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Voroselo, Brian P. "The Non-Specificity of Location in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1281457765.
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Chan, Amiria Ai-Mee School of English UNSW. "Mother knows best: mothers as moral educators in the fiction of Anne Bront?? and Elizabeth Gaskell." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/23469.
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This thesis concentrates on identifying and examining ambivalence and contradictions in the discourse of moral education within mid-nineteenth-century British literature. Through an analysis of contemporary women???s advice literature and the fiction of two authors I locate the discourse within the larger ideologies of femininity (which defined women as different from men based on their gender) and domesticity (which assigned women to the domestic sphere because of gender) and analyse its fundamental features. The mother was a representation of the ideal woman and thus the measure for standards of behaviour within the discourse of moral education, and, indeed, within the ideologies of femininity and domesticity for all women. I focus on the inconsistencies that the discourse of moral education attempts to mask in its representations of women. Part I (Chapters One, Two and Three) examines the social standards of behaviour for mothers established in women???s advice literature and the literature???s simultaneous resistance to these standards. Chapters Four and Five are dedicated to Anne Bront?????s two novels, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; in particular, Chapter Five examines how Helen Huntingdon???s attempts to be the perfect moral mother are constantly open to conflicting ideological interpretation exposing ambivalence within the discourse of moral education and in the novel???s approach to the discourse. Chapters Six, Seven and Eight focus on many of Gaskell???s short stories as well as her novel Ruth. The inherent conflict within the discourse of moral education results in three separate images of motherhood for Gaskell???s fiction: traditional mothers who gain their moral influence through an association with death, the ideologically contradictory moral mother, and women who use maternal traits to live in communities of women without men. I conclude that none of the texts are categorically resistant to or complicit with the ideals within the discourse of moral education but are internally contradictory. In particular, the fiction simultaneously promotes conventional ideals of womanhood and moral mothers as self-sacrificing and nurturing and offers a vision of women either in unhappy compliance with or otherwise defying these ideals, for example, by living in unconventional relationships without men.
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Cicero-Erkkila, Erica Eileen. "Negotiating Self: Strategies of Selfhood in Austen, Brontë, and Alcott." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1336078019.
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Arvan, Andrews Elaine J. "The Physiognomy of Fashion: Faces, Dress, and the Self in the Juvenilia and Novels of Charlotte Brontë." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1107275437.
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Nagorsen, Kastlander Annika. ""Aching heart, troubled soul" - Feministisk litteraturteori och Wuthering Heights." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-12639.
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Van, Der Meer Carolyne A. "The Brontë inheritance, some Brontë progeny." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq25955.pdf.
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Kalkwarf, Tracy Lin. "Questioning Voices: Dissention and Dialogue in the Poetry of Emily and Anne Brontë." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2571/.
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My dissertation examines the roles of Emily and Anne Brontë as nineteenth-century women poets, composing in a literary form dominated by androcentric language and metaphor. The work of Mikhail Bakhtin, particularly concerning spoken and implied dialogue, and feminists who have pioneered an exploration of feminist dialogics provide crucial tools for examining the importance and uses of the dialogic form in the development of a powerful and creative feminine voice. As such, I propose to view Emily's Gondal poetry not as a series of loosely connected monologues, but as utterances in an inner dialogue between the dissenting and insistent female voice and the authoritative voice of the non-Gondal world. Emily's identification with her primary heroine, Augusta, enables her to challenge the controlling voice of the of the patriarchy that attempts to dictate and limit her creative and personal expression. The voice of Augusta in particular expresses the guilt, shame, and remorse that the woman-as-author must also experience when attempting to do battle with the patriarchy that attempts to restrict and reshape her utterances. While Anne was a part of the creation of Gondal, using it to mask her emotions through sustained dialogue with those who enabled and inspired such feelings, her interest in the mythical kingdom soon waned. However, it is in the dungeons and prisons of Gondal and within these early poems that Anne's distinct voice emerges and enters into a dialogue with her readers, her sister, and herself. The interior dialogues that her heroines engage in become explorations of the choices that Anne feels she must make as a woman within both society and the boundaries of her religious convictions. Through dialogue with the church, congregation, and religious doctrine, she attempts to relieve herself of the guilt of female creativity and justify herself and her creations through religious orthodoxy. Yet her seeming obedience belies the power of her voice that insists on being heard, even within the confines of androcentric social and religious power structures.
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Hooker, Jennifer. "From paternalism to individualism : representations of women in the nineteenth century English novel." Scholarly Commons, 2000. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/546.
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Three of the most notable English women authors, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot, explore similar themes of the individual, particularly the young woman, in relation to a hierarchical, patriarchal society, more specifically a crumbling paternalist society. My focus is on three Victorian novels' representations of society's transformation from a paternalistic nature to one of greater individualism; and in particular, I explore how women defined for themselves positions of power within these structures. So this study is twofold, one on representations of gender and the other of class; for the two are inseparable in discussing power relationships of Victorian women. Austen, Bronte, and Eliot understood and, to some degree, accepted the pervasive paternal values. Their novels, however, do not advocate radical social change; rather, their heroines willingly turn to domesticity. I aim to argue that each author, although dissatisfied with aspects of society, did not desire to radically alter women's role within society. The fictitious lives they created became both a representation and a critique of the ideologies surrounding them. The texts of Emma, Jane Eyre, and Middlemarch are representative of traditional social norms and yet question some of the culture's dominant codes, especially in relation to paternalism and gender. What strikes me about these novels is that although the female characters are limited by society, they are not ineffectual. Rather the authors portray women in control of their lives and able to make choices for themselves within the framework of society. My research includes social, philosophical, and political attitudes of the decades in which each novel was written, as well as personal philosophies held by Austen, Bronte, and Eliot in relation to gender and class and the influence of these philosophies in their art. Finally, my reading of the texts explicates evidences of the culture's and author's attitudes in relation to paternalism and gender.
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Miller, Lucasta. "The Bronte myth." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439846.
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Malone, Catherine. "Charlotte Bronte : Gothic autobiographies." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385569.
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EBADI, FARD AZAR GOIROKH. "Les romans d'anne bronte." Toulouse 2, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987TOU20010.
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Cette these se propose d'etudier les deux romans d'anne bronte : agnes grey et the tenant of wildfell hall. Nous les analysons de point de vue la publication et l'accueil, les aspects autobiographiques, la structure, les personnages et les themesThis thesis is considering the novels of anne bronte : agnes grey and the tenant of wildfell hall. We study these two novels from the points of publication, autobiography, structure, characters and themes
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Miklová, Kamila. "Brněnský Bronx - změna adresy." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-215921.
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This thesis is a study of the spatial reconstruction of public space in the locality of Brno Bronx. The work includes several large urban and social problems. This is the solution of problems socially excluded areas, the issue of coexistence with ethnic minorities and on brownfields and solving the appropriate forms of gentrification problem area. The proposal addresses the biggest block permeability, which is lined streets of Bratislavská, Hvězdová, and Francouzská. It proposes a new structure of public spaces - squares, which are strung like beads on the newly proposed network of streets. Also engaged in the creation of public space in the vicinity of the former jail. The proposal by removing extensions provide a space for two new squares. Creative square and Square of Roma culture. With the completion of new buildings should be supported by a square and revealed the original appearance of the former jail.
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Vávra, Martin. "Bronx - změna adresy (přestavba káznice)." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-215618.
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The diploma project is the architectural-urbanistic study of the old prison reuse as new centrum of social deprived city part of Brno called „Bronx of the Brno“ because of its appropriate location, urbanistic land configuration and present of specific „genius loci“. This work is following the theoretical study made as diploma preparation, which set the main direction of the work. The aim of this project is the coplex of buildings mostly used for alternative culture, alternative forms of living not only for the comunity of social deprived city part but also for complete land recovery, grow of attractivity and raise of the land price. The main idea is to change the wrong address of the bad reputation quarter.
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Janoušková, Zuzana. "Bronx - změna adresy (přestavba káznice)." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-215623.
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Bronx - address substitution (reconstruction house of correction) The graduation thesis deals with an architectural study of a new utilization of the top security prison building and its sorrounding in „the Bronx“ of Brno. The prison with the chapel of the Assumption of the Virgin from the 18th century is a significant building of about one city block large. The project includes the modification of the original prison building and its extension, the removal of the unsuitable parts of the building and building of new objects connected to the prison and public places. The group of buildings has been designed with the regard to the alternative culture and forms of living places, which would lead to healing of the Roman ghetto. New arrangement and size of objects form two new squares. It reveals the prison in its original shape at the same time. On the south site there is a tall building designed as a dominating feature of the area.
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Kozel, Ondřej. "Bronx - změna adresy (přestavba káznice)." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-215621.
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The subject of this graduation thesis is a conceptual architectural study of the former house of correction extension, annex and reconstruction and also a new ideological solution of adjacent areas and total building plan . The house is located in the Brno’s Bronx district. The reconstruction is focused on the use of alternative housing concepts with the general target at the whole city quarter reneration – address change.
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Day, Paula. "Nature and gender in Victorian women's writing : Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293143.
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This thesis explores the ways in which four Victorian women writers - Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Christina Rossetti - work with the gender associations implicit in the nature imagery of the male literary tradition. In the Introduction I explore the possible approaches available to the feminist literary critic. I then review the gender associations of nature symbolism in the male literary tradition, and the ways in which some Victorian critics used these to define the characteristics of women's writing. In Part One, I find that these writers re-affirm the idea of the fertile earth as 'mother na ture'. I argue, however, that in each case this projection functions to create a female space outside of patriarchal culture, in a symbolic relationship with a strong mother figure. Looking at Emily Bronte's construction of a 'male nature', I question how far this constitutes a reversal of the traditional pattern. I then examine some ways in which 'womanliness' is located in valley or mountain landscapes. In Part Two, I consider the moon as a symbol of femininity. Although, as in some of Christina Rossetti's poetry, it may become a metaphor for woman's dependence on the solar male God, it can also suggest female autonomy. In Emily Bronte's poetry, the moon of female vision is adhered to in preference to the 'sun' of male power. Charlotte Bronte exploits the moon's ambivalent associations to represent virginal autonomy and vengeful rage as different aspects of female psychic power. In Part Three, I turn to the image of woman as flower. Whereas Christina Rossetti uses this in conventional ways to expose women's sexual vulnerability, Elizabeth Barrett Browning subverts it to create images of strong female identity. My Conclusion emphasises the ideological, rather than archetypal, origins of literary symbolism, and the ways in which women writers negotiate successfully with the existing traditions.
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Graça, Eduardo Gerdiel Batista. "O corpo político e o corpo elétrico: mecanismos de poder e linhas de fuga em o morro dos ventos uivantes e Mrs. Dalloway." Niterói, 2017. https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/3747.
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O objetivo desta dissertação é a abordagem das relações entre os conceitos de mecanismos de poder e de linhas de fuga – concebidos nas obras dos filósofos Michel Foucault e Gilles Deleuze, respectivamente - e os romances de Emily Brontë e Virginia Woolf que intitulam nosso trabalho. Os mecanismos de poder, segundo Foucault, seriam os dispositivos políticos e filosóficos instalados na sociedade e no pensamento com o intuito de conduzir as relações de conhecimento, as disposições, e os desejos humanos à afirmação e à conservação das relações de poder vigentes. Interessados somente na manutenção das estruturas hegemônicas, os mecanismos de poder investiriam no cultivo de nossas potências tristes e servis para subjugarnos aos desígnios dominantes, dirigindo-nos, assim, ora à adequação compulsória e à reafirmação espontânea dos regimes hegemônicos, ora ao desespero, à loucura e à morte. As linhas de fuga deleuzianas constituiriam movimentos de ruptura com tais regimes dominantes, que possibilitariam novas relações com a sociedade, com a subjetividade, com a linguagem e com o pensamento; o cultivo de potências ativas e criadoras; e, afinal, a emergência de uma vida estética. Analisando os materiais narrativos de O morro dos ventos uivantes e Mrs. Dalloway observamos como tanto os jogos narrativos dos dois romances quanto os próprios enredos e personagens narrados se engajam nestas mesmas discussões a respeito do confronto entre forças conservadoras e libertárias, do cultivo de potências diminutivas e aumentativas, e da produção de corpos servis e elétricos
The aim of this dissertation is an approach of the relations between the concepts of mechanisms of power and lines of flight – conceived in the works of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, respectively – and the novels by Emily Brontë and Virginia Woolf that entitle our work. Mechanisms of power, according to Foucault, would be the political and philosophical devices installed in our society and in our thought with the intent of driving our relations with knowledge, our disposition and our desire towards the affirmation and conservation of established relations of power. Interested only in the maintenance of hegemonic structures, mechanisms of power would invest on the cultivation of our sad and servile potencies to submit us to the dominant designs, driving us either to compulsory adequacy and to the spontaneous reassurance of hegemonic regimens, or to despair, insanity and death. The deleuzian lines of flight would consist in rupturing movements with such dominant regimens, that would enable new relations with society, subjectivity, language and with thought; the cultivation of active and creative potencies; and the eventual emergency of a aesthetic life. Analyzing the narrative materials of Wuthering Heights and Mrs. Dalloway we observe that both the narrative strategies of the novels and their plots and characters engage on these same discussions about the confrontation between conservative and libertarian forces; the cultivation of diminutive and augmentative potencies; and the production of servile and electric bodies
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Marek, Jakub. "Pedagogický přínos Zachara Brona houslovému umění." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Hudební a taneční fakulta. Knihovna, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-363569.
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This thesis is an analysis of the personality of Zachar Naumovich Bron with a focus on his pedagogical and interpretational activities. It includes a brief biography of the artist, the analysis of the main spheres of his work and his contribution to Russian and world´s music culture. The work is divided into chapters according to the relevant topics.
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Enarsson, Emil. "Mellan Sten och Brons : En studie av social utveckling i anknytning till brons under senneolitisk tid i sydskandinavien." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-47302.
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The aim of this essay is to investigate the impact bronze had on the South Scandinavian society during the period 2400-1700 B.C. What happened when bronze began to arrive in the Scandinavian Late Neolithic society? How did it spread and how did this influence the society.
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Melnick, Alan. "Emily Brontë : the mind of a visionary." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6749.
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Bibliography: leaves 216-226.This dissertation is an investigation of the visionary and philosophical aspects of Emily Brontë's works. The first five chapters deal with the visionary process such as visions, spirit guides, dreams, imagination, encounters with the darker side of the self and a union with the divine. There is considerable evidence of these mystical avenues in both her poetry and in Wuthering Heights which have been explored. It is shown how Emily Brontë's mysticism is a direct result of personal experiences which augment her reputation as one of the leading mystics in the world of literature. There are however tensions in her works, such as the cynicism of her own intellect in accepting the visionary experiences as authentic and periods of suffering when her faith is tested. These tensions have been considered within the context of her mystical encounters and philosophy. The remaining four chapters deal with the philosophy of Emily Brontë per se. Her beliefs in respect of heaven and hell, mercy and justice, power and survival, and pantheism are considered in depth. It is argued that she is an unorthodox thinker who does not believe in an eternal hell and that she has drawn inspiration for this idea from Frederick Maurice and Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is also shown how issues of power have been of interest to her from a young age and how this needs to be integrated within her philosophy. To the writer power needs to be tempered by compassion if it is to be of use to society or the individual. Her pantheistic spirit is also investigated and related to the mystical ideas.
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Sadkaoui, Nourchen. "L’expression féminine dans les romans d’Anne Brontë." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040100.
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Anne Brontë utilise ses talents de romancière pour explorer le domaine du féminin. Cette étude se propose d’étudier les différentes manifestations de l’expression féminine dans ses romans. Il est question d’abord de lire le premier roman, Agnes Grey, comme un Bildungsroman féminin qui raconte le périple de formation, de maturité et d’épanouissement de l’héroïne : jeune fille passive, silencieuse et pusillanime elle devient épouse, mère, éducatrice et écrivaine confiante et éloquente. Le deuxième chapitre explore la métaphore de l’enchâssement en rapport avec le deuxième roman, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. L’examen des différents niveaux de discours imbriqués dans la structure narrative illustre les relations complexes entre les sexes dans le modèle de société patriarcale que propose le roman. Le troisième et dernier chapitre s’attache aux attributs identitaires créatifs de l’héroïne. Son ingéniosité qui se manifeste dans ses écrits, ses peintures, ses talents d’éducatrice et son empathie lui permettent non seulement de survivre et de créer dans un environnement hostile, mais de faire bénéficier pleinement ses amis et ses proches de son expérience personnelle. Les études consacrées à l’auteure montrent que le thème de l’expression féminine n’a guère mobilisé l’attention des critiques. Cette thèse, qui propose des pistes inédites de recherche, offre une réflexion synthétique sur la questionAnne Brontë makes use of her talents as a novelist in view of exploring the realm of the feminine. This work proposes to study the different manifestations and usages of feminine expression in her novels. To start with, her first novel is to be read as an example of a feminine Bildungsroman describing the journey of formation, of maturity and fulfillment of the heroine who evolves from a passive, silent and shy young woman to a self-confident and eloquent wife, mother, educator and writer. The second chapter explores the metaphor of embedding in relation to the second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. The chapter examines the different levels of discourse overlapping in the narrative structure in order to illustrate the complex relationships between the sexes in the model of patriarchal society the novel presents. The third and last chapter studies the creative identity attributes of the heroine. Her ingenuity manifests itself in her writings, her paintings, her educational skills and her empathy, not only allowing her to survive and create in a hostile environment but also her close friends to benefit from her personal experience. A review of the studies on the author shows that the theme of feminine expression has not received much critical attention. This thesis, presenting new paths of research, offers a synthetic vision of the question
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Ofori, Esther. "Site selection methods of small ethnic minority businesses a case study of the Bronx Terminal Market, Bronx, New York /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.
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Eriksson, Jonathan, and Terese Svennberg. "Rummet under bron - Överblivna rums potential." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23419.
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Arbetet syftar till att lyfta fram den potential som flera urbana rumbesitter, de överblivna rum som saknar en tydlig användning ellerfunktion. Där de lokala intressena, dess brukare och rummets närmstaomgivning blir en utgångspunkt för att förstå vilken användningrummet bör verka mot. Med det vill vi vidga perspektiven inom hurman tänker kring överblivna rum idag, samt hur man bättre kan utnyttjarummens potentiella användningar för ett rikare urbant liv. Arbetetbaseras på en fallstudie av rummet under Mälarbron i Södertäljeoch dess närområde, där tre förslag till utveckling studeras ochanalyseras med hjälp av vår teoretiska verktygslåda. Vi stödjer ossframför allt på Quentin Stevens bok The Ludic City - Exploring thePotentials of Public Spaces (2007) där hans lekfulla syn på stadenblir en röd tråd att applicera på bl.a. Kim Doveys allmänna teorierkring urban design i hans bok Urban Design Thinking (2016). Arbetetresulterar i en gestaltning som blir en undersökande process om hurrummet under Mälarbron får en mer meningsfull och mångsidig rollsom stärker det urbana sammanhang som den utgör en del av. Genomdetta arbete vill vi bidra med nya kunskaper till de professionersom arbetar med dessa rum och framför allt lyfta fram den potentialsom flera urbana rum besitter, där vi anser att urban design utgör enviktig roll. Gestaltandet av överblivna rum är ytterst aktuell inom deprofessioner som arbetar med frågor kring byggd miljö idag, därförtror vi att detta arbete inte enbart belyser vårt eget intresse utan ärrelevant för alla som arbetar med den byggda miljön.The purpose of the work is to highlight the potential of several urbanspaces, the leftover spaces that lacking a clear use or function.Where the local interests, its users and the context becomesthe starting point for understanding what needs the space shouldbe used for. With this we want to broaden the perspectives on howto think about these spaces today, and how to better utilize the potentialuses of these spaces for a richer urban life. The work is basedon a case study of the space under the bridge, Mälarbron in Södertäljeand its context, where three proposals for development arestudied and analyzed using a concept box. We especially supportQuentin Steven’s book The Ludic City - Exploring the Potentials ofPublic Spaces (2007), where his playful view of the city becomes ared thread to apply to, among other things, Kim Dovey’s generaltheories of urban design in his book Urban Design Thinking (2016).The work results in a process that becomes an exploratory processof how the space under the Mälarbron gets a more meaningful andversatile role that strengthens the urban context in the area. Throughthis work, we want to contribute new skills to the professions workingwith these spaces, and above all highlight the potential of severalurban spaces, where we consider urban design to play an importantrole. The transformation of these spaces is extremely relevant in theprofessions dealing with built environment issues today, where webelieve that this not only illustrates our own interest but is relevant toeveryone who works with the built environment.
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Kosanovich, Kevin Waide. "Making the Bronx Move: Hip-Hop Culture and History from the Bronx River Houses to the Parisian Suburbs, 1951-1984." W&M ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1593092107.
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Bober, James Marian. "The late agnostic : William Bronk as religious poet." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/29249.
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This thesis examines the poetry of William Bronk (1918-99). Through close readings of individual texts and broader thematic explorations it demonstrates that Bronk can and should be viewed as a religious poet. In agreement with previous scholars, via original thematic and formal comparisons of the poets’ work, it positions Bronk as a poet of the sublime and a follower of Wallace Stevens. Based initially on distinct differences in the ideas expressed by Bronk and Stevens, it progresses to demonstrate that Bronk should be understood in a context of postmodernity, and reveals key parallels and similarities between his work and that of notable post-structuralist theorists. It offers the first sustained and detailed overview of the unique place that sleep and dreaming hold in his poetry. These aspects of the discussion variously contribute to a fuller understanding of Bronk as a religious poet. The later chapters of the thesis offer an important overview of the development of his religious outlook, from his first published work in the 1950s to his death in 1999. This is vital to understanding the poetry because previous published criticism has invariably presented a single religious or atheistic stance and overlooked the often contradictory theological dialogue sustained across his poetry. The thesis therefore provides a critical overview of his changing ideas of God, and their interaction with concepts of life and the self, identifying key moments in their development. Beyond original contribution to the existing knowledge and critical understanding of Bronk’s work through original close readings of many poems from across his career, and the hitherto unremarked explorations of its post-structuralist character, the general argument of this thesis – that Bronk is a religious poet of positive agnosticism – will aid all serious readers of his poetry.
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Ferez, Yvonne. "La solitude dans les romans de Charlotte Brontë." Paris 10, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA100116.
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Charlotte Brontë, retirée dans les landes désolées du Yorkshire, tente d'harmoniser ses personnages et leur environnement afin de donner une perception plus aigüe de leur isolement. Les héroïnes, surtout, cherchent une forme d'intégration par leur fusion avec le cosmos. Cette approche tout à fait personnelle met en relief tous les aspects de la vie intérieure : les émotions, les passions et les souffrances acquièrent une plus grande force évocatrice par le pouvoir de l'imagination. On peut remarquer, dans l'expression littéraire de Charlotte Brontë, deux aspirations contradictoires : à la fois désir intense et peur obsédante de la solitude ; la recherche de l'équilibre entre ces tendances antinomiques crée une névrose que seuls l'amour et l'amitié ont le pouvoir de guérir. L’aspect androgyne des personnages brontéens traduit en fait le malaise et la solitude de la femme écrivain dans le monde littéraire de l'époque. Ce que Charlotte Brontë montre (et dénonce parfois), c'est l'injustice du sort qui est fait aux femmes célibataires à l'époque victorienne et leur isolement insupportable : les héroïnes doivent lutter contre les préjugés de leur entourage et leur combat accentue cette solitude ; ces femmes étouffent stoïquement leurs désirs et leurs faiblesses afin de mieux surmonter les obstacles de l'existence. Les personnages brontéens accomplissent un pèlerinage qui les amène, après bien des souffrances, à une meilleure connaissance d'eux-mêmes ; ils atteignent une forme de sagesse et d'accomplissement après la rencontre avec "l'autre" qui peut les comprendre et communiquer avec euxCharlotte Brontë, withdrawn in the dreary "moors" of Yorkshire, tries to harmonize her characters and their background so as to give a keener perception of their isolation. The heroines especially, seek a form of integration by their fusion with the cosmos; this very personal approach brings out all the aspects of consciousness: emotions, passions and sufferings thus gain a greater suggestive force through the transforming power of imagination. There are, in charlotte Brontë's literary expression, two contradictory aspirations: at the same time a strong desire and a fear of solitude; the guest for a balance between these antinomic tendencies creates a neurosis that can only be cured by love and friendship. The androgynous aspect of the brontean characters reveals women writers' malaise and solitude in the literary world of the time. What Charlotte Brontë shows (and sometimes exposes) is single women's predicament and unbearable isolation in the victorian era: the heroines must struggle against prejudice and their fight increases their solitude; these women stifle their desires and weaknesses so as to overcome the obstacles of existence. The brontean characters perform a pilgrimage which brings them to a better knowledge of their inner self; they achieve a form of wisdom and fulfilment after they have met their "alter ego" who can understand them and communicate with them
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Karasová, Miroslava. "Bronx – změna adresy – (přestavba káznice na kreativní centrum)." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-215876.
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This thesis presents architectural-urban study using an old jail facility - a major object of the 18th century. Three variants are processed, the first two keep the shape of the old building blocks and give it a new functions with different scenarios. The third variant is more detailed. The proposal consists of the jail original shape - ie. it reveals the square-shaped building with two courtyards. There are two outbuildings demolished and into the resulting space are installed three new buildings, which complement with the existing buildings and completes public space. Two new high-rise buildings, built on the south side, acts as a new landmark and a new building in the north serves to supplement the services appropriate to the locality. Buildings and spaces are linked to the main pedestrian routes, creating a cascade of continuous space - the urban interior.
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Thuresson, Maria. "Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte : Janes journey through life." Thesis, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sektionen för lärande och miljö, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-9170.
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The aim of this essay is to examine Janes personal progress through the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. It addresses the issue of personal development in relation to social position in England during the nineteenth – century. The essay follows Janes personal journey and quest for independence, equality, self worth and love from a Marxist perspective. In the essay close reading is also applied as a complementary theory.
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Shave, Anne Elise. "Education in the novels of Anne and Charlotte Brontë." Thesis, University of Canterbury. English, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7116.
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Charlotte and Anne Bronte were both educators and it is not surprising that education plays a prominent part in their fiction. It is more surprising that students and educators, who presumably share an interest in the processes and purposes of education, have not attempted, in previous studies, to provide a comprehensive coverage of the Brontes' approach to educational issues or to examine the function of teaching and learning interactions within their novels. My thesis traverses this relatively unexplored territory.
My argument is divided into six parts. First, I outline some of the educational issues of particular significance at the time the Bronte sisters were writing, including school conditions, content of curricula for girls and boys, and "the governess problem". In chapter two I consider the authors' responses to these contemporary issues and raise points of contrast between Anne and Charlotte's approaches to similar subjects. Anne's moral emphasis and desire to affect change is compared with her sister's ambiguous and often contradictory attitudes towards social issues. Next, the close connection between education and power (and characters' exploitation of this feature of education) is explored from several perspectives. I comment on the imbalance of power between the sexes that educational differences contributed to in early-Victorian society and demonstrate that those most desirous of educational power in the Brontes' work are often the most oppressed. Chapters four and five examine the ways in which education contributes to the central heterosexual relationships in the novels, and focus most closely on Charlotte's preoccupation with relationships between masters and pupils.
Finally I compare Anne and Charlotte's treatment of education in order to make some observations about their attitudes towards writing itself. I argue that the sisters' understandings of "truth" in fiction, the recurring conflict between reason and emotion in Charlotte's novels, and Anne's Christian world-view, contribute to the differing approaches to education - and, indeed, a vast number of other issues - within their fiction.
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Sidhu, Amrita Kaur. "Subjectivity and haunting in the fiction of Charlotte Bronte." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271019.
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This thesis offers an exploration of subjectivity in the work of Charlotte Bronte, and conceives of her unique subjective voice in terms of the ghostly. This particular vision of subjectivity is characterized by certain moments of intensity in the fiction, in which very powerful emotions such as grief and loss are figured as a type of psychical haunting. It therefore seeks a new understanding of self-representation in Bronte's first-person novels, through a poetics of haunting and spectrality. These moments of psychic intensity will be analysed partly through the use of certain key psychoanalytic models, such as Freud's 'The Uncanny' and Abraham and Torok's theories of secrecy and 'hiding' in texts, and through the 'spectral' as it is explained by Terry Castle in The Female Thermometer. Beginning with a discussion of 'Charlotte Bronte's Gothic,' it demonstrates that psychical haunting creates a kind of gothic mode in Villette, one that underlies the ideas in the proceeding chapters. The spectral is then examined in Bronte's novels as a function of pseudoscientific readings that often involve looking or 'seeing'. The subject in this case is positioned as an observer, and demonstrates how seeing can often be a kind of hallucination or even a form of ghost-seeing. Additionally, subjectivity will be analysed in relation to letters in the novels-texts that have a highly personal yet ambiguous role. They often become symbols of the intense emotion that are integral to Bronte's subjective voice. This intensity will be mapped out in the final chapter through its recurrence in the work of various poets from the nineteenth century to the nineteen-seventies. In these works Bronte is a troublesome ghost or presence that, despite their efforts to contain, is haunting in its evocation of the difficulties of responding to, or of representing, subjectivity in literature.
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L'Official, Pete Thomas. "Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13065024.
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"Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin" examines the construction of the South Bronx in the American imagination during the 1970s and 1980s--a time when the South Bronx was synonymous with the failures of urbanism. The project attempts a multidisciplinary excavation of the cultural manifestations of urban ruin as articulated through the histories, literatures, and visual arts produced within and inspired by the ruins of the Bronx. The dissertation contends that Bronx ruins offered a site for visual artists, writers, and photographers to create new ways of understanding the production and perception of urban environments, while shaping the forms and styles that these creations took. The project theorizes the emergence and legacy of these forms alongside what it terms "municipal art": public works of city governmental bodies which, themselves, responded to ruin, and that might also be read as art.
The dissertation's first part places the building cuts of the artist Gordon Matta-Clark in dialogue with the trompe l'oeil window decals of New York's "Occupied Look" program. It argues, on one hand, that Matta-Clark's artworks employ the tactics and effects of trompe l'oeil, and, on the other, that the seemingly failed "Occupied Look" project presents, upon close examination, vastly more interesting questions about temporality, duration, stasis within the built environment. The dissertation's second part views 1980s New York City Department of Finance tax assessment photographs within and against documentary and conceptual art contexts to reveal aesthetic debts owed by photographers and artists to "administrative" or systematic modes. The dissertation argues that these tax photos, despite their empirical intention, are inevitably productive of narrative, and demand an empathetic model of viewership that gestures at historic ruin-gazing while puncturing mythological understandings of urban ruin. The dissertation's third part examines how the popular fiction of Tom Wolfe and Don DeLillo imagined the Bronx built environment. The dissertation argues that the infrastructures that animate these portions of their fiction--abhorred in one and celebrated in the other--bind the South Bronx to city, making it less an alienated nowhere than one that is intimately tied to the world around it.
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Potgeiter, Erich Johann. "Meaning in the novel : the case of Charlotte Bronte." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.280091.
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Rocha, Patricia Carvalho. "A estética da dissonância nas obras de Charlotte Brontë." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECAP-7FVFKH.
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Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), one of the most prominent figures in the questioning of the ideology of the feminine in the literature of the nineteenth century, shows in her works not only a concern with the arbitrariness of the notion of gender, but also a discussion about this notion through the portrayal of protagonists that can be said to be dissonant in the relation to the ideology of the period. In The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette, Brontë portrays characters that do not conform to idealized notions of gender in the period and that explicitly reflect upon the established parallelism between sex and gender, questioning the subservient position ascribed to women in society. With a view to presenting a more contemporary reading of Brontës work, I focus on gender theories that emphasize social and performance aspects, especially Judith Butlers concept of gender as performance, in my reading of Brontës novels. These works require an analysis based on new paradigms that might encompass th
e fragmentation and multiplicity of the possibilities of performance regarding issues of gender, as presented by the author.Charlotte Bront (1816-1855), figura importante no questionamento da ideologia do feminino na sociedade vitoriana, evidencia em suas obras não apenas uma preocupação com a arbitrariedade atrelada ao conceito de gênero no século XIX, mas também uma reflexão sobre esse conceito por meio de personagens construídas em dissonância com a ideologia do período. Em 'The Professor', Jane Eyre, Shirley e Villette apresentam personagens à margem dos ideais de gênero comuns no século XIX e que questionam explicitamente o paralelismo vigente na época entre sexo e gênero, assim como a crença em uma suposta essência do feminino capaz de justificar uma postura submissa da mulher perante o homem. Objetivando uma leitura contemporânea das discussões apresentadas por Bront em seus romances, valho-me de teorias de gênero de cunho social e performático, mais especificamente da vertente proposta por Judith Butler, nas quais se vislumbra um novo paradigma capaz de abarcar a fragmentação, o pluralismo e a multiplicidade de possibilida des performáticas nas questões de gênero, conforme apresentado pela autora.
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SILVA, L. A. "A tribo Mimoseae Bronn. (Leguminosae) no Espírito Santo, Brasil." Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2016. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/5247.
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Previous issue date: 2016-03-03A flora do Estado do Espírito Santo ainda é pouco estudada e sua elevada riqueza tem sido apontada em estudos recentes. A tribo Mimoseae possui 41 gêneros e cerca de 860 espécies. É uma das quatro tribos da subfamília Mimosoideae, que pertence à família mais diversa da flora do Brasil, Leguminosae. Este trabalho teve como objetivo o estudo florístico e taxonômico dos gêneros e espécies da tribo Mimoseae, ocorrentes no Espírito Santo. Foram consultadas as coleções dos herbários localizados no Estado, dos herbários CEPEC, ESA, HUEFS, RB, além de coleções disponíveis em herbários virtuais. As coleções dos herbários K e NY e Z foram examinadas por consulta virtual. RB. As expedições de campo para observação e coleta de material ocorreram entre abril de 2014 e julho de 2015. Foram elaboradas descrições, diagnoses morfológicas, ilustrações e mapas, e apresentados comentários sobre a distribuição geográfica, fenologia reprodutiva, variações morfológicas e taxonomia. Foram descritos e analisados os nectários extraflorais. São apresentadas chaves de identificação para os gêneros e para as espécies com base nos caracteres vegetativos e reprodutivos, e uma chave baseada nos nectários extraflorais. No Espírito Santo, ocorrem nove gêneros e 45 táxons: Anadenanthera (2 spp.), Leucaena (1 sp.), Mimosa (21 spp.), Parapiptadenia (1 sp.), Parkia (1 sp.), Piptadenia (6 spp.), Plathymenia (1 sp.), Pseudopiptadenia (7 spp.) e Stryphnodendron (3 spp.). No Estado ocorrem 64% dos 14 gêneros listados para o Brasil e 7% da diversidade de espécies brasileiras de Mimoseae. Dos 45 táxons de Mimoseae do Espírito Santo, 25 possuem Nefs, correspondendo a 64% das espécies estudadas, e seis têm Nefs sendo descritos pela primeira vez. Foram registradas 16 novas ocorrências de Mimoseae no Estado.
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RODRIGUES, S. N. "O travestismo narrativo em O professor de Charlotte Brontë." Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2016. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/9170.
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Previous issue date: 2016-09-29Em O professor, seu primeiro romance escrito com vistas à publicação, Charlotte Brontë, escritora inglesa que viveu no século XIX, faz uso de uma técnica literária denominada travestismo narrativo. Este recurso se caracteriza pelo uso de um narrador autodiegético do sexo oposto ao de quem escreve. Com vistas à análise do emprego dessa técnica, faço inicialmente um levantamento biográfico da autora, assim como da crítica que essa obra e a autora têm recebido desde a publicação. Em seguida, faço um estudo sobre a narrativa, como preparação para o levantamento sobre as diversas denominações do travestismo narrativo por diferentes escritores e teóricos e analiso o uso da técnica em estudo. Como conclusão, apresento a minha leitura de três partes do enredo, com o auxílio de textos especializados sobre a escritora e a obra selecionada.
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Borie, Charlotte. "La poétique de l'intériorité chez Charlotte et Emily Brontë." Toulouse 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009TOU20041.
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Au cœur de l'écriture de Charlotte et Emily Brontë se trouve la question de la formation de l'identité et du saisissement de soi par le sujet (essentiellement féminin). Dans Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights et la poésie d'Emily Brontë, le lecteur suit personnages principaux et personae tout au long d'un parcours qui les amène à prendre possession d'eux-mêmes, à trouver leur place dans le monde, à s'y inscrire et à pouvoir transmettre une vision de leur intériorité. Le processus d'intériorisation comprend quatre phases. La première s'organise autour de la perception. Les sujets découvrent le monde et apprennent à son contact la nécessité de rechercher, voire de créer la sensation d'appartenance pour atteindre le bonheur. Déçus par le monde, ils se replient alors sur eux-mêmes, et commence alors la phase de ressenti. Les sujets passent de la perception à l'intellection, forment leurs schémas mentaux, et tentent de recréer en eux-mêmes, virtuellement, les conditions du bonheur. L'imagination joue un rôle majeur dans cette entreprise, mais à terme, le refuge intérieur devient un enfermement, par l'expansion pathologique de l'intériorité et le manque de réel. Les sujets ressentent alors l'impérieuse nécessité d'extérioriser. La troisième phase s'amorce donc autour des problématiques d'expression. Les sujets, à travers la prise de parole, l'écriture et la pratique picturale, trouvent des canaux pour épancher leur intériorité autant que pour la mettre en forme. Le résultat de leur extériorisation donne lieu à la quatrième phase, celle du reçu, au cours de laquelle les lecteurs intimes et performants continuent l'entreprise de construction de l'identitéThe development of identity and the process of self-possession is at the heart of Charlotte and Emily Brontë's writing. In Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights and Emily Brontë's poetry, the reader follows the characters and personae (who are essentially female) through the life-voyage which brings them to get to know themselves, find their place in the world, inscribe themselves in it and transmit a vision of their interiority. The process of interiorisation consists in four phases. The first phase is about perception. The subjects discover the world and learn from this contact the necessity of searching for, and even recreating, the sense of belonging in order to gain happiness. Disappointed in the world, they withdraw into themselves, and the phase of feeling starts. The subjects shift from perception to intellection, shape their mental patterns, and try to recreate within themselves, virtually, the conditions of happiness. Imagination plays a major part in this process, but eventually, the inner shelter becomes a prison through the pathological expansion of interiority and the lack of reality. The third phase then begins, revolving around the idea of expression. The subjects, through speech, writing or painting, find ways to let out as much as frame their interiority. The result of their exteriorisation brings about the fourth phase, that of reception, during which intimate and competent readers carry on the process of the construction of identity
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Prandi, Michele. "Patrick branwell bronte ou le poeme de la fuite." Montpellier 3, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993MON30047.
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Ma premiere approche de branwell bronte a ete la lecture de ses lettres ou se dessine deja le theme de la fuite. Les elements biographiques ont ete utilises en fonction de ce theme, en particulier dans le passage de branwell de l'enfance a la maturite. Les influences litteraires completent la partie formation. Une premiere exploration du theme analyse les ecrits d'enfance ou juvenilia et le role de l'imaginaire et du jeu dans les premiers recits et poemes ainsi que la mise en place du personnage d'alexander percy. J'ai ensuite essaye dans l'etude des images d'analyser comment l'imaginaire tente de concretiser le reve de fuite, loge dans le decor gothique et modifie par la drogue. La derniere partie est un essai d'analyse de la creation et de son ambiguite a partir de ce reve de fuite, dans le passage a la maturite, dans le rapport des elements naturels et dans les concepts du temps et de la mort. L'experience de creation litterair se cristal lise autour de l'expression du desespoir, de la multiplicite des personnages et du jeu dramatique autour du personnage central d'alexwander percy. La presence de la vie et de la lumiere jusqu'au terme de son oeuvre transforme la fuite en voyage et affirme la permanence et la transcendance du passe. Les oeuvres de branwell bronte ont ete gardees pour la plupart a l'etat de manuscrits, n'ont pas ete publiees avant sa mort et sont restees dans le reve qu'il n'a jamais pu co ncretiserMy first approach to branwell bronte was through the reading of his letters in which the thee of flight already, takes shape. The biographical elements have been used in accordance with this theme, particularly in the passage from childhoo d to adulthood. The literary influences complete the chapter on formation. The first exploration of the theme analyzes t he childhood writings or juvenilia and the role of imagination and play in the first stories and poems as well as the introduction of the character of alexander percy. Then, through the study of images, i have tried to analyze how imagina tion endeavours to give a concrete expression to the dream of flight, with a gothic setting and under the influence of drug. The last chapeter is an attempt to analyze creation and its ambiguity, from this dream of flight, in the passage t o adulthood, in the relation between the four natural elements and in the concepts of time and death. The experience of literary creation crystallizes around the expression of despair, the multiplicity of characters and dramatic interplay around the main character of alexander percy. The presence of life and light throughout his works transforms flight into a journey and asserts the permanence and transcendence of the past. The works of branwell bronte have been mostly kept as manuscripts, were not published before his death and have remained a dream which has never been realized
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Avila, Alex. "THE BRONX COCKED BACK AND SMOKING MULTIFARIOUS PROSE PERFORMANCE." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/394.
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The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking is a collection of multifarious prose performances recounting the historical, personal, social, political and cultural constructs of a city birthed by violence. This body of work is accompanied by video, audio, photography, and theatre performance texts. St. Mary’s Housing project, in the Bronx, is the foundation where most of this literary work takes place. The modern day Griot (storyteller) is a Poet, guiding his audience through the social inequalities and disparities that plague St. Mary’s community. The Poet shares personal traumatic insights while simultaneously utilizing writing as a form of survival to the conditions of the Bronx. This multi-platform performance highlights the metaphorical and physical concerns with the cycle of violence. This question is answered through the Poet’s choice by selecting the pen over the gun.
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Mitchell, Barbara. "The bibliographical process : writing the lives of Charlotte Brontë." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1994. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5489/.
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Focusing on multiple versions of the life of Charlotte Bronte, I explore the development of biography over a period of 140 years, examining a range of biographical forms, the process of re-visioning the subject, and the relationships between biographies and their historical placement. Eight versions of the life of Charlotte Bronte, from Elizabeth Gaskell’s first Life published in 1857 to Rebecca Fraser’s 1988 biography, are examined in detail, with consideration of ten additional Bronte biographies. The impact of the discoveries of new documents is noted, but of particular interest is how strategies of interpretation and form have altered, thereby influencing the conceptualization of the subject. A study of versions of Charlotte Bronte’s life illustrates that, within one relatively stable set of documents, there can be numerous stories. Versions of Bronte biographies interact with one another manifesting an interesting development from competitive displacement to complementary inclusiveness. In following the development of the genre, I examine the impact on biography of changing attitudes to subjectivity and objectivity, completeness and definitiveness, the relationship of the biographer to the subject, the construction of self, and the use and types of novelistic strategies. One dominant mode of conceptualization, the view of Charlotte as a divided personality, has significantly changed over this period, particularly as a result of the different emphases adopted by feminist biographers and by the postmodern challenges to the concept of a unitary self. Each chapter of the thesis deals with specific developments in the genre, illustrating the particular contributions of individual biographers and the correlation between interpretation, form and historical placement.
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Linge, B. van. "Het bewegingsstelsel: doel van zorg, bron van winst." [S.l.] : Rotterdam : [de auteur] ; Erasmus University [Host], 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/7596.
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Leaver, Elizabeth Bridget. "The Priceless treasure at the bottom of the well : rereading Anne Brontë." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/33158.
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Anne Brontë died in 1848, having written two novels, Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848). Although these novels, especially The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, initially received a favourable critical response, the unsympathetic remarks of Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell initiated a dismissive attitude towards Anne Brontë’s work. For over a hundred years, she was marginalized and silenced by a critical world that admired and respected the work of her two sisters, Charlotte and Emily, but that refused to acknowledge the substantial merits of her own fiction. However, in 1959 revisionist scholars such as Derek Stanford, Ada Harrison and Winifred Gérin, offered important, more enlightened readings that helped to liberate Brontë scholarship from the old conservatisms and to direct it into new directions. Since then, her fiction has been the focus of a robust, but still incomplete, revisionist critical scholarship. My work too is revisionist in orientation, and seeks to position itself within this revisionist approach. It has a double focus that appraises both Brontë’s social commentary and her narratology. It thus integrates two principal areas of enquiry: firstly, an investigation into how Brontë interrogates the position of middle class women in their society, and secondly, an examination of how that interrogation is conveyed by her creative deployment of narrative techniques, especially by her awareness of the rich potential of the first person narrative voice. Chapter 1 looks at the critical response to Brontë’s fiction from 1847 to the present, and shows how the revisionist readings of 1959 were pivotal in re-invigorating the critical approach to her work. Chapter 2 contextualizes the key legal, social, and economic consequences of Victorian patriarchy that so angered and frustrated feminist thinkers and writers such as Brontë. The chapter also demonstrates the extent to which a number of her core concerns relating to Victorian society and the status of women are reflected in her work. In Chapter 3 I discuss three important biographical influences on Brontë: her family, her painful experiences as a governess, and her reading history. Chapter 4 contains a detailed analysis of Agnes Grey, which includes an exploration of the narrative devices that help to reinforce its core concerns. Chapter 5 focuses on The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, showing how the novel offers a richer and more sophisticated analysis of feminist concerns than those that are explored in Agnes Grey. These are broadened to include an investigation of the lives of married women, particularly those trapped in abusive marriages. The chapter also stresses Brontë’s skilful deployment of an intricate and layered narrative technique. The conclusion points to the ways in which my study participates in and extends the current revisionist trend and suggests some aspects of Brontë’s work that would reward further critical attention.Thesis (DLitt)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Shafirova, Liudmila. "Identity building and language learning opportunities in a brony fandom." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669341.
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Second language use online has become a regular practice for many Internet users reflecting the emergence of new participatory cultures in the virtual world. However, little is yet known about the processes of language use in the fandom and how these create opportunities for identity building and language learning. This thesis reports on fan practices among an international fandom of bronies, adult fans of the animated cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (MLP:FiM). With the use of digital ethnography, it is explored how two groups of bronies—one in Russia and the other in Spain—carry out these fan practices and what language learning opportunities these provide.
This thesis is built on the collection of articles including four different papers about the bronies‘ language fan practices. The first paper presents our initial approximation to the brony fandom. The findings showed that bronies used their L2, English, while both consuming and creating products such as fan translations, fanfiction, fan art and fandubbing in different contexts. The second paper is a case study focused on the discourse of a Russian brony crafter who was writing in English on the platform Deviant Art. Drawing on a one-year period of data collection, it was found that he gained online fame as a crafter and at the same time developed his writing by appropriating new linguistic, technological, and multimodal resources. He achieved these results due to his participation in the affinity space of Deviant Art and the support of this space. Moreover, the third paper is focused on another fan practice―collaborative fan translation of a fanfiction novel from Russian to English. Based on one-year observation, this paper is mainly focused on the collaborative writing processes in fan translation with its connection to identity building and learning. The findings made visible how the participants, by sharing common values, creativity constructed one dialogic space, in which they were encouraged to negotiate their expert identities. The last paper of this thesis is based on the same community of fan translators, however, focused on the cultural aspect of language learning. It was found that the fan translators engaged in transcultural discussions while adapting a fanfiction novel for a global readership. During these discussions, they creatively mixed different linguistic and cultural resources as they reflected on literary and philosophical traditions of the Russian and English-speaking cultures.
Altogether the results demonstrate the variety of language learning opportunities and identity work in the brony fandom. Fans collaboratively used English and other languages to construct meaning during the practices of writing and translation. Meanwhile, brony fandom demonstrated to be a safe space which provided opportunities for language learning and identity building.El uso de segundas lenguas en línea se ha convertido en una práctica habitual para muchos usuarios de la red, reflejando el surgimiento de culturas participativas nuevas en el mundo virtual. Sin embargo, aún faltan estudios sobre los procesos de uso de segundas lenguas en el fandom y cómo éstos crean oportunidades para la construcción de la identidad y el aprendizaje del idioma. Esta tesis informa sobre las prácticas de los bronies, fans adultos de los dibujos animados My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (MLP: FiM). Con etnografía digital se explora cómo dos grupos de bronies, uno en Rusia y el otro en España, desarrollan diversas oportunidades para aprender lenguas con el fandom de los bronies. La tesis se basa en una colección de cuatro artículos sobre las prácticas de los fans y su uso de segundas lenguas. El primer artículo presenta nuestra aproximación inicial al brony fandom. Los resultados demuestran que los bronies usan una L2 (inglés) mientras consumen y crean los productos fan como traducciones, fanfiction, fanart y fandubbing. El segundo artículo es un estudio de caso centrado en el discurso de un artesano brony ruso que escribía en inglés en la plataforma Deviant Art. Basándonos en un año de observación, descubrimos que el participante ganó popularidad como un artesano en Deviant Art y al mismo tiempo desarrolló su escritura al apropiarse de diversos recursos lingüísticos, tecnológicos y multimodales. Los datos muestran que este logro se debe a su participación en el espacio de afinidad de Deviant Art y al apoyo de la comunidad. El tercer artículo se centra en otra práctica de los fans: la traducción colaborativa de una novela de fanfiction del ruso al inglés. Basado en la observación de un año, este artículo se centra en los procesos de escritura colaborativa en la traducción fan con su conexión con la construcción de identidad y el aprendizaje. Los resultados demuestran cómo los participantes construyen un espacio dialógico al compartir un conjunto de valores. En este espacio los fans pueden negociar sus identidades expertas, que fomentan sus discusiones sobre la escritura y la traducción. El último artículo se basa en la misma comunidad de bronies; sin embargo, se centra en el aspecto cultural del aprendizaje de idiomas. Se describe como los traductores fan participan en debates transculturales al adaptar la novela de fanfiction para un público global. Durante estas discusiones, se mezclan creativamente varios recursos lingüísticos y culturales al reflexionar sobre las tradiciones literarias y filosóficas de las culturas de habla rusa e inglesa. En conjunto, los resultados demuestran la variedad de oportunidades de aprendizaje de idiomas y de construcción de la identidad en el brony fandom. Los fans utilizan el inglés y otros idiomas de manera colaborativa y participativa para construir el significado durante las prácticas de elaboración y traducción. Además, el brony fandom demuestra ser un espacio propicio para el aprendizaje de idiomas y la construcción de nuevas identidades.
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Day, Jennifer A. Carleton University Dissertation English. "The gondal poems of Emily Bronte as a fantasy structure." Ottawa, 1985.
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Manzoor, Sohana. "A Modernist Among the Victorians: The Case of Emily Brontë." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1065.
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Critics from Virginia Woolf and David Cecil to Lyn Pykett and U. C. Knoepflmacher, among others, have been mesmerized by the eccentric but transcendent world of Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and the Gondal poems. Despite allusions and references to various modernist elements in Emily Brontë’s novel and poetry, there has not been extensive analysis of her work in connection to modern writers of the early twentieth century. I believe that a multi-themed analysis of such components is necessary to reassess her position in the canon and establish her as a precursor to the modernists. This dissertation examines Brontë’s deliberate invitation of, and simultaneous resistance to, interpretation—qualities that align her novel and verse more with Modernist literature than that of her contemporaries. I argue that Emily Brontë had an unusual and forward-looking focus that is revealed in her treatment of children, women, and the struggles of isolated beings in the dark, foreboding and often impressionistic world of Gondal and Wuthering Heights. Her elucidation of the gap between the mundane and the spiritual, the use of farcical elements against the sublime are also precursory to modernism. This dissertation assesses the various themes, angles and techniques that Brontë employs in presenting a strange atmosphere that is representative of a future world.
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Kvistad, Erika. "The point of agony : sex and power in Charlotte Brontë." Thesis, University of York, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3679/.
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This thesis reads sexual power dynamics – taking pleasure in being hurt by or hurting someone, wanting to control someone sexually or to be controlled, and enjoying power struggles and negotiations of roles – as central elements of Charlotte Brontë’s four mature novels. The argument explores the intersections of sex, play, power and agency in Brontë’s work, drawing out the intricate, shifting, and often unexpected dynamics that underlie what can seem like stark, gender-based power differentials between her characters. While there is a long critical history of examining how erotic relationships in Brontë’s novels develop through power struggles, such readings often cast these patterns of desire as either pathological, or (particularly in the case of submissive or masochistic female characters) as responses created wholly by societal strictures on female power and sexuality. Taking a reparative, sex-radical approach, this thesis rethinks literary intersections of sex and power as productive, not just problematic, and as ways of undermining and playing with, rather than just reinforcing, societal and gendered power structures. The introduction examines the critical history of reading sex and power in Brontë’s work, situates non-normative sexual desire in Brontë’s mid- nineteenth-century context, and shows how reading reparatively can create new insights into sexual power dynamics in literature. The argument examines embodied power and the erotics of mutual infliction of pain in Jane Eyre, shows how material things used as sexual mediators widen the erotic scope of Villette, reads the negotiation of sexual roles in Shirley as a way of managing and transcending the pain of its novel-world, and explores the idea of fantasy as an uncontrollable, unsettling form of intimacy in Jane Eyre, The Professor and the Roe Head journal.
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Cass, Nicholas. "Contemporary art and heritage : interventions at the Brontë Parsonage Museum." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/12608/.
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In this thesis I examine the Contemporary Arts Programme at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, with a particular focus on the commissioning and installation of artwork in the period interior of the museum. Reading the work of Paula Rego, Cornelia Parker, Su Blackwell, Charlotte Cory and Catherine Bertola through the literature of heritage and dialogical aesthetics, I seek to map the unexplored liminal territory between the Brontë Parsonage Museum as 'shrine' and the contemporary art installations as 'intervention'. The purpose, through following a trajectory which has its origin in what Malinowski described as 'foreshadowed problems', has been to produce a rich account of the ways in which art and heritage practices intersect. A reflexive ethnographic stance, in which the process has developed through and in, rather than prior to, the research process, acknowledges my own position as artist, museum educator and academic, engaged with a particular site where I have used visitor comment books and semi structured interviews with artists, staff and visitors to produce this account. This stance acknowledges that writing about art is itself a creative practice and should not be seen as existing as an independent, external addition; to be so, it would remain a 'shadow' of that which it describes. Instead, it is my purpose to map the complexity of these installations as points of reference in the broader topology of heritage practice and contemporary art to demonstrate that they are not reducible to the paradigmatic arguments which are used to describe their existence within the museum space. Often characterised as 'social outreach, public relations, economic development and art tourism', I argue it is more productive to consider these 'interventions' as dialogic heritage, both in order to understand their 'affective' role in the process of interpreting the legacy of the Brontës, and to understand ways in which they address visitor experience.
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Phillips, Jennifer K. "Anne Brontë's New Women: Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as Precursors of New Woman Fiction." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2834/.
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Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall were published more than forty years before the appearance of the feminist type that the Victorians called the “New Woman;” yet, both novels contain characteristics of New Woman fiction. By considering how Brontë's novels foreshadow New Woman fiction, the reader of these novels can re-enact the “gentlest” Brontë as an influential feminist whose ideology informed the construction of the radical New Woman. Brontë, like the New Woman writers, incorporated autobiographical dilemmas into her fiction. By using her own experiences as a governess, Brontë constructs Agnes Grey's incongruent social status and a morally corrupt gentry and aristocracy through her depiction of not only Agnes's second employers, the Murrays, but also the morally debauched world that Helen enters upon her marriage to Arthur Huntingdon in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Moreover, Brontë incorporates her observations of Branwell's alcoholism and her own religious beliefs into The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Although Brontë's novels contain autobiographical material, her heroines are fictional constructions that she uses to engage her readers with the woman question. Brontë accomplishes this engagement through her heroines' narrative re-enactments of fictional autobiographical dilemmas. Helen's diary and Agnes's diary-based narrative produce the pattern of development of the Bildungsroman and foreshadow the New Woman novelists' Kunstlerromans. Brontë's heroines anticipate the female artist as the protagonist of the New Woman Kunstlerromans. Agnes and Helen both invade the masculine domain of economic motive and are feminists who profess gender definitions that conflict with dominant Victorian ideology. Agnes questions her own femininity by internalizing the governess's status incongruence, and Helen's femininity is questioned by those around her. The paradoxical position of both heroines anticipates the debate about the nature and function of art in which the New Woman writers engaged. Through her reconciliation of the aesthetic and the political, Brontë, like the New Woman novelists who will follow, explores the contradiction between art and activism.
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Li, Rui-Xin. "Husen under bron Förskola : Houses Under the Bridge Kindergarden." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-147929.
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Kindergarden - How can we create different synergies between different fields that they can benefit from each other? What different activities will suit the kindergarden? How will our perception of the kindergarden, of its need and function in society, change? In this Degree Project in Architecture I will be investigating the combination of the kindergarden together with a restaurant and a dance studio. I believe these activities will harmonize since they have overlapping benefits: We all eat, move and grow. With the new architectural activities in mind, I will further investigate the importance of the kindergarden as a part of society, more specifically our perception of what function it may, may not or could fill. I share the idea with a lot of authors, scientist that we are headed toward a society where children are kept too safe, thus minimising their chance to experience and learn to cope with a harsh reality when they grow up as adults. It's ok to get hurt to an extent, as long as they do not endanger their lives.
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Persson, Louise. "Trollet under bron : Iscensatt autenticitet inom den svenska folktron." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-13711.
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Denna studie undersöker hur förmedlandet av den gamla svenska folktron kan påverkas av iscensatt autenticitet genom ett transmedialt sagoprojekt. I studien används projektet KLUB från Högskolan i Skövde som ett transmedialt sagoprojekt med folktron i fokus och deltagarna är museiarbetare och museipedagoger som alla har en förkunskap om folktro och folksägner. Deltagarna i studien fick diskutera kring skillnaderna mellan barnanpassad information om tre folktroväsen – tomen, skogsrået och trollet – och icke anpassad information om samma tre väsen. Resultatet visar att den iscensatta autenticiteten kan påverka förmedlandet av folktron både negativt och positivt. Iscensättningen av äktheten inom folktron kan förpassa folktrons gamla syften till sagovärlden och därför kan viktiga verktyg för att förstå dåtidens människa gå förlorad. Iscensättningen kan också väcka ett intresse kring den gamla folktron hos barn och ungdomar som inte haft någon tidigare kunskap om ämnet, och på så vis även hjälpa återuppväcka en gammal berättartradition som gått förlorad.
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deCourville, Nichols P. IV. "The Punk-Rock Brontes." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1491409983719254.
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