de que os contos de Muriel Spark, com base nas construções significativas presentes no texto, permitem um diálogo entre o texto e a realidade sob o enfoque da personagem feminina. Servindo-se das referências adequadas, a leitura dos contos sparkianos pode contribuir para a compreensão das formas de interação das mulheres em seu próprio grupo e com o grupo dos homens
Abstract: This study aims to perform a reading of the short stories of Scottish author Muriel Spark, in which the importance of the narrative practices manifests itself as their most evident feature: the narrative structure and the building of significances may favor the expression of a mode of being in the world and, more regularly, they also represent the great challenge that reading can accommodate concerning the characters, especially the female ones. However, it is necessary to identify the references that constitute the fictional worlds, usually tied to reality and proposing new forms of intelligibility. In general, these forms are implicit in the text and it is a readers' task to access them; for this to occur, we must recognize that narrative structure and characterization are intrinsically linked. Through the sparkian characters it is possible to get a broad overview of the work of the author and, at the same time, the practices and experiences of women historically situated. Thus, the thesis we defend is that the stories written by Muriel Spark, based on significant buildings in the text, enable a dialogue between text and reality from the perspective of female characters. With the appropriate references, the reading of those sparkian short stories can contribute to the understanding of the ways by which women interact within their own group and with the male group
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Rosa, Marcela Silva Cavalcanti. "STORM: jogo empresarial de est?mulo ? criatividade." PROGRAMA DE P?S-GRADUA??O EM ENGENHARIA DE PRODU??O, 2017. https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/24981.
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A criatividade tem sido amplamente estudada por pesquisadores de diferentes ?reas do conhecimento desde a d?cada de 1950, mesmo per?odo em que os jogos empresariais come?aram a ser usados para fins educacionais. Contudo, a rela??o entre os dois temas ainda tem sido pouco estudada, embora as possibilidades de correla??o entre eles sejam v?rias. Os jogos empresariais tornaram-se meios eficientes e eficazes de capacita??o de pessoas nas organiza??es e ensino nas escolas, enquanto a criatividade passou a ser percebida como parte do processo de inova??o e, portanto, importante para todos os segmentos. O objetivo desta pesquisa ? desenvolver um jogo que estimule a criatividade dos seus participantes. Para isso, o m?todo da pesquisa ? caracterizado como descritivo com abordagem quali-quantitativa. A pesquisa te?rica contemplou uma revis?o tradicional da literatura e uma revis?o sistem?tica da literatura (RBS) de 64 artigos hospedados nas plataformas Scopus e Web of Science no tema jogo empresarial, publicados entre os anos 1970 e 2016. A pesquisa de campo contemplou a realiza??o de pesquisa-a??o com seis interven??es em 73 pessoas, alocadas em uma Universidade e empresa da ind?stria criativa, realizada entre agosto e novembro de 2017. Como resultados esta pesquisa apresentou um modelo conceitual com os elementos de um jogo empresarial e um jogo empresarial para o est?mulo criativo dos seus participantes - STORM, com taxa de aceita??o de 97,5% entre os jogadores.
Researchers from different fields of knowledge have extensively studied creativity since the 1950s, same period when business games began to be used for educational purposes. However, the relation between the two themes has yet to be more studied, although there are several possibilities of correlation between them. Business games have become efficient and effective means of empowering people in organizations and teaching in schools, while creativity has come to be perceived as part of the innovation process and therefore important for all segments. The goal of this research is to develop a game that stimulates the creativity of its participants. For this, the research method is characterized as descriptive with a qualitative-quantitative approach. The theoretical research contemplated a traditional literature review and a systematic literature review (SLR) of 64 articles hosted on the Scopus and Web of Science platforms regarding the business game theme, published between the years of 1970 and 2016. The action research contemplated six applications with 73 people, allocated at a university and a creative industry company, and the data were collected between August and November 2017. As results this research presented a conceptual model with the elements of a business game and a business game for the creative stimulation of its participants - STORM, with acceptance rate of 97.5% among the players.
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Inamoto, Masako. "Insignificance Given Meaning: The Literature of Kita Morio." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1282123908.
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Petee, Evan L. "Somerset, Kansas." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1050077392.
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Miller, Jeanette Leigh. "Beat Women: The Thunder Before the Storm-An Analysis of Feminism's Bridge Generation." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1486.
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The 1950s saw the height of the Beat literature movement. Within this movement moved a cohort of women who helped revolutionize gender relations in the early Cold War era, leading to the emergence of the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s. By questioning social gender norms and harnessing their artistic, sexual, and economic autonomy, Beat women built lives of lived art outside proscribed social norms building the base for a new era in gender relations.
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Oliveira, Maria Manuela Ruas de. "O universo feminino em Tendres stocks de Paul Morand." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/2771.
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Mestrado em Estudos FrancesesNo período compreendido entre as duas guerras mundiais, Paul Morand foi um dos autores franceses mais reconhecidos em França. Escritor, diplomata, diletante e cosmopolita, deixou-se levar, durante toda a sua existência, pelo gosto e pelo prazer da literatura. Desejoso de viver, curioso por natureza, preferia ouvir a falar, dando-se pouco a conhecer aos outros. Sessenta anos de escrita, legam-nos um vasto e rico património literário que actualmente repousa, há tempo demasiado, nas prateleiras de bibliotecas e livrarias. Desencadeou tempestades ao longo de quase todo o século XX, não só pela sua irreverência literária e pela recusa de seguir as modas do pós-guerra, abordando temas-“tabu”, demasiado ousados para a época, mas também pelas suas escolhas políticas infelizes que o condenaram perante a opinião pública e o baniram, por um longo período, do panorama literário francês, tendo sido até, considerado como persona non grata. Experimentou o exílio e só após a sua polémica eleição para a Académie Française, viu a sua obra, de novo, publicada em França. Tal como Fénix, Paul Morand renasce das cinzas encontrando um novo público que o redescobre e o reclama. O nosso trabalho não pretende julgar o homem que foi Paul Morand; constitui apenas uma tentativa de compreender o mestre e de o retirar, um pouco que seja, do seu purgatório e, tratando-se de um dos maiores escritores do século XX, motivar para a leitura e estudo das suas obras, não obstante o género a que pertençam (romances, novelas, teatro, poesia, literatura de viagem, etc.). O resultado da nossa pesquisa, O Universo Feminino em Tendres stocks de Paul Morand, pretende analisar o papel da mulher na sociedade do início do século XX, detectando, através do seu reflexo, o pensamento e o sofrimento marcados pelo que se designou por “mal du siècle”. Desta forma, debruçámonos essencialmente sobre o período específico entre guerras, circunscrevendo o nosso trabalho ao estudo das novelas de Tendres stocks, sob uma perspectiva literária, cultural e histórica e simultaneamente filosófica e psicanalítica. A mulher, na obra de Morand, é cativante, bela e sedutora, de extrema complexidade e contraditória nas suas acções e filosofias de vida. Tendres stocks apresenta-nos uma trilogia “genial” que não pára de surpreender e esconde em palavras secas e leves os conflitos existenciais que abalam, não só as personagens de Morand, mas toda uma sociedade decepcionada e desorientada pelas incertezas da época. ABSTRACT: During the in-between war periods Paul Morand has been one of the most highly praised French writers. A diplomat and a writer, possessing a dilettante and cosmopolitan manner, he let himself be guided throughout his whole life by his incommensurable taste for literature. Eager for life, holder of a curious nature, he’d rather listen than talk, barely disclosing his inner self to others. Sixty years of writing have resulted in a wide and rich literary heritage that has been buried for too long in the shelves of libraries and bookshops. He has been responsible for intense uproar throughout the whole of the 20th century, not only due to his literary irreverence and his refusal to comply with post-war fashions, repeatedly opting for controversial taboo subjects, but also because of his unfortunate political choices that have eventually led to his conviction by the public opinion and to him being banned from French literary scene for a long time. He then lived in exile and only after his polemical election and inclusion in the French Academy have his complete works been republished in France. Just like a phoenix, Paul Morand has managed to resurrect from the ashes by finding a new public that has rediscovered and reclaimed him. As such, this study, not intending in any way to judge the man Paul Morand, merely attempts to revive interest in the outstanding work of one of the 20th century greatest writers, thus setting him free from his long-lasting purgatory in the hope of encouraging the reading and study of his works, regardless of the genre they belong to (novels, novellas, drama, poetry, travel literature, and so on). With the study we have entitled The Feminine Universe in Paul Morand’s Tendres stocks we seek to examine and give emphasis to the role of female characters in the early 20th century social structure, thus perceiving through their reflection the anguish brought about by the so-called mal du siècle. We have therefore essentially focussed on the period in-between the World Wars, confining our research to the analysis of the Tendres stocks compilation not only under a literary, cultural and historical perspective, but at the same time philosophical and psychoanalytical. Morand’s women are entrancing, beautiful and seductive, but also extremely complicated and contradictory when it comes to their actions and life philosophies. Tendres stocks constitutes a remarkable trilogy that unceasingly causes surprise, since it conceals in plain unpretentious words the existential conflicts that torment not only Morand’s characters but, more generally, the whole of the disappointed and disoriented society he is part of.
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Pomari, Gerson Luis. "Vício e verso - as histórias ilustradas de Wilhelm Busch no sistema literário brasileiro." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8144/tde-10112009-151153/.
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Esta tese estuda a presença das histórias ilustradas de Wilhelm Busch (1832- 1908) no sistema literário brasileiro. Para tanto, ela analisa como o sistema literário alemão, registra a produção de Busch e como esta se constrói a partir de dois pólos de influência: a tendência humorística do periódico Fliegende Blätter (1845-1944), de que as histórias ilustradas buschianas parecem herdar uma porção, e a postura crítica em relação ao contexto sócio-histórico da comunidade de expressão alemã na segunda metade do século XIX, com o qual as histórias ilustradas buschianas mantêm uma relação dialógica. O estudo que aqui se desenvolve parte da prática da reflexão sobre o texto literário, de sua leitura e análise, a partir das quais foi possível encarar as histórias ilustradas buschianas não como fenômeno isolado de seu contexto nem como puro reflexo dele, mas como um dos elementos que influenciam e são influenciados no conglomerado sistêmico que é o ambiente cultural e literário de uma nação. Com essa concepção, este trabalho revela que, em que pese a permanência de sua obra no horizonte da literatura brasileira desde sua primeira tradução, em 1901, a imagem de Busch no cânone literário brasileiro, ou da literatura alemã instituído a partir do Brasil, apresenta uma assimetria com a que ele têm no sistema cultural alemão. Tal assimetria decorre da redução do potencial de significação que as histórias ilustradas buschianas apresentam nas suas versões traduzidas para o português, resultante da atuação de alguns dos agentes literários envolvidos nesse processo de transposição intercultural.The present thesis points out the presence of Wilhelm Buschs picture stories (1832-1908) in the Brazilian literary system. For that matter, it analyses how the German literary system registers Buschs production and how it is constructed from two influence poles: the humorous tendency of the weekly German humor magazine Fliegende Blätter (1845-1944), from which it seems to have inherited a portion, and the critical posture related to the socio-historic context of the expressive German community in the second half of the XIX century, with which Buschs picture stories has a dialogic relationship. The study that here develops comes from the reflection about the literary text, its reading and analysis, from which it is possible to face Buschs picture stories, not as a phenomenon isolated from its context or as its reflex, but as one of the elements that both influence and are influenced within the systemic conglomerate, which is a nations cultural and literary atmosphere. With that conception in mind, this paper reveals that, despite the perpetuation of this work on the Brazilian literature horizon starting with its first translation, in 1901, Buschs image in the Brazilian literary canon, or the German literature established from Brazil, presents an asymmetry in relation to the one he has in the German cultural system. Such asymmetry comes from the reduction of the potential of meaning that Buschs picture stories bear in their versions translated into Portuguese, as a result of some of the literary agents involved in this intercultural transposition process.
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Golubov, Nattie Liliana. "British women writers and the public sphere between the Wars : Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson, Naomi Mitchison, and Rebecca West." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2002. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1408.
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This thesis examines how Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson, Naomi Mitchison and Rebecca West appropriated the political ideas of the interwar period into their fiction and sought to transform abstract ideals into values with which to judge and improve social life. For all four writers, this pursuit takes the form of showing the complex relations between theory and practice as experienced by particular individuals. My premise here is the idea that political ideals are based upon the moral principles used by persons to guide their conduct in the pursuit of individual and collective happiness. Chapter One discusses the socialist concepts of loyalty, equality and fraternity as the values upon which the good society should be constructed and the self-appointed role of writers as public intellectuals whose task was to counteract political apathy and encourage the practice of active citizenship. Chapter Two examines Holtby's Eutychus or the Future of the Pulpit, Jameson's No Time Like the Present and Rebecca West's "The Strange Necessity" to demonstrate how literature was intended as a tool in the defence against the atomisation effected by the impact of modern life on culture, and a bulwark against the concomitant subjectivism which resulted from the extensive retreat into private life. Chapters Three and Four examine the practice of politics itself, with particular emphasis on the social bonds proposed to replace the instrumentality of interpersonal relationships in capitalist societies. The texts examined are Mitchison's We Have Been Warned, Holtby's South Riding, Jameson's In the Second Year and Mirror in Darkness, as well as West's Harriet Hume. Chapter Five focuses on Jameson's That Was Yesterday and West's The Thinking Reed and discusses the difficulties faced by women unable to negotiate the boundaries between the domestic and the public sphere of sociability as a result of the irreconciliability of self-determination and social demands.
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Das, Neves Fernando Adrian. "Stepping Stones and Pathways:Improving Retrieval by Chains of Relationships between Documents." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29419.
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The information retrieval (IR) field has been successful in developing techniques to address many types of information needs. However, there are cases in which traditional approaches to IR are not able to produce adequate results. Examples include: when a small set of (2-3) documents is needed as an answer rather than a single document, or when "query splitting" is required to satisfactorily explore the document space. We explore an alternative model of building and presenting retrieval results for such cases. In particular, we research effective methods for handling information needs that may:
1. Include multiple topics: A typical query is interpreted by current IR systems as a request to retrieve documents that each discusses all topics included in that query. We propose an alternative interpretation based on query splitting. It allows queries to be interpreted as requests to retrieve sets of documents rather than individual documents, with meaningful relationships among the members of each such set.
2. Be interpreted as parts in a chain of relationships: Suppose a query concerns topics t1 and tm. Is there a relation between topics t1 and tm that involves t2 and possibly other topics as in {t1, t2, â ¦ tm}? Thus, we propose an alternative interpretation of user queries and presentation of the results. Our interpretation has the potential to improve retrieval results whenever there is a mismatch between the user's understanding of the collection and the actual collection content. We define and refine a retrieval scheme that enhances retrieval through a framework that combines multiple sources of evidence.
Query results in our interpretation are networks of document groups representing topics, each group relating to and connecting to other groups in the network that partially answer the user's information need. We devise new and more effective representations and techniques to visualize results, and incorporate the user as part of the retrieval process.
We also evaluate the improvement of the query results based on multiple measures. In particular, we verify the validity of our approach through a study involving a collection of Operating Systems research papers that was specially built for this dissertation.Ph. D.
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CAMINADA, ROSSETTI Lucia. "La mirada dislocada entre literatura e imagen narrativas como territorios." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10446/48685.
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Strine, Katherine. "Midnight Man." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1481365511976235.
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Chambers, Thomas A. ""A Good Mind, Well Stored": Medicine, Society, Literature, and Sensibility in the Journal of Abigial May, 1800." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625914.
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Kaczorowski, Kimberly E. "The Anatomy of Love: What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and Several Cures of It." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1251817533.
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Ask, Celia Cristina de Azevedo [UNESP]. "Sparkianas texto adentro: narrativa e relações humanas nos contos de Muriel Spark (1918-2006)." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103660.
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Este trabalho tem por objetivo realizar uma leitura dos contos da autora escocesa Muriel Spark, nos quais a importância das práticas narrarativas se manifesta como a característica mais evidente: a estrutura narrativa e as construções significativas agem em favor da expressão de um modo de estar no mundo e, mais regularmente, representam também o grande desafio que a leitura poderá abrigar ao tratar das personagens, em especial as femininas. No entanto, é necessária a identificação das referências que constituem os mundos ficcionais, geralmente atreladas à realidade e à proposição de novas formas de inteligibilidade. Em geral, estas formas estão implícitas no texto e cabe às leitoras e aos leitores acessá-las; para que isto ocorra, devemos reconhecer que estrutura narrativa e caracterização de personagens encontram-se intrinsecamente relacionadas. Por meio dos contos sparkianos, é possível ter uma ampla visão da obra da autora e, ao mesmo tempo, das práticas e experiências das mulheres historicamente situadas. Assim, a tese que defendemos é a de que os contos de Muriel Spark, com base nas construções significativas presentes no texto, permitem um diálogo entre o texto e a realidade sob o enfoque da personagem feminina. Servindo-se das referências adequadas, a leitura dos contos sparkianos pode contribuir para a compreensão das formas de interação das mulheres em seu próprio grupo e com o grupo dos homens
This study aims to perform a reading of the short stories of Scottish author Muriel Spark, in which the importance of the narrative practices manifests itself as their most evident feature: the narrative structure and the building of significances may favor the expression of a mode of being in the world and, more regularly, they also represent the great challenge that reading can accommodate concerning the characters, especially the female ones. However, it is necessary to identify the references that constitute the fictional worlds, usually tied to reality and proposing new forms of intelligibility. In general, these forms are implicit in the text and it is a readers’ task to access them; for this to occur, we must recognize that narrative structure and characterization are intrinsically linked. Through the sparkian characters it is possible to get a broad overview of the work of the author and, at the same time, the practices and experiences of women historically situated. Thus, the thesis we defend is that the stories written by Muriel Spark, based on significant buildings in the text, enable a dialogue between text and reality from the perspective of female characters. With the appropriate references, the reading of those sparkian short stories can contribute to the understanding of the ways by which women interact within their own group and with the male group
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Gallion, Erika Nicole. "Lullabies and Sleepless Nights." Ashland University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=auhonors1399800331.
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Bertoncini-Zúbková, Elena. "Mayai-waziri wa maradhi: magic realism in Euphrase Kezilahabi\'s long time unpublished short story." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-90925.
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This article will present a short story which appeared in the newspaper Mzalendo on the 15th January 1978, but it took twenty-six years before it was published in a book. Presumably it was written in the same period as both the play Kaputula la Marx and probably also as some of Kezilahabi’s poems from the second collection Karibu ndani (1988). It is a period of his most critical works. In Mayai – Waziri wa Maradhi the author blames, in a highly symbolic manner, the leading classes of his country who became rich at the expense of common citizens during ten years of Independence, symbolized by ten emaciated ghostly children.
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Degani, Francisco José Saraiva. "Pirandello e a máscara animal." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8148/tde-12112014-104230/.
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A obra em prosa de Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), sobretudo sua novelística, é permeada pela presença de um rico e variado mundo animal. O autor, como um agudo observador de sua época, reconhece a importância dos animais na cultura e no desenvolvimento da civilização. Espelhos naturais dos humanos, capazes de sofrer e entender esse sofrimento, agentes do acaso e da impassibilidade da natureza, os animais inserem-se perfeitamente na poética do autor. Em Pirandello, o animal é um personagem que age e se comporta como um personagem de Pirandello, mas, ao contrário do personagem humano, mostra a sua própria face, sem disfarces, sem meios termos e sem máscaras. Este estudo busca examinar e chamar a atenção para esse pouco estudado, mas importante aspecto da obra de Pirandello, relacionando-o com a poética do autor e a evolução de sua obraThe prose works of Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), particularly his short stories, is permeated by the presence of a rich and varied animal world. The author, as a keen observer of his time, recognizes the importance of animals in the culture and development of civilization. Natural mirrors of the human being, capable of suffering and understanding this suffering, agents of natures chance and impassivity, animals fall perfectly into the poetics of the author. In Pirandello, the animal is a character who acts and behaves like a character from Pirandello, but, unlike the human character, it shows its own face, without disguises, compromises and masks. This study seeks to examine and draw attention to this understudied but important aspect of the work of Pirandello, relating it to the poetics of the author and the evolution of his work
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Slater, Barbara. "Man's history of himself as space : Adrian Stokes; art, life and psychoanalysis in the writings up to 1951." Thesis, University of Reading, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260839.
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Finch, Heather Marie Carroll Alicia. "Surviving the storm: the representation of African Americans from Gee's Bend to Hurricane Katrina /." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/Send%2011-10-07/FINCH_HEATHER_41.pdf.
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Drury, Brendan E. "Put me in coach : surviving the bench and the locker room in adolescent basketball literature /." Electronic version (PDF), 2005. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2005/druryb/brendandrury.pdf.
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Gandiya, Violet Chiswa. "Storm theophany in the Hebrew Psalms, prophetic and wisdom literature and the attribution of socio-political roles to Yahweh in Ancient Israel." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.627361.
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Würz, Ulrike. "Unheimliche Häuser eine vergleichende Motivanalyse an Texten deutschsprachiger Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts." Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2004. http://d-nb.info/991123948/04.
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Wade, Brian Richard. "Improvisation and Other Stories." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1275462143.
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Forssell, Louise. "Zur Körpersprache in Theodor Storms Novelle "Der Schimmelreiter" : "Er reichte ihr die Hand und drückte sie, als ob es zwischen ihnen keines weiteren Wortes bedürfe ..." /." Hamburg : Kovač, 2009. http://d-nb.info/992158737/04.
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Cassin, Bridgid. "A Madness in Marion County: Stories." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1558623610654458.
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Nakamura, Osamu. "Untersuchungen zu verschiedenen Konfliktmotiven in Theodor Storms spaten Novelln : auf dem Weg zu einer humanistischen Literatur zum Zweck der Rettung und Heilung von Geist und Seele." Graduate School of International Development. Nagoya University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/6214.
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Vollaro, Daniel Richard. "Origins and Orthodoxy: Anthologies of American Literature and American History." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/36.
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This dissertation examines how the new “multicultural phase” anthologies of American literature treat American history. Anthologies of American literature are more historical, more diverse, and more multidisciplinary than ever before, but they have over-extended themselves in both their historical and representational reach. They are not, despite their diversity and historicism, effective vehicles for promoting critical discussions of American history in the classroom. Chapter One outlines a brief history of anthologies of American literature, while also introducing the terminology and methodology used in this study. Chapter Two explores the role of the headnote as a vehicle for American history in anthologies by focusing on headnotes to Abraham Lincoln in multiple anthologies. Chapter Three examines how anthologies frame Native American origin stories for their readers. Chapter Four focuses on the issues raised by anthologizing texts originally composed in Spanish, and Chapter Five argues for a transnational broadening of the “slavery theme” in anthologies to include Barbary captivity narratives and texts that reference Indian slavery.
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Plouffe, Bruce. "The post-war novella in German language literature : an analysis." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74297.
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This study examines the interpretive possibilities in the shorter fiction of Post-War German literature. The corpus includes works by Rolf Hochhuth, Friedrich Durrenmatt and Martin Walser. The historical framework of the theory of the novella and short story provides a basis for a discussion of genre, extended to include the coordinates of metaphor and metonymy. With the exception of one text designated as a novel, these works demonstrate interlocking and restricted motif complexes, repetitive and parallel structure and the integration of most narrative components. They project a tenor of hermetic plurality from a vehicle of abbreviated and truncated referential discourse. They use myth and intertextuality to show general principles to be extrapolated from specific contexts. Metafiction complements the theme of the subject not at one with itself. A partial resolution to the incertitude of existence, rendered according to Freud and Lacan, is offered through the emerging role of women as a stabilizing factor.
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Scott, Joline L. "Shells." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1285194565.
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Sullivan, Jaclyn. "WE WILL MAKE YOUR HEAD EXPLODE." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2272.
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We Will Make Your Head Explode is a collection of short fiction stories that explore themes of friendship, family, love, lust, jealousy, loyalty, and disappointment. The characters in these stories are utterly human; they are pushed, pulled, and often fall victim to circumstance. A woman grapples between her love of roadside attractions and her boyfriend s grief. A son is forced to decide whether or not to honor his mother s final wishes. A college student is blind to her brother s evolution beyond their family. A woman discovers new possibilities while stalking graveyards to escape the memory of a man who left her behind. A teenager on the run finds and loses her first love. As desperately as they struggle to control their situations, their love lives, their families, and their emotions, they are often faced with simply having to come to terms with their realities. These eleven stories are intended to examine the ways people are capable of treating each other, both good and bad, and how people deal with the inevitably of being forced to move beyond what seems permanent, to create new identities, to laugh, and to learn from their mistakes.M.F.A.
Department of English
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Creative Writing MFA
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Gibbons, Beverly (Beverly Ann). "Terlingua." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278466/.
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Terlingua includes a scholarly foreword on illusion and reality in the writing of fiction. Five short stories are contained in this thesis. "Terlingua" relates the story of two students on a road trip who give a ride to a mysterious woman. "Zoology" is the first person narrative of a zoology graduate who picks up a socialite. "What about Sonoma?" is the story of two misfits whose affair comes to an end. "Losing Ground" examines a couple's relationship that changes because of the man's bowling injury and the woman's unexpected pregnancy. "The Jury Remembers Everything" is about a woman who becomes hesitant to marry her fiancé when she learns her mother may have once run away with a mortician. "Losing Ground" is a drama, and the other four stories are comedies.