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Holberg, Jennifer L. "Searching for Mary Garth : the figure of the writing woman in Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, E.M. Delafield, Barbara Pym, and Anita Brookner /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9380.
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Adams, Elizabeth. "Mary Elizabeth Braddon as a professional author : Mary, a case study." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546502.
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Carnell, Jennifer Anne. "The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533513.
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Venn, Jennifer O. "The autobiographies of Barbara Blaugdone, Elizabeth White, Mary Rich, and Mary Penington." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0022/NQ31165.pdf.
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Hillabold, Susan (Susan Gray) Carleton University Dissertation English. "Patriarchy mocked: the sensation novels of Mary Elizabeth Braddon." Ottawa, 1988.
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Hatter, Janine Elizabeth. "Brief sensations : a critical study of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's short fiction." Thesis, University of Hull, 2012. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16508.
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In recent decades, there has been an upsurge in critical attention on the life and oeuvre of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Most of the critical output, however, relates to Braddon’s sensation novels Lady Audley’s Secret (1861) and Aurora Floyd (1862) (with a minority on her domestic novels and plays), and focuses on Braddon’s representation of a woman’s position in nineteenth-century society. This thesis is therefore the first extended piece to explore her short fiction – which includes short stories, edited collections and novellas – in detail and so contributes significantly to our understanding of Braddon’s life and oeuvre. The thesis begins with an exploration of Braddon’s multiple selves and how she (re)constructs her image throughout her life, and proceeds by an examination of short fiction’s critical position in both contemporary and modern discourse. Following this each chapter is dedicated to a separate subgenre of her short fiction – that of theatrical, supernatural, crime, domestic and children’s literature – and how each of these literary subgenres is another constructed performance, like her ‘multiple selves’. All of these chapters position Braddon and her writing within her contemporary Victorian context, whilst also examining how her contributions developed each of the subgenres considered. This is achieved by a comparison of Braddon’s short fiction with that of other authors of the period, thus our understanding of how Braddon impacted on the larger literary marketplace and influenced other writers will be examined. Furthermore, her short stories will be positioned in relation to her oeuvre as a whole, demonstrating that she did not consider the short story as inferior to the novel, which illuminates our knowledge of the hitherto marginalised genre of the Victorian short story.
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King, Amy. ""Freedom in working" : representations of working women in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, Ruth, and North and South /." View online, 2009. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131559899.pdf.
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Merton, Charlotte Isabelle. "The women who served Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth Ladies, Gentlewomen and Maids of the Privy Chamber, 1553-1603 /." Thesis, Online version, 1992. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/33095.
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Massey, Carissa. "Mary Colter southwestern architect and innovator of indigenous style /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2003. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=233.
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Charret-Del, Bove Marion. "La stratégie du flou dans les romans à sensation de Mary Elizabeth Braddon." Lyon 3, 2007. https://scd-resnum.univ-lyon3.fr/out/theses/2007_out_charret-del_bove_m.pdf.
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Les romans à sensation écrits par Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) au début des années 1860, ont particulièrement troublé critiques et lectorat. Cette étude vise à révéler la présence d'une véritable stratégie narrative, fondée sur le flou, c'est-à-dire le secret, le mystère, l'incertitude et l'ambiguïté dans Lady Audley's Secret, Aurora Floyd, John Marchmont's Legacy, Eleanor's Victory et The Doctor's Wife. Les intrigues sensationnalistes se déroulent ainsi dans des lieux étranges, où les perceptions temporelles et spatiales semblent complètement bouleversées. Les personnages sont confrontés à de profonds problèmes identitaires, cachant leur véritable nature sous des mensonges et des faux-semblants. Mais loin de perdre le lecteur dans un dédale d'invraisemblances, cette utilisation récurrente de l'incertain est au cœur d'une dynamique narrative : le « sensation novel », parfaite illustration du roman-feuilleton, est un récit herméneutique qui joue avec le lecteur. C'est aussi un genre, qui, en subvertissant les frontières entre les catégories littéraires, provoqua des réactions extrêmes de la part des critiques de l'époque, profondément choqués par cette fiction populaire qui s'adressait avant tout aux sensations physiques de son lectorat. Le but ultime du roman à sensation est de progresser, par le biais d'un lent et chaotique processus de révélation, vers une certaine clarté, fragile et relative. Le flou braddonnien, sous toutes ses formes, deviendrait alors un moyen de mettre en lumière les angoisses d'une époque en proie au doute et à l'incertitude, en matière de mariage, d'identité et de sexualitéThe sensation novels written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) in the early 1860s were troublesome for literary critics and readers alike. The present study seeks to reveal how in five of M. E. Braddon's novels, Lady Audley's Secret, Aurora Floyd, John Marchmont's Legacy, Eleanor's Victory and The Doctor's Wife, the author pursued a veritable strategy of narrative blurring through an astute use of vagueness, secrecy, mystery, uncertainty and ambiguity. The setting in which the novels' plots unravel - strange dwellings where temporal and spatial perceptions are drastically skewed - mirror the psychological situation of their characters, who face profound identity crises, hiding their real selves behind a veil of lies and pretence. Yet, far from losing the reader in a labyrinth of incongruities, the recurrent use of uncertainty constitutes the very dynamic of the sensation narrative, toying hermeneutically with its readers, as is best illustrated in the serial form of the novel. It is also a genre, which blurred the frontiers between literary categories, often triggering extreme reactions from Victorian literary critics who were utterly shocked by a popular form of fiction that appealed so strongly to the reader's physical sensations. The ultimate goal of the sensation novel was to move toward a fragile and uncertain clarity, through a slow and chaotic process of revelation. Paradoxically, the blurring strategy of Braddon's novels ultimately served to shed light on the anxieties of an era labouring under the burden of doubt and uncertainty concerning the issues of marriage, sexuality and personal identity
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Goddard, Tabitha. "The evolution of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's fiction in the metropolitan and provincial periodical presses." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.575533.
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon's popular novels surged into the literary marketplace following her bestseller Lady Audley's Secret (1862). One reason for this was the burgeoning availability of miscellany journals after the repeal of the 'taxes on knowledge'. Fresh avenues to the reading public were unlocked for aspiring authors, and Braddon's novels were offered increasingly prominent positions for serialisation. Contemporary critics' inflated responses reflect the cultural anxiety that this phenomenon evoked - Braddon's sensation fiction was charged as both cause and effect of a 'negative' development in reading practices. This thesis suggests an alternative view of Braddon's cultural significance. Braddon's novels scrutinised the fast-paced industrial society that impacted her readers' lives and value systems. She forged an affinity with readers through her engagement with subjects of popular interest. Her serialisation history rejects conventional nineteenth-century formulations of artistic value in which the literary hierarchy reflects the values of the social hegemony. Two of the most prominent journals that carried her fiction, Temple Bar and Belgravia, actively challenge this tenet. Yet they also reveal how the interdependence between serialised fiction and framing material could both aid, and hinder, an author's wider ambition. Braddon's serialisations demonstrate how her artistic and professional development responded to fluctuating evaluations of quality in art. Through them, we can trace the increasing significance of her readerships, not just as conveyers of commercial success, but also as the determiners of quality in popular fiction. As Braddon's reading public continued to develop, so too did the vehicles that carried her fiction. This resulted in a pioneering role in the emerging weekly newspaper syndicates that offered broad new readerships. Sensation in fiction became legitimate creative expression in the publications that carried Braddon's fiction to its diverse primary readerships. Her popular novels reflect these readers' desire to participate in an extensive range of social and political debates. Ultimately Braddon's artistic and professional progress responds to her readers' evolving cultural perceptions, representing the cause and effect of continuous ideological transformation in popular fiction.
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Ifill, Helena. "Theories of determinism in the fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, l852-74." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.521965.
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Belling, Catherine. "Playing with fire : Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the rewriting of the Prometheus myth." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22095.
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Bibliography: pages xiv-xx.According to Greek myth, Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mortals, either in the form of culture, or by using it to bring to life the clay people he had made. Margaret Homans distinguishes between what she calls literal and figurative creativity (1980:223). The woman who is a mother, creating literally and naturally with her body, and who writes, creating figurative offspring, cultural texts, makes use of the Promethean fire in both of its possible senses. Only the literal, however, is seen by patriarchal culture as her rightful realm. Myth dictates that only men received from Prometheus the fire of figurative creativity, of language. The "woman writer," then, as a kind of contradiction in terms, is forced to suffer the conflict imposed by her choice to create, within the dictates of culture, with both forms of "fire." In the face of this conflict, Alicia Ostriker suggests that the project of women writers should be to rewrite the mythology of patriarchy and, in doing so, take from men their sole possession of the fire of culture, an ownership which empowers them in the same way as it did Zeus, the tyrannical father-god. In her words, women writers should become "thieves of language, female Prometheuses" (1986:211). Women who re-write the Prometheus myth may then be seen as both figuratively revising the theft by re-telling its story, and as literally re-enacting the myth itself by rebelling against the limitations of androcentrism. The "female Prometheus" re-creates the myth, bringing together the definitions of herself as woman and writer in what I argue is a disruptive and positive form of hybridism. Chapter One examines the mythic complex which surrounds the figure of Prometheus, concentrating on the versions by Hesjod, Aeschylus and Ovid, and considers the implications of its appropriation and revision by women writers. Chapters Two and Three analyse the way in which two nineteenth century women, Mary Shelley and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, rewrote the myth. Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, presents two Promethean figures - the scientist and the monster - and so embodies the ambivalence of its author. Barrett Browning translated Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound twice, and then wrote Aurora Leigh, a hybrid novel-poem in which the central character is female, a writer and Promethean. I argue that both succeeded, in different ways, in liberating language from the limitations of the patriarchal symbolic, so carrying out a theft of linguistic "fire," the act recognised by Shaftesbury as a ''Breach of Omnipotence."
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Ingham, Arleen Mary. "Woman's right to revelation : literary representations of spiritual sensibility in the writings of Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Baker Eddy." Thesis, University of Hull, 2005. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16130.
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This thesis will explore the philosophical writing of four female reformers, identifying how their spiritual representations of the feminine attempted to authorise and empower women. It will critically investigate how Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Baker Eddy challenged historical identity formations, textually communicating a spiritual role for women through a language of patriotism and piety. Discourse which emphasised public virtue and domestic duty as areas of female concern highlighted the potential for female influence in the private and public sphere. It was that eighteenth-century phenomenon, the cult of sensibility, and its emphasis on benevolence, sympathy and a heightened state of consciousness, however, which significantly reinforced an appreciation of the feminine, and female reformers took advantage of the literary space this 'cult' made available to them. Championing the benefits of well educated Christian women, More, Wollstonecraft, Stanton and Eddy constructed an idiom through which to represent the spiritual equality of the male and female. An innovative critical route will reveal the means through which they promoted their plausible alternative to religious arguments for female subjection. The thesis will critically analyse their writings, identifying the religious threads, which it will suggest underpinned their arguments. In spite of the parallels in their perspectives, however, there is an exciting diversity. Four authors: two British, two American; two eighteenth-century, two nineteenth-century; and possibly even more crucial, two feminist and two anti-feminist perspectives, all indicate the inevitably challenging nature of this topic. It is important to make clear at the outset, however, that the critical interrogatory route will be focused quite specifically towards 'The Woman Question.' Because each woman made an indelible mark on the historical landscape, their ultimate achievements will be identified in the first instance.
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Crofts, Russell. "Victorian narrative of multiple selfhood." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310251.
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McNeil, Lorraine. "Mystical experience and the Fifth Monarchy women : Anna Trapnel, Sarah Wight, Elizabeth Avery, and Mary Cary." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/980.
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This thesis focuses on mystical experience and the writings of Anna Trapnel and other women associated with the Fifth Monarchy movement, Sarah Wight, Mary Cary, and Elizabeth Avery. Female visionary experience is particularly associated with the High to Late Middle Ages, yet there is a recurrence of it in the mid-seventeenth century, exemplified by the Fifth Monarchy women. One of the aims of this thesis is to determine how far the mystical discourse of medieval writers such as Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, and St. Bridget, penetrates the writing of women associated with the Fifth Monarchists. To this end it participates in the critical debate surrounding the possibility of a tradition of female prophecy. A general residue of medieval mystical texts in England in the seventeenth century suggests cross-cultural influences, yet the recurrence of medieval aspects of mysticism in the writing of women visionaries has been seen as little more than coincidence. In order to develop the idea that there are more deliberate reasons for this recurrence, I will examine the ideological beliefs of the Fifth Monarchy movement, analysing in particular the ways in which these beliefs were expressed, as well as considering the impact of seventeenth-century editions of medieval mystical texts on the visionary writers of this movement. In pointing to a tradition of women's self-expression through mystical experience, this thesis also offers an analysis of Luce Irigaray's essay 'La Mysterique'. Emphasising the notion, that for women, the body is a signifier of mystical experience, Irigaray provides us with the means to gain a greater understanding of women's viSionary writing, while at the same time enabling us to gauge its significance in relation to the systems of social order prevalent during the period in which they wrote. The combination of historical and theoretical analysis is necessary for a full assessment of the implications of a consciousness of a feminised tradition of mysticism for the Fifth Monarchy movement as a whole, exemplified in the work of one of its leaders, John Rogers, but particularly its women members.
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Harris, Cassondra Fay. "Vice or Virtue? American Interpretations of Elizabeth Whitman and Mary Wollstonecraft in the Late Eighteenth Century." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1556907844923407.
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Baker, Lori Elizabeth. "Double the Novels, Half the Recognition: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Contribution to the Evolution of the Victorian Novel." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2191.
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Why do we read what we read? Janice Radway examines works that were not popular in an author's time period, but now are affecting the construction of the canon. In her own words, Radway seeks to "establish [popular literature] as something other than a watered-down version of a more authentic high culture [and] to present the middlebrow positively as a culture with its own particular substance and intellectual coherence" (208). Mary Elizabeth Braddon's novels were considered "middlebrow" and were very popular in Victorian England. Along with this facet, her heroines were considered controversial because they were not portrayed as what would be labeled a "proper female" in Victorian society. The popularity of her novels, her heroines, along with facets of her personal life, keep her from being recognized as one of the foremost authors in the Victorian period.
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Rowden, Clair. "Massenet, Marianne and Mary : Republican morality and Catholic tradition at the opera." Thesis, City University London, 2001. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7611/.
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The social and political practice of the French Third Republic resonated with a variety of contrasting ideologies which were reflected in cultural products and their reception, including opera. The operas of Jules Massenet, the most successful Parisian opera composer of his time, provide a good example of this kind of cultural mediation. A close examination of Massenet's operas will thus allow a re-evaluation of the complex interaction between art and society in musical culture at the end of the nineteenth century in France. Representative case-studies have been chosen, and the works are read in the contemporary Parisian context of moral and political debate. I examine the operas with respect to the choice of subject matter, the libretto and its genesis (especially transformations made in the process of creating a libretto), the music (both in it srelation to the specific drama and musical convention of the time), the staging and its messages, and the critical reception in the press. The main chapters are dedicated to the following issues: 1. Mary or Marianne? The social, moral and cultural context, particularly regarding women, is explored via a close reading of sources from the second half of the nineteenth century. 2. Le Pretre, la Femme et la Familie. Anticlericalism and Republicanism as reflected in Massenet's opera Herodiade and its reception history are addressed. Also discussed is the icon of the Republican mother, sexual desire and the question of divorce (hotly debated at the time of the opera's premiere). 3. Dreams of Decadence, or the Death of Positivism. Viewing the medium of the dream scene in Massenet's operas Herodiade and then Thai's, this chapter allows an exploration of the significance of the dream world and degeneracy in the'decadent and symbolist aestheticso f the last two decadeso f the nineteenthc entury in France, and their implications for the reigning Third-Republican positivist ideology. 4. La Pornocratie. This reading of the opera Thais addresses the way in which French fin-de-siecle art and society dealt with the `femme nouvelle'. Programmatic orchestral music in opera and its capacity to translate human passions and voice is examined.
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De, Wolfe Elizabeth A. "Shaking the faith : women, family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's anti-Shaker campaign, 1815-1867 /." New York : Palgrave, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39035343j.
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Fisher, Dalene. "Marriage and paradoxical Christian agency in the novels of Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Anne Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/56688/.
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Between 1790 and 1850, the novel was used widely "for doing God's work," and English female authors, specifically those who identified themselves as Christians, were exploiting the novel's potential to challenge dominant discourse and middle-class gender ideology, particularly in relationship to marriage. I argue in this thesis that Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Anne Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell used the novel to construct Christian heroines who, as unlikely agents, make resistive choices shown to be undergirded by faith. All practicing some form of Christianity, Wollstonecraft, Austen, Brontë and Gaskell engage evangelicalism's belief in "transformation of the heart." They construct heroines who are specifically shown to question the value of a narrative that assumes wayward husbands would somehow be transformed as a result of the marriage union. The heroines in this study come to resist such reforming schemes. Instead, they paradoxically leverage the very Christian faith that dominant discourse would use to subjugate them in unequal unions.
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Botha, Elizabeth Maria. "Psychological well-being and biological correlates in African women / Elizabeth M. Botha." Thesis, North-West University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1219.
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The aim of this study was to explore, from different perspectives, whether obesity
related variables are associated with facets of psychological well-being, with a vision to
future enhancement of health and the quality of life of people in the African context.
This study was undertaken from the perspective of positive psychology and focused on
the metabolic syndrome and obesity as biological facets. This research was conducted
as part of the multidisciplinary POWIRS (Profiles of Obese Women with Insulin
Resistance Syndrome) project. African (n=102) and Caucasian (1 15) women took part
in a cross-sectional design. The thesis consists of 3 articles: I) Childhood relationships
and bio-psycho-.gocia1 well-being in African women, 2) Psychological well-being and
rhe metabolic syndrome in African and Caucasian women, and 3) Psychological wellbeing
and (the absence of obesity in African and Caucasian women.
In this study psychological well-being was conceptualized and operationalized
by means of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ); Sense of Coherence Scale
(SOC-29); Affectometer 2 (AFM) (short form); Fortitude Questionnaire (FORQ);
Cognitive Appraisa1 Questionnaire (CAQ); Psychological Well-being Scales (SPWB);
Quality of Childhood Relationship Questionnaire (QCR); Satisfaction with Life Scale
(SWLS) and the Jarel Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWS-H). These scales were chosen
to include hedonic as well as eudaimonic psychological well-being facets, but also an
index of psychological symptoms. As far as possible, scales with acceptable
psychometric properties as described in international as well as South African context
were selected.
The first article focused on whether African women with a recalled higher level
of quality of childhood relationships mould differ significantly with regard to
biological, psychological and social well-being from women with a recalled lower level
of quality of childhood relationships. Body mass index (BMI) was used as objective
measure of obesity to operationalize physical health. Findings were that the recalled
quality of childhood relationships is linked with obesity and psycho-social well-being
in this group of African women.
The second article focused on psychological well-being and (the absence of) the
metabolic syndrome (MS). It explored the possible association between comprehensive
psychological well-being and MS in different cultural contexts, and explored whether
African and Caucasian women without MS markers and those with MS differ on
specific indices of psychological well-being. The criteria of the NCEP ATPIII mere
implemented to determine markers of MS, and the absence of markers of MS was used
as measure of physical health. Findings were that an association is found in Caucasian
women between comprehensive psychological well-being and the absence of the
metabolic syndrome, but not in the case of African women. Caucasian women without
metabolic syndrome markers had significantly higher levels of psycho-social wellbeing
than uomen with the metabolic syndrome. but a less apparent pattern of
differences emerged for African women. MS markers for African women should be
further explored.
The third article explored facets of psychological well-being as predictors for
(the absence of) obesity (measured by BMI and WHR) in African and Caucasian
women, and whether similar or different psychological well-being facets will emerge as
predictors of obesity in different cultural contexts. Obesity was operationalized in terms
of waist-hip-ratio (WHR) and body-mass-index (BMI). The finding was that clusters of
psychological well-being facets are practical significant predictors of obesity (measured
by BMI and WHR) and that these clusters differ in some respects for African and
Caucasian women.
It was concluded that, firstly. findings support holistic conceptualizations of
health such as proposed by the WHO (1999). Secondly, it may be worthwhile to
include facets of psychological well-being in already existing intervention programmes.
The development of strengths that focus on life skills and behaviours related to positive
interpersonal relationships, optimistic cognitive attributional styles, finding a sense of
purpose and meaningfulness in life, may be particularly beneficial. Sensitivity for
cultural contexts is indicated. In view of the increase in the occurrence of obesity in
childhood and adolescence it is recommended that educational training programmes
should be implemented early in life in order to facilitate protective strengths and to
promote bio-psycho-social health in individuals and communities. Advocacy for more
attention to psycho-social and protective factors in public health is needed.Thesis (Ph.D. (Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.
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Ferreira, Paulo Dias. "Estratégias textuais e o Eu em Elizabeth Costello, de J. M. Coetzee." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/2772.
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Mestrado em Estudos InglesesA presente dissertação propõe examinar questões relacionadas com textualidade, autoria e auto-crítica levantadas no romance Elizabeth Costello, de J. M. Coetzee. A análise pondera também outros textos do autor, cujas obras são manifestamente metaficcionais, e abarca igualmente textos de literatura inglesa. O âmago dos assuntos aqui referidos prende-se com a intertextualidade, o hibridismo e a fluidez da escrita, incita debates sobre a ética das humanidades, e discussões literárias sobre o sentido de humanidade. Os temas romanceados em Elizabeth Costello constituem um todo devido ao papel predominante que a protagonista desempenha nas prelecções narrativas deste romance. ABSTRACT: This Dissertation is centred on the study of issues of textuality, authorship and self-examination raised in J. M. Coetzee’s novel Elizabeth Costello. This analysis also traces back to other novels by Coetzee which are overtly metafictional, and to other literary works in English. At the core of these discussions are intertextuality, the hybridity and fluidity of novel writing, ethical debates about the humanities, and literary incursions into the meaning of humanity. The questions broached in Elizabeth Costello all coalesce due to the protagonist’s predominant role in the lecture-narrative structure of the novel.
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Kellett, Katherine Rose. "Disappearing Acts: Performing the Petrarchan Mistress in Early Modern England." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1405.
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Thesis advisor: Mary T. CraneThesis advisor: Caroline Bicks
Disappearing Acts interrogates the concept of Petrarchism and the role of the Petrarchan mistress in early modern England. Critics from the early modern period onward have viewed Petrarchism as limiting to women, arguing that it obstructs female agency. This view stems from a long history of trying to establish the parameters of Petrarchism itself, a body of literature whose inchoate nature makes it difficult to define. Disappearing Acts takes as its starting point the instability of Petrarchism, embracing the ways in which it functions as a discourse without boundaries, whose outlines are further blurred by its engagement with other genres, forms, and contexts. Examining the intersections between Petrarchism and other early modern discourses—religious, political, theatrical, humanist, romantic—illuminates the varied ways in which the role of the mistress is deployed in early modern literature and suggests that, as a term, the “Petrarchan mistress” loses the coherence that critics often impose on it. Rarely ever entirely there or entirely missing, the figure of the mistress instead signifies an unstable, liminal role that results in far more complex representations of women. This project emphasizes the complexities of the Petrarchan mistress and examines this figure as a performative role that is negotiated rather than simply inhabited as a prison. Each chapter traces the intersections between Petrarchism and another early modern discourse in England. Chapter One examines the overlap between Reformist language and Petrarchan language, particularly in the “absent presence” of the Eucharist and the female beloved. I argue that the elusive persona of the Protestant martyr Anne Askew is produced by the conjunction of Petrarchan and Reformist discourses. Chapter Two interrogates the relationship between the theory of the king’s two bodies and the concept of the Petrarchan female double, pairing Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene with the writings of Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. I suggest that female queens of the sixteenth century both secured and imperiled their authenticity by comparing themselves to a false version. Chapter Three examines the relationship between Petrarchism and the figure of the ghost in early modern England. I consider Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale in relation to the female complaint, a popular genre appended to sonnet sequences in which a ghost complains about her fate, and I argue that Shakespeare’s evocation of ghostliness enables Hermione to return from her immobilized position to perform a Pertrarchan role in which she can speak her own desires. Chapter Four reexamines Mary Wroth’s character, Pamphilia, as two different characters produced by two different genres: one by the prose romance The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania and one by the sonnet sequence Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. While the Pamphilia of the sonnets proclaims her constancy, the Pamphilia of the romance exposes the tensions produced by the varied historical uses of the term in discourses from martyrology to stoicism
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
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Sowards, Heather M. "Mad, Bad, and Well Read: An Examination of Women Readers and Education in the Novels of Mary Elizabeth Braddon." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1377080923.
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Medawar, Christian. "Mary Edith Durham and the Balkans, 1900-1914." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23726.
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This thesis is an exposition on the British traveller Mary Edith Durham and her various activities in the Balkans from 1900 to 1914. Durham earned a reputation as an ethnographer, traveller, reporter, political activist and relief worker. First, the thesis documents her experiences between 1900-1908 as a traveller in the Balkans. In this period Durham developed a keen interest for the history and cultures of the peoples of the Balkans. She also gained a solid knowledge of Balkan politics and became a familiar face in Montenegro and the Albanian territories of the Ottoman Empire. The study then describes her relief work in Albania and her efforts to lobby for the Albanian cause from 1910 to 1914, when she returned to England.The research consists of both published works and unpublished sources, some of which have not been used for studying Durham. These include Durham's personal manuscripts, correspondence from other personal papers, and documents from the British Foreign Office archives. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Nutt, Aurica. "Gott, Geschlecht und Leiden die feministische Theologie Elizabeth A. Johnsons im Vergleich mit den Theologien David Tracys und Mary Dalys." Berlin Münster Lit, 2008. http://d-nb.info/997893311/04.
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Wilson, Mary Elizabeth. "Techniques for Using Internal Strain-Energy Storage and Release inOrigami-Based Mechanical Systems." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7730.
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The objective of this thesis is to develop and demonstrate techniques for self-deployment of origami-based mechanical systems achieved through internal strain-energy storage and release, with special application to medical implant devices. The potential of compliant mechanisms and related origami-based mechanical systems to store strain-energy make them ideal candidates forapplications requiring an actuation or deployment process, such as space system arrays and minimally invasive surgical devices. The objective of this thesis is achieved by first categorizing differentdeployment methods in origami-based, deployable mechanisms and then further exploring the use of strain energy to facilitate actuation in deployable mechanisms. With this understanding inplace, there are opportunities using strain energy to develop new approaches to deploy particular mechanical systems. These origami-based mechanisms have the ability to improve devices in themedical field. This work contributes to the knowledge base of self actuating deployable structures in origami-based mechanical systems by developing design concepts and models for strain energystorage and release. By developing the foundational characteristics for self-actuation, the work will be demonstrated thorough applications in medical implant devices.
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Rapoo, Eileen Elizabeth. "Boanedi mo go Mangomo le Lehudu ka Mmileng, M.T. : Tshekatsheko le papiso / Eileen Elizabeth Rapoo." Thesis, Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/10086.
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The main objective of this study is to investigate in detail the theory of
characterization and to analyse critically the ways in which characters
are presented with particular reference to Mangomo and Lehudu. This study
further compares a'1d contrasts the development and growth of characters in
these two novels.
The study focuses specifically on providing a comprehensive background on
characterization. It is anticipated that this will help clear the
confusion around characters as they feature in novels as opposed to real
life situations.
Theoretical aspects of characterization shed new light on these novels and
it was explained why this theory could be used with success in analysing
characterization in Setswana novels.
Chapter one of this study gives a brief introduction, problems, aims as
well as the methodology employed in the study.
The author's biography is fully given in chapter two in order to introduce
him to the readers. The biography given is of utmost importance in the
sense that the two novels under discussion were largely influenced by the
author 1 s background which reveals his biography to a certain extend.
Chapter three gives a detailed scientific theory of characterization as
well as provides the framework for a satisfactory character depiction.
The theories of investigative - comparison are also discussed to evaluate
character growth and development in Mangomo and Lehudu.
Chapters four and five present critical examinations of characterization
in Mangomo and Lehudu respectively. Particular attention is given to how
the actions and deeds of the main character (s) and background characters
impact on characterization. These characters are evaluated individually
to reveal the direct as well as the indirect presentations.
A comparison approach is used in the characterization of the two novels.
The differences and similarities are investigated to establish whether
progressive growth in characterization could be discerned especially
because both novels are written by the same author.
The findings of this study reveal that the literary theory in general
could be successfully applied in Setswana novels. Points of similarities
and differences were discernable in Mmileng’s characterization in the two
novels under focus. It also became obvious that naming among the Batswana
differs from that of the English and Afrikaans people.
The author tended •to alter his style of presenting characters in the two
novels as characterization in Mangomo and Lehudu differs in some respect.
In conclusion, this study has shown that characterization in Manqomo and
Lehudu lends itself to literary theory in general. It became obvious that
the characters in the two novels could be subjected to direct and indirect
presentation. The findings further revealed that the author succeeded to
present and create living characters by using words. In conclusion
therefore, the author's character depiction is highly commendable.Thesis (MA)--PU vir CHO, 1993
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Chaney, Eve Christine. ""The aesthetic of lived life" from Wollstonecraft to Mill /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9466.
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Eriksson, Johan. "Evil and Innocence : Children in Ghost Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell, M. R. James, and Susan Hill." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-105351.
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The essay analyses three works of supernatural horror fiction written by different authors over various periods of time. These three works are “The Old Nurse’s Story” by Elizabeth Gaskell, “Lost Hearts” by M. R. James and The Small Hand by Susan Hill. The argument of the essay is that all three stories diverge from the conventions of Gothic horror stories by including a child in the role of victim and ghost. This makes the stories more frightening since they challenge the reader’s expectations of children’s innocence. In order to discern how the stories diverge from the norm the essay explores the traditional conventions of the genre such as setting, narrator, the structure of the time-frame, the buildup of mystery, the observer of the ghost, the ghost itself, and finally the visitation. In the end, the essay finds that all three of the analysed stories fit the formula of a conventional Gothic horror story, using similar methods for building up suspense and fear in the reader. Moreover, all three enhance the effect through the combination of evil and innocence in the children.
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McIntosh, J. L. "Sovereign princesses Mary and Elizabeth Tudor as heads of princely households and the accomplishments of the female succession in Tudor England, 1516-1558 /." Available to US Hopkins community, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/dlnow/3068187.
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Blackmore, Sabine. "In soft Complaints no longer ease I find." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät II, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17176.
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Diese Dissertation untersucht die verschiedenen Konstruktionen poetischer Selbstrepräsentationen durch Melancholie in Gedichten englischer Autorinnen des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts (ca. 1680-1750). Die vielfältigen Gedichte stammen von repräsentativen lyrischer Autorinnen dieser Epoche, z.B. Anne Wharton, Anne Finch, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Henrietta Knight, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Leapor, Mary Chudleigh, Mehetabel Wright und Elizabeth Boyd. Vor einem ausführlichen medizinhistorischen Hintergrund, der die Ablösung der Humoralpathologie durch die Nerven und die daraus resultierende Neupositionierung von Frauen als Melancholikerinnen untersucht, rekurriert die Arbeit auf die Zusammenhänge von Medizin und Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert. Für die Gedichtanalysen werden gezielt Analysekategorien und zwei Typen poetisch-melancholischer Selbstrepräsentationen entwickelt und dann für die Close Readings der Texte eingesetzt. Die Auswahl der Gedicht umfasst sowohl Texte, die auf generisch standardisierte Marker der Melancholie verweisen, als auch Texte, die eine hauptsächlich die melancholische Erfahrung inszenieren, ohne dabei zwangsläufig explizit auf die genretypischen Marker zurück zu greifen. Die detaillierten Close Readings der Gedichte zeigen die oftmals ambivalenten Strategien der poetisch-melancholischen Selbstkonstruktionen der Sprecherinnen in den Gedichttexten und demonstrieren deutlich, dass – entgegen der vorherrschenden kritischen Meinung – auch Autorinnen dieser Epoche zum literarischen Melancholiediskurs beigetragen haben. Die Arbeit legt ein besonderes Augenmerk auf die sog. weibliche Elegie und ihrem Verhältnis zur Melancholie. Dabei wird deutlich, dass gerade Trauer, die oftmals als weiblich konnotierte Gegendiskurs zur männlich konnotierten genialischen Melancholie wahrgenommen wird, und die daraus folgende Elegie von Frauen als wichtiger literarischer Raum für melancholische Dichtung genutzt wurde und somit als Teil des literarischen Melancholiediskurses dient.This thesis analyses different constructions of poetic self-representations through melancholy in poems written by early eighteenth-century women writers (ca. 1680-1750). The selection of poems includes texts written by representative poets such as Anne Wharton, Anne Finch, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Henrietta Knight, Elizabeth Carter, Mary Leapor, Mary Chudleigh, Mehetabel Wright und Elizabeth Boyd. Against the background of a detailed analysis of the medical-historical paradigmatic change from humoral pathology to the nerves and the subsequent re-positioning of women as melancholics, the thesis refers to the close relationship of medicine and literature during the eighteenth century. Specifical categories of analysis and two different types of melancholic-poetic self-representations are developed, in order to support the close readings of the literary texts. These poems comprise both texts, which explicitly refer to generically standardized melancholy markers, as well as texts, which negotiate and aestheticize the melancholic experience without necessarily mentioning melancholy. The detailed close readings of the poems discuss the often ambivalent strategies of the poetic speakers to construct and represent their melancholic selves and clearly demonstrate that women writers of that time did – despite the common critical opinion – contribute to the literary discourse of melancholy. The thesis pays special attention to the so-called female elegy and its relationship to melancholy. It becomes clear that mourning and grief, which have often been considered a feminine counter-discourse to the discourse of melancholy as sign of the male intellectual and/or artistic genius, and the resulting female elegy offer an important literary space for women writers and their melancholy poetry, which should thus be recognized as a distinctive part of the literary discourse of melancholy.
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Rocha, Lucas Kirschke da. "Ecce animot : um percurso analítico pós-humanista através de Elizabeth Costello e Desonra, de J. M. Coetzee." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/172900.
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Esta dissertação trata dos Estudos Animais, área que se desenvolve como um rico campo de interdisciplinaridade já em sua origem. Mas para que não se julgue aprioristicamente um campo em suas particularidades, há que se esclarecer pontos em comum aos teóricos das mais diversas origens acadêmicas que compõem os Estudos animais e traçar planos para um futuro significativo. Após estabelecer os necessários diálogos entre teoria e campo social, passo à análise de certos pontos das obras Desonra e Elizabeth Costello, com o objetivo de evidenciar o potencial deste corpus para o desenvolvimento da crítica das categorias de humanidade e animalidade segundo os aportes do Pós-humanismo e inserindo-a no campo dos Estudos Animais. O teórico fundamental para este trabalho é Jacques Derrida, principalmente em sua obra O animal que logo sou. Após apresentar um panorama dos Estudos Animais, sobretudo sob a abordagem de Paul Waldau, trago ao encontro desses autores a pós-humanista Rosi Braidotti, de cuja obra The Post-human retiro as categorias do devir-planetário e devir-animal, as quais dão consequência às análises do corpus literário deste trabalho. Dialogo, ainda, com a Mitleidsethik, a ética da compaixão de Schopenhauer. Concluo que as tarefas dos Estudos Animais e do Pós-humanismo se assemelham no que toca à maior compreensão das interações interespecíficas, para a proposição consequente de novas formas de conviver num mundo mais-que-humano.This dissertation deals with the Animal Studies, an area that develops as a rich field of interdisciplinarity already in its origin.. But in order not to make an aprioristic judgement of a field in its particularities, it is necessary to clarify points in common to the theoreticians of the most diverse academic origins that compose the Animal Studies and to draw up plans for a significant future. After establishing the necessary dialogues between theory and social field, I proceed to the analysis of certain points of the works Disgrace and Elizabeth Costello, with the objective of highlighting the potential of this corpus for the development of the critique of the categories of humanity and animality according to the contributions of Posthumanism and inserting it in the field of Animal Studies. The fundamental theorist for this work is Jacques Derrida, mainly in his work O animal que logo sou. After presenting an overview of the Animal Studies, especially under the approach of Paul Waldau, I bring to the meeting the post-humanist Rosi Braidotti, whose work The post-human retreat the categories of becoming-earth and becoming-animal, which give consequence to the analysis of the literary corpus of this work. I also dialogue with the Mitleidsethik, the ethic of compassion of Schopenhauer. I conclude that the tasks of Animal Studies and Post-humanism are similar in relation to the greater understanding of the inter-species interactions, for the consequent proposition of new ways of living in a more-than-human world.
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Weir, Zachary A. "-The place from when I read- intertextuality and the Postcolonial present reading Elizabeth Costello (and J.M. Coetzee) /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2004. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=404.
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Lillge, Claudia. "Die Brontë-Methode : Elizabeth Stoddards transatlantische Genealogie und das viktorianische Imaginäre /." Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2009. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3302824&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Galage, Timothy F. "The underlying problem in First Corinthians a comparative study of proposals by Gordon D. Fee, Bruce W. Winter, and Margaret M. Mitchell /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p030-0169.
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Beemer, Cristy Ann. "“Usurping Authority in the Midst of Men”: Mirrors of Female Ruling Rhetoric in the Sixteenth Century." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1208895927.
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Reimer, Jonathan Mark. "The life and writings of Thomas Becon, 1512-1567." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/264115.
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This dissertation analyses the life and writings of the Tudor clergyman and bestselling author Thomas Becon (1512-1567) as well as communities of production, patronage and pious readership that occasioned, supported and first received his books. Not only does it illuminate new aspects of his life, such as his remorse over his recantation at Paul’s Cross in 1543 and the fact that he was considered for the bishopric of Chester in 1559, but also it provides an account of his extraordinary literary output. Between the early 1540s and the late 1560s, he composed or translated at least 56 works, which by the 1630s had been printed in 126 known editions. He was thus the most widely published vernacular devotional author in England until the later decades of the sixteenth-century. Despite his influence in early modern England, Becon has received little scholarly attention. When his works are studied, they are simply mined for quotations, rather than contextualised and considered in their own right. This dissertation attempts to redress this imbalance by embedding Becon within the communities and contexts that produced and consumed his books. It argues that, as a prolific and highly influential member of the ‘middle management’ of the English Reformation, his life and writings offer a unique and valuable perspective on the propagation, enforcement and reception of religious change in sixteenth-century England. This dissertation not only reconstructs and reconsiders his biography and literary output, but also it shows the contributions that such study makes to broader historical and literary understandings of early modern England, particularly in light of the post-revisionist project, which has focused upon the processes of negotiation, accommodation and resistance that shaped the English Reformation. By illuminating the career of one significant, but largely overlooked reformer, it furnishes new evidence and interpretations for understanding early modern England.
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Allen, Diane F. "MFK Fisher : food and feminist identity /." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2004. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/AllenDF2004.pdf.
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Hattaway, Meghan Burke. "Fallen Bodies and Discursive Recoveries in British Women's Writing of the Long Nineteenth Century." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1339280314.
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Gallardo, Gómez Andrés. "Lenguaje, acción y virtud en G.E.M. Anscombe." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2018. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/170390.
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Tesis para optar al grado de Doctor en FilosofíaEsta tesis tiene por objeto contribuir a una interpretación de la obra de la filósofa inglesa G.E.M. Anscombe. Propondremos tres ideas-claves para sostener que hay una filosofía unitaria tras sus diversos y variados trabajos, a pesar de las dificultades señaladas por varios interpretes. La unidad de la filosofía de Anscombe está, en nuestra opinión, en una intención ética, una unidad metafísica, una unidad epistemológica y una concep-ción de la racionalidad que se sigue de ésta. Su intención ética es mostrar que la filoso-fía moderna no puede establecer que lo injusto es malo y esto hace que ella sea llevada a conclusiones desastrosas. Los problemas filosóficos son enfrentados desde una perspectiva próxima de la de Wittgenstein, en la que se pone atención al lenguaje, esta filosofía fundamental, aunque no fundacional, la llamaremos “metafísica”. Mostraremos como esta manera de tratar los problemas es una constante en toda la obra y que, además, tiene una conexión esencial con la manera de tratar los problemas filosóficos. Al aplicar este método al análisis de la acción aparecerá la especificidad del conoci-miento práctico como modo propio del ser humano en tanto que agente racional. Las excelencias de las capacidades psicológicas o antropológicas de este agente racional, es decir, sus “virtudes”, estarán en la base de la filosofía moral.
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Carly-Miles, Claire Ilene. "Secret agonies, hidden wolves, leper-sins: the personal pains and prostitutes of Dickens, Trollope, and Gaskell." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/85929.
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This dissertation explores the ways in which Charles Dickens writes Nancy in Oliver Twist, Anthony Trollope writes Carry Brattle in The Vicar of Bullhampton, and Elizabeth Gaskell writes Esther in Mary Barton to represent and examine some very personal and painful anxiety. About Dickens and Trollope, I contend that they turn their experiences of shame into their prostitute's shame. For Gaskell, I assert that the experience she projects onto her prostitute is that of her own maternal grief in isolation. Further, I argue that these authors self-consciously create biographical parallels between themselves and their prostitutes with an eye to drawing conclusions about the results of their anxieties, both for their prostitutes and, by proxy, for themselves. In Chapter II, I assert that in Nancy, Dickens writes himself and his sense of shame at his degradation and exploitation in Warren's Blacking Factory. This shame resulted in a Dickens divided, split between his successful, public persona and his secret, mortifying shame. Both shame and its divisiveness he represents in a number of ways in Nancy. In Chapter III, I contend that Trollope laces Carry Brattle with some of his own biographical details from his early adult years in London. These parallels signify Carry's personal importance to her author, and reveal her silences and her subordinate role in the text as representative of Trollope's own understanding and fear of shame and its consequences: its silencing and paralyzing nature, and its inescapability. In Chapter IV, I posit that Gaskell identifies herself with Esther, and that through her, Gaskell explores three personal things: her sorrow over the loss of not one but three of her seven children, her possible guilt over these deaths, and her emotional isolation in her marriage as she grieved alone. In her creation of Esther, Gaskell creates a way both to isolate her grief and to forge a close companion to share it, thus enabling her to examine and work through grief. In Chapter V, I examine the preface of each novel and find that these, too, reflect each author's identification with and investment of anxiety in his or her particular prostitute.
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Nagu, Mary M. [Verfasser]. "Forty Years of Tanzania Economic Performance: An Analysis of Economic Growth and Development Patterns and Conditions for Sustainable Poverty Free Economic Growth / Mary M Nagu." Aachen : Shaker, 2006. http://d-nb.info/1170528759/34.
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Van, Heerden Imke. "“A life lived in cages”: strategies of containment in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of iron, Life & times of Michael K, Elizabeth Costello: eight lessons and “The poetics of reciprocity”." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1746.
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Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In its conversations with four texts by J.M. Coetzee – Age of Iron (1990), Life & Times of Michael K (1983), Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (2003) as well as the critical essays published in Doubling the Point, “The Poetics of Reciprocity” (1992) – this thesis will demonstrate the manner in which the singularities of each of these texts prompt, expand and challenge the framework that sustains its reading of Coetzee’s fiction. Whereas some critical methodologies seek to eliminate the characteristic indeterminacy of Coetzee’s fiction, imprisoning his novels in a contextual cage, this thesis demonstrates an allegiance to the primacy of the literary text together with a concern with the ethics of reading. The thesis proposes – in both content and form – an inductive ‘style of reading’ concerned with the continuous modification of its own strategies according to the ‘internal logics of the text’. I first encountered the term, ‘confinement’, in relation to Coetzee in an unpublished conference paper by Lucy Graham, “‘It is hard to keep out of the camps’: Areas of confinement in the fiction of J.M. Coetzee”. Graham’s paper focuses on the different camps, the ‘different circles of hell’, in Life & Times of Michael K especially, mentioning that ‘images of the camp resonate throughout Coetzee’s most recent fiction’. Although this thesis considers a variety of concrete and conceptual camps as well, it rather places predominant emphasis on the relationship between reader and literary text, which is examined in terms of two forms of delimitation, confinement and containment. This study identifies its style of reading as a ‘containment’ rather than a ‘confinement’. The term is intended to evoke an adaptable, constructive delineation of Coetzee’s fiction that involves a reciprocal relationship between reader and/or critic and text. As the thesis’s primary conceptual tool, one that I will argue is both solicited and thematised in Coetzee’s fiction, containment refers not only to a style of reading, but also to any reciprocal relationship, any mutual exchange. It applies to the relationship between genres (realism and metafiction) and ‘reality’ in Age of Iron; between text and reader in Life & Times of Michael K; between self and other in Elizabeth Costello; and between text and critic in “The Poetics of Reciprocity”. The notion of containment accepts the critical challenge posed by Coetzee’s fiction to engage with what Derek Attridge would call each ‘singular event’ or ‘act of literature’ on its own terms.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In die tesis se gesprek met vier tekste deur J.M. Coetzee – Age of Iron (1990), Life and Times of Michael K (1983), Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (2003) asook die kritiese tekste wat in Doubling the Point, “The Poetics of Reciprocity” (1992) gepubliseer is – sal dit toon hoe die sonderlinghede van elk van hierdie tekste die raamwerk wat my interpretasie van Coetzee se fiksie ondersteun, uitbrei en uitdaag. Waar sekere kritiese metodologieë probeer om die kenmerkende onbepaaldheid van Coetzee se fiksie te elimineer en sy romans in ’n konstekstuele hok te beperk, demonstreer hierdie tesis ’n getrouheid aan die voorrang wat die literêre teks moet geniet, insluitend ’n gemoeidheid met die etiek van lees. Die tesis stel, ten opsigte van sowel inhoud as vorm, ’n induktiewe ‘leesstyl’ voor wat gemoeid is met die deurentydse aanpassing van sy eie strategieë volgens ‘die interne logikas van die teks’. Ek het die term ‘beperking’ vir die eerste keer teëgekom in ’n ongepubliseerde referaat deur Lucy Graham, “‘It is hard to keep out of the camps’: Areas of confinement in the fiction of J.M. Coetzee”. Hierdie voordrag fokus op die onderskeie kampe in spesifiek Life & Times of Michael K. Graham wys daarop dat ‘die kamp-beeld in resente Coetzee-werke resoneer’. Alhoewel hierdie tesis ook variante van konkrete en konsepsuele kampe bekyk, gaan dit verder om by voorkeur die klem te laat val op die verhouding tussen leser en literêre teks. Dit word ondersoek in terme van twee vorme van afbakening en ontperking, naamlik beperking en inperking. Hierdie studie definieer sy eie leesstyl as ‘inperking’, in teenstelling tot ‘beperking’. Die bedoeling met die term is om `n aanpasbare, konstruktiewe afbakening van Coetzee se fiksie te ontlok wat ’n wedersydse verhouding tussen leser en/of kritikus en teks behels. As die tesis se primêre konsepsuele instrument, waarvan ek sal aanvoer dat dit in Coetzee se fiksie aangevra en getematiseer word, verwys ‘inperking’ nie net na leesstyl nie, maar ook na enige wederkerige verhouding, enige wedersydse uitruiling. Dit geld vir die verhouding tussen genres (realisme en metafiksie) en realiteit in Age of Iron; tussen teks en leser in Life and Times of Michael K; tussen die self en die ander in Elizabeth Costello; en tussen teks en kritikus in “The Poetics of Reciprocity”. Die begrip ‘inperking’ aanvaar die kritiese uitdaging wat deur Coetzee se fiksie gestel word om wat Derek Attridge elke ‘sonderlinge geleentheid’ of ‘literatuurdaad’ sou noem, op sy eie terme te benader.
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Medina, Maldonado Venus Elizabeth [Verfasser], M. [Akademischer Betreuer] Landenberger, A. [Akademischer Betreuer] Wienke, and M. [Akademischer Betreuer] Camacaro. "Public health program based on the evidence of nursing for prevention and assistance of gender-based violence in collaboration with specialized personnel and community members / Venus Elizabeth Medina Maldonado. Betreuer: M. Landenberger ; A. Wienke ; M. Camacaro." Halle, Saale : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1052893848/34.
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Cantrell, Michael A. Evans C. Stephen. "Kierkegaard and modern moral philosophy conceptual unintelligibility, moral obligations and divine commands /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5297.
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Maddison, Isobel Judith. "The geography of gender : an analysis of female literary space with particular reference to the work of Elizabeth von Arnim, Katherine Mansfield and Dorothy M. Richardson." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.620535.
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Rhyner, Corinne Kopcik. "Flowers of Rhetoric: The Evolving Use of the Language of Flowers in Margaret Fuller's Dial Sketches and Poetry, Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons, Edith Wharton's Summer, Mary Austin's Santa Lucia and Cactus Thorn, and Susan Glaspell's The Verge." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/88.
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The language of flowers was a popular phenomenon in the United States in the nineteenth century. This dissertation on American literature looks at several American women authors’ use of the language of flowers in their novels. I examine the use of the language of flowers in Margaret Fuller’s “Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain,” “Yuca Filamentosa,” and poetry such as “To Sarah,” Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons, Edith Wharton’s Summer, Mary Austin’s Santa Lucia: A Common Story and Cactus Thorn, and Susan Glaspell’s The Verge. Through analysis of language of flowers dictionaries, historical studies of the language of flowers, feminist history and theory, and close readings of the sketches, poems, novels, and plays themselves, I will show that American women continued to use and be influenced by the language of f lowers for close to a decade. I will also show that these women writers’ use of the language of flowers shows evolving social attitudes toward women and standards of femininity in American society during the nineteenth and early-twentieth century.
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Brett, Elizabeth [Verfasser], Hans-Günther [Akademischer Betreuer] Machens, Georg M. [Gutachter] Huemer, and Achim [Gutachter] Krüger. "Evidence of an unreported cell relationship responsible for linear collagen of triple negative breast tumors / Elizabeth Brett ; Gutachter: Georg M. Huemer, Achim Krüger ; Betreuer: Hans-Günther Machens." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1220321354/34.
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