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Fridén, Gunnar. "National theatre and the 20th century Irish dream play /." Göteborg : Department of Languages and Literature, University of Gothenburg, 2010. http://gup.ub.gu.se/gup/record/index.xsql?pubid=121509.
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Bachorz, Stephanie Vanessa. "Dialectics of postcoloniality : Adorno and 20th-century Irish literature." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517204.
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McLaughlin, Robert. "Irish Canadians and the Struggle for Irish Independence, 1912-1925: A Study of Ethnic Identity and Cultural Heritage." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2004. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/McLaughlinR2004.pdf.
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Hansson, Karin. "The Autonomous and the Passive Progressive in 20th-Century Irish." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-4263.
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Bennett, Sarah. "The American contexts of Irish poetry, 1950-present." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669957.
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Kinmonth, Claudia. "Irish vernacular furniture 1700-1950." Thesis, Bucks New University, 1997. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.714441.
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O’Neill, Patrick Nathaniel. "Paul Solanges : soldier, industrialist, translator : a biographical study and critical edition of his correspondence with Antonio Fogazzaro and Henry Handel Richardson." Monash University. Faculty of Arts. School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, 2007. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/53105.
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Paul Solanges was one of the most prolific (in correspondence) and enthusiastic fans of Australian author Henry Handel Richardson (HHR). What was it about him that made HHR invest so much time in his translation of her novel, and to what extent can credence be given to the self-portrait in his letters? This thesis reveals his illegitimate royal background, considers his early career as a cavalry officer in North Africa and in the Franco-Prussian War, and describes his long career as manager of the gasworks in Milan. It also portrays in detail his other life as a translator of songs, short stories and operas from Italian to French. Finally, it compares his relationship with Italian novelist Antonio Fogazzaro to his relationship with HHR. A critical edition of Solanges’s correspondence with Fogazzaro and HHR offers the reader a privileged insight into the life and character of this Franco-Italian littérateur.
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Riordan, Michael, and n/a. "Terrible Beauty: Ideology and Political Discourse in the Early Plays of Sean O'Casey." Griffith University. School of Humanities, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040615.132200.
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This thesis argues that prominent in the purposes of the dramaturgy of Irish playwright Sean O'Casey was the promotion of his political causes - most notably socialism. In his avidity for the cause of establishing a workers' paradise, following the Soviet model, in Ireland, his ire was drawn to the movements and institutions he perceived as distracting the masses from pursuit of this ideal: republicanism and the Church. These political ideals are prominent themes in his collected works - both fiction and non-fiction. The work is essentially divided into two sections. The first examines the development of O'Casey's ideologies - his socialism, anti-nationalism and anti-clericalism - and the backdrop against which they developed. The purpose is to establish just how passionately O'Casey felt about these ideals and how, in his letters, histories and autobiographies, he dedicated much of his effort to promoting them. Having dedicated so much time and energy to championing socialism and attacking the Church in these texts, it is little wonder they should appear so prominently in his plays. The thesis argues that O'Casey distorted the content of his Autobiographies to reinforce his role as self appointed champion of Dublin's "bottom fifth" and his beloved working class. It contends that O'Casey embellished the suffering of his childhood and the hardship endured by his family to fortify his credentials as a "socialist hero" - to be "for them" he sought to be "of them," and to provide a model for how learning and conversion to the socialist ideal would liberate them from the economic oppression that kept them low. A number of facts, even elementary ones like the number of children in the Casey brood and particular dates and addresses where he had lived, were changed to cultivate the working class hero image, the disadvantaged boy who rose up against all that an unjust and unsympathetic world could throw at him, that he so coveted. The more abject the origins, the greater the final triumph. The thesis then looks briefly at the origins and purposes of the Abbey Theatre, and its part in the Irish Renaissance that gave O'Casey his start. It focuses particularly on the role of Yeats, and his desire to build a dramatic movement which created work free from opinion. His famous determination to "reduce the world to wallpaper" brought him into conflict with O'Casey, who saw his plays as a legitimate vehicle for the expression of his own world view. It is important, in terms of the objective of this study, to establish that O'Casey's works were deliberately constructed pieces of didacticism, to demonstrate just how inimical to the original intent of the movement his purposes were. With this in mind, it is instructive to compare him with the other great Irish dramatist of the period, John Millington Synge, whose works, with their more rustic focus, promoted the kind of impressionistic 'slice of life' theatre the Abbey founders were championing. For O'Casey, the cause was paramount. He wrote morality plays. The study examines how O'Casey's dominant ideological position evolved by examining his own changing perspective about the world around him. It shows how O'Casey began to see all struggles in terms of the economic one between classes, and how he came to be converted to the tenets of socialism. His opposition to nationalism and his anti-clericalism essentially reflected his belief that they were hostile to the interests of the workers, and therefore must be engaged. The dominant sources in this section are O'Casey's letters, his Autobiographies, and his book, The Story of the Irish Citizen Army. The second section of the thesis focuses on the first seven extant plays: The Harvest Festival, The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, The Silver Tassie, Within the Gates, and The Star Turns Red, and examines how each promotes O'Casey's causes. The purpose of the thesis is not to promote a reworking of the biographical detail of O'Casey's life, but to trace the shift in the playwright's ideology - from Protestant Orange to Republican Green and finally, and most steadfastly, Socialist Red - and examine how these beliefs found voice in the characters and construction of his earlier plays.
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Riordan, Michael. "Terrible Beauty: Ideology and Political Discourse in the Early Plays of Sean O'Casey." Thesis, Griffith University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367087.
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This thesis argues that prominent in the purposes of the dramaturgy of Irish playwright Sean O'Casey was the promotion of his political causes - most notably socialism. In his avidity for the cause of establishing a workers' paradise, following the Soviet model, in Ireland, his ire was drawn to the movements and institutions he perceived as distracting the masses from pursuit of this ideal: republicanism and the Church. These political ideals are prominent themes in his collected works - both fiction and non-fiction. The work is essentially divided into two sections. The first examines the development of O'Casey's ideologies - his socialism, anti-nationalism and anti-clericalism - and the backdrop against which they developed. The purpose is to establish just how passionately O'Casey felt about these ideals and how, in his letters, histories and autobiographies, he dedicated much of his effort to promoting them. Having dedicated so much time and energy to championing socialism and attacking the Church in these texts, it is little wonder they should appear so prominently in his plays. The thesis argues that O'Casey distorted the content of his Autobiographies to reinforce his role as self appointed champion of Dublin's "bottom fifth" and his beloved working class. It contends that O'Casey embellished the suffering of his childhood and the hardship endured by his family to fortify his credentials as a "socialist hero" - to be "for them" he sought to be "of them," and to provide a model for how learning and conversion to the socialist ideal would liberate them from the economic oppression that kept them low. A number of facts, even elementary ones like the number of children in the Casey brood and particular dates and addresses where he had lived, were changed to cultivate the working class hero image, the disadvantaged boy who rose up against all that an unjust and unsympathetic world could throw at him, that he so coveted. The more abject the origins, the greater the final triumph. The thesis then looks briefly at the origins and purposes of the Abbey Theatre, and its part in the Irish Renaissance that gave O'Casey his start. It focuses particularly on the role of Yeats, and his desire to build a dramatic movement which created work free from opinion. His famous determination to "reduce the world to wallpaper" brought him into conflict with O'Casey, who saw his plays as a legitimate vehicle for the expression of his own world view. It is important, in terms of the objective of this study, to establish that O'Casey's works were deliberately constructed pieces of didacticism, to demonstrate just how inimical to the original intent of the movement his purposes were. With this in mind, it is instructive to compare him with the other great Irish dramatist of the period, John Millington Synge, whose works, with their more rustic focus, promoted the kind of impressionistic 'slice of life' theatre the Abbey founders were championing. For O'Casey, the cause was paramount. He wrote morality plays. The study examines how O'Casey's dominant ideological position evolved by examining his own changing perspective about the world around him. It shows how O'Casey began to see all struggles in terms of the economic one between classes, and how he came to be converted to the tenets of socialism. His opposition to nationalism and his anti-clericalism essentially reflected his belief that they were hostile to the interests of the workers, and therefore must be engaged. The dominant sources in this section are O'Casey's letters, his Autobiographies, and his book, The Story of the Irish Citizen Army. The second sectio of the thesis focuses on the first seven extant plays: The Harvest Festival, The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, The Silver Tassie, Within the Gates, and The Star Turns Red, and examines how each promotes O'Casey's causes. The purpose of the thesis is not to promote a reworking of the biographical detail of O'Casey's life, but to trace the shift in the playwright's ideology - from Protestant Orange to Republican Green and finally, and most steadfastly, Socialist Red - and examine how these beliefs found voice in the characters and construction of his earlier plays.Thesis (Masters)
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
School of Humanities
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Potvin, Carole 1964. "L'autoportrait dans la correspondance de Sartre et de Beauvoir." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84539.
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This thesis analyses the self-portrait visible in the correspondence exchanged between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir during the Second World War. Particular attention is paid to the period between September 2 nd, 1939 and the end of March, 1940 because that is the time period in which the works of both letter writers are available.We examine the two principal figures that emerge from the letters of each writer. Sartre appears as both an intellectual and an imperialist; Beauvoir appears as a earthy woman who is also respectful of Sartre.
The thesis is divided in two sections: "Le monologue" and "Le dialogue". In fact, we have discovered that some of the figures, the intellectual and the earthy woman, emerge in a context where the letter writer reacts infrequently to the discourse of the addressee. That is why this section is entitled "Le monologue". In contrast, other figures, the imperialist and the respectful woman, appear in a context where both letter writers react to the image that the addressee projects of himself. That is why this section is named "Le dialogue". In addition, each figure presents a dark side. Therefore, we have studied each of them firstly "in the sun" and secondly "in the shadows". Moreover, our study of this correspondence has permitted us to better identify the general characteristics of the epistolary self-portrait genre.
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Macbeth, Georgia School of Theatre Film & Dance UNSW. "A Plurality of Identities: Ulster Protestantism in Contemporary Northern Irish Drama." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Theatre, Film and Dance, 1999. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/33257.
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This thesis examines the ways in which Ulster Protestant identity has been explored in contemporary Northern Irish drama. The insecurity of the political and cultural status of Ulster Protestants from the Home Rule Crises up until Partition led to the construction and maintenance of a distinct and unified Ulster Protestant identity. This identity was defined by concepts such as loyalty, industriousness and ???Britishness???. It was also defined by a perceived opposite ??? the Catholicism, disloyalty and ???Irishness??? of the Republic. When the Orange State began to fragment in the late 1960s and early 1970s, so did notions of this singular Ulster Protestant identity. With the onset of the Troubles in 1969 came a parallel questioning and subversion of this identity in Northern Irish drama. This was a process which started with Sam Thompson???s Over the Bridge in 1960, but which began in earnest with Stewart Parker???s Spokesong in 1975. This thesis examines Parker???s approach and subsequent approaches by other dramatists to the question of Ulster Protestant identity. It begins with the antithetical pronouncements of Field Day Theatre Company, which were based in an inherently Northern Nationalist ideology. Here, the Ulster Protestant community was largely ignored or essentialised. Against this Northern Nationalist ideology represented by Field Day have come broadly revisionist approaches, reflecting the broader cultural context of this thesis. Ulster Protestant identity has been explored through issues of history and myth, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality. More recent explorations of Ulster Protestantism have also added to this diversity by presenting the little acknowledged viewpoint of extreme loyalism. Dramatists examined in this thesis include Stewart Parker, Christina Reid, Frank McGuinness, Bill Morrison, Ron Hutchinson, Marie Jones, Graham Reid, Robin Glendinning and Gary Mitchell. The work of Charabanc Theatre Company is also discussed. What results from their efforts is a diverse and complex Ulster Protestant community. This thesis argues that the concept of a singular Ulster Protestant identity, defined by its loyalty and Britishness, is fragmented, leading to a plurality of Ulster Protestant identities.
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White, Jonathan Paul. "The symphonies of Charles Villiers Stanford : constructing a national identity?" Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6d16fac7-bb70-4ba9-bf0e-17c0a9f26ce5.
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Writing in 2001, musicologist Axel Klein concluded that Stanford’s reception history has been significantly impacted by the complicated national identities surrounding both the composer and his music. A lifelong devotee of the nineteenth-century Austro-Germanic tradition, Stanford’s status as an Irish-born leading figure of the ‘English’ Musical Renaissance has compromised the place that the composer and his musical output occupy within the history of Western music. Stanford is well-known for being an outspoken critic on matters musical and Irish. Although his views seldom appear ambiguous, there is still a sense that the real Stanford remains partially obscured by his opinions. Through an examination of his symphonic works, this thesis seeks to readdress our understanding of Stanford and his relationship with Ireland and the musical community of his time. Although A. Peter Brown has stated that the symphony was not a central genre for the composer, it is my argument that, on the contrary, the symphony was a pivotal form for him. Considering these works within the broader history of the symphony in Europe in the nineteenth century, and through a critical examination of Stanford’s relationship with Ireland, this thesis seeks to demonstrate that these seven works can be read as an allegory for the composer’s relationship both with his homeland and with the musical community of his time. His struggle to combine the universality of symphonic expression with a need to articulate his Irish identity parallels Stanford’s own attempts to integrate himself within both British and European musical communities, and further demonstrates, in his eventual rejection of it, that it was only when he attempted to forge a more individualistic path through his music that he found a way of expressing his individual Irish identity.
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Hopper, Keith. "Imagining otherwise : Neil Jordan's counter-narratives." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669873.
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Kaplan, Stacey Meredith 1973. "The modern(ist) short form: Containing class in early 20th century literature and film." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10574.
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ix, 182 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.My dissertation analyzes the overlooked short works of authors and auteurs who do not fit comfortably into the conventional category of modernism due to their subtly experimental aesthetics: the versatile British author Vita Sackville-West, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short-story writer Elizabeth Bowen, and the British emigrant filmmaker Charlie Chaplin. I focus on the years 1920-1923 to gain an alternative understanding of modernism's annus mirabulus and the years immediately preceding and following it. My first chapter studies the most critically disregarded author of the project: Sackville-West. Her 1922 volume of short stories The Heir: A Love Story deserves attention for its examination of social hierarchies. Although her stories ridicule characters regardless of their class background, those who attempt to change their class status, especially when not sanctioned by heredity, are treated with the greatest contempt. The volume, with the reinforcement of the contracted short form, advocates staying within given class boundaries. The second chapter analyzes social structures in Bowen's first book of short stories, Encounters (1922). Like Sackville-West, Bowen's use of the short form complements her interest in how class hierarchies can confine characters. Bowen's portraits of classed encounters and of characters' encounters with class reveal a sense of anxiety over being confined by social status and a sense of displacement over breaking out of class groups, exposing how class divisions accentuate feelings of alienation and instability. The last chapter examines Chaplin's final short films: "The Idle Class" (1921), "Pay Day (1922), and "The Pilgrim" (1923). While placing Chaplin among the modernists complicates the canon in a positive way, it also reduces the complexity of this man and his art. Chaplin is neither a pyrotechnic modernist nor a traditional sentimentalist. Additionally, Chaplin's shorts are neither socially liberal nor conservative. Rather, Chaplin's short films flirt with experimental techniques and progressive class politics, presenting multiple perspectives on the thematic of social hierarchies. But, in the end, his films reinforce rather than overthrow traditional artistic forms and hierarchical ideas. Studying these artists elucidates how the contracted space of the short form produces the perfect room to present a nuanced portrayal of class.
Committee in charge: Paul Peppis, Chairperson, English; Michael Aronson, Member, English; Mark Quigley, Member, English; Jenifer Presto, Outside Member, Comparative Literature
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Lynch, Robert John. "The Northern IRA and the early years of partition 1920-22." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1517.
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The years i 920-22 constituted a period of unprecedented conflct and political change in Ireland. It began with the onset of the most brutal phase of the War ofIndependence and culminated in the effective miltary defeat of the Republican IRA in the Civil War. Occurring alongside these dramatic changes in the south and west of Ireland was a far more fundamental conflict in the north-east; a period of brutal sectarian violence which marked the early years of partition and the establishment of Northern Ireland. Almost uniquely the IRA in the six counties were involved in every one of these conflcts and yet it can be argued was on the fringes of all of them. The period i 920-22 saw the evolution of the organisation from a peripheral curiosity during the War of independence to an idealistic symbol for those wishing to resolve the fundamental divisions within the Sinn Fein movement which developed in the first six months of i 922. The story of the Northern IRA's collapse in the autumn of that year demonstrated dramatically the true nature of the organisation and how it was their relationship to the various protagonists in these conflcts, rather than their unceasing but fruitless war against partition, that defined its contribution to the Irish revolution.
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Witen, Michelle Lynn. "Perceiving in registers : the condition of absolute music in James Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669882.
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Page, Michael von Tangen. "The IRA, Sinn Fein and the hunger strike of 1981." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14348.
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This thesis examines the 1981 hunger strike by republican prisoners in Northern Ireland against the removal of special category status from newly convicted paramilitary prisoners on 1 March 1976, the fast was part of a protest that began in 1976. The thesis opens with an examination of the origins of the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1969 and the emergence of a younger leadership in the late 1970's, and evaluates the significance of the prisons in Irish history. The development of the prisoners protests ranging from the refusal to put on a uniform and perform prison work to the rejection of sanitary or washing facilities, is analysed. The prisoners demands are examined in the context of British and international law. The campaign in support of the republican prisoners conducted outside the Maze Prison, including the formation of the Relatives Action Committee and the National H-Block/Armagh Committee is surveyed, and the female "dirty" protest at Armagh Prison is examined. The medical, ethical, and moral dilemmas presented by hunger striking are identified and the thesis examines the debate whether the men who died were suicides or martyrs. The 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes are examined with particular attention to the efforts to bring about a compromise with the British government and the factors leading to a new hunger strike in 1981 and to the intervention of the Catholic Church with the prisoners relatives which ended the fast. The hunger strike is analysed regarding its effect internationally in building up republican support, and in the Province where it acted as the base for the future success of Provisional Sinn Fein later in the decade.
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Duncan, Dawn E. (Dawn Elaine). "Language and Identity in Post-1800 Irish Drama." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277916/.
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Using a sociolinguistic and post-colonial approach, I analyze Irish dramas that speak about language and its connection to national identity. In order to provide a systematic and wide-ranging study, I have selected plays written at approximately fifty-year intervals and performed before Irish audiences contemporary to their writing. The writers selected represent various aspects of Irish society--religiously, economically, and geographically--and arguably may be considered the outstanding theatrical Irish voices of their respective generations. Examining works by Alicia LeFanu, Dion Boucicault, W.B. Yeats, and Brian Friel, I argue that the way each of these playwrights deals with language and identity demonstrates successful resistance to the destruction of Irish identity by the dominant language power. The work of J. A. Laponce and Ronald Wardhaugh informs my language dominance theory. Briefly, when one language pushes aside another language, the cultural identity begins to shift. The literature of a nation provides evidence of the shifting perception. Drama, because of its performance qualities, provides the most complex and complete literary evidence. The effect of the performed text upon the audience validates a cultural reception beyond what would be possible with isolated readers. Following a theoretical introduction, I analyze the plays in chronological order. Alicia LeFanu's The Sons of Erin; or, Modern Sentiment (1812) gently pleads for equal treatment in a united Britain. Dion Boucicault's three Irish plays, especially The Colleen Bawn (1860) but also Arrah-na-Pogue (1864) and The Shaughraun (1875), satirically conceal rebellious nationalist tendencies under the cloak of melodrama. W. B. Yeats's The Countess Cathleen (1899) reveals his romantic hope for healing the national identity through the powers of language. However, The Only Jealousy of Emer (1919) and The Death of Cuchulain (1939) reveal an increasing distrust of language to mythically heal Ireland. Brian Friel's Translations (1980), supported by The Communication Cord (1982) and Making History (1988), demonstrates a post-colonial move to manipulate history in order to tell the Irish side of a British story, constructing in the process an Irish identity that is postnational.
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Ryan, Catriona Majella. "Border states in the writings of Tom MacIntyre : a paleo-postmodern perspective." Thesis, Swansea University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.678339.
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Svan, Moa. "Svärmisk vänskap bland ogifta yrkesarbetande kvinnor : Mikrohistorisk studie av vänskap genom Maja Beskows korrespondens och dagböcker mellan år 1886–1923." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Historia, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-46447.
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Working and unmarried women could have a life which married women had not. Instead of marriage, they built their social and family life on friendship. They lived with each other, payed rent together, discussed domestic issues such as cleaning and household labour. They also talked about love, and passion, and how to find a friend to share their life with. This particular group of unmarried women did not solely arrange friendship out of practical purposes but also of emotional and social bonds. This study focuses on the teacher Maja Beskow in Umeå and her diaries and correspondence with and about her friends from the year 1896 to 1923. What did they say about friendship? What aspects of life could be found within the friendships?
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Derby, Mark. "Czar Cullen : Police Commissioner John Cullen and coercive state action in early 20th century NZ : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in New Zealand Studies /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/351.
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Paterson, Adrian. "'Words for music perhaps' : W.B. Yeats and musical sense." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d288984c-254a-40bc-b13d-b8790cc8226c.
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‘Poetry’ insisted Ezra Pound, ‘is a composition of words set to music’: his Cantos remembered ‘Uncle Willie’ downstairs composing, singing poetry to himself. This study examines the nature and effects of W.B.Yeats’s idiosyncratic but profound sense of music. For his poems were compositions set to music. They were saturated with musical themes; syntactically he professed to write for the ear rather than the eye; and he flung himself repeatedly into the breach between music and words, composing ballads, songs, and plays with music, and performing poetry with musical instruments. My thesis is that nature of poetry, spoken, read or sung, obsessed Yeats, and I hold it self evident that such an acutely self-conscious poetry will articulate this obsession: to use his own imagery, will bear the scars of its own birth. What follows is a study of meaning, obsession, and influence, beginning with what Yeats knew and how he came to poetry: his father’s and his own vocalizations of the musical preoccupations of Scott and Shelley, viewed through the annotations of ‘the first book [he] knew Shelley in’ and the solipsistic singers and instrumentalists of his early verse. The theme of chapter two is Ireland: the musical resonances of Anglo Irish ballads and Irish verse are viewed through Yeats’s aurally-oriented canon-formation, as we examine his instinctual recitations and deliberate approach to Irish folksong through the mediation of Douglas Hyde. The aesthetics of Wagner, Pater, and the French symbolistes frame the third chapter, which describes how poetry might approach the condition of music in the motivic organization of The Wind Among the Reeds. In chapter four the impact of Nietzsche’s profoundly musical philosophy is correlated for the first time with the exact moments of Yeats’s discovery of his texts, as Yeats’s plays and poetry move from ‘Apollonian’ languor to ‘Dionysian’ energy, from dream to song and dance. My final chapter uncovers the long history of the practical experiments Yeats made to perform poetry with a ‘psaltery’, and their resonating afterlife in subsequent poetry and poets. No musician himself, Yeats’s musical sense has until now been entirely dismissed: this study shows how central it is to his art and to an understanding of the dominant aesthetic of the age.
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Dixon, Marzena M. "The structure and rhetoric of twentieth-century British children's fantasy." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14858.
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This thesis discusses twentieth century children's fantasy fiction. The writers whose creative output is dealt with include Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Susan Cooper, Pat O'Shea, Peter Dickinson, T.H.White, Lloyd Alexander and, to a lesser extent, C.S.Lewis and J.R.R.Tolkien. These authors have been chosen because their books, whilst being of a broadly similar nature, nevertheless have a sufficient diversity to illustrate well many different important aspects of children's fantasy. Chapter I examines the sources of modern fantasy, presents the attitudes of different authors towards borrowing from traditional sources and their reasons for doing so, and looks at the changing interpretation of myths. Chapter II talks about the presentation of the primary and secondary worlds and the ways in which they interact. It also discusses the characters' attitudes towards magic. Chapter III looks at the presentation of magic, examines the traditional fairy-tale conventions and their implementation in modern fantasies, and discusses the concepts of evil, time, and the laws governing fantasy worlds. Chapter IV deals with the methods of narration and the figure of the narrator. It presents briefly the prevailing plot patterns, discusses the use of different kinds of language, and the ideas of pan-determinism and prophecy. The concluding chapter considers the main subjects and aims of children's fantasy, the reasons why the genre is so popular, and its successes and failures.
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Mercurio, Jeremiah Romano. "Fantasy as a mode in British and Irish literary decadence, 1885–1925." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1964.
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This Ph. D. thesis investigates the use of fantasy by British and Irish 'Decadent' authors and illustrators, including Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, 'Vernon Lee' (Violet Paget), Ernest Dowson, and Charles Ricketts. Furthermore, this study demonstrates why fantasy was an apposite form for literary Decadence, which is defined in this thesis as a supra-generic mode characterized by its anti-mimetic impulse, its view of language as autonomous and artificial, its frequent use of parody and pastiche, and its transgression of boundaries between art forms. Literary Decadence in the United Kingdom derives its view of autonomous language from Anglo-German Romantic philology and literature, consequently being distinguished from French Decadence by its resistance to realism and Naturalism, which assume language's power to signify the 'real world'. Understanding language to be inorganic, Decadent writers blithely countermand notions of linguistic fitness and employ devices such as catachresis, paradox, and tautology, which in turn emphasize the self-referentiality of Decadent texts. Fantasy furthers the Decadent argument about language because works of fantasy bear no specific relationship to 'reality'; they can express anything evocable within language, as J.R.R. Tolkien demonstrates with his example of "the green sun" (a phrase that can exist independent of the sun's actually being green). The thesis argues that fantasy's usefulness in underscoring arguments about linguistic autonomy explains its widespread presence in Decadent prose and visual art, especially in genres that had become associated with realism and Naturalism, such as the novel (Chapter 1), the short story (Chapter 3), drama (Chapter 4), and textual illustration (Chapter 2). The thesis also analyzes Decadents' use of a wholly non-realistic genre, the fairy tale (see Chapter 5), in order to delineate the consequences of their use of fantasy for the construction of character and gender within their texts.
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Rock, Brian. "Irish nationalism and postcolonial modernity : the 'minor' literature and authorial selves of Brian O'Nolan." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2495.
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In the immediate post-independence period, forms of state-sponsored Irish nationalism were pre-occupied with exclusive cultural markers based on the Irish language, mythology and folk traditions. Because of this, a postcolonial examination of how such nationalist forms of identity were fetishised is necessary in order to critique the continuing process of decolonization in Ireland. This dissertation investigates Brian O’Nolan’s engagement with dominant colonial and nationalist literary discourses in his fiction and journalism. Deleuze and Guattari define a ‘minor’ writer’s role as one which deterritorializes major languages in order to negotiate textual spaces which question the assumptions of dominant groups. Considering this concept has been applied to postcolonial studies due to the theorists’ linguistic and political concerns, this dissertation explores the ‘minor’ literary practice of Brian O’Nolan’s authorial personae and writing techniques. Through the employment of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the deterritorialization of language alongside Walter Benjamin’s models of the flâneur and translation, and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s concept of bricolage, this thesis examines the complex forms of postcolonial narrative agency and discursive political resistance in O’Nolan’s work. While O’Nolan is often read in biographical terms or within the frameworks of literary modernism and postmodernism, this thesis aims to demonstrate the politically ambivalent nature of his writing through his creation of liminal authorial selves and heterogeneous narrative forms. As a bi-lingual author, O’Nolan is linguistically ‘in-between’ languages and, because of this, he deterritorializes both historical and literary associations of the Irish and English languages to produce parodic and comic versions of national and linguistic identity. His satiric novel An Béal Bocht exposes, through his use of an array of materials, how Irish folk and peasant culture have been fetishized within colonial and nationalist frameworks. In order to avoid such restricting forms of identity, O’Nolan positions his own authorial self within a multitude of pseudonyms which refuse a clear, assimilable subjectivity and political position. Because of this, O’Nolan’s authorial voice in his journalism is read as an allusive flâneur figure. Equally, O’Nolan deterritorializes Irish mythology in At Swim-Two-Birds as a form of palimpsestic translation and rhizomatic re-mapping of a number of literary traditions which reflect the Irish nation while in The Third Policeman O’Nolan deconstructs notions of empirical subjectivity and academic and scientific epistemological knowledge. This results in an infinite form of fantastical writing which exposes the limited codes of Irish national culture and identity without reterritorializing such identities. Because O’Nolan’s ‘minor’ literary challenge is reflective of the on-going crisis of Ireland’s incomplete decolonization, this thesis employs the concept of ‘minor’ literature to read Ireland’s historical past and contemporary modernity through O’Nolan’s multi-voiced and layered narratives.
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Kariya, Toshinobu. "Antonin Artaud épistolier : une pratique paradoxale de l’expression du moi." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO20033/document.
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La correspondance d’Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) occupe une place essentielle dans ses écrits. Elle montre sans doute mieux que ses autres textes la singularité de son expression. Cette thèse examine le rôle joué par sa correspondance, rôle dont on admet l’importance mais encore insuffisamment exploré. À partir de la publication de la Correspondance avec Jacques Rivière (1924), commencée à la suite du refus de Rivière de publier les poèmes d’Artaud, celui-ci publie lettres ou textes épistoliers comme si cela pouvait remplacer ses œuvres dans lesquelles il n’arrive pas à exprimer sa réalité à cause de la maladie dont il souffre : il refuse les œuvres « détachée[s] de la vie » et croit pouvoir mieux s’exprimer dans les lettres. L’expression épistolière est pour lui un moyen de faire entendre le « cri même de la vie » et de lutter contre « un sentiment de gratuité ». Toutefois, il n’est pas évident que, bien qu’elle soit ancrée dans des situations réelles, la correspondance puisse fonctionner comme Artaud le souhaite; il s’avère plutôt qu’elle a pour lui un statut ambigu dans les années 1920 et 1930. Le chapitre 1 aborde ce problème sous deux aspects : l’authenticité et la temporalité. Dans ses lettres, on constate qu’Artaud se plaint très souvent de l’incompréhension de ses destinataires vis-à-vis de sa douleur; ses lettres n’en garantissent pas, pour eux, l’authenticité et l’équivoque y revient sans cesse. Pour lui, l’authenticité doit être prouvée par l’adéquation de l’écriture épistolière avec le présent. Mais sa maladie, ainsi que le fait que les lettres ne sont que des écrits, empêchent la réalisation de cette adéquation. Ses lettres ne parviennent à transcrire que sa hâte et le décalage temporel. Ainsi, loin de témoigner de sa réalité brute, sa correspondance devient tentative de couvrir ce décalage, de trouver la réalité qu’il n’arrive pas à saisir, son vrai moi, originel et intact. Pour cela, Artaud recourt à des éléments imaginaires en exigeant toujours le contact immédiat, d’où le rôle paradoxal de ses lettres. Le chapitre 2 examine le problème de la destination. La présence des autres est nécessaire à Artaud pour penser, pour compléter son manque. Ses destinataires sont ainsi des dépositaires de son moi. Mais ses lettres s’adressent, au-delà des destinataires réels dont la présence n’est qu’imaginaire, à l’instance transcendante, à l’Autre comme le remarque Vincent Kaufmann dans L’Équivoque épistolaire, instance qui lui donne accès à l’expression et lui restitue son identité. Ses destinataires (critiques, autorités religieuses, hommes politique, médecins, etc.), autoritaires et paternels, sont des figures de cet Autre. Par ailleurs, ses destinataires féminines et amoureuses sont pour lui des moitiés qu’il faut s’incorporer pour retrouver l’unité originelle. Ses lettres d’amour sont ainsi marquées par son désir violent de fusion. Pourtant, l’union amoureuse expose en même temps l’unité de son moi à la perte dans le flot de choses. Les lettres sont aussi écrites pour introduire une distance.L’enjeu de ses lettres de voyage, étudiées au chapitre 3, est de réaliser les deux mouvements inverses (rapprochement et éloignement). Les pays lointains constituent pour Artaud l’ailleurs métaphysique où retrouver son unité originelle. Pendant ses voyages au Mexique (1936) et en Irlande (1937), ses lettres sont comme une scène pour l’avènement de sa nouvelle identité, scène où se rencontrent l’au-delà et l’ici-maintenant. C’est ici que son usage paradoxal des lettres atteint son sommet car la réalisation du « vrai drame » signifie, comme il le prophétise, la disparition du monde matériel et donc aussi celle de l’écriture épistolière. Ses lettres mettent en scène leur propre disparition qui coïncide curieusement avec son arrestation à Dublin et le commencement de sa vie asilaire (1937-1946)The correspondence of Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) occupies an essential place in his writings. It shows probably better than his other texts the singularity of his expression. This dissertation examines the role played by his correspondence, the importance of which is admitted, but still insufficiently explored. From the publication of the Correspondence with Jacques Rivière (1924), that started following the refusal of Rivière to publish the poems of Artaud, he publishes letters or texts in epistolary style as if they could replace his works in which he is unable to express his own reality because of his illness : he refuses works "separated from life" and believes he can better express himself in letters. The epistolary expression is for him a way to make the "cry of life" heard and to fight against the "feeling of lack of cause". However, it is not clear that, although anchored in real situations, the correspondence can function as Artaud wants. Rather, in the 1920s and 1930s, its position for him is ambiguous.Chapter 1 approaches this problem in two aspects : the authenticity and the temporality. In his letters, we can see Artaud complain very often of his addressees’ misunderstanding about his pain. His letters do not prove its authenticity, and the ambiguity always goes into them. For him, the authenticity must be proven by the accord of his writings with the present time. But his illness, as well as the fact that the letters consist of words, prevent the realization of this accord. His letters can transcribe only his hustle and time gaps. Thus, far from showing his raw reality, the correspondence becomes an attempt to cover these gaps, to find the reality that he cannot seize, his true self, original and intact. To do this, Artaud uses imaginary elements, still asking for the immediate contact, which makes the role of his letters paradoxical. Chapter 2 examines the problem of destination. The presence of others is necessary for Artaud to think, to complete his lack. His addressees are depositories of his self. But his letters are addressed, beyond actual addressees whose presence is after all imaginary, to the transcendent instance, to the Other as notes Vincent Kaufmann in L’Équivoque épistolaire, instance that allow him access to the expression and restores his identity. His addressees who are authorities and paternal (critics, religious leaders, statesmen, doctors, etc.) are figures of the Other. In addition, the female addressees who are his lovers are his halves that must be incorporated to find again the original unity. His love letters are so marked by his strong desire of fusion. Yet at the same time, the union by love exposes his unity to loss in the flow of things. Letters are also written in order to introduce a distance. The issue of his travel letters, discussed in Chapter 3, is to make simultaneously the two opposite movements (close and away). Distant countries represent for Artaud metaphysical places where he should find his original unity. During his travels in Mexico (1936) and Ireland (1937), his letters are like a stage for the advent of a new identity, stage where meet the beyond and the here-now. It is here that the paradoxical use of letters reaches the peak, because the realization of the "real drama" means, as prophesied he, the disappearance of the material world and therefore that of the letters. His letters direct their own disappearance, which curiously coincides with his arrest in Dublin and the beginning of his life in asylums (1937-1946)
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Manuel, Daniel. "Les correspondants français de Canova (1785-1822) : contribution à une histoire sociale et matérielle du goût au tournant du XIXe siècle." Thesis, Brest, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BRES0104.
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Le sujet inédit de la thèse repose sur un fonds d’archives. Il questionne la réception du sculpteur néoclassique italien Antonio Canova (1757-1822) dans les cercles et salons mondains à travers la correspondance de personnalités françaises aux profils multiples, du Consulat, de l’Empire et de la Restauration. Au gré des lettres, se dessine l'image d’un artiste aux prises avec des intérêts économiques, artistiques et sentimentaux. La séduction opère auprès des Napoléonides lui assurant protection et commandes ; elle gagne aussi les représentants du pouvoir à Rome et les salonnières pris au jeu de la délicatesse et du charme des compositions de l’Italien. La recommandation apparaît comme un mode de communication privilégié entre artistes et reflète la vitalité de ce type de lettre ainsi que la diversité des réseaux. La correspondance met en évidence le changement de statut de l’artiste qui adapte sa célébrité aux exigences de ses commanditaires en devenant un véritable homme d’affaires. Partagé entre désir d’émancipation et fidélité aux choix esthétiques de son mentor Quatremère de Quincy, Canova livre une production polymorphe qui le fait apprécier de la critique et du public qui cherche à voir en lui l’héritier moderne des sculpteurs grecs : mais ses rares présences et expositions à Paris limitent son impact. L’influence du premier romantisme dans la peinture néoclassique imprègne la production canovienne lui conférant son originalité. L’étude des missives fait surgir des questionnements historiques, matériels et esthétiques dont les épistoliers de Canova sont les témoinsThe novel subject of this thesis is based upon archive material. It is centered on how the work of Italian neo-classical sculptor Antonio Canova was received in the most glamorous clubs and salons, through the study of letters exchanged by French celebrities from different walks of life during upon the periods of the Consulate, the Empire and the Restauration. Letter after letter, the image of an artist confronted with économie, artistic and sentimental challenges emerges. He succeeds in winning over the Napoleonides who grant him their patronage and their protection. He also gains the support of government représentatives in Rome and of fashionable women who are enraptured by the charm and the refinement of the Italian sculptor’s compositions. Référencés appear as a privileged form of exchange between artists, and reflect the vitality of this type of letter, and the variety of networks.Correspondence demonstrates the changing status of the artist who adjusts his réputation to the demands of his patron, thus becoming a true businessman. Torn between his longing forfreedom and his commitment to the artistic leanings of his mentor Quatremère de Quincy, Canova's production has many facets, which endear him to critics and to the public who wishes to see him as the modem heir of Greek sculptors. Yet as he rarely visits Paris and his work is rarely exhibited there, his impact is limited. The influence of early romanticism on ne classical painting permeates Canova’s works, and is a tribute to his originality. Studying these letters brings to light historical, material and esthetic questions that their authors bear witness to
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Tin, Emerson. "Em busca do "Lobato das cartas" : a construção da imagem de Monteiro Lobato diante de seus destinatarios." [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270302.
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Orientador: Marisa Philbert LajoloTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: O objetivo desta tese é identificar e analisar o ¿Lobato das cartas¿, ou seja, o processo de construção da imagem de Monteiro Lobato em sua correspondência ativa. Há, assim, o Lobato familiar, o escritor e o editor, o dos Estados Unidos, o do ferro e do petróleo, o da prisão e o das crianças. Essa imagem, porém, varia não só segundo circunstâncias de tempo e de lugar mas também em função do destinatário. Palavras-chave: Lobato, Monteiro, 1882-1948 ¿ Correspondência ¿ Crítica e interpretação, Cartas brasileiras ¿ Séc. XX ¿ História e crítica
Abstract: The objective of this thesis is to identify and to analyze the ¿Lobato of the letters¿, that is, the process of construction of the Monteiro Lobato¿s image in his active correspondence. There are the familiar Lobato, the writer and the publisher, the Lobato of the United States, the Lobato of the iron and the oil, the Lobato of the prison and the Lobato of the children. This image, however, not only varies according to circumstances of time and place but also in function of the addressee. Keywords: Lobato, Monteiro, 1882-1948 ¿ Correspondence ¿ Criticism and interpretation, Brazilian letters ¿ 20th century ¿ History and criticism
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O'Farrell, Kevin. "Joyce after Nietzsche : irony and the will to truth." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3de0686a-b70f-433c-ae20-9de7d554b08e.
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This thesis explores and evaluates the work of James Joyce using the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche. It does so not only by examining Joyce's knowledge of Nietzsche's writings, but also through demonstrating how effectively they can illuminate Joyce's themes and techniques, and aid in a general reconceptualisation of his literary project. My analysis draws on several of Nietzsche's key concepts - perspectivism, ressentiment, the will to power - and applies them to Joyce's work. The main idea I use however is the will to truth. I argue that Joyce's primary concern as an artist was the depiction of what he saw as the truth of contemporary existence, in Dublin and more generally. This aim determines his technē, the origin and form of his work of art. Various manifestations of irony, a key element of Joyce's technique, help illustrate the importance of this will to truth. This understanding of his work eliminates the false division between form and content and through an emphasis on Joyce's artistry and philosophy, rather than the historical context in which he wrote (that is, on the author rather than the man), allows for a truly critical assessment. The five chapters that follow my introduction are chronologically ordered. They examine the early works, Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and especially Ulysses, in considerable detail and from various angles. Though careful to respect the individuality of each, my analyses find a common thread of realism uniting the three major works of prose fiction; beginning with the French naturalism of the short stories, moving on to a new development of perspectival irony and a unique mode of allegory in his first novel, and ending in what Joyce called 'the new realism' of his epic. My study then explains how and why realism is problematised in the later chapters of Ulysses as the will to truth comes to question itself. The thesis concludes with an assessment of Finnegans Wake, considering how it marks a radical departure from Joyce's earlier practice, and why I regard it a failure.
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Burke, Edward. "Understanding small infantry unit behaviour and cohesion : the case of the Scots Guards and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) in Northern Ireland, 1971-1972." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8507.
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This is the first such study of Operation Banner: taking three Battalions as case studies, drawing upon extensive interviews with former soldiers, primary archival sources including unpublished diaries, this thesis closely examines soldiers' behaviour at the small infantry-unit level (Battalion downwards), including the leadership, cohesion, orientation and motivation that sustained, restrained and occasionally obstructed soldiers in Northern Ireland. It contends that there are aspects of wider scholarly literatures - from sociology, anthropology, criminology, and psychology - that can throw new light on our understanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland. The thesis will also contribute fresh insights and analysis of important events during the early years of Operation Banner, including the murders of two men in County Fermanagh, Michael Naan and Andrew Murray, and that of Warrenpoint hotel owner Edmund Woolsey in South Armagh in the autumn of 1972. The central argument of this thesis is that British Army small infantry units enjoyed considerable autonomy during the early years of Operation Banner and could behave in a vengeful, highly aggressive or benign and conciliatory way as their local commanders saw fit. The strain of civil-military relations at a senior level was replicated operationally â as soldiers came to resent the limitations of waging war in the UK. The unwillingness of the Army's senior leadership to thoroughly investigate and punish serious transgressions of standard operating procedures in Northern Ireland created uncertainty among soldiers over expected behaviour and desired outcomes. Mid-ranking officers and NCOs often played important roles in restraining soldiers in Northern Ireland. The degree of violence used in Northern was much less that that seen in the colonial wars fought since the end of World War II. But overly aggressive groups of soldiers could also be mistaken for high-functioning units â with negative consequences for the Army's overall strategy in Northern Ireland.
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Martin, Shirley Helen. "Freedom to obey : the obedience of Christ as the reflection of the obedience of the Son in Karl Barth's 'Church dogmatics'." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/762.
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This thesis argues that Barth’s asymmetrical structuring of the Trinity in I/1, his doctrine of election in volume II, his concept of the humanity of Christ as the imago Dei in III/2 and his account of the obedience of the Son being reflected in his incarnate life, as detailed in IV/1 and IV/2, are not just coherent but mutually reinforcing. The thesis demonstrates that Barth uses a nexus of crucial terms, including ‘correspondence’ [Entsprechung], ‘reflection’ [reflex/Abbildung] and ‘overflowing’ [Ueberstroemen], to express that God’s actions and relationships ad extra reveal who God is. The concept of ‘correspondence’, tentatively present in the first two volumes, gathers pace through III/2 and achieves full force in volume IV, where the obedience of Christ in IV/2 ‘reflects’ or ‘mirrors’ the obedience of the Son in IV/1. Crucially, the fact that the economic Trinity ‘reflects’ the immanent Trinity, or (differently stated) that the immanent Trinity ‘overflows’ into the economy, establishes a direction, an asymmetry, to the relationship of ‘correspondence’. In ch. II of the thesis we argue that the asymmetry developed in the doctrine of the Trinity in I/1 is the basis for this asymmetric correspondence. Barth describes the triune life as one of giving and receiving existence, suggesting a divine order with an irreversible direction, an asymmetric order. This is shown to be particularly evident in Barth’s defence of the filioque clause which enables him to claim that the Spirit is the one in whom the ruling Father and obedient Son are united ad intra. On this basis we argue, in ch. III, that, when Barth revises his doctrine of election, he comes to see it as the event of triune reflection: the Father, Son and Spirit electing to reflect who they are with a direction of determination, an asymmetry, which is irreversible. In this respect we argue against Bruce McCormack, who sees election as the event in which God elects triunity. In ch. IV we read Barth’s III/2 account of the humanity of Christ as the imago Die, as an attempt to demonstrate that God’s economy of salvation corresponds to who he is. This theme comes into full focus in the first two part-volumes of volume IV, explored here in ch. V. The obedience of Christ reflects, corresponds to, the obedience of the Son. There is obedience in God. This concept, which so mystifies Paul Molnar and Rowan Williams, is shown to be theologically consistent with a doctrine articulated by Barth some thirty years previously: his asymmetrically structured doctrine of the Trinity.
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PAGLIARULO, CARLA. "I. Giordani, uomo di lettere e di cultura, e l'ideale di un «cristianesimo integrale»: alcuni carteggi indediti." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1795.
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La tesi ha lo scopo di inquadrare Giordani nel contesto del mondo culturale cattolico tra le due guerre e di approfondire la sua proposta di «cristianesimo integrale» come soluzione alla crisi che negli anni Venti e Trenta viziò il mondo economico, il sistema politico e lo scenario culturale, a livello di principi fondamentali, di valori. Per questo si è dato assoluto rilievo ai rapporti di Giordani con molti intellettuali suoi contemporanei e con varie istituzioni culturali cattoliche.
Il testo segue dapprima un indirizzo biografico, che permette di ripercorrere la vita di Giordani dalla giovinezza, segnata dalla guerra e dall’esperienza al fronte, alla sua serena fine, nel 1980. Si tratta di una testimonianza di come la sua conseguenzialità tra fede e opere abbia inciso negli ambienti che lo hanno visto protagonista, tanto che è stato avviato per lui il processo di beatificazione.
La ricerca è stata condotta tenendo conto degli scritti di Giordani e della storiografia precedente, ma soprattutto utilizzando numerosi materiali d’archivio. In particolare i carteggi privati aiutano a ricostruire l’operato di Giordani a favore dell’impegno degli intellettuali cattolici negli anni oscuri del fascismo e la sua indefessa attività per la realizzazione di un nuovo umanesimo.
Altro spazio è stato riservato ai rapporti maturati da Giordani con due esponenti del mondo cattolico italiano di quel periodo, ovvero Giovanni Papini e Piero Bargellini.This dissertation aims at setting Igino Giordani within the broader framework of the catholic cultural environment between the two world wars. It focuses on his proposal of an «integral Christianity» as a solution to the recession which threatened the fundamental values and principles of the economy, politics and culture during the 1920's and 1930's. This is the reason why the relationships between Giordani and many of his colleagues and cultural catholic institutions have been studied in depth. The work starts with a biography, underlining how Giordani's youth has been affected by the war and the experience as a soldier, up to his peaceful death, in 1980. His life shows how the consistency of his actions with his faith made him an influent personality in his working environments, to the point that the beatification process has begun. The research is based on Giordani's writings and on the previous historiography, but the most important source is constituted by a large number of archive documents. Particularly, Giordani's private correspondence has been very useful in understanding how he acted in order to support the engagement of the catholic intellectuals during the dark fascist age and his endless activity in order to build a new humanism. The work also focuses on the relationships between Giordani and two members of the Italian catholic world of the time: Giovanni Papini and Piero Bargellini.
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PAGLIARULO, CARLA. "I. Giordani, uomo di lettere e di cultura, e l'ideale di un «cristianesimo integrale»: alcuni carteggi indediti." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/1795.
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La tesi ha lo scopo di inquadrare Giordani nel contesto del mondo culturale cattolico tra le due guerre e di approfondire la sua proposta di «cristianesimo integrale» come soluzione alla crisi che negli anni Venti e Trenta viziò il mondo economico, il sistema politico e lo scenario culturale, a livello di principi fondamentali, di valori. Per questo si è dato assoluto rilievo ai rapporti di Giordani con molti intellettuali suoi contemporanei e con varie istituzioni culturali cattoliche.
Il testo segue dapprima un indirizzo biografico, che permette di ripercorrere la vita di Giordani dalla giovinezza, segnata dalla guerra e dall’esperienza al fronte, alla sua serena fine, nel 1980. Si tratta di una testimonianza di come la sua conseguenzialità tra fede e opere abbia inciso negli ambienti che lo hanno visto protagonista, tanto che è stato avviato per lui il processo di beatificazione.
La ricerca è stata condotta tenendo conto degli scritti di Giordani e della storiografia precedente, ma soprattutto utilizzando numerosi materiali d’archivio. In particolare i carteggi privati aiutano a ricostruire l’operato di Giordani a favore dell’impegno degli intellettuali cattolici negli anni oscuri del fascismo e la sua indefessa attività per la realizzazione di un nuovo umanesimo.
Altro spazio è stato riservato ai rapporti maturati da Giordani con due esponenti del mondo cattolico italiano di quel periodo, ovvero Giovanni Papini e Piero Bargellini.This dissertation aims at setting Igino Giordani within the broader framework of the catholic cultural environment between the two world wars. It focuses on his proposal of an «integral Christianity» as a solution to the recession which threatened the fundamental values and principles of the economy, politics and culture during the 1920's and 1930's. This is the reason why the relationships between Giordani and many of his colleagues and cultural catholic institutions have been studied in depth. The work starts with a biography, underlining how Giordani's youth has been affected by the war and the experience as a soldier, up to his peaceful death, in 1980. His life shows how the consistency of his actions with his faith made him an influent personality in his working environments, to the point that the beatification process has begun. The research is based on Giordani's writings and on the previous historiography, but the most important source is constituted by a large number of archive documents. Particularly, Giordani's private correspondence has been very useful in understanding how he acted in order to support the engagement of the catholic intellectuals during the dark fascist age and his endless activity in order to build a new humanism. The work also focuses on the relationships between Giordani and two members of the Italian catholic world of the time: Giovanni Papini and Piero Bargellini.
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Paul, Salomé. "Avatars contemporains du tragique grec : le Mythe dans la dramaturgie de Sartre, Anouilh, Camus, Paulin, Kennelly et Heaney." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020SORUL029.
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Cette étude a pour objectif de démontrer le changement paradigmatique qui s’est opéré dans l’approche du phénomène tragique et du genre de la tragédie à l’époque contemporaine. La tragédie, telle qu’elle est pratiquée par les Grecs durant le Ve siècle avant J.-C., se construit autour du concept de dikè, c’est-à-dire de justice. Toutefois, au XXe siècle, la pensée tragique se porte sur la question de la liberté humaine. Cette transformation quant à l’appréhension philosophique et dramatique du phéno-mène résulte des événements socio-politiques qui secouent le monde occidental, et plus particulière-ment européen, durant cette période. Notre étude repose ainsi sur la comparaison de plusieurs tragédie grecques — Les Perses, L’Orestie, et Prométhée enchaîné d’Eschyle ; Antigone et Philoctète de So-phocle ; Médée et Les Troyennes d’Euripide — avec des transpositions contemporaines, qui ont été créées en France et en Irlande en réponse à des événements socio-politiques menaçant la liberté des individus, ou du moins d’une partie d’entre eux. De ce fait, notre corpus se compose de trois pièces mises en scène durant ou après l’Occupation : Les Mouches de Sartre (1943), Antigone d’Anouilh (1944), et Caligula (1945) de Camus ; d’une pièce écrite lors de la période de la décolonisation dans les années 1960 : Les Troyennes de Sartre (1965) ; de trois pièces créées pendant la période des Troubles (1968-1998) : The Riot Act (1984) et Seize the Fire (1989) de Paulin, et The Cure at Troy de Heaney (1990) ; et de trois pièces composées durant le débat portant sur les droits des femmes dans les années 1980 en République d’Irlande : Antigone (1986), Medea (1989), et The Trojan Women (1993) de KennellyThis research intends to underline the paradigmatic change that has occurred reguarding the approach to the tragic phenomenon and the genre of tragedy in the contemporary period. Tragedy, such as dramatized by the Greeks in the 5th century B.-C., was built on the concept of dikè, meaning justice. However, in the twentieth century, the idea of tragic is apprehended through the perspective of human freedom. This transformation of the philosophical and dramatic approaches to the tragic phenomemon arises from the social and political events occuring in the Western world, and more specifically in Eu-rope, during that period. Thus, our research relies on the comparison of several Greek tragedies — Aeschylus’s The Persians, The Oresteia, and Prometheus Bound; Sophocles’s Antigone and Philocte-tes; Euripides’s Medea and The Trojan Women — with some contemporary transpositions that have been produced in France and in Ireland to adress events threatening individual freedom of, at least, a part of the population living in France or in Ireland. Therefore, our research considers three plays creat-ed during or shortly after the Nazi Occupation of France: Sartre’s The Flies (1943), Anouilh’s Antigone (1944), Camus’s Caligula (1945); one play performed during the decolonial period of 1960: Sartre’s The Trojan Women (1965); three plays produced during the period of the Troubles (1968-1998): Paulin’s The Riot Act (1984) and Seize the Fire (1989), and Heaney’s The Cure at Troy (1990) ; and three plays performed to deal with the issue of women’s rights in the Republic of Ireland: Kennelly’s Antigone (1986), Medea (1989), and The Trojan Women (1993)
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Pacey, John David Michael. "An unexpected alliance: the Layton-Pacey correspondence." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6971.
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This dissertation is a scholarly edition of the
correspondence between the Canadian poet Irving Layton and
the critic and historian of Canadian literature, Desmond
Pacey; on November 3, 1954, Desmond Pacey wrote to Contact
Press, inviting the poets Irving Layton, Louis Dudek and
Raymond Souster to submit their recent work for discussion
in an article on Canadian literature for The International
Year Book. Pacey and Layton met in Montreal a few months
later, and so began a long friendship and a lengthy
correspondence which continued until Pacey’s death on July
4, 1975. The correspondence is an extremely important
document in the history of Canadian poetry and criticism in
the decisive decades following World War II because it so
directly and extensively explores the crucial issues of the
times: the function of the poet and the critic in
contemporary society; the debate over a “cosmopolitan”
versus a “native” aesthetic; the debate over a “mythopoeic”
versus a “realist” approach to the creation of, and
criticism of, poetry; and the attempt to define a position
for the Jewish writer in a gentile society. But aside from
this prolonged and invaluable theoretical discourse, and
aside from the countless useful insights into the life and
work of practically every writer active in Canada between
1954-1975, the letters between the two men are important because the two men were so vitally important to the
development of a viable Canadian literature.
The basic principle of this project’s editorial
philosophy is the decision to abjure the “editorial
pedantries” of the diplomatic text which tend to exclude
the non—specialist educated public, and to assume greater
flexibility in the standardization and regularization of
spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation and
matters of format——placement of addresses, closings,
postscripts and marginalia. Headnotes contain all textual
information about the letter; transcriptions are in the main
literal, but in the interest of consistency some
standardization has been imposed. Footnotes follow each
letter; cross—references are by letter and, where
applicable, note number; when the reference is to a letter
with a single footnote, no number is cited. These almost
three thousand annotations are employed to identify
individuals referred to in the text, to provide publication
information on the works of Layton, Pacey, and numerous
other individuals referred to in the text, to document and
frequently quote from the reviews, articles, radio and
television programs they discuss, to elucidate references to
current events, and to provide miscellaneous but necessary
background information on matters ranging from the private
lives of the two correspondents to majcir vnts and isuë
in the history of Canadian li’áttñ.
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DUNPHY, Richard. "Class, power and the Fianna Fail Party : a study of hegemony in Irish politics, 1923-1948." Doctoral thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5257.
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Defence date: 4 July 1988Examining Board: Prof. Ian Budge, Univ. of Essex ; Prof. Joseph Lee, Univ. College, Cork ; Prof. Jean Blondel, E.U.I., Florence ; Dr. Ferdinan Muller-Rommel, Hochschule Lüneburg ; Prof. Derek Urwin, Univ. of Warwick, Coventry
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Hynes, Colleen Anne 1978. ""Strangers in the house": twentieth century revisions of Irish literary and cultural identity." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3383.
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This thesis, Strangers in the House, illuminates how "strangers in the house"--unconventional women, Travellers, emigrants and immigrants--have made significant contributions to the evolving traditions of Irish literature and culture. I trace the literary and creative contributions of groups that were silenced during the early twentieth-century nation-building project to review the impact of the Irish Revival, from the politics of Arthur Griffith and Eamon de Valera to the writings of Yeats, Gregory and Synge, on the establishment of an "authentic" Irish identity. I draw on scholarship that establishes Ireland as a postcolonial nation, suggesting that contemporary identity is closely linked to the national, religious and gender expectations reinforced during the periods of colonialism and decolonization. My scholarship considers individuals who continue to be peripheral in the "reimagining" of what it means to be Irish in a post-Celtic Tiger, E.U. Ireland.
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Hsu, Hsiu-Hua, and 許秀華. "The Plague Incident in San Francisco’s Chinatown and the Correspondence of Overseas Chinese at the Turn of the 20th Century." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21285563366942616609.
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碩士國立中興大學
歷史學系所
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In the 1850s, there were drought and natural disasters, thieves arose numerously, made people lived in chaos society in mainland China. At this time, people found gold in the United States and need a lot of laborers. A large number of Chinese decided to go to San Francisco in order to earn money and support their China family. After the gold mine exhausted and the Pacific Railroad completed, the Chinese laborers lost their jobs and gathered together in Chinatowns. In the late 1860s, the inexpensive and industrious Chinese laborers were favored by white employers in California labor market, therefore, caused the unemployment among other ethnic groups. In this case, the attacks and exclusions of Chinese laborers were set off everywhere in California. Chinese laborers, so called “Yellow Peril”, were been discriminated and chased away. In 1882, Chinese Exclusion Act was signed to prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The United did not abolish the bill which showed racial discrimination until the military cooperation between China and the United States in 1943. However, in 6th March 1900, the first suspected plague occurred in San Francisco’s Chinatown. San Francisco Health Bureau took racial discriminative measures immediately before waiting for the result of the test, and the same measures in 29th May brought the inconvenience to the residents in Chinatown. Through the measures of the plague in Chinatown, the United State Government, Medical Officials, and Americans’ attitude toward racial discrimination, and injustice of the Chinese was shown in evidence during the exclusion period. For example, the United State Government intended isolating the Chinese in Chinatown, chasing them away and possessing the Chinatown by plague. The Government blamed the dirty and uncleanness Chinese for the epidemic of plague. In the society of the United States, people slandered and vilified Chinese people through the newspapers and magazines in America. The Chinese Government and society solid, because of the unfair treatments, was supported the overseas Chinese. Wu Tingfang, the ambassador to the United States, He You, the consul of San Francisco, and The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA) sued San Francisco Health Bureau and Dr. Kinyoun to fight for the rights that Chinese in Chinatown deserved. Furthermore, because of being treated inequality and oppression, Chinese launched a boycott of American products from 1905 to 1906. Despite the failure, Chinese showed an admirable strength of unity. Chinese consciousness was awaked through the plague of the Chinatown in San Francisco. The Chinese fought for equal status with the Americans, the rights for ethnic groups, Chinese self-consciousness, and basic respect. The exclusion of Chinese from the United States made the result of the unfair treatment toward Chinese in the United States. From this thesis, I try to reconstruct the neglected and important evidences of the racial discrimination of the Chinese in the United States, through the historical archives and data, Chinese and Western daily newspaper, and the related cases and so on. I hope can through this topic to arise people to concern the topic of overseas Chinese immigrants in America.
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NYHAN, Miriam. "Comparing Irish migrants and county associations in New York and London : a cross-cultural analysis of migrant experiences and associational behaviour circa 1946-1961." Doctoral thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/12587.
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Defence date: 15 December 2008Examining Board: Prof. E.A. Rees (EUI) - supervisor Prof. J.J. Lee (NYU) Prof. Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (NUI Galway) Prof. Kiran Patel (EUI)
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This study significantly broadens our understanding of the migration process by placing a form of associational behavior in the wider historical context of leaving one country and settling in one of two destinations, in the decade and a half after World War II. Taking the Irish as a case-study, the aim is to explore the impact that choosing New York over London had, in how migrants made the transition from the homeland and adapted to migrant life. The focus on county associations, common to both cities, facilitates a comparative level of analysis. These associations allow us to excavate experiences in a way that sheds light on migrant responses on the individual level and in a collective sense, and in this way it is an innovative way of presenting the history of ethnic communities. A combination of written material and oral sources allows for the presentation of specific characteristics which impacted on experiences. It shows how the different histories of Irish migration to New York and London, the geopolitical influences and the roles of socio-political dynamics all shaped how the Irish responded to the environments in which they found themselves. Through these associations, we see an ethnic community adapting a structure to recreate a semblance of what life was like in the homeland. The comparative frameworks provided a means of highlighting the similarities and divergences between the locations. The narrative shows that while county associations were broadly similar in terms of their format and membership profiles, the environments in which they operated diverged significantly and this variation reflects the tension that has differentiated Irish London from Irish New York for at least the latter half of the twentieth century. This study makes an important contribution to the Irish diaspora history. More importantly however, this thesis provides a case-study which broadens our understanding of, and approach to, documenting migrant experiences. It does this by presenting factors that shape associational practices in migrant communities and by demonstrating how associational behavior has implications for issues like identity and allegiance.
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O’Shea, Eileen. "The professional experience of Irish Catholic women teachers in Victoria from 1930 - 1980." Thesis, 2015. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/31017/.
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This qualitative research study focusses on ‘The professional experience of Irish Catholic women teachers in Victoria from 1930 to 1980’. The research is based on a collection of reconstructed oral histories derived from interviews conducted with twenty-two Irish Catholic women, both lay and religious, who were primary and secondary teachers in Victoria, Australia. The professional lives reflected in these stories span from the 1930 to 1980. This study explores how Irish women teachers experienced education in Australian Catholic schools in Victoria in terms of curriculum, pedagogy, discipline, culture and religious traditions.
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Wilson, Susan Ruth. "Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean: modern makars, men of letters." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/306.
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This dissertation, Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean: Modern Makars, Men of Letters, transcribes and annotates 76 letters (65 hitherto unpublished), between MacDiarmid and MacLean. Four additional letters written by MacDiarmid’s second wife, Valda Grieve, to Sorley MacLean have also been included as they shed further light on the relationship which evolved between the two poets over the course of almost fifty years of friendship. These letters from Valda were archived with the unpublished correspondence from MacDiarmid which the Gaelic poet preserved. The critical introduction to the letters examines the significance of these poets’ literary collaboration in relation to the Scottish Renaissance and the Gaelic Literary Revival in Scotland, both movements following Ezra Pound’s Modernist maxim, “Make it new.” The first chapter, “Forging a Friendship”, situates the development of the men’s relationship in terms of each writer’s literary career, MacDiarmid already having achieved fame through his early lyrics and with the 1926 publication of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle when they first met. MacLean, on the other hand, was a recent university graduate, young teacher, and fledgling poet when he began to provide translations of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century Gaelic poetry for MacDiarmid to versify in English with the odd Scots or Gaelic word. This assistance was essential to MacDiarmid’s compilation of The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry, which he wished to be representative of Scotland’s literary traditions in Scots, Gaelic, English, and Latin. The work resulting from MacDiarmid and MacLean’s literary collaboration further reinforced MacDiarmid’s credibility as a nationalist poet well versed in each of these traditions. Chapter two, “Cultural Nationalism – Politics and Poetry” discusses the significance of each writer’s stance on language in relation to Scottish literature and explores their success in avoiding the ideological antagonisms which plagued the literary and language revivals in early twentieth-century Ireland. “Modern Makars” scrutinizes MacDiarmid and MacLean’s renderings of several Gaelic poems in The Golden Treasury, particularly in relation to the implications of the term “translations”. The final chapter, “Epistolary Discourse and the Legacy of the Letters” sums up the significance of MacDiarmid and MacLean’s collaboration and long-standing friendship, as revealed through their letters, and addresses these writers’ subsequent influence on both writing and cultural life in Scotland. The letters are followed by two appendices. Appendix A includes a transcription of Michael Davitt’s interview with Sorley MacLean for the Irish journal Innti in 1986 wherein MacLean discusses such issues as his political views, the influences on his poetry, and his relationship with MacDiarmid. The interview is provided in its original Irish text and accompanied by a translation into English. Appendix B is a transcription of the Times Literary Supplement’s 4 January 1936 review of MacDiarmid’s translation of The Birlinn of Clanranald as it was originally published in The Modern Scot. Sorley MacLean served as the ghost writer of MacDiarmid’s response to this critique of his work. This research, conducted both here in Victoria and in Edinburgh, Scotland, provides the first book-length study of the literary collaboration of these influential Scottish poets and the first critical discussion of their collected letters.
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Bližňáková, Magdalena. "Irská dramata v repertoáru Činoherního klubu." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-408916.
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The author's aim for her diploma thesis is to examine the phenomenon of Irish theatre, which existed in repertoire of one of the most influential small scenes in Prague - Činoherní klub. The work will delve into Czech-Irish cultural relations as 19th century as well as illustrate the way poetics of theatre align with tragicomical poetics of Irish theatre. This will be demonstrated on examples of specific plays by Irish authors The Drama Club put out throughout the years.
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Body, Ralph Mark. "Behind the Scenes: Hans Heysen’s Art World Networks." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/120159.
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The artist Hans Heysen is closely associated with the South Australian regional environment, which featured as the subject matter of his most celebrated works. At the same time, however, he also rapidly established a national reputation, achieving critical and commercial success in the interstate art worlds of Melbourne and Sydney. This dissertation investigates the significant role of Heysen’s art world networks in establishing, shaping and maintaining his career and reputation. Most of the existing scholarship on Heysen has either been biographical or concerned with analysing the style and subject matter of his paintings. While previous authors have alluded to the importance of his networks, these have not been their central focus of study. Similarly, Heysen’s ties to the urban Australian art worlds where his works were exhibited, reviewed and sold have been little researched. Heysen’s networks encompassed fellow artists, art critics, publishers, dealers, collectors and museum trustees and directors. Due to his geographical isolation written correspondence played an essential role in his long-distance career management, with the letters he exchanged providing valuable insights into the importance of his networks. Consequently, this dissertation has involved intensive archival research, cross-referencing the archives of Heysen and his correspondents, together with studying historic exhibition catalogues, art magazines and published reviews. The interpretation of this material has been informed by two complementary conceptual frameworks. The first is Howard Becker’s conceptualisation of art (and art world success) as the product of collaborative activity. This has been utilised when analysing the specific operations of Heysen’s networks. The second is Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of a ‘Field of Cultural Production,’ a metaphorical, changing space in which cultural agents compete for symbolic capital. These ideas have been employed to examine the structure of the Australian art world and the construction of reputation. This research demonstrates the essential role of Heysen’s art world networks in representing and advancing his interests. The support of key associates enabled Heysen to withstand the threats to his career presented by anti-German sentiments during the First World War, the impact of the Depression on the art market and the ascendency of modernism. While he generally benefited from his networks, the entrenched conservatism or overt commercial concerns of some of Heysen’s associates proved detrimental to his reputation. This dissertation shows that while Heysen’s traditionalist style and subject matter did not change dramatically over the course of his lengthy career, there were considerable shifts in the way in which he displayed, promoted and sold his works which reflected broader changes in the Australian art world. Similarly, perceptions of Heysen progressed from regarding him as an innovator in the Edwardian period, to an establishment figure during the interwar decades and finally as the last representative of a past generation. Heysen is shown to have been a strategically-minded professional who closely monitored both his own critical fortunes and those of other Australian artists.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2019
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Johnson, Amy R. "Stranger in the Room: Illuminating Female Identity Through Irish Drama." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/918.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2007.Title from screen (viewed on May 23, 2007) Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-83)
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Moldová, Klára. "Demlova rodina v dopisech a díle." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-310382.
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The diploma thesis titled Jakub Deml's Family in Miscellaneous Letters and in His Work encloses an edition of letters of the writer Jakub Deml (1878-1961), which were delivered from him to his family. The correspondence of the years 1902-1961 comprises 81 letters. The mail explains many events which took place in the author's life, and it elucidates also several facts enabling deeper understanding of his work. An edition commentary, list of the mail, name register and annotation is attached to the edition of the correspondence. The supplementary commentary introduces the most important members of the author's family, deals with the reflections of the characters of mother and sister Matylda in the work and describes the form of the two kinship chronicles: V Zabajkalí and Mohyla.
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Popovici-Toma, Cosmin. "De l'absolu littéraire au neutre : les fins de la littérature selon Maurice Blanchot et Samuel Beckett." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/20461.
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(8722203), Ricardo Quintana Vallejo. "CHILDREN OF GLOBALIZATION: DIASPORIC COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS IN GERMANY, ENGLAND, AND THE UNITED STATES." Thesis, 2020.
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Children of Globalization: Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States is an exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels written in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. Framed in the long tradition of Bildungsroman studies, this study illuminates the structural transformations that the coming-of-age genre has undergone in contemporary diasporic communities. Children of Globalization analyzes the complex identity formation of first- and subsequent-generation migrant protagonists in globalized rural and urban environments and dissects the implications that these diasporic formative processes have for the tercentennial genre. While the most traditional iteration of the Bildungsroman genre follows male middle-class heroes who forge their identities in a process of complex introspection to become citizens and workers, contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels represent formative processes that fit into, resist, or even disregard, narratives of nationhood. Recent changes in the global genre are the direct consequence of the intricacies of the formative processes of culturally-hybrid protagonists who must negotiate their access into adulthood and citizenship, and puzzle over sexuality and gender identity, in host societies that at times regard them with contempt and distrust. The study spans three centuries as it traces both perennial and volatile elements of the genre through its contemporary state. In doing so, it identifies thematic and structural seeds which, planted through the centuries in varied locations, have bloomed into nuanced explorations of the self in an interconnected world where regional and national definitions of identity are increasingly contested and in flux.
In order to contextualize the genre and provide evidence of its enduring malleability, the study begins in Germany, tracing what I term Proto-Bildungsromane, long medieval narrative poems that follow the formative processes of knights and heroes in grandiose style. Wolfram von Eschenbach’s thirteenth-century poem Parzival and the coeval Gottfried von Straßburg’s Die Geschichte der Liebe von Tristan und Isolde ponder the development of the self but too heavily rely on destiny to be considered Bildungsromane. Still in Germany, I illustrate the fundamental characteristics of the genre in Wolfgang von Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. In order to showcase the flexibility of the genre, I analyze its early transformations in England in prominent works by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and E. M. Forster. The last four chapters focus on the exciting development of Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in England, the United States, and Germany. Despite the stark differences between these societies and the particular cultural wealth of diasporic groups that have migrated there, the Diasporic Coming-of-age Novel has enabled sophisticated explorations of identity and belonging in all three countries. As the chapter summaries show, contemporary writers have used the Diasporic Coming-of-age Novel to untangle complicated formative processes, understand the expectations of their social environments, and achieve different levels of belonging and maturity.
With Children of Globalization, I seek to deepen our understanding of the exciting influence that contemporary diasporic movements have on the coming-of-age genre in particular and literary studies in general. Additionally, it is my hope that the exploration of Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels contributes to a capacious understanding of the important role of literature in the study of migration.