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Gregory, Rabia Burns E. Jane. "Marrying Jesus brides and the Bridegroom in medieval women's religious literature /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1122.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Mar. 27, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Religious Studies Medieval and Early Modern Christianity." Discipline: Religious Studies; Department/School: Religious Studies.
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Leonte, Eva. "Enacting the Silence of Subaltern Women : Julie Otsuka and the Japanese Picture Brides." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-144396.
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It is by now a truth universally acknowledged that the world’s subaltern women (in Gayatri Spivak’s understanding of the term) cannot make their voices heard, that what we think we know about them are mostly stereotypes of our own making. It is likewise acknowledged that literature has a privileged status when it comes to representing these women, given its unique prerogative to retrieve their traces and convey their subjectivity through imagining. Literary texts which embark on this task can be seen as symbolic speech acts and, as such, they depend upon their illocutionary force for success in the public sphere. In this thesis I have chosen to discuss The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (2011) – a novel I perceive as a collective speech act – from the combined perspective of speech-act criticism (J. L. Austin, S. Petrey), subaltern studies (G. Spivak, G. Pandey) and feminist theory (M. P. Lara, S. Lanser). My analysis explores the interrelation between this little-known story of the first-generation Japanese women immigrants to the US and the sophisticated narrative strategy which sustains it, continually balancing between the women's heterogeneity and their shared experiences, especially their systematic silencing by the dominant population. Finally, the thesis discusses the novel’s larger illocutionary implications for the public sphere, in particular how the reclaiming of the past creates new understandings of the present as well as opens up onto the future. Keywords: Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic, migrant literature, picture brides, subalternity, feminist theory, communal voice, speech-act criticism, illocutionary force.
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Rees, Shelley S. "Gender and Desire in Thomas Lovell Beddoes' The Brides' Tragedy and Death's Jest-Book." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3078/.
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Thomas Lovell Beddoes' female dramatic characters are, for the most part, objectified and static, but these passive women perform a crucial narrative and thematic function in the plays. Alongside the destructive activity of the male characters, they dramatize masculine-feminine unions as idealized and contrived and, thus, unstable. Desire, power and influence, as well as the constrictive aspects of physicality, all become gendered concepts in Beddoes' plays, and socially normative relationships between men and women, including heterosexual courtship and marriage, are scrutinized and found wanting. In The Brides' Tragedy, Floribel and Olivia, the eponymous brides, represent archetypes of innocence, purity, and Romantic nature. Their bridegroom, Hesperus, embodies Romantic masculinity, desiring the feminine and aspiring to androgyny, but ultimately unable to relinquish masculine power. The consequences of Hesperus' attempts to unite with the feminine other are the destruction of that other and of himself, with no hope for the spiritual union in death that the Romantic Hesperus espouses as his ultimate desire. Death's Jest-Book expands upon the theme of male-female incompatibility, presenting heterosexual relationships in the context of triangulated desire. The erotic triangles created by Melveric, Sibylla, and Wolfram and Athulf, Amala, and Adalmar are inherently unstable, because they depend upon the rivalries between the males. Once those rivalries end, with the deaths of Wolfram and Athulf, respectively, Sibylla and Amala fade into nothing, their function as conduits for male homosocial relations at an end. In effect, these failed heterosexual triangles function as a backdrop for the idealized relationship between Melveric and Wolfram, whose desire for each other is mediated through their common pursuit of Sibylla, as well as through their blood-brotherhood. Once Wolfram's physical masculinity is deferred through death, the mixing of his ashes with those of Melveric's dead wife, and reanimation, Melveric and Wolfram descend into the tomb together, united for eternity.
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Wunker, Erin. "Borders of becoming : an examination into absence and desire for self and subjectivity in Anne Carson's Men in the off hours and Gail Scott's Main brides." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79985.
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This paper examines the way in which two contemporary Canadian women writers, Anne Carson and Gail Scott, integrate subjective theory into two of their respective texts (Carson's Men In the Off Hours, and Scott's Main Brides). This study rejects the presentation of a single protagonist and instead focuses heavy emphasis upon the presentation of subjective experiments. In this paper the subjects in Men In the Off Hours and Main Brides are examined through the desires they exhibit for the absent other---that which the subject perceives he/she does not have---as central to his/her own conception of him/her self. The paper first acknowledges that subjective theory, the quest for the self, has maintained a central position in scholarly studies. It then proceeds to disseminate and critique Lacanian subjective theory thereby setting the stage for close readings of Carson's Men In the Off Hours through theorist Julia Kristeva's notion of abjection, and of Scott's Main Brides through Jacques Derrida's theory of the borderline. The paper closes by questioning the possibility of a fully realized subject.
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Arvidsson, Therese. "Train–Bridge Interaction : Literature Review and Parameter Screening." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Bro- och stålbyggnad, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-144843.
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New railway lines are continuously being constructed and existing lines are upgraded. Hence, there is a need for research directed towards efficient design of the supporting structures. Increasingly advanced calculation methods can be motivated, especially in projects where huge savings can be obtained from verifying that existing structures can safely support increased axle loads and higher speeds. This thesis treats the dynamic response of bridges under freight and passenger train loads. The main focus is the idealisation of the train load and its implications for the evaluation of the vertical bridge deck acceleration. To ensure the running safety of train traffic at high speeds the European design codes set a limit on the vertical bridge deck acceleration. By considering the train–bridge interaction, that is, to model the train as rigid bodies on suspension units instead of constant moving forces, a reduction in bridge response can be obtained. The amount of reduction in bridge deck acceleration is typically between 5 and 20% for bridges with a span up to 30 m. The reduction can be higher for certain train–bridge systems and can be important also for bridge spans over 30 m. This thesis aims at clarifying for which system parameter combinations the effect of train–bridge interaction is important. To this end, a thorough literature survey has been performed on studies in train–track–bridge dynamics. The governing parameters in 2D train–bridge systems have been further studied through a parameter screening procedure. The two-level factorial methodology was applied to study the effect of parameter variations as well as the joint effect from simultaneous changes in several parameters. The effect of the choice of load model was thus set in relation to the effect of other parameter variations. The results show that resonance can arise from freight train traffic within realistic speed ranges (< 150 km/h). At these resonance peaks, the reduction in bridge response from a train–bridge interaction model can be considerable. From the screening of key parameters it can furthermore be concluded that the amount of reduction obtained with a train–bridge interaction model depends on several system parameters, both for freight and passenger train loads. In line with the European design code’s guidelines for dynamic assessment of bridges under passenger trains an additional amount of damping can be introduced as a simplified way of taking into account the reduction from train–bridge interaction. The amount of additional damping is today given as function of solely the bridge span length, which is a rough simplification. The work presented in this thesis supports the need for a refined definition of the additional damping.Nya järnvägslinjer byggs kontinuerligt och befintliga linjer uppgraderas. Det finns därför ett behov av forskning inriktad på effektiv design av de bärande konstruktionerna. Alltmer avancerade beräkningsmetoder kan vara motiverade, särskilt i projekt där stora besparingar kan erhållas från att verifiera att befintliga konstruktioner kan bära ökade axellaster och högre hastigheter. Föreliggande avhandling behandlar broars dynamiska respons under belastning av gods- och passagerartåg. Huvudfokus är att studera modelleringsalternativ för tåglasten och vilka konsekvenser de har för utvärderingen av brobanans vertikala acceleration. För att garantera trafiksäkerhet vid höga tåghastigheter definierar de europeiska normerna en maximalt tillåten vertikal acceleration i brobanan. Genom att beakta tåg-bro-interaktion, där tågkomponenterna modelleras som avfjädrade stela kroppar istället för konstanta punktlaster, kan en minskning av brons respons erhållas. Reduktionen av brobanans acceleration är typiskt mellan 5 och 20% för broar med en spännvidd på upp till 30 m. Minskningen kan vara högre för vissa tåg-brosystem och kan vara viktigt också för spännvidder över 30 m. Denna avhandling syftar till att klargöra för vilka kombinationer av tåg-broparametrar effekten av tåg-bro-interaktion är viktig. I detta syfte har en omfattande litteraturstudie genomförts inom området tåg-spår-brodynamik. De styrande parametrarna i 2D tåg-brosystem har studerats vidare i en parameterstudie. Två-nivå faktorförsök har tillämpats för att studera effekten av parametervariationer samt den ytterligare effekten av samtidiga förändringar i flera parametrar. Effekten av valet av lastmodell sattes därmed i relation till effekten av andra parametervariationer. Resultaten visar att resonans kan uppstå från godstrafik inom ett realistiskt hastighetsintervall (< 150 km/h). Vid dessa resonanstoppar kan en betydande minskning av broresponsen erhållas med en tåg-bro-interaktionsmodell. Från studien av nyckelparametrar kan man vidare dra slutsatsen att reduktionen som erhålls med en tåg-bro-interaktionsmodell beror på flera systemparametrar, både för gods- och passargerartåg. Enligt de europeiska normernas rekommendationer för dynamisk kontroll av broar för passagerartrafik kan en ökad brodämpning introduceras som ett förenklat sätt att ta hänsyn till minskningen från tåg-bro-interaktion. Mängden tilläggsdämpning anges idag som en funktion av enbart brons spännvidd, vilket är en grov förenkling. Det arbete som presenteras i denna avhandling visar på behovet av en förbättrad definition av tilläggsdämpningen.
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Ellasante, Ian, and Ian Ellasante. "Bridges Between Me: Liminality, Authenticity, and Re/integration in American Indian Literature." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/293493.
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With both its inherent alienation and freedom, the experience of liminality, or the occupation of transitional spaces, is in many ways universally human. However, by nature of their bicultural liminality and the oppressive and pervasive demand for what Paula Gunn Allen terms "Indianness" American Indian authors must also confront and negotiate questions of authenticity. In so doing, many have taken the opportunity to subvert those demands, to juxtapose their actual multifaceted identities against them, to make meaning from the contrast, and to create from that re/integrated space. This thesis elucidates these points as an introduction to the body of poems that follow. The poems, often instruments of my own liminality, explore the broad themes of place, family, and identity.
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Bentley, Sarah Ann. "The bridge of language : children's literature as dialogic experience." Thesis, University of Hull, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342926.
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Mooney, Susan. "Drawing bridges : publicprivate worlds in Russian women's fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=60561.
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This thesis questions how Russian women's identity is attached to the textual use of public/private spaces in contemporary literature by Russian women writers by drawing from feminist theories. I. Grekova and N. Baranskaia portray female protagonists in their everyday lives, public and private worlds overlapping. While these heroines create stable support systems with other women, male figures enter as interruptive forces in women's lives. Hospital settings in several works by Russian women allow comparisons between women's fictional hospital experiences and those of Muscovite women interviewed. In L. Petrushevskaia's stories, women protagonists' identities are linked to the uncertain quality of locale and the tenuous relationships which transpire in it. Russian women's identity expressed in fiction may change as the self-perceptions of a younger generation of Russian women writers evolve toward a new, gendered concept of self.
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Capogna, Kyle E. "Badges Earned and Bridges Burned: Essays." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1366914232.
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Bross, Miriam. "Bridget Jones's Legacy : gender and discourse in contemporary literature and romantic comedy adaptations." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2016. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/64175/.
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Romantic comedy adaptations based on bestsellers aimed at predominantly female readers have become more frequent in the fifteen years since the publication of Bridget Jones’s Diary (1996) and the financial success of its adaptation (Sharon Maguire, 2001). Contemporary popular literature and films created specifically for women have emerged alongside the spread of neoliberalist and postfeminist discourses. This thesis offers a timely examination of bestselling adapted texts, including chick lit novels, a self-help book and a memoir, and their romantic comedy adaptations. While some of the books and films have received individual attention in academic writing, they have not been examined together as an interconnected group of texts. This thesis is the first work to cohesively analyse representations of gender in mainstream bestsellers predominantly aimed at female readers and their romantic comedy adaptations published and released between 1996 and 2011. Through a combination of textual analysis and broader discursive and contextual analysis, it examines how these popular culture texts adapt and extend themes, characters, narrative style and the plot structure from Bridget Jones’s Diary. Moreover, the thesis explores how they function as sites of the production and circulation of discourses. In doing so, the thesis accentuates wider surrounding discourses and how they contribute to, and are informed by, concepts about gender that circulate within the wider neoliberalist cultural climate. By using an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on ten books and nine romantic comedies published and released over a time span of fifteen years, the thesis reveals intertextual influences across genre and media boundaries and discusses resulting changes in genre conventions over time. It draws attention to culturally and academically devalued popular literary and film genres produced for predominantly female consumers and argues that these texts deserve academic attention because they contribute to the fabric that constitutes contemporary reality.
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Coyle, Gregory K. "No Boat, No Bridge." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5079.
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In a world that devours one technological advance after another, the simple human questions persist. They endure despite the increased speed of the personal computer or the decreased size of the cellular phone. In a time ruled by measurements they remain elusive and undefined. The longing for love, the crisis of past versus present, the nagging hunger for meaning in the face of constant change--these questions manage to be both small and huge, both slow and fast, all at once. They are the inheritance of every generation; they are written on the very lining of our hearts. These stories are, then, simply a short list of questions. Whether it be a story like "Bones, 11 where love and time intersect, or one like "There is A., 11 where moral strength is at issue, each asks a question. Each attempts by a different angle to flush some answers from the brush. What does it mean to love? When does hope become foolishness? When lost, is it always better to stay put? These are some of the concerns taken up in this collection. In the end, the answers remain just out of reach, having only just rounded the corner at our arrival. The reader is left to either the tremulous bravado of the boy in the second story, who asks, "What do I care about wolves in the night anyway?" or the paltry rebellion of the man in "Making for the Phoenix" who is reduced finally to throwing rocks at the windows in his office building.
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Dhrodia, Reshma. ""Have you met Miss Jones?": Feminism and difference in the Bridget Jones diaries." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27125.
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Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones novels are popular with countless readers all over the world. They are "ripe for feminist interpretation and investigation" because they are "contemporary women's novels" that discuss the everyday lives of women, particularly unmarried women in the West (Whelehan 2004, 38). Imelda Whelehan argues that if the Bridget Jones novels do not "offer a 'true' reflection of contemporary single life for women, they perhaps present its tensions more boldly than ever" (2004, 30). This thesis is a feminist study of the Bridget Jones novels and the film adaptation of Bridget Jones's Diary, focussing on how discourses of feminism and otherness appear in Fielding's texts and in the film, and how the major women characters use them to interpret their own lives.
Chapter One investigates the ways in which Bridget, Sharon, and Pam Jones understand feminism and employ feminist language in Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary (1996). Chapter Two explores how characters who are Other---those who are racially and ethnically different from Bridget, her friends, and her family---create barriers between the white, heterosexual couples in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999). Finally, Chapter Three turns to the 2001 film adaptation of Bridget Jones's Diary in order to demonstrate how prevalent themes in the first novel, including feminism, go missing in the adaptation.
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Kraemer, Angelika Natascha. "Engaging the foreign language learner using hybrid instruction to bridge the language-literature gap /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on July 2, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-272). Also issued in print.
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Jones, Jessica L. "The masquerade and bisexuality in Margaret Atwood's The robber bride /." Electronic version (PDF), 2007. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2007-1/jonesj/jessicajones.pdf.
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Beden, Nadja. "Femininity and Masculinity in Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för humaniora, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-13976.
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Hug, Christine. "Discourse and translation, comparative descriptive analysis of William Goldman's The Princess Bride and its French translation." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ58463.pdf.
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Anderson, Joshua Tyler. "Dams, Roads, and Bridges: (Re)defining Work and Masculinity in American Indian Literature of the Great Plains, 1968-Present." DigitalCommons@USU, 2013. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1768.
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This master's thesis explores the intersections of labor, socioeconomic class, and constructed American Indian masculinities in the literature of indigenous writers of the Great Plains published after the Native American Renaissance of the late 1960s. By engaging scholars and theorists from multiple disciplines--including Native labor historians such as Colleen O'Neill and Alexandra Harmon, (trans)indigenous studies scholars such as Chadwick Allen and Philip Deloria, and Native literary and cultural critics such as Gerald Vizenor and Louis Owens--this thesis offers an American Studies approach to definitions and expressions of work, wealth, and masculinity in American Indian literature of the Great Plains. With chapters on D'Arcy McNickle's posthumous Wind From an Enemy Sky (1978), Carter Revard's poetry and mixed-genre memoirs, and Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water (1999), this thesis emphasizes the roles of cross-cultural apprenticeships for young Native protagonists whose socioeconomic opportunities are often obstructed, threatened, or complicated by dams, roads, and bridges, both literal and metaphorical, as they seek ways to engage (or circumvent) the capitalist marketplace on their own terms. In highlighting each protagonist's relationship to blood (family and community), land, and memory, the chapters reveal how the respective Native authors challenge and reimagine stereotypes regarding Native workers and offer more complicated and nuanced discussions of Native "traditions" in modernity. (173 pages)
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Sjöstrand, Jessica. "An Investigation of the Characterization in Bridget Jones’s Diary from a Feminist Perspective." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-72861.
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This essay investigates Bridget Jones’s Diary, a novel written by Helen Fielding, from a feminist perspective with an emphasis on gender. The focus lies on Bridget’s characterization and how it can be perceived as problematic from a feminist point of view. On the surface, Bridget seems like a true feminist, but when reading into and analyzing her characterization, one can see that she rejects many of the key ideas within feminism. The study also investigates how one might work with Bridget Jones’s Diary in the secondary EFL classroom.
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Enemark, Nina. "'Recrossing the ritual bridge' : Jane Ellen Harrison's theory of art in the work of Hope Mirrlees." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6443/.
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This thesis considers the dominating element of ritual in the works of Hope Mirrlees, a theme and structuring framework that grows out of her relationship to the classicist Jane Ellen Harrison. Harrison's theory, which draws on modern theories of anthropology and psychology and up-to-date archaeological excavations of antiquities, comments on the modernist period through the unique lens of her ritual theory of art. I explore how the grounding of her theory in these fields as well as the visual-tactile practice of archaeology and the body-focused aesthetic of the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood point towards a materialist, performative aesthetic centred on process and desire. Her ritual theory, I argue, can be read as a diagnosis of the cultural, intellectual and aesthetic climate of her day, calling for a greater emphasis on emotional, embodied experience in religion as well as art, challenging the individualist intellectualism of theology and what she sees as the static, lifeless nature of realist representation. This thesis concerns itself with the way the writer closest to Harrison, who claims to owe her entire worldview to her, absorbs Harrison's ideas and takes on this challenge. Mirrlees’s work shows a preoccupation with the process of representation, particularly representation of aspects of experience that evades rational understanding and expression: dreams and the workings of the unconscious, and mystical experience. Mirrlees turns to the Romantic tradition for its engagement with these things, locating herself within a strain of Romantic writing that foregrounds dreams, gothic fantasy and mysticism – a strain that Mirrlees, using Harrison’s theory, argues has its roots in primitive ritual. Harrison’s formulation of the ritual origin of art provides a framework for her to pursue her quest of representing the unrepresentable, producing a highly performative literary aesthetic which, like Harrison, never loses sight of the religious, magical function of art. The gem of Mirrlees's oeuvre, this thesis argues, is Paris, which is discussed over two chapters. The first examines the presence of ritual elements in the poem's verbal content, considering how it enacts a post-war ritual of transition into a new age, fuelled by a desire and hope for spiritual renewal and yet marked by a deep ambivalence regarding the future. The second chapter on Paris, the third chapter of the thesis, shows the ground-breaking originality that Paris demonstrates in the way it harnesses typographical space to facilitate an integrated verbal-concrete enactment of ritual. This analysis highlights the importance of the hand-printing tradition from which Paris emerges, and makes use of a broad history of the book and reading habits to show how in itself this crafting tradition and the poem's use of space signify a ritualisation, in Harrison's sense, of book-making; I argue that in making this connection evident with its grounding in ritual theory, Paris marks a unique intersection between ritual and the history of the book. Mirrlees's antiquarianism is a central component of this analysis, as for her it is also a practice steeped in the materiality and mystical experience of ritual, and leads to the artefact-like quality of her concretely spaced, rare hand-printed and hand-bound masterpiece with its enclosed, esoteric ritual. Antiquarianism and a focus on the performativity of language are, this thesis argues, also central to Mirrlees’s fantasy novel Lud-in-the-Mist, which can be read as a self-reflexive investigation into the themes, tropes and function of the fantasy genre. I highlight the novel’s interrogation of language and narrative as signifiers of reality, and its defence of fantasy as a mode rooted in the psychological processes that give rise, in Harrison’s theory, to primitive ritual.
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Lister, Samuel John. "'Disappointed Bridges': Language, Identity and Historiography in the Works of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Culture, Literature and Society, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1937.
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This thesis investigates the ambivalent and sceptical relationship towards language and
linguistic representation shared by James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. The motivations
behind the subversive approaches to language enacted by the two writers are both literary
and political: both question the ability of language to represent external reality, and seek
to expose and subvert the ways in which linguistic representations, and language in
general, are mediated by ideological and social values which often reflect the political
goals of those who create or use them. The discussion of Joyce focuses on Ulysses
(1922), but I also discuss to a lesser extent Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). The main focus of the discussion of
Beckett is his so-called 'Trilogy' of novels, Molloy (1955), Malone Dies (1956) and The
Unnamable (1958),1 and his plays Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Happy Days (1960).
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Miller, Jeanette Leigh. "Beat Women: The Thunder Before the Storm-An Analysis of Feminism's Bridge Generation." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1486.
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The 1950s saw the height of the Beat literature movement. Within this movement moved a cohort of women who helped revolutionize gender relations in the early Cold War era, leading to the emergence of the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s. By questioning social gender norms and harnessing their artistic, sexual, and economic autonomy, Beat women built lives of lived art outside proscribed social norms building the base for a new era in gender relations.
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Butcher, Santana Kasey. "From the Classroom to the Movement: Schoolgirl Narratives and Cultural Citizenship in American Literature." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1468956893.
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Garcia, Arlene. "Trains, planes, and ships : machine culture and the cityscape in Hart Crane's The bridge." FIU Digital Commons, 2010. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3597.
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The focus of this thesis is Hart Crane’s The Bridge (1930), a work that examines America’s early twentieth-century mechanical advancements. Four inventions are the inspiration behind the poem and have been examined closely in this study: suspension bridges, trains, ships, and airplanes. The modernist era was characterized by rapid cultural changes that resulted from scientific improvements, mechanical progress, mass population shifts, and a world war, —all subjects Crane addresses in The Bridge. Contemporary readers may acknowledge the importance of The Bridge when read through the technological perspective described herein. In the modern world, railways, ships, and airplanes created new frontiers— as well as problems. In poetry, new fields of perception, pathways for individual points of view, and opportunities for artistic endeavors were created when the commotion of the cityscape and machine were incorporated into twentieth century poetry.
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Yi, Yongfei. "Building a Literary Bridge and Reconstructing Culture in Postwar Japan: Takeda Taijun and His Chūgoku Mono (China-related Writings)." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1525448084944.
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Kennett, Christian. "The harmonic species of Frank Bridge : an experimental assessment of the applicability of pitch-class generic theory to analysis of a corpus of works of a transitional composer." Thesis, University of Reading, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.262644.
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Sandell, Alfred. "Folksagans övernaturliga väsen i Yamazaki Kores mangaThe Ancient Magus' Bride : – "folkloresque" eller folklore?" Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-64909.
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[Material:] Uppsatsen analyserar och jämför hur övernaturliga väsen gestaltas i Yamazaki Kores mangaserie The Ancient Magus' Bride och i några av de vanligast förekommande folksagorna. [Syfte:] Syftet med analysen är att undersöka vilka sammanhang dessa övernaturliga väsen ursprungligen ingått i, hur de beskrivs i sitt gamla sammanhang och sin nya kontext, samt vilken funktion de har i sin gamla respektive nya kontext. Fokus är att ställa Yamazakis' serie mot folksagorna i det här avseendet. Dessutom undersöks på vilket sätt Yamazaki använder sig av motiv från välkända folksagor för att skapa en populärkulturell produkt som kan anspela på folklore, och således diskuteras vad som skiljer mellan en sådan populärkulturell produkt och folklore. Vidare har uppsatsen även ett didaktiskt syfte där mangans legitimitet och användningsområde i skolan diskuteras. [Teori/metod:] Komparativ litterär analysmetod. Med fokus på beskrivning, sammanhang och funktion jämförs motiv kring ett antal övernaturliga väsen i Yamazakis serie, samt i olika folksagor. Med hjälp av analysens resultat, och Michael Dylan Fosters begrepp "the folkloresque" diskuteras sedan på vilket sätt Yamazaki anspelar på folklore med sina motiv, samt vad som slutligen skiljer hennes serie från folklore. [Resultat:] Yamazaki integrerar motiv från flera olika folksagor för att gestalta sina övernaturliga väsen i beskrivningar och sammanhang. I sammanhanget tillskriver hon sina väsen en ny funktion för att de ska kunna bära hennes berättelse framåt. Sammanhang och funktion förändras och väsendet blir inte det samma som i folksagorna, utan något som "verkar" vara det. De motiv Yamazaki använder är förnyade men trots allt anspelar de på folklore. Motiven representerar, eller gör en avbild av hennes egna idéer, föreställningar och värderingar kring folklore. Serien ger uttryck för författarens tankar kring folklore, och inte "riktig" folklore. Serien är således en representation eller avbild, som befinner sig nära folklore utan att vara det.Manga kan utveckla både läs- och skrivförmåga och kan användas likt skönlitteratur i en skolsituation. Manga öppnar upp för genrediskussioner, och diskussioner kring andra kulturers erfarenheter, tankar, föreställningsvärldar och livsvillkor.
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Júdice, Maria Benedita de Almeida Garrett Mendes Pinto. "Da harpa ao altar : as pontes da espiritualidade em The Bridge, de Hart Crane." Master's thesis, Porto : [Edição de Autor], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/14667.
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A presente dissertação tem por tema o tratamento da espiritualidade em The Bridge, de Hart Crane. Ao longo do trabalho, a ponte de Brooklyn, a musa inspiradora do poema, é analisada como estrutura arquitectónica, o seu processo de construção e as condições políticas e económico-sociais da América que permitiram esse mesmo processo são descritos e a simbologia da ponte enquanto artefacto arquitectónico e poético é explorada. É o seu papel simbólico que me permite, pois, analisar as secções do poema que proponho à luz do tema apresentado e dedicar um capítulo ao modo como a ponte de Brooklyn tem sido retratada, ao longo dos tempos, pelos diversos campos artísticos. A análise textual que apresento e as breves alusões a outros poemas e poetas da mesma época que Hart Crane permitem-me incluí-lo no movimento Modernista e realçar os traços característicos da sua poesia.
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Júdice, Maria Benedita de Almeida Garrett Mendes Pinto. "Da harpa ao altar : as pontes da espiritualidade em The Bridge, de Hart Crane." Dissertação, Porto : [Edição de Autor], 2007. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000181013.
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A presente dissertação tem por tema o tratamento da espiritualidade em The Bridge, de Hart Crane. Ao longo do trabalho, a ponte de Brooklyn, a musa inspiradora do poema, é analisada como estrutura arquitectónica, o seu processo de construção e as condições políticas e económico-sociais da América que permitiram esse mesmo processo são descritos e a simbologia da ponte enquanto artefacto arquitectónico e poético é explorada. É o seu papel simbólico que me permite, pois, analisar as secções do poema que proponho à luz do tema apresentado e dedicar um capítulo ao modo como a ponte de Brooklyn tem sido retratada, ao longo dos tempos, pelos diversos campos artísticos. A análise textual que apresento e as breves alusões a outros poemas e poetas da mesma época que Hart Crane permitem-me incluí-lo no movimento Modernista e realçar os traços característicos da sua poesia.
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Axelsson, Magnus. "Passive and Active Romantic Heroines and their Patriarchs : A Comparative Feminist Study of Gender Portrayal with a Focus on Romantic Love in Jane Eyre and Bridget Jones’s Diary." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-30485.
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Jeannin, Clémence. "Bribes et murmures : étude sur l'aridité et la fragmentation dans l'oeuvre en vers et en prose de Camillo Sbarbaro." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0347.
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Le minimalisme de l’œuvre en vers et en prose du poète ligure Camillo Sbarbaro (1888-1967) est lié à la forme du fragment et au dépouillement antirhétorique du style, qui apparaissent comme les deux versants d’une recherche d’essentialité de l’expression poétique. Cette thèse se propose d’interroger les notions d’aridité et de fragmentation, au croisement de la vision du monde de Sbarbaro et de l’émergence de son style. Il s’agit de dépasser le simple constat du caractère épuré de ce style pour analyser précisément son fonctionnement, à travers une lecture croisée des textes en vers et en prose de Sbarbaro, afin de rendre compte du décloisonnement générique qu’opère son écriture. Loin de sacraliser l’individualité du style d’auteur, cette étude se penche sur les rapports qu’entretient l’écrivain avec son époque, en premier lieu à travers l'analyse de l'influence des avant-gardes italiennes du début du XXe siècle. Le style de Sbarbaro n’est ni exempt d’apports exogènes ni dépourvu de variations. L’examen des variantes d’auteur et des traductions de la main de Sbarbaro montre en effet que ce style, caractérisé globalement par une forme de paupérisme, peut pourtant apparaître parfois comme une tension vers un surcroît de littérarité. D’une façon plus générale, l’aridité minimaliste n’exclut pas la saillance des figures syntaxiques et analogiques, et la discontinuité fragmentaire n’empêche pas la construction de structures phrastiques ou textuelles qui témoignent d’une prévalence de la logique syntagmatique sur la logique paradigmatique. Le style sbarbarien résulte alors de cette tension entre le dépouillement et le relief figural, entre la déliaison et le réticulaireCamillo Sbarbaro (1888-1967) is a ligurian poet whose work in prose and poetry is characterised by its minimalism. Through the form of the fragment and its stark style, the poetic language is stripped down to the essential. This thesis is a study about the concepts of aridity and fragmentation, halfway between Sbarbaro’s vision of the world and his peculiar style. Trying to go beyond the mere observation of a rhetorical starkness, my aim is to analyse precisely how Sbarbaro’s style could be described and defined, opting for a comparative reading of his prose and poetry, in order to show how the author breaks down the barriers between genres. Avoiding to sanctify the individuality of this style, the links between the writer and his own time are reported, since his literary career and the development of his style are influenced by traditional models and by contemporary movements, among which the Italian avant-gardes of the 20th century. Sbarbaro’s style is partially made of exogenous patterns and does not exclude diversity. The author’s variations and his translations show that his style, despite its general poverty, can sometimes tend to increase the initial literarity of the text. Plus, there is no absolute contradiction between the minimalist aridity of Sbarbaro’s style and the relief – or emphasis – of some stylistic devices, nor the fragmentation prevents the author from constructing complex sentence structures or textual sequences, as if the syntagmatic relations prevailed over the paradigmatic organisation. Sbarbaro’s style is the result of a tension between the starkness and the relief of figures, and between discontinuity and the syntagmatic structures
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Werner, Gregor [Verfasser]. "Die militärische Macht der Mongolen in den Berichten der Carpinimission : Die Unterschiede in der Darstellung bei Carpini und C de Bridia / Gregor Werner." Hagen : Fernuniversität Hagen, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1015313361/34.
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Lindahl, Charlotte. "Sex, shopping och singlar - Vad måste en bra chick lit innehålla?" Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-2560.
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Petereit, Elisabeth. "Beunruhigungen vom Rand ˸ Weiblichkeit, Phantastisches und Ornament in der Literatur des deutschsprachigen Realismus (Keller, Storm, Fontane)." Thesis, Paris 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA030054.
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Cette thèse propose une lecture de textes canoniques du réalisme germanophone selon le prisme des inquiétudes que provoquent les éléments placés à la marge : le féminin, le fantastique et l’ornement. La base commune qui permet de relier ces catégories esthétiques, anthropologiques et sociales est qu’elles se définissent en tant qu’Autre dans une bipolarité : homme – femme, réel – fantastique, ›grand‹ art – ornement. La hiérarchie qui sous-tend ces oppositions s’avère néanmoins peu stable, de telle sorte que ces éléments marginalisés troublent le centre normatif. Le fantastique est abordé comme élément constitutif pour la mise en forme littéraire de problèmes sociaux actuels et ›réels‹, et les rapports entre les sexes tels que définis par la société bourgeoise, sont montrés comme mis en mouvement et ambivalents. L’analyse détaillée des textes de Theodor Fontane, Gottfried Keller et Theodor Storm se concentre d’abord sur la femme comme ›principe esthétique‹ et comme ›genre‹, capté et fixé dans l’image, et montre que ce féminin imagé et idéalisé se convertit au contraire en déclencheur d’une imagination débridée et déréglée, qui s’inspire de sources littéraires et mythologiques (Pénélope, Cendrillon, sorcières etc.). Elle s’attache ensuite aux modèles, aux rôles et aux normes liés au mariage bourgeois et aux enjeux qu’ils constituent pour l’acceptation ou le rejet de la femme comme égale. La troisième partie étudie enfin les rapports entre l’idéal familial bourgeois et la société patriarcale. Dans les romans le mariage bourgeois est hanté par les fantômes de rôles sexuels encore en vigueur, mais désormais obsolètes, ce qui confère aux foyers une inquiétante étrangeté au sens FreudienThis dissertation offers an analysis of canonical texts from German literary realism using the anxiety that is felt by readers and writers in what constitutes the margins of realist literature in the 19th century: the feminine, the fantastic and ornamentations.These aesthetic, anthropologic and social categories are linked as they are all defined by a binary opposition that turns them into the Other or the Inessential: male-female, reality-fantastic, art-ornamentation. The hierarchy upon which these oppositions are built is however not that stable as these elements at the margin do trouble and replace what constitutes the society’s normative core. The fantastic elements in the works of the authors are used as constituting materials to engage the literary discussion on present and real social problems at the time of writing. The relationships between the sexes and genders which were so clearly described in the bourgeois era are seen as ambivalent and in motion.The three parts of this dissertation provide an in-depth analysis of the works of Theodor Fontane, Gottfried Keller and Theodor Storm. The first section of the work will focus on the figure of the woman as an aesthetic which is both captured and fixed in the image. It will show that this idealised and pictured feminine becomes the catalyst for unbridled and unruly imagination. Then, the traditional roles and behaviours within patriarchal marriage will then be shown to be largely inspired by literary tradition, and in particular in the myths and the fairy-tale (Penelope, Cinderella, the Witch, etc.). Lastly, the relationships between the ideal bourgeois family and the patriarchal family will be analysed in the work of Fontane and Storm. As the era of German realist literature ended, patriarchal marriage was haunted by the ghosts of gender roles, which however obsolete, were still predominant. This paradox made families unheimlich in the Freudian sense
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Gabriel, Nathan Edward. "Knowing More Than the Hero: An Exploration of Nathan Gabriel's 2011 Production of A View from the Bridge." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/212261.
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In 2011 Nathan Gabriel directed Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge for his graduate thesis production at Temple University in Philadelphia. In this essay, Gabriel posits that keeping the character of Eddie ignorant about his true feelings for Catherine until the final moments of the play is crucial to making the play work. He supports his argument by pointing to the changes Miller made in the script between the one-act and two-act versions. Gabriel demonstrates how the play followed Aristotle's ideal for a classic Greek tragedy and compares this ideal with Miller's conviction that a true tragedy should not only be sad but should also teach its audience how to better live their lives. He also defends his choice to keep the true sexuality of Rodolpho ambiguous and examines the creative journey of his designers.
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Barbosa, Cleusa Salvina Ramos Maurício. "Cultural identities of diáspora : myth and empowerment in Desirable daughters and The tree bride, by Bharati Mukherjee." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2011. http://repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/551.
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By examining the constitution of identity/ies related to women s diaspora in contemporary times, the present thesis focuses on its representation in two novels written by the Indian born U.S. writer, Bharati Mukherjee Desirable Daughters (2002), and The Tree Bride (2004). I argue that these two novels offer excellent cultural manifestations for the examination of the representation of the identitary process resulting from transnational displacements. Centred on the field of Cultural Studies, the first part of this study presents readings of the women protagonists´ identitary quest portrayed in the novels informed by the major concepts of diasporic identities, hybrid identities and transnationalisms, as they have been theorized by Stuart Hall, Inderpal Grewal, and Homi K. Bhabha. The analyses contained in the second and the third parts of this thesis draw from studies in the area of Gender Studies, and present reflections on the main characters´ trajectories which are illuminated by the central notions of agency, performativity, and empowerment, theorized by Judith Butler and Luce Irigaray. Studies on mythology both from non-feminist and feminist perspectives also provide a backdrop for the readings proposed. The thesis is structured in three chapters: the first one discusses the constitution of diasporic identities, particularly the main character s; the second chapter concentrates on the gender-marked appropriation of mythical discourse by the author in the composition of her narratives by means of the literary strategy of feminist revisionist mythmaking, as pointed out by Alicia Ostriker; and the third section analyzes the protagonist s actions, viewing her process of empowerment as a transformative strategy in terms of subjective development which is strongly marked by gender issues. The main results of the analysis carried out is the perception that, by combining the shaping of diasporic identities, the rewriting of myth, and the deployment of empowerment strategies in the composition of the main characters in her novels, Bharati Mukherjee problematizes the diasporic woman subject s identity formation in relation to the India/U.S. movement, revisiting and reweaving Indian traditions from multifaceted and gender-marked perspectives. This, in turn, may act in terms of raising readers´ understanding and critical awareness of the women subjects´ diasporic process in the contemporary world.By examining the constitution of identity/ies related to women s diaspora in contemporary times, the present thesis focuses on its representation in two novels written by the Indian born U.S. writer, Bharati Mukherjee Desirable Daughters (2002), and The Tree Bride (2004). I argue that these two novels offer excellent cultural manifestations for the examination of the representation of the identitary process resulting from transnational displacements. Centred on the field of Cultural Studies, the first part of this study presents readings of the women protagonists´ identitary quest portrayed in the novels informed by the major concepts of diasporic identities, hybrid identities and transnationalisms, as they have been theorized by Stuart Hall, Inderpal Grewal, and Homi K. Bhabha. The analyses contained in the second and the third parts of this thesis draw from studies in the area of Gender Studies, and present reflections on the main characters´ trajectories which are illuminated by the central notions of agency, performativity, and empowerment, theorized by Judith Butler and Luce Irigaray. Studies on mythology both from non-feminist and feminist perspectives also provide a backdrop for the readings proposed. The thesis is structured in three chapters: the first one discusses the constitution of diasporic identities, particularly the main character s; the second chapter concentrates on the gender-marked appropriation of mythical discourse by the author in the composition of her narratives by means of the literary strategy of feminist revisionist mythmaking, as pointed out by Alicia Ostriker; and the third section analyzes the protagonist s actions, viewing her process of empowerment as a transformative strategy in terms of subjective development which is strongly marked by gender issues. The main results of the analysis carried out is the perception that, by combining the shaping of diasporic identities, the rewriting of myth, and the deployment of empowerment strategies in the composition of the main characters in her novels, Bharati Mukherjee problematizes the diasporic woman subject s identity formation in relation to the India/U.S. movement, revisiting and reweaving Indian traditions from multifaceted and gender-marked perspectives. This, in turn, may act in terms of raising readers´ understanding and critical awareness of the women subjects´ diasporic process in the contemporary world.
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Nelson, Ronald Kent. "Theodor Fontanes Darstellung der Berliner Gesellschaft in seinen Romanen Effi Briest und Irrungen Wirrungen." PDXScholar, 1988. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3857.
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Quintili, Aurora Elisabeth. "The singular type woman : En narratologisk och genusteoretisk analys av Shirley Jacksons ”The Honeymoon of Mrs Smith (Version II): The Mystery of the Murdered Bride”." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-54202.
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Efter Shirley Jacksons död år 1965 verkade allmänhetens uppmärksamhet gentemot hennes litterära produktion avta. Idag kan vi däremot observera ett kraftigt ökat intresse för hennes författarskap och de tematiker som behandlas, det vill säga kvinnans isolering, de sociala normernas inflytande på den mänskliga erfarenheten och ödets obarmhärtighet. Denna uppsats fokuserar på den postumt utgivna novellen med titeln ”The Honeymoon of Mrs Smith (Version II): The Mystery of the Murdered Bride”. Syftet med denna uppsats är att belysa hur narratologiska strukturer återspeglar mönster och regelbundenheter som kan tolkas utifrån ett genusperspektiv. Här finns först ett intresse för att analysera den valda novellen utifrån Monika Fluderniks (1996, 2009) definition av berättelse och hennes teori om experientiality, vilket resulterar i en analys av novellens narratologiska struktur. Uppsatsens andra mål är att åskådliggöra hur berättelsens narratologiska struktur påvisar tecken av interna, fiktiva samhällsstrukturer som kan analyseras utifrån Yvonne Hirdmans (1988, 2001) genusteori. Denna kombinerade analys har slutligen som mål att belysa hur den mänskliga erfarenheten och dess agerande inom berättelsen påverkas av mönstereffekter och regelbundenheter som styr relationen mellan könen. Slutsatsen som dras här är att Fluderniks (1996, 2009) teori agerat som effektiv ingång till hur de olika elementen som formar den analyserade berättelsen samverkar för att ge upphov till de samhälleliga mönster och regelbundenheter som Hirdman (1988, 2001) beskriver och kritiserar. Kombinationen av narratologisk analys och genusteoretisk analys visade sig i slutändan vara effektiv för att belysa hur de samhälleliga dynamiker som styr relationen mellan könen inom berättelsen påverkar hur människorna inom den agerar.
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Suvanto, Marttaleena. "Applying MBTI to analyzing shōnen manga characters : A case study of My Hero Academia." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Japanska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-35934.
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This is a case study of a popular shōnen manga, My Hero Academia, written andillustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. The study’s aim is to determine the personality typesof five characters, while utilizing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. The secondaryaim is finding out which details help in the MBTI analysis and which do not. Thethird aim is to look into what are the difficulties of executing this kind of study. Theinitial focus of the analysis was the characters’ actions, dialogue, body language,facial expressions, use of role language and how the manga artist utilizes theJapanese scripture. The final results show that the characters are INFJ, ENTP, ENFP,INTJ and ESTJ types, and that the most helpful methods are to look at acombination of the characters’ actions, speech, body language, behavior, andexpressions. In addition, the method of analysis occasionally depends on thecharacter in question. While the scripture does not help in gaining the results, thechoice of language for the characters gives additional affirmation for the resultsbut does not work by itself to affirm any MBTI types. The main challenge is decidingwhich of the MBTI type pair polarities has more value to the character’s personalityto become the preference.
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Bergström, Anna. "Läsning som feber och passion : Om det kvinnliga subjektet som läsare i Madame Bovary, Vattenmelonen och Bridget Jones dagbok." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-96255.
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This papers purpose is to compare the female protagonist as a subject and reader in Madame Bovary, Watermelon and Bridget Jones´s diary. The aim is feministic, where Judith Butler’s concepts of subjectivity and performativity have been used besides the method of close reading. These novels are pioneering works of each genre; the realistic novel and chick lit. Emma Bovary loses her subjectivity and turns in to a passive object when she is desired and looked at by men. Instead dead objects gets animated, which produces an extremely objectifying portrait of Emma. This culminates with the depiction of her suicide. Surprisingly Emma’s position as a subject, if she ever has one, appears through her reading. The performativity of the texts gives her power and agency to try to change her life within the limits of the bourgeoisie marriage. The protagonists of Watermelon and Bridget Jones´s diary are two female subjects in a modern society, who loves reading. Despite their different opportunities to live fulfilling lives, as compared to Emma, they tend to objectify themselves in relationship to men. They also emphasize the importance of love and having a man in their life, which is according to the genre. Interpreted through Butler, an explanation could be that the power of submission not only sets the outer limits, it also influences our internal desires. These chick lit-novels also discuss literature and cultural hierarchy, where the protagonists tend to prefer popular literature. Watermelon also contains an opening for subversion, depicted by Claire’s achieved independency at the end of the novel, and through some gender-parodies. Most of all, these two chick lit-novels tend to reiterate and consolidate a traditional gender-order through their performativity, although ironizing over the same. Keywords: Reading, genre, realistic novel, chick lit, feminism, Judith Butler, subjectivity, performativity, Madame Bovary, Watermelon, Bridget Jones´s diary.Uppsatsens syfte har varit att analysera och jämföra den kvinnliga protagonisten som subjekt och läsare i tre romaner; Madame Bovary, Vattenmelonen och Bridget Jones dagbok. Metoden har varit närläsning och den teoretiska ingången feministisk och normkritisk. Judit Butlers teorier har varit tongivande, inte minst begreppen subjekt och performativitet. Resultaten visade bland annat att Emma Bovary tenderar att förlora sin roll som subjekt och förvandlas till ett passivt objekt när hon blir betraktad och åtrådd av män. Istället animeras döda ting som får liv och börjar agera som subjekt, vilket skapar en extremt objektifierad gestaltning av Emma som kulminerar i gestaltningen av hennes självmord. Om det alls går att finna någon subjektsposition hos Emma, uppstår den paradoxalt nog genom hennes läsning. Texternas performativitet skapar förvisso orimliga förväntningar på kärleken, men får även Emma att förändra sitt liv inom de snäva ramar 1800-talets borgerliga äktenskap innebär. Protagonisterna i Vattenmelonen och Bridget Jones dagbok är två kvinnliga subjekt som lever i ett modernt samhälle och liksom Emma älskar de att läsa. I dessa romaner förs även en diskussion kring litteratur och kulturella hierarkier. Alla tre protagonister i de undersökta romanerna kan kategoriseras som passionerade läsare och de föredrar att läsa populärlitteratur. I Vattenmelonen och Bridget Jones dagbok har protagonisterna helt andra förutsättningar till självförverkligande och att leva ett självständigt liv, jämfört med Emma Bovary. Trots detta tenderar både Claire och Bridget att objektifiera sig i sina relationer till män. De verbaliserar ofta vikten av kärlek och att ha en man i sitt liv, vilket också är genretypiskt. Tolkat enligt Butler (och Foucault) är förklaringen till detta ”frivilliga” förtryck att underordning inte enbart skapas genom yttre begränsningar, utan även genom påverkan av människors inre, via internaliserade drömmar och önskningar. I Vattenmelonen finns trots allt en subversiv ansats, vilken gestaltas genom Claires nyvunna självständighet i slutet av romanen, samt i förekomsten av ett antal genusparodier. Mest av allt tenderar dock dessa två chick lit-romaner att återupprepa och befästa traditionella genusmönster, trots att de samtidigt ironiserar över dessa.
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Mardones, Salgado Daniela Alejandra. "Identidades en fuga: (re)visión de vivencias colectivas y reelaboración de género femenino en En diciembre llegaban las brisas de Marvel Moreno." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2010. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/109977.
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El objetivo de esta investigación es determinar cómo en la novela EDLLB de Marvel
Moreno, la representación de la construcción de género femenino, a través de una
protagonista que se transforma en un “colectivo”, permite generar múltiples formas de
resistencia al problema de la dominación sexo-genérica que privilegia lo masculino. Desde
esta propuesta de lectura, el concepto sexo-género y su elaboración resultan centrales al
momento de desarrollar un análisis relativo a la construcción de subjetividades, por lo que
es imprescindible acotar las categorías específicas desde las que aquí se trabaja.
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Garnett, Edward Hal. "The trials of creativity: A rhetorical analysis of A View from the Bridge and The Crucible by Arthur Miller." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3032.
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Nilsson, Kristina. "The Accomplished Woman – No Changes Accomplished? : A Comparison of the Portrayal of Women in Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-2567.
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In this essay I compare the notion of the accomplished woman in Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice and Helen Fielding’s novels about Bridget Jones. My claim is that the notion of the accomplished woman that Austen described 200 years ago is still very relevant and not much different today as reflected in Helen Fielding’s narrative in Bridget Jones, but also that both authors satirically describe the pressure that is put on women to reach the ideal of the accomplished woman. I initially discuss feminist literary theory, and then I analyze the following characteristics and ideas which make up the accomplished woman: Physical appearance, Education & Knowledge, Marriage & Having Children, Career and Skills, Status & Class and Manners & Behaviour. This essay shows that the notion of the accomplished woman is still very much present and in some cases, like physical appearance, the pressure on women to reach this ideal has actually gotten worse. Both Jane Austen and Helen Fielding use irony and satirically describe the pressure on young women as a way of actually criticizing their contemporary societies.
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Hooft, Comajuncosas Andreu van 1962. "Eduardo Chicharro Briones La obra narrativa y la obra en verso. Estudio y análisis." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Lleida, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/8168.
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La inexistència d'un catàleg definitiu sobre l'obra inèdita, la diversitat i la dispersió de publicacions en les que aquest autor va participar, el caràcter minoritari de les mateixes, la parcialitat i les inexactituds de les dades bibliogràfiques oferts en diverses publicacions, en conclusió, el desconeixement real del volum i estat de l'obra motiven el primer objectiu d'aquest estudi. Aquest primer objectiu té com fiqui establir, fixar i delimitar les bases textuals que conformen el volum real i total de l'obra d'Eduardo Chicharro, i presentar una visió completa i detallada de l'estat que es troben els documents inèdits i les vicissituds per les que han passat els poemes i contes publicats. El resultat d'aquesta labor de rastreig i investigació filològiques es presenta en forma d'un catàleg definitiu i exhaustiu de tots els documents conservats en l'arxiu familiar del poeta i de totes les obres publicades. L'obra d'Eduardo Chicharro sols ha estat estudiada molt parcialment. Fins avui, no existeix, per tant, un estudi crític que tingui com objecte d'investigació, l'estudi i anàlisi tota l'obra, inèdita i publicada, tant en vers com en prosa, d'aquest autor. Del que s'ha dit es desprèn el segon objectiu que es planteja en aquest treball. En altres paraules, es pretén omplir la buidor crítica constatat sobre aquesta obra i presentar, mitjançant una descripció i anàlisi dels poemes, contes i novel·les, les coordenades mestres de l'obra en vers i de l'obra en prosa d'aquest autor.
Finalment i vist que tampoc existeix una descripció, anàlisi i avaluació de la recepció d'aquesta obra i aquest autor dintre del panorama crític i històric de la literatura espanyola de postguerra, aquest estudi té com tercer objectivo presentar i avaluar els judicis emesos per i el lloc que la crítica i la historiografia literària hispàniques han ofert per a Eduardo Chicharro dintre del període literari de la postguerra.
La inexistencia de un catálogo definitivo sobre la obra inédita, la diversidad y la dispersión de publicaciones en las que este autor participó, el carácter minoritario de las mismas, la parcialidad y las inexactitudes de los datos bibliográficos ofrecidos en diversas publicaciones, en fin, el desconocimiento real del volumen y estado de la obra motivan el primer objetivo de este estudio. Este primer objetivo tiene como meta establecer, fijar y delimitar las bases textuales que conforman el volumen real y total de la obra de Eduardo Chicharro, y presentar una visión completa y detallada del estado en que se encuentran los documentos inéditos y las vicisitudes por las que han pasado los poemas y cuentos publicados. El resultado de esta labor de rastreo e investigación filológicas se presenta en forma de un catálogo definitivo y exhaustivo de todos los documentos conservados en el archivo familiar del poeta y de todas las obras publicadas.
La obra de Eduardo Chicharro sólo ha sido estudiada muy parcialmente. Hasta hoy, no existe, por lo tanto, un estudio crítico que tenga como objeto de investigación, el estudio y análisis toda la obra, inédita y publicada, tanto en verso como en prosa, de este autor. De lo dicho se desprende el segundo objetivo que se plantea en este trabajo. En otras palabras, se pretende llenar el vacío crítico constatado sobre esta obra y presentar, mediante una descripción y análisis de los poemas, cuentos y novelas, las coordenadas maestras de la obra en verso y de la obra en prosa de este autor.
Por último y visto que tampoco existe una descripción, análisis y evaluación de la recepción de esta obra y este autor dentro del panorama crítico e histórico de la literatura española de posguerra, este estudio tiene como tercer objetivo presentar y evaluar los juicios emitidos por y el lugar que la crítica y la historiografía literaria hispánicas han deparado para Eduardo Chicharro dentro del período literario de la posguerra.
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Oladosu, Olayinka Abdulahi. "Femininity and Sexual Violence in the Nigerian Films, Child, not Bride, October 1 and Sex for Grades." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1621857462497919.
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Alston, Ray S. ""Singing the Myths of the Nation: Historical Themes in Russian Nineteenth-Century Opera"." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1524176697602489.
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Melldahl, Bernt. "Tracce italiane nella Svezia medievale : Documenti in italiano nel Diplomatario Svedese." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-180553.
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The purpose of this study is to introduce the ten documents, written in the Italian language, registered by Riksarkivet, Stockholm. The oldest document being written in 1346 and the last one in 1520, they all belong to the European medieval period. The study provides the texts (sometimes contracted, sometimes partly translated from Latin), the cultural backgrounds to the texts and possible reasons why they are written in Italian. An additional question concerning the existence of people in Medieval Sweden who were able to read and understand Italian texts is discussed. The importance of the extension of the Italian language in the Mediterranean area as well as in the Levant is referred to as an explanation of the use of Italian in the documents. Important motives of the fact that some of the documents are being found in the Swedish archive are the activities of the Swedish Expeditions to the Vatican library as well as the life of Bridget of Sweden, who played an outstanding role in the political, cultural and political life in Europe in the fourteenth century. A short background to the studies at the Studio of Siena of a number of Swedish students is given and also to the foundation of the University of Uppsala. The study is concluded by presenting an evaluation of the ten documents.
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Taylor, Nadine. "The creation of literary character in the fiction of Theodor Fontane." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:22d5d619-74e4-47d3-91c5-8f7236d1f25d.
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This thesis examines the creation of character in the work of Theodor Fontane. Although he is repeatedly praised as a great writer of human character, there is no comprehensive analysis of how Fontane's characters work. This thesis is intended to fill this surprising gap in Fontane research. Its analyses do not focus on the author-text interaction as many traditional critical approaches do, but instead look at what takes place between the text and the reader. The first section, entitled 'Character in Theory', has two chapters presenting my concept of literary character. It draws on the findings of cognitive studies, including formerly neglected aspects such as affective reading and empathy. The second section, 'Character in Practice', contains four chapters. Chapter three demonstrates how our emotions can contribute to our understanding and what role is played by empathy. Chapter four shows the active role readers are required to play when putting together information about characters in Fontane's polyphonous novels. Chapter five focuses on character speech, and chapter six asks to what extent Fontane's characters can be seen to develop. The third section, 'Character in Context', takes a less hermeneutic approach. Chapter seven asks what our expectations of Realist characters are and how these influence our reading of Fontane. Chapter eight examines how our access to these characters has changed compared to the author's contemporary readership. Chapter nine presents an excursus, looking at the author's development from renditions of 'real' people to fictional characters. The last section compares this author's creations to the tentatively Modernist characters of Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. My findings show that Fontane's characters demand and support a more active reading than Realism is usually given credit for. They suggest that the concept of Realist characters as largely descriptive creations needs to be examined critically.
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Kirakosian, Racha. "Schrift- und Schreibmystik : Christina von Hane." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:435af122-cc51-4f02-ac75-189227b104e5.
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The subject of my thesis is a little-studied hagiographical work that gives important insights into rewriting processes and their significance in medieval textual culture. The anonymous Life of Christina of Hane, a thirteenth-century Premonstratensian nun from the Palatinate, is an example of bridal mysticism which combines the medieval tradition of the reception of the Song of Songs with hagiographic elements. A codicological and palaeographical analysis of the only manuscript shows it to be a sixteenth-century copy, but the type of mysticism and the theological questions that it discusses suggest that the text was initially composed in the thirteenth century, when Christina is thought to have lived. The theological and spiritual ideas in the text belong to the wider context of communicating the transcendental within the world. My thesis uses performative language analysis to address the problems of textuality and authorization in the Life of Christina of Hane. It yields new insights into the ways in which this mystical text makes use of hagiographic strategies, how gender and vernacular theology are linked, how liturgical elements support the text’s pragmatic nature, and how somatic spirituality is reflected on an allegorical level in the embodiment of God’s bride. An assessment of three communicative aspects – medial, narrative, and allegorical – highlights the textualization of the mystical experience. The appellative structure of Christina’s text invites the reader to engage with the text. This study provides the first comprehensive interpretation of the text on Christina of Hane. It compares it to other mystical texts, to a German–Latin prayerbook, and to a fragmentary legend about Mary Magdalene. It challenges existing judgments about Christina’s biography and offers alternative solutions founded in the latest scholarship on female mystical literature.
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Barbour, Kelli D. "Hermine Cloeter, Feuilletons, and Vienna: A Flaneuse and Urban Cultural Archaeologist Wandering Through Opaque Spaces, Bridging Past and Present to Reclaim What Could Be Lost." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd513.pdf.
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Fujdiak, Radek. "Analýza a optimalizace datové komunikace pro telemetrické systémy v energetice." Doctoral thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-358408.
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Telemetry system, Optimisation, Sensoric networks, Smart Grid, Internet of Things, Sensors, Information security, Cryptography, Cryptography algorithms, Cryptosystem, Confidentiality, Integrity, Authentication, Data freshness, Non-Repudiation.