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Arantes, Geraldo Noel. „Campos de Carvalho = literatura e deslugar na ficção brasileira do século XX“. [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270338.
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Orientador: Vilma Sant'Anna ArêasTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: A história da literatura é também a história de autores e obras outsiders, ocultadas que estão em plano secundário ou pouco visível. No Brasil, Walter Campos de Carvalho (1916-1998) é um desses autores. Seus livros movimentaram a cena literária brasileira de meados do século XX, principalmente pela oferta de uma dicção polêmica e algo incendiária. Humor, iconoclastia, ateísmo, sexualidade problemática e espírito anarquista consagram-no como uma das vozes mais inquietas da moderna ficção brasileira. Seu espírito contestador mobilizou um fiel público de admiradores - público que o colocou em uma posição que bem poderíamos nomear Cult -, mas também contribuiu para o isolamento que o teria levado a romper com a literatura. Recolhido ao silêncio por mais de trinta anos, o escritor ficou na gangorra que ora o eleva, prometendo-lhe o ressurgimento, ora o despreza fazendo com que volte ao olvido. Neste trabalho, busco novos aspectos do autor e de sua trajetória, explorando textos no geral desconhecidos e rigorosamente preservados de qualquer trabalho de análise. Igualmente procurei ângulos recônditos de obras mais visitadas como A lua vem da Ásia e A Chuva Imóvel, não porque almejasse a crítica do ineditismo, mas simplesmente por não assentir com todas as formas pelas quais o autor é visto e com os estereótipos usualmente ofertados pela crítica que o alcançou
Abstract: The history of literature is also the literary history of outside writers and work, hidden like they are in a second level, lacking visibility. In Brazil, Walter Campos de Carvalho (1916-1998) is one of these writers. His books showed up the Brazilian literary scene in the middle of the 20th century, mainly due to the polemic and some incendiary diction it had to offer. Humor, iconoclasm, atheism, problematic sexuality and anarchist spirit consecrated him like as one of the most outspoken voices of the Brazilian modern fiction. His refutable mind mobilized a faithful public of admirers - such a public that put him in a position we might well call Cult -, but also contributed to the isolation that would lead to a break with the literature. Withdrawn in silence for over thirty years, the writer was in a see-saw that would raise him, promising him resurgence, then despise him making him return to oblivion. In this work I seek new aspects of Campos literature and its history, exploring texts in general unknown and strictly preserved of any analytical work. I also tried recondite angles on two of his more popular books A lua vem da Ásia and A Chuva Imóvel, not because I craved a critique of originality, but simply for not assenting to all the ways in which the author is seen an the stereotypes usually offered by critics that attained him
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Teoria e Critica Literaria
Doutor em Teoria e História Literária
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Rodrigues, Marcos Antonio 1988. „Álvaro Lins : leitor de Graciliano Ramos /“. Assis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/124459.
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Resumo: Álvaro Lins (1912-1970) por meio de sua crítica-jornalística, desenvolveu um trabalho em que, num primeiro momento, se restringiu mais à biografia e à psicologia dos escritores. Mais tarde, ele procura se libertar da tendência de teor impressionista, passando a adotar um caráter científico para a crítica literária. Desse modo, almeja-se nesse trabalho abordá-lo enquanto leitor de Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953); para tanto, tem-se com fulcro de análise os três ensaios escritos sobre ficção do escritor alagoano que estão compilados no posfácio de Vidas Secas (Valores e Misérias das Vidas Secas): I - Graciliano Ramos em termos de construção do romance e arte do estilo; II - As "memórias" do romancista explicam a natureza e a espécie dos seus romances; III - Romances, novelas e contos: visão em bloco de uma obra de ficcionista. Intenta-se assim estabelecer um breve delineamento dos procedimentos temáticos e formais evocados pelo crítico pernambucano sobre a prosa do romancista brasileiro, além de levar em conta que ele foi um dos pioneiros na sua recepção, acompanhado seu percurso, de modo que contribuiu para a sua consagração em nossas letras
Abstract: Álvaro Lins (1912-1970) through his critical-journalistic, developed a work that, in the first moment, was restricted more to the biography and psychology of writers. Later, he tries to break free of Impressionism content trend, adopting a scientific character for book review. Thus, we aim in this work approach it as reader of Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953); to this end, has been with analysis fulcrum three written tests on about fiction of Brazilian writer that are compiled in the afterword of Barren Lives (Values and Miseries of Barren Lives): I - Graciliano Ramos in terms of construction of the novel and style art; II - "Memories" of the novelist explain the nature and kind of his novels; III - Novels, novellas and short stories: vision block of a work of fiction writer. Thus intends to establish a brief outline of the thematic and formal procedures referred by Brazilian reviewer about the prose of the Brazilian novelist, and take into account that he was a pioneer in its reception, accompanied your route so that contributed to their consecration in our literature
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Valle, Diego Gomes do 1984. „João Gilberto Noll e a estética do não-eu“. [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270097.
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Orientador: Maria Eugênia da Gama Alves Boaventura DiasTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Esta tese tem como objeto a obra romanesca de João Gilberto Noll, que é composta de doze romances publicados até o presente momento. A ideia que alimentou nosso ímpeto inicial foi surpreender na heterogeneidade dos diversos romances uma certa unidade que poderia ser o princípio estruturante dos romances de Noll. Correndo o risco de sermos demasiado sistemáticos, empreendemos tal trabalho. Divide-se esta tese em dois momentos distintos e complementares, a saber: primeiramente traçamos, um tanto quanto abstratamente, o que há de constante, o traço comum entre os doze heróis (que, em certo sentido, são o mesmo) que falam nos romances. Destacamos, neste primeiro momento da tese, a importância que a análise temporal teve, fornecendo talvez a chave interpretativa mais importante para se compreender as questões identitárias que os romances em questão evocam. Neste sentido, teóricos como Paul Ricoeur e Jean Pouillon forneceram a base teórica para se estabelecer uma visão substancial do fazer narrativo no tempo. Na segunda parte, cada romance é compulsado de maneira a concretizar os corolários produzidos na primeira parte da tese. Buscamos evitar o périplo teleológico, no qual estaria dado já no início o fim em direção ao qual conduziríamos nossa exposição. Sendo assim, a hipótese que se transformou em tese sustenta que todos estes romances são, na sua essência mesma, dramas identitários nos quais seus heróis deliberadamente buscam o não-ser, aquilo que não são, mas que anelam profunda e angustiadamente. Não se trata de uma carência de ser, mas de uma busca consciente pelos limites do eu diante do não-eu. As análises de cada romance nos permitiram demonstrar sobejamente que esta hipótese se confirma tout court e nos conduzem a reflexões que são de teor filosófico - uma vez que dizem respeito aos nossos dramas existenciais -, às quais buscamos encontrar respectivos filósofos para nos auxiliar
Abstract: This thesis focuses on the novelistic work by João Gilberto Noll, which comprises twelve published novels until the present moment. The idea that nurtured our initial impetus was to come upon, at the diversity of the various novels, a certain unit that could be the structuring principle of the novels by Noll. At the risk of being too systematic, we undertake such work. This thesis is divided into two distinct and complementary moments, namely: first we trace, somewhat abstractly, what is constant, the common thread among the twelve heroes (which, in a sense, are the same) who speak in the novels. In this first moment of the thesis, we emphasize, the importance of the temporal analysis, perhaps providing the most important interpretative key to understand the identity issues that the novels in question evoke. In this sense, theorists such as Paul Ricoeur and Jean Pouillon provided the theoretical basis for establishing a substantial vision of the narrative in time. In the second part, each novel is examined in order to achieve the corollaries produced in the first part of the thesis. We seek to avoid the teleological periplus, in which the end would be already given at the beginning of the way of our exposition. Thus, the hypothesis that turned into thesis argues that all these novels are, in their essence, identity dramas in which their heroes deliberately seek the non-being, what they are not, but what they wish to be deep and anxiously. It is not a lack of being, but it is a percipient search for the limits of the self before the not-self. The analysis of each novel allowed us to widely demonstrate that this hypothesis is confirmed tout court and they lead us to philosophical reflections - once they are related to our existential dramas - to which we seek to find respective philosophers to help us
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Teoria e Critica Literaria
Doutor em Teoria e História Literária
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Schincariol, Marcelo Tadeu. „A arte complexa de ser infeliz = a ficção de Cornelio Penna“. [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269950.
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Orientador: Enid Yatsuda FredericoTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Neste trabalho, apresenta-se uma leitura da ficção de Cornélio Penna que privilegia a articulação entre as dimensões religiosa e social, aproximando assim os dois extremos em que grande parte da crítica tem localizado a obra do autor. Trata-se de um percurso de análise em que a noção de Itabirismo, conforme a concebe Cornélio Penna, ilumina o mergulho do romancista no universo de nossa formação social e cultural, como também o diálogo entre sua ficção e o grande romance católico do início do século XX.
Abstract: The present study consists of an analysis of Cornélio Penna's fiction focusing on the intersection between both religious and social dimensions in his work. In its analytical path, the notion of Itabirismo, conceived by the novelist, highlights his journey into the Brazilian cultural background, as well as the dialogue between his fiction and the Catholic novel from the beginning of the 20th century.
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Literatura Brasileira
Doutor em Teoria e História Literária
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Rodrigues, Marcos Antonio [UNESP]. „Álvaro Lins: leitor de Graciliano Ramos“. Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/124459.
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000834023.pdf: 702167 bytes, checksum: d6bef4a4cc2d9e7e447d70baed312e2f (MD5)Álvaro Lins (1912-1970) por meio de sua crítica-jornalística, desenvolveu um trabalho em que, num primeiro momento, se restringiu mais à biografia e à psicologia dos escritores. Mais tarde, ele procura se libertar da tendência de teor impressionista, passando a adotar um caráter científico para a crítica literária. Desse modo, almeja-se nesse trabalho abordá-lo enquanto leitor de Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953); para tanto, tem-se com fulcro de análise os três ensaios escritos sobre ficção do escritor alagoano que estão compilados no posfácio de Vidas Secas (Valores e Misérias das Vidas Secas): I - Graciliano Ramos em termos de construção do romance e arte do estilo; II - As memórias do romancista explicam a natureza e a espécie dos seus romances; III - Romances, novelas e contos: visão em bloco de uma obra de ficcionista. Intenta-se assim estabelecer um breve delineamento dos procedimentos temáticos e formais evocados pelo crítico pernambucano sobre a prosa do romancista brasileiro, além de levar em conta que ele foi um dos pioneiros na sua recepção, acompanhado seu percurso, de modo que contribuiu para a sua consagração em nossas letras
Álvaro Lins (1912-1970) through his critical-journalistic, developed a work that, in the first moment, was restricted more to the biography and psychology of writers. Later, he tries to break free of Impressionism content trend, adopting a scientific character for book review. Thus, we aim in this work approach it as reader of Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953); to this end, has been with analysis fulcrum three written tests on about fiction of Brazilian writer that are compiled in the afterword of Barren Lives (Values and Miseries of Barren Lives): I - Graciliano Ramos in terms of construction of the novel and style art; II - Memories of the novelist explain the nature and kind of his novels; III - Novels, novellas and short stories: vision block of a work of fiction writer. Thus intends to establish a brief outline of the thematic and formal procedures referred by Brazilian reviewer about the prose of the Brazilian novelist, and take into account that he was a pioneer in its reception, accompanied your route so that contributed to their consecration in our literature
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Soares, Filho Antonio Coutinho. „Cosmogonia profana: uma leitura de O visitante, de Osman Lins“. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2017. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20148.
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In the whole of Brazilian literature, Osman Lins is a name that stands out for the quality and diversity of his production. Novelist, playwright, essayist, among other attributions, the writer has an aesthetic refinement as well as a reflexive posture in face of the cultural, social and political obstacles of the country. The osmanianos studies often highlight the author's romanesque experiments in his so-called maturity phase. Not exclusively, the prior creation to this period still lacks major critical exams, such as the novel debut, The Visitor (1955) corpus of this research. Besides the interesting textual warp, this work presents a humble fortune review, which gives rise to this work. It should be added that on several occasions the writer affirms that the cosmogonical attitude along with the preoccupations with the national ills and the reflection on the creative process, guide his life and the literary work. That said, one wonders how this worldview is presented in The Visitor. Taking into account the traced interdiscurssive of the narrative and the novelist’s social-critcism and point of view. The proposed analysis considers the mythological, biblical, and liturgical inscriptions as well as the development of his story in the plot. In the face of it, there’s a hypothesis is that Lins, in a subversive modulation brings to the scene elements of the Eden myth and Christian liturgy but he also highlights the contradictions of a society that privileges appearances, victimizing the woman mainly. In the theoretical-critical articulation a review of the analytical itinerary of the corpus is done, with the help of Nitrini (1987, 2001, 2003, 2004), Andrade (2001, 2004, 2014) and Ribeiro (2016), among others. The concepts of threshold — Benjamin (1987), Gagnebin (2010); Devices and profanation, according to Agamben (2009, 2010, respectively), also guide this research. The theoretical-critical complete this framework itself, brings reflections on the poetic–myth creation according to the thinking of Mielietinski (1987), Eliade (2010), Perrone-Moisés (1998), Benjamin (2013), Derrida (2005) and Bastazin (2006). The methodological course, starting from the narrative structure and the critical fortune of the work, examines the aesthetic inversions operationalized by osmanian writing. The visitor, Osman Lins' first creative gesture despite his myth-poetic features presents through an introspective plot a sharp vision of the manipulation game that sustains the society, a principle that distorts the essence of the being and search to conceal the contradictory nature of power
No conjunto da literatura brasileira, Osman Lins é um nome que se destaca pela qualidade e pela diversidade de sua produção. Romancista, dramaturgo, ensaísta, dentre outras atribuições, o escritor possui um requinte estético bem como uma postura reflexiva em face dos entraves culturais, sociais e políticos do país. Os estudos osmanianos, com frequência, destacam os experimentos romanescos do autor em sua chamada fase de maturidade. Não exclusivamente, a criação anterior a esse período ainda carece de maiores exames críticos, a exemplo do romance de estreia, O visitante (1955), corpus desta pesquisa. Além da interessante urdidura textual, essa obra apresenta uma fortuna crítica modesta, o que enseja este trabalho. Acrescente-se que, em várias ocasiões, o escritor afirma que a atitude cosmogônica, aliada às preocupações com as mazelas nacionais e à reflexão sobre o processo criativo, orientam sua vida e o ofício literário. Isso posto, pergunta-se como essa cosmovisão se presentifica em O visitante. Levando em conta o traçado interdiscursivo da narrativa e a postura crítico-social do romancista, a análise proposta considera as inscrições mitológicas, bíblicas e litúrgicas, bem como seus desdobramentos escriturais no enredo. Diante disso, a hipótese é que Lins, numa modulação subversiva, traz à cena elementos do mito edênico e da liturgia cristã, como também expõe as contradições de uma sociedade que privilegia as aparências, vitimando, principalmente, a mulher. Na articulação crítico-teórica, faz-se uma revisão do itinerário analítico do corpus, ao que se conta com o auxílio de Nitrini (1987; 2001; 2003; 2004), Andrade (2001; 2004; 2014) e Ribeiro (2014), dentre outros. Os conceitos de limiar — Benjamin (1987), Gagnebin (2010); dispositivos e profanação, segundo Agamben (2009; 2010, respectivamente), também orientam a pesquisa. Completam o quadro teórico-crítico da mesma, as reflexões em torno da criação mito-poética conforme o pensamento de Mielietinski (1987), Eliade (2010), Perrone-Moisés (1998), Benjamin (2013), Derrida (2005) e Bastazin (2006). O percurso metodológico, partindo da estrutura narrativa e da fortuna crítica da obra, examina as inversões estéticas operacionalizadas pela escritura osmaniana. Portanto, O visitante, primeiro gesto criativo de Osman Lins, não obstante seus traços mito-poéticos, apresenta, por meio de uma trama introspectiva, uma arguta visão do jogo de manipulação que sustenta a sociedade, princípio que desvirtua a essência do ser e busca ocultar a natureza contraditória do poder
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Kay, Barbara J. Goodsell. „Conflictual representations : North American representations of war in the 20th century /“. Thesis, [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13762096.
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Gardam, Sarah Christine. „THE PATHOS OF TEMPORALITY IN MID-20TH CENTURY ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION“. Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/487648.
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Lack of understanding regarding the role that temporality-pathos plays in Asian American literature leads scholars to misread many textual passages as deviations from the implied authors’ political critiques. This dissertation invites scholars to recognize temporality-focused passages in Younghill Kang’s East Goes West, Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart, and John Okada’s No-No Boy, as part of a pathos formula developed by avant-garde Asian American writers to resist systemic alienations experienced by Asian Americans by diagnosing and treating America’s empathy gap. I find that each of pathae examined – the pathos of finitude, the pathos of idealism, and the pathos of confusion – appears in each of the major primary texts discussed, and that these pathae not only invite similitude-based empathy from a wide readership, but also prompt, via multiple methods, the expansion of empathy. First, the authors use these pathae diagnostically: the pathos of finitude makes visible American imperialism’s destruction of prior ways of life; the pathos of idealism exposes the falsity of the futures promised by liberalism; and the pathos of confusion counters the destructive nationalisms that fractured the era. Second, the authors use these temporality pathae to identify the instrumentalist reasoning underlying these capitalist ideologies and to show how they stunt American empathy. Third, the authors deploy formal and thematic complexities that cultivate empathy-generating faculties of mind and cultivate alternative forms of reasoning.
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Sabatini, Sandra. „Making babies, representations of the infant in 20th century Canadian fiction“. Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ60564.pdf.
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Mbatsha, Thembisa. „A critical analysis of the screen adaptation of Saule’s Unyana womntu“. Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1018674.
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This research will concentrate on various aspects of the screen adaptation of “Unyana womntu” (Saule, 1989). This study comprises of six chapters. In Chapter 1 of this study, the research aims and objectives are formulated. The research methods that are to be followed will involve a thorough reading of the written text, as well as a comprehensive repetitive viewing of all the episodes of the screen version. In the final part of Chapter 1, background information is provided on the personal life of the author as well as on his contributions to the African literary tradition. Background information on the production of the screen version is also provided. In the Chapter 2, the theoretical aspects of the phenomenon of literary adaptation are discussed. This discussion provides a framework for the analysis of the adaptation of “Unyana womntu” (Saule, 1989) in the remaining chapters of this study. The aim of this chapter is to identify and discuss the most important principles which come into play when the written text is adapted into a screen production. Since the screen production belongs to the genre of the performing arts, this chapter is introduced with a discussion on the performing arts and on the drama, in particular. The section will be concluded with a discussion on the different sub-types of the drama which can be found, including the screen production. The main emphasis is on an analysis of the basic features and principles of the drama in screen format. Since the screen play Unyana Womntu (1998) is based upon a novel by the same title, the literary features of the novel are to be discussed here as well. The specific features of the Xhosa novel will also receive attention.
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阮佩儀 und Pui-yee Yuen. „A study of the Art of Mu Shiying's fiction“. Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31222134.
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Murphy, Carl. „One in heart : the marriage metaphor in nineteenth-century English-Canadian fiction“. Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39340.
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The marriage of English and French in nineteenth-century English-Canadian fiction is a trope reflecting anglophone nationalism and the anglophone desire for identity in a united nation.The marriage metaphor can be understood within the conservative, idealistic context of nineteenth-century Anglo-Canadian intellectual history.
This study examines marriage imagery in a number of novels--most of them historical romances--published between 1824 and 1899.
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Bell, Pamela. „Art that never was : representations of the artist in twentieth-century Australian fiction“. Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7310.
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This thesis traces the development of the artist figure as a leading character in twentieth-century Australian novels. In Australia there have always been complex interconnections between the worlds of art and literature, perhaps the most obvious being the cluster of artists and writers centred on the journal Vision, co-edited by Norman Lindsay’s son Jack with Kenneth Slessor, who was heavily influenced by Lindsay. Slessor’s poem “Five Bells”, an elegy for his artist friend Joe Lynch, later became the subject of a mural painted for Sydney Opera House by John Olsen. Although this and other connections between poetry and art are of interest, this thesis concentrates on fiction only.
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Wagenaar, Peter Simon. „The shadowed corners of sunlit ruins: Gothic elements in twentieth century children's adventure fiction“. Thesis, Rhodes University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002293.
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This thesis examines the way in which children's adventure fiction makes use of Gothic features, how these features have been modified for a younger audience and how these modifications have been influenced by other developments in children's and popular fiction: Chapter One sets out to define the nature of Gothic and isolate those aspects of it relevant to the proposed study. It puts forward a theory to account for the movement of Gothic trends into later children's fiction. Chapter Two examines the use of landscape, setting and atmospheric effects in Gothic and the way in which children's fiction has used similar trappings to create similar effects. Children's fiction, emphasising pleasurable excitement rather than fear has, however, muted these effects somewhat and played down the role of the supernatural, so intrinsic to Gothic. Chapter Three emphasises the Gothic's use of stereotypes, focusing on the portrayal of heroes and heroines. Those of children's fiction are portrayed very similarly to those of Gothic and the chapter compares and, on occasion, contrasts them noting, inter alia, their adherence to rigid moral codes and narrowly defined norms of masculine and feminine behaviour. Chapter Four looks at the portrayal of villains and the way in which their appearance defines them as such (as, indeed, does that of heroes and heroines). It examines in some detail their relationship to and interaction with the heroes and heroines, noting, for example, the 'pseudo-parental' role of villains who are characteristically older and in socially approved positions to exert power over heroes and heroines. The Conclusion addresses the fantasy aspect of these novels,referred to several times in passing in the course of earlier chapters, and comments on how the features detailed in Chapters Two, Three and Four all operate within the conventions of a fantasy.
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李仕芬 und Shi-fan Lee. „The male characters in the fiction of contemporary Taiwanese women writers“. Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31235979.
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Pinson, Guillaume 1973. „Fiction du monde : analyse littéraire et médiatique de la mondanité, 1885-1914“. Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102151.
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This work proposes a double analysis of the mundane society representations between 1885 and 1914, in the press and the novel. This analysis separates these two categories of media to insist on their particularities, and tries to think of them in terms of an interaction.A first part explores the organisation of the topics and the main genre of the mundane society in the press, applying the social discourse theory. The analysis is based on the perusal of a set of representative daily newspapers (Le Gaulois, Le Figaro) and of weekly and monthly publications (Le Grand monde, La Vie parisienne, Femina notably, as well as around thirty other titles). It shows that the mundane society in the newspaper is constrained by a poetics stemming from the characteristics of press writing: collective writing, periodicity of the publication, text length limitation and reference to reality. Some texts are tempted by fiction, even though they keep a reality-based referential, whereas other texts that are openly fictitious, fit the mundane fiction into the newspaper.
The second part is based on the general conclusion of the first part: the mundane society in the newspaper is a represented society, made of for a distant and anonymous public. With the advent of the medias in the 19th century, the mundane society has entered into the era of mediations and "industrial writing". Some writers, from Bourget to Proust, take these upheavals into account and present the mundane society as a metaphor of the mass media society. This is done following three main axes: the temptation of withdrawal of the fiction into a closed world (psychological and mundane movement impulsed by Goncourt with Cherie, prolonged by Bourget and Hervieux notably); the games of exchange between the novel and the newspaper (Maupassant, Toulet, Legrand, amongst others); and finally, the isolation of the mundane world and the aesthetic work on mediations (Rolland, Colette, Mirbeau, Lorrain et Gide notably). All these writings address the question of sociability at the era of the triumph of mediations: what room is left for the mundane society, for direct encounter, for exchange, in a world of mediation and mass media coverage? for immediate connections in a society of mediated ties? The epilogue proposes a journalistic reading of A la recherche du temps perdu, synthesis-work which inaugurates a modern and sociological perception: it is in the world of the imagined mundane society, distant and represented in the mass media, that the narrator draws the resources for his observation of the world.
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Kocela, Christopher. „Fetishism as historical practice in postmodern American fiction“. Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38213.
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This study contends that postmodern American fiction dramatizes an important shift of philosophical perspective on the fetish in keeping with recent theories of fetishism as a cultural practice. This shift is defined by the refusal to accept the traditional Western condemnation of the fetishist as primitive or perverse, and by the effort to affirm more productive uses for fetishism as a theoretical concept spanning the disciplines of psychoanalysis, Marxian social theory, and anthropology. Analyzing the depiction of fetishistic practices in selected contemporary American novels, the dissertation utilizes fetish theory in order to clarify the unique textual and historiographic features of postmodernist fiction. It also emphasizes the way in which conventional ideas about history and teleology are necessarily challenged by an affirmative orientation toward the fetish. Part One of the dissertation, comprising the first two chapters, traces the lineage of Western thinking about fetishism from Hegel, Marx, and Freud to Derrida, Baudrillard, and Jameson, among others. Recognizing that traditional theories attribute the symbolic power of the fetish to its mystification of historical origins, Part One posits that poststructuralist and postmodernist contributions to the subject enable, but do not develop, an alternative concept of fetishism as a practice with constructive historical potential. Part Two of the study seeks to develop this historical potential with reference to prominent descriptive models of postmodernist fiction, and through close readings of five contemporary American authors: Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, Robert Coover, John Hawkes, and Don DeLillo. The four chapters of Part Two each examine the fictional representation of fetishism within a different theoretical framework, focusing on, respectively: temporality and objectivity in postmodern fiction theory; the interrelation between psychoanalytic theory and female fetishism in novels by Pynchon and Acker
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Hutchison, Lorna. „Strategies of the grotesque in Canadian fiction“. Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100627.
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In this study of narration, feminist theory, and grotesque Canadian fiction, my aim is to provide a narrative model with which to read characters portrayed as both female and monstrous in a way that criticism on the grotesque does not. I provide two systems for the methodology of this study: via negativa, a well-established philosophical system of definition by negation, which shows the strength of the grotesque to represent a subject that is inherently paradoxical; and a narrative model called the "middle voice," which I developed to examine narratives that confuse or render ambiguous the identity of subjects. Through these distinct but complementary frameworks I illustrate a literary phenomenon in fiction of the grotesque: that authors develop and reveal the subjectivity of characters by confounding identities.Although I provide a concise definition of the term "grotesque," my focus is on feminist theoretical approaches to the grotesque. However, whereas feminist theory on the grotesque examines the binary opposition of woman to man, this study shows that the grotesque bypasses the "male/female" dichotomy in the representation of fictional characters. Instead, the sustained contradiction of the central opposition "woman/monster" works to undermine the notion of fictional characterization.
Specifically, this study focuses on the grotesque as a narrative strategy and examines the use of the grotesque in the portrayal of female narrators. The prevalence of female grotesque characters in recent Canadian fiction combined with the rapid growth of interest in the critical concept of the "female grotesque" requires a theoretical analysis of the literature.
In the fiction I examine by Canadian authors Margaret Atwood, Lynn Coady, Barbara Gowdy, Alice Munro, and Miriam Toews, narrators are contradictory. As subjects, they have doubled identities. Authors situate identity ("subjectivity") in the realm of paradox, rather than in the realm of clarity and resolution. As a result, readers and critics must rely on ambiguity and subversion as guides when posing the ultimately irresolvable question "who is speaking?" Through analysis of this fiction, then, I argue for nothing short of a new conceptualization of subjectivity.
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Kwan, Wing-ki Koren, und 關詠琪. „Experiments in subjectivity: a study of postmodern science fiction“. Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3681250X.
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程雲峰 und Wan-fung Ching. „The images of peasants in modern Chinese fiction“. Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31209166.
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Elbaum, Henry. „Rhetoric and fiction : interaction of verbal genres in the Soviet literature of the twenties and thirties“. Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75698.
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Soviet literature of the twenties and thirties is examined in the present study in its relationship to other verbal genres, primarily, the speeches of Party leaders, newspaper rhetoric and political posters. The first four chapters of the dissertation focus on such topics as the reception of Marxist-Leninist discourse by peasants and workers as well as its representation in fiction; the refraction of official discursive formulas in characters' speech and the dialogization of Party rhetoric; the integration of political documents into fiction and their structural function. Particular attention is paid to the way the contamination of Party rhetoric by substandard language and its contextual defamiliarization lead, depending on the overall authorial intention, either to a parodic subversion of official cliches or to the internalization of didactic discourse and the enhancement of its communicative effectiveness.The theme of industrialization is examined in the last two chapters of the thesis in its dialectic interaction with various Neo-Rousseauist conceptions, which either reflect the authors' own ambivalence about socialist construction, or constitute a rhetorical device used in order to reinforce dialogically industrialist ideology.
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Stead, Katrina M. „From cowlike commitment, good Lord deliver us : narrative strategies in 20th-century English-Canadian fiction written by women“. Thesis, University of Reading, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284313.
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Langston, Jessica. „Writing herself in : mother fiction and the female Künstlerroman“. Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79957.
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This project examines the 'mother-writer problem' within contemporary Canadian fiction by women. Using three novels that tell the story of a mother who is also a writer, Margaret Laurence's The Diviners, Audrey Thomas' Intertidal Life and Carol Shields' Unless, I will outline the manner in which the roles of mother and writer are negotiated by the authors and their central characters. Further, I will investigate how creating a narrative about a female artist who is also a mother challenges and changes the structure and content of the standard female kunstlerroman. Finally, this thesis will attempt to determine how or if such challenges and changes improve the portrait-of-the-female-artist novel.
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Hill, Colin. „The modern-realist movement in English-Canadian fiction, 1919-1950“. Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=19471.
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This dissertation offers the first comprehensive examination of realism in English-Canadian fiction of the early twentieth century. It argues for the existence of a "modern-realist" movement that is Canada's unique and unacknowledged contribution to the collection of international movements that makes up literary modernism. This argument involves a detailed analysis of the aesthetics, aims, preoccupations, and techniques of the modern realists, a reexamination of the oeuvres of the movement's most prominent writers, and a critical reevaluation of the "modernity" of Canada's three most significant realist sub-genres—prairie realism, urban realism, and social realism. This study also provides a literary-historical overview of the movement as a whole, which begins with the inauguration of the Canadian Bookman in 1919, and concludes with the emergence of a contemporary Canadian fiction in the 1950s. The conclusions arrived at in this work are based upon a reading of dozens of novels and works of short fiction, many of them unpublished and/or critically neglected and forgotten. The findings in this study are also based on original research into archival materials from seven institutions across Canada.
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Kong, Wai-ping Judy, und 江偉萍. „Gender and sexuality in modern Shanghai: Chinese fiction of the early twentieth century“. Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31245432.
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Duggan, Lucy. „Reading the city : Prague in Czech and Czech-German narrative fiction since 1989“. Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3827cf9c-fa91-4fb5-aa7e-8942de885729.
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In the course of its history, Prague has been the site of many significant cultural confrontations and conversations. From the medieval chronicle of Cosmas to the work of contemporary writers, the city has taken shape in literature as a multivalent space where identities are constructed and questioned. The evolution of Prague's literary significance has taken place in an intercultural context: both Czech-speaking and German-speaking writers have engaged with the city and its past, and their texts have interacted with each other. The city has played a central part in many collective narratives in which myth, history and literature intertwine. Looking at contemporary prose fiction written in both Czech and German, this thesis explores continuities and contrasts in the literary roles played by Prague. It analyses two German-speaking emigrant authors, Libuše Moníková (1945-1998) and Jan Faktor (1951- ), viewing them alongside three Czech writers, Jáchym Topol (1962- ), Daniela Hodrová (1946- ), and Michal Ajvaz (1949- ). Through close readings of eight texts, the thesis approaches the imagined city from four angles. It discusses how contemporary authors portray the search for meaning in the city by imagining Prague as two contrasting realms (the 'real' city and the 'other' city), how the discontinuities of the city are reflected by the fragmentation of the authorial stance, how these authors assemble new Prague myths from the vestiges of older topoi, and how they confront the contradictory urges to uphold the boundaries of the city and to transgress them. In post-1989 Prague, authors explore the unstable spaces between continuity and discontinuity, constructing an authorial ethos in these areas of tension.
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Strecker, Geralyn. „Reading prostitution in American fiction, 1893-1917“. Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1213148.
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Many American novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries discuss prostitution. Some works like Reginald Wright Kauffman's The House of Bondage, (1910) exaggerate the threat of "white slavery," but others like David Graham Phillips's Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (1917) more honestly depict the harsh conditions which caused many women to prostitute themselves for survival. Contemporary critical interpretations of novels addressed in this dissertation began before major shifts in women's roles in the workplace, before trends towards family planning, before women could respectably live on their own, and especially before women won the right to vote. Yet, a century of progress later, this vestigal criticism still influences our study of these texts.Relying on primary source materials such as prostitute autobiographies and vice commission reports, I compare fictional representations of prostitution to historical data, focusing on the prostitute's voice and her position in society. I examine actual prostitutes' life stories to dispel the misconception that prostitution was always a lower-class business. My chapters are ordered in regards to the prominence of the prostitute characters' voices: in Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) the heroine seldom speaks for herself; in two Socialist novels--Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) and Estelle Baker's The Rose Door (1911)--prostitutes debate low wages, political corruption, and organized vice; and in Phillips's Susan Lenox, the title character is almost always allowed to speak for herself, and readers can see what she is thinking as well as doing. As my chapters progress, I demonstrate how the fictions become more like the prostitutes' own autobiographies, with self-reliant women telling their stories without shame or remorse. My conclusion, "Revamping `Fallen Women' Pedagogy for Teaching American Literature," suggests how social history and textual scholarship of specific "fallen women" novels should affect our teaching of these texts.Department of English
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McFaden, Gwen M. „Fending off feminization : erecting gender/ed boundaries and preserving masculinity in 1930s British fiction“. Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1247890.
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Adverse economic and social conditions during the 1930s prompted fears that Britain and its populace were becoming feminized. Mass unemployment, the collapse of the older forms of masculinist industry, and the sudden expansion of London's consumer culture were three major events that contributed to perceptions of declining masculinity and rampant feminization. Unemployment, it was feared, transformed muscular, self-reliant laborers into emasculate, dependent idlers. The demise of industry (coal mining, ship building, and iron/steel working) turned symbolic garrisons of imperial strength and power into derelict wastelands. London's consumerism in the form of cheap goods and escapist entertainment was thought to pacify and enfeeble the (male) inhabitants. These three pivotal events fueled apprehensions about the breakdown in traditional, patriarchal structures and heightened sensitivities to and furthered the use of masculine/feminine dichotomies within public discourse.The aim of my dissertation is to explore the ways in which complex networks of gender anxieties resonate in 1930s British fiction through the establishment and erosion of rhetorical gender/ed boundaries. Although fears regarding the political landscape, social unrest, and war were instrumental in shaping the literary responses of the decade, those fears were also informed by and articulated through a gender-conscious rhetoric. Emasculation imagery worked in concert with the complementary feminization imagery to capture the popular imagination. Apprehensions about women's potential to disrupt traditional boundaries (sexualized women, i.e. women taking men's jobs) merged with generalized fears of the feminine (constructed Woman, i.e. an undefined fear femaleness), and both were inscribed with the power to disrupt, threaten, and subsume. These "discourses of gender and gendered discourses," to adopt Lyn Pykett's phrase, played an integral part in shaping how the 1930s populace interpreted their rapidly changing world. By promoting gender to the center of my interpretive paradigm, I aim to identify how representations of the private realm interact with and contribute to the public/political narrative thrusts.Department of English
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Kwong, Tsz Ching. „The archived future : North American apocalyptic fiction and the ambiguous construction of the present“. HKBU Institutional Repository, 2013. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1514.
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Behin, Bahram. „Aspects of the role of language in creating the literary effect : implications for the reading of Australian prose fiction /“. Title page, contents and abstract only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phb419.pdf.
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Madi, S'Bongile Emmily. „Ukuvezwa kwabalingiswa kumanoveli wesiZulu amane ka 1990“. Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52596.
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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2001.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This work investigates characterisation in four modern Zulu novels. The objective of the study is to examine whether or not there is development in the portrayal of characters in recently published Zulu novels. The study is prompted by the view that a high number of novels in African languages have inadequate portrayal of characters (Zulu 1998). Focus has been placed on the following four Zulu novels: Izibiba Ziyeqana, Asikho Ndawo 8akithi, Isidleke Samanqe, and Itshwele Lempangele. The novels were published between 1995 and 1998 and all have won literary prizes in recognition of their high literary qualities. It has been found in the study that the way characters are portrayed in the four novels shows some signs of development. All the chief characters are 'round' in the sense that they change and adapt to changes and circumstances. Even though there are serious problems, the characters are seen to be fighting like ordinary human beings to better their lives. It is also found in the study that antagonists in some novels are round characters. It is concluded that this study identifies positive properties about the development of characterisation in the Zulu novel of the late 1990's.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek karakterisering in vier moderne Zulu novelles. Die hoofdoelstelling van die studie is om vas te stel of daar 'n ontwikkeling in die voorstelling van karakters in onlangs-gepubliseerde Zulu novelles is. Die studie is gemotiveer deur die siening wat bestaan dat 'n groot aantal novelles in Afrikatale 'n onvoldoende voorstelling van karakters toon (Zulu, 1998). Die fokus van die studie val op die volgende vier Zulu novelles: Izibiba Ziyeqana, Asikho Ndawo Bakithi, Isidleke Samanqe en Itshwele Lempangele. Hierdie novelles is gepubliseer tussen 1995 en 1998 en het almal literere pryse gewen ter erkenning van hulle uitstaande letterkundige meriete. Die studie het bevind dat die wyse waarop die karakters voorgestel is in al vier novelles verskeie tekens van ontwikkeling ten opsigte van die Zulu letterkunde toon. AI die hoofkarakters is "rond" in die sin dat hulle verander en aanpas na gelang van veranderinge en omstandighede. Selfs onder ernstige omstandighede, veg die karakters soos gewone mense om hulle lewens te verbeter. Daar is ook in die studie bevind dat die antagoniste in sommige novelies ronde karakters is. Die studie identifiseer positiewe kenmerke t.o.v. die ontwikkeling van karakterisering in die Zulu novelle in die laat 1990's.
IQOQO Lomsebenzi ubhekane nokuvezwa kwabalingiswa emanovelini amane wesiZulu. Kubhekwe amanoveli amasha ngenjongo yokuthola ukuthi ngabe kukhona yini ukuthuthuka ngokuvezwa kwabalingiswa. Okwaziwayo okwamanje wukuthi ukuvezwa kwabalingiswa emanovelini amaningi wabomdabu kusezingeni eliphansi (Zulu 1998), yingakho-ke lomsebenzi ubuzama ukuthola ukuthi ngabe luyabonakala yini loguquko Iwemqubekela phambili. Kukhethwelamanoveli alandelayo: Izibiba Ziyeqana, Asikho Ndawo Bakithi Isidleke Samanqe, kanye ne-Itshwele Lempangele lapho kucubungulwa loshintsho lokuvezwa kwabalingiswa ngababhali bemnyaka yabo 1990. Lamanoveli angawoshicilelo olusuka ku-1995 ukuya ku-1998. Kuye kwakhethwa lamanoveli ngoba azuze imiklomelo yokuthi abhalwe ngezinga eliphezulu. Okutholwe kulomsebenzi ukuthi ukuvezwa kwabalingiswa yilababhali balamanovela kubonisa impumela phambili. Bonke abalingiswa abaphambili batholakala beyizindilinga. Umlingiswa nomlingiswa lapho ehlangabezana nezingqinamba uyaguquguquka azifune ebuhleni ngempilo yakhe. Nanoma kunobunzima sibathola ngasosonke isikhathi balwisana nabo bazama izindlela ezizobasa empumelelweni. Kutholakale futhi ukuthi bonke labalingiswaabangabaphikisi (antagonists)babonakala bakhula. Lomsebenzi uphethwa ngokuthi ziyabonakala zrmpewu zokukhula nokuthuthuka ekuvezweni kwabalingiswa emanovelini wesiZulu wababhali bango1990.
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Brazil, Kevin. „The work of art in postwar fiction, 1945-2001“. Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f8102451-09cf-4f92-8e6e-e7c1ced2641c.
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'The Work of Art in Postwar Fiction 1945-2001' explores the responses of postwar novelists to visual art by focusing on the work of Samuel Beckett, William Gaddis, John Berger and W.G. Sebald. In doing so, it opens up a new approach to understanding the relationship between fiction and art in the postwar period as a whole, for what distinguishes these writers is that they use an engagement with visual art in order to historicize their own work as distinctly 'postwar' fiction. This thesis shows that in the writings of these novelists, long running aesthetic issues in the study of the relationship between text and image are reformulated and transformed: medium specificity; ekphrasis; and visual representation as a model for literary realism. Drawing throughout on original archival research, The Work of Art in Postwar Fiction 1945-2001 traces what T.J. Clark terms the 'processes of conversion and relation' between art, its contexts and its commentators, and it is by studying these mediations that the literary consequences of the work of art for these writers are shown. With a historicizing approach throughout, and an interest in the ways in which postwar novelists mediate their engagement with art through history, this thesis contributes to a new understanding of the literature and art of the postwar era, or what Amy Hungerford has called 'the period formerly known as contemporary'. This thesis offers a revisionary account of a relationship previously subsumed under the dominant logic of postmodernism, which according to Fredric Jameson was defined by a 'waning of historicity'. In returning historicity as method and theme to the study of the relationship between literature and art since 1945, The Work of Art in Postwar Fiction 1945-2001 shows the diverse ways in which postwar writers historicized their writing, and reflected on their techniques, in dialogue with visual art. Concerning itself with the distinct challenges posed by focusing on what Hannah Ardent called the 'most recent' past, this thesis also develops new ways of thinking more broadly about the relationships between literature, art and history. Chapter 1, 'Reviewing Postwar Fiction', situates this thesis within recent debates in literary studies surrounding what Mark McGurl has termed a discipline-wide 'hegemony of history'. Chapter 2, on Samuel Beckett, argues that Beckett's postwar art criticism responds to a specific strand of Marxist humanist aesthetics developed after the war, and it studies Beckett's manuscripts to show the relationship between this criticism and the composition of The Unnamable. Chapter 3 discusses William Gaddis's 1955 novel The Recognitions, arguing that the novel pivots around some of the central cruxes of postwar American aesthetic debate: Clement Greenberg's theory of abstraction, and Michael Fried's identification of the problem of 'art and objecthood'. Chapter 4 discusses the work of the British art critic and novelist, John Berger. It shows that Berger's critical account of Cubism shaped the narrative forms of his novels A Painter of Our Time and G., and that these narrative innovations were central to his theory of the artistic and revolutionary 'moment'. Chapter 5 focuses on the relationship between photography, painting and aesthetics in the work of W. G. Sebald. It argues that aesthetic concepts such as 'the readymade' and 'objective chance' offer a better account of Sebald's engagement with art than accounts which draw on trauma theory. The thesis concludes with a short discussion of how the writers studied in this thesis have influenced the contemporary fiction of Jonathan Franzen, Teju Cole, and Tom McCarthy.
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Boettcher, Anna Margarete. „Through Women's Eyes: Contemporary Women's Fiction about the Old West“. PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4966.
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The myth of the West is still very much alive in contemporary America. Lately, there has been a resurgence of new Western movies, TV series, and fiction. Until recently the West has been the exclusive domain of the quintessential masculine man. Women characters have featured only in the margins of the Western hero's tale. Contemporary Western fiction by women, however, offers new perspectives. Women's writing about the Old and New West introduces strong female protagonists and gives voice to characters that are muted or ignored by traditional Western literature and history. Western scholarship has largely been polarized by two approaches. First, the myth and symbol school of Turner, Smith, and followers celebrated American exceptionalism and rugged male individualism on the Western frontier. Second, the reaction against these theories draws attention to the West's legacy of racism, sexism and violence. The purpose of the present study is to collapse these theoretical fences and open a dialogue between conflicting theoretical positions and contemporay Western fiction. Molly Gloss's 1989 The Jump-Off Creek and Karen Joy Fowler's 1991 Sarah Canary selfcritically re-write the Old West. This study has attempted to explore the following questions: How can one re-write history in the context of a postmodern culture? How can "woman," the quintessential "Other" escape a modernist history (and thus avoid charges of essentialism) when she has not been in this history to begin with? In this study I analyze how these two contemporary feminist authors, Molly Gloss, and Karen Joy Fowler, face the dual challenge of writing themselves into a history that has traditionally excluded them, while at the same time deconstructing this very historical concept of the West. Fowler's and Gloss's use of diverse narrative strategies to upset a monolithic concept of history-- emphasizing the importance of multiple stories of the Old West-- is discussed in detail.
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Pu, Fangzhu, und 濮方竹. „A critical study of Chi Li's urban fiction“. Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4961812X.
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The dissertation attempted to study the urban fiction of Chi Li (1957- ) through a detail analysis of her texts. Being one of the leaders of Chinese New Realism, Chi Li always tried to write about the real life and living conditions of urban people, which actually expressed her understanding and interpretation of city. This thesis would like to discuss the images of cities in Chi Li’s writings, her feelings on urbanization, and also try to evaluate her contribution to the evolution of contemporary Chinese urban fiction.
The thesis consisted of five chapters. Chapter one clarified the basic concepts of urban literature and reviewed the development of Chinese urban fiction. Besides, previous research works on Chi Li were briefly introduced.
The second chapter studied the urban-rural relations in Chi Li’s textual depiction. City and countryside, bearing two different characteristics of social life and culture, had met and influenced each other in a large scale twice after
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Lin, Lidan. „The Rhetoric of Posthumanism in Four Twentieth-Century International Novels“. Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278990/.
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The dissertation traces the trope of the incomplete character in four twentieth-century cosmopolitan novels that reflect European colonialism in a global context. I argue that, by creating characters sharply aware of the insufficiency of the Self and thus constantly seeking the constitutive participation of the Other, the four authors E. M. Forster, Samuel Beckett, J. M. Coetzee, and Congwen Shen all dramatize the incomplete character as an agent of postcolonial resistance to Western humanism that, tending to enforce the divide between the Self and the Other, provided the epistemological basis for the emergence of European colonialism. For example, Fielding's good-willed aspiration to forge cross-cultural friendship in A Passage to India; Murphy's dogged search for recognition of his Irish identity in Murphy; Susan's unfailing compassion to restore Friday's lost speech in Foe; and Changshun Teng, the Chinese orange-grower's warm-hearted generosity toward his customers in Long River--all these textual occasions dramatize the incomplete character's anxiety over the Other's rejection that will impair the fullness of his or her being, rendering it solitary and empty. I relate this anxiety to the theory of "posthumanism" advanced by such thinkers as Marx, Bakhtin, Sartre, and Lacan; in their texts the humanist view of the individual as an autonomous constitution has undergone a transformation marked by the emphasis on locating selfhood not in the insular and static Self but in the mutable middle space connecting the Self and the Other.
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Waage, Fred. „The Birth Spoon“. Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. http://amzn.com/1939289572.
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This mystery is set in the early 1980s and based on actual events. A high-school student unearths dark and deadly secrets of his Appalachian community. The explosive consequences forever mark his own life, his family's, and his town's.https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1009/thumbnail.jpg
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Heuschele, Margaret, und n/a. „The Construction of Youth in Australian Young Adult Literature 1980-2000“. University of Canberra. Creative Communication, 2007. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20081029.171132.
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Adolescence is an incredibly complex period of life. During this time young people are searching for and wanting to create their own unique identity, however being confronted with a plethora of roles and directions is challenging and confusing. These challenges are reflected in the vast array of young adult literature being presented to young people today. As a result young adult literature has the potential to function as scaffolding to assist teenagers in the struggles of adolescence by serving as an important source of information about the world and the people in it. Teenage novels also give young people the opportunity to try on different identities and vicariously experience consequences of actions while developing their own distinctive personality and character.
As this study reveals, the Australian young adult novel has undergone considerable developments, with 1989 serving as a milestone year in which writers and publishers turned in new directions. In general, Australian young adult novels have changed from books set predominately in rural areas, incorporating major themes of child abuse, death, friendship and survival with introverted characters aged between twelve and sixteen in the early 1980s to novels with urban settings, a large increase in books about crime, dating, drugs and mental health and sexually active, extroverted characters aged between fourteen and eighteen in the late 1990s.
To chart the progression of these changes and gain an understanding of the messages young adults receive from adolescent novels an evaluative framework was developed. The framework consists of two main sections. The first part applies to the work as a whole,
obtaining data about the novel such as plot, style, setting, temporal context, use of humour,
issues within the text and ending, while the second part collects information about character demographics including gender, age, occupational status, family type, sexual orientation, relationships with family and authority figures, personality traits and outlook for character. To qualitatively and quantitatively assess the construction of youth in Australian young adult literature a random selection of 20 per cent of Australian young adult books published in each year from 1980 to 2000 were analysed using the evaluative framework, with 186 novels being studied altogether.
During the 1990s in particular, Australian young adult literature was heavily criticised for being too bleak, too dark, presenting a picture of life that was all gloom and doom. This research resoundingly dismisses this argument by showing that rather than being a negative influence on the lives of young people, Australian books for young people present a comprehensive portrayal of youth. They probe the entire gamut of teenage experiences, both the good and the bad, providing a wide range of scenarios, roles, relationships and characters for young people to explore. Therefore Australian young adult literature provides an important source of information and support for the psycho-social development of young people during the formative years of adolescence.
This research is significant because it gives hard evidence to support the promotion of a representative selection of Australian young adult novels both in the classroom and in home, school and public libraries. By establishing the available range of contemporary Australian young adult literature through this study, young adult readers, teachers and librarians can be confident in the knowledge that appropriate titles are accessible which meet the needs and interests of young people. Consequently, the substantial amount of data gathered from this
study will considerably add to the knowledge and understanding ofAustralian young adult novels to date and provide an excellent starting point for further research in the future.
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Ravi, Vidya. „From virgin land to hinterland : place and dwelling in American fiction, 1951-1995“. Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648366.
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Hill, Geoffrey Burt. „'A breeding-ground of authors' : South East Asia in British fiction, 1945-1960“. Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708370.
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Mastag, Horst Dieter. „The transformations of Job in modern German literature“. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30647.
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In modern times German authors have made ample use of the Job-theme. The study examines the transformations that the story of Job has undergone in German narrative and dramatic works from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Der neue Hiob (1878) to Fritz Zorn's Mars (1977).
The most striking feature of these works lies in their diverse characterization of the Job-figure. As a mythical figure he remains synonymous with the sufferer, but he may be characterized as patient or impatient, humble or arrogant, innocent or guilty, rich or poor, courageous or cowardly; he may be a Jew or a Christian, a Nazi or an anti-Nazi, a believer or an agnostic.
The authors have retained most of the characters included in the Old Testament story. The Job-figure usually has a wife (who doubts and despises God), a number of children (who die in an impending disaster), and several friends (who accuse him of wrong-doing). Concerning the plot, most writers have excluded any prologue in heaven. The suffering of the Job-figure (usually brought on by the loss of loved ones, by physical pain and by mental agony) is always central to the story. More often than not, however, the modern Job-figure exhibits a form of impatience and impiety once misfortune has struck. A theophany (literal confrontation with God) does not occur, but a divine agent may be provided in the form of a dream or a vision, or indirectly by nature. An epilogue (the restoration of Job's health, possessions and children) is usually omitted, but some authors imply a renewal of Job, so as to suggest a purpose for and a hope after his arduous trials.Arts, Faculty of
Central Eastern Northern European Studies, Department of
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Polley, Jason S. „Acts of justice : risk and representation in contemporary American fiction“. Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102824.
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Spectacles of justice preoccupy contemporary American culture. Legal culture---including the Watergate trials, the Lewinsky scandal, and OJ Simpson's trial for alleged murder---assumes a central place in the American imaginary. Configurations of the law are not limited to media reportage and televised docudramas. Nor are arbitrations confined to law faculties and the spaces of formal courts. Working through depictions of due process in different ways and in different zones, contemporary American writers point up the prevalence of legality in everyday life. Whether on college campuses, in TV studios and suburban homes, or at theatres and racetracks, justice mediates interpersonal relations. Personal narratives proliferate as modes of self-justification. Everyone has a right to represent her side of a story. As interpretations of reality, however, none of these stories can claim absolute justness. No one has a monopoly on the law or victimhood.This dissertation inspects how Jonathan Franzen, Don DeLillo, and Jane Smiley present the inconsistencies of the law. These American novelists emplot global escapes into their work as a means to inform notions of liberty and jurisprudence. For these writers, freedom requires the recognition of contradictory---and unanticipated---narratives. "Justice Theory" emerges where media, gambling, performance, and suburban studies intersect with ethics, globalism, and narratology. In Franzen's novel The Corrections and essay collection How to Be Alone, self-validation requires the appreciation of the stories of others. In DeLillo's later works, particularly the plays The Day Room and Valparaiso, justice materializes in terms of isolation and the will to alter personal stories. For Smiley, as construed in her long novels The Greenlanders and Horse Heaven, dynamic responsive actions attend risky, unpredictable encounters in competitive milieus like the racetrack. These authors reveal that executions of justice and the perpetration of injustice involve varied consequences. The law is not only about punishment and recompense. Rather, legality directs the consequences of its applications toward the ideal of justice, which evolves alongside the subjects that it serves and the stories that they relate.
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Endicott, David. „Spectacular fictions : the Cold War and the making of historical knowledge“. Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1117103.
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The Cold War can be considered the final grand narrative of modernity because of its deterministic influence on the making of knowledge in twentieth-century America. Likewise, Cold War events and the power of their individual narratives and images (their petits recits) created the needed condition for the advent of the age of spectacle. The Cold War existed in this state of contradiction: the final grand narrative and the first postmodern spectacle. Examples of the literature of the Cold War period, what I have labelled the literature of spectacle, serve to both elucidate the social conditions of the age of spectacle and their relationship to our media society. Spectacular fictions also provide a means of examining the postmodern concept of historiographic fictionalization. Don DeLillo's Libra' presents a Lee Harvey Oswald who manipulates the traces of his life to blur the image that he knows must enter the historical record. The Richard Nixon of Robert Coover's The Public Burning evolves to an intense consciousness of the contradictions of historiography that is realized only after he is brutally molested by Uncle Sam for the entire nation to witness, a rape that both strips Nixon of any remaining masculinity and thrusts him forward into America's Cold War history as the dark shadow of his future presidency looms throughout the novel. In The Book of Daniel, E.L. Doctorow's Daniel Isaacson attempts to counteract historiography (and the narrative of his infamous parents, the Rosenbergesque Paul and Rochelle) by writing his own story, telling his history as he feels it relates to the American experience of the Cold War. Daniel's self-history differs from Oswald's selfnarratization because Oswald's text is intentionally fabricated, while Daniel realizes that his narrative is a fabrication of the nation's history. Likewise, the characterization of Nixon differs from that of Oswald, though both are inspired by their actual historical counterparts. While the Nixon of the 1970s greatly shapes the Nixon of the novel, the historical Lee Harvey Oswald remains an enigma of America's recent past, perpetually residing in the margins of unknowability. From this space of marginalization, DeLillo's Oswald emerges.Department of English
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Trainin, Sarah Jean. „The rise of mass culture theory and its effect on golden age detective fiction“. CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2255.
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Little, Michael Robert. „Novel affirmations: defending literary culture in the fiction of David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Richard Powers“. Diss., Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/366.
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This dissertation studies the fictional and non-fictional responses of David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, and Richard Powers to their felt anxieties about the vitality of literature in contemporary culture. The intangible nature of literature's social value marks the literary as an uneasy, contested, and defensive cultural site. At the same time, the significance of any given cultural artifact or medium, such as television, film, radio, or fiction, is in a continual state of flux. Within that broad context I examine some of the cultural institutions competing with literature for public attention, as well as some of the cultural developments impacting the availability of public attention for literary concerns. With Wallace, I study his efforts in fiction and essays to establish an anti-ironic mode of literary rebellion, in opposition to the culturally pervasive tone of self-protective irony modeled by television. Franzen opens discussion about the transience of cultural authority, a situation in which the imprimatur of the academy, for instance, confers a cultural significance different in kind but not degree from the imprimatur of a popular televised book club. My study of Franzen in particular demonstrates the impact of proliferating sites of cultural authority, addressing the emergence of middlebrow culture and audiences from contested space to authoritative cultural arbiter. The chapter on Franzen also examines the increasing role of corporate interests in the production of cultural artifacts with an eye toward their financial viability more than their cultural impact. And finally, my study of Powers focuses on the animosity between the sciences and the humanities. Powers produces fiction that serves as an indispensable tool for communicating between disparate and otherwise isolated disciplines, and for helping those specialized fields synthesize their information with others.
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Russell, Noel Ray. „Authorial Subversion of the First-Person Narrator in Twentieth-Century American Fiction“. Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501035/.
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American writers of narrative fiction frequently manipulate the words of their narrators in order to convey a significance of which the author and the reader are aware but the narrator is not. By causing the narrator to reveal information unwittingly, the author develops covert themes that are antithetical to those espoused by the narrator. Particularly subject to such subversion is the first-person narrator whose "I" is not to be interpreted as the voice of the author. This study examines how and why the first-person narrator is subverted in four works of twentieth-century American fiction: J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to , and Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus
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Kisawadkorn, Kriengsak. „American Grotesque from Nineteenth Century to Modernism: the Latter's Acceptance of the Exceptional“. Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278030/.
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This dissertation explores a history of the grotesque and its meaning in art and literature along with those of its related term, the arabesque, since their co-existence, specifically in literature, is later treated by a well-known nineteenth-century American writer in Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque- Theories or views of the grotesque (used in literature), both in Europe and America, belong to twelve theorists of different eras, ranging from the sixteenth century to the present period, especially Modernism (approximately from 1910 to 1945)--Rabelais, Hegel, Scott, Wright, Hugo, Symonds, Ruskin, Santayana, Kayser, Bakhtin, (William Van) O'Connor, and Spiegel. My study examines the grotesque in American literature, as treated by both nineteenth-century writers--Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, and, significantly, by modernist writers--Anderson, West, and Steinbeck in Northern (or non-Southern) literature; Faulkner, McCullers, and (Flannery) O'Connor in Southern literature. I survey several novels and short stories of these American writers for their grotesqueries in characterization and episodes. The grotesque, as treated by these earlier American writers is often despised, feared, or mistrusted by other characters, but is the opposite in modernist fiction.
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Thoday, Heather Frances. „Lived spaces of representation : thirdspace and Janette Turner Hospital's political praxis of postmodernism /“. Title page, abstract and table of contents only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09pht449.pdf.
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Leister, Lori, und University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. „Closing the circle: A novel with critical commentary“. Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1998, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/355.
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There are two parts to this thesis: a novel, Closing
the Circle, and a critical commentary on the process of
writing a novel from beginning to end.
The novel tells the story of Natasha, a young, late
twentieth century woman who searches for her "roots." It
begins in southern Alberta and she eventually travels to
Eastern Europe where she uncovers the voices in her dreams
and from the past. It deals with the metaphysical question
of a collective unconscious that houses past symbols
pertinent to her search as well as the question as to the
validity of dreams and memory in human life.
The critical commentary addresses issues involved in
writing a fiction vis a vis structure and other literary
devices. It also addresses questions that come with taking
personal familial historical events and writing them into
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Wright, Charlotte M. „Plain and Ugly Janes: the Rise of the Ugly Woman in Contemporary American Fiction“. Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278032/.
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Women characters in American literature of the nineteenth century form an overwhelmingly lovely group, but a search through some of the overlooked works reveals a thin but discernible thread of plain, even homely, heroines. Most of these fall into the stereotypical "old maid" category, and, like their real-life counterparts, these "undesirable" women are considered failures, even if they have money or satisfying careers, because they do not have boyfriends, husbands, or children. During the twentieth century, the old maid figure develops into someone not just homely, but downright ugly; in addition, the number of these characters increases, especially in the latter half of the century. In many works written since the 1960s, the woman's ugliness is such an intrinsic part of the story that it could not take place if she were beautiful. In subtle ways, these "ugly woman" stories begin to question the overwhelming value placed on beauty, to question the narrow definition of beauty in American society as a whole, and to suggest that the price for such a "blessing" might indeed be too high. Rather than settling for being a mere "heroine"—which still carries feminine connotations of passive behavior and second-class status—the ugly woman's increase in power over her own life and the lives of others, allows her to achieve a status more in keeping with the more "masculine" and active role of hero.
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Gasiorek, Andrew B. P. (Andrew Boguslaw Peter). „A crisis of metanarratives : realism and innovation in the contemporary English novel“. Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74280.
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Critics of the English novel, arguing that it is underpinned by liberalism, frequently claim that the crisis of realism disclosed in the work of many contemporary writers derives from a concomitant crisis of liberalism. Liberalism's dissolution is thus seen to prefigure the death of the novel. This dissertation contends that realism cannot be equated with liberalism and that the contemporary crisis of representation signals a broader crisis of metanarratives.Focussing on selected novels of five post-war English novelists--B. S. Johnson, Doris Lessing, John Berger, Iris Murdoch, and Angus Wilson--I argue that their different responses to the crisis of representation show that it is not a crisis of liberalism alone. Johnson rejects realism for epistemological reasons; Lessing and Berger question it on political grounds; Murdoch and Wilson combine its strengths with a self-reflexive awareness of its weaknesses. I suggest that Murdoch's and Wilson's novels, which argue that fiction does not reflect reality but endows it with meaning and which are at once representational and metafictional, offer the most fruitful ways of acknowledging the crisis of representation while refusing to be paralyzed by it.