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Lyons, Reneé C. "Appalachian Children’s Literature as Multicultural Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2394.
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Gholami, Zhila. "Roots and Routes: Kurdish Literature as World Literature." Thesis, Griffith University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/404158.
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Over the last two decades, the literary world has seen many new works by Kurdish writers and poets who have authored works of fiction, memoir and collections of poetry in the English language. This thesis, Roots and Routes: Kurdish Literature as World Literature, is the study of this body of work. As the first comprehensive study to cover the existing and emerging Kurdish Anglophone writings, this study introduces these writings into the arena of world literatures in English. However, it also identifies these works as a new literary canon in the realm of Kurdish literature. This study is an attempt to investigate why and how these Anglophone Kurdish writings emerged, who their intended readers are, and what roles these writings play or can play. To find answer to these questions, this study examines both the contexts out of which and in which these writings have emerged. It positions them in the historical and geopolitical contexts they have emerged from and examines the new and broader cultural, literary and socio-political contexts in which they have been produced, circulated and received. Looking at these two contexts, this study finds that these writings have created and can continue to create new spaces of global engagement with the Kurdish question(s) and Kurdish people. It asserts that these writings entail a kind of activism and create an arena of struggle and Kurdish voice of resistance beyond their imposed national borders, in the wider context of the world. It is within this context that this study argues for this body of work as a new discursive space of negotiation and recognition of the Kurdish questions and Kurdish people in global and transnational contexts. In its reading of the texts, this study, drawing on various theoretical frameworks and taking a reception-based or readerly pragmatics approach, aims to explore how these texts interact with their implied readers and the ways they might be read. It seeks to explore not only why but also and more significantly how these writings of different genres bear witness to Kurdish traumatic history and act as testimony. In short, it looks at both politics and poetics of witnessing and testimony in the emerging Anglophone writings by Kurdish diaspora authors.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Hum, Lang & Soc Sc
Arts, Education and Law
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au, 19310449@student murdoch edu, and Joseph Marrable. "Transpersonal literature." Murdoch University, 2003. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20051222.155152.
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What do you get if you apply Ken Wilbers theories of transpersonal psychological development within human consciousness to William Goldings Lord of the Flies or Conrads Heart of Darkness, or Shakespeares Hamlet? Can they provide a clear interpretative tool in order to uncover the intentional or unintentional aspects of consciousness development contained within them? Do these literary texts reveal a coherent quest for knowledge of human consciousness, the nature of good and evil, and the ineffable question of spirit? Is there a case for presenting a transpersonal perspective of literature in order to expound the theories of this psychological discipline? Can literary texts provide materials that are unique to that art form and can be explicated by knowledge of transpersonal psychology? Is there an evolutionary motion, which is not necessarily historically chronological but nonetheless displays a developmental map of human consciousness across literary works? In other words, can we see a hierarchical framework along the lines of consciousness development as proposed by Ken Wilber, that suggests a movement up the evolutionary ladder of consciousness from Lord of the Flies to Hamlet and beyond? Can we counter oppose Lord of the Flies and Hamlet, suggesting that the first is a fable of regression to transpersonal evil within a cultural community and the second sees Hamlet attempt to avoid this path in order to move toward the transcendence of ego and self, within the individual? If this is so then we should be able to plot both paths relative to the models of development traced in Wilbers theories and interpret the texts according to this framework. What is the relationship between transpersonal aspects of consciousness and literature? And what are the effects upon the cultural consciousness of human evolution that literature has had so much to inform? How do the literary works of individuals inform the cultural consciousness and transcend the age in which they are written? Equally we should be able to test the theories with the aid of some texts of literature especially those works which are of, and about consciousness. What does this mean to the literary interpretation of these texts? How does it differ from other interpretations? What are the pitfalls and what disclaimers need to be put in place? Is the difference between the notion of a transpersonal evil and a transpersonal good simply a matter of individual moral choice?
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Marrable, Joseph. "Transpersonal literature." Thesis, Marrable, Joseph (2003) Transpersonal literature. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2003. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/179/.
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What do you get if you apply Ken Wilber's theories of transpersonal psychological development within human consciousness to William Golding's Lord of the Flies or Conrad's Heart of Darkness, or Shakespeare's Hamlet? Can they provide a clear interpretative tool in order to uncover the intentional or unintentional aspects of consciousness development contained within them? Do these literary texts reveal a coherent quest for knowledge of human consciousness, the nature of good and evil, and the ineffable question of spirit? Is there a case for presenting a transpersonal perspective of literature in order to expound the theories of this psychological discipline? Can literary texts provide materials that are unique to that art form and can be explicated by knowledge of transpersonal psychology? Is there an evolutionary motion, which is not necessarily historically chronological but nonetheless displays a developmental map of human consciousness across literary works? In other words, can we see a hierarchical framework along the lines of consciousness development as proposed by Ken Wilber, that suggests a movement up the evolutionary ladder of consciousness from Lord of the Flies to Hamlet and beyond? Can we counter oppose Lord of the Flies and Hamlet, suggesting that the first is a fable of regression to transpersonal evil within a cultural community and the second sees Hamlet attempt to avoid this path in order to move toward the transcendence of ego and self, within the individual? If this is so then we should be able to plot both paths relative to the models of development traced in Wilber's theories and interpret the texts according to this framework. What is the relationship between transpersonal aspects of consciousness and literature? And what are the effects upon the cultural consciousness of human evolution that literature has had so much to inform? How do the literary works of individuals inform the cultural consciousness and transcend the age in which they are written? Equally we should be able to test the theories with the aid of some texts of literature - especially those works which are of, and about consciousness. What does this mean to the literary interpretation of these texts? How does it differ from other interpretations? What are the pitfalls and what disclaimers need to be put in place? Is the difference between the notion of a transpersonal evil and a transpersonal good simply a matter of individual moral choice?
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Marrable, Joseph. "Transpersonal literature." Marrable, Joseph (2003) Transpersonal literature. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2003. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/179/.
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What do you get if you apply Ken Wilber's theories of transpersonal psychological development within human consciousness to William Golding's Lord of the Flies or Conrad's Heart of Darkness, or Shakespeare's Hamlet? Can they provide a clear interpretative tool in order to uncover the intentional or unintentional aspects of consciousness development contained within them? Do these literary texts reveal a coherent quest for knowledge of human consciousness, the nature of good and evil, and the ineffable question of spirit? Is there a case for presenting a transpersonal perspective of literature in order to expound the theories of this psychological discipline? Can literary texts provide materials that are unique to that art form and can be explicated by knowledge of transpersonal psychology? Is there an evolutionary motion, which is not necessarily historically chronological but nonetheless displays a developmental map of human consciousness across literary works? In other words, can we see a hierarchical framework along the lines of consciousness development as proposed by Ken Wilber, that suggests a movement up the evolutionary ladder of consciousness from Lord of the Flies to Hamlet and beyond? Can we counter oppose Lord of the Flies and Hamlet, suggesting that the first is a fable of regression to transpersonal evil within a cultural community and the second sees Hamlet attempt to avoid this path in order to move toward the transcendence of ego and self, within the individual? If this is so then we should be able to plot both paths relative to the models of development traced in Wilber's theories and interpret the texts according to this framework. What is the relationship between transpersonal aspects of consciousness and literature? And what are the effects upon the cultural consciousness of human evolution that literature has had so much to inform? How do the literary works of individuals inform the cultural consciousness and transcend the age in which they are written? Equally we should be able to test the theories with the aid of some texts of literature - especially those works which are of, and about consciousness. What does this mean to the literary interpretation of these texts? How does it differ from other interpretations? What are the pitfalls and what disclaimers need to be put in place? Is the difference between the notion of a transpersonal evil and a transpersonal good simply a matter of individual moral choice?
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Zuloaga, Carole. "Multicultural literature." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/845.
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Ngo, Lập Tu McLaughlin Robert L. "Literature as allusion processing and teaching Vietnam-American war literature." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1225141141&SrchMode=1&sid=6&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1177941823&clientId=43838.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.Title from title page screen, viewed on April 30, 2007. Dissertation Committee: Robert L. McLaughlin (chair), Ronald Strickland, Aaron Smith. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 196-207) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Behari, Kasturi. "Literature education for transformation : a critical pedagogy for literature teaching." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19575.
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Bibliography: pages 115-119.As the new South African national ethos is borne, education assumes the inenviable role of reconciliator and liberator amidst the programme of the redressing of past imbalances. Stakeholders everywhere are looking to the field of education for national reconstruction and nation building through the development of young minds into productive, active and creative citizens. Indeed, the responsibility that education bears is a moral one. The broad field of this dissertation identifies Literature Education as a tool for transformation within the specific context of present post-apartheid South Africa. A paradigmatic analysis of literature teaching is provided to establish a theoretical framework for teachers to critically appreciate the underpinnings of their methodological practice, within which to locate their current literature teaching trends. Making a paradigmatic shift in literature teaching implies a change in our beliefs concerning knowledge and meaning; power and authority and learning and teaching in society. The thesis posits that Literature Education must necessarily be located within a critical paradigm of teaching, so that as a critical pedagogy, it may facilitate the self and social transformation of pupils and practitioners alike. Within the critical paradigm of literature teaching, reading is reconceptualised as an interactive process between reader and text. The reader's status is elevated to meaning-maker, without whom the act of reading would be void. Adequate literary theory is advanced on Schema Theory as a model of reading analyses of a reader's or pupil's Personal-Mental Schemata. The theory of Additive Schemata is proposed as the means to effect the transformation in pupils through Schema Refreshment or Schema Alteration. The critical teacher using Additive Schemata inputs, is in a position to maximise the potential that the learner has for transformation. Transformation, however is not guaranteed as it depends on a variety of factors such as a learner's flexibility, logical reasoning and a need to be transformed. In order to validate this proposal a research project was conducted in an English Literature class, the dynamics of which are detailed in Chapter Three in their entirety. The findings reveal that Additive Schemata have a positive influence on a learner's personal-mental Schemata leading in most cases to a transformation within pupils who engaged critically with the Additive Schemata approach. The research acknowledges that a learner's point of entry is not the same as the point of departure within the Additive Schemata approach. Learners are not being introduced to a new moral order; the Additive Schemata offers learner's a new moral choice. In so doing, literature teaching, following the Additive schemata approach, embodies the central tenets of a critical pedagogy offering pupils a process that is self-liberating and socially empowering.
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Abdul, Rahman Ramakrishna Rita. "New varieties of English in postcolonial literatures: Malaysian English in Malaysian literature in English." Thesis, Curtin University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/553.
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This study investigates language choice in Malaysian literature written in English in three different phases of Malaysian sociopolitical development: the Immediate Post Independence Era (1957–1980), the Mahathir Era (1981–2002) and the Current Era (2003–2006).The study is organised around three major objectives. The first examines the development and the use of Malaysian English (MalE) by Malaysian writers; the second examines the extent to which the use of MalE relates to the sociocultural development in Malaysia; and the third explores the significance of shifts in writing style involving the use of localised English. The study identifies, categorises, and analyses instances of MalE in Malaysian literature in English in terms of these three overarching objectives.The outcomes of this study suggest that the use of a nativised endonormative variety of English in Malaysian postcolonial writings is becoming more prevalent, and that such a harnessing of linguistic resources by Malaysian writers has important ramifications in terms of the construction and maintenance of a shared Malaysian national identity.
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Blaise, Aboua Kumassi Koffi. "Macunaíma / Kaydara: dois espelhos face a face. Ler Macunaíma sem rir." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8149/tde-12092012-120553/.
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Explorar outros caminhos, até agora pouco seguidos, no intuito de participar de forma pertinente do debate acerca da inteligibilidade de Macunaíma de Mário de Andrade, isto, pode ser considerado o eixo que norteia este estudo comparado. Para levar adiante esta pesquisa comparativa apelamos para Kaydara, não apenas por ser uma obra prima da literatura africana de expressão francesa, mas também porque traz o olhar de dentro para fora de uma sociedade tradicional africana, capaz de dialogar com a literatura brasileira a ponto de lançar luz sobre alguns elementos culturais de origem afro-brasileira presentes nela. Por isso, fomos mergulhar naquilo que a maioria das sociedades africanas considera sua referência na Antiguidade: o Egito Antigo. Agora, quando se põem duas obras de grande valor estético frente a frente, o que sói acontecer é uma ajudar a ler a outra, por isso, nossa abordagem deixa de ser unilateral para privilegiar uma relação de leitura mútua, dando destaque às mais variadas consequências disso.Explore other ways, until now little followed in order to participate in a meaningful way to the debate about the intelligibility of Macunaíma, this can be taken as the shaft that drives this comparative study. To carry out this comparative research we appeal to Kaydara, not only because it is a masterpiece of african french literature, but also because it brings - the look of the inside of a traditional african society, capable to converse with the brazilian literature, point to shed light on some cultural elements of afro-brazilian origin present in it. So we have been diving in what the vast majority of african societies consider his reference in antiquity: Ancient Egypt. Now, when you put two works of great aesthetic value face to face, which is usually happen is one help to read other, so our approach is no longer unilateral and privilege a relationship of mutual reading, highlighting various consequences.
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Gomes, Vania Regina. "O aprendiz de Fradique Mendes: Eça de Queirós na leitura de Gilberto Freyre." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-23082011-091300/.
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A presente dissertação trata do modo como a obra de juventude do sociólogo e escritor Gilberto Freyre estabelece uma forte relação intertextual com o conjunto da obra de Eça de Queirós. Tomamos por referência o livro Tempo de aprendiz, onde se encontram reunidos diversos textos jornalísticos do jovem intelectual brasileiro, livro repleto de referências ao escritor português. A análise de tais referências revela que a apropriação da obra queirosiana por meio de alusões e citações foi uma forma de Freyre se capitalizar simbolicamente - na expressão de Pierre Bourdieu - frente a um meio intelectual brasileiro que lhe era adverso. Procuramos ainda, a partir daí, fazer algumas inferências de como o modo de apropriação que Freyre faz da obra de Eça se transforma no decorrer de seu percurso intelectual .This dissertation describes how the early works of sociologist and writer Gilberto Freyre forges a strong intertextual relationship with the works of Eça de Queirós. The basic reference is the book Tempo de aprendiz, wich collects several journalistic texts from the young Brazilian intellectual ,full of references to the works of the Portuguese writer. Analisys reveals that Freyre used the appropriation of Queirós´ works by means of citations and allusions as a means to capitalize himself -in the expression of Pierre Bourdieu-against a hostile Brazilian intellectual scenario.It is also shown that the manner of appropriation of the works of Eça de Queirós by Freyre changes along his career .
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O'Sullivan, Emer. "Comparative children's literature /." London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2009. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=018910995&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Bertoncini-Zubkova, Elena. "Slang in literature?" Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-95309.
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We shall investigate the use of Swahili slang in Freddy Macha`s tiny collection of short stories Twen `zetu Ulaya (DSM 1984), and especially in his short story Check-bob This is arguably the only epistolary short story in modern Swahili literature; in fact, epistolary novels are uncommon in anglophone Afiica as a whole. In this narrative two former lovers show abuses on each other and their four letters - two by each character - unfold the story of a selfish young woman who shamelessly exploited her boyfiiend and the manner in which he paid her back with her own coin. It is interesting to note how the same events are presented from two different perspectives and hence evaluated differently.
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Speller, J. "Bourdieu and literature." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3194/.
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This thesis provides the first extended and in-depth study of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu?s work on literature. Chapter 1 surveys the problematic from which Bourdieu?s work on literature emerged, and its reception in the Anglophone field of literary criticism. Chapter 2 introduces Bourdieu?s original method of literature analysis, which has yet to have been used widely in literary studies, but which provides analytic purchase at all levels of literary study, from the micro-textual to the macrosocial. Chapter 3 centres on Bourdieu?s notion of autonomy, and explores its relations to his key concepts of habitus, capital, and field. Chapters 4 to 6 then examine the intersections between Bourdieu? work on literature and his other sociological and political projects. Chapter 4 shows how Bourdieu?s theory of sociological knowledge enabled him to set up a distinction between a ?scientific? and a ?literary? representation of the social world, and explores the possibilities for complementarities and exchange between sociology and literature. Chapter 5 shows how Bourdieu hoped to harness the specific skills and symbolic capital of writers in the service of progressive causes, focusing on his plans for an International Parliament of Writers and Liber, his European book review. Chapter 6 explores the cultural policy implication of Bourdieu?s work on literature, both for educational reform and State support for the Arts. Overall, this thesis will show that Bourdieu brings novel solutions to some of the most persistent ? and urgent ? problems facing literary studies today, and not only in France; but also that sociology can learn from literature and from studying literary writers.
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Suwannaroj, Sujimarn. "Mining biological literature." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421163.
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Lam, Teng Teng Teresa. "LITERATURE vs. THEATRE." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Divadelní fakulta. Knihovna, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-364412.
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Tato práce zkoumá současnou praxi adaptace čínské literatury v divadelní tvorbě v Macau. Poukazuje na její možnosti a tvůrčí hodnoty, a podporuje tak akademickým zpracováním tématu umělecké směřování autorky v rámci tohoto žánru.
Práce sestává ze dvou hlavních kapitol. První se zabývá minulostí a současností adaptací děl čínské literatury v Macau z hlediska obecných trendů v tamní divadelní dramaturgii. Na základě statistik divadelních inscenací z posledních let definuje jednotlivé žánry, aby mohla určit podíl adaptací čínské literatury na divadelní tvorbě a také hledat příčiny její absence. Zároveň je zde kladena otázka, proč se takové dramaturgické směřování objevilo.
Druhá kapitola předkládá reflexi adaptací čínské literatury v divadelní tvorbě samotné autorky, se zřetelem na její umělecké cíle, výběr textů, proces jejich aplikace a s tím spojené obtíže. Poukazuje na režijní metodologii transformace literárního jazyka do jazyka divadelního, spočívající také v užití loutkových a objektových prvků, znakových systémů pro metafory či prolínání proxemického a imaginativního prostoru. Věnuje se soudobé interpretaci těchto prvků a novému vztahu se současným publikem. Také se zabývá možnostmi a perspektivami tohoto směru s ohledem na recepci takovýchto inscenací.
Tato práce má za cíl pomoci autorce hledat systematické zachycení smyslu jejího uměleckého směřování, aby dále mohla cíleně rozvíjet své myšlenky při vědomí hledání své kulturní identity jako divadelní umělkyně ze Zvláštní správní oblasti ČLR Macao. Také se věnuje otázce spojení mezi její tvorbou a publikem v její další tvůrčí kariéře.
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Brannigan, John Gerard. "Literature's poor relation : history and identity in the writing and criticism of nineteen-fifties literature." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/620747.
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All the major critics of postwar literature regard the fifties as a period in which literature was inept, conservative and conformist. This thesis argues that fifties literature was instead an active and successful agent in problematising conservative political orthodoxies, and in articulating alternative identities and politics. The study is concerned with two major themes: the relationship between literature and history, and the critical reputation and location of literature in nineteen-fifties Britain. It begins from positions that are already evident in postwar literary criticism towards both of these themes. Literature is understood in much of the critical writing of postwar Britain to be representative of social trends and attitudes, and its meaning is determined largely according to particular understandings of postwar British history and society. The literary text, if understood as 'representative', is capable of offering the reader direct access to the society of its production, and of reflecting the dominant trends and attitudes in a given period. Because it is the most recent period of realism in the history of English literature, the fifties seem to be particularly susceptible to this view. Reading fifties literature in the light of poststructuralist thinking on textuality and representation, this study argues that literature is not representative bu negotiates identities and social experiences of the fifties in a much more diverse way. These negotiations are demonstrated in readings of the work of John Osborne, Brendan Behan and Sam Selvon, and elaborated theoretically in the concluding chapters of the study. Literature's Poor Relation demonstrates that fifties literature is able to manoeuvre into a space wherein it can articulate oppositional and critical stances towards power, by firstly, imitating social detail and literary traditions, and secondly, reading these details and traditions in such was as to deconstruct them. The appearance of representativeness serves to seduce the reader into desiring the text (the idea that Look Back in Anger was representative attracted many of its original audiences to see it), and its readings and interpretations of history and identity deflect the reader's desire towards oppositional and critical moments in the text.
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Smith, Jennifer S. "Mining the mountain of Appalachian children's literature : defining a multicultural literature /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148640254459101.
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Silva, Gabriela Soares da. "A constelação de capriuro, de Fazil Iskander: tradução e comentário." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8155/tde-05072012-135750/.
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Fazil Iskander (1929- ) é um dos mais representativos escritores soviéticos remanescentes da geração do degelo. Devido ao desconhecimento deste autor no Brasil, este trabalho consiste na tradução da novela que lhe deu notoriedade, precedida por uma apresentação e comentário: Sozvezdie Kozlotura, em português, A constelação do capriuro, de 1966. Apesar de pertencer à tradição satírica russa, junto a nomes como Nikolai Gógol e Mikhail Bulgákov, a prosa de Iskander carrega as singularidades da sua origem não-russa. A sua terra natal, a Abkházia, com a sua história e costumes, além de reverberarem na obra do autor, entrecruzam-se com a cultura russo-soviética numa relação complexa que dá às suas narrativas um caráter único. Neste trabalho, foram analisados os elementos que tornam a sátira de Iskander tão inovadora.Fazil Iskander (1929- ) is one of the most representative remaining writers of the Thaw Generation. Due to the lack of recognition of this author in Brazil, the present dissertation consists in the translation of the short-novel that has made him internationally renowned, preceded by a presentation and commentary: Sozvezdie Kozlotura from 1966, or A constelação do Capriuro in Portuguese. Though the prose of Iskander belongs to the Russian satire tradition, along with names like Nikolai Gogol and Mikhail Bulgakov, it carries the singularities of his non-Russian origin. His motherland, Abkhazia, with its proper history and customs, besides reverberating on his works, entwines itself with the Russian-soviet culture in a complex and tense relationship that gives these narratives their unique nature. In this research, it is analyzed the characteristics that make the satire of Iskander so innovative.
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Sardenberg, Thiago Silva. "The all-seeing mirror: reflecting on vampires as allegories in socio-culturally sensitive literary works." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2012. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4730.
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Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar a figura do vampiro na literatura como poderosa ferramenta de leitura e interpretação dos medos e angústias que afligem um determinado espaço sociocultural. Ao olhar para a evolução do vampiro literário através dos séculos dezenove, vinte e vinte e um, notamos que cada uma de suas encarnações difere dramaticamente da anterior, e no que o vampiro é reinventado, ele engaja-se num diálogo pertinente e coerente com questões de seu próprio tempo, nunca perdendo assim sua relevância. Sua existência heterogênea, explicitada na dissertação primariamente através das obras Carmilla, de Sheridan LeFanu, Dracula, de Bram Stoker, Eu Sou a Lenda, de Richard Matheson, Entrevista com o Vampiro, de Anne Rice e Fledgling, de Octavia Butler, e as diferentes questões suscitadas em cada uma dessas obras como a sexualidade, a alteridade e o hibridismo nos levarão ao entendimento de que o vampiro pode potencialmente desempenhar importante função alegórica, tornando-se um espelho da própria humanidade através da qual se sustentaThe present work aims at looking at the figure of the vampire in literature as powerful means of reading and interpreting the fears and anxieties of a specific socio-cultural space. By looking at the evolution of the literary vampire through the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, we are able to notice that each of its incarnations dramatically differs from the previous one, and as vampires are reinvented, they engage in a coherent dialog with issues pertaining to their times, in a way that they never lose their relevance. Their heterogeneous existence, explicited in the dissertation primarily through Sheridan LeFanus Carmilla, Bram Stokers Dracula, Richard Mathesons I am Legend, Anne Rices Interview with the Vampire and Octavia Butlers Fledgling, and the different theoretical questions brought on by each of them such as sexuality, alterity and hybridity will lead us to the understanding that the vampire may potentially function as a powerful allegory as it becomes a mirror of the very humanity on which its life depends
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Sundelin, Ida. "Literature as an Educational Tool : A Study about Learning through Literature and How Literature Contributes to the Development of Vocabulary." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-14337.
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The aim and purpose of this essay is to investigate how literature can be used as an educational tool and as a source for learning acquisition. More specifically, this essay investigates whether literature can facilitate vocabulary acquisition by exploring different aspects of learning through literature and by implementing a study to see how literature contributes to the development of vocabulary. The results of the study show improvement on vocabulary breadth with the help of literature and consequently serve to reinforce the importance of literature and substantiate the reasons why literature is used in school. This essay can serve as supplementary evidence for the significance and relevance of literature as an educational tool.
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Santos, Leandra Alves dos. "O romance europeu do século XIX : uma leitura de Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) de Victor Hugo e A tale of two cities (1859) de Charles Dickens /." Araraquara, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/115583.
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Orientador: Sidney BarbosaBanca: Henrique Silvestre Soares
Banca: Fabiano Rodrigo da Silva Santos
Banca: Antônio Fernandes Júnior
Banca: Andressa Cristina de Oliveira
Resumo: O objetivo deste estudo é analisar a categoria da espacialidade e o procedimento grotesco nos romances Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) de Victor Hugo e A tale of two cities (1859) de Charles Dickens, mostrando como esses procedimentos narrativos auxiliam na projeção das ações das personagens e como produzem efeito de sentido, revelando assim uma das infinitas leituras oferecidas pelas referidas obras. Em Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), Victor Hugo revela a miséria humana por meio da marca dos sentimentos opostos que habitam no homem; as contradições desses sentimentos existentes uma ao lado da outra, e não no predomínio de uma sobre a outra. Os espaços da narrativa hugoana são configurações de um novo tempo-espaço marcado pela modernidade da época, e representam uma extensão dos personagens desse romance. Em A tale of two cities (1859), Charles Dickens expressa a miséria que permeia as cidades em crise diante da mesma modernidade, evidenciando que a fome, a ausência de liberdade e de condições de vida adequadas para se viver na urbe moderna transformam o homem em um ser irracional e insensível
Abstract: This study aims to analyse the spatiality category and the grotesque procedure in the novels Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) written by Victor Hugo and A tale of two cities (1859) written by Charles Dickens, the intention is to show how these narrative procedures help in the projection of the characters actions and how they can produce meaning effect, thereby revealing infinite readings which are offered by the referred works. In Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), Victor Hugo reveals the human misery through the opposite feelings which inhabit the human mind; the contradictions of those feelings exist one alongside another and not on the dominance of one over the other. The spaces in Hugo's narrative are configurations of a new time-space defined by the modernity era, and they represent an extension of the characters in this novel. In A tale of two cities (1859), Charles Dickens expresses the misery that permeates the cities facing crisis in the same modernity, emphasizing that hunger, the lack of freedom and the appropriate living conditions in order to inhabit the modern metropolis transform man into an irrational and insensitive human being
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Ribeiro, Rosária Cristina Costa. "A espacialidade no romance histórico francês no século XIX : Balzac, Hugo e Elémir /." Araraquara, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/115584.
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Orientador: Sidney BarbosaBanca: Guacira Marcondes Machado Leite
Banca: Márcia Valéria Zamboni Gobbi
Banca: Claudia Felicia Falluh Balduino Ferreira
Banca: Henrique Silvestre Soares
Resumo: Inicialmente o trabalho distingue as várias denominações desse tipo de romance para fazer a escolha de uma delas. De acordo com diversos críticos contemporâneos, o romance histórico tradicional nasceu pelas mãos de Sir Walter Scott, no Romantismo inglês. Entretanto, foi na França oitocentista que este tipo de romance alcançou sua maior expressão com obras como Les chouans (1829) e Notre-Dame de Paris (1831). É preciso distinguir também o romance histórico tradicional daqueles outros tipos muito célebres e comuns que, naquela época, utilizavam a história como pano de fundo, ou romanceavam essa mesma história (e aqui podemos citar, por exemplo, La Reine Margot, de 1845). Assim, o percurso teórico parte de teóricos como Louis Maigron (1866-1954) passa por Georg Lukàcs (1885-1971) até Gérard Gengembre (1949), Jean Molino (1945) e Claudie Bernard1, já na segunda metade do século XX. O trabalhou centrou-se em um embate direto com os textos literários, objetivando caracterizar a construção da espacialidade nos romances do corpus escolhido. A escolha dos romances partiu do conceito de micro-gênero (Molino, 1975), que estabelece a determinação de características em comum entre as obras a serem analisadas, como, por exemplo, o tema ou a data de publicação. Dessa forma, baseando-se na data e local de publicação (França do século XIX), foram escolhidos os seguintes romances: Les Chouans (1829) de Honoré de Balzac, Quatrevingt-treize (1874) de Victor Hugo e Sous la hache (1883) de Élémir Bourges. A partir da leitura e análise da realização de algumas reflexões a respeito dessas obras, pôde-se comprovar que, apesar da distância temporal entre a publicação delas, todas seguem o mesmo padrão de definição da espacialidade e fazem parte da mesma escola literária, o Romantismo. Resta dizer que o romance histórico tradicional francês do século XIX foi a expressão autêntica de um povo castigado pelas...
Résumé: Dans un premier temps, ce travail fait la distinction parmi les plusieurs dénominations de ce que l'on appelle roman historique pour choisir seulement un type parmi eux. Selon divers critiques contemporains, le roman historique traditionnel est né avec l'oeuvre de Walter Scott, dans le Romantisme Anglais. Cependant, c'est la France du XIXe siècle qui a connu la plus grande expression de cet espèce de roman, avec la parution de Les chouans (1829) et Notre-Dame de Paris (1831). Il faut aussi distinguer le roman historique traditionnel des autres types de romans historiques, três célèbres et répandus dans la même époque, que tantôt utilisaient l'histoire comme toile de fond, tantôt romançaient cette même histoire (et là on peut citer, par exemple, La Reine Margot, paru en 1845). En effet, le parcous théorique part de théoriciens comme Louis Maigron (1866-1954), passe par Georg Lukàcs (1885-1971), allant jusqu'à Jean Molino (1945) et Claudie Bernard (sans date de naissance connue), dans la deuxième partie du XXe siècle. Donc, le travail de recherche consiste en la lecture, le réperage et l'analyse des extraits, nottament ceux liés à la description de l'espace, l'établissement de parallèles entre eux, et la compréhension du rapport espace-roman historique du XIXe siècle. Pour composer le corpus, un 'microgenre' a été établi (microgenre peut désigner, d'après Molino (1975), un groupe « d'oeuvres proches par le temps et par le lieu, qui appartiennent à un même ensemble culturel et entre lesquelles existent de nombreux liens de filiation, influence, ressemblance, etc. »). Ainsi, les romans choisis, Les Chouans (1829) de Honoré de Balzac, Quatrevingt-treize (1874) de Victor Hugo et Sous la hache (1883) de Élémir Bourges, appartiennent à la France du XIXe siècle. Il faut dire encore que le roman historique traditionnel français du XIXe siècle a été l'expression authentique...
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Doubler, Janet M. Fortune Ron. "Literature and composition a problem-solving approach to a thematic literature course /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1987. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p8713214.
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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1987.Title from title page screen, viewed July 26, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Ronald J. Fortune (chair), Glenn A. Grever, Elizabeth E. McMahan, Patricia A. Chesebro, Janice Neuleib. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 170-177) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Hio, Noriko. "The influence of Victorian literature upon Japanese literature of the Meiji Period." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328709.
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Sjöström, Malin. "Reading Literature : A Study of the Significance of Literature in Language Education." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-48381.
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The aim with this study is to find out the role of literature in language education. More specifically, this essay focuses on discovering how literature can be used to learn and acquire the English language. The study will show how reading literature can benefit students’ proficiency. The paper is based on two parts. The first part is an interview section where four English teachers have been interviewed in order to learn what teachers’ thoughts are on the role of literature in the courses in English. The teachers that have taken part in the study work at the same school in a smaller municipality. The second part of the study examines the availability of literary material in three current ELT coursebooks that the interviewees use in their teaching. This was done by a page-by-page analysis of the coursebooks. The results of the interviews suggest that through reading literature students can acquire skills such as expanded vocabulary and proficiency. Moreover, the study shows that the coursebooks available to the teachers fail to provide enough reading material, nonfictional or fictional, to develop the proficiency the authors of the coursebooks claim students will acquire by using their coursebooks.Denna studie ämnar undersöka litteraturens roll i språkundervisningen. Mer specifikt fokuserar studien på att undersöka hur litteratur kan vara ett verktyg för att lära sig engelska. Studien ämnar visa hur läsning kan främja elevers språkliga förmåga. Uppsatsen är uppdelad i två delar. Första delen fokuserar på resultaten av intervjuer med fyra engelsklärare som ger sina åsikter om litteraturens roll i engelskundervisningen. Lärarna som har deltagit i studien jobbar på samma skola i ett mindre samhälle. Den andra delen studerar det litterära materialet i tre läroböcker som lärarna använder i sin undervisning. Detta gjordes genom att analysera läromedlen sida för sida. Resultaten antyder att elever genom att läsa litteratur kan utveckla ett flertal förmågor, bland annat få ett större ordförråd och utveckla sin språkliga förmåga. Studien antyder också att läromedlen som lärarna använder sig av inte lyckas att förse lärarna med tillräckligt många litterära texter för att eleverna ska kunna utveckla sin språkliga förmåga till den grad läromedelsförfattarna påstår att de kan genom att använda deras läromedel.
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Borhan, Burcu. "Gendered narratives in Victorian literature identity formation in empire-focused children's literature /." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3246.
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Thesis (M.A,)--George Mason University, 2008.Vita: p. 101. Thesis director: Amelia Rutledge. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Aug. 27, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-100). Also issued in print.
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Langton, Scott Charles. "The Works of Nakajima Atsushi "War is war and literature is literature"." Connect to resource, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1208532046.
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Lidberg, William. "Paleolimnology : A literature review." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-82900.
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The aim of this literature study is to compare and discuss different fields of paleolimnology, with a focus on three main research areas – eutrophication, acidification, and climate change. Pioneering work and the development of paleolimnological methods around these three areas were reviewed and synthesized. Paleolimnology started out as limnology and paleoecology, but has evolved tremendously over the past decades. Early paleolimnological studies focused on lake ontogeny and mechanics in the catchment such as weathering. The focus eventually shifted to nutrient loadings during the 1960s – 1970s as the debate on human induced eutrophication emerged. The important question to answer was which nutrient was the limiting factor in eutrophication. Acidification was the next topic of investigation during the 1980s – 1990s, and paleolimnology developed methods to infer past pH change based on chironomids and diatom fossils preserved in lake sediment. This research resulted in calibration sets and proxies which can be used to reconstruct past conditions. The paleolimnological community eventually shifted focus in the late 1990s to climate change and began to use lake sediment to reconstruct past climatic trends using multiproxy studies such as diatoms, chironomids and geochemistry. Varved lake sediment offered a much needed terrestrial high resolution option to the ice core records. History plays a fundamental role in all environmental issues and paleolimnology has the ability to provide historical records of past environmental conditions. Paleolimnology will most likely play a key role in management and restoration in the future. As technology and training sets develop, fast and cheap ways to interpret sediment proxies will emerge and maybe even fully automated identification of proxies.
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Wheatley, Carmen. "Donne and Spanish literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235777.
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Whiting, Emma. "Twentieth-Century Abject Literature." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.518349.
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Smith, Mark Ryan. "The literature of Shetland." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3938/.
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This thesis is the first ever survey of Shetland’s literature. The large body of material the thesis covers is not well known, and, apart from Walter Scott’s 1822 novel The Pirate, and Hugh MacDiarmid’s sojourn in the archipelago, Shetland is not a presence in any account of Scottish writing. ‘The Literature of Shetland’ has been written to address this absence. Who are Shetland’s writers? And what have they written? These are the fundamental questions this thesis answers. By paying close attention to Shetland’s writers, ‘The Literature of Shetland’ extends the geographical territory of the Scottish canon. ‘The Literature of Shetland’ covers a chronological period from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Virtually no creative poetry or prose, either written or oral, survives in Shetland from before this time so, after a brief discussion of the fragmentary pre-nineteenth century sources, the thesis discusses the archipelago’s literature in eight chronologically arranged chapters. Chapter One concentrates on a group of three obscure early nineteenth-century Shetland authors – Margaret Chalmers, Dorothea Primrose Campbell, and Thomas Irvine – and also explores Scott’s involvement with the northern isles. Chapters Two and Three discuss an important period at the end of the nineteenth century, in which books and newspapers were published in Shetland for the first time, and in which a number of pioneering and influential local writers emerged. Jessie M.E. Saxby became the first professional writer from Shetland and, in the work of George Stewart, James Stout Angus, Basil Anderson, and especially J.J. Haldane Burgess, the Shetland dialect developed as a serious literary idiom. These writers laid down foundations for much of what came next. Chapter Four discusses the end of this period of growth, with James Inkster posed as the last significant figure of his generation, and the war poet John Peterson as the first local writer to depart from the literary principles which developed in the Victorian era. Chapter Five looks at the work Hugh MacDiarmid did in Shetland from 1933-1942. MacDiarmid is not really part of the narrative of the thesis, but the work he produced in the isles is vast. Because he does not need to be introduced in the way the other writers do, this chapter takes a different approach to the rest of the thesis and looks at MacDiarmid’s Shetland-era work alongside that of Charles Doughty. Doughty was a crucial presence for MacDiarmid during his time in the isles, and considering their work together opens up a better understanding of the work MacDiarmid did in Shetland. Chapters Six and Seven discuss the second major period of growth in Shetland’s literature, focussing on the writers associated with the New Shetlander magazine, an important local journal which emerged in 1947. The final chapter then looks at contemporary Shetland authors and asks how they negotiate the literary tradition the thesis has worked through. This chapter also discusses the Shetland-related work of several non-native authors, Jen Hadfield being the most well known. In moving through these authors, as well as providing necessary introductory material, several general questions are asked. Firstly, because almost all the writing studied emerges from the isles, the question of how each writer engages with those isles is consistently relevant. How do local writers find ways of writing about their native archipelago? Do writers who are not from Shetland write about the islands in different ways than local people? The thesis shows how Scott and MacDiarmid, the two most famous non-native authors dicussed here, draw on earlier literary sources – the sagas and the work of Doughty – to construct their respective creative visions of the isles. And, in discussing the work of local authors, it will be shown that, in the early period covered in Chapter One, landscape is the most prominent idea whereas, from the Victorian era to the present day, the croft provides the central imaginative space for Shetland’s writers. A second question that runs through the thesis is one of language. Almost every local author has written extensively in Shetland dialect, and this study explores how they have developed that language as a literary idiom. The thesis shows how Shetland dialect writing gets underway in the 1870s, and how writers have continued to expand and diversify that literary tradition. The two most innovative figures to emerge are J.J. Haldane Burgess and William J. Tait and, after demonstrating how the corpus of writing in Shetland dialect has grown, the thesis concludes by examining the ways in which contemporary writers engage with the vernacular legacies their predecessors have left. Extensive use of the local language gives Shetland’s writing a regional distinctiveness, and this thesis shows how some writers have been enabled and inspired by that idiom, how some have taken dialect writing in exciting new directions, but also how some have felt limited by it and how, by not using the language, some writers have been unfairly ignored by local editors and critics. The thesis also shows that, in its two main eras of development – at the end of the nineteenth century and in the middle of the twentieth – Shetland’s writers took their cues from the general movements in Scottish writing. In the Victorian period, developments in local letters paralleled the interest in regionality and upsurge in vernacular writing that are marked characteristics of Scottish writing at the time. And, in discussing the emergence of the New Shetlander and the writers associated with it, the thesis demonstrates how the second period of flourishing in Shetland’s literature is part of the wider cultural movement of the Scottish Renaissance. The picture of Shetland’s literature the thesis offers is a self-consciously heterogeneous one. Despite the marked use of the vernacular, the thesis resists moving towards an encompassing definition of the large body of work covered, preferring to celebrate the diversity of the writing that Shetland has inspired during the last two centuries. Questions of engagement with the local environment and the use of the local language are constantly asked, but the primary scholarly contribution offered by ‘The Literature of Shetland’ is a realignment of Scotland’s northern literary border.
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Lees-Jeffries, Hester Mary Monica. "Fountains in Renaissance literature." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619607.
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Lowe, Shannon Edythe. "Madness, life and literature." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527153.
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Antonova, Antonia Ivo. "Finding Truth in Literature." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/992.
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This thesis uses Amy Kind’s defense of epistemic relevance in imagination to examine how and when true beliefs imparted in literary imaginings are justified as knowledge. I will show that readers’ literary imaginings must pass a test of epistemic relevance, as well as be paired with a strong affirming emotional response in order to justify the truth behind the beliefs they impart. I believe the justificatory affective response is a kind of non-propositional emotional imagining, distinct from the type of literary imaginings that initially imparted the beliefs. Due to this thesis’ focus on the justificatory power of literary imaginings related to emotion, my work shows how literature can provide new knowledge to the philosophical realms of ethics and emotion. Literary implications in other types of philosophical inquiry still remain unexplored.
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Hollins, Martine. "The literature of chaos." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243030.
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Randall, Bryony. "Dailiness in modernist literature." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249390.
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Coupe, Laurence. "Literature, mythology and ecology." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.422124.
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MENEZES, CLAUDIA LAGE FLORES. "FOR A SHAMELESS LITERATURE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5190@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROO objetivo desta dissertação é investigar o processo criativo na literatura levando em consideração o posicionamento estético do escritor em relação às heranças deixadas pela literatura tradicional, enfocando o realismo do século XIX, e pela vanguarda, o surrealismo. O trabalho privilegia o romance de João Gilberto Noll, A fúria do corpo, assim como entrevistas e depoimentos do autor, a fim de mapear e discutir a sua proposta artística, enfocando em sua narrativa os elementos que rompem com a linha tradicional da literatura e colocam em xeque a própria linguagem estética literária. A tentativa é a de alcançar a noção do que seria uma linguagem despudorada, uma literatura sem pudor, por meio das perspectivas lançadas pelas colocações de Cortázar a respeito do escritor rebelde e o escritor tradicional em relação à literatura contemporânea, das propostas surrealistas, de Artaud, e da noção de Linguagem Invertebrada, de Reinaldo Laddaga.
This research`s aim is an investigation of the literature creative process considering the writer`s aesthetics posture related to the heritage left by the traditional literature. Focusing mainly on the twentieth century realism, and the vanguard, specially, the surrealism. This work focalizes João Gilberto Noll`s novel, A Fúria do Corpo, as well as his interviews and opinions in order to map and discuss his artistic proposal concentrating on the elements of his narrative which break with the traditional literature line and test its own literary aesthetic language. It is an attempt to reach the notion of what would be an impudent language, a shameless literature, based on Julio Cortazar`s considerations concerning the rebel writer and the traditional one in relation to contemporary literature and also on Artaud`s surrealist proposals and Reinaldo Laddaga`s idea of an invertebrate language.
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BARBOSA, ALINE LEAL FERNANDES. "LITERATURE IN EXPRESS TIMES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2013. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30017@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROO objeto livro, que tem ocupado um lugar canônico desde a invenção de Gutenberg, vem passando por uma revolução nos últimos anos em virtude da expansão dos meios audiovisuais e da tecnologia digital. A princípio encarada com certa resistência, a interação entre os textos impressos e as telas tem-se mostrado em alguns casos profícua - se não para o produto intelectual pelo menos para o bem de consumo - ou no mínimo inevitável. As transformações ocorrem em ritmo cada vez mais acelerado, e movimentos são feitos em direção à dessacralização do livro e à expansão das práticas de leitura. Assiste-se ao surgimento de um novo tipo de bem cultural, que já nasce com o intuito de se expandir por várias esferas do mercado de bens culturais e do entretenimento, por vezes deslocando o livro da posição de destaque, que outrora ocupava, ao inseri-lo em uma cadeia multiplicadora. Nesse processo de deslizamento e intercâmbio podem ser verificadas algumas mudanças na esfera cultural, a saber: alterações na hierarquia dos produtos culturais, maior aproximação entre mercado editorial e audiovisual, o produto transmidiático e o escritor multimídia. Tendo como base esse panorama contemporâneo, pretende-se analisar o lugar ocupado pela literatura em função da expansão do mercado de bens culturais, da hegemonia do audiovisual e dos novos canais de circulação dos textos surgidos com as tecnologias digitais. Para discutir essa questão, toma-se como objeto a coleção Amores Expressos, produzida pela RT Features e editada pela Companhia das Letras, que se caracteriza como um projeto transmidiático, em consonância com uma sociedade marcadamente audiovisual, mercadológica e expressa.
Literature in express times: The book as an object, which has occupied a canonic place since Gutenberg s invention, has been going through a revolution in the last few years due to the expansion of the audiovisual mediums and the digital technology. At first confronted with some resistance, the interaction between printed texts and screens has become, in some cases, profitable – if not for the intellectual product at least for the consumption good - or at least inevitable. The transformations happens in a speed up pace, and movements are made towards the desacralization of the book and the expansion of the reading practices. A new kind of cultural good comes to sight, designed to expand itself to the different spheres of the symbolic goods and entertainment market, often displacing the book of its prominent position while inserting it in a multiplying chain. In this sliding and interchanging process some transformations can be verified in the cultural sphere: alterations in the cultural products hierarchy, approximation between editorial and audiovisual culture, the transmidiatic product and the so-called multimedia author. Having this contemporaneous scenery as a background, we intend to analyze the place occupied by the literature in accordance to the expansion of the symbolic goods market, the hegemony of the audiovisual and the new channels of circulation of texts that have emerged with the digital technologies. To approach this matter, we take Amores Expressos as our object, a book collection produced by RT Features and edited by Companhia das Letras, that consists of a transmidiatic project, in consonance with a society strictly audiovisual, market-based and express.
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REIS, CLAUDIA BARBOSA. "LITERATURE IN THE MUSEUM." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30087@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROA tese trata da gestão de museus de literatura; dá prioridade aos museus-casas como especificidade e apresenta, a partir de exemplos observados no Brasil e em outros países, uma análise dos elementos teóricos capazes de embasar uma leitura museológica de obras literárias e de seus autores. Avalia as possibilidades de recepção de dispositivos literários e museais pela sociedade brasileira contemporânea.
The thesis is about the management of literary museums. It gives priority to the specificity of house museums and, on the basis of the observation of examples in Brazil and in other countries, presents an analysis of theoretical instruments to deal with a museum lecture of literary works and authors. It also evaluates the possibilities of reception of literature and museums in contemporary Brazilian society.
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CAVALCANTI, DIANA DE HOLLANDA. "FOR A MINDFULNESS LITERATURE." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30163@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Por uma literatura da plena atenção ergue mais uma ponte entre a sabedoria ocidental e a oriental, ao apontar como caminho para o conhecimento o budismo. A dissertação desvela o processo criativo do romance O homem dos patos, da própria autora, em dois planos. O primeiro se refere à formação de seu entendimento acerca do mundo a partir das Três Características: Anicca (Impermanência), Anatta (Não-eu) e Dukkha (Sofrimento). O segundo desenvolve como esse entendimento se conecta direta e indispensavelmente às práticas de Satipatthana (Plena atenção) e meditação Vipassana, e o que estas implicam no exercício literário. Trechos do romance se entremeiam à dissertação, que consiste em um trabalho literário à parte.
For a mindfulness literature raises one more bridge between western and eastern wisdom, by pointing at buddhism as the path to knowledge. The dissertation reveals the creative process of the novel O homem dos patos, from the author herself, in two schemes. The first refers to the framing of her knowledge about the world around the Three characteristics: Anicca (Impermanence), Anatta (Egolessness) and Dukkha (Suffering). The second explains how this knowledge is directly and indispensably connected to the practices of Satipatthana (Mindfulness) and Vipassana meditation (Insight meditation), and how these affect the literary exercise. Excerpts of the novel are interwoven with the dissertation, which is an entirely new literary work.
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Turner, Fiona. "Literature, intuition and faith." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/47113/.
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This thesis is entitled ‘Literature, Intuition and Faith' and it aims to create a new critical perspective of Thomas Hardy's novels by examining four of his best-known works. I will suggest that the novels of Thomas Hardy reveal a particular narrative concerning the idea of spiritual intuition and the Hardyean protagonist. The discussion will use as its methodology a close analysis of the sub-textual impulses of the novels rather than the considerable biographical information that is already available on Thomas Hardy. The contention of the thesis is that in contrast to Hardy's expressed allegiance to agnosticism, an unspoken and so far unrecognised narrative of intuitive spiritual faith inhabits the text.
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Öberg, Mikaela. "Case studies as literature." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-32646.
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VandeZande, Zach. "(Some More) American Literature." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801908/.
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This short story collection consists of twenty short fictions and a novella. A preface precedes the collection addressing issues of craft, pedagogy, and the post Program Era literary landscape, with particular attention paid to the need for empathy as an active guiding principle in the writing of fiction.
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Caracciolo, Dana Andriana. "Children's Literature and Diabetes." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31824.
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My studies consider the genre of children's literature, specifically picture books, and their treatment of the topic of diabetes. I frame my argument with an examination of diabetes, the psychological effects of diabetes on the child, the need of thorough education about diabetes. I argue for the use of the picture book as an effect tool in educating and socializing the diabetic child. I first explore the implications of diabetes and the long term complications caused by one's poor control of the disease. I then explore the psychological ramifications of a chronic illness on the young child. Next I assert the need to combine the physiological and psychological factors of diabetes into a responsible text for children, one which both serves as an educating tool and a source of comfort in difficult times with the disease. I conclude my studies with critiques of existing materials in the limited genre and compare them to the story I have written for children about diabetes.Master of Arts
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Muller, Ian. "Children’s Literature and ComDev." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21125.
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What role can, or do, children’s literature play in development communication? Recently, neotonous childlike curiosity and creativity has become a research and development strategy and a trendy corporate culture for companies like Google. Including children in decision making and in the search for development solutions – PDC & PR4D – is also being advocated by the U.N. and Plan International especially with regards to issues that affect children.This paper will explore how children’s books open spaces for dialogic communication with children by examining how we define them, how we speak about them, how we speak for them, how we speak to them and how they may talk back through children’s texts.The aim is to relate elements of traditional storytelling to modern forms of dialogic communication and, by extension, to development goals: “helping adults understand children’s issues through their lens” (Commissioner for Children, Tasmania).
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Lindqvist, Jessica. "Ageism: A literature review." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24161.
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Background: The studies analyzed have shown among other things that ageism appears to be an overlooked category in intersectionality studies, elderly is offered care in worse conditions than non-elderly and stereotypes restrict elderlys social space to act. The gray tsunami is approaching but studies show that large gaps separate different agegroups.Aims: The study discuss how scientists reason about ageism towards elderly in a social science discussion.Method: A literature review was conducted in which fifteen articles were analyzed. The database used, is the librariescatalog Summon, at Malmö University. The articles was compiled in themes to give dilated clarity in ageisms complexity towards elderly. The results are being discussed on the basis of terror management theory, gerotranscendence and social identitity theory.Results: Elderlys relation to society's expectations about aging can affect a self/body-dualism, a split. Scientists are often looking for one explanation to include all elders which gives the effect of homogenizing the group. Terror management (TMT) may explain young people's anxiety based on notions of elderly and aging. Social identity theory (SIT) could be one explanation of elderlys ageism towards their own age group, which has shown to be built on societies conceptions about aging and elderly.Conclusion: It is shown an eminent need to examine ageism more. The articles reason that many elderly undergoes a self/body dualism split, where aging can not be accepted because of society's perceptions of it. Elderly homogenized through stereotypes to which properties are attributed. By perceptions of elderly as different and acting in a way non-elderly can´t understand, because the lack of experience. Therefor, the theory of gerotranscendense can be discussed as one explanation for the distance and or that some of the non-elderly have difficulty identifying with some of the elderly.
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Koc, Bartosz. "Literature According to Teachers." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-33829.
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This study investigates four teachers’ views and approach on teaching literature in the English classroom. The main reason for this study is to give an insight in some different ways of approaching this specific part of the national curriculum. The study is based on four separate interviews. The results are somewhat varied and provide an in-depth understanding of the subject. The study shows that there are different approaches for various reasons. These reasons are not only based in methodology but also personal preference and attitude to the subject. The results of the study also show that there is emphasis on teaching literature for various reasons, be it linguistic or cultural The study also serves as an introductory guide for future pedagogues and teachers on some issues that need to be considered when teaching literature. Last but not least, this study serves as a possible starting point for further research in methodology concerning teaching literature in the English classroom. The possible directions for further study can be linguistic- or knowledge-based.
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Mattson, Christina Phillips. "Children's Literature Grows Up." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467335.
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Children’s Literature Grows Up proposes that there is a revolution occurring in contemporary children’s fiction that challenges the divide that has long existed between literature for children and literature for adults. Children’s literature, though it has long been considered worthy of critical inquiry, has never enjoyed the same kind of extensive intellectual attention as adult literature because children’s literature has not been considered to be serious literature or “high art.” Children’s Literature Grows Up draws upon recent scholarship about the thematic transformations occurring in the category, but demonstrates that there is also an emerging aesthetic and stylistic sophistication in recent works for children that confirms the existence of children’s narratives that are equally complex, multifaceted, and worthy of the same kind of academic inquiry that is afforded to adult literature.
This project investigates the history of children’s literature in order to demonstrate the way that children’s literature and adult literature have, at different points in history, grown closer or farther apart, explores the reasons for this ebb and flow, and explains why contemporary children’s literature marks a reunification of the two categories. Employing J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels as a its primary example, Children’s Literature Grows Up demonstrates that this new kind of contemporary children’s fiction is a culmination of two traditions: the tradition of the readerly children’s book and the tradition of the writerly adult novel. With the fairy tales, mythologies, legends, and histories that contemporary writers weave into their texts, contemporary fictions for children incorporate previous defining characteristics of children’s fantasy literature and tap into our cultural memory; with their sophisticated style, complex narrative strategies, and focus on characterization, these new fictions display the realism and seriousness of purpose which have become the adult novel’s defining features.
Children’s Literature Grows Up thus concludes that contemporary children’s fiction’s power comes from the way in which it combines story and art by bringing together both the children’s literature tradition and the tradition of the adult novel, as well as the values to which they are allied. Contemporary writers for children therefore raise the stakes of their narratives and change the tradition by moving beyond the expected conventions of their category.Comparative Literature