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Stedall, Ellie. "Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad and transatlantic sea literature, 1797-1924." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648378.
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Fattah, Nadia Abdel. "James Baldwin's Search for a Homosexual Identity in his Novels." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5231.
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James Arthur Baldwin (1924- 1987) is one of the two major writers who have dared write about black gay men and from a black gay perspective. However, his fame as a racial spokesman and his insightful analyses of race relations in America tend to distract attention from the fact that he has been one of the most important homosexual writers of the twentieth century. Intolerance and homophobia among black and white Americans often led to a misinterpretation or misevaluation of James Baldwin's novels. James Baldwin was very courageous to come out as a black homosexual writer during the period of the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement. However, his awareness of racism and homophobia in the American society, and his difficult position of being a public figure and a spokesman for the Afro-Americans left its traces in his novels and influenced his novel writing career. The purpose of the present study is to show that out of intolerance, ignorance, and homophobia the evaluators of James Baldwin's novels often did him no justice. Baldwin through his novel writing developed a homosexual consciousness for himself. This struggle of coming-out was his personal struggle and it was marked by his burden of the doubly oppressed. I argue that Baldwin's search for an identity as a black homosexual writer is reflected in his writing. He constructed his identity through his writing. This study attempts to show that Baldwin's development of a homosexual identity took place in stages during his novel writing career. An analysis of the novels Go Tell It On the Mountain (1953), Giovanni's Room (1956), Another Country (1962), and Just Above My Head ( 1979) will demonstrate his movement from dealing with homosexuality as an underlying theme to using it as a tool to protest against any kinds of labels in the American society. Baldwin believed that discrimination cannot cease as long as the categorization of people through artificial constructs such as the "Negro" or the "homosexual" exists.
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Kanada, Chizu. "Compelling moments of collaboration : a reading of the works by Fukazawa Shichiro." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29963.
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This thesis is a study of the narrative strategies in the fiction of Fukazawa Shichirō (1914-87) and the ways in which these strategies work to solicit involvement in a compelling reading experience. The role of the narrator in each of the stories I discuss proves to be critical in the establishment of this relationship. And while I examine the thematic implications further enhanced by this solicitation, I have chosen to focus on how each story through its narrator produces those thematic messages.
My emphasis on each work's technical aspect is also a deliberate, compensatory move, a reaction against the tendency of Japanese critics who slight the process of reading as a determining factor in their evaluation of Fukazawa's works. Little effort has been made to account for the construction of each work, and thus credit is rarely given for an immediate or enjoyable experience while reading. Thus, I have explored the neglected aspect of Fukazawa's fiction which, I believe, is one of the most commendable of his writings' achievements.
I have primarily dealt with one story per chapter, although I have frequent recourse to other works by Fukazawa and other writers, and have selected four stories which I believe best capture the essence of Fukazawa's narrative craftsmanship. Each story's center of consciousness--the third person narrators in the subjects of study of Chapters One and Two, respectively, "On the Melodies of Oak Mountain" and The Fuefuki River, and the first person narrator-protagonists of "A Dream Tale (Chapter Three) and "The Dolls of Michinoku" (Chapter Four)--asks its reader to participate in a complex and distinct negotiation. And yet, despite all the variety one expects and finds in works spanning a thirty year writing career, I will contend that in each of the four stories above certain strategies are consistently used to initiate reader involvement and thus invite us to co-produce those compelling moments that Fukazawa would have us enjoy.Arts, Faculty of
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Beard, June N. "Le monde du théâtre dans l'oeuvre dramatique de Jean Anouilh /." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61931.
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Waterkeyn, Linda Catherine. "Idolatry and the artist's role with special reference to the work and thought of Andy Warhol." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002221.
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This thesis uses Hirsch's dual notion of intention, i. e. conscious, intentional meaning and symptomatic, unconscious meaning, in order to avoid a dead end in the critical assessment of Warhol's work. T.S. Eliot's term "objective correlative" refers to a phenomenon whereby "an inner emotional reality" is evoked by its "external equivalent". (Benet, 1965). Thus, given that no work of art is purely self-referential (as distinct from its being autonomous),Hirsch's notion allows that viewerreconstruction of a painting involves shared values and concerns; that a painting reconstructed by a viewer acquires the status of an icon through which the viewer participates in the artist's sacred cosmos. Sociology of art tends on the whole to extrapolate from actual works to the alleged conditions that gave rise to them. That it cannot predict what specific works will arise from given conditions makes it unscientific. However, its usefulness lies in its ability to reveal what values and concerns are shared by artist and viewer. This is vital for an interpretation of Warhol's work. Warhol's biography leads directly into the meaning of his work. The sickly child of an immigrant steelworker, he grew up in Pittsburgh - an epitome of the technocratic-industrial environment - and was exposed from an early age to a violent and ugly world where the disparity between the super-wealthy and the struggling workers was deeply disturbing. That Warhol himself became a multi-millionaire artistic tycoon is significant, for it means that his works, his icons, were participatory in the very cultural myths and neuroses they appear to display or even despise. That his work has meaning and is open to interpretation there is no doubt. For example, a man-made soup can, as a manifestation and containment of the sacred, is coercive. Here the sacred becomes familiar, affordable and disposable. An electric chair, a man-made instrument of death, gives man supremacy over mortality and the divine prerogative of purging the world of all evil. The essay, however, does not attempt to answer the broader questions raised by Fromm and Roszak about the spiritual emptiness of the twentieth century and the existential crises experienced by those who hunger for meaning and fasten greedily onto anything that seems to proffer a glimpse of something beyond. The essay, nevertheless, strives within this context to elucidate the valid in Warhol's work
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Abramowitz, Rachel I. "Donald Barthelme and 'Not-Knowing', 1964-1987." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c183d6a9-86f9-4337-b6c5-4efdc6dc0731.
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This thesis argues that Barthelme's major 1985 essay "Not-Knowing" contains within its title Barthelme's central artistic idea, and that not-knowing informs both the subject of his fiction and his philosophy of art. This study will be the first critical treatment of Barthelme that positions his work from beginning to end in terms of the dimensions of not-knowing that came out of his own reading in psychology, art theory, philosophy, religion, and education, offering coherent readings of content and suggesting the ways in which content relates to form. The Introduction explores the origins of Barthelme's ideas of not-knowing, paying special attention to the influence of Mallarmé, Joyce, and Beckett on Barthelme's first characterisations of not-knowing, creativity, and reception. The first chapter gives an in-depth reading of Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964), Barthelme's first collection of stories. Though Barthelme had not yet begun to formally theorise his ideas of not-knowing, they were already latent in Come Back, Dr. Caligari's characterisation of psychological experience, specifically in relation to anxiety, boredom, and interpretation. The second chapter looks at the ways in which Harold Rosenbergâs theories of the visual arts, and especially collage, which Barthelme encountered while co-editing Location magazine with Rosenberg in the early 1960s, address form and not-knowing, and how Barthelme treats these issues in Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968), City Life (1970), The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine (1971), Sadness (1972), Guilty Pleasures (1974), and Amateurs (1976). The third chapter shows how Barthelme's university studies in 19th century philosophy, especially Kierkegaard in The Concept of Irony (1841) and Kierkegaard's treatment of Schlegel in that treatise, inform his concern with irony, both in theory and practice, in City Life (1970), Great Days (1979), and Overnight to Many Distant Cities (1983). Chapter Four argues that Kierkegaard's theories of education and religion in Either/Or (1843) and The Present Age (1846), as well as the contemporary incarnation of Dewey's ideas of progressive education, both had a profound influence on Barthelme's ideas about the way a society is educated into knowingness, the artist's aspiration toward not-knowing, and the validity of religion in the postmodern world. The conclusion to the thesis reexamines the Introduction's argument about literary influence through a brief reading of The Dead Father (1975). Barthelme is recognised as one of the most important American postmodernist writers, and yet there has been relatively little critical treatment of his oeuvre. The major books that address Barthelme's work, which include Jerome Klinkowitz's Literary Disruptions: The Making of a Post-Contemporary American Fiction (1975) and Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition (1991), as well as Alan Wilde's Horizons of Assent (1981) and Stanley Trachtenberg's Understanding Donald Barthelme (1990), belong to a two-decade span of classifying writers such as Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, and John Barth using a limited set of ideas about postmodernism that were interesting as theory at the time, but did little to explore the actual literary, philosophical, and aesthetic content and contexts of these writers' works (with the possible exception of Pynchon). This thesis aims to rescue Barthelme from now-hackneyed ways of talking about postmodernism, which include lumping various aesthetic techniques under the rubric of "metafiction," claiming that the era's sole interest is in surface at the expense of depth, and that the dependence upon clichés is a deliberate expression of artistic exhaustion.
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Huggan, Graham. "The novelist as geographer : a comparison of the novels of Joseph Conrad and Jules Verne." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26839.
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The works of Joseph Conrad and Jules Verne share a fascination with geography: concern with geographical issues made explicit in their non-fictional works is also implicit in their fiction. Unfortunately, limited knowledge of or interest in geographic theory on the part of the literary critic has made the relation between literature and geography a relatively unpopular focus; to redress the balance, it is necessary to outline briefly some of the ways in which geographical theory may usefully inform the practice of literary criticism. Areas to be introduced include geography and literature as spatial distribution, as spatial perception, as inscription on and description of the environment, as text, as cultural matrix.
The above areas serve as a focus for the comparative analysis of a series of novels by Joseph Conrad and Jules Verne in which three issues are foregrounded: first, the interrelations between concentrated place and surrounding space in the sea-tales The Nigger of the Narcissus and Vingt mille lieues sous les mers; second, the reading and writing of cultural landscape in Heart of Darkness and Voyage au centre de la terre; third, the geopolitics of territory, boundary and landclaim in Lord Jim and L'lle mystérieuse. In each case, relevant geographical theory is drawn upon: in the first instance, the phenomenological notions of Yi-Fu Tuan and Edward Relph; in the second, the landscape evaluations of Carl Sauer and Courtice Rose; in the third, the geopolitical and politico-geographical definitions of Glassner, De Blij and Cohen.
The first section (on The Nigger of the Narcissus and Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) explores the spatial notions of topophilia, placelessness and geometricity inherent in the relation between ship and sea. The second section (on Heart of Darkness and Voyage au centre de la terre) discusses the various connotations of landscape: cultural imprint (rewriting),
false perspective (mis-reading), textual sign-system (encoding/decoding), which suggest that landscape can be interpreted as a controlling mechanism of and means of access to the text. The third section (on Lord Jim and L' Ile mystérieuse) outlines the geographical motifs of the two novels (division, (dis)possession, ascent and descent, etc.) and infers possible motives behind these motifs, relating topographical issues to personal and political ones and paying particular attention to the implications of island environments and communities and to the connections between imperialism, colonialism and narrative strategy.
Finally, the 'literary geography' of Conrad's and Verne's novels is situated in its historical context and related particularly to the late nineteenth-century debate on the relative merits of positivism and phenomenology. In Verne's work, the doctrine of positivism, which has been constituted in terms of an ideology of science, is only celebrated in so far as its limitations are recognized. In Conrad's work, man's struggle to conquer Nature through a physical and verbal mastery of his environment is reinterpreted as an attempt to overcome his own duality. Conrad's predominantly phenomenological geography of the mind serves as a critique of positivist doctrine, but its fractured topography also suggests that the attempt to substitute 'more traditional views of the social and moral order' (Watt, 163) is, perhaps, little more than a saving illusion.Arts, Faculty of
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Smith, Jeremy Mark. "Conviction in the everyday : Joseph Conrad and skepticism." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59889.
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Heart of Darkness, Chance, and Lord Jim can be described as philosophical works if considered in light of "ordinary language" philosophy. Conrad wrestled with skepticism much as Wittgenstein later would, but his struggle with the "bewitchment" of skeptical thinking took a narratival form. His champion was Marlow, raconteur of the three novels, who recurrently loses and recovers his words and his capacity to tell (to judge, to narrate). In these works the Marlovian investigation of human convention, linguistic and otherwise, is shown to be a necessary but perilous task. The possibility that we may be dissatisfied with the ordinary or transcendental conditions of living is dramatized in all three novels, often (but not only) by threats to marriage. Heart of Darkness demonstrates the loss of linguistic attunement that may follow upon taking human relation to be a problem of knowledge, and links this to Kurtz's world-devouring repudiation of the ordinary. Chance explores in melodramatic form the "germ of destruction at the source of our strength", and unmasks men's denial of women as one face of skepticism. Lord Jim presents skepticism, Romanticism, and fantasy as different versions of ontological dissatisfaction, and shows how a return to the ordinary requires a practice of reading and remembering (our words).
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McDonald, Timothy E. G. "The space of Kafka /." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69777.
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The following study investigates the fictional works of an early twentieth century Czechoslovakian writer named Franz Kafka. "The space of Kafka" is explored primarily through the "identity" of his characteristic monster figures and the temporally disjunctive narratives through which they travel. Monstrosity is qualified here as a principal mode of translation through which Kafka engaged the very terms of "identity" which an "individual" faces in the appearance of any "work". The intimations of a monstrous self are probed through Kafka's work in relation to human experience, intentionality, alterity and a "present" which is en-acted specifically as one form of the past. Through Kafka's paradigmatic "monster", "double" and "bachelor" figures, we find not "alternative" orientations of the "self" which contemporary literature and architecture may choose to undertake, but intrinsic re-presentations of the very relation which any self, any author, already is in the appearance of a "work".
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Pryor, Caitlin. "Vanishing Act." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801936/.
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This dissertation is comprised of a collection of poems preceded by a critical preface. The preface reconsiders the value of discontinuous poetic forms and advocates a return to lyric as an antidote to the toxic aspects of what Tony Hoagland terms “the skittery poem of our moment.” I consider poems by Wendy Xu, Kevin Prufer, Sharon Olds, and Stephen Dunn in depth to facilitate a discussion about the value of a more centrist position between the poles of supreme discontinuity and totalizing continuity. Though poets working in discontinuous forms are rightly skeptical of the hierarchies that govern narrative and linear forms, as Czesław Miłosz notes in The Witness of Poetry, “a poet discovers a secret, namely that he can be faithful to real things only by arranging them hierarchically.” In my own poems, I make use of the hierarchies of ordered perception in lyric and narrative forms to faithfully illuminate the collapsed structures of my own family history in the shadow of Detroit. I practice the principles I advocate in the preface, using a continuous form to address fractured realities in a busy, disordered age when poets often seek forms as fragmented as their perceptions. These poems are distinctly American, but because there is no true royalty in America, our great cultural and economic institutions—television, music, film, magazines, and big business—take the place of the castle (the book’s emblem) while Michael Jackson ultimately rises as the commanding dead king whose passing prompts contemplation of the viability of popular culture, family, history, and geography. The fallen structures that litter the work are many: the twin towers, chess rooks, bounce castles, nuclear families, the auto industry. However, the sole structure cohering the whole is that of a lyric voice whose authority is derived through lived experience and presented in rich, continuous poetic forms.
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Vrba, Marya. "The literary dream in German Central Europe, 1900-1925 : a selective study of the writings of Kafka, Kubin, Meyrink, Musil and Schnitzler." Thesis, Swansea University, 2011. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42396.
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This thesis examines the literary dream in selected works by Kafka, Kubin, Meyrink, Musil and Schnitzler, with a particular focus on the redefinition of subjectivity through dreamlife. The introductory chapter contextualises these case studies in the broader field of oneirocriticism, emphasising the dream's ancient role as fixtional template and its specific significance in the destabilised environment of German Central Europe during the early twentieth century. Alfred Kubin's Die andere Seite (1909), which uses the 'other side' as metaphor for both oneiric and artistic experience, reveals the inherent dualism of the literary dream and its close relationship with creativity. In Robert Musil's Die Verwirrungen des Zdglings Tdrlefi (1906), the protagonist serves as the model for a new type of self-determining subject who draws on the knowledge of dreams and irrationality. Franz Kafka's texts reveal techniques for integrating the dream into fictional worlds that are already dreamlike through the prevalence of (literalised) metaphor and free association. Gustav Meyrink, in Der Golem (1915), shares Kafka's interest in concretised metaphor, but also explores the dream's associations with occult practices, used as a defence against the threatening claims of science. Finally, Arthur Schnitzler's literary dreams offer a direct confrontation with psychoanalysis and a dismantling of nineteenth-century ideals of gender and bourgeois love. Overall, it is argued that the literary dreams by these authors hold varied responses to fragmentation of the Ich in the face of psychological 'vivisection', theories of relativity, and the collapse of old social orders. The dream, as a nightly 'psychosis', crystallised the pervasive fears of self-loss during this period; however, in its perennial role as micro-narrative, it also provided a site for re-construction of the subject. The incorporation of dreams in fictional lives served as a metonymical guide for the integration of un- and subconscious experience overall.
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Doherty, Helen. "The motif of initiation in selected works by Joseph Conrad." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002263.
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This thesis explores the archetypal theme of initiation in selected texts by Joseph Conrad. The Introduction first surveys critical attention to initiatory motifs in Conrad with the objective of demonstrating the need for an approach to the topic informed by a more formal and theorized understanding of initiation. It then offers a prima facie case for the centrality of the idea of initiation in Conrad's oeuvre, based on references culled from a range of the author's writings. Chapter One seeks to contextualise initiation by providing a history of anthropological research into and theorisations of the rite, proceeding to a description of its typical structure and functions. A detailed account is given of the most widely accepted model of initiation, Arnold van Gennep's tripartite schema. Moving on to Conrad's writing, Chapter Two draws on both his fiction and more personal writings in order to provide a provisional account of the writer's own understanding of initiation and its importance, and to offer some explanation of why Conrad should have been prompted to accord the motif such prominence in his work. Conrad's presentation and (impliedly) his understanding of initiation was never entirely consistent and underwent some change in the course of his writing career. The critical assessment of "Typhoon" in Chapter Three depicts Conrad's more optimistic conception of initiation as a rite benefitting both society, by promoting solidarity, and the individual, by advancing self-knowledge. Chapter Four introduces, via analyses of the novellas "Youth" and "The Shadow Line", that variation on the motif of initiation which is more typical of its manifestation in Conrad: the failure of individuals to complete their cycles of initiation. Chapter Five identifies those characteristics of initiation which appear to be determinative in the representations of incomplete initiation in Conrad's work. Initiation seems to play out approximately seven paradoxes; the impact of some of these is examined through analysis of the initiatory ordeals of the main protagonists in The Secret Agent. Integral to this discussion is an attempt to demonstrate the vital role which initiation plays in the healthy maintenance not only of social order but also of faith and life itself. The Conclusion summarises the more important findings of the study and indicates some directions for further, related research.
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Dicks, Henry. "Being and earth : an ecological criticism of late twentieth-century French thought." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669967.
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Vázquez-Medina, Olivia. "Cuerpo presente : imaginería corporal, representación histórica y textura narrativa en Yo el Supremo (1974), Noticias del Imperio (1987) y el General en su Laberinto (1989)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670014.
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Choinière, Paul. "Etude sur la rhétorique des premièrs écrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1924-1944)." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28252.
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Since Celine's death, the pamphlets he wrote at the beginning of World War II always presented great difficulties for those who studied him. But in the last few years, for various reasons the pamphlets have stirred up researcher's interest. Following this movement, this thesis is an attempt to integrate these pamphlets to the prose of the author of Journey to the End of the Night in a general pattern of analysis.In order to do this analysis, is developed an hermeneutic model of analysis which divides Celine's work into a poetical investigation and a polemic pursuit that demonstrate that these two genres use the same rhetorical strategies.
Part I of this thesis investigates the distinct rhetoric used by Celine in mixing poetry and polemic. Part II examines the poetic investigation and the polemic pursuit separately, Celine having separated these two genres after Journey to the End of the Night.
Without eliminating the differences between poetry and polemic, this thesis aims at demonstrating the continuity and coherence of Celine's work which is particularly well suited for putting an hermeneutic model of analysis to the test because it is a work that is torn more than any other between the ravishing and the horrific, between the beautiful and the terrifying. And that is where in this profound humanity Celine's work is so rich in interpretation.
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Porcina, Mark. "I am not a ceramicist." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Art, c2012, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3393.
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Ceramics has always existed on the fringes of craft and high art. The purpose of this
thesis project is to elevate clay beyond the traditions of craft by examining the historical use of
clay and the everyday object. My research looks specifically at works by Marcel Duchamp, Andy
Warhol, Jeff Koons and Jasper Johns in order to examine the origin of displaying the massproduced
object and reflecting upon it’s validity as high status art object. In this project I am also
interested in infrastructural systems within modern architecture-- plumbing, wiring, heat ducts
vents-- with a specific focus on systems lurking inside walls and how these function to influence
architectural space. With the advent of modern plumbing, concealing these elements was
adopted as the new standard and still exists today. Through the presentation of defamiliarized
handmade objects, my exhibition presents the appearance of manufactured material through the
serial manipulation of scale, surface and quantity. The result reveals a clay piece that renders the
material unrecognizable providing the viewer with a new view on the object's tradition.v, 47 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm
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Zipp, 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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This thesis document serves as a support paper for my exhibition titled, Selected Work. The goal of this document is to present and discuss a set of ideas and interests as they pertain to my studio practice and thesis project in particular, and to contemporary (ie. current) art practices in general. In this document I examine selected works from Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Andy Kaufman, Maurizio Cattelan and Richard Prince. Through the exploration of these artists and their works, I begin by examining the object and the conditions that give it approval as an art object. Using these conditions, I examine the effect that experience has on the object. This support paper will serve as a glossary of terms and theoretical concerns relevant to my thesis exhibitionvi, 64 leaves : col. ill. ; 29 cm
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Kilian, Julie. "Traditional and Christian elements in contemporary pictorial African art in South Africa with special reference to the works of John Muafangejo, Azariah Mbatha and Dan Rakgoathe." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012635.
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Art is the outward, visual manifestation of the undying soul of a people. The genius displayed in the day to day articles produced in traditional tribal society is equally present in the art produced by the Contemporary African Artist. The Contemporary African Artist finds himself in an interesting position, in that he is, at one time, a part of two different worlds, two different cultures, has taken place, the and his art provides evidence of the acculturation that coming together of indigenous, traditional African culture and 'European' or 'Western' culture. It follows that the contemporary African artist's work would display characteristics and elements derived from both of these worlds, since art is not created in a vacuum, but is, invariably, the outward, visible expression and symbol of an artist's environment, culture, emotional and intellectual responses and his beliefs. The study of Contemporary African Art reveals that despite the many divergences from the traditional or classic forms, a great many traditional influences and characteristics still persist in the same. An analysis of Contemporary African Art will also show that a significant body of works bear a marked influence of Christian teachings and biblical themes, as well as the influence of exposure to various forms of Swedish Medieval, Byzantine, Romanesque and Carolingian art.
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Deschamps, Bernard 1957. "Schreiben als Form des Gebets : l'écriture en tant que forme de la prière dans l'œuvre de Franz Kafka." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115633.
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Franz Kafka (1883-1924) wrote this little phrase one day in a notebook: Writing as a form of prayer. This dissertation will examine his highly personal and Judaic conception of the act of writing in order to demonstrate that it constitutes in fact the cornerstone of Kafka's activity as a writer and that it can be traced in a significant number of his literary works as their regulating instance.In order to do so, we will first examine the social, political and economic conditions prevailing in Central Europe at the turn of the 20th century, in order to ascertain its tremendous impact on the Jewish communities living in that part of the world, in terms of loss of traditional Jewish identity culminating in many cases in assimilation. Kafka's work will thus firstly be situated in the historical and political context out of which it emerged.
In the course of this work, we have used the concepts of sacre and profane as developed by the historian of religions Mircea Eliade throughout in order to demonstrate that there exists in Kafka's work a constitutive tension articulated between those two poles, not only at the level of the plot, but at the level of language itself.
Since the central element at the root of this tension is expressed in terms of presence and absence, we have also analysed the philosophy of language of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, which are themselves articulated exactly in those terms.
The use of these categories has helped us show that if Kafka's work is indeed at time very close to that of Scholem and Benjamin, especially in its literary rendition of motives underlining the absence of the divine in language, it also distinguishes itself markedly from the work of the two philosophers by the use of other motives which underline the immediate presence of the message of Revelation, made directly accessible within the modern and profane language, which is also that of literature.
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Romanska, Magdalena. "Bulat Okudzhava : bard and voice of a waking Russian nation." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82930.
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Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava, the originator of the style of Russian bards, was the first to express his nation's disillusionment over the country's political system and government in a new and alternative way.For this purpose, he used the direct impact of his poetry, a part of which he would sing for audiences, accompanied only by his guitar. This sort of communication between the writer and his interlocutors remained in sharp contrast with the means traditionally used by the official Soviet mass culture. The spreading of guitar poetry was impossible to control by authorities, since for popularization it used not only public gatherings, but also a new piece of technology at the time, tape recorders, a medium brilliantly used by Magnitizdat.
As opposed to Okudzhava's prose, the body of his poetry is largely understudied. One of the possible approaches to his poetic works may be that of classifying them according to their themes.
In the poetry of Bulat Okudzhava, several distinctive thematic categories can be distinguished. The themes that dominated the poet's creative years interpenetrate and overlap one another, as well as provide a reference for his secondary themes.
In the present thesis, the dominant themes will be analyzed from a biographical and historical angle. War will be the first major theme explored. This will be followed by a description of Okudzhava's works dealing with the cult of Stalin and the associated personal tragedy of the author, who witnessed the execution of his father and deportation of his mother. Subsequently, the themes of work, creator and creativity, poet and poetry, music and painting will be discussed. Other themes typical for Okudzhava are those of the city (especially Moscow), the street (especially the Arbat), nature, folklore, and Georgia. The body of the present thesis will conclude with the description of the basic thrusts of Okudzhava's ethics and philosophy, that are most clearly expressed in his "philosophical" verses (concerning belief, hope, love, destiny, women, friends, and man's inner world).
Since Okudzhava's poetry is heavily grounded in the historical context of the Stalin and post-Stalin era and is an alternative voice to what was imposed by official literature, it is natural and valuable to see it against the background of the Socialist Realist canon of Soviet state-controlled literary production.
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Cole, Collin. "John N. Muafangejo, 1943-1987 : a perspective on his lino-cuts with special reference to the University of Bophuthatswana Print Collection." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002194.
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By way of an analysis of the lino-cuts executed by Muafangejo, firstly elements and influences that are evident in terms associated with his works, will be traced, for example 'primitive' and 'traditional' elements. Secondly, the characteristics that are particular to this artist's work will be defined. It is believed that by using this avenue of approach, a clearer understanding of the artist's traditional world and possibly the stylistic placement of the artist can be attained. However, to rely only on historical and cultural influences to give a perspective of his work, will not be sufficient. It will only highlight a portion of the evidence needed to fully understand his work. (From the introduction).
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Massie, Eric. "Stevenson, Conrad and the proto-modernist novel." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21610.
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This thesis argues that Robert Louis Stevenson's South Seas writings locate him alongside Joseph Conrad on the 'strategic fault line' described by the Marxist critic Fredric Jameson that delineates the interstitial area between nineteenth-century adventure fiction and early Modernism. Stevenson, like Conrad, mounts an attack on the assumptions of the grand narrative of imperialism and, in texts such as 'The Beach of Falesa' and The Ebb Tide, offers late-Victorian readers a critical view of the workings of Empire. The present study seeks to analyse the common interests of two important writers as they adopt innovative literary methodologies within, and in response to, the context of changing perceptions of the effects of European influence upon the colonial subject.
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De, Lange Adriaan Michiel. "Conrad's impressionism the treatment of space and atmosphere in selected works." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002272.
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This thesis focuses on Conrad's representation of space and atmosphere in the "impressionistic" works published between 1897 and 1904, notably The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (1897), "Heart of Darkness" (1899), Lord Jim (1900), and Nostromo (1904). The many conflicting statements regarding the nature of Conrad's impressionism lead one to ask two fundamental questions: What constitutes this strange and elusive phenomenon, and how does it bear upon interpretation? This thesis works towards defining the elusive quality of Conrad's writing by investigating and assessing the contribution of impressionist techniques in the creation of a pervasive space and atmosphere; secondly, it considers how the various constituent elements interact with, and complement one another to form a dominant mode of fictional space in each work; and, thirdly, it indicates the possible impact that these particular Conradian configurations of space and atmosphere might have upon the interpretation of his impressionist works. The thesis argues that the existential condition of isolatio~experienced by Conrad's heroes and narrators is a consequence of epistemological frustration and fragmentation, which, in turn, is a function of impressionist ontology. There is a definite and complementary relationship between each of these notions in Conrad's fiction. The mysterious atmosphere in his works results from the interplay between various configurations of theme, narration and description, and these novelistic elements correspond roughly with the notions of existential isolation (the dominant theme), epistemology (narrating, telling and (re)telling as a method of knowing and understanding the space in which the characters find themselves) and, lastly, the ontological dimensions of the various modes of fictional space (as realized in description). The evocation and invocation of cosmic space in The Nigger of the "Narcissus," the mapping of a dorriinant symbolic space in "Heart of Darkness," the (re)constructions of Jim's psychological space in Lord Jim, and, finally, the "transcription" and "inscription" of a mythical space in Nostromo, indicate a definite development from epistemological to ontological issues. Phrased in more theoretical terms, this development is a movement from asking predominantly epistemological questions like "How can I interpret this world of which I am a part?" "What is there to be known?" "Who knows it ... and with what degree of certainty?", to asking predominantly ontological questions, such as "Which world is this?" "What kinds of worlds are there ... and how are they constituted?". Such questions, categorized by McHale as the dominant characteristics of Modernist and Postmodernist fiction respectively, are already present in Conrad's texts, thus undermining any clear-cut division between these broad categories. Indeed, this thesis suggests that these categories are at best tenuous, and that they should perhaps be used heuristically, rather than definitively
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Stander, Aletta Sophia. "Taal wat stamel, stotter en struikel : Marlene van Niekerk se "Die sneeuslaper" (2010) as mineurletterkunde." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20061.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The focus of this study will be on the unique way in which language is used in Marlene van Niekerk‟s collection of short stories, Die sneeuslaper (2010). When reading Die sneeuslaper it is impossible not noticing the number of Dutch words, as well as words and phrases from other foreign languages, as Bargoens, Rotwelsch, German, French, Italian, Hebrew, Greek and Maltese. Some of the characters‟ speech, as well as so called sound poems (or nonsense verses) are characterised by a number of newly invented words. However, the meaning of some of these words or phrases remains unclear. Other themes in the four short stories which will be analysed are the so called political responsibility of the artist, as well as music, rhythm and bird-noises. As a theoretical basis of this study, Deleuze and Guattari‟s Kafka Toward a Minor Literature will be used. In Kafka Toward a Minor Literature Deleuze en Guattari formulate their ideas regarding minor literature. They describe a major language as a language of dominance and power, while a minor language is a language without any power. According to them the three characteristics of minor literature are: the minor deterritorializes the major, minor literature is always political, and minor literature always has a collective function. Deleuze and Guattari‟s, as well as Bogue‟s writing regarding the territorialization and deterritorialization of the refrain, is also explored briefly. Deleuze en Guattari‟s theories regarding minor literature is used in this study to read Die sneeuslaper. In the end it is concluded that the unconventional use of language in this short story collection can be associated with the political nature of some of the stories. The unique usage of language in Die sneeuslaper, the way in which Afrikaans is transformed into a language that stammers, stutters and mumbles, can be seen as a subtle form of political protest. Therefore this collection of short stories can be seen as a form of minor literature.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie fokus op die vreemde wyse waarop taal in Marlene van Niekerk se kortverhaalbundel, Die sneeuslaper (2010), aangewend word. Met die lees van Die sneeuslaper is die hoeveelheid Nederlandse woorde, asook enkele woorde en frases uit ander vreemde tale, soos Bargoens, Rotwelsch, Duits, Frans, Italiaans, Hebreeus, Grieks en Maltees, opvallend. Verder is daar in die karakters se spraak, sowel as in klankgedigte (of onsinverse), vele nuutskeppings waarvan die betekenis nie altyd so duidelik blyk nie, teenwoordig. Ander temas wat in die vier verhale figureer en ondersoek sal word is kunstenaarskap, die sogenaamde politieke verantwoordelikheid van die kunstenaar, asook musiek, ritme en voëlgeluide. As teoretiese vertrekpunt vir die studie word Deleuze en Guattari se Kafka Toward a Minor Literature, waarin hul idees oor mineurlettekunde geformuleer word, gebruik. Deleuze en Guattari onderskei tussen ‟n dominante majeurtaal en ‟n mineurtaal wat sonder mag is. Volgens Deleuze en Guattari is daar drie kenmerke van mineurletterkunde, naamlik dat die mineur die majeur deterritorialiseer, dat mineurletterkunde altyd polities is, en laastens dat mineurletterkunde altyd kollektief van aard is. Bykomend word daar ook kortliks gekyk na Deleuze en Guattari, sowel as Bogue, se skrywe oor territorialisering en deterritorialisering in die refrein. Deleuze en Guattari se teorie oor mineurletterkunde word in hierdie studie as ‟n agtergrond gebruik om Die sneeuslaper te lees. Daar word uiteindelik tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat die onkonvensionele taalgebruik in die kortverhaalbundel wel geassosieer kan word met deterritorialisering en dat dit aansluit by die politieke aard van sommige van die verhale. Die wyse waarop Afrikaans in Die sneeuslaper getransformeer word na ‟n taal wat stamel, stotter en struikel, kan dus as subtiele, politieke protes gesien word en daarom kan dié kortverhaalbundel inderdaad as ‟n vorm van mineurletterkunde beskou word.
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Deschamps, Bernard. "Das Nichts der Offenbarung : Sprache und Schrift in der Kafka-Deutung Gershom Scholems und Walter Benjamins = The nothingness of revelation : language and text in the Kafka interpretations of Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30158.
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Le present essai propose en premier lieu une analyse de la theorie linguistique de Walter Benjamin telle qu'enoncee dans son essai de 1916, Uber Sprache uberhaupt und uber die Sprache des Menschen. Dans un meme temps, il propose aussi une analyse de la theorie linguistique de la Kabbale telle qu'elaboree par Gershom Scholem tout au long de sa vie, dans un nombre non negligeable de publications, theorie dont il chercha a faire la synthese dans son essai de 1970, Der Name Gottes und die Sprachtheorie der Kabbala.Cet essai se propose ensuite de demontrer comment Scholem et Benjamin ont trouve dans l'oeuvre de Franz Kafka l'expression litteraire de leurs theories linguistiques.
En conclusion, cet essai se propose de demontrer comment Scholem et Benjamin, a partir de leurs theories linguistiques respectives, et malgre la proximite indeniable de celles-ci, en sont venus a interpreter Kafka d'une facon diametralement opposee. Scholem, en effet, voyait dans cette oeuvre l'expression d'une des theories les plus nihilistes de la Kabbale: Die Unvollziehbarkeit der Offenbarung, une negation de la Revelation divine; Benjamin voyait pour sa part chez Kafka l'expression d'une tres mince possibilite de redemption.
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Wey, Shyh-chyi. "A rhetorical analysis of Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/923.
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Delazari, Ivan. "Musical experience in fictional narrative: William T. Vollmann, William H. Gass, and Richard Powers." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2018. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/487.
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This doctoral thesis contributes to the ongoing scholarly conversation on literary representation of musical sounds, forms, and compositions. My close examination of the tangible presences of Western art music in the fiction of three contemporary American novelists relocates traditional foci of intermediality and word and music studies from referential precision and structural equivalence across the arts to the problem of readerly experience of music through fictional narrative. Exploring a variety of diegetic encounters with music in William T. Vollmann's Europe Central (2005), William H. Gass's Middle C (2013), and Richard Powers's Orfeo (2014), I draw from cognitive narratology and the philosophy of music, among others, to construct a concise model of musical experience and a system of its literary correlatives, which can provide for the reader's enactive response to music-related themes and means in fiction. I discuss the different strategies the writers apply to communicate the presumably elitist experience of Western classical music as suggestive and relevant to their 21st-century readerships, whether big or small. I order my chapters dialectically, regarding the three authors' literary approaches to musical experience as thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. In Chapter I, Vollmann's intermedial transpositions of Dmitri Shostakovich's fictionalized works are shown to be framed by a mimetic bias, under which diegetic music functions as a characterization means for the author's historical preoccupations. The thesis (i) I infer from Vollmann's approach is that music is part of the fictional reality representative/informative/definitive of what that reality is like. Chapter II is devoted to Gass's metafictional distrust of representation, whereupon his novelistic narrative discards diegetic music almost completely and points out ways of experiencing verbal textures musically. Gass's method is thus antithetical (ii) to Vollmann's: music is a metaphor for creativity, indifferent to the subject matter and/or plot, which at representation level may well be a parodic perversion of the very idea of creativity. Powers's balanced treatment of musicalized content and form and his generous supply of multivalent experiential cues are forged to appeal to a broader reading audience, as I argue in Chapter III. In what I see as a synthesis (iii) of Vollmann and Gass, Powers's storyworld contains abundant diegetic music that constructs narrative settings and drives the events of the plot, but is itself graspable through musical metaphors. The findings of the thesis open new directions for research into musico-literary reception. Encouraging a revival of reader-response awareness in literary analysis, musicalized fiction is an untrivial subject for interactive theoretical scrutiny by psychologists and philosophers of music, transmedial narratologists, and cognitive scientists. Empirical studies of actual readers' experience of musicalized prose may prove particularly promising in further investigation of this intersectional phenomenon.
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Oyakawa, Eduardo. "A luz brilha nas trevas: um estudo sobre o Deus Absconditus na literatura de Franz Kafka (1912-1924)." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20948.
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This study is dedicated to the knowledge of writer Franz Kafka’s literature, under the egis of the religious mystic interpretation. In order to accomplish this goal, Franz Kafka’s biography is presented, to allow his “personality enclosed by a glass wall” to be accurately exposed. Kafka’s life and work are so inextricably combined that it would not be possible to appropriately enlighten his literature without previously understanding his conflicting relationship with parents and girlfriends, as well as his difficulties with work – done with anxiety and discouragement – and with Judaism, basis of his family formation. Following this, this study comprehends analytical multiple visions, emphasizing the hermeneutic polissemy and difficulties of univocally understanding Kafka, without taking into consideration his “literature astonishment”, responsible for making him one of the authors that were mostly read and commented during XX and XXI centuries. Essential scope of the third session is offering a critical view about the efforts to interpret his writings under the religious mystic harness. For this, “Max Brod case” will be discussed and the hypothesis brought by the religions historian Gershom Scholem who presented Kafka as a heretic cabalist. Last but not least, textual hermeneutics will be made (Die Verwandlung, Der Prozess, Der Brau and Forschungen Eines Hund) under cabalistic perspective, trying to uncover Deus Absconditus who is shown in Kafka’s literature with the diversity of chromatic and sonorous tones as a small light shining in the dark
Este estudo é dedicado ao conhecimento da obra do escritor Franz Kafka, sob a égide da interpretação religiosa-mística. Para que logre esse intento, apresenta a biografia de Franz Kafka, a fim de desvelar acuradamente a sua “personalidade encerrada por uma parede de vidro”. Em Kafka, vida e obra se misturam inextricavelmente, de tal maneira que não se pode esclarecer convenientemente a sua literatura sem antes saber de sua relação conflituosa com os pais, com as namoradas, as suas dificuldades concernentes ao trabalho – realizado sob ansiedade e desalento – e com o judaísmo, constitutivo de sua formação familiar. A seguir, este trabalho estuda as multivisões analíticas, sublinhando a polissemia hermenêutica e as dificuldades de se compreender Kafka de maneira unívoca, isto é, sem levar em consideração o “assombro de sua literatura”, responsável por transformá-lo num dos autores mais lidos e comentados no deambular dos séculos XX e XXI. A terceira sessão tem como escopo fundamental oferecer um olhar crítico sobre as tentativas de interpretar os escritos sob o jaez místico-religioso. Para tanto, discute-se o “caso Max Brod” e a hipótese aventada pelo historiador das religiões Gershom Scholem, segundo a qual teria sido Kafka um cabalista herético. Finalmente, faz-se a hermenêutica textual (O Covil, A Metamorfose, O Processo e Investigações sobre um Cão) sob o ponto de vista cabalístico, ou seja, tentando deslindar o Deus Absconditus que, na diversidade de tons cromáticos e sonoros, incide na obra de Kafka como pequena luz brilhando nas trevas
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Mok, Man Hong Nicholas. "Negotiating the self with the unspeakable :holocaust representation as double universals." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3953589.
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Evans, Victoria Louise, and n/a. "Douglas Sirk, aesthetic modernism, and the culture of modernity." University of Otago. Department of Media, Film and Communication Studies, 2008. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20080707.122544.
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In this dissertation, I argue that Douglas Sirk was attempting to dissolve the boundaries of the cinematic medium by assimilating elements of avant-garde art, architecture and design into the colour, composition and settings of many of his most popular studio produced films. While the exaggerated artifice of this director�s formal style has often been remarked upon, it has yet to be interpreted in the light of his detailed cognisance of the major art and architectural movements of the period, which include German Expressionist painting and Machine Age Modernist design. This is a lacuna that my thesis should at least partially fill, since I have shown that Sirk�s highly self conscious visual approach was deeply influenced by the artistic debates that were taking place in Europe during the 1920s and �30s and in America after World War II. To my mind, there is no doubt that this director�s syncretic mise-en-scène was the result of an interdisciplinary, transnational dialogue, and I have sought to illuminate some of the social, philosophical and political meanings that it seems to convey.
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楊海一. "卡夫卡和魯迅比較研究 = A comparative study on Kafka and Luxun." Thesis, University of Macau, 2005. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1636183.
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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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Barros, Adelson Florêncio de. "Os papéis sociais dos negros e de seus senhores em casa-grande & senzala: representação textual-discursiva escravocrata ou abolicionista?" Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21014.
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This dissertation, based on the Critical Discourse Analysis, thematizes the social roles of the masters and their slaves in Casa Grande & Senzala. It is justified, for this work is studied and criticized by social scientists and not by a critical vision of the discourse. It is a textual-discursive analysis of this work. There are several published works, about this work, with sociological, anthropological, among others. The research is justified, because it aims to answer: Is the author of Casa Grande & Senzala a conservative enslaver or revolutionary abolitionist? The general objective is to contribute to the discursive studies of the work in question and to specific ones: 1. To verify, in Brazilian historiographical texts, which and how many social roles the black slaves did represent socially; 2. To ascertain which and how many social roles the slaves represent in the said work, comparing them with those of historiography, multimodal texts and newspaper advertisements; 3. Analyze the point of view projected by the author when focusing on slavery in the sugar zone of Pernambuco. The proposed research is qualitative and documental, with theoretical-analytical procedure. The results indicate that the ideological and cultural values that guide Freyre in writing this work result from the patron saint values of sugar planter from Pernambuco, aiming to construct the miscegenated origins of Brazilian culture and are those that are archived in his social memory, from the family institution. Therefore, they are conservative and enslaved values. The hypothesis of the investigation proved to be adequate, since Freyre is guided by an ideology of Pernambuco sugarcane rural power, canceling the cruelty, sadism and excessive exploitation of the slave labor force and privileges the role of the female slave, transmitter of Afro Brazilian cultural miscegenation, in order to build the myth of the sensuality of the black woman
Esta tese, fundamentada na Análise Crítica do Discurso, tematiza os papéis sociais dos senhores e seus escravos em Casa-Grande & senzala. Justifica-se, pois essa obra é estudada e criticada por cientistas sociais e não por uma visão crítica do discurso. Trata-se de uma análise textual-discursiva da referida obra. Há vários trabalhos publicados, sobre essa obra, com enfoque sociológico, antropológico, entre outros. A pesquisa justifica-se, pois busca responder: o autor de Casa-grande & Senzala é um conservador escravocrata ou revolucionário abolicionista? O objetivo geral é contribuir com os estudos discursivos da obra em questão e específicos: 1. Verificar, em textos historiográficos brasileiros, quais e quantos papéis sociais os escravos negros representaram socialmente; 2. Averiguar quais e quantos papéis sociais os escravos representam na referida obra, confrontando-os com os da historiografia, textos multimodais e anúncios de jornal; 3. Analisar o ponto de vista projetado pelo autor ao focalizar a escravidão na zona açucareira pernambucana. A investigação proposta é qualitativa e documental, com procedimento teórico-analítico. Os resultados indicam que os valores ideológicos e culturais que guiam Freyre, ao escrever essa obra, resultam dos valores patronais do senhor de engenho açucareiro pernambucano, objetivando a construção das origens miscigenadas da cultura brasileira e são esses que estão arquivados em sua memória social, a partir da instituição familiar. Logo, são valores conservadores e escravocratas. A hipótese da investigação mostrou-se adequada, pois Freyre é guiado por uma ideologia do poder patronal rural açucareiro pernambucano, cancelando a crueldade, o sadismo e a exploração excessiva da mão de obra escrava e privilegia o papel da escrava, transmissora da cultura afro na miscigenação cultural brasileira, de forma a construir o mito da sensualidade da negra
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Driver, Daniel R. "Brevard Childs : the logic of scripture's textual authority." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/754.
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Brevard Childs argues for the inner logic of scripture’s textual authority as an historical reality that gives rise to the material condition by which the church apprehends and experiences God in Christ. The church’s use of (or by) scripture thus has a larger interiority: the shaped canon of scripture, Old and New Testaments, is a rule of faith which accrues authority in the church, through the vehicle of the sensus literalis. Childs’ work has been misplaced, however. Part one locates it internationally, attending to the way it has been read in English and German and finding that it has enjoyed a more patient reception in Europe than in Britain or North America. To illustrate, Childs’ definition of biblical theology is contrasted with that of James Barr. Their differences over gesamtbiblische theology involve opposite turns toward and away from Barthian dogma in biblical inquiry. Part two examines Childs on biblical reference, introducing why intertextuality is not midrashic but deictic—pointing to the res. This coincides with an understanding of the formation of biblical literature. Childs’ argument for canonical shaping is juxtaposed with Hermann Gunkel on tradition history, showing “final form” to be a deliberate inversion of form critical principles. Childs’ interest in the Bible as religious literature is then set alongside his studious confrontation of Judaism, with implications for inter-religious dialogue. Barr and Childs are compared again in part three, which frames their respective senses of indirect and direct biblical reference in terms of allegory. Both see allegory at work in the modern world under certain rules (either biblical criticism or the regula fidei). Their rules affect their articulations of trinitarian dogma. Finally, Psalm102 highlights divergences between modern and pre-modern interpreters. If scripture comprehends the present immediately, some postures of the church toward the synagogue may be excluded.
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Soares, Débora Racy 1975. "Dor, sombra, lucidez = leitura de Beijo na Boca iluminada pela trajetória poética de Cacaso e pelo éthos de sua geração." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270202.
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Orientador: Vilma Sant'Anna AreasTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação
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Resumo: "Dor, Sombra, Lucidez" parte do livro de poemas Beijo na Boca (1975) para ler e atualizar a trajetória poética de Antônio Carlos Ferreira de Brito (1944-1987), o Cacaso. Se o processo de leitura supõe o desdobramento criativo do texto, Beijo na Boca ganha amplitude estética quando considerado no conjunto da produção de Cacaso e, também, das idéias de sua geração. Embora seus poemas sejam independentes e possam ser lidos separadamente, compõem uma espécie de poema único ou "poemão", que sintetiza vivências subjetivas e coletivas. Logo, optamos por uma forma analítica que, coerente com as propostas de Cacaso, leva em consideração, na leitura deste livro específico, sua trajetória criativa e o éthos de sua geração. Assim posto, esclarecemos que este trabalho ancora-se em três partes fundamentais. Inicialmente, recuperarmos a fortuna crítica de Cacaso e de sua geração, procurando analisá-la à luz do momento de produção. Na segunda parte, buscamos esclarecer o sentido da escrita coletiva ou "poemão", demonstrando os dilemas de uma geração impactada pela violência da história. A questão da marginalidade também será abordada, pois é fundamental entender que o modo de publicação - à margem do sistema editorial - nem sempre está vinculado à ausência de qualidade estética. Recursos lingüísticos, partilhados pelos escritores, são elucidados, à luz de alguns poemas. Em suma, nesta parte tratamos de tentar entender o éthos desta geração. Finalmente, percorremos a trajetória poética de Cacaso procurando nela situar Beijo na Boca: seja pela ênfase de suas diferenças ou pela busca de semelhanças entre os livros. Se a escolha do mote amoroso distingue o poeta dos demais de sua geração, também pode ser artimanha estética. Será que essa lírica desencantada consegue desafi(n)ar o "poemão"?
Abstract: "Pain, Shadow, Lucidity" considers the book of poems Beijo na Boca (1975) to read and update the poetic trajectory of Antônio Carlos Ferreira de Brito (1944-1987), most known as Cacaso. If the reading process involves the creative unfolding of the text, Beijo na Boca achieves aesthetic meaning when considered along with Cacaso's artistic production and the ideas of his generation. Although its poems are independent and can be read separately, they compound a kind of "big poem" since they summarize subjective and collective experiences. We therefore chose an analytical form that is consistent with Cacaso's proposals and takes into consideration - when reading this particular book - his career and the creative ethos of his generation. Simply put, we clarify that this work is founded on three key parts. Initially critical essays about his production and his generation are recovered and analyzed in the light of the moment of production. In the second part we seek to clarify the meaning of collective writing or "big poem" demonstrating the dilemmas of a generation affected by the violence of history. The issue of marginality will also be addressed. It is important to understand that the way to publication - out of the editorial system - is not always linked to the lack of aesthetic quality. Linguistic resources, shared by the writers, they are also elucidated in the light of some poems. In short, this part is dealing with the understanding of the ethos of Cacaso's generation. Finally we analyze Cacaso?s poetic trajectory looking for the place of Beijo na Boca on it, either by its differences or similarities. If the choice of the love theme distinguishes Cacaso from the poets of his generation, it can also be understood as aesthetic stratagem. Is this disenchanted lyric able to discord with the "big poem"?
Doutorado
Teoria e Critica Literaria
Doutor em Teoria e História Literária
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Silva, Rodrigo Barbosa e. "Para além do movimento maker: um contraste de diferentes tendências em espaços de construção digital na Educação." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2017. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/2816.
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Com o recente crescimento do interesse em atividades manuais baseada em tecnologias digitais, espaços de construção começam a fazer parte de projetos educacionais públicos e privados no país. Estes espaços são planejados, construídos e executados seguindo tendências transnacionais de construção digital. Esta tese contrasta propostas maker baseadas em FabLabs, na Maker Media, em críticas à tecnoutopia californiana e no FabLearn com objetivo de compreender as origens, objetivos e implicações de cada uma dessas diferentes propostas de tecnologias para a Educação. Considerando a sub-teorização do movimento maker em geral, que privilegia o fazer acima do refletir, esta tese apresenta conceitos de tecnologia baseado em Álvaro Vieira Pinto, de práxis e liberdade em Paulo Freire, e de bases social da técnica no campo de Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade. Trata-se de uma pesquisa descritiva de fatos e fenômenos em voga na tecnociência e educação brasileiras. Os resultados alcançados são uma abordagem crítico-reflexiva das diferentes vertentes maker, o contraste entre diferentes propostas de construção digital, uma contribuição a propostas progressistas de educação e a valorização e expansão da obra de pensadores nacionais de Educação e tecnologias. Conclui-se que a proposta FabLearn é condicente com ideias freirianas para Educação e que parte da falta de embasamento teórico do movimento maker em geral pode ser preenchida pelo pensamento filosófico de Álvaro Vieira Pinto e educacional de Paulo Freire, em uma perspectiva emancipatória e inclusiva da sociedade.Spaces dedicated to construction based on digital resources are taking part of public and private educational projects in Brazil as a result of the growing public interest in hands-on activities. These spaces are planned, built, and executed under transnational trends of digital construction. This Ph.D. thesis contrasts maker proposals, e.g. FabLabs, Maker Media, criticism to the Californian tecnoutopia, and FabLearn, in order to comprehend the origins, the aims and the implications of each one of these distinct proposals of technologies in Education. One considering the under-theorization of maker movement in general, which privileges the ´making´ over reflection, this thesis presents concepts of technology based on Alvaro Vieira Pinto, and praxis and freedom on Paulo Freire’s work, along a discussion of social basis of techniques on Science, Technology and Society Studies. It is a descriptive research about facts and phenomenons in an ongoing debate about Brazilian techno science and education. As results, it presents firstly a critical reflexive approach of diverse maker proposals, secondly a contribution to progressive education discussions, and thirdly the enrichment and expansion of national thinkers’ theories on technology and education. It concludes that FabLearn is consistent with Freire’s ideas of progressive education, and Alvaro Vieira Pinto’s philosophical and Paulo Freire’s educational thoughts can be filled in, based on an emancipatory and inclusive perspective of society, the theoretical gap of maker movement.
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Moore, Elizabeth Roosevelt. "Being Black existentialism in the work of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3034939.
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Dixon, Frances. "Circling the terrain : the pattern of Seamus Heaney's poetic discovery, 1966-1987." Phd thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/139120.
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Wolfe, Edith Angelica Gibson. "Melancholy encounter: Lasar Segall and Brazilian modernism, 1924-1933." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2192.
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"《黑奴籲天錄》的敘事者與譯文操縱." 2000. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5895839.
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張婉麗."2000年8月"
論文 (哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2000.
參考文獻 (leaves 208-219)
附中英文摘要.
"2000 nian 8 yue"
Zhang Wanli.
Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2000.
Can kao wen xian (leaves 208-219)
Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao.
摘要 --- p.i
前言 --- p.v
目錄
Chapter 第一章 --- 引言 --- p.1
Chapter 第二章 --- 小說敘事者與操縱理論 --- p.8
Chapter 2.1 --- 小說的敘事者 --- p.8
Chapter 2.2 --- 操縱理論 --- p.14
Chapter 2.3 --- 《黑奴籲天錄》的敘事者與譯文操縱 --- p.24
Chapter 第三章 --- 《黑奴籲天錄》的翻譯背景 --- p.26
Chapter 3.1 --- 原文的内容 --- p.26
Chapter 3.2 --- 原文的文化系統 --- p.28
Chapter 3.2.1 --- 政治 --- p.28
Chapter 3.2.2 --- 宗教 --- p.3 2
Chapter 3.2.3 --- 婦女地位 --- p.33
Chapter 3.2.4 --- 作者 --- p.35
Chapter 3.3 --- 對 Uncle Tom´ةs Cabin 的評論 --- p.40
Chapter 3.4 --- 譯文的文化系統 --- p.48
Chapter 3.4.1 --- 政治 --- p.49
Chapter 3.4.2 --- 教會的活動 --- p.52
Chapter 3.4.3 --- 婦女地位 --- p.53
Chapter 3.4.4 --- 翻譯的功利主義 --- p.55
Chapter 3.4.5 --- 譯者 --- p.58
Chapter 3.4.5.1 --- 林纾 --- p.58
家庭 --- p.58
政治思想 --- p.60
婦女觀 --- p.63
文學作品 --- p.65
Chapter (一） --- 創作及文學觀 --- p.65
Chapter (二） --- 翻譯及翻譯觀 --- p.68
Chapter 3.4.5.2 --- 魏易 --- p.73
Chapter 3.5 --- 對《黑奴籲天錄》的評論 --- p.75
Chapter 第四章 --- 《黑奴籲天錄》的敘事者（一） ´ؤ´ؤ宗教的表述及婦女形象的表述 --- p.85
Chapter 4.1 --- 宗教的表述 --- p.86
Chapter 4.1.1 --- 基督教與小說中的人物 --- p.89
Tom與湯姆 --- p.90
Cassy與凱雪 --- p.107
Quimbo與昆蒲、Sambo與三蒲 --- p.110
Topsy與托弗收 --- p.112
其他 --- p.115
George與哲而治 --- p.116
Chapter 4.1.2 --- 基督教與敘事者聲音 --- p.126
Chapter 4.1.3 --- 宗教的表述´ؤ´ؤ總結 --- p.135
Chapter 4.2 --- 婦女形象的表述 --- p.137
Chapter 4.2.1 --- 婦女形象 --- p.138
婦女角色 --- p.138
女性讀者 --- p.148
Chapter 4.2.2 --- 廚房的比喻 --- p.156
Chapter 4.2.3 --- 婦女形象的表述´ؤ´ؤ總結 --- p.164
Chapter 第五章 --- 《黑奴籲天錄》的敘事者（二） ´ؤ´ؤ敘事距離與奴隸制度的關係 --- p.166
Chapter 5.1 --- 敘事者與小說人物的距離 --- p.166
Chapter 5.2 --- 敘事者與讀者的距離 --- p.172
Chapter 5.3 --- 總結 --- p.184
Chapter 第六章 --- 結語 --- p.187
Chapter 6.1 --- 譯者對敘事者的操縱 --- p.187
Chapter 6.2 --- 「忠實的譯者」 --- p.199
參考書目 --- p.208
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Lockard, Douglas Todd 1965. "A stylistic and analytical discussion of Jean Rivier's Concerto for saxophone and trumpet and Concerto for trumpet." 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/11341.
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"詩學、意識形態及贊助人與翻譯: 梁實秋翻譯研究." 2005. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6073899.
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白立平.呈交日期: 2004年10月.
論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2005.
參考文獻 (p. 219-238).
Cheng jiao ri qi: 2004 nian 10 yue.
Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Abstracts also in English.
Bai Liping.
Lun wen (Zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2005.
Can kao wen xian (p. 219-238).
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Laryea, Philip Tetteh. "St. Ignatius of Antioch and Afua Kuma of Kwahu : a study in some images of Jesus in second century Christianity and modern African Christianity." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3808.
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Christian religious experience whether it occurs in the second century or in modem Africa is one and the same, and although the experiences may differ it is possible to draw correlations to suggest that such experiences bear witness to a common reality. St. Ignatius of Antioch who lived in the second century and Afua Kuma who hails from Kwahu in the Eastern Region of Ghana, are used to demonstrate this reality. My sources for Ignatius' are the seven letters he wrote, six to churches he visited and one to his friend Polycarp of Smyrna, whilst he was on his way to martyrdom in Rome. As bishop of Antioch he is concerned about the unity of the church and consequently focuses attention on false doctrines and the development of what was becoming "orthodox" tradition. A number of peculiar images referring to Christ emerge in his work, such"as apXEta (archive), 8upa (door), xapaK1"rlp (stamp) and 8t)(:nacr'trlpwv (altar). This picturesque and vivid imagery is traced to his propensity for rhetoric, which, though Asian, bears resemblance to the Greek and Roman folkloric traditions. The Apae or the courthouse praise poetry of the Akan folkloric tradition is the vehicle that Afua Kuma employs to express her faith in Jesus. A crisis in Madam Kuma's life must have led her to fathom the depths of her traditional background and upbringing and this she feeds into her understanding of Jesus. In her poetry Jesus is imaged as Adontehene, Benkumhene, :Jkatakyie, :Jkokodurufo, Okuruakwaban, and Adubasap::m and is made to perform all the functions associated with regal authority. She also shows awareness of modem political and social structures in these images. This thesis shows that it is the fruit of the Christian imagination born in the context of praise and worship, which ought to feed and nourish academic theology so as to keep it in touch with the spiritual vitality experienced in the community of faith.Thesis (M.Th.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2000.
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Fossey, Natalie. "Sequential art and narrative in the prints of Hogarth in Johannesburg (1987) by Robert Hodgins, Deborah Bell and William Kentridge." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/10623.
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Key words:
William Hogarth
Exhibition; Hogarth in Johannesburg (1987-1988)
Series; A Rake’s Progress, Marriage-a-la-Mode and Industry and Idleness
Artists; Robert Hodgins Deborah Bell William Kentridge William Hogarth
Caversham Press, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Printmaking
Printmaking in South Africa
Resistance art
Narratology, narrative, discourse, story, plot, Transference of narratives
Sequential art narrative and comics
This dissertation considers the prints by South African artists, William Kentridge,
Deborah Bell, and Robert Hodgins for the Hogarth in Johannesburg exhibition (1987) in
the context of William Hogarth’s historical suites of prints referred to in the title of the
exhibition, and contemporary theories about Sequential Art and Narrative.
Produced for the artists at The Caversham Press of Malcolm Christian in KwaZulu-Natal,
particular emphasis is placed on the images created by Deborah Bell, Robert Hodgins and
William Kentridge (such as Industry and Idleness, Marriage-a-la-mode and A Rake’s
Progress), and shown in their combined exhibition Hogarth in Johannesburg, in 1987.Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2012.
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Resler, Johanna Elizabeth. "SARA’S TRANSFORMATION: A TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT’S SARA CREWE AND A LITTLE PRINCESS." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1614.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Frances Hodgson Burnett’s life revolved around her love of story-telling, her sons, nature, and the idealized notion of childhood. Burnett had an ability to recapture universal aspects of childhood and transform them into realistic stories containing elements of the fantastic or fairy tales. Her ability to tell stories started at a young age when she and her sisters were given permission to write on old pieces of paper. Burnett’s love for storytelling, reading, and writing was fostered in her parents’ household, in which a young Burnett was given free reign to explore her parents’ book collection and also left unhindered to imagine and act out stories by herself and with her sisters and close friends. Later her love for telling tales became a means of providing for her family—beginning with short story submissions to magazines. Although Burnett did not necessarily start out writing for children her career ended up along that path after the success in 1886 of her first children’s book, Little Lord Fauntleroy. After this success, she was a recognizable author on both sides of the Atlantic. Sara Crewe; or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s, the 1887–88 serial publication in St. Nicholas magazine and the 1888 short story publication both were titled the same, and the subsequent reworkings of Sara’s world in the forms of two plays, A little un-fairy princess (England, 1902), and A Little Princess; Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe, Now Told for the First Time (United States, 1903), and the 1905 full-length novel which retained the American 1903 play’s title, outlines the creative process that Burnett undertook while exploring the world of Sara Crewe. By examining the above forms, readers and scholars gain an insight into not only the differences between the forms, but also a view of how the author approached adapting an already published work, and the influence of editors on an authors work. The examination of the development of Sara’s timeline will bring light onto Burnett’s growth as a writer and specifically her transition into her role as a children’s literature author.
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Mahala, Siphiwo. "Inside the house of truth : destruction and reconstruction of Can Themba." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25231.
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This study is, by its intention at any rate, an attempt at assembling the scattered fragments of
Can Themba’s life to make a composite being out of the various existing phenomena that
shaped the contours of his life in both literary and literal senses.
Given the disjunctive manner in which Can Themba and his work have been represented thus
far, a combination of Historical and Biographical research methods will underpin the approach
of this study. The resultant approach is the Historical-Biographical method of research.
According to Guerin et al (2005, 22) the Historical-Biographical approach “sees the work
chiefly, if not exclusively, as the reflection of author’s life and times or the life and times of
the characters in the work.”
This research is premised on the conviction that an individual is a constellation of multiple
factors that play a pivotal role in the construction of their persona. These factors will be traced
from his family background, early schooling, tertiary education, socio-economic conditions as
well as his contribution to various newspapers and journals.
While so much has been written about Themba and his work, there is no comprehensive
biography of Can Themba as a person. Most importantly, the factors that contributed to his
making as well as his breaking, or destruction, have not been interrogated in a form of
comprehensive academic research.
Rightly or wrongly, Themba’s meteoric rise into the South African literary canon is often traced
from the moment he won the inaugural Drum Magazine short story competition. Themba
became one of the most popular journalists and rose within the ranks of Drum to become the
Assistant Editor. However, my research demonstrates that winning the Drum short story
competition was the culmination of a literary talent that was developed and had been simmering
for a number of years. Themba studied at the University of Fort Hare between 1945 and 1951
alongside the likes of Dennis Brutus, Ntsu Mokhehle, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe,
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, and many other prominent individuals. He was a regular contributor to
The Fortharian, a university publication that published opinion pieces, poems and short stories.
This is a vital component of Themba’s intellectual growth and it remains the least explored
aspect of his life. As a result, what has been discursively documented by various scholars,
writers and journalists, thus far, is a very parochial representation of Can Themba’s oeuvre.English Studies
D. Litt. et Phil. (English Literature)
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Moutien, Caitan Shirley. "Tradition et modernitė dans C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlee (1987), Assèze, l'Africaine (1994) et Femme nue, femme noire (2003) de Calixthe Beyala." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22070.
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Text in French; abstract in French and EnglishObservatrice des réalités quotidiennes camerounaises, Calixthe Beyala a publié, en 1987, un roman intitulé C’est le soleil qui m’a brûlée. Dans ce roman, elle montre au lecteur comment la femme, victime de la tradition, utilise, avec l’apport de la modernité, son corps comme moyen pour reconquérir son moi profond, et retrouver sa liberté. En 1994, elle a écrit et publié Assѐze, l’Africaine. Et en 2003, elle a publié Femme nue, femme noire. Après une lecture minutieuse de ces trois livres, le lecteur peut facilement découvrir que Calixthe Beyala place la femme au centre de sa préoccupation littéraire. Et elle examine, dans sa fiction, deux thѐmes: la tradition et la modernité. Qu’entend-elle par tradition et modernité? Comment examine-t-elle ces deux thѐmes dans les ouvrages de notre corpus? Quelles solutions propose-t-elle à la femme, d’une part, pour se libérer du joug de la tradition et de la domination masculine, et d’autre part, pour (re)conquérir son corps, son moi profond et pour son émancipation?
Observer of the daily Cameroonian realities, Calixthe Beyala published, in 1987, a novel entitled C’est le soleil qui m’a brûlée. In this novel, she shows the reader how a woman, victim of tradition, uses her body as means to reconquer herself and to find her freedom. In 1994, she wrote and published Assèze, l’Africane. And in 2003, she published Femme nue, femme noire. After a careful reading of the three novels, the reader can easily discover that Calixthe Beyala places woman in the center of her literary preoccupation. And she examines, in her fiction, two themes, tradition and modernity. What does she mean by tradition and modernity? How does she examine these two themes in the novels of our study? What solutions does she propose to the woman, firstly, to liberate herself from the yoke of tradition and male’s domination, and secondly, to reconquer her body, herself and her emancipation?
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M.A. (French)
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Jappie, Achmat Ahdiel. "The development of the arabic essay and short story with particular reference to the contributions of Mustafā Lutfī al-Manfalūtī." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1656.
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The dissertation firstly looks at how the Arabic essay and short story developed in Egypt since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Then a discussion follows on the life and contribution of the Egyptian author, Mustafā Lutfī al-Manfalūtī, as representative of this literary evolution.
The general influences on Egyptian literature are discussed, and the general development of Arabic prose from 1850 onwards is then detailed, including the efforts to save Arabic literature from stagnation and degeneration. Following this, the focus is on the origins of the essay and short story. This leads to dealing with the growth and advancement of the essay and short story, together with the revival of the Arabic heritage and how the Arabic novel came into being.
Then Mustafā Lutfī al-Manfalūtīs biography, environmental circumstances and personalities that influenced his writings are focused on. Afterwards, the core discussion is Al-Manfalūtīs seven literary works, and his ideas and opinions as reflected in his writings. In conclusion, the relevance of his writings and an appraisal of his literary contributions are detailed.Religious Studies & Arabic
M.A. (Arabic)