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Rosler, Julia. "Acting the part : gender and performance in contemporary plays by women." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2399.
Full textBerry, Robert James. "Conrad and Dostoevsky : an unsuspected brotherhood." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2015.
Full textAriturk, Nur Nilgun. "An Iris in the sun : perception-reception-perception in Iris Murdoch's novels of the good." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1970.
Full textCunningham, Thomas Robert. "The continuity of Wittgenstein's critical meta-philosophy." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1055.
Full textIngram, Douglas Nairn. "The ambiguity of Qohelet : a study of the ambiguous nature of the language, syntax and structure of the Masoretic text of Qohelet." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2589.
Full textAlsamaan, Moyassar. "The fiction of William Golding : a study in contradictions." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/12550.
Full textWatters, Erika. "From major to minor : paradigms of literary value and the case of Dorothy Parker." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61166.
Full textGrance, Heather Anne. "Style and the Art of Chaim Soutine: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Geography in the Critical Reception and Historiography." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5324/.
Full textMassie, Eric. "Stevenson, Conrad and the proto-modernist novel." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21610.
Full textGraham, Angus Alastair. "The German Melibeus and other vernacular versions of the works of Albertano da Brescia." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21549.
Full textMsiska, Hangson Burnett Kazinga. "Gendered subjectivity : a study of gender ideology in contemporary African popular literature." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24392.
Full textRoy, Alain 1965. "Guy de Maupassant : l'engendrement du romanesque." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39988.
Full textMaupassant's six novels mark various stages in this trajectory. The primal novel Une vie establishes the problematics of the maternal dominion. In Bel-Ami can be seen the formation of the matrix of identity, which coincides with the emergence of the son-subject. The two central novels, Mont-Oriol and Pierre et Jean, illustrate the traumatic experience of paternity and filiation; the latter novel shows the relinquishment of narcissistic defense mechanism. Subsequently, in Fort comme la mort, the repressed narcissistic wound can be analysed. With the final novel, Notre coeur, the son-subject achieves the father position, thus escaping the madness associated with the double-bind of the ambivalent mother.
Previous criticism devoted to the works of Guy de Maupassant has focussed on the thematic obsession of paternity and filiation. This thesis sets out to demonstrate that this obsession is also the very principle driving the engenderment of the novel.
Quesnel, Caroline. "Folie et raison chez Guy de Maupassant; suivi, de Propriété privée." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60556.
Full textThis critique is followed by a creative work. The story focuses on a recluse who prefers the company of objects to that of people. He is, however, subjected to frequent visits from his "family of fools".
Russell, Carole. "Into Faulkner through a concept of landscape." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/11844.
Full textChristodoulides, Nephie J. "Out of the cradle endlessly rocking : Sylvia Plath as mother-creator in light of Julia Kristeva's theory of subject formation." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3467.
Full textMcavoy, Meghan. "Critical nationalism : Scottish literary culture since 1989." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/23242.
Full textAdair, Vance. "The Shakespearean object : psychoanalysis, subjectivity and the gaze." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1857.
Full textFowler, David Alan. "The later work of Jean Ricardou." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/193.
Full textFotheringham, John McGowan. "Ernst Toller : from Einheitsfront to Volksfront : the development of Toller's political ideology (1919-1939)." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3550.
Full textIafelice, Maria-Carmela. "The concept of reality as seen through the works of Antonio Pizzuto /." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=72084.
Full textHockley, Luke James. "Detecting the myth : an application of C.G. Jung's analytical psychology to film analysis." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2149.
Full textSneddon, Andrew John. "Discourses of race, place and nationalism in the writing of Neil M. Gunn." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/367.
Full textChristoffersen, Rikke. "Narrative strategies in the novels of Erich Maria Remarque : a focus on perspective." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/197.
Full textDavis, Robert. "The origin, evolution, and function of the myth of the white goddess in the writings of Robert Graves." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2265.
Full text魏麗雯. "余華小說創作轉型研究 =Study on the transformation of Yu Hua's fictions." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3953863.
Full textLincoln, Lissa. "Le juste chez Camus /." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38224.
Full textThrough the theme of "le juste", or more specifically the question of how we know what is just, Camus challenges this idea of literature and the act of writing. By exposing the mechanisms of self-justification underlying all universal values (and hence of all transcendental "truths" upon which they are necessarily based) the writer reveals them to be social and discursive constructs which permit and perpetuate the imposition of norms in a given domaine, including that of literature. This study proposes to examine Camus' rapport with this element of self-justification in literature, and the ways in which he calls the latter into question.
Godon, Patrick. "Attitudes to war in the writings of Albert Camus, 1939-1944." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63148.
Full text胡雅坤. "跨文化背景下的衝突與融合 : 福克納對當代中國作家影響的倫理敍事研究." Thesis, University of Macau, 2010. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2150847.
Full textIsmé, Jean-Joseph J. "La figure du juste chez Camus /." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63797.
Full textSieben, Ingolf. "A conflict of perception : medical aspects of German First World War literature : the presentation of the medical professions and of medical conditions in contemporary and Weimar prose relating to the First World War." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2189.
Full textGreenhalgh, Kenneth. "On reading narcissistic texts : an object relations theory view of the life and works of Soren Kierkegaard." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1057.
Full textHickey, Sean. "The Vichy regime and its National Revolution in the political writings of Robert Brasillach, Marcel Déat, Jacques Doriot, and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61117.
Full textVigneault, Louise 1965. "La question identitaire dans l'art moderne québécois /." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36725.
Full textZipp, Collin. "A theoretical exploration of the transformative properties of experience." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Art, 2011, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3243.
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Mott, Elizabeth J. "In search of a question : interrogating the '/' [slash] within discourses of inclusion." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/6508.
Full textBoucher, Marie-Violaine. "Monde, demi-monde, maisons closes : la comédie sociale chez Maupassant." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ29483.pdf.
Full textO'Donnell, Stuart. "The author and the shepherd : the paratextual self-representations of James Hogg (1807-1835)." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/12940.
Full textTruter, Victoria Zea. "Dreamscape and death : an analysis of three contemporary novels and a film." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012976.
Full textCalderón, Jorge. "Configurations aporétiques, fiction de l'histoire et historicité de la fiction : Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus et Jean-Paul Sartre." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85134.
Full textOn one hand I consider literature as an object which can be described by the methodologies of history. On the other hand I suggest an analysis of the historicity of the text that is constituted by the dynamic system generated by the interaction, the interdependence, and the correlation of the poetic and aesthetic parameters and the factors of the historical context. My aim is to set off the poetic and aesthetic mecanism of stability and of transformation of literary creation according to the dynamic relation between the vector of the project associated to realism and the one of the prototype associated to the novel. I think that late modernism produces paradoxical configurations of the novel because it is the period in which the project of realism becomes lapsed and the prototype of the realist novel becomes dilapidated.
Among the works that are exemplary of the tension between fiction and history and between project and prototype in the framework of the representation of reality and of the inscription of history in novels, I identified Albert Camus' La Peste, Simone de Beauvoir's Les Mandarins and Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Chemins de la liberte . I conclude that the enterprise of committed literature was an aporias because it was generated from the impoverishment of the project of realism and the obsolescence of the prototype of the novel. Later literature was extricated, firstly, by the radically and extremely metafictional writing of the Nouveau Roman and, secondly, it was changed by postmodern historiographic metafiction. The crisis of history and of the writing of history was solved by works in which there is the acknowledgement and the use of sophisticated mediations to evoke and inscribe history in different ways.
Cohen, Hella Bloom. "Private Affections: Miscegenation and the Literary Imagination in Israel-Palestine." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500171/.
Full textBlain, Jenny. "Deconstructing Martin Boyd : homosocial desire and the transgressive aesthetic." University of Sydney, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2760.
Full textFollowing on the proposition that the history of Western thought is importantly constituted by a discourse of male-male pedagogic or pederastic relations stretching in narrative form, according to Allan Bloom, from the Phaedrus to Death in Venice, the deconstructive project of reading 'against the visible grain' has been mobilised in the interests of interrogating and unsettling what can only be defined as homophobic misreadings of Martin Boyd. Critical discursive practice, by the near-uniform imposition of a tacit censorship, has refused by means of erasure, silence and repression to reflect on Boyd from the perspective of sexual definition or same-sex love and desire, presumably in the belief that there are no interpretive consequences. In the process, an hypothesis of Boyd as himself mounting an act of social criticism by surreptitiously contesting conventional and hierarchical typologies of masculinity in the margins of institutionalised and popular hegemonic culture, seems to have escaped inscription in the canonical records. Martin Boyd's 'dividedness', 'doubleness', ambivalences and dichotomies point to a complexity that is not ultimately or ontologically resolvable. The Derridean 'de-sedimentation' modus operandi used here makes no claim to a relevatory hermeneutics of Hegelian essence. It does, however, utilise the various tropes of ambivalence, uncertainty, anxiety and incoherence — aspects of Boyd which may be correlated, perhaps, with his sense of the unheimlich or not being at home with himself or his environment — to reposition him in terms of his psychosexual constitution. In the process, the advocacy of aestheticism and pleasure for which he is recognised is found to be tempered and/or subverted by an overt recourse to the transgressive and 'decadent', elements irretrievably linked to his fetishization of the beautiful male body and his obsessive redeployment of the Hellenic ideal of manly love. The interpretive frameworks applied in the reclamation of the 'different' sensibility Boyd articulates by means of an alternately subtilized and strenuous challenge to sex/gender identity and behavioural norms encompass a field ranging from late nineteenth century theoretical discourse on homosexuality through to the intertextual influences of cultural innovators like Pater and Wilde. It includes reference to the literary strategies devised by Sedgwick to uncover deviance and 'erotic pathways'; it surveys the psychoanalytic hypotheses of Freud and Adler as relevant; and it pays heed to an aesthetics of the religio-erotic.
Granger, Mireille. "Maupassant et le realisme fantastique." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32912.
Full textWhat is most striking in Maupassant's narratives is precisely his rejection of the fantastic almost as soon as it occurs. Contrary to the more traditional literature of the fantastic, his narratives remain anchored in a realistic world, rendering the reader's experience even more unsettling. In a sense, Maupassant manages to tame the fantastic by normalizing it.
We intend, therefore, to position our work at the meeting point of these two concepts---realism and fantasy---in order to determine if the definition of "fantastic realism" we will be striving for can be verified through our analysis of the following stories: "Apparition", "La chevelure", "Le Horla" (first version), "La main", "La peur", "Magnetisme" and "Sur 1'eau". (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Burton, Benjamin Robert. "The Revolution Will Not Be Politicized: Political Expression in the Manga Adaptations of Kanikōsen." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4157.
Full textLeonardi, Barbara. "An exploration of gender stereotypes in the work of James Hogg." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20351.
Full text高靜. "論顧頡剛的 詩經 研究 = Research on Gu Jiegang's study of the Book of Songs." Thesis, University of Macau, 2005. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1636186.
Full textBezuidenhout, Suzanne-Louise. "Verwonding, verwoording en verwerking : ʼn beskouing van Henning J. Pieterse se kortverhaalbundel Omdat ons alles is vanuit ʼn terapeutiese perspektief." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2558.
Full textWhen reading Henning J. Pieterse’s work the reader is confronted by a sombre central theme, that of loss. Loss manifests itself in different ways in his oeuvre, but the most notable forms of loss are as result of the ending of a love affair or death. A second noticeable theme in Pieterse’s work is art and artistry, specifically the creative writing process. In my opinion these themes are most evident in his 1998 collection of short stories Omdat ons alles is (Because we are everything). The main premise in this collection of short stories is the suicide of the beloved wife and the accompanying feelings of loss and grief. The male characters in these stories struggle with processing and accepting loss - loss due the suicide of a beloved wife or due to the ending of a relationship. Various attempts are made to forget the loss and to numb the pain. The characters turn to alcohol, drugs and sex as ways of trying to work through or process the loss, but these methods only bring temporary relief. These self-destructive methods op escapism are contrasted with the constructive act of writing. At the same time the journey to psychic recovery and the processing of trauma becomes a creative journey. By expressing trauma through writing about wounding experiences there is striven to process it. The processing of trauma by means of literary narratives is often extremely exhausting and distressing. In the act of writing about trauma, painful memories that are repressed in the psyche are brought to the surface. In this thesis Omdat ons alles is is viewed from a therapeutic perspective to establish whether the act of writing plays a part in the processing of trauma. Narrative therapy is concerned with the finding of words and language to communicate trauma by creating a story in which the meaning and coherence that trauma destroys, can be recaptured. Trauma destroys the meaning and coherence of a life story and leaves the individual powerless and confused, but by finding words to communicate trauma, there is a positive movement in the direction of dealing with and accepting loss. In Omdat ons alles is Pieterse maps the journey of working through loss and trauma, but in these stories it is also emphasised that this journey is by no means a joyride. In the end it seems that the act of writing does play a part in the processing of trauma, but to which extent, remains an open question.
Lacroix, Michel 1969. "La beaute comme violence : la dimension esthetique du fascisme francais, 1919-1939." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=37754.
Full textOur thesis is divided in three parts, each one devoted to one of fascism's central themes: the leader, the youth, and the group. In our first chapter, we examine the charismatic leader's many faces, among which are the poet and the warrior. We then show that fascism's discourse on heroism makes of the epic hero an ideological model and that, in its turn, this ideological hero greatly influenced Pierre Drieu la Rochelle's representation of the hero. But, as we indicate, Drieu's novels reveal that the cult of the hero is both a glorification of the self and a self-hatred. In our second chapter we examine fascism's cult of youth such as it was in Italy and Germany, after which we have demonstrated that, in a way, French fascism was an extreme radicalization of the contemporary French discourse on youth. Then, we analyse one of Robert Brasillach's novels which brings to the fore the dark side of fascism's cult of youth: its death drive.
In our last chapter, we unearth the aesthetic principles underlying fascism's political spectacle, principles that we also find at the heart of Drieu's texts. We consequently state that Drieu has adopted fascism's aesthetic years before he realized he had fascist ideas. Going a little further yet, we stipulate that Drieu thus reveals that the aesthetic was one of the main roads towards fascism. We then establish, in our final conclusion, a synthetic description of fascist aesthetics: an aesthetics of pathos, exhibition, sublime, violence, and death.
Eberhard, Nicole Joanne. "Narrating alternative histories : an exploration of Jamal Mahjoub's The carrier and Amitav Ghosh's In an antique land." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86699.
Full textAFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die verhouding tussen die verlede en die hede soos uitgebeeld in Jamal Mahjoub se The Carrier (1998) en Amitav Ghosh se In an Antique Land (1992). Hierdie tekste herverbeel die geskiedenis met die doel om 'n ander toekoms te dink. Hulle vertel alternatiewe geskiedenisse en lewer sodoende kritiek op die Westerse historiografie en die uitbeelding van die Ooste en die Suide daarin. Hierdie tesis sal uit Edward Said se Orientalism (1978) put as 'n manier om die dominante Westerse houdings teenoor die Ooste sowel as die Suide, verteenwoordig deur Afrika, te konseptualiseer soos die liminale karakters in Mahjoub en Ghosh se tekste oor die Indiese Oseaan- en Mediterreense wêrelde beweeg. Beide Mahjoub en Ghosh versplinter hulle verhale in 'n historiese en 'n kontemporêre draad, en verweef hierdie fragmente om sodoende kommentaar te lewer op die dinamiese verhouding tussen die verlede en die hede. Hierdie verhouding sal gekonseptualiseer word deur te put uit Walter Benjamin se konsep van 'n konstellasie verbindingspunte in tyd. Die kartering van verbindings word moontlik gemaak deur die skrywer se verkenning van 'n geskiedenis van verbindings tussen diverse mense in hierdie gebiede. Die alternatiewe geskiedenisse wat hier voorgestel word, onthul pre-koloniale Mediterreense en Indiese Oseaan-handelsnetwerke gebou op uitruiling, wat gelei het tot kosmopolitiese samelewings waarin die klem op verbindings eerder as geopolitiese binêre geval het. Gesprekke tussen verskillende kulture, gelowe en denkskole dryf hierdie verbindings in die historiese verhaallyne. Deur hierdie vergange wêreld en 'n meer vyandige twintigste-eeuse wêreld naas mekaar te stel, wil Mahjoub en Ghosh bevraagteken of die herkonseptualisering van die verlede die herverbeelding van die hede en toekoms moontlik maak, in terme van hoe mense in staat is om oor verskilgrense heen met mekaar te verbind.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis interrogates the relationship between the past and the present, as represented in Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier (1998) and Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land (1992). These texts re-imagine history in order to think a different future. They narrate alternative histories and in the process critique Western historiography and its representation of the East and South. This thesis will draw on Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) as a way of conceptualising dominant Western attitudes towards the East, as well as the South, represented by Africa, as the liminal characters in Mahjoub and Ghosh's texts move across the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean worlds. Mahjoub and Ghosh both fracture their narratives into a historical and a contemporary thread, interweaving these fragments in order to comment on the dynamic relationship between the past and the present. This relationship will be conceptualised drawing on Walter Benjamin's notion of a constellation connecting points in time. The mapping of connection is enabled by the authors’ exploration of a history of connection between diverse people in these regions. The alternative histories proposed reveal precolonial Mediterranean and Indian Ocean trading networks built on exchange, resulting in cosmopolitan societies emphasising connection rather than geopolitical binaries. Conversations across differences — of culture, religion, and schools of thought — drive these connections in the historical plotlines. By juxtaposing this past world with a more hostile twentieth century world, Mahjoub and Ghosh seek to question whether reconceptualising the past enables the re-imagining of the present and future, in terms of how people are able to connect across boundaries of difference.
Palko, Amy Joyce. "Charting habitus : Stephen King, the author protagonist and the field of literary production." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1263.
Full text李昂. "論道家精神在余華小說中的顯現 : 以 活著 為個案 = Taoism and contemporary Chinese author Yu Hua's fictions : based on the case of To live." Thesis, University of Macau, 2009. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2101718.
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