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Simkins, William Scott. "Steinbeck the Writer-Knight." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625595.
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Watson, Khalilah Tyri. "Literature as Prophecy: Toni Morrison as Prophetic Writer." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/50.
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From fourteenth century medieval literature to contemporary American and African American literature, researchers have singled out and analyzed writing from every genre that is prophetic in nature, predicting or warning about events, both revolutionary and dire, to come. One twentieth-century American whose work embodies the essence of warning and foretelling through history-laden literature is Toni Morrison. This modern-day literary prophet reinterprets eras gone by through what she calls “re-memory” in order to guide her readers, and her society, to a greater understanding of the consequences of slavery and racism in America and to prompt both races to escape the pernicious effects of this heritage. Several critics have recognized and written about Morrison’s unique style of prophetic prose. These critics, however, have either taken a general cursory analysis of her complete body of works or they are only focused on one of her texts as a site of evidence. Despite the many critical essays and journal articles that have been written about Morrison as literary prophet, no critic has extensively investigated Morrison’s major works by way of textual analysis under this subject, to discuss Morrison prophetic prose, her motivation for engaging in a form of prophetic writing, and the context of this writing in a wider general, as well as an African-American, tradition. This dissertation takes on a more comprehensive, cross-sectional analysis of her works that has been previously employed, concentrating on five of Morrison’s major novels: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved, Jazz and Paradise, in an order to assess how Morrison develops and infuses warnings and admonitions of biblical proportions. This investigation seeks to reveal Morrison’s motivation to prophecy to Americans, black and white, the context in which she engages with her historical and contemporary subjects, and the nature of the admonitions to present and future action she offers to what she sees as a contemporary generation of socially and historically oblivious African Americans, using literary prophecy as the tool by which to accomplish her objectives. This dissertation also demonstrates—by way of textual analysis and literary theory—the evolution through five novels of Morrison’s development as a literary prophet.
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James, Nicola. "Jane Gardam : religious writer." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2016. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7628/.
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This thesis examines the work of the award-winning contemporary English short story and novel writer Jane Gardam. It proposes that much of her achievement and craft stems from her engagement with religion. It draws on Gardam’s published works from 1971 to 2014 including children’s books and adult novels. While Gardam has been reviewed widely, there is little serious critical appreciation of her fiction and there are misreadings of the influence of religion in her work. I therefore analyse the religious dimensions of her stories: the language, stylistics and hermeneutic of Gardam’s three religious influences, namely the Anglo-Catholic, Benedictine and Quaker movements and how she sites them within her work. The thesis proposes lectio divina, arguably an ancient form of contemporary reader-response criticism, as a framework to describe the Word’s religious agency when embedded or alluded to in fiction. It also considers and applies critical discussion on the medieval concept of the aevum, a literary religious space. Finally, I suggest that religious writing such as Gardam’s has a place in the as yet unexplored ‘poetic’ strand of Receptive Ecumenism, a new movement that seeks to address reception of the Word between members of different faith communities. Having examined many aspects of Gardam’s writing, its history and potential, I conclude that her achievement owes much to her engagement with particular and divergent forms of religious life and practice.
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Robertson, Eric. "René Schickele, a writer from Alsace (1883-1940)." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.294143.
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The present thesis seeks to study the works of René Schickele within the literary, social and historical context of his life. Born in Alsace at a turbulent point in its history, Schickele's personal development was bound to be affected by the immense political and linguistic changes resulting from its annexation into the newly created Second German Reich. The effects of these factors on Schickele's early literary theories form the basis of Chapter 1. Chapter 2 examines the expression of these theories in Schickele's editorial and creative work for <i>Jügstes Elsa</i>β, a literary circle of his creation based in Strasbourg. The writer's position is considered within the different streams of thought in the Alsatian literary arena after the turn of the century. The consequences of Schickele's departure from Alsace to Berlin in 1904 form the focus of Chapter 3. In the blossoming German capital his editorial role for the high-profile literary journal <i>Das Neue Magazin</i> earned him nationwide recognition; while living in Berlin, Schickele wrote his first novel, <i>Der Fremde</i>. It is studied as an example of the author's developing literary style. In 1909, the offer of a post as foreign correspondent for the Straβburger Neue Zeitung took him to Paris and away from the literary scene he had frequented in Berlin. The nature of his work in Paris brought him into close contact with the political sphere, and this had an envigorating effect on his stylistic development. As Chapter 4 aims to illustrate, his writing between 1909 and 1911 demonstrates a close interplay of literature and politics. Chapter 5 analyses Schickele's expressionistic novel <i>Benkal, der Frauentröter</i> within the context of contemporary literary and artistic fervour in the years immediately preceding the First World War. Schickele's preoccupation with literary modernity is examined alongside his attitude to political events. The outbreak of war brought about the most active, and most celebrated phase of his life. At this time he took over the editorship of <i>Die Wei</i>β<i>en Bläter</i> and earned a reputation both as a central figure of the Expressionist generation and as an outspoken pacifist.
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Al-Sharief, Sultan M. "Interaction in writing : an analysis of the writer-reader relationship in four corpora of medical written texts." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368632.
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Syme, Margaret Ruth. "Tolkien as gospel writer." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=43459.
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To the extent that Tolkien's fantasy meets his own criteria for faL. ie as the "eucatastrophic " tale which points toward "Evangelium," the eschaton when God's plan in creation will be fulfilled and the effects of the fall overcome, Tolkien may be described as a gospel writer. That he intended his work to be read as "gospel," "the good news of the Kingdom of God," is suggested by its allusions to biblical and classical mythology, its linear view of history, its presentation as a compilation of received tradition. collected and translated by many hands from a wide variety of sources, by the location of Middle Earth in the distant past of our own world and by the author's attempt to create a world which comforms to familiar patterns of evolution. Less successful is his effort to provide his tale with a consistent Christian point of view.<br>Dans la mesure, cette oeuvre d'imagination repond aux crit6res de f6erie de Tolkien en tant que conte "eucatastrophic" qui montre le chemin vers "I'Evangelium", cette eschatalogie qui se situe au moment o0 la volontê de Dieu est accomplie et les effets de la chute sont surmontes, Tolkien peut etre. considers comme un auteur biblique. Le fait qu'il est voulu que son oeuvre soit lue en tant qu'"&angile", "la bonne nouvelle du Royaunie de Dieu" est suggêre par diffèrentes choses: les allusions faites a la mythologie biblique et classique, la vision linêaire de l'histoire, la presentation du texte en tant que compilation d'une tradition provenant de sources diverses, transmise, recueillie et traduite par diffèrentes personnes, la situation geographique dans "Middle earth"(l'empire du Milieu) dans un passé lointain, le fait que l'auteur ait essay6 de crêer un monde conforme au processus connu de l'êvolution. 10anmoins l'auteur n'a pas rêussi dans ce conte a maintenir un point de vue chrêtien. fr
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Du, Willy Chenja. "Taiwan xiangtu writer Huang Chunming| Three short stories, with a critical introduction." Thesis, The University of Iowa, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1550892.
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<p> This introduction serves to provide a sketch of the circumstances that led to the prominence of "nativist," or <i>xiangtu</i> literature from the Republic of China (i.e. Taiwan) in the late twentieth century. Huang Chunming, the author of the stories featured in this thesis, has been a prolific writer from the east of the Taiwan Straits since 1962, and has contributed to the popularization of Taiwanese xiangtu literature in the decades of the island's industrialization experience. In Huang's world of fictional characters, readers have multifaceted records of the Taiwanese people's lives and the culture of their native soil.</p>
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Thompson, Sally Ann. "The prose of Iurii Trifonov : a writer and his time." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385470.
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Nixon, Laura Elizabeth. "The 'British' Carmen Sylva : recuperating a German-Romanian writer." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13946/.
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Carmen Sylva (1843-1916), a German princess and the first Queen of Romania, was a well-known royal figure and a prolific writer. Under this pseudonym, she published around fifty volumes in a wide variety of genres, including poetry, short stories and aphorisms. During her lifetime she was a regular feature in the British periodical press and visited Britain on numerous occasions. Widely reviewed – both celebrated and condemned for her ‘fatal fluency’ – Sylva’s work became marginalised after her death and has yet to be fully recovered. She has only recently received critical attention in her native Germany and has yet to be recuperated within British literary culture. This thesis will examine the reasons behind Sylva’s current obscurity as well as presenting the grounds for her reassessment. It will establish her connection to Britain, markers of which can still be found in its regional geography, as well as the scope of her literary presence in British periodicals. It will draw comparisons between Sylva and her contemporaries and will examine her contribution to fin-de-siècle British literary culture, analysing her short stories in order to detail her engagement with the ‘Woman Question’. This focus places Sylva at the centre of contemporary discussions and her often conflicting responses to such issues further our understanding of the complexity of nineteenth-century literary debates. In reassessing Sylva, this study will address broader notions surrounding the short story, popular fiction, and women’s writing, in order to question both current and contemporary attitudes to literature.
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Shea, Colleen Erin. ""Author of Prodigies": representing the female letter-writer in English Renaissance literature." Kingston, Ont. : [s.n.], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1628.
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Li, Chengyuan, and Chengyuan Li. "Murakami Haruki: A Serious Literature Writer Under the Cover of Pop Culture." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626394.
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As a famous contemporary writer, Murakami Haruki has a wide-reaching influence throughout the world, especially in East Asia. In my thesis, I intend to analyze his novels and short stories from 1979 to 2014. In doing so, I will reveal why Murakami Haruki is so popular in Asia, particularly China. This analysis will demonstrate that East Asian public culture has been undergoing changes during the past 20 years. I will analyze four of Murakami’s works: Wild Sheep Chase (1982), Norwegian Wood (1987), to The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1995), and finishing with Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Year Of Pilgrimage (2013). Though the evolution of his works, Murakami makes it clear that Japanese society has been under transformation since World War II. After the end of the war, this society changed from a capitalist to cosmopolitan one. I will also discuss how his novels are associated with China, as well as his works’ adaptation in China and among Chinese readers. Since becoming famous, Murakami’s work has been highly criticized. These criticisms has come primarily from Komori Yōichi, Fujii Shozo, Kuroko Kazuo and Kato Norihiro. By discussing these critics, I want to reveal the true meaning for Murakami to be a writer and why I consider him as a serious literature writer under the cover of pop culture.
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Cox, Emma Lucie Frances. "Robert Walser as a model for the modern Swiss writer." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260088.
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Loman, Jennifer D. "Shame, Christian hospitality, and the American writer." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6986.
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Hospitality is relational, a system of ethics contending with difference, navigating the mutable boundaries between self and Other. Desire or duty to reflect the gracious inclusivity of God without regard for reciprocation marks Christian hospitality in particular. Given the shortcomings of humankind in comparison to the divine, however, the utopian ideal of hospitality extended to all cannot be had on Earth. Thus, the impulse to reach out to the Other continually comingles with the shameful awareness of human limitation, a paradox the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas calls “infinite responsibility.” Building upon Levinas’s concept and fellow philosopher Jacques Derrida’s assertion that “ethics is hospitality,” I examine how various U.S. writers engender or interrogate the concept of Christian hospitality. Specifically, I investigate how each author develops shame as an affect with regard to Christian hospitality to the racial Other, the impoverished Other, the sexual Other, and the inanimate and animate Other in the natural world. The chapters feature case studies focusing primarily on one historical figure, Christopher Columbus, and three writers—Erskine Caldwell, Richard Rodriguez, and Leslie Marmon Silko—and four key moments in U.S. history: the 1892 celebrations of Christopher Columbus as a figure of belonging vs. later shameful perceptions of him as a figure of oppression; the plight of the rural poor in Depression-era Georgia; the ostracism of AIDS sufferers in San Francisco in the early 1990s; and the conflict between capitalist developers and environmentalists in the Southwest in the early 2000s. I demonstrate 1) how an author interrogates the tenets of Christian hospitality; and 2) how shame can both inspire commitment to social change and cloud a text’s reception due to negative, and even painful, emotions. Ultimately, I examine the authors’ attempts at “mobilizing shame,” a tactic among activist authors to trigger public shame in order to garner support at the grassroots level, ultimately shaming government bodies and average citizens into reform.
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Lei, Victoria. "Positioning the woman writer : Augusta Webster and her Victorian context." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2000. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/40935/.
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This thesis takes its direction from the belief that the preoccupations of a period are often most helpfully discussed through the work of its so-called minor writers. Such writers also enable the critic to articulate and clarify the concerns of other writers more firmly established in the canon. At the same time, of course, the minor writer is inevitably given importance and position within the context of the period, in a fruitful two way process. This is particularly the case with the Victorian writer Augusta Webster since her use of a wide variety of literary genres helps to express the breadth of literary culture in the period. At the same time, since she is a woman and a woman writer, subject to the historical circumstances peculiar to her sex, a study of her work enables the articulation of the linked literary, social and political concerns that surround the problem of identifying how writers construct and are constructed by gender. Positioning Augusta Webster, which is what this thesis seeks to do, thus unavoidably involves a discussion of the Victorian context within which she works and, I hope, goes some way to illuminating both the writer and the context. I begin by offering a literary and biographical overview with the aim of identifying the major issues both formal and historical which she encountered as an aspiring writer and semi-public figure. I try to show that her growth as a writer was linked to her preoccupations with the 'woman question', specifically with the education, work and political situation of women. I try also to show how these issues were those of the time and how Augusta Webster's treatment of them affected contemporary responses to her work. The Introduction is followed by a chapter on Webster's novel, Lesley's Guardians. My next chapter engages with Webster's translations of Æschylus and Euripides. The central section of my thesis is devoted to Webster's most famous work, A Castaway, which notoriously provides the fallen woman, here a middle-class prostitute, with a voice. Dickens, Gaskell and Barrett Browning are also introduced in their treatment of the fallen woman. Portraits, in the next chapter and the way in which the outsider is employed as social critic is analysed. Chapter five deals with Webster's closet dramas. I begin with brief outlines of these little known works; place them among other nineteenth century dramas and note that they were generally well reviewed. The sixth chapter takes Webster's writing life towards its conclusion with a discussion of her fantasy for girls. Daffodil and the Croäxaxicans. This story of the adventures of a young girl in a frog kingdom is situated within the genre of Victorian writing for children. I conclude with some speculation about the reputation of Augusta Webster. Beginning with Theodore Watts-Dunton's prediction that Webster would, like many others, probably be forgotten after her death, I suggest that although the factors that shape the subsequent reputation of a writer are extremely complex, some possibilities may be put forward to explain why Webster is only now becoming known again.
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Wendolowski, Brittany A. "Pushing the Boundaries: Scott Bradfield as a Contemporary Writer." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1452971501.
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Bedford, Nigel St John. "Zhang Tianyi : critical analysis of his development as a writer of fiction." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1986. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28642/.
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Born in 1906 in Nanjing, Zhang began writing in his teens for "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly" magazines in Shanghai. After 1929, he wrote short stories, middle-length stories, novels and two plays, all in a realistic style. The eighty-odd short stories Zhang wrote between 1929 and 1938 provided the basis for his reputation as a writer of fiction in the pre-liberation period. After 1938, Zhang concentrated on writing literary criticism and theory and after contracting tuberculosis in 1942 he all but stopped writing. Upon the establishment of the Communist republic in 1949 Zhang was assigned to several posts in the literary leadership and wrote a few didactic works for children as well as theoretical and critical articles. He wrote nothing of note after 1960 and his health deteriorated after suffering a stroke in 1975. Zhang died on 28 April, 1985, This thesis considers Zhang's development as a writer of fiction, concentrating attention on the period 1929 to 1938 when Zhang produced his most noteworthy works, but also analysing the place in his career of the recently rediscovered stories written between 1922 and 1928. Zhang's critical and theoretical writings are considered for what they reveal of his literary ideals and are considered as an index to Zhang's success as a writer of fiction. Zhang's development as a writer of fiction is considered chronologically and contemporary political, historical, social and literary influences are alluded to whenever pertinent. Zhang's short stories are also measured against the yardstick of Western practice in the writing of short stories and conventional and unconventional uses of the genre by Zhang are pointed out. Appendices contain a biographical entry about Zhang written in the light of recently published material about Zhang's life and interviews with his family and friends; together with translations of several previously untranslated stories by Zhang.
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Tetschner, Ben. "The story of a writer : a study of the creation and maintenance of a writer's identity /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1422970.
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Olson, Ted. "Behind the Scenes with Appalachian Writer James Still." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1186.
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Excerpt: In the final few years of his life—he died at 94 on April 28, 2001—James Still had many friends, most of them much younger than he was since he had outlived most of his contemporaries. I was one of Mr. Still’s younger, and certainly one of his newest, friends.
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Ignatov, Mikhail Sergeevich. "Body in Motion: Furukawa Hideo, Writer for the Multimedia Age." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/144389.
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The purpose of this study is to serve as an introduction of the work of the contemporary Japanese author, Furukawa Hideo (b. 1966), to the Anglophone audience. I consider Furukawa to be a member of the 'post-Murakami' generation, not only in terms of chronology but also in terms of influence. Murakami Haruki (b. 1949) left an identifiable impact on Furukawa's fiction, however it would be erroneous to consider Furukawa a Murakami imitator. In this study, I attempt to highlight the elements that make Furukawa unique as an author; specifically his careful manipulation of the theme-space matrix, and his fast-paced style influenced by Furukawa's performances of his own literary works, and collaboration with musicians, which reflects Furukawa's position in the center of the contemporary cultural trend towards multimedia integration.
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Gallant, Alison Dara. ""The story comes up different every time" : Louise Erdrich and the emerging aesthetic of the minority woman writer /." Connect to resource, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1243523540.
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Ijams, Clay D. "Pre-evangelism in the novels of Walker Percy the apologetic method of a writer /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Hewson, Marc A. "The male writer and the feminine text, Hemingway's major novels from a Cixousian perspective." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ66154.pdf.
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San, Jule Susan Jo. "Self-regulation in college composition: No writer left behind." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280645.
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Four-year colleges and universities in the US have a lengthy history of educating traditional students from privileged backgrounds. Such students usually arrive on campus with behaviors, beliefs, and learning strategies designed to help them succeed in classes that depend upon lectures as the primary mode of instruction. As increased numbers of nontraditional students have gained admission to four-year schools, college instructors have struggled to accommodate the diverse learning styles of this burgeoning student population. Unlike traditional students, nontraditional students generally lack a large repertoire of effective behaviors, beliefs, and learning strategies needed to succeed in college. Poor learning practices mean less learning and less learning transferred across assignments and courses. Although college composition classes tend to provide student-centered instruction designed to facilitate learning, nontraditional students continue to struggle to learn. In response to the learning challenges and failures that nontraditional students encounter at college, some four-year schools have chosen to redirect these students to two-year colleges. This dissertation argues in favor of equipping nontraditional students at four-year schools with effective learning practices via instruction in student self-regulation and self-efficacy inside the college classroom.
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Ebert, Cynthia C. "The Writer in the Early Soviet Union| A Study in Leadership." Thesis, Franklin Pierce University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3730809.
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<p> This study will focus on the role of the writer during the early years of the Soviet Union (1920–1935) through the example of the life and works of Mikhail Bulgakov. Bulgakov’s literary career paralleled Josef Stalin’s rise to supreme power over not only the Communist Party but the Soviet Union and its citizens. As Bulgakov struggled to publish and stage his works, the Soviet government under Stalin strengthened its resolve to utilize writers to educate the masses in the correct behaviors and values of good Soviet citizens. Each demonstrated his own leadership style: as Stalin evolved into a strong Authoritarian Leader, Bulgakov ‘s survival depended upon his Adaptive Leadership skills. Stalin’s greatest successes were during his lifetime; Bulgakov’s followed his death as the Soviet Union declined and his works were published. Research questions include the role of the writer in his contemporary society and the writer’s ability to influence his contemporary society through his own survival in an authoritarian society but the survival of his works for audiences in other times and places. Bulgakov could not compromise his artistic vision, Stalin, although he recognized and appreciated talent, could not compromise his ideological convictions. The result was a complex relationship between two prominent figures whose leadership styles as much as their differing viewpoints dictated the course of their actions.</p>
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Gray, Lena W. "A woman('s) writer? : Some issues in feminist reading of the work of Rosamond Lehmann." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1995. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21233.
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Thompson, Blaire Evan. "A Revolutionary Patience: The Life of a Writer." Malone University Undergraduate Honors Program / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ma1430998273.
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Kitzmann, Andreas Gernot. "The melancholic hypertext : the fate of the writer in the tangential narrative." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39932.
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This thesis examines the nature of an electronic medium known as hypertext in relation to the act and experience of writing and expression. Essential to the thesis is a conviction that the experiential realm that is created by a particular medium of communication and/or representation is capable of also creating new 'habits of mind' or 'worldings.' These two concepts are indicative of the intensity of experience that is made available via an expressive act and the extent to which the various aspects of this intensity are capable of transformations on personal and public levels.<br>One of the central issues of the thesis is an ongoing re-evaluation of the euphoric claims that trumpet hypertext as usurping the so-called tyranny of the book and the domain of linear thinking in general. In many evaluations of the medium, hypertext is commonly presented as a communications medium that offers a far greater panorama of choices and freedoms than does the printed word and, in addition, is far closer to the way in which the human mind 'actually works.' One of the intentions of this project is to not only critique and study such claims but also to explore their numerous offshoots with respect to cultural, philosophical and ideological practices and techniques. Thus, this thesis unfolds via four major thematic clusters that each, in its own way, challenges and probes at the emerging medium of hypertext as it relates to the activity and cultural practice of writing itself.<br>The first of these clusters is organized around the challenges and problems of constructing an appropriate interpretive methodology with which to approach hypertext. The second cluster offers an analysis of hypertext's defining characteristics and their relation to melancholy, isolation and anxiety. What follows is an analysis of the major figures in the history of hypertext and their relationship to the dynamics of power and knowledge. The thesis concludes with a meditation on how the act of writing (electronic or otherwise) has profound implications on the very structure and form of the creative human mind and world.
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Fee, Margery. "The Signifying Writer and the Ghost Reader: Mudrooroo's Master of the Ghost Dreaming and Writing from the Fringe." Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11653.
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Mudrooroo has been influenced both by Henry Louis Gates' notions of signifying, as well as by those of Roland Barthes. For Aboriginal Australians, the Dreaming Ancestors marked the world with signs that they could read. The central character in the novel, Jangamuttuk, receives the European as his "dreaming" and his totemic ancestor. He (and Mudrooroo) therefore understand and can use and combat the power of this Ghost.
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Dawson, Christopher Edward. "Erik Satie viewed as a writer : with special reference to his texts from 1900 to 1925." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357293.
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Savva, Stefanie. "'I Dreamt of Saltwater and Eggs' : magic, nationhood, and the writer-out-of-country." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16873/.
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This dissertation includes a novel entitled I Dreamt of Saltwater and Eggs and an accompanying critical commentary which aims at examining themes and issues of post-colonial and commonwealth fiction in relation to the context of Cyprus. The novel is a magical realist story about a boy who sets out to find the girl he is in love with, while at the same time an anti-colonial fight breaks out in his homeland, Sarouiki. During his travels he is confronted with questions of identity, belonging and nationhood. While extensive research has been conducted on post-colonial writing and the over- running themes in fiction which falls under this category, Cyprus has remained fairly unexplored, mainly due to the fact that its anti-colonial struggle and post-colonial trauma are not deemed important enough. The thesis of this project is that magical realism as a genre is an organic occurrence that is interlinked with the post-colonial trauma in various countries. Magical realism serves as a way of seeing the world by using magic to understand the human dimensions of history. It is a way of reaching historical, national, and political truths and is thus a natural way of expression for post-colonial writers. By focusing on Cyprus, a fairly uninvestigated area of post-colonial writing, we can expand our understating of the issues and themes linked to this body of literature. As a Cypriot writer, I look at the ways in which I wrote I Dreamt of Saltwater and Eggs and how post-colonial discourses emerged in their creative process, and by doing so, I create the space to further explore minor post-colonial literatures in the light of the global issues they are linked to.
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Hussain, Sarah. "'Said to be a writer' : tradition, gender and identity in the poetry of Charlotte Mew." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2002. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1506.
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This thesis studies the poetry of Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) and explores how this still relatively obscure poet, writing at the turn of the last century, has a key role in any discussion of poetic tradition and ideas of gender and female identity as these are configured in the early twentieth century. This thesis examines why Mew's work has been condemned to obscurity in spite of her comparative success during her own lifetime and goes on to suggest that the very reasons for her rejection from the literary canon - the critical approbation of her peers, biography and the problem of placement in literary culture - are the methods of exploring her true contribution to it. Chapters two to five study Mew's work from four different but related critical standpoints: the figure of the fallen woman, the Victorian women's poetic tradition, Modernism and impersonality and female Modernisms and ideas of the feminine sublime. One of the major problems in establishing Mew's work in the critical culture has been the difficulty in placing her as either a Victorian or a Modernist. This thesis studies her writing in both critical contexts suggesting that Mew's work challenges the absolute categories of the literary canon. The chapters are divided into a study of the critical arguments surrounding ideas of tradition and gender followed by a detailed textual study of her poems. Her poetry is compared to that of writers as diverse as D.G . Rossetti, Augusta Webster, Christina Rossetti, Robert Browning, T. S. Eliot and H. D. Through a constant balancing of Mew's individual voice and her place in the literary culture, I suggest that her work is integral to an understanding of literary tradition and that her work is central to discussions of gender poetics and female subjectivity in the twentieth century.
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Yocco, Caitlin A. "The Plight of the Surrealist Writer: Intimacy in Public Space." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1341938809.
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Porges, Reingard. "Theodor Wolff, the Writer in Exile 1933-1943." University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1515.
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Doctor of Philosophy<br>Abstract This study examines the effect of exile on Theodor Wolff’s writings from 1933 to 1943. Wolff, a highly assimilated German Jew and renowned journalist and editor-in-chief of the ‘Berliner Tageblatt’ from 1906-1933, was one of the most influential cultural and liberal political commentators during World War I and the Weimar Republic. His political life and influence has been extensively researched, whereas his life in exile has not been explored. Enforced sudden exile in 1933 represented a turning point in Wolff’s life. Following the temporal sequence of Wolff’s ten years in exile, this study is divided into four chapters, starting with the early exile years from 1933 to 1936, followed by the immediate pre World War II period. The third chapter covers the German invasion and occupation of France in 1940. The last chapter sheds light on the two final years from 1942 to 1943. These four periods reflect his exile experience and gradual decline in living conditions, mood, and fundamental changes in his approach to writing. In exile Wolff devotes his time and effort to historical accounts and fiction – a difficult genre for a publicist and journalistic writer. He also embarks on autobiographical writings and during his final years in exile deals with the Jewish catastrophe unfolding in Nazi controlled Europe, raising issues concerning the so called ‘Jewish Problem’. This study draws attention to the effect exile had on an important German- Jewish writer, who in 1943 fell victim to the Holocaust. Wolff’s works, especially his exile writings survived the war and remain relevant today. The findings of this research provide some insight into a turbulent period in German and European history that drastically changed many lives. It also makes a significant contribution to the study of Theodor Wolff and to exile studies in general.
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Du, Willy Chenja. "Taiwan Xiangtu writer Huang Chunming: three short stories, with a critical introduction." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4966.
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This introduction serves to provide a sketch of the circumstances that led to the prominence of "nativist," or xiangtu literature from the Republic of China (i.e. Taiwan) in the late twentieth century. Huang Chunming, the author of the stories featured in this thesis, has been a prolific writer from the east of the Taiwan Straits since 1962, and has contributed to the popularization of Taiwanese xiangtu literature in the decades of the island's industrialization experience. In Huang's world of fictional characters, readers have multifaceted records of the Taiwanese people's lives and the culture of their native soil.
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Lee, Daryl Robert. "A rival protest : the life and work of Richard Rive, a South African writer." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244217.
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Pethica, James Linus. "A dialogue of self and service : Lady Gregory's emergence as an Irish writer and partnership with W.B.Yeats." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385591.
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Hicks, Jeremy Guy. "Mikhail Zoshchenko and the poetics of 'Skaz'." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322812.
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Pedersen, Ena. "Henry William Katz : the life and work of a German-Jewish writer and journalist in exile, 1933-1945." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285425.
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Palmer, Marcus Sylvan. "Narrator transformations in the work of Arab-Argentine writer Jorge Asís." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1377.
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Jorge Asís's narrative voices are transformed from on text to another. The Arab-Argentine author creates multiple narrators that interact with one another to further develop their textual identities. Discussions of authorial and narrative voices often coalesce into broad statements of alter-egos and pseudonyms that do not fully consider the nexus between them with writing practices. This study analyzes the author-narrator and narrator-narrator bonds in Argentine Orientalist, Mahyar, Costumbrista, and Testimonial writing practices.
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OLIVEIRA, IGOR FERNANDES VIANA DE. "THE WRITER AND THE CITY: LITERATURE, MODERNITY AND RIO DE JANEIRO IN THE WORK OF LIMA BARRETO." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2013. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=23905@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO<br>A presente dissertação propõe discutir os vínculos entre literatura, modernidade e a cidade do Rio de Janeiro na obra de Lima Barreto. Num primeiro momento, realizamos um estudo sobre a recepção crítica da obra do escritor, procurando identificar os diferentes sentidos de História e Literatura que caracterizam as abordagens. A partir do trabalho realizado, procuramos rediscutir a relação entre a produção literária de Lima Barreto e os variados sentidos de modernidade que circularam no Rio de Janeiro nas primeiras décadas do século XX. Ao mapearmos alguns dos autores, ambientes e tendências intelectuais que influenciaram o escritor, procuramos contribuir para a historiografia que vem procurando reavaliar as especificidades do ambiente cultural e intelectual da cidade. Na última parte, buscamos identificar de que maneira a sua produção literária dialogou com os sujeitos e experiências do Rio de Janeiro de seu tempo.<br>This dissertation aims to discuss the links between literature, modernity and the city of Rio de Janeiro in the work of Lima Barreto. Initially, we conducted a study on the critical reception of the writer s work, identifying the different senses of History and Literature that characterize this approaches. After this work, we revisit the relationship between literary production of Lima Barreto and different meanings of modernity that circulated in Rio de Janeiro in the early decades of the twentieth century. To map some of the authors, environments and intellectual trends that influenced the writer, we contribute to the historiography that seek to reassess the specificity of the intellectual and cultural environment of the city. In the last part, we seek to identify how their literary spoke with the subjects and experiences of Rio de Janeiro.
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Whitehead, Sarah. "Make it short : Edith Wharton's modernist practices as a short story writer." Thesis, Kingston University, 2009. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20261/.
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In this thesis I argue for a repositioning of Edith Wharton’s short stories in relation to both the twentieth century and modernism. Whilst Wharton was acclaimed for her novels, I argue that the short story, the genre in which she felt most proficient as a writer, yet is still habitually overlooked by critics, presents Wharton at her most experimental and "renovat(ive)", to use her own words. I consider how the restrictive confines of the short story, both in terms of its brevity and commercial value, particularly in relation to the magazine market, were exploited by Wharton to her own advantage, and how her literary craft flourished in such a contained form. I do not argue for a re-envisioning of Wharton as a modernist writer, rather for recognition of her modernist tendencies both in terms of her narrative technique and her interaction with the literary marketplace. Accordingly this thesis is divided into two parts; the first considers Wharton's poetics: her use of myth, modes of narration, creation of narrative gaps, and her notable use of ellipsis points (closely associated by critics such as Henry with modernist writing). The second part of this thesis explores Wharton's modernist practices outside her texts. Here I investigate Wharton's short story magazine publication history, outlining the uneasy balance between her challenges to editorial policy in both the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and her businesslike attitude toward the profession of writing. Finally, given recent critical reassessments of modernism and its relationship with both the short story and the magazine industry, I argue for the timely recognition of the distinctly modernist nature of Wharton's popular, mass marketed short fiction.
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Hehir, Sylvia. "Writing characters from under-represented communities : a perspective from an emerging young adult fiction writer." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30716/.
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The category of young adult (YA) fiction encompasses a wide range of genres; but despite this generic diversity, it has so far failed to represent the full range of communities that make up contemporary British society. Discussions are ongoing between professionals in the publishing industry and campaigning individuals and organisations who are aiming to redress this imbalance. Writers making new work are in a position to help effect a change, but acknowledging and responding to the call for inclusion can be far from straightforward, with questions being raised such as: ‘how far can a writer stray from their own lived experience?’ and ‘how can a writer avoid tokenism or cultural appropriation when writing for inclusion?’ This thesis consists of a new YA contemporary novel, Sea Change, and an accompanying critical essay, which reflects on the challenges I encountered while aiming to write for inclusion. Set in the Scottish Highlands, Sea Change is a contemporary YA crime novel, in which the world of the sixteen-year-old protagonist, Alex, is thrown into turmoil when he discovers a dead body next to his fishing boat. The decisions Alex makes following this discovery set in motion the plot of the story. The narrative, as it unfolds, facilitates the exploration of themes frequently associated with adolescence, such as friendship, risk-taking and the maturation into an adult identity, along with themes specifically linked to Alex’s status as a member of marginalised communities because of his sexuality and social class, such as prejudice, acute stress brought on by economic pressure, and low self-esteem. This thesis, then, reviews the opinions and recommendations being expressed by campaigners for greater diversity, and exposes the uncertainties and challenges a writer faces when aiming to write for inclusion.
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Colleran, Jeanne M. "The dissenting writer in South Africa : a rhetorical analysis of the drama of Athol Fugard and the short fiction of Nadine Gordimer." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1287430526.
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Osell, Tedra Suzanne. "The ghost writer : English essay periodicals and the materialization of the public in the eighteenth century /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9382.
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Bladon, Henry James Murray. "'Missing Pieces' : the presentation of mental health nursing in narrative fiction and the role of the practitioner/writer." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8104/.
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Missing Pieces is a novel about mental health nursing and the difficulties faced by a challenging profession, as Ron seeks an understanding of his personal and professional world. The novel challenges traditional stereotypes, offering a greater range of character depictions. The critical discussion asks why mental health nursing is represented in fiction like it is. By first contextualising the argument within the sphere of fictional representations of other health professions, it then examines the stereotypes of mental health nursing in fiction, and argues that, while literary shortfalls are in part supported by clinical evidence, existing novels fail to accurately depict the experience of the profession. By reference to the nursing theory of Peplau and others, we not only see the failures of fiction writers, but realise that mental health nursing must assume some culpability, by failing to disseminate its identity with sufficient clarity. Looking at the work of Freya Barrington and Monica Starkman in other health disciplines, it asks how fictionalised accounts of mental health practitioner/writers can integrate into health education programmes, and looks at the professional benefits of writing fiction including continuing professional development. Finally, it points to potential areas for further investigation.
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Kensky, Eitan Lev. "Facing the Limits of Fiction: Self-Consciousness in Jewish American Literature." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10716.
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This thesis explores the limits of fictional language by studying the work of Jewish American writer-critics, novelists who significantly engaged with literary criticism, and critics who experimented with the novel or short fiction. These writer-critics all believed in Literature: they believed that literature could effect social change and educate the masses; or they believed in literature as an art-form, one that exposed the myths underlying American society, or that revealed something fundamental about the human condition. Yet it is because they believed so stridently in the concept of Literature that they turned to non-fiction. Writing fiction exposed problems that Literature could not resolve. They describe being haunted by “preoccupations” that they could not exhaust in fiction alone. They apologetically refer to their critical texts as “by-products” of their creative writing. Writer-critics were forced to decide what the limits of fiction were, and they adopted other types of writing to supplement these unexpected gaps in fiction's power. This dissertation contains four chapters and an introduction. The introduction establishes the methodological difficulties in writing about author-critics, and introduces a set of principles to guide the study. Chapter 1 approaches Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky (1917). I argue that many of the novel's difficulties result from Cahan's desire to present the way that ideology shades our understanding of reality while minimizing direct narratorial intrusions. Chapter 2 studies how politics affected the work of Mike Gold, Moishe Nadir, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. In all three writers, literature emerges as a kind of ersatz-politics, a space for the dispossessed to imagine the political. In the end, the political novel only reinforces the fictionality. Chapter 3 is a study of Leslie Fiedler's problematic novel, The Second Stone. While critics have seen the novel as a kind of game, I propose reading the novel as an earnest expression of Fiedler's vision of literature as a conversation. Chapter 4 turns to Cynthia Ozick and Susan Sontag. A cumulative reading of their fiction and criticism shows the deep twinning of their fiction and critical thought. For both writers true knowledge comes only through the imagination.<br>Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Spargur, Teri A. "Struggling Adolescent Writers Describe Their Experiences." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2195.
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Writing continues to be difficult for adolescents throughout the United States. There is little known about writing from the adolescent's perspective. This case study describes six 8th graders' thoughts and motivations on writing. The purpose of the current study was to examine the perceptions and experiences of struggling adolescent writers by taped participant interviews of six students, three male and three female, which scored below proficient on their state writing assessment. The conceptual theoretical framework for the current study is Bandura's social cognitive theory. The central research question of this study focused on the experiences of adolescents who struggle with writing on state assessments. Qualitative data were collected during a three week period and analyzed in two stages. Stage 1 was the analytical compiling of the data into categories; stage 2 examined the data for patterns, themes, and relationships. Thematic analysis revealed six themes. Analysis of data supported the theoretical framework that students who struggle with writing were low on morale and motivation on writing assignments. Results of the study included a desire in the students to excel on their writing assignments, but the eagerness was subdued by the challenges they faced in writing. The data showed that students struggle with the amount of knowledge they have on a given topic and the techniques used to write a coherent sentence. Students stated that they need guidance to gather information on a given topic and with organization of their writing. In response to the students' perceptive, teacher can plan, implement, and guide students towards success in writing. This study can contribute to social change as it will guide teachers of writing instruction strategies that will respond to the challenge of mastering a difficult and complex subject.
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McLoughlin, Catherine Mary. "Martha Gellhorn : the war writer in the field and in the text." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f1c1a333-9ece-4a14-b95f-b2a2c623c012.
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How war is depicted matters vitally to all of us. In the vast literature on war representation, little attention is paid to the fact that where the war recorder1stands crucially affects the portrayal. Should the writer be present on the battle-field, and, if so, where exactly? Should the recording figure be present in the text, and, if so, in what guise? 'Standing' differs from person to person, conflict to conflict, and between genders. Therefore, this thesis focuses on one particular war recorder in one particular war: the American journalist and fiction-writer, Martha Gellhorn (1908-98), in the European Theatre of Operations during World War Two. The fact that Gellhorn was a woman affected how she could and did place herself in relation to battle - but gender, though important, was not the only factor. Her course in and around war was dazzling: hitching rides, stowing away, travelling on dynamite-laden ships through mined waters, flying in ancient planes and deadly fighter jets, driving from battle-field to battle-field, mucking in, standing out. Her trajectory within her prose is equally versatile: she zooms in and out like a camera lens from impassiveness to intense involvement to withdrawal. The thesis is organised along the same spectrum. The first two chapters plot the co- ordinates forming the zero point on the graph of Gellhorn's Second World War writings (earlier American war correspondence, the 1930s' New Reportage, Gellhorn's upbringing and journalistic apprenticeship). Chapter Three then shows her in the guise of self-effacing, emotionally absent recorder. Moving from absence to presence, Chapter Four considers Martha Gellhorn in the field and Chapter Five 'Martha Gellhorn' in the text. Chapter Six describes the shift from presence to participation, before reaching the end of the parabola in Gellhorn's disillusionment in the power of writing to reform and her concerns about women's presence in the war zone. Given that positioning is the central concern, it is important to note the placement of Martha Gellhorn within the thesis itself. She stands as the central, pivotal example of the war recorder, illuminated by various contexts and comparisons with other writers (notably Ernest Hemingway, to whom she was married from 1940 to 1945). As a result of this approach, there are necessarily stretches of the text from which she is absent, as the survey turns to theoretical and comparative discussion. The hope is that this methodology reveals why Gellhorn, in the field and in the text, went where she did.
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Benger, John S. "The authority of writer and text in radical protestant literature 1540 to 1593 with particular reference to the Marprelate tracts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359569.
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Choi, Ha Young. "Korean-American literature as autobiographical metafiction focusing on the protagonist's "writer" Identity in East goes West, Dictee, and Native Speaker /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1216414005.
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Thesis (Ph. D. )--University of Cincinnati, 2008.<br>Advisors: Jana Braziel (Committee Chair), Jay Twomey (Committee Member), Sharon Dean (Committee Member), Deb Meem (Other) Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Sept. 27, 2008). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.