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Carroll, Denise Steppe. "A Writing for Synthesis in Les Soleils Des Independances." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1395846376.
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Rideout, Judith. "Women's writing networks in Spanish magazines around 1900." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7859/.
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As an output of the HERA Travelling Texts project, created with the aim of uncovering the realities of women’s literary culture on the fringes of Europe during the long nineteenth century, this study was conceptualised to find out more about the networks of women writers in Spain around 1900, using the digitised corpuses of contemporaneous periodicals as the primary source material. Each chapter of the study centres on a particular periodical, which is used as the starting point for the community of writers and readers, both real and imagined. This thesis looks at the realities of the literary culture for creative women in the late nineteenth century-early twentieth century, exploring the strategies used by women (and men) to support each other in their literary endeavours, how they took inspiration and courage from each other, how they promoted their own names, and how they were received by wider society. The study will also focus on the transnational nature of this literary culture, looking at how women of different nations influenced each other’s work, with a view to understanding more about how cultural change takes place. Finally, this thesis hopes to persuade the reader that the periodical is a rich and under-utilised resource for discovering more about the lives of women writers and their network of relationships.
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Guldimann, Colette. "Bessie Head : re-writing the romance : journalism, fiction (and gender)." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18704.
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This thesis examines the relationship between Bessie Head's work as a journalist during the late 1950s and two of her novels: the first written just after she had left formal journalism and the second a decade later. I claim, in this thesis, that early journalistic writing by Head, which has been critically ignored, and even dismissed, not only merits critical attention but, furthermore, that knowledge this work will yield new insights into Head's fictional writing for which she is famous. Between 1959 and 1960, before she left South Africa, Bessie Head wrote two weekly columns for children and teenagers, some book reviews and had a role in the production of "True Romance" stories for Home Post, a tabloid supplement to the Sunday newspaper Golden City Post. Head was involved in the production of these romances for over a year and I provide an analysis of the "True Romance" stories published in Home Post. I maintain that these romances, like all texts in popular romance genre (which I discuss) constructs the feminine in very particular ways. I locate this analysis within wider, but related, discussion about the representation of women in both Golden City Post and Drum magazine as they were both considered to be the authoritative newspapers representing black South African life in the 1950s. Head's columns, I claim, especially the one for teenagers, present constructions of the feminine, as well as the masculine, which are significantly at odds with the dominant representations of the feminine, and masculine, in the media I have mentioned, during the late 1950s. A close reading of the representations of gender which Head set up in this column, together with the book reviews she wrote, will give us new insight into her fictional work, particularly The Cardinals which is an early work written and set during this period but only published posthumously in 1993. Reading this novel against the background of the journalistic work and world Head was engaged in just before she wrote it will enable us to read its complexities, specifically those regarding gender and romance. I claim that Head also gave us what is probably the earliest gender perspective, and critique, of 1950s black journalism - a period generally considered to be a vibrant one for black journalism and writing in South Africa. In The Cardinals, which fictionally recreates the black journalistic milieu of the late 1950s in South Africa, Head suggests that black women journalists (and writers) found themselves facing a very different situation from black male journalists. Finally I suggest that with romance structure and the role which gender plays in the novel. Although critics have persistently read this novel as an idealistic, and unrealistic, romance with a happy ending, I suggest, in this thesis, that one can read the novel, in the light of Head's earlier work, as being a radical subversion of the romance.
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Berger, Maureen Mahany. "Writing “Au-Dessous de la Littérature” : Annie Ernaux." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1091551883.
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Brown, Christopher E. "Writing Time: Dante, Petrarch, and Temporality." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:23845461.
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Trecento Italy, the century of Dante and Petrarch as well as the mechanical clock, represented a pivotal moment of innovation to formal measures of time. These creative expressions reflected transforming notions of ingenuity, and of man’s ability to shape the world and time in which he lived. While the mythic awakening of the self-conscious individual in Renaissance Italy has been largely demystified, criticism has tended to overlook the concurrent shifts to the Trecento temporal imagination, born of parallel practices that sought to recover cosmogonic secrets, and thus power over time. An intriguing conceptual connection lies in the multifaceted ingegno (and its Latin ancestor, ingenium), not merely a faculty or talent but a touch of the divine within, the dynamic enactment of which impels movement in, and beyond, time. Privileging the exceptional ingegno of Trecento to Quattrocento Italy, my dissertation engages in a three-part investigation of its manifestations, which evoke temporal tensions in the dialectic between particular and universal, finite ontology and pure existential being. Part one re-examines the mechanical clock, both a symbol and instrument, and its complex relation to bells in Trecento Florence. Informed by these symbols, part two, turning to poetic ingegno, conducts close readings of Dante’s Commedia and Petrarch’s Canzoniere — granting particular attention to the orologio of Paradiso 10, and the circularity of sestina 30, “Giovene donna sotto un verde lauro,” each emblematic of the manner in which the poets reconstitute time. Finally, part three considers the centrality of the human “maker” in the time matrix of Quattrocento Florence, juxtaposing the strategies of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Girolamo Savonarola to maximize, and transcend, finite time. This multidimensional approach not only excavates a more complete image of time in Renaissance Italy, but also reimagines the progression from Dante to Petrarch, and Petrarch to Italian poetry thereafter. The examination, I suggest, illuminates a paradoxical legacy: on one hand, in the glorification of man’s creativity; and on the other, in the existential anxiety of the time-conscious individual, endemic to modern chronophobia. The increasingly abstracted and self-referential time bespeaks a conspicuous absence of the sacred center, anticipating the transience that has plagued modernity.Romance Languages and Literatures
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Jecmen, Timothy Gura Philip F. "Writing the revolution radicalism and the U.S. historical romance, 1835-1860 /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1465.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Apr. 25, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English." Discipline: English; Department/School: English.
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Finbow, T. D. "Writing Latin and Reading Romance? On logographic reading in medieval Iberia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491570.
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Polezzi, Loredana. "Resiting genre : a study of contemporary Italian travel writing in English translation." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3996/.
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This thesis aims to highlight the presence of a large and varied production of contemporary Italian travel writing and to analyse the reasons for its 'invisibility' in the Italian literary system and critical tradition. Through the use of a comparative approach to genre and of current theories developed in the area of Translation Studies, the thesis will outline the different status attributed to travel writing in the Anglo-American and the Italian literary systems. Such a comparative approach allows the study to escape the narrow confines of a perspective based on the idea of national literature and to adopt a wider view, which, in turn, highlights the presence of phenomena otherwise easily overlooked or discarded as insignificant. The peculiar characteristics of travel writing, a genre mostly based on the representation of the Other for a home audience, are also analysed in order to point out their affinity with translation practices and, ultimately, to underline the 'double translation' implied by translated travel writing. The case studies which make up the remaining part of the thesis are intended to illustrate different aspects of the genre of travel writing; to provide scope for an analysis of its boundaries and connections with other genres (ranging from ethnography to autobiography, from journalism to fiction, from the essay to the novel); and to illustrate the way in which generic expectations influence both the selection of texts for translation and the strategies adopted when translating and marketing them for a new audience. The writings of twentieth-century Italian explorers to Tibet, and their translations into English, constitute a significant case of adaptation of foreign texts to the needs and expectations of a British audience (and to the British interests in the geographical area concerned). The works of Oriana Fallaci and their different reception in Italy with respect to the UK and the USA illustrate the way in which personal biography and generic choices can intersect, determining both the popular image and the critical success of an author and of her work. Calvino's choice to sublimate the genre of travel writing in the stylized fiction of Le citta invisibili is treated as an example of the way in which a text which is meant to provide an escape from a low-status genre can become an icon of that same genre once it is translated and read in a different cultural context. Finally, the case of Claudio Magris's Danubio and of its English-language translation provides evidence of the complex network of literary references which marks the reception of a text in different cultures, and of the way in which generic affiliation can both promote the recognition of a 'marginal' text and constrain its more idiosyncratic (and original) characteristics.
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Dempster, Margaret M. "Writing, punishment and the self : a study of five twentieth-century French novels /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3268341.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of French and Italian, 2007.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 3, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-06, Section: A, page: . Adviser: Michael Berkvam.
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Lucas, Caroline. "Writing for women : a study of woman as a reader in Elizabethan romance." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328713.
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Stotesbury, John A. "Apartheid, liberalism and romance : a critical investigation of the writing of Joy Packer /." Doctoral thesis, Umeå (Sweden) : Umeå university, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36972376r.
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Jensen, Laura Bea. "Writing Race and Universalism in Contemporary France| Marie NDiaye and Bessora." Thesis, Yale University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10633251.
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My dissertation shows how two women writers, Marie NDiaye and Bessora articulate the experience of being black in France, while, at the same time affirming the French Republican tenet that racial identification does violence to individuals, communities, and the nation itself. Despite their similar backgrounds, despite the fact that they reside in the same country, and that they write about a similar cast of characters in a similar milieu, Bessora and NDiaye are not typically seen as belonging to a shared literary category or tradition. NDiaye is categorized as a "French" author and Bessora as "Francophone." Although their novels might not be found in the same section of a French bookstore, when considered together, their works create a dialogue on race in today's France that cannot be overlooked.
In chapter one I focus on NDiaye's 1999 novella La Naufragée . This work combines art and fiction, featuring paintings by English artist Joseph Mallord William Turner, most notably The Slave Ship (1840). In this chapter, I show how the narrator, a meilnaid, functions as an allegory for racial mixing. Drawing on Walter Benjamin's ideas on allegory, I demonstrate how the novella links the author's own non-white body to the historical bodies of human chattel drowned in the Middle Passage. This novella challenges the notion that France can ever be blind to race, given its history of chattel slavery.
Paradoxically, it is through allegory that NDiaye demonstrates the real violence and pain inflicted on the black body by the ideology of race-blindness. I build on these ideas in chapter two, examining the effects that the particular allegorical significance of the black body has on black subjects. Here I uncover a powerful intertextual thread running through NDiaye's 2012 novel Ladivine. Though NDiaye's understanding of race is undeniably French, she looks to the United States, to the Harlem Rennaissance and the passing novel to articulate the experience of being both black and entirely culturally French. I explore the dissociative effect produced when an individual, who sees herself as "universal," i.e. French like "everyone else," inhabits a nonwhite body. I extended my analysis beyond Ladivine to touch on Rosie Carpe (2001) and Trois Femmes Puissantes (2009). My analysis of these works reveals the ways in which French universalism is, paradoxically, geographically conscripted. The historical realities of slavery and of colonialism continue to impact the ways in which black bodies are seen in the metropole and in Overseas Departments, and profoundly influence the ways in which black subjects conceive of themselves.
In Chapter three I turned to Bessora, analyzing her first two novels, 53 cm (1999) and Les taches d'encre (2000). Bessora wrote both of these while pursuing a doctorate in anthropology. However, current scholarship tends to interpret her literary output as standing in direct conflict with her academic pursuits;that her novels, so rich in satire and pastiche, serve to reject or simply "write back" against the fields she was studying at the time. These analyses assume a necessarily conflictual relationship between black writers and the social sciences. I argue that in the tradition of many French anthropologists and authors before her, Bessora should be seen as both a literary author and a social scientist. By handing the tools of anthropological analysis to characters of color in these novels, Bessora does not invalidate a social scientific way of viewing the world; rather, she universalizes the anthropological gaze. She combines postmodern and anthropological narrative techniques to critique the way that race is constructed in France; she exposes the ways in which Republican values work to reinforce nationalism and white supremacy, and fall short of their universalist ambitions.
Chapter four builds on the ideas established in chapter three by comparing Bessora's dissertation, "Mémories Pétrolières au Gabon," (2002) with her novel Petroleum (2004), on the same subject. As an author of Gabonese descent who was raised and educated primarily in Europe, Bessora offers a complex insider/outsider perspective on her father's country (a country that was also her home for ten years), its history, and its memories of colonization. Reading these two texts side by side reveals both the interdependency between literature and the social sciences in both Bessora's fiction and in the French literary scene more generally. She writes from a vexed position of privilege, for which she has not yet fully accounted. Bessora's own stance towards universalism, her post-national identity which ironically gathers up identitarian labels and categories, obfuscates a more fraught relationship to the national history of Gabon, and to French neo-colonialism there.
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Barletta, Sandra Anne. "A first kiss is still a first kiss : romancing the mid-life reader and heroine." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/19205/.
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Through its depiction of heroines, romance fiction has the capacity to reflect the attitudes and concerns women face in society. However, the depiction of heroines in romance novels is bound by the constraints publishers place upon them. A vibrant, passionate mid-life heroine gets pushed into a subgenre where romance no longer exists as an option, while a mid-life reader in search of a romance heroine to identify with is relegated to novels where romance is a marginal issue, rather than the main impetus that leads the story. This study, and the novel A Basic Renovation, addresses a neglected demographic of reader and heroine who are marginalised within the romance genre. As well, it gives reasons why heroines need not be characterised in particular roles or situations as they age, and a rationale for why their underrepresentation as romance heroines should end.
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Sandner, David. "The fairy way of writing : fantastic literature from the romance revival to romanticism, 1712-1830 /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978599.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 322-334). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Savoie, Tracy Ann. "Cosmopolitanism and Twentieth-Century American Modernism: Writing Intercultural Relationships through the Trope of Interracial Romance." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1217981585.
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Wimbush, Antonia Helen. "Exile in Francophone women's autobiographical writing." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8100/.
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This thesis examines exile in contemporary autobiographical narratives written in French by women from across the Francophone world. The analysis focuses on work by Nina Bouraoui (Algeria), Gisele Pineau (Guadeloupe), Veronique Tadjo (Cote d'Ivoire), and Kim Lefevre (Vietnam), and investigates how the French colonial project has shaped female articulations of mobility and identity in the present. This comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-generational study engages with postcolonial theory, gender theory, and autobiographical theory in order to create a new framework with which to interpret women's experiences and expressions of displacement across the Francosphere. The thesis posits that existing models of exile do not fully explain the complex situations of the four authors, who do not have a well-defined 'home' and 'host' country. Although marginalised by their gender, they are economically privileged and have chosen to live a rootless existence, which nonetheless renders them alienated and 'out of place'. The thesis thus argues that women's narratives of exile challenge and complicate existing paradigms of exile which have a male, patriarchal focus. By turning our attention to these women and their specific postcolonial gendered narratives, a more nuanced understanding of exile emerges: exile is experienced as a sexual, gendered, racial, and/or linguistic otherness.
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Prelorentzou, Renato. "Futuro do pretérito: tempo e narrativa na história, no romance, na tese." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-02102015-105718/.
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Esta tese de doutorado começa investigando as relações entre história e ficção nos séculos XX e XXI, com ênfase na ideia de pós-modernidade e de crise da representação. Depois da leitura de alguns romancistas contemporâneos (como W.G. Sebald, J.M Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk e Enrique Vila-Matas) e de alguns historiadores contemporâneos (especialmente Carlo Ginzburg), a pesquisa avança sobre o estudo teórico da autobiografia e da autoficção, tentando refletir sobre as implicações epistemológicas da narrativa também no discurso da crítica literária e na escrita acadêmica.This doctoral thesis began by researching the relationship between history and fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on the crisis of representation and the idea of post-modernity. After reading some contemporary novelists (such as W.G. Sebald, J.M Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk e Enrique Vila-Matas) and also some contemporary historians (notably Carlo Ginzburg), the research advances towards the theoretical study of autobiography and autofiction, attempting to reflect on the epistemological implications of narrative both for the discourse of literary criticism and for academic writing.
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Kemedjio, Cilas. "Des Theories de L'imaginaire aux Imaginaires Theoriques: La Question Theorique dans les Litteratures Africaine et Antillaise: From the Theories of Fiction to Creative Writing: Theoretical Issues in African and Antillean Literatures." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487861796821412.
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Souleau, Pauline. "Writing (hi)story : Gascony in Jean Froissart's chroniques." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:42e4a888-0d08-486b-bf0d-1d67713f89e5.
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Jean Froissart’s Chroniques, composed of four Books, relate the first stages of the Anglo-French conflict later known as the Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453). This thesis explores Froissart’s textual journey(s) to Gascon lands (south-west of modern-day France) and history/stories. Relying on Gérard Genette’s and Mikhail Bakhtin’s narrative theories, it uses literary and narratological tools to analyse three passages from Book I and III concerned with Gascony: the Earl of Derby’s Gascon campaigns (Chapter 1); the Black Prince’s Gascon campaigns and the principality of Aquitaine (Chapter 2); Froissart’s personal journey to and stay at the court of Gaston Fébus, count of Foix-Béarn (Chapter 3). One aim of the study is to investigate the representation of the region but it also argues that the Gascon passages have wider implications for the Chroniques, Froissart’s work as a whole, and the writing of history in the fourteenth century. At the turn of the twentieth century, Froissart’s ‘history’ was often disparagingly discussed by scholars due to factual inaccuracy and literary embellishments: such a ‘historical narrative’, it was felt, fell short of history and was nothing more than an entertaining story presenting outdated chivalric ideals. Although this approach has been partly revised, some critics still view the Chroniques’ earlier Books as being a narratively straightforward reflection of such a chivalric ideology, lacking critical hindsight on fourteenth-century events and society, and thus presenting paradoxical and irreconcilable tensions with later Books to the extent that they are occasionally deemed to be an entirely different kind of work than their later counterparts. The narrative thread of Froissart’s Gascon (hi)story explored here allows the revision of such views and shows that Froissart’s narrative is far from narratively and ideologically straightforward. This complexity is present as early as the first versions of the Book I, which should be envisaged in parallel, not in opposition, with the ‘later’ Chroniques. Similarly, the various tensions (e.g. fiction/history; ideal/real) underpinning the whole work, manifested in the portrayal of Gascony/the Gascons, are best approached in terms of co-existence, not antagonism. Such a multi-faceted work (a mirror and/or product of the fourteenth century?), à mi-chemin between history and fiction, between conflicting yet co-existing perspectives, is precisely what makes Froissart’s Chroniques valuable to literary critics, philologists, and historians alike.
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Mizza, Daria. "Instructional technology, L2 writing theory, and IFL : a case-study conducted in a British university among tutors and students." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1112/.
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This study reviews a series of theoretical models and educational experiences, in order to examine how some of the claims made in the existing literature regarding the role of IT - mainly computer technologies - in writing instruction play out in the case of Italian as a Foreign Language (IFL). With this purpose in mind, this study examines a specific context - three IFL modules taught at the University of Warwick - and uses relevant teaching and learning experiences as a case-study and data sample. By using qualitative analysis supported by some quantitative methodologies, this study triangulates data from questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, focus-groups, field notes, classroom observation rubrics, as well as classroom artefacts, including online resources and educational software used over the course of the academic years 2004-2005 and 2005-2006. The data collected is filtered through a tripartite framework - learning/instructional environment, IFL tutors, and IFL students - designed to address the need expressed in the literature for analysis of multiple dimensions in complex interactions (Abbott, 1997; Athanases and Heath, 1995; Ramanathan and Atkinson, 1999; Snyder, 1997). The salient themes which emerge from the study are the critical roles of IFL tutors' and IFL students' expectations as well as the framework of values underlying these, along with particular features of information technologies themselves, in shaping participants' experiences and practices with respect to IT and writing, sometimes in unanticipated ways. Finally, the study considers the ways in which the results of the present research support, contradict, or expand existing literature, especially in relation to a number of specific factors, such as: the type of IT used in writing instruction; the physical configurations of IT-enhanced classrooms; and students' as well as tutors' approaches to learning and teaching IFL writing with and without technology. While the present work, like many other studies in the field of SLA and L2 writing, does not provide complete answer to the complex questions of language learning, it highlights the importance of both the instructional environment as well as the participants' framework of values. Only then, IT will be able to potentially enhance language instruction and become an integral component of learning. This research raises new questions, providing the basis for further research in the area of SLA theory and pedagogy.
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Reed, Kaylara Ann. "Writing reform in fourteenth-century English romance, from the agrarian crisis to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Thesis, University of Hull, 2017. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16556.
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This thesis investigates five fourteenth-century Middle English romances—Sir Isumbras, The King of Tars, The Earl of Toulouse, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight—for their resonances with fourteenth-century reformist ideology. The fourteenth century witnessed the emergence of Middle English complaint writing and also culminated in two reformist movements in the 1380s: the Peasants’ Revolt and Lollardy. Each romance considered in the thesis share resonances with reformist ideology and complaint poems—like William Langland’s Piers Plowman—as well as texts relating to the Peasants’ Revolt and Lollardy. Such evidence suggests that romance and complaint shared ideologies and both types of texts may have contributed to reformist activities—writing, acting, or both—throughout the century. Sir Isumbras is explored in relation to the Agrarian Crisis, related complaint texts such as The Simonie and The Song of the Husbandman, and the penitential philosophy it shares with Piers Plowman. Isumbras shows landowners causing peasant suffering, and problematises orthodox penitential prescriptions. The King of Tars is read in relationship to complaint texts like The Sayings of the Four Philosophers and with later Lollard writing. Tars reforms nations by highlighting the consequences of immoral kingship—both Christian and Saracen—and replacing it with an ethically superior woman. The Earl of Toulouse, examined alongside texts relevant to the Peasants’ Revolt, represents armed revolt as a means of stopping obstinate tyranny and envisions that heroic men—even to the point of breaking the law—will insist upon truth and justice. The Wife of Bath’s Tale shares resonances with an array of Middle English Lollard writings, from its stance on execution, nobility, poverty, the power of sermons, and female autonomy and power. Finally, I analyse Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alongside Ricardian complaint texts, illuminating tyrannical character traits in Arthur and his negative influence on Gawain.
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Tonini, Sandrine. "From existentialist anxiety to existential joy : gendered journeys towards (re)commitment in Les Mandarins and Il rimorso as evidence of Simone de Beauvoir's influence on Alba de Céspedes' writing." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2215/.
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Whilst Simone de Beauvoir has become an icon of feminism, and The Second Sex in particular been recognized as a point of reference for writers and philosophers worldwide, her reputation in Italy was not established immediately, and there she remains a controversial figure. This study focuses on one aspect of her influence in Italy: the relationship between her writing and that of the Italian best-selling author, Alba de Céspedes. It is the first in-depth analysis of the complex pattern of influence evident in the relationship between what the two authors have described as their most important novels, Les Mandarins and Il rimorso. Part I deals with the historical and theoretical backgrounds to this research. It provides a study of the socio-political events that are relevant to the narrative contents, and an overview of different theories of intertextuality. Part II is a detailed comparative analysis of the novels and establishes for the first time the precise nature of the relationship between Les Mandarins and Il rimorso ideologically and philosophically, as well as intertextually. In particular, this work explores a number of superficial resemblances between the novels’ structures, characterization and thematic content, and it also reveals a more sophisticated relation that is not manifest in the similarities, but rather in the way the texts differ from each other. This thesis brings two significant contributions to literary research: firstly, it will become evident that studies of de Céspedes’ life and works should include close attention to de Beauvoir; and secondly, it is an addition to a popular area of de Beauvoirian studies, that of the charting of the extent of the French author’s philosophical and ideological influence and of its legacy worldwide.
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Dixon, John Spencer. "Representations of the East in English and French travel writing 1798-1882 : with particular reference to Egypt." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1991. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/35766/.
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The aim of the thesis has been to offer a comparative analysis of discourses within English and French travel writing in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in order to develop a more nuanced understanding of how the East was represented in this type of literature than that offered by Edward Said in his book Orientalism. The thesis considers the degree to which the latent racism and imperialism of western attitudes was universally expressed in this type of writing. While dates have been set for this study, the main reason for this has been to limit the vast body of archive material potentially relevant to its theoretical base. On occasion it has been necessary to step outside these dates in order to examine earlier eighteenth-century work or point out the relevance of this type of study to more recent western approaches to the East. The thesis shows a decline in the nineteenth century in popular belief in a fiction of the Orient as an imagined site of luxury and sensual indulgence, as travel writing countered this image with reports of real countries and peoples. The place of the aesthetic in French writing is considered here, as it offers a challenge to the more political perspective offered by Said. The thesis concludes by suggesting that there were other discourses in travel literature in this period which lie outside specifically racist and imperialist constructs, and therefore deepens and broadens the investigations undertaken by Said with reference to British and French travel writing of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Ferguson, Samuel James. "Diaries real and fictional in twentieth-century French writing." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b90b6015-0de9-41a8-b852-b16f0cb69540.
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Whereas the relationship between real autobiography and its fictional forms has been studied at length, the equivalent relationship for diaries has barely been acknowledged, let alone explored. This thesis follows the history of diary-writing – as a field that includes real and fictional diaries and the complex relations between them – in twentieth-century French writing. I take as my starting point the moment in the 1880s when, following a series of successful posthumous diary publications, a new generation of writers became aware that their own journaux intimes would probably come to be published, with considerable consequences for the way their literary œuvre and their very persona as an author (or their textual author-figure) would appear to readers. Of this generation, André Gide exerted by far the greatest influence over the course of diary-writing, and four works in particular experiment, in extremely diverse forms, with the literary possibilities of the diary: Les Cahiers d'André Walter (1891), Paludes (1895), Le Journal des faux-monnayeurs (1926), and his Journal 1889–1939 (1939). After the Second World War, diary-writing continued to draw on forms established by Gide, but now inflected by radical changes in attitudes towards the writing subject: Raymond Queneau's works published under the pseudonym of Sally Mara (1947–62) cast light on attitudes towards the diary at the time of a theoretical exclusion of the writing subject; Roland Barthes experimented with diaries at the point of a return of the writing subject (1977–79); and Annie Ernaux's published diaries between 1993 and 2011 demonstrate the role of diary-writing within the modern field of life-writing. Rather than making a gradual progress towards literary recognition, this history of diary-writing shows that, in a great variety of ways, diaries have consistently been used for their marginal or supplementary role, which simultaneously constructs and qualifies a literary œuvre and author-figure.
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Emery, Meaghan Elizabeth. "Writing the fine line : rearticulating French National Identity in the divides. A cultural study of contemporary French narrative by Jewish, Beur, and Antillean authors /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1382548822.
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Maxwell, Sheila Kate. "Guillaume de Machaut and the mise en page of medieval French sung verse." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/764/.
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The aim of this thesis is to examine what a study of the visual presentation of the fourteenth-century poet-composer Guilluame de Machaut's songs can tell us that studying them simply as pre-defined works cannot. This has involved two distinct, but related fields of enquiry. Firstly, I have developed of a way of considering the six manuscripts of Machaut containing what appear to be his complete works which focuses on the visual impact of each codex as a whole, from the materials used to the content it contains (text, images, music). This methodology, which draws on the works of such scholars as B. Cerquiglini (Eloge de la variante, 1989), S. Huot (From Song to Book, 1987), and D. Leech-Wilkinson (The Modern Invention of Medieval Music, 2002) and relies heavily on primary sources, is founded on the premise that each of the manuscripts is a complete and unique artefact, irrespective of who created it and for what purpose. Building on this, I argue that each manuscript can be considered a performance. When one of Machaut’s compositions (poetical, musical, or both) is preserved in more than one source, each such manuscript is considered as a performance in its own right. This performative approach allows for and indeed welcomes variations in interpretation and presentation, including those that appear to entail manipulations of the work itself, by performers as diverse as copyists (involved in internal, possibly mnemonic performance), oral interpreters (singing or reading out loud, either from memory or from a copy), editors (whatever their purpose and medium, be it a paper edition based on all sources or a digital edition of just one: perhaps these are the equivalent of today's copyists?), and readers (scholarly and leisurely, from any era). Having established this approach in my thesis, I then assess the role of the individuals involved in such a manuscript performance. The differing role of the scribes and the author in a manuscript's production is considered, particularly with reference to the manuscripts over whose compilation the author is perceived to have had some control. The role of the reader is considered in terms of the reception of the manuscript and especially the extent to which manuscript layout and design subconsciously ‘control’ reader interpretation. In the light of this I analyse the manuscript presentation of Machaut's songs in each of the six principal manuscripts transmitting his works, with particular focus on the literary works that contain musical notation, the Remede de Fortune and the Voir Dit, the series of lays set to music, and the Messe de Notre Dame. The methodology adopted throughout considers the visual impact of the presence of music on the manuscript page and assesses the extent of this impact both on the reader and on its relevance to manuscript design: what can the layout of the music tell us about the manuscript's readers, patrons and creators? This analysis offers insights as to the role of artists in the society of mid- and late-fourteenth-century France, the changing perceptions of words and music, and the role of reading, writing, and memory in society.
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Bassi, Serena A. "Italy through the mirror of translation : place, culture and difference in the twenty-first century book market." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57594/.
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This thesis asks how stereotypical images of a foreign country are reinforced or contested through translation in the context of the contemporary consumer book market. Taking Italy and the British publishing market as its focus, it sets out to examine the translation process for one popular genre of Italian fiction and two Italian bestsellers published in Britain after 2000. Gomorra by Roberto Saviano (2006) and Cento colpi di spazzola prima di andare a dormire by Melissa P. (2003) and the so-called ‘new Italian crime fiction’, are three recent Italian publishing phenomena that have been selected for translation into English. Once translated and distributed in the British market, they attracted significant commercial and critical attention in the literary field. How important was the association with stereotypical images of Italy in determining the success of these texts in Britain, a market that is famously resistant to translation? How was the idea of Italy re-negotiated and re-imagined throughout the translation process? In order to provide an answer to the above questions, both the translation and the paratranslation of the Italian texts are investigated. The translation of new Italian crime fiction is examined with a focus on the Italian and the British history of the genre and on its paratranslation. The fascinating implications of the new branding of the author Roberto Saviano, which emerged in the British literary field when Gomorra was translated into English, are explored in the context of both translation and paratranslation. Finally, in analysing the translation of Cento colpi I have focused on the work of the translator, Lawrence Venuti, and particularly on the implicationsthat his ideology of translation has on the idea of Italy and on that of “cultural difference” as they emerge from the target text. This thesis adopts an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, in which theoretical understandings from Translation Studies, Italian Studies, studies of the contemporary book market and media culture are integrated. It uses translation as a method to look into the workings of the contemporary book market and, more generally, to shed light on contemporary representations of Italy that circulate in the large mass mediated textual space through the mirror of translation.
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Scheifer, Paola. "A ESCRITA DE SI NA AUTORIA DO ROMANCE A MANTA DO SOLDADO, DE LÍDIA JORGE." UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE PONTA GROSSA, 2012. http://tede2.uepg.br/jspui/handle/prefix/438.
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Previous issue date: 2012-03-28This study has as central theme the self-writing process in authorship of A manta do Soldado (2003), by Lídia Jorge, a Portuguese writer. This novel was first published in 1998 with another title, O vale da paixão, and it presents an author construction as well as she build the narrative we read. Thus, when we analyze how the authorial speech is built we realize the narrator shows her human need to narrate. The first goal of this research is evidence how the Walter’s daughter’s speechis made and this analysis is based on Michel Foucault’s theoretical discussions (1988) which investigate the sacrament of confession as a subjective way resulted by a deep self-examination. The second goal is to realize how is the means narrator disposes to write, trying to study it through Foucault’s theoretical supports (2002): hypomnemata and correspondence. These supports are part of narrator’s writing, considering them as a way of self-reflection. For this, it was punctuated the narrator’s registrations to observe the implication of Walter’s daughter, that is, the way of relation between her and her writing. From this, there’s the desire to build the Walter’s presence, by collected speeches. These registrations reveal the narrator as a subject in so far as they talk about Walter and compose her authorial speech that purpose narratives which are inserted in novel’s architecture, by the narrator. It’s arrived in a conception of how narrator self-constitutes her identity through writing, which places her, by Walter Dias, into narrative center. In an ambiguous speech, the writing revels, like the birds drawn by Walter, a possibility of transcendence, never permanent, achieved through art.
O presente trabalho apresenta como tema central o processo da escrita de si na autoria do romance A manta do soldado(2003), da escritora portuguesa Lídia Jorge. Publicado em 1998, inicialmente sob o título O vale da paixão, o romance apresenta a construção de uma autora, na medida em que ela constrói o seu discurso correspondente à narrativa que lemos. Ao analisar, portanto, o modo como se constrói o discurso autoral erigido no romance, somos levados a perceber uma narradora, que, ao assinar tal discurso, se revela em sua necessidade humana de se narrar. Voltar-se para essa prática humana de se dizer, evidenciando como isso se processa no discurso da filha de Walter, cumpre o primeiro objetivo desse trabalho, que se reporta às contribuições teóricas de Michel Foucault (1988), percebendo no sacramento da confissão um modo de subjetivação decorrente de um profundo exame de si. O segundo objetivo consiste em perceber os meios de que a narradora dispõe para a realização do exercício da escrita de si, buscando pensá-lo a partir de dois suportes abordados por Foucault (2002) para a realização de tal prática: os hypomnemata e a correspondência. Esses suportes, vistos como formas exteriores, através das quais o sujeito se volta em meditação diante daquilo que a leitura e os discursos ouvidos lhe possibilitaram recolher, farão parte do processo de escrita da narradora, analisado e discutido nesse trabalho. Para isso, foram pontuados os registros elaborados pela narradora e por ela apresentados em seu discurso, como forma de observar neles a implicação da filha de Walter, ou seja, o seu modo de se relacionar com aquilo que ela própria colheu. Dessa relação, depreende-se o desejo de construir por meio dos discursos coletados a presença de Walter Dias para si. Tais registros a revelar a narradora como sujeito, na medida em que eles falam de Walter, compõem o seu discurso autoral, para o qual, percorrendo as narrativas que são propostas por cada um deles, pretende-se voltar em atenção, querendo perceber como tais narrativas se inserem na arquitetura do discurso construído pela narradora. Chega-se a uma percepção acerca de como a narradora se constitui identitariamente através de sua escrita que a coloca, através de Walter Dias, no centro do narrável. Num discurso marcado pela ambiguidade, a escrita revela-se, assim como os pássaros desenhados por Walter, como possibilidade de transcendência, nunca permanente, alcançada através da arte.
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Paiani, Flavia Renata Machado. "A escrita da história de moçambique no romance Terra Sonâmbula, de Mia Couto." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-26032013-130057/.
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O romance Terra Sonâmbula, do escritor moçambicano Mia Couto, foi publicado em 1992, ano em que chegava ao fim a guerra que durante dezesseis anos assolou Moçambique. O tempo da narrativa converge para o tempo da escrita, transformando o romance em narrativa alternativa à de cunho historiográfico. Os personagens que representam o povo são reabilitados das margens da história oficial e se tornam protagonistas da pequena história que Mia Couto se propõe a contar por meio do delineamento de certa ideia de africanidade, tradição e identidade nacional. Esta dissertação pretende, pois, analisar essa outra história de Moçambique que o autor escreve. Para tanto, perscruta nos interstícios do texto a relação com o contexto e seus silêncios desde a posição ocupada por Mia Couto na realidade moçambicana até a dinâmica da guerra e seu impacto sobre a população civil. Ao mesmo tempo, perscruta as mudanças e permanências do pós-guerra a fim de relacioná-las com a história a ser escrita em que residiria a esperança do romance.The novel Sleepwalking Land by the Mozambican writer Mia Couto was published in 1992. In the same year, the war that raged Mozambique for sixteen years was coming to an end. The time of the narrative converges to the time of writing, turning the novel into an alternative narrative to historiography. The characters that represent the people are rehabilitated from the margins of official history. They become the actors of the little history, in which Mia Couto delineates certain idea of Africanness, tradition and national identity. Thus, this thesis intends to analyze the other history of Mozambique the author writes. For this, it searches in the interstices of the text the relationship with the context from the position occupied by Mia Couto in the Mozambican reality to the dynamics of war and its impact on the civilian population. At the same time, it searches the changes and continuities of postwar in order to correlate the history to be written (or the story to be told) on which it lays the hope of the novel.
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Busquet, Fabiana de Mattos. "Escrita e identidade feminina no romance L’Enfant de sable de Tahar Ben Jelloun." Niterói, 2017. https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/3704.
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Na Dissertação de Mestrado Escrita e identidade feminina no romance L’Enfant de sable de Tahar Ben Jelloun, estuda-se a metáfora literária como lugar de (re)construção de memórias e identidades culturais. O jogo de (re)construção identitária é analisado através do diálogo entre as múltiplas vozes narrativas que cruzam o romance como forma de reconstituição da “verdadeira” história da personagem central da obra, identificada como Ahmed-Zahra. Na (re)construção das memórias de infância, a personagem Ahmed, protagonista da narrativa, em busca de sua verdadeira identidade, procura conhecer-se, uma vez que, tendo nascido mulher, foi criada como homem. Essa memória é construída e revivida ora pelas páginas escritas do diário de Ahmed, personagem, ora pelas narrativas feitas pelos contadores de histórias que reivindicam para si, cada qual, a verdadeira história da protagonista do romance, fazendo ressoar na obra diversas vozes narrativas que compõem o enredo de L’Enfant de sable. A dupla identidade de gênero é tensionada no confronto das diferentes versões veiculadas pelos diferentes narradores que requerem para si a verdadeira versão da história de vida da protagonista do romance. A construção da identidade da personagem central ganha forma no “entre-lugar” conflituoso e crítico da intertextualização entre as múltiplas vozes narrativas. Na tessitura da trama narrativa desenvolve-se a história do nascimento de uma menina que tem sua verdadeira identidade furtada como forma de proteger a herança familiar e o legado da família. É a partir dessa farsa familiar que se constrói o enredo do romance, uma vez que a busca da identidade de Ahmed-Zahra passa pela busca da verdade sobre si mesma. Como homem, a personagem assume a identidade de Ahmed, imposta pelo pai e, como mulher, identifica-se com o nome de Zahra, que ele/ela mesma escolheu para si. Vivendo assim, “entre dois mundos”, o mundo da Medina, destinado aos homens, e o mundo do oikos, destinado às mulheres, Ahmed-Zahra possui o passaporte que lhe permite transitar por esses dois espaços culturais tão diferentes. O resgate da memória de Ahmed-Zahra, através da escrita, nada mais é que a busca da verdadeira identidade da protagonista que, ao escrever, tenta se descobrir e se inserir como ser na sociedade do Maghreb 1. Para ele/ela separar esses dois mundos é algo impossível, porém,a necessidade de se conhecer e de se fazer conhecida levará a personagem a uma “odisseia” de vida. Nas múltiplas vozes narrativas do romance, insere-se a cultura do Norte da África, onde se destaca a prática da narrativa oral como fonte de preservação da tradição de seu povo. Ao fazer uso da prática narrativa, a personagem revive a tradição de contar histórias como resgate de sua própria identidade
This written Master’s Dissertation "the Female Identity in the novel L’Enfant de sable de Tahar Ben Jelloun," is a study of the literary metaphor as a manner of (re)construction of cultural memories and identities. The play of identity reconstruction is analyzed behind the dialogue of multiple narrative voices which cross the romance as a form of reconstitution of the "true" history/story of the central character of the work, who is identified as AhmedZahra. In the reconstruction of childhood memories, Ahmed, the protagonist of the narrative, in search of his true identity, seeks self-knowledge (because) although having been born a woman, she was raised as a man. This memory is (re)constructed and revived in the pages written in Ahmed's diary, character whose narratives are related by story tellers who relate for themselves with every story the true history of the novel´s protagonist, resulting in various resounding narrative voices which comprise the story of the L’Enfant de sable. The double identity of the gender is tense in its confrontation of different versions by different narrators who utilize the true story of the protagonist. The construction of the identity of the main character takes on a form in a conflicting study “between places “and criticism of the inter-textualization between multiple narrative voices. In the texture of the dramatic narrative there is developed a narrative of the story of the birth of a girl who has her true identity stolen as a way to protect the family inheritance and legacy. Beginning with this familiar farce is constructed the plot of the novel, a true search for identity of Ahmed-Zahra in search of himself. As a man the main character assumes the identity of Ahmed, imposed by his father and as a woman assumes the name of Zahra that he/she himself/herself chooses .Living between two worlds, “the world of Medina, destined to men, and the world of oikos, destined to women,” Ahmed-Zahra thus possesses a “passport” which permits him/her to enter two different cultural spaces. The salvation of memory of Ahmed-Zahra, via the the written word, is nothing more than the search for true identity of the protagonist, to write and try to discover and insert himself/herself into society of Maghreb (northeastern Africa near Morocco). For him/her to separate these two worlds however is impossible. The necessity to know oneself and to make oneself known leads the protagonist to undergo an odyssey of life. 11 In multiple voices narrated in the novel, insert themselves the culture of North Africa, where the importance of the practice of oral narrative revives a tradition to tell stories as a rescue of one´s proper identity
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Hodgson, Eleanor. "Reflections of writing, rewriting, and reading in twelfth-century French literature : a study of Guillaume de Palerne as a self-reflexive romance." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10689/.
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This thesis explores Guillaume de Palerne as a self-reflexive romance in which twelfth-century practices of writing, rewriting, and reading are reflected in the narrative. As a romance excluded from the main corpus of texts analysed in medieval studies, Guillaume suffered from critical neglect throughout much of the twentieth century. However, a recent rise in interest in this work has called for its integration into mainstream scholarship. This study develops this trend by examining the contribution that Guillaume can make to existing knowledge of romance production and reception. Detailed analysis of Guillaume and its main themes is presented alongside discussion of the intertextual rewriting found within the text. Taking a bipartite form divided into four chapters, the first half of the study explores transformation, before moving on to the notions of doubling and correspondence, and finally to recognition. The thesis argues that the ‘intertextual game of romance’ played between poet and audience is reflected in the Guillaume narrative through the stress placed on transformation and recognition. By exploring doubling and correspondence, this analysis also highlights the relationship between transformation and recognition in the narrative, which in turn mirrors the partnership between poet and audience in romance creation. With its primary focus on the text, this study is facilitated by an engagement with theoretical frameworks, particularly of intertextuality, that discuss medieval composition and reception, stemming both from medieval studies and from modern literary theory. The thesis argues for a holistic approach to examining texts such as Guillaume, stressing the importance of simultaneously exploring both the intra- and extra-diegetic spheres of this work. In so doing, it sheds new light on this overlooked text, and argues for acknowledgement of the place held by Guillaume in the development of French romance.
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Finn, Margaret Louise. "Immanent Nature: Environment, Women, and Sacrifice in the Nature Writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, and Sarah Orne Jewett." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/60456.
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There remains in Hawthorne criticism today, despite critical rediscovery of his texts in terms of the public sphere, an echo of denunciation that he did not do the cultural work that his contemporaries did, that he "distrusted" and "punished" women, and that his work is irrelevant to today's young readers. He has been largely neglected, as well, by contemporary environmental critics who have found nature in his texts to be insufficiently mimetic. This ecocritical reading of Hawthorne in conjunction with that of Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Sarah Orne Jewett resolves these critical problems in that he is established as a nature writer, narratively rendering nature observation (sketches) and an environmental agenda (tales and novels) of expiation for maternal wilderness penetration. The all-important work of Hawthorne might then be called ecological, making him highly relevant in today's world. He is relevant in terms of women, as well, as nature unfolds in gendered terms in his works, and he, along with Sedgwick, positions the human female at scenes of primal violence at the heart of New England colonization, which set in motion the devastation of the American wilderness. Hawthorne's female is a corrective presence to which males remain blind. Jewett envisions a post-white-masculine-hegemonic world of female ascendancy, based on female symbiosis with nature, the fruition of Hawthorne and Sedgwick's preferencing of the female. Environmental criticism examines the human-nature relationships and ecological subtexts in literary texts and encompasses a critique of American culture, a gendered understanding of the landscape, an application of geographical discussion of place and of concepts from ecology and conservation biology. It employs a multi-disciplinary perspective and calls for the addition of "worldnature" or "environmentality" to the categories of cultural criticism. This ecocritical approach combines the historical philosophical, deconstructive, and psychoanalytic perspective of Patocka, Lacan, Derrida, and Staten with ecofeminism, integrating matters of geology, ecology, art, nature writing, and quantum mechanical physics.
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Cabral, Andréa Lúcia de Lima. "Os olhos de Marina sou eu: uma abordagem do romance Giroflê, Giroflá de Cosette de Alencar." Centro de Ensino Superior de Juiz de Fora (CES/JF), 2015. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/6526.
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Este estudo propõe uma análise da obra Giroflê, Giroflá da escritora mineira Cosette de Alencar, publicada no ano de 1971. Em um primeiro momento busca-se situar a posição ocupada pela escritora, enquanto mulher, na sociedade. Para tanto, apresenta-se alguns apontamentos sobre a crítica feminina a respeito da produção literária e, em seguida, um mapeamento da produção intelectual feminina das décadas de 1960 e 1970 na cidade de Juiz de Fora. Em um segundo momento busca-se apresentar uma estruturação da narrativa a partir de conceitos presentes em autores como Afrânio Coutinho (1976) e James Wood (2012), definindo os elementos: enredo, tempo, espaço e personagens presentes em Giroflê, Giroflá. Sustentaram este trabalho, dentre outros, teóricos como Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Elisabeth Badinter, Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda, Nelly Richards e Regina Dalcastagnè. A pesquisa foi alimentada com levantamentos bibliográficos partindo de artigos, livros, dissertações e teses relacionadas à escritora Cosette de Alencar e seu romance em análise, bem como consulta ao acervo da família Alencar, devidamente depositado no Museu de Arte Murilo Mendes - MAMM e às crônicas publicadas pela escritora no Diário Mercantil que estão sob a guarda do Arquivo Histórico de Juiz de Fora. Partindo da análise estrutural do romance, assim como do contexto de sua produção e do lugar de enunciação de Cosette de Alencar, pretende-se destacar a importância de sua produção para as literaturas mineira e brasileira, assim como propor vieses de análise de sua obra até então não contemplados.
This study proposes an analysis of Giroflê, Giroflá, work of the writer from Minas Gerais Cosette de Alencar, published in 1971. At first it seeks to situate the position occupied by the writer, as a woman in society. For this end, we present some notes on women's critical about the literary production and then a mapping of female intellectual production of the 1960s and 1970s in the city of Juiz de Fora. In a second step we seek to provide a narrative structure from concepts present in authors like Afrânio Coutinho (1976) and James Wood (2012), defining the elements: plot, time, place and characters present in Giroflê, Giroflá. Supported this work, among others, theorists like Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Elisabeth Badinter, Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda, Nelly Richards and Regina Dalcastagnè. The research was conducted with bibliographical search starting from articles, books, theses and dissertations related to the writer Cosette de Alencar and her novel in question, as well as consulting the Alencar family collection, duly deposited at the Art Museum Murilo Mendes - MAMM and the chronics of the writer published by Diário Mercantil that are in the custody of Juiz de Fora Historical Archives. Starting from the structural analysis of the romance as well as the context of its production and the place of enunciation filled by Cosette de Alencar, is intended to highlight the importance of her production to the literature from Minas Gerais and Brazil, as well as propose different views for analysis of her work not covered so far.
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Coleman, Isaiah. "Someone to Live For, Someone to Die For." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1606991158021014.
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Ryder, Emily Jennifer Hana. "Memory, perception, reception : following the fate of the victims of Italy's anni di piombo through the writing of their children." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7056/.
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This thesis considers some of those who were killed in politically-motivated attacks, often referred to as ‘terrorism’, which took place during Italy’s anni di piombo. Six works written by victims’ children will be used as a lens through which to examine the collective memory and the victims’ place therein. In recent years, there has been a shift in the way that this period of Italian history - the anni di piombo – has been remembered. Where previously the perpetrators of the violence of those years dominated public discourse, in the last decade the principal narrative has become more victim-centred. The biographical works written by victims’ children have inevitably contributed to this change in the memory narrative. The techniques employed in their writing in order to change the existing public image of their fathers will be analysed in this thesis, along with certain themes that recur throughout the six works and broader victim-centred discussion of this period. Analysis begins with a thorough outline of the political and historical context of the anni di piombo, including case studies of two of the most famous victims of this period and a consideration of the written works of some of the former terrorists. Following this preliminary contextualisation, each of the six books and their authors will be studied in detail to provide a foundation for the analysis contained in the final three chapters. The themes examined in the second half of the thesis are second-generation writing, forgiveness and commemoration. Using these themes as a framework, a rigorous investigation of the place that the victims hold in collective memory; the role their children’s writing has played in shaping and maintaining their public image and the longer-term impact that these changes can be seen to have had within a broader societal and political perspective is undertaken. On the basis of this study, it is evident that the victims’ place in the collective memory of the anni di piombo has changed dramatically since that period of violence concluded. The victims’ children have been very significant in enacting this change and their writing has placed them in a position from which they can continue to exert influence and promote a victim-centred approach to history.
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Procknov, Rafaela Cassia. "Uma estética da existência: vida e escritura em Mario Bellatin." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8145/tde-29092014-112523/.
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Esta dissertação propõe uma leitura de Lecciones para una liebre muerta (2005a) e El gran vidrio (2007) do escritor Mario Bellatin. Analisamos tais obras no que diz respeito à reelaboração estética que elas promovem de duas formas narrativas, o romance e a autobiografia. Neste sentido, as noções teóricas do pós-estruturalismo francês, desenvolvidas pelos chamados filósofos da linguagem (Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida e Foucault), como a escritura, o fragmento, o gênero enquanto horizonte de criação artística (não como norma) e a transgressão foram fundamentais para abordar as novas propostas que as referidas obras de Bellatin comportam. O romance e a autobografia propuseram-se, historicamente, a traçar a vida. Aquele ao ambicionar uma forma totalizante que reconstituiria o sentido perdido na existência empírica e esta ao visar ao entendimento de si. Assim, perscrutamos o lugar que o mundo bellatiniano confere ao vivido ao trabalhá-lo nesses gêneros. Nossa hipótese é a de que, ao apostar na exacerbação de alguns recursos formais, tais como: a figuração de si, a abertura a outras linguagens artísticas, a fragmentação do relato e a retomada da própria obra, a literatura bellatiniana desvela um universo singular que tensiona os ideais da modernidade literária, sem romper, em definitivo, com eles. Lecciones para una liebre muerta permitiu-nos colocar a pergunta acerca da existência de uma nova configuração do romance no contexto da contemporaneidade ou da explicitação de sua ineficácia simbólica no presente. Por outra parte, El gran vidrio possibilitou-nos indagar acerca do estatuto do discurso de si num cenário cultural que reconfigurou a noção do sujeitoThis dissertation proposes a reading of Lecciones para una liebre muerta (2005a) and El gran vidrio (2007) written by Mario Bellatin. These works were analyzed concerning the aesthetic reworking they put forward of two narrative features: the novel and the autobiography. In this sense, the theoretical notions of the French post-structuralism, developed by the so called philosophers of language (Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida e Foucault), such as the writing, the fragment, the genre appearing as a guidance for the artistic creation instead of a norm and the transgression were central to approach the new proposals embraced by the aforementioned works of Bellatin. Both the novel and the autobiography have had the purpose, historically, to trace life. The former by ambitioning a totalizing form that would recompose the meaning lost in the empirical existence, and the latter by aiming the understanding of the self. Therefore, it has been explored this place which the bellatinian world has granted to the living by working it within these genres. Our hypothesis is that by waging on the exacerbation of some formal features, such as: the self-figuration, the opening to other artistic languages, the narrative fragmented and the resumption of the work itself, the bellatinian literature uncover an unique universe that tensions the ideals of the literary modernity, without rupturing ultimately with them. Lecciones para una liebre muerta has enabled us to position a question about the existence of a new configuration of the novel inside the context of the contemporaneity or about the explicitation of its symbolic ineffectiveness on the present. On the other hand, El gran vidrio allowed us to enquire the discourse status of the self in a cultural scenery that has reconfigured the notion of the subject
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Navas, Diana. "Figurações da escrita: as estratégias metaficcionais na produção romanesca de António Lobo Antunes." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8150/tde-05112012-125233/.
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Esta tese tem como proposta verificar as diferentes estratégias metaficcionais empregadas por António Lobo Antunes ao longo de sua produção romanesca. Considerando-se que a construção de uma narrativa metaficcional exige dois aspectos importantes o aspecto linguístico e a estrutura narrativa, bem como uma mudança no papel do leitor o presente estudo busca empreender uma leitura da produção romanesca do autor de forma a demonstrar que, se nos romances iniciais a metaficção apresenta-se com a composição da obra sublinhando a sua própria ontologia, expondo a sua construção como entidade específica e até certo ponto autônoma, posteriormente, estende-se ao questionamento das estruturas narrativas e emergência do narrador a assomar na obra como autor, procedimentos esses que implicam mudanças no papel do leitor. Essa possvel leitura , empreendida a partir de três romances: Memória de Elefante (1979), Não entres tão depressa nessa noite escura (2000) e Que cavalos são aqueles que fazem sombra no mar? (2009), títulos esses que dialogar constantemente com as demais obras do autor. Mais do evidenciar o emprego de tais estratégias, buscamos demonstrar como, por meio delas, o autor permite-nos discutir importantes questes da teoria literária, como a concepção de Literatura e Tradição, a confluência dos gêneros literários, bem como o redimensionamento dos papéis assumidos pelo autor e leitor na narrativa contemporânea. O presente estudo visa, também, a demonstrar como, sempre via linguagem, o romance antuniano dialoga com o contexto em que se insere, apontando para um retrato do homem e do mundo contemporâneos.This thesis proposes to verify the different metafictional strategies used by Anto,,nio Lobo Antunes in his novel production. Considering that the construction of a metafictional narrative demands two important aspects the linguistic aspect and narrative structure, as well as a change in the readers role the present study undertakes a reading of the authors novel production in order to demonstrate that, if in the first novels the metafiction presents itself with the work composition emphasizing its own ontology, exposing its construction as specific entity and to a certain extent independent, afterwards it reaches the questioning of the narrative structure and the emergence of the narrator in the novel as an author, procedures which imply changes in the readers role. This possible reading considers three novels: Memória de Elefante (1979), Não entres tão depressa nessa noite escura (2000) and Que cavalos são aqueles que fazem sombra no mar? (2009), titles which dialog with the other pieces of work of the author. More than showing the use of the strategies, its demonstrated as, through them, the author allows us to discuss important issues of the literary theory, such as the conception of Literature and Tradition, the confluence of literary genres, and the redimensionament of the roles assumed by the author and the reader in the contemporary narrative. The present study also aims to demonstrate how, always through the language, Lobo Antuness novel dialogs with the context in which it is inserted, pointing to a portrait of the contemporary man and world.
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Cruz, Clara Angélica Agustina Suárez [UNESP]. "O espaço feminino na escritura de Juana Manuela Gorriti e Martha Mercader." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103687.
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cruz_caas_dr_assis.pdf: 659742 bytes, checksum: 222912ff4eff7dd7b002344a977d6732 (MD5)Neste trabalho, procura-se estudar a escritura feminina de Juana Manuela Gorriti (1818-1892) e de Martha Mercader (1926). Juana Manuela Gorriti é uma das fundadoras da literatura feminina na Argentina e graças à reelaboração poética de suas obras por Mercader é que se pode reavaliar sua contribuição para a criação dessa modalidade narrativa. Nosso propósito é verificar como o espaço feminino vai-se formando ao longo do século XIX, por meio da análise de quatro obras de Juana Manuela Gorriti - Oasis en la vida (1888), Peregrinaciones de una alma triste (1876), Cocina ecléctica (1890) e Lo íntimo (1892). Os três primeiros livros referendam os espaços exteriores enquanto o último revela os espaços interiores, o lado íntimo, narrado de forma autobiográfica pela escritora argentina nascida em Salta. Em seguida, analisamos o romance Juanamanuela mucha mujer, de Martha Mercader (1980), o qual narra a vida de Juana Manuela Gorriti e relê suas obras. Trata-se de uma obra que consideramos como um romance histórico contemporâneo, que recria a trajetória da escritora saltenha no campo ficcional, revelando, para o leitor, aspectos e idéias que estavam implícitos no discurso da romancista do século XIX. Dessa forma, é possível concluir que a conquista do espaço feminino beneficiou-se das colocações e proposições de Juana Manuela Gorriti, as quais alcançaram um posicionamento explícito sobre as questões e o universo feminino no relato de Martha Mercader, obra que reafirma e solidifica as vitórias e avanços femininos iniciados nos século XIX e assegura a existência de uma escritura feminina que, a cada dia, amplia-se e se torna mais abrangente.
In this work we intend to study the feminine writing of Juana Manuela Gorriti (1818-1892) and Martha Mercader (1926). Juana Manuela Gorriti is one of the founders of the feminine literature in Argentina and because of the poetical re-elaboration of her writings done by Mercader is that we can re-evaluate Gorriti's contribution to the creation of this modality of narrative. Our purpose is to verify how the feminine space is built up during the nineteenth century. This is accomplished by us through the anlysis of four books by Juana Manuela Gorriti - Oasis en la vida (1888), Peregrinaciones de una alma triste (1876), Cocina ecléctica (1890) and Lo íntimo (1892). The three first books show to us the exterior spaces while the last one reveals the interior spaces - the private ones -, described in an autobiographical way by the Argentinian writer born in Salta. After that we analyse the novel Juanamanuela mucha mujer (1980), by Martha Mercader, in which she tells the life of Juana Manuela Gorriti and re-reads her writings. This is a book we consider a contemporary historical novel, in which the lifetime of the writer from Salta is recreated in a fiction revealing to the readers aspects and ideas already implicit in the own discourse of this novelist of the nineteenth century. In this way, it is possible to conclude that the conquest of the feminine space benefited itself with the positions and propositions of Juana Manuela Gorriti. It is possible to be said once they reached an explicit position about the questions and the feminine universe in Martha Mercader's narrative, whose book reaffirms and solidifies the feminine victories and advances already begun in the ninenteenth century besides asseverating the existence of a feminine writing which has been amplified and enlarges itself more and more.
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Bednarchuk, Francine Mariê Alves Higashi. "CRÔNICA E AUTOFICÇÃO EM JOSÉ CARLOS OLIVEIRA." UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE PONTA GROSSA, 2017. http://tede2.uepg.br/jspui/handle/prefix/1495.
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Previous issue date: 2017-04-19This dissertation aims at analyzing the novel O pavão desiludido, published in 1972, by José Carlos Oliveira, regarding its autofiction. The novel was published in the writer's maturity, however it is a childhood-themed narrative strongly loaded of a presence of self-writing, which brings it closer to the genre proposed by Serge Doubrovsky (1977). Autofiction, a genre that mixes fiction and autobiography, and which has been increasingly discussed, gains strength in this novel by José Carlos Oliveira, prior to the very concept of the term. For this research, we go through Crônica, a typical Brazilian genre that helped in the formation of our literature, and which was much used by the author from the 1960s until his death in 1986. We also consider the analysis of the writer's intimate diary in order to understand the mirrored selves that constitute his fiction.
Este trabalho/pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar o romance O pavão desiludido, de José Carlos Oliveira, sob o viés da autoficção. O romance foi publicado na maturidade do escritor, porém é uma narrativa sobre a infância carregada de uma forte presença da escrita de si, o que o aproxima do gênero proposto por Serge Doubrovsky (1977). A autoficção, gênero que mescla ficção e autobiografia, e que está sendo cada vez mais discutido na atualidade, ganha força nesse romance de José Carlos Oliveira, anterior ao próprio conceito do termo. Para este estudo, percorremos um caminho pela crônica, gênero que ajudou na formação da nossa literatura, e que foi muito exercido pelo autor desde a década de 1960 até a sua morte, em 1986. Consideramos também a análise do diário íntimo do escritor, a fim de compreender os eus espelhados que constituem a sua ficção.
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Seabra, Margaret Reis Sobral. "Uma escrita contemporânea em tradução - Marguerite Duras: L\'Amant." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8146/tde-11032009-172414/.
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Publicado na França em 1984, o romance L\'Amant de Marguerite Duras foi muito bem recebido pelo público e pela crítica. Com uma tiragem de mais de três milhões de exemplares, L\'Amant obteve o Prêmio Goncourt e foi traduzido para quarenta línguas. No Brasil, a primeira tradução, realizada por Aulyde Soares Rodrigues foi publicada em 1985. Mais de vinte anos depois, em 2007, surgiu uma nova tradução de autoria de Denise Bottmann. Baseada nas análises desses dois textos, esta dissertação propõe-se a caracterizar os comportamentos das tradutoras diante especificidades da escrita durassiana e verificar se os textos produzidos preservam os traços essenciais identificados no texto original. Para orientar as análises e comentários, buscou-se apoio na poética do traduzir de Henri Meschonnic uma teorização que nos permite uma leitura do texto em prosa que, ultrapassando o semântico, atinja por meio do ritmo e da prosódia uma verdadeira poética.Published in France, in 1984, the novel L\'Amant was very welcome both by public and critics. With a three million copies issue, L\'Amant won the Goncourt Prize and was translated to forty languages. In Brazil, the first translation, by Aulyde Soares Rodrigues, was published in 1985. More than twenty years later, in 2007, appeared a new translation, by Denise Bottmann. Based upon the analysis of both texts, this study intends to identify the approach of those translators to the Durasian writing and check if the texts that werw done keep the essential traits of the original text. In order to orientate the analysis and commentaries, was sought basis on poetry of translating, by Henri Meschonnic a theorization that provide us a reading of the text in prose which, passing beyond the semantics, gets by means of rhythm and prosody, to a real poetics.
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Parv, Valerie. "Healing writes : restoring the authorial self through creative practice : and Birthright, a speculative fiction novel." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16646/.
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Writing the speculative fiction novel, Birthright, and this accompanying exegesis, led me to challenge the validity of the disclaimer usually found in the front matter of most novels that the story is purely imaginary, bears no relationship to reality, with the characters not being inspired by anyone known or unknown to the author. For the first time in my career, I began to consider how writers including myself might frequently revisit themes and ideas which resonate with our lived experiences. I call this restorying, an unconscious process whereby aspects of one's life history are rewritten through one's creative work to achieve a more satisfactory result. Through personal contact, studying authors' accounts of their creative practices, and surveying current literature on narrative therapy, a case is made that, far from being generated purely from imagination, writers' creative choices are driven by an unconscious need to restory ourselves.
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Neves, Caroline Resende. "Virginia Woolf e o espaço autobiográfico em Os anos." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2018. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/6784.
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O objetivo da presente dissertação é discutir os pontos de intersecção entre a vida da autora inglesa Virginia Woolf e sua obra ficcional Os anos, assinalando quais experiências foram utilizadas como fonte criativa no espaço autobiográfico ocupado pela obra citada. O livro que se configura como objeto de estudo narra a saga de uma família vitoriana que claramente se assemelha à própria família de Woolf, abrangendo o espaço de tempo de 1880 até os anos 1930, e dessa forma também abarcando as mudanças não só familiares, como também da sociedade inglesa. Com esse propósito, buscou-se inicialmente apresentar a biografia da escritora, seguido de um breve panorama da literatura de autoria feminina e da análise da produção crítica de Woolf, criando um paralelo em relação ao uso das experiências pessoais entre sua teoria e sua prática. Em um segundo momento, discute-se as teorias relacionadas à escrita de si, almejando encontrar uma que possa melhor definir a prática de escrita utilizada em Os anos. Não encontrando um conceito adequado ao objeto de estudo, apresentou-se uma expansão da noção de romance autobiográfico, levando em consideração todas as informações obtidas durante a pesquisa. Por fim, é feita uma análise do livro Os anos, discutindo seu enredo, simbolismos e apresentação das personagens femininas, culminando no cruzamento dos dados biográficos obtidos através de biografias e autobiografias com a história narrada.
The aim of this study is to discuss the connection between the private life of the British writer Virginia Woolf and her fictional work The years, pointing out which of her private experiences were used as a creative source in the autobiographical space present at the aforementioned title. The book, which is the object of this study, tells the story of a Victorian family that clearly resembles Woolf's own family. It is set from 1880 to 1930, thus depicting not only the changes in the families, but also in the British society as a whole. Having this study's purpose as basis, a biography of the writer was firstly presented, followed by a brief women's writing overview and by an analysis of Woolf's literary criticism, establishing a connection between her theory and the practice concerning the usage of private experiences. Secondly, theories on self-writing are discussed, aiming to find one which can define the writing practice used in The years. As a consequence for not finding a suitable concept for the object of this study, an expansion of the idea of autobiographical romance was introduced, taking all the information obtained during the research process into account. Finally, an examination of the book The years was carried out, analyzing its plot, symbolism and female characters, resulting in a cross-check of biographical data - which was obtained from biographies and autobiographies - and the story told.
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Schardong, Rosangela. "Exemplo e desengano: defesa da mulher na obra de María de Zayas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8145/tde-26082009-011212/.
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Esta tese tem a preocupação de examinar as diferenças e similaridades entre as Novelas amorosas y ejemplares (1637) e sua segunda parte, Desengaños amorosos (1647). Também busca elucidar a conexão entre os inflamados discursos que denunciam os constructos culturais que sustentam a superioridade do homem e a inferioridade da mulher e o trágico fim das personagens femininas de Desengaños amorosos. Ainda, analisar como se organiza e apresenta a defesa da mulher, traço marcante das coletâneas, que foi discutida pela crítica do século XX a partir das diretrizes do feminismo. Apoiando-se nos tratados de arte poética vigentes no século XVII, nos tratados de conduta, nas doutrinas filosóficas, políticas e religiosas que norteavam as práticas sociais e as artes do período, esta pesquisa mostra os aspectos que distinguem e, concomitantemente, unem as duas coletâneas. Com este suporte, distingue a função dos discursos de moldura e dos contos, assinalando sua coerência. Além disso, demonstra que a defesa da mulher se expressa por meio do elogio à virtude e o vitupério dos vícios, de acordo com os padrões éticos e religiosos da Contra Reforma, mas também em consonância com as reivindicações das mulheres da Espanha seiscentista. Mediante a análise da moldura e de dois contos de cada coletânea, a tese faz notar a complexa organização estrutural da obra ao indicar como o significado de cada conto se enriquece quando perfilado aos demais de sua coletânea e, sucessivamente, quando se somam Novelas e Desengaños. Tal disposição revela que a obra de Zayas segue um projeto de unidade. Seu cuidadoso planejamento e diligente execução tornam patente que a escritora compete com a invenção de seus contemporâneos, com vistas a granjear a autorização da escrita feminina e o consecutivo ingresso da mulher no círculo dos autores profissionais. Confirmando as freqüentes denúncias de Zayas sobre a depreciação da mulher nas belas letras da primeira metade do século XVII, a tese propõe que a contista faz de sua obra uma réplica ao difundido modelo das pícaras, celestinas e cortesãs. Conseqüentemente, ao representar mulheres que são exemplo de virtude e homens que são motivo de desengano, por causa de seus vícios, a engenhosa autora inverte os paradigmas e incita o leitor a rejeitar a generalizada difamação da mulher, apresentando-lhe persuasivas razões para respeitá-la e dignificá-la.This paper focuses on the examination of the differences and similarities existing in Novelas amorosas y ejemplares (1637) and its second part, Desengaños amorosos (1647). It also tries to illuminate the connection between the heated arguments that denounce the cultural conventions supporting mans superiority, womans inferiority, and the tragic end of the female characters in Desengaños amorosos. Moreover, it analyzes how the defense of the woman is organized and presented, such defense is a remarkable trait of the collections of writings that had been discussed by the 20th. Century critics, bearing in mind the feminist conductress. Supported on the treatises about ars poetica present in the 17th. Century, on the treatises about behavior, on the philosophical, political and religious doctrines that guided the social practices and the arts of such period, this research shows the aspects that distinguish and, at the same time, join both collections. With this support, it highlights the function of the frame speeches and tales, emphasizing its coherence. Besides, it shows that the defense of the woman is expressed by means of praise to virtue and invective against vices, according to the ethical and religious patterns of the Counter-Reformation, but also relating to the 17th. Century Spanish womens demands. By means of the analysis of the frame and of two short novels of each collection, this paper brings to mind the complex structural organization of the work, while showing how the meaning of each short tale is enriched when it is placed alongside the other stories of its collection and successively, when Novelas and Desengaños are added to. Such organization reveals that the works by Zayas follow a project of unit. Her careful planning and attentive execution makes it clear that the writer competes against the invention of her contemporaries, aiming to receive the authorization of the womens writing and the consequent admission of the woman in the circle of professional authors. Confirming Zayas frequent accusation against womens detraction in the belles-lettres of the 17th. Century first half, the thesis proposes that the short-story writer makes up her own work as a response to the widespread model of female picaroons, celestinas (panderesses) and courtesans. As a consequence, when representing women who are examples of virtue and men who are a reason for disillusion because of their faults, the ingenious writer inverts the paradigms and encourages the reader to reject the generalized slander against women, presenting persuasive reasons for respecting and dignifying them.
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James, Ian. "The fictional and theoretical writings of Pierre Klossowski." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1997. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/60453/.
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This thesis gives an extended account of the fictional and theoretical works of writer, essayist and painter Pierre Klossowski. Through a close analysis of the relationship between his essayistic and novelistic writings it considers the way in which Klossowski comes to theorise the nature of the literary artefact as a space of theatre or spectacle and how such a formulation questions received notions of identity and traditional distinctions between the literary and philosophical per se. The first chapter is devoted to Klossowski's writings on Sade. This involves a short account of the articles he wrote in the 193Osbut also a comparison of the 1947 and 1967 editions of his full-length work on Sade entitled Sade mon prochain. This is followed by a discussion of his later reading of Sade its relation to writings on Sade by Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot. Through this the crucial shift in Klossowski's conceptions of the Self and of identity that occurs between his earlier and later writing has been traced. The second chapter looks at Klossowski's writing on and relationship to Nietzsche. This relationship is articulated under the motifs of parody, translation, and myth. The sense of these motifs in relation to Nietzsche's texts is analysed with reference to a number of works by Klossowski (La Vocation suspendue (1950), Nietzsche et Ie cercle yicieux (1969), and Le Bain de Diane (1956)). From this discussion Klossowski' s emphasis on the fortuitous character of the Self and on writing as spectacle has been highlighted. The third and final chapter examines Klossowski's trilogy of novels Les Lois de l'hospitalite, and in particular the figure of Roberte, and concludes by arguing that the truly transgressive force of his writing lies in the way in which it overturns the notion of origin and with that the concept of identity and self-sameness.
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Castro, Andreia Alves Monteiro de. "Amor, desejo e transgressão as cartas de amor na novela camiliana." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2010. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=2013.
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O propósito desta dissertação é analisar as várias funções exercidas pelo discurso epistolar, em especial as cartas de amor, nas novelas camilianas do período de 1860 a 1870, de cujo conjunto destacamos Amor de Perdição (1861), Memórias de Guilherme do Amaral (1863), Agulha em Palheiro (1863) e A Sereia (1865). Nestas obras, as cartas têm presença bastante relevante, ligada à forma e, por conseguinte, à elaboração de conceitos e significados de dimensão social e íntima. Muito em voga à época, as cartas se fazem presentes em outros romances oitocentistas: em Eurico, o Presbítero (de Herculano), Viagens na Minha Terra (de Garrett) e O Primo Basílio (de Eça de Queirós). As cartas trocadas pelos casais enamorados revelam muito mais do que uma história de amor contrariado, que seguiria os moldes da escola romântica. Retratam antes de tudo os anseios pessoais, os conflitos e as tensões sociais do Portugal do século XIX. O discurso epistolar acaba sendo um modo de dar dimensão intimista aos dramas maiores da sociedade. Ao olhar perspicaz, inquieto e, até mesmo, desesperançado de Camilo Castelo Branco, que critica os valores da sociedade na qual está inserido, sem muitas das vezes avistar uma saída possível, as cartas tornam-se um modo de trazer novas vozes ao romance. Assim, Camilo fala pelos narradores, pelos seus personagens em diálogo, mas também por aquilo que naquele mundo não se diz, mas se escreve (nas cartas)The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the several functions exercised by the epistolary discourse, specially the love letters, in the camilian novels in the period of 1860 to 1870, from what collection we point out Amor de Perdição (1861), Memórias de Guilherme do Amaral (1863), Agulha em Palheiro (1863) e A Sereia (1865). In these works, the letters have a very strong presence, linked to the shape and, in consequence, the elaboration of concepts and meanings of social and intimate dimension. Very popular in that time, the letters are present at another eighties romances: at Eurico, o Presbítero (de Herculano), Viagens na Minha Terra (de Garrett) and O Primo Basílio (de Eça de Queirós).The letters changed by the couples in love reveals much more than one annoyed love story which would follow the patterns of the romantic school. They portray before all the personal desires, conflicts and social tensions lived in Portugal of 19th century. The epistolary discourse is a manner of giving an intimate dimension for the main dramas of the society. To the perceptive, anxious and, unhopeful look of Camilo Castelo Branco, that criticizes the values of the society in which he is inserted, many times without seeing a possible solution, the letters become a way to bring new voices to the romance. Therefore, Camilo speaks for the narrators, for his characters in dialogue, but also for what in that world is not said, but it is written (in the letters)
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Dubrov, Andrew. "Rational Enchantment| On the Travel Writings of Cendrars, Leiris and Michaux." Thesis, New York University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10261008.
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In the 19th century, writers like Chateaubriand, Nerval, and Flaubert traveled in search of sublime, exotic transport that still existed (they believed) outside of France. However, this tradition changed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With the advent of a modernity defined by calculated rationalism and progress, many writers began to lament the death of travel as a sublime, writerly experience. To paraphrase Sartre’s Roquentin, they mourned the death or dearth of adventure and enchantment left in the world.
In my dissertation, I read the travel memoirs of three authors who look for ways of overcoming this disenchantment of the world: the futurist and vagabond Blaise Cendrars, the surrealist ethnographer Michel Leiris, and the heteroclite traveler-poet Henri Michaux. I examine how each of these authors develops a particular method of travel that mixes poetic desire with the technological, social, and political realities of the modern world; Cendrars through a fascination with speed and vehicles, Leiris through ethnography, and Michaux through an obsession with ethical practices of self-control. Each author’s method, I show, leads him to form what the critic Michel Deguy calls a poéthique — writing that finds enchantment through reason and engagement with the real world. The title of my dissertation, Rational Enchantment, then, describes this poéthique process. In other words, I show how, through travel, Cendrars, Leiris, and Michaux cultivate representations of enchantment that, in turn, contribute to the re-enchantment the world.
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Walter, Brian Ernest. "Plaatje's African romance: the translation of tragedy in Mhudi and other writings." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002230.
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This study brings together Plaatje’s politicaland literary visions, arguing that the one informs the other. Plaatje’s literary work is used as a starting point for the discussion, and the first chapter explores the relationship of his political and artistic visions. Mhudi is his definitive romance text, and it is argued that Plaatje’s romance visionin this text is reflected in his political thinking, and in turn reflected by it. His romance work was part of a literary romance tradition which Plaatje both drew upon and transformed, and thus the basic features of romance are explored in Chapter Two. Plaatje’s work is situated between two influential romance models, therefore Chapter Two also discusses the romances of Shakespeare, whomPlaatje read as reflectinga non-racial humanism that was translatable into the African context, in terms of political vision and of literary text. His other models were the colonial romances of Haggard. It is argued that, while Plaatje could glean many elements fromHaggardthat suited his purposes as an African, specifically a SouthAfrican, writer, he nevertheless—despite his own pro-British leanings, qualified though they might have been by the complexities of his colonial context—would not have represented Africa and Africans in terms of the exotic other in the way Haggard clearly did. Thus Plaatje, in terms of his romance vision, may have usedmanyofthe themesand techniques of Haggardianromance, but consistently qualified these colonial works by using the more classically shaped Shakespearean romance structure at the deep level of his work. The third chapter examines Haggard’s romance, but differentiates between two Haggardian types, the completed or resolved romance, whichis more classical in its form, and evokes an image of a completed quest, as well as the necessity of the quester entering the world again. Haggard’s “completed” African romance, it is argued, is resolved only in terms of a colonial vision. Chapter Four, by contrast, examines examples of his unresolved African romance, in which African ideals implode, and show themselves to be inneed of foreign intervention. It is argued that Haggard’s image of Africa was based on the unresolved or incomplete romance. His vision of Africa was such that it could not in itself provide the materialfor completed romance. This vision saw intervention as the only option for South Africa. While Plaatje uses elements of Haggard’s “incomplete” romance models when writing Mhudi, he handles both his narrative and politicalcommentaryin this text in terms of his own politicalthought. This non-racial politicalvisionis guided by his belief that virtue and vice are not the monopoly of any colour, a non-racialism he associates with Shakespeare. However, within the context of the South Africa of his fictionand of his life, this non-racial ideal is constantly under threat. It is partly threatened by political forces, but also challenged by moral changes within individuals and societies. In Chapter Five the examination of Plaatje’s work begins withhis Boer War Diary, inwhicha romance structure is sought beneath his diurnal observations and political optimismduring a time of warfare and siege. The discussion of this text is followed by a reading of Native Life in South Africa in which it is argued that Plaatje looks, in the midst of personal and social suffering, for that which can translate a tragic situation into romance resolution. “Translation” is used in a broad sense, echoing Plaatje’s view of the importance of translation for cross-cultural understanding and harmony. The arguments of Chapter Five are extended into Chapter Six, where a reading of Mhudi places emphasis on the possibilities of change implied in romance. Plaatje’s non-racial humanism recognizes the great potential for injustice and human suffering within the context of South African racism, but constantly seeks to translate such suffering into the triumph of romance. While the narrative of Mhudi concludes on a romance peak, tensions between the tragic and romance possibilities alert the reader to the sense that, despite its romance resolution, something has been lost in the translation of the potential tragedy into romance.
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Moura, Milena Martins. "Caio no abismo do paraíso: o gênero romanesco e a ficção autobiográfica em Os dragões não conhecem o paraíso, de Caio Fernando Abreu." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2012. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4186.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorSeguindo a ideia exposta por Caio Fernando Abreu em nota introdutória presente em todas as edições de Os dragões não conhecem o paraíso de que o livro pode ser lido não apenas como um exemplar de contos, mas também como um romance-móbile (ou espatifado) e considerando que, por meio do conhecimento de dados biográficos de um escritor, é possível construir a biografia de um escritor através de sua obra, a presente dissertação busca analisar Os dragões não conhecem o paraíso sob a ótica de uma nova perspectiva de leitura, entendendo o livro como um romance de ficção autobiográfica e formação
Following Caio Fernando Abreus statement about Os dragões não conhecem o paraíso [in english, Dragons] in which the author declares that the aforementioned work may be read not only as a short stories book, but also as a mobile-novel (or crashed) and considering its possible, by the knowledge about a writers biographical data, to build an authors biography through his works, this dissertation intends to analyze Os dragões não conhecem o paraíso from a new reading perspective, which comprehends the book as an autobiographical fiction and formation novel
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Barnes, Russell Clive. "Moral and political values in the writings of Vercors." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1988. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/109857/.
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This thesis explores Vercors's writings, with particular reference to his moral and political attitudes, from 1942 to the present. It includes his clandestine wartime publications, the subsequent development of his theory of human 'rebellion', with its strong ethical connotations, and the various polemical and fictional texts in which, in the post-war period, he expresses support for communist aims and for progressive causes such as anticolonialism. Vercors's chairmanship of the CNE in the mid-1950's is examined through his memoirs as well as through his articles and speeches of the time. After the author's overt withdrawal from fellow-travelling in 1957, his more selective political commitment is traced through the remaining years of the Algerian conflict, while the memoirs and other works of reflection that have appeared in the latter part of his career recapitulate the overall development of his political attitudes and reveal certain changes of view. Vercors's more general theory of human value has, on the other hand, remained constant, and he offers it as a starting- point for better understanding between men of all nations and ideologies. The analysis follows this broad chronological pattern, first in relation to the moral elements, then the political; but there is frequent cross- reference between the two aspects, in keeping with the author's own emphasis on their close interconnection in his outlook. The extent of his combined fictional and non-fictional output is such that three successive chapters are devoted to the exploration of his moral attitudes, then three, similarly, to the political responses. There is also reference, where appropriate, to critical commentary on Vercors's work and to other background sources; and the appendices contain Vercors's direct response to specific questions put to him during the preparation of the present study. This thesis is intended to contribute to the field of modern French studies through its comprehensive coverage of Vercors's writing in two major areas of commitment.
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Grigaitis, Mindaugas. "Diversity of writings in the novels of Bronius Radzevičius, Ričardas Gavelis, Jurgis Kunčinas." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20121214_110746-01516.
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This dissertation, by applying the postulates of 20th century theories (of Mikhail Bakhtin, Northrop Frye, Roland Barthes, and Julia Kristeva) to the prose of Bronius Radzevičius, Ričardas Gavelis, and Jurgis Kunčinas, constructs a new way of reading Lithuanian novels of the last decades of the 20th century. It opens a discussion with the dominant Romantic attitude towards the novel and literary tradition in general, and argues that the selected novels show clear signs implying that the concept of tradition as “the continuing existence of literature” (Viktorija Daujutytė) or “the nation’s defensive wall” (Vytautas Kubilius) is incapable of understanding literature as a diversity of writings. Through the categories of writing and transgredience, an alternative way of reading the abovementioned authors is presented, one that finds the organizing principle of the aesthetic whole within the text—and the practice of writing that created it. This analytical perspective makes it clear that tradition is not a stable, language-external ideological dimension that regulates representation, but a storehouse of diverse writings located within the language itself.Disertacijoje, taikant XX a. literatūros teorijų postulatus (Michailo Bachtino, Northropo Frye‘jaus, Rolando Barthes‘o, Julijos Kristevos) Broniaus Radzevičiaus, Ričardo Gavelio ir Jurgio Kunčino prozai, konstruojamas naujas paskutiniųjų XX a. dešimtmečių lietuvių romanų perskaitymo būdas. Diskutuojant su dominuojančia romantine romano ir literatūros tradicijos apskritai samprata, įrodinėjama, kad pasirinktų autorių romanuose galima įžvelgti aiškių ženklų, kurie suponuoja, jog tradicijos kaip „besitęsiančios literatūros būties“ (Viktorija Daujotytė) ar „tautinės gynybinės sienos“ (Vytautas Kubilius) samprata nėra pajėgi suvokti literatūros kaip rašymų įvairovės. Įvedus rašymo ir transgrediencijos kategorijas, pateikiamas alternatyvus minėtų autorių romanų perskaitymo būdas, kuris estetinę visumą organizuojančio principo ieško pačiame tekste ir jį kuriančioje rašymo praktikoje. Analizuojant romanus iš šios perspektyvos, išryškinama, kad tradicija yra ne stabilūs, kalbai išoriški idėjiniai matmenys, reguliuojantys reprezentaciją, o pačios kalbos viduje įsikūrusi įvairių rašymo būdų saugykla.