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Pupo, Mark. "Homo Faber : Edmund White by Edmund White by Mark Pupo." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0022/MQ50560.pdf.
Full textBonk, James Bruce. "Zheng Zhenduo and the writing of literary history in Republican China (1920-1940)." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99358.
Full textOcaña, Karen Isabel. "Synthetic authenticity : the work of Angela Carter, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26748.
Full textBuis, Johann S. "Hindemith and early European music in the United States (1940-53)." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/833671.
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Kok, Marina Susan. "An investigation of masculinity in J. M. Coetzee's disgrace (1999)." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/783.
Full textMakhanya, Phylacia Nozipho. "Ucwaningo olunzulu ngemvunulo yezinkondlo zika-D.B.Z. Ntuli, encwadini ka L.T.L. Mabuya: Ilaka lokulangazelela." Thesis, University of Zululand, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1124.
Full textLolu cwaningo luhlose ukukhanyisa ukuthi ubunkondlo butholakala kanjani enkondlweni. Luzophawula ngezinyathelo ezithathwa umhluzi uma ehluza inkondlo. Lolu cwaningo luzobheka nokubumbeka kwengaphandle lalezi zinkondlo ezilandelayo : Inhlekelele YaseCoalbrook, Sithi Halala, Kuyona Ie ngabadi. Luhlose ukuveza izinto ezithatha amehlo abafundi. Igama elithi izinto liqondise ezigabeni ezakha inkondlo. Uma uzibheka zibunjwe ngezindlela ezahlukene. Libuye liqondise emigqeni eyakhe inkondlo. Le migqa yakhiwe ngenani elahlukene lamagama. Uma weqisa amehlo esakhiweni salezi zinkondlo, uthola ukuthi izinhlamvu ezakhe amagama nazo zehlukene ngamanani. Ekujuliseni amehlo uyakubona ukuvumelana nokuxhumana komsebenzi wale mbongi.
Panjvani, Cyrus. "Rule-following : conventionalism, scepticism and rationality." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12950.
Full textBroadfoot, Lisa. "Allegory and the ruins of Walter Benjamin." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60616.
Full textVan, Wyk Ilse-Mari, and Wyk Ilse-Mari Van. "A style analysis of David Baker's composition for cello and percussion: "Singers of Songs-Wears of Dreams"." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624861.
Full textAdam, Huguette. "Les romans préhistoriques de J.-H. Rosny Aîné /." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65470.
Full textSuzuki-Martinez, Sharon S. 1963. "Tribal Selves: Subversive Identity in Asian American and Native American Literature." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/565575.
Full textHamilton, Grant A. R. School of English UNSW. "Beyond representation : Coetzee, Deleuze, and the colonial subject." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/22310.
Full textChung, Ook 1963. "Le discours prophétique dans l'oeuvre de J.M.G. Le Clézio /." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=34929.
Full textWe intend to show that these works form a complete cycle within the broader scope of Le Clezio's writings. At the forefront of these earlier works we find a questioning on the nature of language and the process of writing, the latter being at times disputed and scorned, at others celebrated and inflated. We shall see the profound ambivalence that Le Clezio has towards language, the language being perceived both as a degradation of man's being as well as the sole mean to express the "adventure of being alive".
The first chapter recaps succinctly the evolution of the prophetic terminology up to the modern times, in which it is no longer the pure domain of godly matters. In the following chapters, each of which pertains to a specific work according to their sequence, we aim to show that (1) the prophetic discourse in Le Clezio's earlier works operate as a set of literary devices---narrative strategies, addresses, invocations, sacred themes---and that (2) this discourse takes the shape of a trajectory. As for content, we win demonstrate that (3) Le Clezio's prophetic discourse is the expression of a phenomenological approach positing the individual's consciousness in face of the absolute.
It is this threefold dynamic that we will analyze in the first works of Le Clezio and that we have gathered under the notion of prophetic discourse.
Cox, Nathalie. "Les passions d'Annie Ernaux : de la biographie a l'âecriture." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5080.
Full textHickey, Sean. "The Vichy regime and its National Revolution in the political writings of Robert Brasillach, Marcel Déat, Jacques Doriot, and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61117.
Full textSlater, Jennifer. "Direct experience of God in contemporary theology." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016265.
Full textKuxdorf, Stephanie. "Love in a machine age : gender relationships in the novels and short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59896.
Full textProthero, James. "The influence of Wordsworth on twentieth-century Anglo-Welsh poets." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683327.
Full textHornby, Catherine Muriel. "A history of confession: the dialogue between cynicism and grace in selected novels of J.M. Coetzee." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002232.
Full textDeschamps, 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.
Full textCet 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.
Smuts, Merriman Eckard. "Embedded subjectivity in the work of J.M. Coetzee." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/18698.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is the result of an immersion in the work of J.M. Coetzee. I have taken various of Coetzee’s novels, namely Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons, Disgrace, The Master of Petersburg, Foe, Life & Times of Michael K and Slow Man, and constructed readings of these novels from the inside out. The overarching concern of the dissertation is the notion of subjectivity and Coetzee’s methods of representing subjectivity. It is my contestation that the experience of authentic subjective awareness arises from the process of reading itself. It is not a state of being that is described by the text, but rather a layered constellation of substitutive exchanges that emerges from the process of textual relation. The notion of embeddedness serves as a description of the way in which the text materializes this experience of subjectivity. The structure of exploration in each chapter has taken as its paradigm a conceptual concern arising from the text itself. In the first chapter (Elizabeth Costello) the concern is with structure itself. The character of Elizabeth struggles against the limitation inherent in the process of representation; this struggle is read as an indication of authentic subjective experience in the face of reduction to a system of codes. The second chapter (Disgrace) attempts to formulate the dynamic of subjective awareness in romantic terms. I construct a reading of Lurie’s predicament in terms that arise from his conceptual environment, in order to indicate the primacy of textual materiality as the locus of subjective awareness. The notion of the classic informs the third chapter (The Master of Petersburg). I use an essay by Coetzee to delineate a conception of the classic, which is then applied as a theoretical framework for an exploration of Dostoevsky’s pursuit of his stepson. The fourth and last chapter (Foe, Life & Times of Michael K and Slow Man) focuses on Coetzee’s use of the body as a figure for embedded subjectivity. It emerges that the body as a trope of embeddedness forms an important aspect of Coetzee’s work throughout his career. As such it is a very suitable figure for describing the dynamics of embeddedness as a mode of representation that aligns itself with the textual materiality of subjective being.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis het ontstaan as die gevolg van ‘n noukeurige ondersoek na die werk van J.M. Coetzee. Ek het myself laat begelei deur die inhoud van verskeie van Coetzee se boeke, naamlik Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons, Disgrace, The Master of Petersburg, Foe, Life & Times of Michael K en Slow Man, om intensiewe lesings van hierdie boeke te konstrueer. Die oorkoepelende bemoeienis van die verhandeling is die konsep van subjektiwiteit en Coetzee se metodes van subjektiewe voorstelling. Ek beweer dat die ervaring van outentieke subjektiewe gewaarwording gesetel is in die leesproses. Dit is nie ‘n toestand van wese wat deur die teks beskryf word nie, maar eerder ‘n verweefde raamwerk van substituwe wisseling wat kom uit die proses van tekstuele relasie. Die konsep van inlywing (“embeddedness”) dien as 'n beskrywing van die manier waarop die teks hierdie ervaring van subjektiwiteit konkretiseer. Die struktuur van ondersoek in elke hoofstuk neem as paradigma 'n konsepsuele vraagstuk wat reeds gesetel is in die teks. In die eerste hoofstuk (Elizabeth Costello) is die bemoeienis met struktuur as sodanig. Elizabeth se karakter stry teen die inperking wat noodwending saamgaan met die proses van voorstelling; hierdie stryd word gelees as 'n aanduiding van outentieke subjektiewe ervaring teenoor die druk van vermindering tot 'n stel kodes. Die tweede hoofstuk (Disgrace) poog om die dinamiek van subjektiewe bewustheid te formuleer in terme wat afkomstig is van die romantiek. Ek konstrueer 'n lees van Lurie se toestand in terme wat kom van sy konsepsuele omgewing, om sodoende die voorrang van tekstuele materialiteit as die lokus van outentieke subjektiwiteit aan te dui. Die konsep van die klassieke belig die derde hoofstuk (The Master of Petersburg). Ek gebruik 'n essay van Coetzee om 'n begrip van die klassieke te formuleer, wat dan toegepas word as 'n teoretiese raamwerk waarbinne Dostoevsky se soeke na sy stiefseun ondersoek word. Die vierde en laaste hoofstuk (Foe, Life & Times of Michael K en Slow Man) fokus op Coetzee se gebruik van die liggaam as 'n figuur vir ingelyfde subjektiwiteit. Dit blyk dat die liggaam as 'n figuur van inlywing 'n prominente aspek van Coetzee se werk vorm deur sy loopbaan. As sodaning is dit 'n baie handige figuur om die dinamiek van inlywing te beskryf as 'n modus van voorstelling wat sigself koppel aan die materialiteit van die teks.
Crous, Matthys Lourens. "Presentations of masculinity in a selection of male-authored post-apartheid novels." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1672.
Full textLin, Sheng-Hsin. "Background, Compositional Style, and Performance Considerations in the Clarinet Works of David Baker: Clarinet Sonata and Heritage: A Tribute to Great Clarinetists." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849742/.
Full textAyivor, Moses Geoffrey Kwame. "Africa's golden age debunked: a study of the sources of select black African historical novels." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002275.
Full textGraham, Lucy Valerie. "The use of the female voice in three novels by J.M. Coetzee." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002267.
Full textRibeiro, Daniel Melo. "Limiares da cartografia: deambulação, arqueologia e montagem no mapeamento de lugares." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21589.
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This research deals with communicative and semiotic properties of maps. We investigate alternative mapping practices that encourage new ways of perceiving space, revealing features that are not treated by traditional maps. Considering this motivation, we raise the following question: Which aspects of space could be communicated on a map when the cartographic conventions are questioned? As a corpus, we selected four trends that challenge the cartographic language: map art, locative media, literary cartography, and deep mapping. The selected mapping examples are analyzed through the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce. After this analysis, the research focuses on a trend known as deep mapping, in order to investigate a methodological discussion about mapping places. We propose a model based on three steps: walking, archaeology, and montage. The development of these steps was inspired by the philosophy of Walter Benjamin. We consider that the critique of Modernity developed by Benjamin is linked to the interpretation of urban material culture, whose narrative potential is latent in archaeological fragments. Mapping these fragments begins with a walking exercise, goes through an archaeological reading, and is arranged in a montage procedure. Therefore, the main objective is to propose a model that stimulates the creation of cartographic representations addressing three general properties of deep mapping: the body experience with space (walking), the historical dimension (archaeology) and the critical reading (montage). Based on the arguments developed by Benjamin, we support the hypothesis that the alternative mapping approach underlines the threshold experiences. These experiences are related to the liminal spaces of transition and hybridism, a form of resistance against the cartographic dispositif
Esta tese trata de propriedades comunicacionais e semióticas dos mapas. Investigamos práticas alternativas de mapeamento que incentivam outras maneiras de perceber o espaço. Diante dessa motivação, colocamos a seguinte pergunta: Quais aspectos do espaço poderiam ser comunicados em um mapa a partir do questionamento do código e das convenções da cartografia? Como corpus, selecionamos quatro tendências que exploram os limites da linguagem cartográfica: a map art, as mídias locativas, a cartografia literária e o mapeamento profundo. Os exemplos de mapeamento selecionados são analisados à luz da semiótica de Charles S. Peirce. Após essa análise, a pesquisa destaca a área conhecida como mapeamento profundo, a fim de promover uma discussão metodológica sobre mapeamentos de lugares. Propomos um modelo de mapeamento baseado em três etapas: a deambulação, a arqueologia e a montagem. O desenvolvimento dessas etapas foi inspirado na filosofia de Walter Benjamin. Consideramos que a crítica à modernidade desenvolvida por Benjamin está ligada à interpretação da cultura material urbana, cujo potencial narrativo se encontra latente em fragmentos e indícios de caráter arqueológico. O mapeamento desses fragmentos inicia-se por um exercício de deambulação (ou flânerie), passa por uma leitura arqueológica e se consolida num processo de montagem. Portanto, o objetivo principal é propor um modelo que estimule a criação de representações cartográficas evidenciando três propriedades do mapeamento profundo: a experiência corporal com o espaço (deambulação), a dimensão histórica (arqueologia) e a leitura crítica (montagem). Por fim, fundamentados nos argumentos desenvolvidos por Benjamin, defendemos a hipótese de que os mapeamentos alternativos resgatam as experiências limiares, ligadas aos ambientes de transição e hibridismo, apresentando-se como formas de resistência ao dispositivo cartográfico
Lau, Garfield Chi Sum. "The ubiquity of terror: reading family, violence and gender in selected African Anglophone novels." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2016. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/262.
Full textJennings, Hope. "Journey towards the (m)other : myth, origins and the daughter's desires in the fiction of Angela Carter." Thesis, St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/148.
Full textMoira, Amara 1985. ""Dubliners" / "Dublinenses" : retraduzir James Joyce." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269967.
Full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: O fato de existirem sete traduções do "Dubliners" de James Joyce poderia indicar duas situações diametralmente opostas: de um lado, que é possível já existir uma versão cujo brilho seria capaz de apagar, pelo menos temporariamente, a necessidade de se retraduzir os quinze contos; de outro, que há algo neste livro que resistiu e segue resistindo às mais obstinadas tentativas de tradução. O estudo destas traduções, entretanto, demonstrará que poucas são as divergências nas propostas que as animam, diferindo entre si tão-somente no grau de ousadia com que buscaram recriar o "Dubliners" em português: no geral, todas as sete (quatro brasileiras e três lusitanas) seriam filhas dum mesmo desejo de preservar a camada superficial de sentido a qualquer custo, mesmo que isto implique em apagar algumas das características mais intrigantes da prosa joyceana (a saber, a possibilidade de usos verbais dos personagens inadvertidamente despontarem na voz do narrador, as experiências coloquiais que abundam em qualquer dos contos [desvios da norma culta, expressões que não conhecem registro nos principais dicionários da língua, giros lexicais de sentido obscuro, peculiaridades do inglês falado na Irlanda, falas vazias de significação ou demasiado vagas, etc.] e as repetições que criam uma teia de sentidos dentro da obra). Pensando nisto e munido de um conhecimento minucioso tanto do texto inglês quanto do das versões em nosso idioma, empreendi uma nova tentativa de tradução do "Dubliners", tradução de viés acadêmico por vir acompanhada de notas e de um arcabouço teórico sólido, mas que não coloca em segundo plano a necessidade de se recriar a instigância do original irlandês. No que toca à obra joyceana, o crítico Hugh Kenner será uma das pedras de toque do projeto, enquanto que, no tocante à teoria da tradução, Walter Benjamin servirá como iluminador de caminhos. A versão castelhana de Guillermo Cabrera Infante, o genial escritor cubano e um admirador de Joyce, será um modelo de possibilidades criativas: não temos uma versão que se lhe equipare, uma versão que se proponha a criar uma obra rigorosa e de fato literária. Eis o desafio a que me proponho nesta dissertação
Abstract: The fact that there are seven translations of James Joyce's "Dubliners" could indicate two diametrically opposite situations: on the one hand, that it is possible that the splendour of one of these versions would be able to suppress, temporarily at least, the need for another translation; on the other, that there is something in this book that resisted and keeps resisting to the most obstinate attempts of translation. However, the analysis of these translations will show that there are few differences between their proposals: in general terms, all them ( four Brazilians and three Lusitanians) descended from the same desire of preserving at any cost the superficial layer of sense, even when it deletes some of his most intriguing characteristics (as some idioms of the characters appearing in the narrator's voice, or the numerous coloquial experiences, or the repetitions that create a web of signifiers inside the work). With that in mind and provided with a thorough knowledge of the English text as well as of the Portuguese translations, I undertake another attempt to translate it, an academic attempt with plenty of notes and a solid framework but bringing also to foreground the necessity of recreating a literary work, a work that deserves to be called literature. Hugh Kenner will be the touchstone regarding the Joycean criticism, while Walter Benjamin will illuminate new paths in translation studies. Guillermo Cabrera Infante, the bright Cuban writer and an admirer of Joyce, was my model of creative possibilities: we do not have a version as good as this one. This is my challenge with this dissertation
Mestrado
Teoria e Critica Literaria
Mestre em Teoria e História Literária
Mfune, Damazio Laston. "My other - my self: post-Cartesian ontological possibilities in the fiction of J M Coetzee." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002289.
Full textFavari, Odair Aparecido Lourenço 1977. "FHC e LULA : a construção do político ideal através das crônicas de Fausto Wolff no jornal O Pasquim 21." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/268879.
Full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Este trabalho de mestrado tem por finalidade mostrar as diferenças encontradas na formação discursiva ¿ por meio da análise de discurso ¿ da produção textual do jornalista e escritor Fausto Wolff durante a sua colaboração no jornal O Pasquim 21. Dividida em dois momentos, a análise terá início com as crônicas produzidas no ano de 2002 e, em seguida, com as de 2003 e 2004 ¿ divididas igualmente em um montante de 13 textos para cada período. As crônicas serão analisadas de acordo com suas condições de produção levando em conta os preceitos da Análise de Discurso Francesa. Por se tratar de um momento histórico, devido a uma sucessão presidencial disputada por dois grandes partidos (PT e PSDB) que se opunham e tentavam demarcar um lugar nas urnas, o que se pretende com os textos analisados, além de definir o lugar da fala do autor e caracterizar a posição de seu discurso, é revelar através das imagens construídas no discurso de FW o político ideal
Abstract: This paper of Master¿s Degree aims to show the differences found at the discursive formation ¿ through the analysis of discourse ¿ of the textual production by the journalist and writer Fausto Wolff during his collaboration on the O Pasquim 21 newspaper. Split in two moments, the analysis will begin with the chronicles produced in 2002 and then with those from 2003 and 2004 ¿ equally split in an amount of 13 texts for each period. The chronicles will be analyzed according to their conditions of production taking into consideration the precepts of the French Analysis of Discourse. As it is a historical moment, due to a presidential succession disputed by two major parties (PT and PSDB) that were antagonists and tried to take their place at the ballot box, the analyzed texts intend, besides defining the place of the author¿s speech and characterizing the position of his discourse, to reveal the ideal politician through the images built in Fausto Wolff¿s discourse
Mestrado
Divulgação Científica e Cultural
Mestre em Divulgação Científica e Cultural
Hedström, Julia. "La marche des morts-vivants : une sociologie praxéologique de la médiation critique." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO30008/document.
Full textThe present research follows George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead’s reception in the American press between 1967 and 1971. The analysis of the film’s media career shows how it progressively becomes consolidated as a public phenomenon, cult film and a work of art. The aim of the investigation is to understand by what means a film qualified by its first national review in Variety as an “orgy of sadism” becomes worthy of projection at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the object of numerous interpretations, initiated by European critics in 1970. Night will be interpreted as a barely disguised metaphor of interior and exterior conflicts that shook the United States in the late Sixties (racial tensions, weakening of the traditional patriarchy, Vietnam War). Beyond the immediacy of its violent imagery of cannibalism, its content will be seen as socially and politically subversive. In the end, this little horror film made by some Pittsburgh-based amateurs will be integrated into United States’ cultural heritage, i.e. the national memory. This indicates that (film) critics do more than just inform their readership about new cultural releases. A journalist’s job consisting of spreading information to anonymous audiences is also an operation of mediation. By presenting Night of the Living Dead as a mirror of the American society, the critics take up the imaginary as a source for reflection on the commonly shared world. By doing so, they enable a national collectivity of a democratic society characterized by mass communication to see itself and to have control on its own history and actions
Paquereau, Marine. "Le réalisme social américain à l'ère postmoderne : (Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford)." Thesis, Dijon, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015DIJOL017/document.
Full textHis study focuses on the works of Russell Banks, Raymond Carver and Richard Ford. They started writing during the 1960s and 1970s, at a time when the self-reflexivity and metafictional play of postmodernist writers were drawing a lot of critical attention in academic circles. However, they consider themselves to be realist writers. In “A Few Words about Minimalism,” John Barth suggested that the return to realist fiction in the mid-1970s could be both a reaction against so-called “postmodernist” fiction and a symptom of the social and economic unease of the period. Indeed, Cathedral, Continental Drift and The Sportswriter describe in accurate detail the everyday lives of ordinary American men and women during Reagan’s presidency. This study demonstrates that these authors are part of the American realist tradition, but that their strand of social realism also takes into account the postmodern context in which they write, by dealing with problems of representation that are typical of the period. Their works both use and challenge the literary conventions associated with the realist tradition, by underlining the artificiality of mimetic illusion at a time when reality itself is seen as a linguistic construct
Tonkin, Margaret Kathleen. "Critical fictions/fictional critiques : Angela Carter and decadent iconographies of woman." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/57419.
Full textThis thesis examines conflicting claims made about the fiction of British feminist writer Angela Carter." --p. iii.
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Chester, Blanca Schorcht. "Storied voices in Native American texts : Harry Robinson, Thomas King, James Welch and Leslie Marmon Silko." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11396.
Full textHenderson, Margaret Annette. "Water in visual art : an investigative study of selected paintings by Joseph Mallord William Turner, Oscar Claude Monet and Pat Steir." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2869.
Full textThesis (M.A.)-University of Kwazulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2004.
Dutton, Jacqueline Louise. "Le Chercheur d'or et d'ailleurs : Le Clezio sur le chemin de l'utopie = The representation of Utopia in the work of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio (1963-1998) / Jacqueline Louise Dutton." 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19546.
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This thesis examines the representation of utopia in the works of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio. Through the reference to the utopian tradition, it provides a global reading of a diverse range of writings, both fictional and non-fictional, which have hitherto proved difficult to classify as a coherent corpus. While drawing upon the imagery of the quest that has been highlighted by mythocritical, psychocritical and sociopoetical approaches, this study extends their conclusions by linking the diverse images of the quest in Le Clezio's writings to this personal quest for utopia.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Centre for European Studies, 1999
Dutton, Jacqueline Louise. "Le Chercheur d'or et d'ailleurs : Le Clezio sur le chemin de l'utopie = The representation of Utopia in the work of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio (1963-1998) / Jacqueline Louise Dutton." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19546.
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This thesis examines the representation of utopia in the works of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio. Through the reference to the utopian tradition, it provides a global reading of a diverse range of writings, both fictional and non-fictional, which have hitherto proved difficult to classify as a coherent corpus. While drawing upon the imagery of the quest that has been highlighted by mythocritical, psychocritical and sociopoetical approaches, this study extends their conclusions by linking the diverse images of the quest in Le Clezio's writings to this personal quest for utopia.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Centre for European Studies, 1999
Gedye, Nicholas Richard. "Modality and metaphor : Saul Kripke and the problem of transworld identification." Master's thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151577.
Full textSibisi, Zwelithini Leo. "Conscientisation : a motive behind the selected poems of Sepamla, Serote, Gwala and Mtshali." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/9544.
Full textThesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2013.
Nel, David. "Return to the farm : landscape as a site for the interrogation of identity in three works of J.M. Coetzee." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3454.
Full textThesis (M.A.) - University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg , 2002.
Marais, Michael John. "Towards a Levinasian aesthetic : the tension between implication and transcendence in selected fiction by J.M. Coetzee." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/6424.
Full textThis study explores the tension between politics and ethics in selected novels by J.M Coetzee. It contends that, in this writer's fiction, ethics is conceived of in Levinasian terms as a relation of responsibility for the other which is grounded in an acknowledgement of the other's radical difference to the same. The thesis examines Coetzee's self-reflexive investigation of the problem for novelistic representation posed by this conception of ethics. In order to contextualise this examination, the first chapter of the study establishes that the form and medium of the novel install a relation of correlation between same and other, and that the novel-as-genre therefore routinely forecloses on, rather than maintains a relation of difference to, alterity. Chapter One also traces the various strategies through which Coetzee's novels attempt not only to prevent the medium and form of the novel-as-genre from reducing the other to an object and thereby violating it, but also to impart a sense of that which inevitably exceeds, and so transcends, this genre's representational protocols. By means of such strategies of excession, the study contends, Coetzee's texts endeavour to inscribe a responsible relation to the other. The four remaining chapters of the thesis trace Coetzee's installation of strategies of excession, and therefore of an ethical aesthetic, in Dusklands, Life and Times of Michael K, Foe, Age of Iron and The Master of Petersburg. They also consider these novels' self-conscious articulation of the ethical implications of such strategies. Chapter Four and Chapter Five pay special attention to the inscription in Coetzee's later fiction of a debate on the possible effect on the reader of the individual text's ethical relation to the other. In this regard, the thesis argues that the ultimate purpose of Coetzee's attempt to respond responsibly to alterity in his writing is to enable the other to approach the reader in the course of the literary encounter. It thereby demonstrates that Coetzee's concern with ethics is deeply political: in attempting to contrive an ethical relation between the reader and the other, the individual text seeks to secure a mediation of the political by the ethical.
Gieskes, Mette. "The politics of system in the art of Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, and Vito Acconci, 1959-1975." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2868.
Full textHorrell, Georgina Ann. "White skin under an African Sun : (white) women and (white) guilt in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible and Doris Lessing's The Grass is Singing." Diss., 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16968.
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Tinsley, Hettie. "Constructions of women in relation to the politics and ideals of androgyny in some of the works of Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, Joan Barfoot and Angela Carter." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/110342.
Full textCaldwell, Christine Sego. "IMAGINING THE OTHER: THE POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITS OF THE SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION IN J. M. COETZEE’S RECENT FICTION." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2710.
Full textIn three of J. M. Coetzee’s recent novels, Disgrace (1999), Elizabeth Costello (2003), and Slow Man (2005), the South African author explores notions of authorship and challenges the possibilities of the sympathetic imagination. The notion of the sympathetic imagination has roots in Romanticism, and it connotes inhabiting another in order to understand or interpret. Romantic poet John Keats described the poet as “continually in for [sic] and filling some other body” (Letter to Richard Woodhouse), and Coetzee addresses the notion of the sympathetic imagination in his work. There are two facets of the sympathetic imagination: that which governs social relations and that which authors and creative minds attempt to claim as a driving force behind their work. It is important not to conflate the two separate facets of the sympathetic imagination. The social facet encourages good citizenship and allows humankind to behave in humane ways. It counters one’s private desire for mastery and balances self-interest with self-sacrifice; the sympathetic imagination helps others attain their goals and places others’ needs alongside one’s own selfishness. A sympathetic imagination is an essential quality in society, yet it will always yield only partial success. It cannot achieve complete success because truly inhabiting and embodying another living person is simply impossible, but in fiction, Coetzee explores the possibilities and limits of the sympathetic imagination at the level of language and metaphor. The other facet of the sympathetic imagination is often claimed by authors, poets, and artists to allow them to inhabit the subjects of their creativity. Coetzee tests the limits of authorial claims that writing is accomplished by applying a sympathetic imagination. In doing so, he creates metaphysical frames in which his own author-characters interact with other characters to reveal that some characters resist being written. In these metaphysical frames of fiction, Coetzee suggests that an author’s sympathetic imagination will never have total success; he sets forth a notion of partial success that helps address what is gained when the sympathetic imagination runs up against limits. My argument is that the authors and characters in these three novels attempt acts of sympathetic imagination and recurrently encounter limits. Coetzee questions perceived notions of authorship and the possibilities of the sympathetic imagination without offering alternatives. He critiques common notions of authorship and character writing but offers no real solutions.
"技術時代的翻譯與寫作: 以本雅明的「技巧」槪念重新測繪鲁迅的寫作地圖." 2000. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5895835.
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論文 (哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2000.
參考文獻 (leaves 133-146)
附中英文摘要.
"2000 nian 8 yue"
Zhang Lijun.
Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2000.
Can kao wen xian (leaves1 133-146)
Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao.
Chapter 緒論
Chapter 第一節 --- 硏究目的及方法 --- p.1-6
Chapter 第二節 --- 硏究背景及簡介 --- p.6-8
Chapter 上篇 --- 文字的拱廊與時間的影象´ؤ´ؤ論魯迅的直譯與雜文
Chapter 第一節 --- 引言 --- p.9-13
Chapter 第二節 --- 翻譯與希望一一論魯迅的「直譯」 --- p.14-34
Chapter 第三節 --- 解剖圖說與歷史照相學 一一論魯迅的「雜文」 --- p.34-59
Chapter 第四節 --- 小結 --- p.59-61
Chapter 下篇 --- 可技術複製性時代的傳統技藝´ؤ´ؤ論魯迅作品中的「破壞」 與「救贖」
Chapter 第一節 --- 引言 --- p.62-63
Chapter 第二節 --- 傳統經驗的「不可傳遞性」 --- p.63-67
Chapter 第三節 --- 「幻燈片事件」中的技術與暴力 --- p.67-78
Chapter 第四節 --- 病態國民照相 ´ؤ´ؤ論魯迅小說中的媒體經驗 --- p.79-100
Chapter 第五節 --- 從〈懷舊〉到《故事新編》 ´ؤ´ؤ魯迅小說寫作中的「傳統技巧」 與「救贖」 --- p.100-128
Chapter 第六節 --- 小結:「破壞」與「救贖」 --- p.128-131
結語 --- p.132
參考書目 --- p.133-146
Le, Bon Luc Sylvestre Yul Charles. "L'ile Maurice et Rodrigues dans l'oeuvre de J.-M.G. de Clézio: la quête d'une vérité et d'une nouvelle identité." Diss., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2054.
Full textNdumiso, Ncube. "Dismembering and re-membering in J.M. Coetzee's selected fiction: a decolonial approach." Diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25708.
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The present study deploys Ngugi wa Thiongo’s (2009) decolonial concepts of dismembering and re-membering to critically explore J. M Coetzee’s selected fiction. In my reading of the novels Waiting for the Barbarians, Foe and Disgrace, I relate concepts of dismembering and re-membering to decoloniality. In the rendition of Ngugi, dismembering refers to the displacement and dispossession of the colonised, and their mental colonisation through cultural imperialism. Re-membering becomes the decolonial effort to undo physical and psychological dismembering. In the same way in which, since the Berlin Conference of 1884/5, Africa was divided, mapped and colonised, the cultures and histories of Africans were dismembered and dominated. Concerns for the land are expressed in the mapping and the confiscation of land which is depicted in the native’s desert dwellings in Waiting for the Barbarians, Cruso’s clearing of the land in Foe and Petrus’s taking over of Lucy’s farm in Disgrace. Furthermore, Coetzee’s use of language is one important narrative strategy that is explored to ascertain how Coetzee negates or speaks for, of and about the colonised through the narrator focaliser. This study reveals the reflexive nature of the selected novels and seeks answers to the question of why Coetzee tends to make his “black” characters voiceless and rootless (and sometimes nameless)? Is Coetzee suggesting that they have been silenced by history, by colonialism, or is he suggesting that he, the author, has no right to speak on their behalf? In the mode of writing and story-telling, is Coetzee suggesting the impossibility of the coloniser to speak for the colonised or, in speaking of them, does he give the servant characters a voice and can this voice be theirs, or can it be considered reliable? Is Coetzee presenting the power of passivity as a means of resistance and re-membering? This study, from a decolonial perspective, engages with the complex way Coetzee handles voice and the question of the agency of the colonised.
Hierdie studie benut Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (2009) se dekoloniale begrippe van verdeling en herindeling in ʼn kritiese beskouing van J. M. Coetzee se geselekteerde fiksie. In my vertolking van die romans Waiting for the Barbarians, Foe en Disgrace, bring ek die begrippe van verdeling en herindeling in verband met dekolonialisme. In Ngũgĩ se vertolking verwys verdeling na die verplasing en onteiening van die gekoloniseerdes, en hul geestelike kolonisering deur kulturele imperialisme. Herindeling word die dekoloniale poging om fisiese en sielkundige herindeling ongedaan te maak. Op dieselfde manier wat Afrika verdeel, gekarteer en gekoloniseer is sedert die Berlynse Konferensie van 1884/5, is Afrikane se kulture en geskiedenisse verdeel en gedomineer. Kommer oor die grond word te kenne gegee in die kartering en konfiskering van grond – soos uitgebeeld in die boorling se woestynverblyf in Waiting for the Barbarians, Cruso se opruiming van die grond in Foe en Petrus se oorname van Lucy se plaas in Disgrace. Verder is Coetzee se taalgebruik ʼn belangrike verhalende strategie wat bestudeer word om vas te stel hoe Coetzee die gekoloniseerde ontken of vir, van en oor die gekoloniseerde praat deur middel van die verteller/fokaliseerder. Hierdie studie openbaar die refleksiewe aard van die geselekteerde romans en soek vir antwoorde op die vraag van waarom Coetzee geneig is om sy “swart” karakters stemloos en wortelloos (en soms, naamloos) te maak. Suggereer Coetzee dat hulle deur die geskiedenis, deur kolonialisme, stilgemaak is – of suggereer hy dat hy, die outeur, nie die reg het om namens hulle te praat nie? Wil Coetzee deur sy manier van skryf en vertelling, aan die hand doen dat dit onmoontlik is dat die koloniseerder vir die gekoloniseerde kan praat; of, wanneer hy van hulle praat, gee hy aan die dienaarkarakters ʼn stem en kan dit hulle stem wees, of kan dit as betroubaar beskou word? Hou Coetzee die kraag van passiwiteit voor as ʼn vorm van weerstand en herindeling? Hierdie studie ondersoek, vanuit ʼn dekoloniale perspektief, die komplekse wyse waarop Coetzee stem en die vraag van die tussenkoms van die gekoloniseerde hanteer.
Ucwaningo lwamanje luchitha imiqondo ka-Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (2009) yokuqothula nokujoyina kabusha ukungabuswa ngelinye izwe ekuhloliseni ngokucophelela ukuqamba okukhethiwe kukaJ.M. Coetzee. Ekufundeni kwami amanoveli i-Waiting for the Barbarians, Foe and Disgrace, ngichaza imiqondo yokuqothula futhi ukujoyina kabusha ekungabusweni ngelinye izwe. Ekuhumusheni kuka-Ngũgĩ, ukuqothula kubhekisela ekufudukeni nasekuthunjweni kwalabo ababuswa ngelinye izwe, kanye nengqondo yabo ekubusweni ngelinye izwe ngokusebenzisa imiphakathi yamasiko. Ukujoyina kabusha kuba wumzamo wokungabuswa ngelinye izwe ukulungisa ukuqothula kokukhubazeka ngokomzimba nangokwengqondo. Ngendlela efanayo lapho i-Afrika ihlukaniswe ngakhona, ihlelwe ibalazwe futhi ibuzwa ngelinye izwe kusukela kwiNgqungquthela yaseBerlin ka 1884/5, amasiko kanye nemilando yabantu base-Afrika yaqothulwa futhi yabuswa. Ukukhathazeka kwezwe kuboniswa ebalazweni nasekuthunjweni komhlaba - njengoba kuboniswe ezindaweni zokuhlala zasogwadule ku- Waiting for the Barbarians, ku-Cruso ukuhlanzwa komhlaba-enovelini i-Foe nakuPetrus ukuthatha ipulazi likaLucy enovelini i-Disgrace. Ngaphezu kwalokho, ukusetshenziswa kolimi lukaCoetzee kuyisisindo esisodwa esibalulekile sokulandisa esihlolisiswayo ukuze kuqinisekiswe ukuthi uCozezee uphikisa kanjani noma ukhuluma kanjani, futhi mayelana nababuswa ngelinye izwe ngokusebenzisa umlandisi. Lolu cwaningo lwembula uhlobo oluthile lokucabanga lwamanoveli akhethiwe futhi lufuna izimpendulo embuzweni wokuthi kungani uCoetzee ejwayele ukwenza "abalingisi" bakhe abamnyama bengabonakali futhi bangenasisekelo (futhi ngezinye izikhathi abangenalo igama). Ingabe uCoetzee uphakamisa ukuthi baye bathuliswa ngumlando, ngukubuswa ngelinye izwe, noma ingabe uphakamisa ukuthi yena, umbhali, akanalo ilungelo lokukhuluma egameni labo? Ngendlela yokubhala nokuxoxa ngezindaba, ingabe uCoetzee uphakamisa ukuthi akunakwenzeka ukuba obusa elinye izwe akhulumele ababuswayo kulelo zwe noma, uma ekhuluma ngabo, uyabanika abalingiswa abayinceku izwi futhi leli zwi lingaba ngelabo, noma lingathathwa njengelethembekile? Ingabe uCoetzee uveza amandla okungahambisani njengendlela yokumelana nokujoyina kabusha? Lolu cwaningo, kusukela embonweni wokungabuswa ngelinye izwe, luhambisana nendlela eyinkimbinkimbi uCoetzee alawula izwi kanye nombuzo wokumela ababuswayo.
English Studies
M.A. (Theory of Literature: (English Studies))
Dent, Jacqueline Elizabeth May. "Exploring the construction of white male identity in selected novels by J.M. Coetzee." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1583.
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M.A. (English)