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Scheel, Kathleen Mary. "Space, time and the pilgrimage in modernist literature /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2076.
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Cook, Jordan Ellington. "Space, Time, and the Self in 20th Century Literature." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1525456817163611.
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Romanow, Rebecca Fine. "The postcolonial body in queer space and time /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2006. http://0-digitalcommons.uri.edu.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3225329.
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Smethurst, Paul. "Space, time and place in the postmodern novel." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309297.
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Saleh, Mohamed Zainab. "Story, time, and space : structure and three graphic novels /." South Hadley, Mass. : [s.n.], 2008. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/mhc/2008/267.pdf.
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Sugden, Edward. "American literature and global time, 1812-59." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0c1a68fe-2e17-48bd-851b-00133ca256f0.
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American Literature and Global Time, 1812-59 explores the effects of the early stages of globalization on time consciousness in antebellum American literature and non-fiction. It argues that oceanic trade, extracontinental imperialism, immigration, and Pacific exploration all affected how antebellum Americans configured their national pasts, presents, and futures. The ensuing pluralisation of time that followed disallowed cogent conceptions of national identity. It analyses transnational geographies to examine how they transmit heterogeneous times. The project’s interest is in U.S. national sites that counterintuitively acted as fulcrums for the importations of foreign times and non-U.S. sites that interacted with and modified the homogenous progressive time of nationalism. As such, my project seeks to combine the transnational and temporal turns. It argues that the ethnic, racial, and geographic contestation emphasized by transnational critics found parallels in how antebellum Americans conceived of time. Conversely, it suggests that there were profound links between globalization and the sorts of instabilities in time identified by the critics of the temporal turn. Over its course my project identifies a series of “global times” that came into being in the years between the War of 1812 and the discovery of petroleum in 1859. These fall under three broad headings. First, what I term, entangled times that came about as a result of the movement of ships across borders and different social contexts; secondly, foreign local times that re-set the clock of imperialism and national progress; and, thirdly, a huge mass of reconfigurations in the origins and futures of the still-young United States.
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Bullock, Kurt E. "Narrative space and time : the rhetoric of disruption in the short-story form." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1213154.
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This study traces spatial and temporal disturbances in the modem short story structure. Edgar Allan Poe's "indefinitiveness" and Kenneth Burke's "actualization" serve as historical foundations for this investigation, which leads to contemporary frameworks proposed by such theorists as Gerard Genette, Umberto Eco, Wolfgang Iser, Paul Ricoeur, Peter Brooks, James Phelan, and Susan Sniader Lanser. In particular, I explore how effect operates as a predominant concern of short fiction. Short fiction is a rhetorical interaction encumbered by spatial and temporal constraints, and its narrative teleology is necessarily disrupted by rhetorical techniques. Narrative's boundaries are purposefully violated, its tempo twisted and contorted, exposing a purposeful tension in the rhetorical engagement of author, text and reader. Instabilities crafted within the text disrupt time-space expectations of readers.Importantly, effect is perceived as a rhetorical device within short fiction, and so in this study the text serves as a site of transference privileging equally writer and reader. Conditions of possibility and understanding are invested in the text by the author through techniques of spatial disruption and temporal discontinuity, and then reinvested in the reader by the narrative through the text's generation of uncertainty. Short fiction serves as an invitation by the author for the reader to construct explanations; devices work to disrupt the time-space constraints of the genre, establishing as they do a narrative contract between author and reader that is resolved in and from the text.Burke considers this to be shaping prose fiction to the author's purposes, an act which "involves desires and their appeasements" - and one which purposefully aims for a particular effect. But what are the limits of purposefulness in short fiction? I examine both textual effect and reader affect, relying particularly on Iser and Eco, and turn to Brooks in conclusion to summarize the role of desire in and from the text, and to Phelan to critique the place of rhetoric in establishing and maintaining that desire. My analysis discloses that time-space disruption, employed as a rhetorical strategy by short story writers, serves to heighten rather than threaten the mediated engagement of writer/text/reader in short fiction, producing a measured effect.Department of English
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Choy, Gregory. "Sites of function in Asian American literature : tropics of place, agents of space /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9454.
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William, Jennifer Marston. "Zeiträume : time, space, and metaphor in German-language novels of the twentieth century /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486462702467453.
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Cleary, Emma. "Jazz-shaped bodies : mapping city space, time, and sound in black transnational literature." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2014. http://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/2205/.
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“Jazz-Shaped Bodies” addresses representations of the city in black transnational literature, with a focus on sonic schemas and mapping. Drawing on cultural geography, posthumanist thought, and the discourse of diaspora, the thesis examines the extent to which the urban landscape is figured as a panoptic structure in twentieth and twenty-first century diasporic texts, and how the mimetic function of artistic performance challenges this structure. Through comparative analysis of works emerging from and/or invested with sites in American, Canadian, and Caribbean landscapes, the study develops accretively and is structured thematically, tracing how selected texts: map the socio-spatial dialectic through visual and sonic schemas; develop the metaphorical use of the phonograph in the folding of space and time; revive ancestral memory and renew an engagement with the landscape; negotiate and transcend shifting national, cultural, and geographical borderlines and boundaries that seek to encode and enclose black subjectivity. The project focuses on literary works such as James Baldwin’s intimate cartographies of New York in Another Country (1962), Earl Lovelace’s carnivalising of city space in The Dragon Can’t Dance (1979), Toni Morrison’s creative blending of the sounds of black music in Jazz (1992), and the postbody poetics of Wayde Compton’s Performance Bond (2004), among other texts that enact crossings of, or otherwise pierce, binaries and borderlines, innovating portals for alternative interpellation and subverting racially hegemonic visual regimes concretised in the architecture of the city. An examination of the specificity of the cityscape against the wider arc of transnationalism establishes how African American, AfroCaribbean, and Black Canadian texts share and exchange touchstones such as jazz, kinesis, liminality, and hauntedness, while remaining sensitive to the distinct sociohistorical contexts and intensities at each locus, underscoring the significance of rendition — of body, space, time, and sound — to black transnational writing.
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Parpoulova, Petia R. "Amalgamated spaces of modernity /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6638.
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Bethell, Bennett Ian Anthony. "Transcultural rhythms : the Caribbean grandmother repeating across time and space." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3642/.
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The figure of the grandmother is a rhythm which repeats itself throughout Caribbean literature. The Caribbean literary grandmother owes a great deal to a history of hardship under slavery and post-emancipation struggles for self-realisation and empowerment. This thesis explores the repeating theme of theme of the grandmother-headed-household in literary works from Guadeloupe to Jamaica. The novels of Simone Schwarz-Bart, Joseph Zobel, Cecil Foster, Zee Edgell, Alvin Bennett, Cristina Garcia and Pablo Medina are interrogated in this space to reveal the importance of the grandmother character as the backbone of the works. Other novels from the region will also be utilised as secondary texts to further demonstrate the timeless nature of the grandmother's primary role in cultural retention and in the writer's imagination. Social-history provides an invaluable backdrop for understanding some of the dynamics involved in the West Indian family relationship and family structure. Theories as produced by theorists from within the region will be drawn upon alongside theories produced outside the Caribbean. These theories are included because they allow for a culturally distinct reading of Antillian literature that does not imprison the subject as reductionist, Eurocentric theory does. The combination of these theories , will thereby allow the importance of the grandmother character to come through, not as a dysfunctional copy of European models, but rather as a character constructed within a unique cultural contexts on distinct cultural codes. The premise of this thesis is the deconstruction of boundaries by highlighting the repeating grandmother rhythm. The established barriers serve to segregate works into groups based on language, nationality, gender, and ethnicity. Therefore, reading along the restrictive lines established by the latter has disallowed the rich understanding that an interdisciplinary study which crosses genre, gender, and lines of ethnicity reveals.
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Boyd, Jane Jennifer Jones. "Frank Norris spatial form and narrative time /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1990. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/9035645.
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Lohmueller, Elisabeth. "The appearance of things /." Norton, MA : Wheaton College, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/6012.
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Hedberg, William. "Locating China in Time and Space: Engagement with Chinese Vernacular Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Japan." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10197.
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This dissertation discusses the Edo-period Japanese translation, adaptation, and theoretical analysis of Chinese popular fiction and drama between 1680 and 1815. I focus on the ways in which Japanese encounters with fiction and drama written in the unfamiliar “vernacular” engendered reinterpretations of Japan’s cultural relationship to China. Whereas this relationship had previously centered largely on the Confucian classics and their ongoing interpretation in Japan, I argue that the introduction of vernacular texts enabled new modes of visualizing China’s position as a locus of textual and cultural authority. I connect the increasingly formalized study of vernacular texts to a discourse on temporality and linguistic change, and demonstrate the degree to which engagement with late imperial Chinese fiction and drama led to the reformulation of definitions of culture, literature, and language. By dramatically widening the range of materials and texts that could be used to construct a vision of China, the introduction of vernacular fiction and drama encouraged Edo-period philologists and fiction connoisseurs to reconceptualize both the criteria for judging textual competence, and the position of their own writing with respect to China. Rather than focusing on eighteenth-century efforts to efface traces of China’s cultural imprint on Japan, I seek to complicate accounts of the development of Japanese literature by exploring the oeuvres of philosophers, philologists, and fiction writers who attempted to theorize areas of convergence between Chinese and Japanese literary production. The study is divided into four chapters. Chapter One introduces the major themes of the dissertation as a whole and analyzes the rhetoric surrounding both the introduction of Chinese vernacular texts and subsequent attempts at reifying their study as an independent academic discipline. Chapter Two develops these themes further through an analysis of three eighteenth-century explorations of aesthetics, genre, and literary translation. In Chapters Three and Four, I examine a group of anomalous “reverse translations” of Japanese fiction and drama into the language and structure of vernacular Chinese fiction—using these largely overlooked texts to map out networks of literary contact and discuss the hermeneutics underlying eighteenth-century Japanese engagement with vernacular Chinese fiction and drama.East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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Mičiūnaitė, Viktorija. "Shift of time and space in the modernist narrative of Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20110627_125456-66016.
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The purpose of the present paper was to explore a new approach to the notions of time, temporality, and space within modernist literature, the distinction of the natural, conceptual, and fictional time as well as the alterations of time due to the deictic centre. The investigation of the above-mentioned issues was based on the modernist novel To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. The main method chosen for the study was content analysis. The research of time and space shift in the given novel is grounded on several overlapping critical theories: Practical Criticism, which comprises Formalist and New Critical ideas, Psychoanalysis, and the Theory of Narratology. The research demonstrated that Virginia Woolf attempted to structure her novel outside the conventional clock of time treatment because it was too inflexible to be suitable for a writer who believed that time represented in fiction should reflect the way time influences and is influenced by human lives. The given novel is a conspicuous example of an innovative concept of time and space presented by the author who gave preference to the abstract inner time rather than to that of the outer world and who come closer than any other writer to expressing time as it actually is experienced in human mind. The present study extended the existing knowledge of the psychological background, the transitivity and variability of time issues, and of the specific features the modern narrative in the novel. Further studies of the... [to full text]Šio darbo tikslas buvo ištirti visiškai naują požiūrį į laiko, laikinumo ir erdvės sampratą modernistinėje literatūroje bei analizuoti gamtinio, konceptualiojo, ir literatūrinio laiko kaitą dėl deiktinio centro ypatybių. Analizei buvo pasirinktas Virdžinijos Vulf moderinistinis romanas „Į švyturį“, kuriame atsispindi modernistinis požiūris į žmogų ir jį supančią tikrovę. Kurdama savo veikėjų paveikslus, rašytoja įtaigiai atskleidė ir parodė, kad žmogaus gyvenimą pirmiausia lemia ne išorinė aplinka, bet mintyse, pasąmonėje vykstantys virsmai, kutrių fizinę išraišką parodo konkretūs veiksmai ir poelgiai. Modernizmo žmogus parodomas kaip praradęs tradicines pasaulio suvokimo atramas, likęs akistatoje su savo intymiausias patyrimais, išgyvenantis savo būtį kaip izoliuotą, atskirtą nuo viso pasaulio, pasimetusią tarp fantazijos ir realybės. Savo tyrimu siekiau įrodyti, kad Virdžinijos Vulf veikėjai analizuojamame romane save iškelia kaip esminį būties centrą ir didžiausią vertybę, nepavaldžią laiko ir erdvės matmenims, bet tuo pačiu metu susiduria su savo sudėtingu ribotu vidiniu pasauliu – suskilusiu, nuolat kintančiu, klaidinančiu, susidedančiu iš subjektyvių greit kintančių patirties fragmentų. Romane autorė atskleidė ir modernistinio naratyvo ypatumus - jos rašymo stilių galima laiktyi savita kalbine revoliucija, kuri padėjo atskleisti giliausius veikėjų sąmonės klodus pritaikant sąmonės srauto techniką bei vidinius monologus. Šiame kūrinyje nebėra nuoseklaus... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Tatum, Brian Shane. "Rearranging an Infinite Universe: Literary Misprision and Manipulations of Space and Time, 1750-1850." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404533/.
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This project explores the intersection of literature and science from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century in the context of this shift in conceptions of space and time. Confronted with the rapid and immense expansion of space and time, eighteenth and nineteenth-century philosophers and authors sought to locate humans' relative position in the vast void. Furthermore, their attempts to spatially and temporally map the universe led to changes in perceptions of the relationship between the exterior world and the interior self. In this dissertation I focus on a few important textual monuments that serve as landmarks on this journey. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the intersection of literary and scientific texts transformed perceptions of space and time. These transformations then led to further advancements in the way scientific knowledge was articulated. Imagination became central to scientific writing at the same time it came to dominate literary writing. My project explores these intersecting influences among literature, astronomy, cosmology, and geology, on the perceptions of expanding space and time.
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Jenkins, Alexandra Mary. "Women's Experimental Autobiography from Counterculture Comics to Transmedia Storytelling: Staging Encounters Across Time, Space, and Medium." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1407770633.
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Drake, George A. "Historical space in the eighteenth-century novel /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9425.
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Garcia, Lorenzo Francisco. "Homeric temporalities simultaneity, sequence, and durability in the Iliad /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1481658181&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Wielgosz, Anne-Kathrin. "Kinds of spaces : poststructural concepts and metafictional appropriations." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/897477.
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"Kinds of Spaces: Poststructural Concepts and Metafictional Appropriations" emerges from studies in structural linguistics, contemporary critical theory, and metafiction and thus moves into the realms of poststructuralism and deconstruction while developing a theory of space in writing. Its central sections attempt to conceptually and physically broaden the scope of the investigation and progress from linguistic space, via inscribed space and ontological inter-space, to erotic space. Thus, "Marking a Place of Differ( )nce" concerns the poststructural redefinition of the Saussurean model with its gap between signifier and signified in the debate between Lacan and Derrida on the "Purloined Letter"; "'a spatial displacement of words"' discusses the disruption of syntax and the ensuing dissemination of letters across the page in concrete prose, particularly as they relate to narratological displacement in Raymond Federman's Double or Nothing; "From Ear to Eye" reenacts the analogy created between sound and sight in Steve Katz's The Exagggerations of Peter Prince, which attempts an erosion of ontological and spatial boundaries in the text; "The Body, the Book, and the Supplement of Supplements" addresses the physical space between reader and book, the uniting of their bodies, and is based on Rousseau's concept of the supplement, Foucault's notion of the gaze, and Baudrillard's discussion of seduction.These central sections are framed by: "The Blank in Writing," which develops a theory of blank space in writing mostly drawing on Derridean concepts and applying them to a reading of the Mobv Dick chapter "The Whiteness of the Whale," and "The Topography of Writing," which, while focussing on the relationship between space and time, discusses Raymond Federman's The Voice in the Closet, a typographical tour de force which incorporates blank space. At the end, a "Postscript" attempts to assess the blank's sign quality as it emerges as integral constituent to each concept discussed.Department of English
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Canfield-Budde, David. "Sacred and seductive space : the problem of domesticity in Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9953.
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Galbreath, Lynn K. "Rethinking space and time : Pueblo oral tradition and the written word in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony /." View online, 1994. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998776736.pdf.
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Konstantarakos, Myrto Dementer. "Rome in the work of Pier Paolo Paslini : space and time in prose and films from 1950 to 1975." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243377.
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Mocabee, Keith. "Anxiety in William Gibson's "Blue Ant" Trilogy| The Construction of Space, Time, and Community in the Post-Cyberpunk Literary Environment." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10250021.
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William Gibson is well known for his science fiction writing within the cyberpunk literary genre, which often evoke themes of economic disparity, environmental desolation, and the breakdown of the contracts between state and populace allowing corporate power to emerge dominant. In his most recent series of novels, commonly dubbed the Blue Ant trilogy, Gibson focuses on themes of national decay compounded by the real-time emergence of post-national corporate power that degrades or usurps control over borders, identities, and infrastructures.
My intent is to examine how Gibson's writing attempts to address the issue of the rise of post-national corporate power by singling out instances of anxiety in the white Western discursive sphere, and how Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy has difficulty addressing this anxiety due to a historically constituted, culturally imposed barrier that prevents both the narrative and the characters inside it from being able to articulate them. This essay further attempts to explore this barrier, best understood as a reinforcement of white, Western cultural hegemony, can be deconstructed and understood as a subjective position as opposed to a universal, and moved beyond it.
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Rozītis, Juris. "Displaced Literature : Images of Time and Space in Latvian Novels Depicting the First Years of the Latvian Postwar Exile." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för baltiska språk, finska och tyska, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-607.
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In the years immediately following the Second World War, the main part of Latvian literature was produced by writers living outside Latvia. To this day Latvian literature continues to be written outside Latvia, albeit to a much smaller extent. This study examines those Latvian novels, written outside Latvia after the Second World War, which depict the realities of the early years of exile. The aim of the study is to describe the image of the world of exile as depicted in these novels. Borrowing from Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope, images relating to time and space in these novels are examined in order to discern a mental topography of exile common to all these novels - a chronotope of exile. The novels are read as part of a collective narrative, produced by a particular social group in unordinary historical circumstances. The novels are regarded as this social group’s common perception of its own experience of this historical reality. The early years of exile fall into two distinct periods: first, the period of flight from Latvia and life in and around the Displaced Persons camps of postwar Germany; second, the early years of settling in a new country of residence after emigration from Germany. A model of the perceived world is constructed in order to compare these two periods, as well as their divergence from a standard perception of oneself in the world. This model consists of various time-spaces radiating concentrically out from the individual – ranging from the physically and psychologically near-lying time-spaces of one’s personal and intimate life, through everyday social time-spaces, as well as formal societal time-spaces, to the more distant abstract and conceptual perceptions of one’s place in the universe. Basic human concepts such as home, family, work, intimate relationships, social administration, and most notably the homeland – Latvia – are plotted at various points within these models. Divergences between the models describing the perception of time and space in the two early periods of exile thus become apparent.
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Dias, Claire. "Under his roof : father-daughter relationships under renovation." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82700.
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My thesis is a collection of non-fiction and fictional narratives focused on domestic space and its impact on father-daughter relationships and vice versa. In all of the narratives the notion of a house under renovation serves as a vehicle for the figurative tension between members of the family and family space. The narratives offer no internal markers to indicate whether they are fiction or non-fiction, which demonstrates my conviction that only factors external to the text---relation to fact or to imagination---can determine a narrative's status as fiction or non-fiction.The required afterword to my narratives discusses the theoretical problem of the distinction between fiction and non-fiction as well as the living nature of material culture and space as reflections and mediators of father-daughter relationships.
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Tatum, Brian Shane. "Relativity In Transylvania And Patusan: Finding The Roots Of Einstein’s Theories Of Relativity In Dracula And Lord Jim." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc103399/.
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This thesis investigates the similarities in the study of time and space in literature and science during the modern period. Specifically, it focuses on the portrayal of time and space within Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim (1899-1900), and compares the ideas presented with those later scientifically formulated by Albert Einstein in his special and general theories of relativity (1905-1915). Although both novels precede Einstein’s theories, they reveal advanced complex ideas of time and space very similar to those later argued by the iconic physicist. These ideas follow a linear progression including a sense of temporal dissonance, the search for a communal sense of the present, the awareness and expansion of the individual’s sense of the present, and the effect of mass on surrounding space. This approach enhances readings of Dracula and Lord Jim, illuminating the fascination with highly refined notions of time and space within modern European culture.
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Rozītis, Juris. "Displaced literature : images of time and space in Latvian novels depicting the first years of the Latvian postwar exile /." Stockholm : Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis : Almqvist & Wiksell International [distributör], 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-607.
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Swope, Richard A. "Metaphysical detectives and postmodern spaces, or the case of the missing boundaries." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1829.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2001.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 241 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-241).
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Alvarez, Moira. "Problemáticas del espacio en la narrativa hispanoamericana contemporánea (1990-2010)." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/351448.
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My dissertation, “Problemáticas del espacio en la narrativa hispanoamericana contemporánea (1990-2010)” [Problematics of Space in Contemporary Spanish American Narrative (1990-2010)], focuses on the concept of space and its articulations in a diverse corpus of written and visual narratives by contemporary Latin American authors. The problematics of spaciality are analyzed within the specific time period encompassing the last decade of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century, a period in which space has emerged as an important category for understanding the present. The “spatial turn”, proposed and analyzed by Michel Foucault, David Harvey, and Edward Soja, assumes that space has become a more relevant analytical category than time, due to the emergence of new technologies and media, new forms of capital flow, and because of the preeminence of the image in contemporary times. Following Henri Lefebvre’s foundational proposal, I understand space in relation to social formation and as a product of human practices rather than as an a priori category or an abstract geometrical notion independent of subjectivity and human agency. Within this framework, the problematics of space are analyzed in a corpus that includes the novels Amuleto (1999) by Roberto Bolaño, La virgen de los sicarios (1994) by Fernando Vallejo, and El asco. Thomas Bernhard en San Salvador (1997) by Horacio Castellanos Moya, and two films, Los rubios (2003) directed by Albertina Carri, and La teta asustada (2009) by Claudia Llosa. The first chapter of the dissertation lays out the theoretical framework of the concept of space and the specific socio-economical characteristics of the studied time period. The second chapter analyzes the enclosed space of Amuleto in the context of Mexico’s 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre, and proposes that a “space of the abyss” emerges with the death of a Latin American generation and the fall of the utopias in the 1960s. The third chapter compares and contrasts the films La teta asustada and Los rubios with respect to the theme of postmemory in the periods following the internal conflict in Peru and the military dictatorship in Argentina. The “space of postmemory” that arises in both films relates to the interplay between the absence/presence of the bodies of the parents – who lived the traumatic events – and the second generation that inherits the trauma. The fourth chapter examines the “spaces of escape” that emerge from La virgen de los sicarios and El asco as a possibility of escape for protagonists who face collapsed cities and states: Medellin after the death of Pablo Escobar, and San Salvador after the end of the Civil War. The three configurations of space that arise from the corpus – “space of the abyss”, “space of postmemory”, and “space of escape” – articulate crucial issues of contemporary Latin America such as the fall of modernizing utopias, trauma, postmemory, disenchantment, and the failure of the liberal state. They also bring to light three key features of contemporary spatiality: the individualization of spaces pointing to individualism as a necessary condition for new fluxes of capitalism; the reduction of diegetic spaces that relates to the concept of time-space compression proposed to account for the spatial changes of the studied period; and the appearance of spaces of refuge as a general response to the ephemeral conditions of the present.
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Linder, James Patrick. "Speculation on Space : spatio-social consolidation and democratic community in turn-of-the-twentieth century American thought /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9323.
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Venema, Kathleen Rebecca. "A rhetoric of colonial exchange, time, space, and agency in Canadian exploration narratives (1760-1793)." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0013/NQ38277.pdf.
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Ostrowidzki, Eric A. "The bunkerfication of paradise : heterotopias, closed spaces, and the pathological geographies of exclusion in J. G. Ballard's fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38543.
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In response to theoretical inquiries into the decline in the production of utopian literature, this dissertation argues that the decline or, rather, the "postmodern" loss of faith in utopian literature and utopian thinking results from the neo-liberal globalization of capitalism and its material and discursive/ideological appropriation of global space. To demonstrate this thesis, the dissertation examines the invariably dystopic imaginative geographies in the fiction of J. G. Ballard. By analyzing the historical-geographical discursive context of Ballard's imaginative geographies, the dissertation attempts to locate and recover those absent spaces that might have served as probable sites of Utopia.The first part of this dissertation examines Ballard's "Concentration City," "Report on an Unidentified Space Station," "The Enormous Space," "The Overloaded Man," and the novel High-Rise. This section concludes generally that the imaginative geographies inscribed within those texts are closed, insular, homogeneous, pathological and exclusionary social spaces that are antithetical to a Postmodern Utopia whose socio-cultural inclusiveness would be predicated upon a "politics of difference."
The second half of the dissertation examines Ballard's later works, such as Rushing to Paradise (1994), Cocaine Nights (1996), and Super-Cannes (2001). By discursively analyzing the similar yet more ideologically transparent imaginative geographies in these recent works, the dissertation concludes that it is not exclusively the material and ideological conquest of social space by global capital that poses the greatest threat to Ballard's "utopian" socio-spatial imaginary. Rather, it is also the postcolonial threat of the dislocations and mass immigrations of the Indigenous Other precipitated by globalization. It is the emergence of the de-territorialized Other that impels Ballard's imaginative geographies to recoil inwardly into "Privatopias," "white enclaves" and "imperial ghettos" demarcated by neocolonial pathological geographies of exclusion.
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Melo, Cimara Valim de. "O lugar do romance na literatura brasileira contemporânea." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/27506.
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Investigamos na presente tese o romance brasileiro contemporâneo em uma perspectiva sócio-histórica. O trabalho tem como ponto de partida as discussões sobre a natureza do gênero romanesco, passando por suas transformações ao longo da história ocidental até chegar ao romance brasileiro. A partir daí, buscamos compreender a evolução do gênero no Brasil para, com isso, direcionar nossa análise ao romance brasileiro contemporâneo produzido nas últimas duas décadas. Por fim, realizamos a análise dos romances Relato de um certo Oriente (1989), de Milton Hatoum; Eles eram muitos cavalos (2001), de Luiz Ruffato; e Lorde (2004), de João Gilberto Noll, a fim de explorar três diferentes abordagens literárias vinculadas aos elementos tempo, espaço e linguagem. Examinamos também as relações entre romance e modernidade, bem como a representação de aspectos desta no romance brasileiro contemporâneo. Entre os diversos autores consultados para fundamentação dos estudos sobre teoria e história do romance estão Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Ferenc Fehér, Lucien Goldmann, Mikhail Bakhtin, Erich Auerbach, Ian Watt, Marthe Robert, Franco Moretti e Arnold Hauser, entre outros.We look into the Brazilian contemporary novel in a social and historical way in this thesis. The paper starts with the discussions about the nature of the genre, passing by its changes along the western history, until reaches the Brazilian novel. Thereafter, we look for understanding the rise of the novel in Brazil to lead our analysis to the contemporary Brazilian novel produced in the last two decades. Finally, we made an analysis of the novels Relato de um certo Oriente (1989), by Milton Hatoum; Eles eram muitos cavalos (2001), by Luiz Ruffato; and Lorde (2004), by João Gilberto Noll, in order to explore three different literary ways linked to time, space and language. We also analyze the relations between novel and modernity, as well as its representation in the Brazilian contemporary novel. Among the different authors used in the studies about theory and history of the novel are Georg Lukács, Walter Benjamin, Ferenc Fehér, Lucien Goldmann, Mikhail Bakhtin, Erich Auerbach, Ian Watt, Marthe Robert, Franco Moretti, Arnold Hauser and others.
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Tanguay, Johanne. "Là-bas, suivi de, Espaces et temps du silence durassien." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79979.
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Part one of the thesis. She's leaving. She's running away. Everything goes too fast. If she doesn't, the emptiness in her life will destroy her. There, in Africa, nothing happens. Nothing but sight, silence, space and time. There, she finds another way of living. There, everything happens. Everything that has anything to do with essence. Only then can Gisella, 30, come back.Part two. How can one tell of silence with words? How can silence be what makes not only the style and themes of a fiction, but the whole fiction, resonate, vibrate? In the fiction of Marguerite Duras, more specifically in Aurelia Steiner (Melbourne) and L'amour, the obsession of silence is what modulates the representation of time and space, be it corporal, geographical or domestic, and what transforms reality in an attempt to open the heart of things, beings and time on the infinite, the invisible, the sacred.
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Davies, Ben. "Exceptional intercourse : sex, time and space in contemporary novels by male British and American writers." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2582.
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This thesis provides a theory of exceptional sex through close readings of contemporary novels by male British and American writers. I take as my overriding methodological approach Giorgio Agamben’s theory of the state of exception, which is a juridico-political state in which the law has been suspended and the difference between rule and transgression is indistinguishable. Within this state, the spatiotemporal markers inside and outside also become indeterminable, making it impossible to tell whether one is inside or outside time and space. Using this framework, I work through narratives of sexual interaction – On Chesil Beach, Gertrude and Claudius, Sabbath’s Theater, and The Act of Love – to conceptualise categories of sexual exceptionality. My study is not a survey, and the texts have been chosen as they focus on different sexual behaviours, thereby opening up a variety of sexual exceptionalities. I concentrate on male writers and narratives of heterosexual sex as most work on sex, time and space is comprised of feminist readings of literature by women and queer work on gay, lesbian or trans writers and narratives. However, in the Coda I expand my argument by turning to Emma Donoghue’s Room, which, as the protagonist has been trapped for the first five years of his life, provides a tabula rasa’s perspective of exceptionality. Through my analysis of exceptionality, I provide spatiotemporal readings of the hymen, incest, adultery, sexual listening and the arranged affair. I also conceptualise textual exceptionalities – the incestuous prequel, auricular reading and the positionality of the narrator, the reader and literary characters. Exceptional sex challenges the assumption in recent queer theory that to be out of time is ‘queer’ and to be in time is ‘straight’. Furthermore, exceptionality complicates the concepts of perversion and transgression as the norm and its transgression become indistinct in the state of exception. In contrast, exceptionality offers a new, more determinate way to analyse narratives of sex.
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Correia, Carlos Alberto. "O Primo Basílio e a relação espaço e tempo no audiovisual /." Assis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/132219.
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Orientadora: Rosane Gazolla Alves FeitosaBanca: Suely Fadul Villibor Flory
Banca: Marcia Gomes Marques
Banca: Wagner Corsino Enedino
Banca: Gabriela Kvacek Betella
Resumo: O presente trabalho tem como objetivo central compreender a configuração do espaço e do tempo nas narrativas audiovisuais de O primo Basílio, que optam por assinalar o registro de fidelidade à obra matriz escrita por Eça de Queirós. A pergunta principal refere-se à: em que medida ocorre a reconfiguração do espaço e do tempo da referida obra em outros suportes? As adaptações concentram-se no campo do audiovisual, sendo a primeira produzida para televisão em formato de minissérie em 1988, e a segunda em formato fílmico concluído e lançado em 2007. Ambas têm como diretor, Daniel Filho. O referencial teórico e a metodologia adotados nesta pesquisa permitiram assinalar para as estratégias lançadas entre diferentes mídias (cinema, televisão, literatura) no tocante às relações entre espaço e tempo ficcionais nas obras de O primo Basílio. As bases conceituais que nortearam esta investigação estão fundamentadas a partir de apontamentos oriundos da teoria literária, da comunicação e do cinema, representadas por Benedito Nunes (1988;1992), Paul Ricouer (1994), Roberto DaMatta (1997), Michel de Certeau (1998), Mikhail Bakthin (1997), Vanoye e Goliot-Leté (2011), Julie Sanders (2006), Linda Hutcheon (2013) e Robert Stam (2006; 2008). Como recorte, analisaremos os ambientes internos e externos da casa burguesa, a rua, o espaço ocupado pelo teatro na narrativa, os pré e pós créditos e abertura das produções audiovisuais, assim como a função cronotópica dos meios de comunicação: jornal, revista e televisão. Esta leitura se fez na tentativa de perceber as relações espaciotemporais no audiovisual como elementos simbólicos e plurissignificativos que permitiram para ambas as adaptações o diálogo com o romance de Eça e suas questões histórico-sociais-culturais do final do século XIX português, ambientado pela produção em minissérie, e sua releitura para o Brasil...
Abstract: This study aimed at understanding the space and time settings in the audiovisual narratives of O primo Basílio, who choose to mark the loyalty registration with the original work written by Eça de Queiroz. The main question refers to: in what extent is the reconfiguration of space and time of the original work in other media? The adaptations are concentrated in the audiovisual field, being the first produced for miniseries in Brazilian TV in 1988, and the second in film format completed and released in 2007. Both have Daniel Filho as diretor, the theoretical reference and the methodology adopted in this research allowed to point out the strategies launched between different media (film, television, literature) as regards the relationship between space and time in the fictional works of O primo Basílio. The conceptual foundations that guided this research are based from notes coming from literary, communication and cinema theories, represented by Benedito Nunes (1988; 1992), Paul Ricouer (1994), Roberto DaMatta (1997), Michel de Certeau (1998), Mikhail Bakthin (1997), Vanoye e Goliot-Leté (1994), Julie Sanders (2006), Linda Hutcheon (2013) and Robert Stam (2008). As a cut, we'll analyze the internal and external environments of the bourgeois house, the street, the space occupied by the theater in the narrative, the pre and post credits and opening of the audiovisual productions, as well as chronotopic role of the media: newspapers, magazines and television. This reading was done in an attempt to understand the space and time relations in the film and in the tv show as symbolic and many meanings which enabled them to both adaptations dialogue with the novel of Eça and its historical-social-cultural issues of the late portuguese nineteenth century, set for TV production (miniseries), and its reinterpretation in Brazil, São Paulo, in 1958, present in the film...
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Dionne, Caroline. "Geometrical behaviours : an architectural mise-en-scène for a reenactment of Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in Wonderland." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0033/MQ64109.pdf.
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Silva, Edvânio Caetano. "A dimensão espacial na narrativa de pedra bonita, de José Lins do rego /." Assis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/148001.
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Orientador: Francisco Cláudio Alves AlvesBanca: Marcio Roberto Pereira
Banca: Isis Milreu
Resumo: O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar os aspectos do movimento regionalista bem como a representação do espaço narrativo na obra Pedra Bonita (1938), de José Lins do Rego. Pedra Bonita integra o chamado "ciclo do cangaço" na obra do escritor, o qual aborda a vida do povo sertanejo e suas problemáticas, dentre elas o misticismo religioso e o cangaço. Neste romance, o autor toma como ponto de partida a vida do povo da vila do Açu e, em segundo plano, os moradores de Pedra Bonita. É desse lugar que o autor desenvolve a narrativa, abordando aspectos históricos e sociais, pautados no espaço em que insere seus personagens. Neste trabalho dissertaremos sobre algumas das mais importantes funções do espaço narrativo no romance Pedra Bonita. Além de contextualizarmos a obra no chamado "romance regionalista", serão abordados, também, nesta análise, as relações dos personagens com o espaço em que estão inseridos, e como este elemento contribui para caracterizar as figuras, situando-as no contexto socioeconômico, histórico e psicológico em que vivem, além de verificar como este tipo de espaço contribui para a formação das personagens.
The present work has the goal of analyzing the representation of the narrative space in the literary work Pedra Bonita (1938), by José Lins Do Rego. Pedra Bonita integrates what is called the "cangaço's cycle" in the writer's work, which approaches the life of the country people and their problematics, among them the religious mysticism and the cangaço. In this novel, the author takes as a starting point the life of the people of Vila do Açu and, in the second plan, the residents of Pedra Bonita. It is from this place that the author develops the narrative, involving historic and social aspects, in the narrative the characters inhabit. In this work, we discussed some of the most important functions of the space narrated in the novel Pedra Bonita. For this, it will be taken into account the relationships of the characters, such as the space they are inserted, and how this element contributes to the figure's description, placing them in the socioeconomic, historic and psichological context that they live, besides verifying how this kind of space contributes for the character's formation. The novel will be contextualized also in the called "regionalist novel"
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Barbosa, Lima Eduardo. "Chronotope in western role-playing video games : an investigation of the generation of narrative meaning through its dialogical relationship with the heroic epic and fantasy." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/16375.
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The development of the video game industry and the increasing popularity of the medium as a form of entertainment have led to significant developments in the discipline of game studies and a growing awareness of the cultural significance of video games as cultural artefacts. While much work has been done to understand the narrative aspect of games, there are still theoretical gaps on the understanding of how video games generate their narrative experience and how this experience is shaped by the player and the game as artefact. This interdisciplinary study investigates how meaning is created in Western Role Playing Games (WRPGs) video games by analysing the narrative strategies they employ in relation to those commonly used in Heroic Epic and Fantasy narratives. It adopts the Bakhtinian concepts of chronotope and dialogue as the main theoretical tools to examine the creation and integration of narratives in WRPGs with a special focus on the time-space perspective. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Dragon Age Origins were chosen as representatives of the WRPG video game genre while Beowulf and the tale of Sigurd, as it appears in the Poetic Edda and the Volsung Saga, were chosen as representatives of the Heroic Epic poetic tradition. References are also made to Fantasy novels, especially the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Textual analysis along with some techniques employed by researchers working with visual methodologies and compositional interpretation were used to analyse relevant aspects of the texts and games. The findings suggest that intertextual and genre materials considerably shape the narrative of WRPGs and exercise a profound dialogical effect on the ludonarrative harmony of the games investigated through their interaction with the game world and gameplay systems. This relationship is most visible in the chronotopic (time-space) aspect of the chosen games. The findings also suggest that Epic material dialogically orients the WRPG players' experience and adjusts their expectations and understanding of the fictional world. This study as well as the refining of chronotopic analytical tools to encompass chronotopic awareness, transportation, and flow may be of use in further chronotopic investigations of different games, literary genres, and/or other media artefacts.
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Zhou, Hao. "Representations of Cities in Republican-era Chinese Literature." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1281335246.
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Bourgeois, David C. C. "Making space : the subversion of authoritarian language in Lewis Carroll's Alice books." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33877.
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The works of Lewis Carroll show an abiding interest on the part of the author in the relationship between education, language and authority. In particular, the Alices are the story of a young girl who must learn to deal with a variety of characters in dream-worlds where the power of language reigns. It is therefore necessary for Alice to learn how language is used for authoritarian purposes and to discover ways of defending herself against it. It is the purpose of this thesis to investigate, in many cases for the first time, the ways in which Alice is able to find "spaces" in language where authority breaks down, places where the fundamental nature of language is unable to support authoritarian use. In this way, "space" will become both a metaphor and a figurative model for Alice's growing knowledge of and resistance to authority.
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Bazzoli, Oíse de Oliveira Mattos [UNESP]. "O espaço na configuração das personagens em contos de Alice Munro." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/141499.
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Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo principal analisar, sob o ponto de vista da narratologia, três contos: “The Peace of Utrecht”, “Meneseteung” e “Fiction”, presentes, respectivamente, nas coletâneas Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), Friend of my Youth (1991) e Too Much Happiness (2009), da escritora canadense contemporânea Alice Munro, vencedora do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura em 2013, cujos contos, elaborados de forma renovada, são caracterizados pelos finais em aberto, contém descrições realistas do sudoeste de Ontário, retratam cenas familiares que facilitam a introdução do estranho, do misterioso, do desconhecido e até fantástico. Esta união, do familiar e do estranho, cria um senso de ironia e duplicidade de observação em relação a lugares e às pessoas, permitindo que se explore a luta canadense com a identidade evidenciada na escritora. A ambivalência que Munro sente como escritora é uma de suas preocupações pessoais que contribuem para essa profundidade emocional e vivacidade em sua ficção. Algumas de suas melhores histórias expressam sentimentos que provocam questionamentos em qualquer leitor mais sensível e que são, ao mesmo tempo, explorações e descobertas da própria emoção da autora. Para o desenvolvimento deste estudo, apoiamo-nos nas reflexões de Osman Lins, Bachelard, Ozíris Borges Silva no que diz respeito à espacialização da narrativa, como também em estudos de Bakhtin que explora a ideia de cronotopo. Também constitui objetivo identificar os momentos de epifania e os elementos góticos que atuam na configuração das personagens de Munro.
The main goal of this paper is to analyse, from the point of view of narratology, three short stories: “The Peace of Utrecht”, “Meneseteung” and “Fiction”, present, respectively, in the collections Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), Friend of my Youth (1991) and Too Much Happiness (2009), from the contemporary Canadian writer Alice Munro, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose short stories, elaborated in a renewed way, are characterized by open ends, have realistic descriptions of southwest Ontario, depict familiar scenes that facilitate the introduction of the strange, the mysterious, the unknown and even the fantastic. This connection of the familiar and the strange, creates a sense of irony and duplicity in observation concerning places and people, allowing that the Canadian fight for identity is evidenced. The ambivalence Munro feels as a writer is one of her personal concerns that contribute to emotional and vivacious depth in her fiction. Some of her best stories show feelings that raise a lot of questions in any sensitive reader and that are, at the same time, the writer´s explorations and discoveries. To the development of this study, we will base our reflections in Osman Lins, Bachelard and Ozíris Borges Silva concerning narrative space as well as Bakhtin that explores the idea of cronotopos. It is also the aim of the paper to identify the epiphanic moments and the gothic elements that act in the description of Munro´s characters.
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Nemeth, Sanda I. "The room of memory on the practice of writing of Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0007/MQ42087.pdf.
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Stueve, Heather Halm. "A Study of the Meaning Found in the References to Space in Selected Plays of Athol Fugard." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4778.
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The south African playwright Athol Fugard of ten explores the problems which apartheid has created within his society -problems ranging from the racial and societal to the spiritual. He seems to communicate his thoughts about these issues through many direct references to space. This study investigates the meanings these spaces communicate. Four plays were chosen as representative of Fugard's subject matter (covering both white and non-white society) and career: Blood Knot (1963), People are Living There (1970), The Road to Mecca (1985), and My Children, My Africa (1990). Then three steps were carefully followed. First, each reference to space was identified and categorized using Keir Elam's and Susanne Langer's definition of "virtual space" as guide to the establishment of categories. Three categories were established: virtual space (that which is immediately visible to the audience), extended-virtual space (the off stage world which is real to the characters but unseen by the audience), and imaginary space (that which the characters project on or into the world around them). second, patterns and relationships among the spaces were identified (using Kenneth Burke's and Mary McCarthy's methodology of image clusters and dramatic alignments). Third and finally, the meaning of these patterns was explored, often using Edward Hall's science of proxemics to facilitate understanding. There is considerable similarity and continuity from play to play in the use of space. Fugard often employs references to extended-virtual space to communicate the many ills which have arisen in South African society. He also typically includes a virtual space or spaces which provide a safe haven from those ills. In addition, be almost always uses reference to imaginary space or spaces to communicate the hope for the future of freedom for all of South Africa's people. Ideally, the recognition of the spaces in Fugard's work should be actively, and knowingly, articulated in any production of his plays. This study provides a methodology for exploring these spaces and an indication of what many of the spaces mean.
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Mehrens, Patrik. "Mellan ordet och döden : rum, tid och representation i Lars Noréns 70-talslyrik /." Uppsala : [Distributor] Universitetsbiblioteket, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37673300c.
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Garvey, Brenda. "The dynamics of time and space in recent French fiction : selected works by Annie Ernaux, Patrick Modiano, Jean Echenoz and Marie Darrieussecq." Thesis, University of Chester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/621585.
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This thesis investigates the ways in which literary texts negotiate spatio-temporal movements and how, through the nature of narrative, they may offer models for expressing the lived experience of time and place. The theoretical framework traces developments in philosophies of time and space beginning with Henri Bergson’s concepts of duration and simultaneity. The desire to portray both of these informs Gilles Deleuze’s study of cinema to produce his writings on the image-temps and image-mouvement which highlight the constant change undergone in moving through space and time which he defines as différence. The transformative nature of our relationship with the space around us and the agency of the body in that transformation is seen by Deleuze as a positive creative force and one which demands a continual deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation evidenced in the literature studied. Henri Lefebvre further interrogates the importance of the body in the production of space and contributes to the debate around the creation of place and non-place taken up by Michel de Certeau, Edward Casey and Marc Augé, whose work on supermodernity articulates concerns about the absence of place at the end of the twentieth century. These theories provide a backdrop for a close reading of the literary texts published between 1989 and 2017. Each of the four authors selected interrogates spatio-temporal connections in their work and, in order to model our lived experience at the turn of the millennium they experiment with form, genre and language and raise questions about the formation, location and stability of the self. Patterns of repetition and rewriting in the works of Annie Ernaux and Patrick Modiano engage with non-linear approaches to narrative and problematize duration, stasis and the construction and accessibility of memory. The novels of Jean Echenoz explore non-places and liminal spaces in ways that suggest possibilities for the future of fiction and Marie Darrieussecq questions the centrality of the body in defining the self and its agency in creating place. My findings suggest that the desire to comprehend and mirror the lived experience of time and space motivates the literary project of the selected authors and that the nature of narrative, in its openness and fluidity, can replicate and respond to some of the anxieties around time, place and non-place at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries.
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McIntyre, John 1966. "Modernism for a small planet : diminishing global space in the locales of Conrad, Joyce, and Woolf." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38232.
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This dissertation situates literary modernism in the context of a nascent form of globalization. Before it could be fully acknowledged global encroachment was, by virtue of its novelty, repeatedly experienced as a kind of shattering or disintegration. Through an examination of three modernist novels, I argue that a general modernist preoccupation with space both expresses and occludes anxieties over a globe which suddenly seemed to be too small and too undifferentiated. Building upon recent critical work that has begun to historicize modernist understandings of space, I address the as yet under-appreciated ways in which globalism and its discontents informed all of the locales that modernist fictions variously inhabited. For Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf, the responses to global change were as diverse as the spaces through which they were inflected.I begin by identifying a modernist predilection for spatial metaphors. This rhetorical touchstone has, from New Criticism onward, been so sedimented within critical responses to the era that modernism's interest in global space has itself frequently been diminished. In my readings of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Joyce's Ulysses, and Woolf's To the Lighthouse, I argue that the signs of globalization are ubiquitous across modernism. As Conrad repeats and contests New Imperialist constructions of Africa as a vanishing space, that continent becomes the stage for his anxieties over a newly diminished globe. For Joyce, Dublin's conflicted status as both provincial capital and colonial metropolis makes that city the perfect site in which to worry over those recent world-wide developments. Finally, I argue that for Woolf, it is the domestic space which serves best to register and resist the ominous signs of global incursion. In conclusion, I suggest that modernism's anticipatory attention to globalization makes the putative break between that earlier era and postmodernity---itself often predicated upon spatial compression---all the more difficult to maintain.
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Correia, Carlos Alberto [UNESP]. "O Primo Basílio e a relação espaço e tempo no audiovisual." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/132219.
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000851779.pdf: 5225766 bytes, checksum: 0c1a276b6871352c7fd8f66ae0330e51 (MD5)O presente trabalho tem como objetivo central compreender a configuração do espaço e do tempo nas narrativas audiovisuais de O primo Basílio, que optam por assinalar o registro de fidelidade à obra matriz escrita por Eça de Queirós. A pergunta principal refere-se à: em que medida ocorre a reconfiguração do espaço e do tempo da referida obra em outros suportes? As adaptações concentram-se no campo do audiovisual, sendo a primeira produzida para televisão em formato de minissérie em 1988, e a segunda em formato fílmico concluído e lançado em 2007. Ambas têm como diretor, Daniel Filho. O referencial teórico e a metodologia adotados nesta pesquisa permitiram assinalar para as estratégias lançadas entre diferentes mídias (cinema, televisão, literatura) no tocante às relações entre espaço e tempo ficcionais nas obras de O primo Basílio. As bases conceituais que nortearam esta investigação estão fundamentadas a partir de apontamentos oriundos da teoria literária, da comunicação e do cinema, representadas por Benedito Nunes (1988;1992), Paul Ricouer (1994), Roberto DaMatta (1997), Michel de Certeau (1998), Mikhail Bakthin (1997), Vanoye e Goliot-Leté (2011), Julie Sanders (2006), Linda Hutcheon (2013) e Robert Stam (2006; 2008). Como recorte, analisaremos os ambientes internos e externos da casa burguesa, a rua, o espaço ocupado pelo teatro na narrativa, os pré e pós créditos e abertura das produções audiovisuais, assim como a função cronotópica dos meios de comunicação: jornal, revista e televisão. Esta leitura se fez na tentativa de perceber as relações espaciotemporais no audiovisual como elementos simbólicos e plurissignificativos que permitiram para ambas as adaptações o diálogo com o romance de Eça e suas questões histórico-sociais-culturais do final do século XIX português, ambientado pela produção em minissérie, e sua releitura para o Brasil...
This study aimed at understanding the space and time settings in the audiovisual narratives of O primo Basílio, who choose to mark the loyalty registration with the original work written by Eça de Queiroz. The main question refers to: in what extent is the reconfiguration of space and time of the original work in other media? The adaptations are concentrated in the audiovisual field, being the first produced for miniseries in Brazilian TV in 1988, and the second in film format completed and released in 2007. Both have Daniel Filho as diretor, the theoretical reference and the methodology adopted in this research allowed to point out the strategies launched between different media (film, television, literature) as regards the relationship between space and time in the fictional works of O primo Basílio. The conceptual foundations that guided this research are based from notes coming from literary, communication and cinema theories, represented by Benedito Nunes (1988; 1992), Paul Ricouer (1994), Roberto DaMatta (1997), Michel de Certeau (1998), Mikhail Bakthin (1997), Vanoye e Goliot-Leté (1994), Julie Sanders (2006), Linda Hutcheon (2013) and Robert Stam (2008). As a cut, we'll analyze the internal and external environments of the bourgeois house, the street, the space occupied by the theater in the narrative, the pre and post credits and opening of the audiovisual productions, as well as chronotopic role of the media: newspapers, magazines and television. This reading was done in an attempt to understand the space and time relations in the film and in the tv show as symbolic and many meanings which enabled them to both adaptations dialogue with the novel of Eça and its historical-social-cultural issues of the late portuguese nineteenth century, set for TV production (miniseries), and its reinterpretation in Brazil, São Paulo, in 1958, present in the film...