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Dorman, Rebecca. "Margaret Cavendish's 'Natures Pictures'." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/23063/.
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Margaret Cavendish's place in the field of early modern women's writing is indisputable, as scholarship since the 1990s, and perhaps even earlier, has shown. Presentation of Natures Pictures as a whole is an important next step in Cavendish scholarship. The collection of texts in this volume provides evidence of Cavendish's facility with genre, to include life writing, as well as her ability to navigate the complexities of a wide range of topics, from the interactions between the sexes to natural philosophy. While Cavendish is socially conservative, that is, she tends toward tradition in her views on women, men, and government, her natural philosophy destabilizes those views and establishes a tension in her writing. She argues that nature is constituted of self-moving matter and that matter can assume an infinite number of forms. She believes every entity in nature is a unique combination of rational, sensitive, and dull matter. This critical edition of Natures Pictures the first to include all ninety-two works comprising the volume as it was published in 1656, contains commentary that speaks to the ways in which the notion of variety shaped Cavendish's perspective and writing. It provides information on Cavendish's family and career as well as her connections to other early modern women writers. Glosses of difficult or obsolete words are provided; handwritten additions and deletions are noted; cross-references to other works by Margaret Cavendish are furnished; relevant works by Cavendish scholars and other early modern scholars are noted; and references to the 1671 edition of Natures Pictures are provided when those references clarify a word or phrase. My objective was to create a text that would appeal to the literate lay reader as well as the scholar.
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Moss, Kate. "Margaret Atwood’s Divided Self." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2011. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/157.
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―Margaret Atwood‘s Divided Self‖ explores four novels by celebrated Canadian author, Margaret Atwood: Lady Oracle, Surfacing, Alias Grace, and The Robber Bride. Although others have discussed the reoccurring themes of disunity and duality in Atwood‘s work, these explorations have not addressed some of her newest novels and have taken a very limited approach to reading and understanding Atwood‘s theme of the divided self. This study opens up a literary ―conversation‖ about Atwood‘s theme of the divided self by examining the protagonists of these select novels by using different branches of theory and thought to fully explore this issue. To conquer their double or multiple identities Atwood‘s protagonists in these novels must take two actions: 1) Accept their double/multiple identities as a part of themselves and 2) transcend this position and the resulting ―hauntings‖ by their mothers (or their decision to choose a replacement female ―mother‖ figure) by becoming mothers themselves. The introduction chapter ―The Author as ‗Slippery Double‘‖ explores Atwood‘s position as a ―slippery (divided) subject‖ between her writing/social and interior selves. Chapter one, ―Canadian Women: Nature, Place, and the Divided Other in Atwood‘s Works‖ explores the role of nature, place, and femininity in Atwood‘s divided protagonists. Chapter two, ―The Uncanny Double: Haunting Entities and the Divided Self in Atwood‘s Fiction‖ contains the main argument and explores the role of the uncanny in Atwood‘s works. Although I explore these four novels most thoroughly explored, this theme runs throughout Atwood‘s entire body of work. Although I mostly use close readings of the primary texts, I also ground my argument in the work of theorists in several fields of thought including Sigmund Freud, Louis Althusser, George H. Mead, and Jacques Lacan.
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Critchell, Cecile. "Changing images of Margaret Thatcher." Thesis, University of Kent, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362184.
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Marx, Milisa. "Margaret Hilda Thatcher: a psychobiographical study." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/4548.
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Psychobiographies typically explore and describe historically significant, extraordinary and enigmatic individuals' psychological development through the lens of psychological theory. The primary aim of this psychobiographical study was to explore and describe the developmental life stages of Margaret Hilda Thatcher (1925 - 2013) through the application of Erik Erikson's theory of Psychosocial Development. Erikson's theory takes a holistic, biopsychosocial approach to the lifelong development of the individual, emphasising ego development. A secondary objective was to clarify the propositions of Erikson's theory by applying it to Thatcher's life. Margaret Thatcher was the leader of the Conservative Party in Great Britain and was the first ever female British Prime Minister. As a political leader, she was driven by conviction and regarded as controversial in that she divided the opinion of the British people. She served as Prime Minister for three consecutive terms and was eventually ousted by her peers. After leaving office, she received the title of Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven and later became a member of the highest order of knighthood in England: The Order of the Garter. Psychobiographical research is qualitative and follows a single, case study approach. Through using a purposive sampling strategy, Thatcher was selected as a research subject on the basis of interest value and uniqueness. Data were selected from primary and secondary sources, enhancing the validity of the study, and were analysed according to Alexander's nine identifiers of salience within the conceptual framework derived from Erikson's theory. When considering the findings of the research, it became evident that Margaret Thatcher's development coincides with those constructs proposed in Erikson's theory, and thus emphasised its value in understanding human development. The findings from this psychobiographical study contributed to the understanding of Thatcher's life and are likely to stimulate further research in psychology.
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Montigny, Denise de. "Giving birth, Margaret Atwood traduction commentee." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5352.
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Wilde, Cornelia. "Phantastische Experimente das Schreiben Margaret Cavendishs." Berlin Trafo, 2002. http://www.trafoberlin.de/3-89626-552-0.htm.
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Begley, Justin. "Margaret Cavendish, the last natural philosopher." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c936e475-28bc-41d3-92a6-5a3a2500fe2b.
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This thesis uses the entirety of Margaret Cavendish's archive to present the first full account of her thought within its historical context. Living in France, the Netherlands, and England, Cavendish's ideas were honed and in some cases prompted by her correspondences with figures who were central to the Republic of Letters, such as Constantijn Huygens, Samuel Sorbière, and Kenelm Digby. In their turn, a wide range of Cavendish's contemporaries rigorously engaged with her publications. Bringing atomism from France to England, she encouraged Walter Charleton's translation of Pierre Gassendi's Animadversiones; Thomas Shadwell's critique of the Royal Society in his popular satirical play, The Virtuoso, was based on The Blazing World; Arthur Annesley heavily annotated Cavendish's De vita ... Guilielmi ducis Novo-Castrensis in preparing his own Latin history; Susan Du Verger wrote a folio-length response to Cavendish's reflections on monasticism; and Nehemiah Grew read her medical treatise when developing his comparative anatomy. Far from being the eccentric and isolated "Mad Madge" of common repute, I recover Cavendish as one of the most prolific and philosophically informed English writers of the seventeenth century. When Cavendish's ideas have been studied in relation to those of other thinkers, she has usually been aligned with novatores, especially Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes. While these figures were "philosophers" insofar as they held undergraduate degrees, they desired to cleanse philosophy of the Aristotelian detritus of the university curriculum in which it had long been submerged. Paradoxically, I show that it was precisely because of Cavendish's lack of a formal education that she was more willing to align herself with the universities, and with the mainstream of seventeenth-century thought, than Hobbes and Descartes. Pushing back on the historiographical consensus, I show that through her career-long dialogue with editions, commentaries, and translations of ancient mythology, history, and natural philosophy, Cavendish cleaved to Aristotelian principles and categories as an antidote to the intellectual and religious turmoil of her times. In doing so, I argue that she produced the first (and last) work of traditional natural philosophy composed wholly in the English vernacular. Rather than priming her to embrace a closed and dogmatic set of philosophical precepts, this thesis underscores the inherent plurality of Aristotelian natural philosophy. The first chapter studies Cavendish's 1653 Poems, and Fancies in relation to the mythological publications of Francis Bacon and George Sandys, and the atomic writing of Pierre Gassendi and Thomas Harriot. Turning from her atomism, the second chapter discusses the material spirits of her 1653 Philosophicall Fancies and her 1655 Philosophical and Physical Opinions. It demonstrates that Cavendish's opposition to the mathematical and mechanical corpuscles of Descartes, and her interest in the traditions of Galenic and chymical medicine, inspired this shift in her substance theory. The third chapter moves from one higher discipline to the next by studying the theological ideas of Cavendish's 1664 Philosophical Letters. It argues that she developed a Reformed Anglican theology against the heterodox Platonic philosophy and cabalistic theology of Henry More and Joseph Glanvill. Shifting the target of her criticism, the fourth chapter finally studies how Cavendish manipulated Thomas Stanley's History of Philosophy to critique the Royal Society in her 1666 Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy and the Blazing World. Bookended by the influences of Gassendi and Thomas Stanley, Cavendish manipulated the more discursive and hermeneutic modes of Aristotelian thought to cultivate a continuum between literature as imaginative writing and literae humaniores as an embodiment of the encyclopaedia of learning. By building on methodologies not only from literary history, but also from the histories of science, philosophy, and scholarship, my work shows that Cavendish's oeuvre is one of the most powerful examples of the degree to which the seventeenth-century realms of the "new philosophy", literature, and learning were intertwined.
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Mouton, Frances Alexander. "Die politieke loopbaan van Margaret Ballinger." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79028.
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Afrikaans: Margaret Ballinger is op 11 Januarie 1894 as die jongste kind van Lilias en
John Hodgson in Glasgow, Skotland, gebore. In 1904 het die gesin na
Suid-Afrika geemigreer. Na 'n briljante skool loopbaan het sy 'n M.A. in
Geskiedenis aan Oxford behaal, waarna sy 'n senior lektrise in Geskiedenis by
die Universiteit van die Witwatersrand was. Haar akademiese loopbaan is in
1935 weens haar huwelik met die bekende vakbondleier, William Ballinger,
beeindig omdat getroude vroue nie toegelaat is om permanente betrekkinge te
beklee nie. Hierna het Ballinger haar tot die politiek gewend. Alhoewel
sy geen parlementere ambisies gehad het nie en die Naturelleverteenwoordigingswet
van 1936 ten sterk ste geopponeer het, het sy haar wel in 1937 in die
Oos-Kaapse naturellekieskring as 'n kandidaat van die "African National
Congress" verkiesbaar gestel. Dit was in terme van haar pol i tieke filosofie
om van alle geleenthede gebruik te maak om segre gasie in Suid-Afrika te
beveg. Ballinger het die setel teen sterk opposisie op 'n merkwaardige wyse
verower en 23 jaar lank verteenwoordig.
In die Volksraad het Ballinger haar as 'n briljante parlementa rier onderskei
en sy het 'n reputasie opgebou as een van Suid Afrika se bekwaamstes
ooit. Aansluitend daarby het sy haar as 'n onvermoeide verteenwoordiger van haar
kiesers se bel ange onder skei. Dit, tesame met haar stryd as 'n onwri
kbare opponent van enige rasse- of pol itieke onverdraagsaamheid, het Ballinger
'n internasionaal bekende persoonlikheid gemaak. Hierdie prestasie
het egter heel wat moed, durf en opofferi ngs van ha arr as 'n onafhanklike vereis. Oat sy wel bereid was om hierdie
opofferings vir haar ideaal van 'n veelrassige en demokratiese
Suid-Afrika te maak, blyk uit haar leierskap van die Liberale
Party - 'n Party wi e se st i gt i ng sy geopponeer het, terwyl sy
ook nie die leierskap daarvan begeer het nie.
Die tragedie van Ballinger se pol itieke loopbaan was dat sy in
1960 met haar gedwonge uittrede kragtens die Wet op die Bevordering
van Bantoe-Selfbestuur (1959) prakties geisoleer en verwerp
was. Vir die toenemende militante swartes was sy te gematig, terwyl
sy weer vir die blankes van Suid-Afrika te radikaal was.
Hierdie isolasie is vererger deur die feit dat sy nooit deel van
die liberale hoofstroom was nie. In die twintiger- en dertigerjare
is sy as te radikaal geag, terwyl sy teen die vyftigerjare
as te konserwatief geoordeel is. Oat haar uittrede saam met die
geweldpleging en noodtoestand van 1960 moes val, was 'n bitter
pil vir Ballinger. Sy het gevoel dat sy in al haar politieke
doelwitte gefaal het. Die teenoorgestelde is egter waar, deurdat
Ballinger die vlam van Suid-Afrikaanse liberalisme en die ideaal
van 'n veelrassige demokrasie in Suid-Afrika tydens haar
merkwaardige parlementere loopbaan aan die lewe gehou het.English: Margaret Ballinger was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 11 January 1894 and was the youngest child of Lilias and John Hodgson. The family emigrated to South Africa in 1904. After a brilliant school career, she completed an M.A. in History at Oxford and thereafter became a senior lecturer in History at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her academic career ended in 1935 due to her marriage to the well-known trade union leader, William Ballinger, as married women were not allowed to hold permanent posts. After this Ballinger devoted herself to politics. Although she had no parliamentary ambitions, and strongly opposed the Representation of Natives Act of 1936, she made herself available as an African National Congress candidate in the Eastern Cape native electoral circle in 1937. This was a result of her political philosophy to use every opportunity to fight segregation in South Africa. Ballinger won the seat in spite of strong opposition and represented it for a period of 23 years. In the House of Assembly Ballinger distinguished herself as a brilliant parliamentarian and was reputed to be one of South Africa's most able politicians. In addition, she proved to be an untiring representative of her voters. This, together with the fact that she opposed any racial or political intolerance, made Ballinger an internationally known personality. This achievement took a lot of courage and sacrifices from her as an independent. That she was prepared to make these sacrifices in order to 7 achieve her ideal of a multiracial and democratic South Africa, is shown by her leadership of the Liberal Party - a party whose founding she opposed and whose leadership she did not seek. The tragedy of Ballinger's political career was that she was politically isolated and rejected by her constituents at the time of her forced retirement in terms of the Promotion of Bantu Self Government Act of 1959. She was too moderate for the increasingly militant blacks, and too radical for the whites of South Africa. This isolation was aggravated by the fact that she never was part of the liberal main stream. During the twenties and thirties she was considered to be too radical, and during the fifties she was regarded as being too conservative. The fact that her retirement coincided with the violence and the state of emergency of 1960 was a bitter one for Ballinger. She felt that she had failed in all her political goals. However, the opposite is true, as Ba 11 i nger in fact kept the flame of South African liberal ism and the ideal of a multiracial and democratic South Africa burning throughout her amazing parliamentary career.
Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 1990.
Historical and Heritage Studies
DPhil
Unrestricted
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Tennant, Colette Giles. "Margaret Atwood's transformed and transforming gothic." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1248719470.
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Tennant, Colette. "Margaret Atwood's transformed and transforming Gothic /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487757723997751.
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Evans, F. E. M. "Margaret Atwood : words and the wilderness." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19728.
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This thesis is a study of several texts written by Margaret Atwood, and is motivated by a desire to demonstrate the polysemous irreducibility of literary meaning and to suggest ways in which critical theory and textual practice may meaningfully interact and correspond. The first chapter examines poems in The Circle Game in order to observe how Atwood's persistent scrutiny of the constitution of images creates a world almost entirely detached from a consciousness of time and history, and considers how this generates a radical split between textual self-sufficiency and the psychic wilderness through which the poems move. Here we can see Atwood deploying language in a pared-down, restrictive manner that circulates through the book with particular tension. The second chapter studies her first novel The Edible Woman, and attempts to trace through analysis of its linguistic patterns, how Margaret Atwood controls her subject matter and deploys her chosen narrative form in a way that expreses the conflict between consumption and production which is embodied in the novel's architectonic symbol. Moving through a specific historical period, her characters struggle to achieve self-definition and linguistic mastery of their environment. The third chapter is concerned with her critical study of Canadian literature, Survival, and the relational framework it suggests between Canada's uneasy post-colonial status, the writer's expressive predicament, and the universal experience of victimization. Consideration is given to aspects of Atwood's political and social philosophy, and comparison made between her conclusions and those of other contemporary Canadian writers.
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Needham, Donna Dorr. "Margaret Fuller's lost legacy literary criticism /." Connect to this title online, 2009. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1263396777/.
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Vecchione, Nina. "The end of the world as we know it curing disability and recovering from victimization in Margaret Atwood's novels /." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1707435991&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Comiskey, Barbara Anne. "Margaret Atwood : fiction and feminisms in dialogue." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.308988.
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Desjardins, Louise. "Traduction de Power Politics de Margaret Atwood." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/10339.
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Traduire la poésie, traduire Power Politics de l'écrivaine canadienne-anglaise Margaret Atwood, voilà une entreprise doublement hasardeuse. Comment arriver à rendre dans une autre langue ces instants de grâce liés tout entiers à une fusion de mots et de sens, à une prise en charge d'un univers gui ne pouvait s'exprimer que par cette coïncidence parfaite de la forme et du corps, du geste et de la parole. Traduire la poésie revient à traduire l'indicible de l'univers, la fluidité du temps, l'éclat de l'image, l'inachevé dans l'achèvement d'un discours. Entreprise téméraire et folle régie par la seule volonté de connaître et de faire connaître.
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Skalská, Martina. "Margaret Thatcherová a její boj s odbory." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2007. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-2663.
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Tato práce je analýzou způsobu, jakým Margaret Thatcherová čelila problémům s odbory. Celý problém je zasazen do širšího kontextu dějin Velké Británie v době po druhé světové válce, protože právě tam musíme hledat příčiny těchto problémů. Poválečná Británie se stejně jako mnoho jiných zemí v této době ubírala směrem politiky keynesiánství a plné zaměstnanosti.Tento trend se pokusila zvrátit Margaret Thatcherová svými opatřeními v době, kdy byla premiérkou, tedy v letech 1979-1990. Místo ke keynesiánství se obrátila pro radu k monetarismu a za hlavní cíl si vytkla kontrolu inflace.Odbory pro ni představovaly důsledky politik předchozích vlád, které s nimi nedokázaly nic udělat. Vláda Thatcherové postupně prosazovala zákony, které jejich moc omezovaly a činily je více odpovědné za své akce. Klíčovou akcí v boji s odbory byla konfrontace se stávkujícími v roce 1984, která trvala rok a kterou odboráři nakonec museli vzdát. Když skončila, bylo jasné, že skončilo i období, v němž si odbory mohly diktovat své podmínky. Thatcherová v roce 1990 na svou funkci rezignovala, protože členové Konzervativní strany již nebyli ochotni ji dále podporovat.
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Tolley, Rebecca. "Gloria Steinem, Josephine Baker, Margaret Bourke-White." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2004. https://www.amzn.com/0313317844.
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Book Summary: Treating the cultural giants of the 20th century, this volume traces their reading habits and intellectual development, as well as their contributions to Western culture. Suggesting the literary influences on these figures, the book includes 355 entries on people from a broad range of fields, including scientists, politicians, business figures, writers, religious leaders, and figures from the performing arts and popular culture. The volume is a handy companion to Powell's earlier volume, Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914. Reflecting non-Western influences on Western culture, the volume includes such Asian and African figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Wole Soyinka, while also covering the significant Western figures. As the volume recognizes, forms of cultural influence evolved in the 20th century to include more aural and visual influences. Yet the volume still reveals fascinating literary influences throughout the century.
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Tenan, Caterina <1992>. "Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing: trauma, nature and religion." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/9273.
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The initial part of this dissertation provides a study of the first chapter of the novel with the aim of demonstrating how a story world takes shape and how the order of textual elements contributes to create its meaning. Atwood’s literary choices, the first impressions readers may construct from the first encounter with the characters and the conclusions readers may draw from a first reading are discussed in details. Secondly, this dissertation attempts to analyse three of the major themes of the novel that the initial close reading has highlighted, namely trauma, nature and religion. The exploration of the protagonist’s trauma is at the heart of the second chapter, since the experience of undergoing an interruption of pregnancy had the consequence of fragmenting her identity and leaving her emotionally numb. Nature appears to be fundamental for the protagonist’s recovery from her sense of alienation and dissociation and to become whole again. Moreover, a comparison between the role of women and nature, which is assimilated to the role of passive victims, is provided in the third chapter, with reference to eco-feminism. The final chapter is centred on the theme of religion and spirituality and the role of the narrator’s parents in the protagonist’s process of healing. Indeed, the protagonist undertakes an inner journey and she regresses to almost an animal state to reach a communion with all natural elements. Thanks to this descent into her deeper self, a rebirth takes place and she is finally complete, she is able to feel and, with the gifts her parents have left her, she has become a new creature.
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Ethier, Isabelle. "L'intertextualité dans La servante écarlate : la femme comme sujet en devenir /." Thèse, Trois-Rivières : Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 1997. http://www.uqtr.ca/biblio/notice/tablemat/03-2177901TM.htm.
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Evain, Christine Sellin Bernard. "Pluralité des voix et chant de soliste dans la poésie de Margaret Atwood." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2007. http://castore.univ-nantes.fr/castore/GetOAIRef?idDoc=13596.
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Wang, Yiyan. "Literary responses to bewilderment in western society : a study of Margaret Atwood's novels /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armw246.pdf.
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Pakiam, Barbro. "Dining with Margaret Drabble's The Witch of Exmoor." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för språk och kultur, 1999. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-88789.
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This essay aims to demonstrate that Margaret Drabble, inspired by her literary knowledge of Shakespeare and Woolf, has constructed her novel The Witch of Exmoor on the two famous literary meals in Timon of Athens and To the Lighthouse. Parallels will be illuminated in the light of intertextuality, along with the symbolic significance of the meal, where this image is linked to Drabble's conception of social and individual order/disorder, but also used as an opening out to a higher realm. The first chapter will deal with the dinner scene in To the Lighthouse, and its relevance for the intertextual meal in The Witch of Exmoor. Structural influences from Woolf will also be discussed. In the second chapter the feast in Timon of Athens will be treated in the same way. Finally the third chapter will delve a little deeper into the meaning of Drabble's symbolism, focusing on a passage entitled Envoi in one version of The Witch of Exmoor. Questions to be asked are: What does the author wish to illustrate with her symbols? In which sense does the use of intertextual meals enhance the symbol/metaphor? Is the message meant to be clear to the reader? If not, what's to be won by obscurity?
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Rao, Eleonora. "Strategies for identity : the fiction of Margaret Atwood." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1991. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/108219/.
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This study is a critical reading of the fiction of contemporary Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood. My analysis focuses on problems pertaining to the questions of genre, identity and female subjectivity. The thesis is thematically structured. Chapter One, 'The Question of Genre: Creative Re- Appropriations, explores the plurality of genres and narrative styles present in the novels. The second Chapter' A Proliferation of Identities: Doubling and Intertextuality' examines constructions of the self in the light of psychoanalytic theories of language and subjectivity which conceive of the subject as heterogeneous and in constant process. Atwood's challenge to the notion of the homogeneous ego finds a gendered vision wherein woman assumes a multiplicity of roles and positions. Chapter Three 'Cognitive Questions' discusses the text's emphasis on sense receptivity and the epistemological question they pose in relation to language, reality and interpretation. Chapter Four 'Writing the Female Character' analyses Atwood's configurations of femininity, sexual politics and sexual difference.
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KOM, NJUIDJE DOROTHEE. "Enonciation narrative dans l'oeuvre romanesque de margaret laurence." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991STR20010.
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L'analyse porte sur l'etude de l'espace et du temps et sur les structures d'enonciation. L'espace et le temps de l'histoire sont examines surtout en fonction des personnages. Mais il est aussi question de l'espace et du temps de la narration, de meme qu'on y traite de l'espace du lecteur. Les structures d'enonciation - focalisation, narration, narrataire - sont examinees dans la derniere partie. Les differences et les ressemblances qui caracterisent l'evolution de la technique narrative de laurence d'une oeuvre a l'autre sont soulignees dans le processus et constituent l'essentiel repris dans la conclusionThe study deals with the various aspects of space and time : space and time of history as related to the major characters of the novels : space and time of narration ; space of the reader. It also deals with such technical aspects of the enunciation as focalization, narration (narrative technique) and narratee. The continuity and changes that the author's narrative technique undergoes throughout her career as a novelist are pointed out in the process before they are then picked up in the conclusive part of the study
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Zrasták, Marián. "Privatizace ve Velké Británii za vlády Margaret Thatcherové." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-16868.
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The victory of the Conservatives in the 1979 General Election brought a government into office which is traditionally said to pursue a programme of economic liberalism. The new government was determined to end British economic decline and the crisis of state authority by making an ideological and political break with the policy of consensus. But it was only after September 1981, when "the dries" achieved dominance in Conservative Government and the new liberal policy finally prevailed. Their goals were to reduce the role of the government in economy, to start privatization of nationalised industries and to achieve reduction in the size and scope of welfare state. This objective became an important part of Thatcher's second- and third-term economic policy. This thesis describes how the particular factors influenced the privatization programmes. The main aim is to answer the question whether the delays in privatization programmes were given by objective obstruction by Thatcher's political opponents and interest groups or whether "the dries" themselves did not support denationalization of strategic industries. The privatization is examined and brought into context of fiscal and monetary policy to unveil the role of privatization in Thatcher's economic policy. The success of privatization is limited by regulations imposed on denationalized industries and the author of this thesis puts emphasis on the description of the extent to which the members of the conservative party supported free market. The author uses a description of various privatization programmes, including related political and economical discussions, to answer these questions. The thesis includes a description of popular capitalism and a connection between foreign policy and privatization as well as the author's evaluation of privatization program.
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Ritchie, Amanda Ross. "Margaret Fuller and the politics of German sensibility." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289215.
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This study seeks to accomplish two goals. First, it will reestablish Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) as America's first important interpreter of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832), Germany's best-known lyric poet. The study includes full transcription and complete annotation of Fuller's Reading Journal O manuscript detailing the experimental series of Conversations on Goethe that Fuller conducted in the spring or summer of 1839. The manuscript suggests that Fuller was an expert on all of Goethe's works, not just on his literary oeuvre. The experimental series of Conversations on Goethe was a prototype for the Boston Conversations for Women, those watershed events in the history of the American women's movement that Fuller envisioned and then carried out between the fall of 1839, and the winter of 1844. Second, this study will examine Fuller's debt to German sensibility as she found it in Goethe and other German writers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Fuller learned Innerlichkeit, inwardness, and Gelassenheit, or serenity, from her long study of German letters. Her incorporation of German sensibility was useful to her in two ways. First, German sensibility was important to Fuller's unique pedagogical philosophy. By encouraging her students to practice German sensibility, Fuller taught them how to educate themselves through their own initiatives. Second, German sensibility facilitated Fuller's critical stance, thereby aiding in the development of her feminism. Fuller's discussion of Iphigenia, the heroine of Goethe's classical play called Iphigenia at Tauris, displays the extent of her reliance on German sensibility in creating her most insightful feminist writings. Fuller wrote about Goethe's Iphigenia in the July 1841 issue of the transcendentalist journal called the Dial. Her remarks a there prove that her feminism was fully developed two years before she wrote "The Great Lawsuit: Man vs. Men, Woman vs. Women," the essay she expanded and later published as Woman in the Nineteenth Century.
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Golder, Yves. "Margaret Thatcher : construction d'une image politique, 1950-1990." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019STRAC005/document.
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Cette thèse s’attache à étudier l’image politique de Margaret Thatcher à travers des caractéristiques personnelles telles son parcours, ses idées, sa présentation physique, ses postures politiques ou encore les stratégies de communication dont elle fit usage. L’objectif est de mettre en lumière les différents éléments mis en avant par Margaret Thatcher et par les canaux de diffusion d’image, principalement constitués des médias et de son entourage politique. En ce qui concerne le bornage temporel, l’étude tient compte des quarante années qui s’écoulèrent entre la première candidature de Margaret Thatcher à une élection, pour la circonscription de Dartford en 1950, et la fin de son dernier mandat de Premier ministre en 1990. Cette thèse présente également l’intérêt de porter sur une période qui vit de nombreuses techniques de communication politique se développer : les conseillers en communication vinrent à jouer un rôle prépondérantThe main ambition of this PhD thesis is to provide a study of Margaret Thatcher’s political image through the lens of various personal characteristics like her experience, ideas, physical presentation, political postures or the communication strategies she relied on. The objective is to emphasize the different elements put forward by Margaret Thatcher and by the image transmission channels, notably the media and her political circle. The period studied encompasses the forty years that went by between the first time Margaret Thatcher stood for election, for the Dartford constituency in 1950, until the end of her last Prime Ministerial mandate in 1990. This PhD thesis also has the advantage of focusing on a period of time during which many political communication techniques developed while communication advisers came to play a predominant role
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GARAU, EVA. "Margaret Thatcher. Formazione e ascesa di un leader." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11584/266726.
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The thesis sets out to examine the character of British politician Margaret Thatcher, following the path of her life and her career since her years at the University of Oxford, where she studied chemistry, to her election as the leader of the Conservative Party in 1975. The investigation has been conducted by examining a number of sources and documents: minutes of meetings, electoral speeches and manifestos, accounts of informal exchanges, transcripts of parliamentary debates, articles and editorials published in both local and national newspapers. The aim of the research, on the one hand, is that of filling a gap in the Italian scholarly literature on the subject, while, on the other hand, bringing to light a number of underestimated factors, which have in time contributed to turning the “Grantham girl” into a world leader. The investigation covers three decades during which Thatcher has evolved from “the grocer’s daughter” into “the iron lady”. The originality of the research consists in its attempt to show to what extent the main traits of what will get to be known as Thatcherism started to emerge well before Thatcher’s election to the role of prime minister and, therefore, how the political climax of her story had already reached its peak in 1975. By examining the crucial events which marked Thatcher personal and political history the thesis aims at providing a picture of British society during the period under scrutiny as well as at unveiling a degree of complexity, in both Thatcher and British society, which has often been under investigated.
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Shoenut, Meredith L. McLaughlin Robert L. "Canadian postwar perspectives of her-story historiographic metafiction by Laurence, Kogawa, Shields, and Atwood /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1225101671&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1176732662&clientId=43838.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2005.Title from title page screen, viewed on April 16, 2007. Dissertation Committee: Robert McLaughlin (chair), Lynn Worsham, Sally Parry. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 312-331) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Cheong, Weng Lam. "Beyond a feminist dystopia : Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Thesis, University of Macau, 2009. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2456330.
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Varga, Zsuzsanna. "Spinsters and authors : women's roles in Margaret Oliphant's writing." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27573.
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Using recent critical developments in feminist social history and literary historiography, as well as the recently increasing interest in Victorian journalism, this thesis re-examines Margaret Oliphant’s position on women’s roles from a sociological and historical perspective. The question of Oliphant’s position on women’s roles has been raised before, yet literary historians, inspired by the presuppositions of second-wave feminism and second-wave literary history, have restricted the debate to the question whether she was a ‘bad’ feminist or a ‘good’ one, and have ignored Oliphant’s representation of female authorship. This thesis attempts to redress the balance by providing a close reading of Oliphant’s journalism in a historical context. The examination of Oliphant’s journalism, a largely neglected area, along with selections from her extensive output of fiction, has allowed the identification of two fundamental roles for women which she represents as natural to the 19th century woman: the domestic woman and the woman writer. While the former appears to be a less than radical point, it explains Oliphant’s ostensibly conservative views on the nascent women’s rights movement. Moreover, in the second part of her long writing career, Oliphant explored alternative domestic structures that enable female authority and domestic existence. Oliphant’s examination of the position of the female author partly replicates this pattern by suggesting the naturalness of female authorship to the domestic women, and this allows her to start to develop an early theory of female writing and literary history, analysing the ways in which the female author can exercise authority in the marketplace. While the Oliphant represents both of these positions as natural to the domestic woman, she also investigates those social structures that allow the proper exercise of female authority. At the same time the thesis attempts to describe Oliphant’s ideas on the ideal humane community as well as her ground-breaking work in literary history and the definition of alternative versions of domestic authority and female authority.
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Riegel, Christian Erich. "The work of mourning and Margaret Laurence's Manawaka fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0010/NQ59554.pdf.
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Haring, Merten. "Verfassungswandel in Großbritannien : von Margaret Thatcher bis Tony Blair /." Osnabrück : Koentopp, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2879150&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Shead, Jackie. "Margaret Atwood’s transformative use of the crime fiction genre." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.573748.
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This thesis examines Atwood's transformation of the crime genre, more particularly the whodunit and the spy thriller, in some of her longer fiction. Her protagonists are considered as detective figures needing to decipher experiences made mysterious to them by acceptance of hegemonic scripts. Discussion explores their discoveries that they are not only victims of the crime fabulae they unravel, but accessories, their complicity arising from an acculturation to ideologies of power, particularly those of patriarchy, class and colonialism. A gendered inflection of the crime narrative is also evident in one of the texts under discussion, Alias Grace, which depicts an unsuccessful male investigator. Using the concept of abduction - the interpretation of signs according to inherited mental frameworks - this thesis demonstrates that the protagonists' understanding of their conditions requires profound changes in their mental mapping of their worlds. While the body and the environment are shown to provide pressing evidence of crime, analysis demonstrates that mysteries are only unlocked by adjustments in the protagonists' mindsets. Careful tracking of those adjustments also makes clear that Atwood treats the romance narrative as a barrier to understanding. This thesis considers detection as an activity required by Atwood's readers as well as her characters. The penultimate chapter, on the metafictive detective story, therefore examines those authorial techniques that engage readers as investigators needing to deconstruct false stories generated by blinkered focalizers. Underpinning the entire thesis, but especially addressed in its closing chapters, is the belief that Atwood' s metafictive strategies are not symptoms of a postmodem depthlessness. Instead, pursuing Atwood's assertion that popular forms of literature embody mythologies which she terms the 'dreams of society', transformation of the crime genre is discussed as part of the author's wider project: interrogation of ways of seeing in order to encourage a sounder apprehension of ourselves and our worlds.
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Waldman, Benjamin F. "Climbing the Mountain of Conflict: Margaret Thatcher's Falklands Crisis." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1112.
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Early in her Prime Ministership, Margaret Thatcher fought an unlikely diversionary war far from home for the ownership of the Falkland Islands. The Islands lie off of Argentina’s coast about 8,000 miles from London, but have been subject to Britain’s rule since 1836. In April 1982, hoping to distract from domestic political and economic turmoil, Argentina’s military dictatorship ordered a surprise invasion of the Islands. Thatcher, Britain’s first female Prime Minister, responded in full force. By early May, a British fleet reached the Islands. By June, despite American efforts to stop a war between its allies, Britain launched an assault on the Islands and took them back by force. Thatcher’s victory propelled her to immense popularity in late-1982 and 1983, and the Argentine dictatorship’s defeat gave life to a people’s revolt that quickly ended the regime and decades of military leadership.
This thesis examines Thatcher’s leadership in April 1982, before Britain launched its retaliatory invasion of the Islands. It seeks to answer how Thatcher managed to make the war possible and popular in three key arenas: with her own cabinet and government, with the United States and the United Nations, and ultimately with the British public. This study operates on the idea that the war served as an intentional diversion for Thatcher, who had struggled domestically as Prime Minister up until the Falklands Crisis. Utilizing newly released archival documents from the Thatcher government, this study shows the Prime Minister never had any interest in avoiding war, undermining any potential for peace as it emerged.
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Rees, Emma L. E. "Genre in exile : Margaret Cavendish's writings of the 1650s." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242425.
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In this study I aim to show how, and why, in terms of Margaret Cavendish's life in the 1650s, `genre', `exile', and `politics', specifically royalism, are inseparable literary-historical constructs. In the introduction and first chapter, I elucidate my title - `Genre in Exile: Margaret Cavendish's Writings of the 1650s' - exploring its constituent parts, and their repercussionsfo r my project as a whole. I consider in my introduction different ways of thinking about genre, and delineate a model which is productive in examining Cavendish's work, as well as investigating how genrew as understoodi n the mid-seventeenthc entury. Further, I position my study in relation to other critical assessmentso f Cavendish and her work, both contemporary and modern. In Chapter 1, I formulate for Cavendish a `triple exile', arguing that she was banished not only legislatively, but additionally because of her desire to be a writing woman, and because of her continued engagement with an anti-Puritan theatrical aesthetic. I use the paratextual theories of Girard Genette to examine how, in material and spatial terms, this triple exile is registered in Cavendish's publications of the 1650s. I briefly provide a biographical background for Cavendisha nd her associatesin that decade,a nd I ask what it meanst o have genre `in' exile, that is, how it may be sent into, adapted from within, or be retrievedf rom, a stateo f banishmentb, e that legislativeo r analogous. In my second chapter, I examine the influence of the Epicurean writing of the Imperial Roman Lucretius on Cavendish's first published work, Poems, and 3 Fancies, and how that influence facilitated her earliest self-representationa s a writer with the desire to publish. Cavendish's culturally subversive movement into print is expedited by her adoption of Lucretian generic modes. In the third chapter, Platonic generic ideals are focused on as being central to the brief yet recondite prosep assageH, eavensL ibrary. An applicationa nd extensiono f such idealst o the entire volume in which they appear, Natures Pictures, indicates that such a reading and utilization of genre may promote the most acute political commentary. In such a discussion, Cavendish's notional readership is important, since it is readerly generic expectation which is being manipulated. The focus of the study remains on Natures Pictures for the fourth chapter, which once more looks to the Ancients as a source for Cavendish's generic operations. In Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, she negotiates a path between Greek romance and epic in her assertion of a woman's autonomy and concomitant ability to rule, which metonymically figures as the author's own desire for power over the text she indites. For the fifth chapter of this study, I return to Poems, and Fancies, this time in a reading of The Animall Parliament as a text which incorporates both ancient and seventeenth-centuryd iscoursesa bout the human body, fashioning from them an intrepid defence of monarchical rule. In my sixth chapter I move the focus of the study beyond the Restoration in an examination of how Cavendish's relationship with genre and creativity, mapped during the Interregnum, developed once the monarch was restored and the impetus for political subversion had largely passed. Cavendish's volume of Orations (1662) is briefly discussed, as well as her two volumes of plays (1662 and 1668), her CCXI Sociable Letters (1664), and her Description of a New World Called The 4 Blazing World (1666). In a brief conclusion, I return to the `triple exile' in an assessment of the rehabilitative potential such a project as this may have in terms of Cavendish studies more generally.
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Sandlane, Margaret. "The education system of Zambia after independence / Margaret Sandlane." Thesis, Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8746.
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Chapter 1 looks into the following matters:
• Problem or Research:
The problem of research is:
* to determine the changes that look place with regard to the structure or
the Zambian Education System with respect to the Educational Reform
and needs of the people after Independence.
* to determine the changes in educational policy, organizational structure,
school system and supportive services as a result of the Educational
Reform in the post independence era.
• Aims of Research:
The purpose or this study is:
* to describe the development of the Zambian Education System in a
historical perspective.
* to define the concept or Education for Development (Draft Statement)
and Educational Reform and its influence on the educational policy.
* to determine the changes In the organizational structures after
independence,
* to determine the changes with regard to the school system and
supportive services after independence.
• Methods of Research:
The following methods or research were used: literature study and interviews.
• Demarcation of the field of study:
This study is confined to the education system of Zambia in the pre-independence
and post-idependence periods.
The theoretical structure of the education system has been discussed in
chapter 2 as well as general information about Zambia.
• The definition of the education system is given in this chapter as well as the
components, namely, the educational policy, educational administration,
school system and supportive services of the education system.
• The general description of Zambia Includes the geographical situation, the
political history, peoples of Zambia, economy and political structure.
The historical development of the education system of Zambia is given in
chapter 3. The following represent the main eras:
• Missionary education:
The Missionaries took a keen interest in the writing of the African languages
and started leaching people to read and write.
• Involvement of the British Government in African Education:
* The native schools proclamation of 1918.
According to this proclamation schools had to be registered with the
administrator and teachers be certified competent.
* The educational policy of 1925
The educational policy of 1925 urged that education should be adopted
to the needs of the people.
* Creation of African Education Department in 1925.
G.C. Latham was appointed the first director of African Education
Department. He issued mission schools with a school code according
to which all mission schools had to function.
* Education under the Federal Era 1953- 1963.
The Federation of the North and South Rhodesia and Nyasaland brought
about changes in the education system.
• Education in Post-independence Zambia
AI independence the government aimed at giving education the first priority.
* The Education Act of 1966
In terms of the Act, racially segregated schools had to be abolished and
non-free paying schools introduced.
Chapter 4 of this study will look into the formulation of the educational
policy.
The following are the main issues:
• Formulation and content of the educational policy.
The entire nation was involved in the formulation of educational policy in a
form of a "National Debate" launched by Dr. K.D. Kaunda in May 1976.
the Educational Reform aimed at providing 9 years of compulsory basic
education.
• The third national development plan
The plan aimed at increasing educational facilities.
• The fourth national development plan
This plan aimed at improving the technical and agricultural aspects of
education as well as the standard of Mathematics and Science subjects.
The organisational structures in Zambian Education System are
discussed in chapter 5. Attention is given to:
• Different Education Ministries
The Ministry of General Education and Culture and the Ministry of Higher
Education are responsible for the implementation of the educational policy
in Zambia.
• Control of education
AI the head of each Ministry there is a Minister who is also a member of the
cabinet.
The Inspectorate is the professional wing of the Ministries with the
responsibility of control and co-ordination of education.
The school system and supportive services are exposed as follows in
chapter 6:
• The School System
the functional pattern in Zambia is 7 years of primary education, 2 years of
junior secondary and 3 years of senior secondary education. The idea is
that the quality and quantity of services still leave very much to be desired.
• Supportive Services
The educational system in Zambia uses various supportive services to
facilitate effective leaching and learning.
Chapter 7 summarises all ideas discussed in the afore chapters. Findings
and recommendations are made.Thesis (MEd)--PU vir CHO, 1990
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Stewart, David. "Challenging the consensus : Scotland under Margaret Thatcher, 1979-1990." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2004. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4316/.
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This thesis addresses the reasons why Scottish Conservative support contracted under Thatcher, challenges the assumption that Thatcher was ‘anti-Scottish’ and places her in the wider context of Scottish Conservative and Unionist history, whilst illuminating Scottish Conservative personalities. This thesis has taken an overview of Thatcher’s tenure as Prime Minister, and illuminates key areas of Scottish society in the 1980s that have hitherto been under-researched. No historian or social scientist has attempted the broad perspective before. The research has been split into six chapters, and each chapter follows a chronological pattern. Chapter One provides a historical overview of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party since 1886, which is interlinked with the development of the post-war consensus. The chapter concludes by analysing Scottish Conservative Party personalities and in-fighting, both of which are under-rated features of Thatcher’s premiership. Chapter Two examines Thatcher’s economic restructuring and the growing prominence of the European Economic Community (EEC). Chapter Three analyses Thatcher’s industrial relations reforms, and the 1984/85 miners’ strike. Chapter Four scrutinises the Conservatives’ overhaul of the welfare state. Chapter Five focuses on Thatcher’s reform of local government, including the introduction of the community charge. Chapter Six charts the development of the ‘Scottish question’.
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Baldo, Milene Cristina da Silva 1985. "O mundo resplandecente, de Margaret Cavendish : estudo e tradução." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269926.
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Orientador: Carlos Eduardo Ornelas BerrielDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: O objetivo desse trabalho de mestrado é traduzir e estudar The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, de autoria da filósofa natural e Duquesa de Newcastle Margaret Lucas Cavendish, e cuja publicação ocorreu pela primeira vez em 1666 acompanhando seu outro livro Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. A obra estudada é considerada a primeira no gênero literário utópico escrita por uma mulher e apresenta a história do descobrimento de um novo mundo por um estrangeiro que, após atravessar os mares, ali desembarca. O Mundo Resplandecente possui uma organização das leis, do estado, da religião etc. que permite uma vida em perfeita harmonia. Porém, diferentemente da estrutura paradigmática do texto de Thomas Morus, após sua chegada, o estrangeiro passa a interferir nesse mundo provocando-lhe mudanças substanciais, principalmente no que se refere à criação de sociedades científicas. Pertencendo às utopias produzidas ao longo do século XVII, como algumas delas, este texto possibilita a observação de um ideal pautado no contexto político e histórico que circunda o autor, bem como, e principalmente, apresenta ao leitor diferentes ideias presentes nos debates filosóficos dessa época. Esse caráter ocorre, de forma central, em função das críticas que a autora faz à filosofia experimental praticada pela Royal Society e que estão presentes em Observations, contudo, na utopia, um de seus intuitos é tratar dessa argumentação filosófica de forma a facilitar a compreensão aos que não participavam desse debate
Abstract: The objective of this Master¿s thesis is to complete a translation to Portuguese and a study of the The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, by the natural philosopher Margaret Lucas Cavendish (the Duchess of Newcastle). This work was first published in 1666, following her previous book Observations upon Experimental Philosophy. This is considered to be the first utopian work written by a woman and presents the history of the discovery of a new world by a stranger, after a trip across the seas. This world has perfect organization of law, state, religion etc., resulting in a harmonious life for its inhabitants. The story has some resemblance to Thomas More¿s Utopia (1516) but is different in that, after his arrival, the stranger starts to interfere in this world. This causes a number of changes, mainly to established scientific societies. In a similar way to various other `utopias¿ produced throughout the seventeenth century, Cavendish¿s text allows the observation of the ideal political and historical context that surrounds the duchess, as well as introducing the reader to various ideas present in philosophical debates in that time. This includes various criticisms that the author makes of the experimental philosophy practiced by The Royal Society, which are also focused on in Observations. One of main purposes of the creation of this particular fictional utopia is to introduce the principle of philosophical argumentation to those who had not previously been able to participate in such debates
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Leite, Maria do Rosário Silva. "The penelopiad: a reconstrução do mito por margaret atwood." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2010. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/6302.
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The present work analyses the novel The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (2005), by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood, translated into Portuguese as A Odisséia de Penélope (2005), a narrative characterized as a recreation of the homeric myth. This novel offers its reader an opportunity of coming back to Greece, now having Penelope as a protagonist and narrator, opening the possibilities of representing this figure of classical myhtology beyond Homer s representations. According to Homer s narrative, in tune with patriarchal understanding of gender relations, women, specially Greek women, should become mothers and remain inside the gineceu, what his Penelope did. However, in the reconstruction and rereading of this epic text presented by Atwood, Penelope invites us to look through the brumes of the past in order to listen to possibly different arrangements about the story of her life. It is in this context that our work intends to present and discuss Atwood s Penelope, recognizing other possibilities of retelling this classic text, deconstructing Homer s view at different points and aspects. Thus, by examining the brackets, the intersticial spaces of the homeric narrative, Atwood reconstructs the character and the myth, enabling her Penelope to speak about everything that was silenced in the homeric text, revealing her view, opinion and explanation about those events.
O presente trabalho analisa The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus (2005), da autora canadense Margaret Atwood, traduzida para a língua portuguesa, como A Odisséia de Penélope (2005), narrativa caracterizada como recriação do mito homérico. Tal romance proporciona ao leitor um retorno à Grécia antiga, agora com Penélope como protagonista e narradora, abrindo o leque de representações desta figura da mitologia clássica para além da criação de Homero. De acordo com a narrativa homérica, afinada com a construção de um masculino bastante fortalecido à época, a mulher, especialmente a grega, caberia a maternidade e o enclausuramento no gineceu, atividades cumpridas à risca por Penélope, o que reconhecemos na personagem homérica. Porém, na reconstrução e releitura da épica desenvolvida por Atwood, Penélope convida-nos a espiar por entre as névoas de seu passado para ouvirmos a orquestração das falas de toda a sua vida. É nesse contexto que este trabalho pretende apresentar a Penélope de Atwood, reconhecendo uma outra possibilidade criada por esta autora canadense de contar a história clássica, desconstruindo a versão apresentada por Homero em diversos momentos. Portanto, examinando, pois, as lacunas ou espaços intersticiais da narrativa homérica, Atwood reconstrói a personagem, ou o mito, concedendo a sua protagonista o direito de se pronunciar sobre o que no texto original passará em silêncio, revelando seu olhar, sua opinião e suas explicações sobre o desenrolar dos fatos.
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Moreira, Patricia Dayse Alves Alvino. "A tecitura intertextual em The Penelopiad, de Margaret Atwood." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2014. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/15570.
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Margaret Atwood, ao (re)escrever A Odisséia a partir da perspectiva de Penélope na tentativa de responder à inquietação que a assombrava; “o que levou ao enforcamento das aias, e o que Penélope estava realmente tramando?”, nos faz repensar e questionar o lugar que a mulher ocupa nas grandes narrativas, sempre como objeto e nunca como sujeito. Ela também coloca sob suspeita certas hierarquias aceitas como universais. Levando em consideração o fato de a autora se apropriar de um texto clássico, para tanto, o aporte teórico utilizado se centra no conceito de dialogismo de Bakhtin, e suas reflexões sobre o gênero paródico, bem como no conceito de intertextualidade de Kristeva. Além disso, o viés de gênero que caracteriza a obra da autora demanda um aporte teórico específico, o dos estudos de gênero. ______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
Margaret Atwood, when (re)writing the Odyssey from Penelope's perspective in an attempt to answer the restlessness that haunted her; "what led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?" makes us rethink and question the place of women in the big narratives, always as an object and never as a subject. She also puts under suspicion certain hierarchies accepted as universal. Taking into consideration the fact that the author is appropriating a classical text, the theoretical approach focuses on the concept of dialogism by Bakhtin, and his reflections on the parody genre, as well as Kristeva’s concept of intertextuality. Moreover, the gender perspective that characterizes the work of the author demands a specific theoretical approach; gender studies.
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COUTURIER, STOREY FRANCOISE. ""l'allegorie dans l'oeuvre de margaret atwood et d'angela carter"." Nice, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997NICE2019.
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Ce travail de recherche a pour but d'etudier l'allegorie dans l'oeuvre de deux ecrivains anglo-saxons, celle de la canadienne margaret atwood et celle de l'anglaise angela carter (decedee en 1992). Je definit le terme d'allegorie de la facon suivante: il s'agit d'un equilibre de deux forces, du didactique et de la fantaisie (terme qui regroupe tous les discours de l'imaginaire, comme le fantastique, le merveilleux, la science-fiction, l'utopie/dystopie, le gothique, etc. ). La premiere partie de la these analyse l'allegorie comme discours ambivalent, souvent rejete par la critique mais pourtant bien present dans une grande partie de la litterature. Dans cette partie est egalement soulevee la question du rapport entre allegorie et feminisme. La seconde partie analyse l'oeuvre de margaret atwood en relation a l'allegorie, en particulier a travers deux de ses romans, surfacing et the handmaid's tale. Son oeuvre poetique est egalement prise en consideration. La troisieme et derniere partie se penche sur l'oeuvre d'angela carter, en particulier a travers les nouvelles et cinq romans qui illustrent bien l'evolution de la pensee de carter autour de la notion d'allegorieThis piece of research aims at analysing the notion of allegory in the work of two anglo-saxon writers, margaret atwood, a canadian, and angela carter, an englishwoman (who died in 1990). I define the term of allegory as follows: it consists in the balance of two forces, the didactic (the most dogmatic part of a work, the teaching that the author wishes to transmit to the reader through his work of fiction), and fantasy (a notion that brings together all imaginary discourses, such as the fantastic, the marvellous, science-fiction, utopia/dystopia, the gothic, etc. ). The first part of the dissertation analyses allegory as an ambivalent discourse, often rejected by critics but truly present in most works of literature. In this part the link between allegory and feminism is also put under scrutiny. Indeed, we may wonder why a great majority of texts written by women often has an allegorical dimension, dissimulating behind fantasy a polemical discourse of a political, sexual or social nature. The second part analyses the work of margaret atwood in relation to allegory, in particular through two novels, surfacing and the handmaid's tale. Her poems are also taken in consideration. The third and last part studies the work of angela carter, in particular through her short stories and five novels that illustrate the evolution of her thought around allegory: the infernal desire machines of doctor hoffman, the passion of new eve, nights at the circus, heroes and villains, and her last novel wise children
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Peyre, Claudine. "Itineraire romanesque. Lecture intertextuelle de l'oeuvre de margaret drabble." Toulouse 2, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993TOU20070.
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Le but de cette these est d'etudier l'itineraire romanesque suivi par margaret drabble, a travers une lecture intertextuelle de son oeuvre. Ce travail comprend donc une premiere partie qui s'interesse a l'evolution du roman britannique feminin depuis ses debuts, d'une part, et d'autre part, a la critique feministe ainsi qu'au sujet controverse du style feminin. La deuxieme partie examine les heritages du passe dans l'oeuvre de drabble, l'influence des auteurs victoriens et les rapports entre son texte et ceux de virginia woolf, arnold bennett et angus wilson. La troisieme partie s'interesse aux caracteristiques et aux limites du roman realiste de drabble. La quatrieme partie examine les formes du chronotope ; elle explore les rapports du personnage avec le temps et l'espace puis s'interesse au traitement de la temporalite dans la narration et a la triade narrative que constituent l'auteur, le narrateur et le lecteur. La cinquieme partie enfin se penche sur l'esthetique feminine a travers l7ecriture de drabble par un apercu de son style et de son procede de caracterisation du personnage femininThe aim of this thesis is the study of margaret drabble's literary itinerary through an intertextual analysis of her works. Its first part is about the development of the british feminine novel from its inception, feminist criticism and an introduction to the controversial subject of feminine style. The second part goes through drabble's literary heritage, the victorian influence as well as the relationship between her writings and those of virginia woolf, arnold bennett and angus wilson. The third part deals with the characteristics and the limits of realism in drabble's fiction. The fourth part examines the "chronotope" in the context of drabble's writings, centering on the correlation character and the space time system. Particular emphasis is given to the narrative time process together with the narrative triad : author, narrator and reader. The final part considers feminine aesthetic through an overview of drabble's style and the characterization of her heroines
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Gribble, Jill. "Motifs of transformation in four novels of Margaret Atwood." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10510.
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Bibliography: pages 229-235.The dominant theme that Margaret Atwood foregrounds in her writing is that of victimisation, whether she is writing of the victimisation of a country, of a minority group, of animals or of an individual. She adopts the position that through acknowledgement of that victimisation, and a refusal to accept the role of victim, it is possible to become a creative non-victim. It soon becomes evident from Atwood's writing that victimisation of one kind or another is what underpins the powerful patriarchal constructions of society. In each of the four novels discussed in this thesis Atwood's female protagonists, all victims of patriarchy, transform themselves, through accessing their creativity, using it transgressively, and overcoming the strictures of patriarchy upon their lives.
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Woudstra, Ruth. "Truth, history and representation in Margaret Atwoods' Alias Grace." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7417.
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Bibliography: leaves 53.In the Introduction of this minor dissertation, Margaret Atwood as a post-modern writer and her interest in fictional autobiographies are considered, particularly with regard to memory, the formation of self-identity and amnesia. Parallels are drawn between Surfacing and Cat's Eye as fictional works. and Alias Grace, which is based on the life of a historical person. The novel Alias Grace alternates between first- and third-person accounts, and reflects Atwood's preoccupation with narrative techniques. The definition of post-modernism is regarded, as well as Atwood's own acknowledgements in her ""Author's Afterword"" on how she proceeds to write this fictional autobiography. Her focus on mental illnesses is given perspective in a brief discussion on different sorts of memory loss. These manifestations affect the concept of truth, which is explored in the first section of the dissertation. This section draws on the unreliability of Grace's first-person accounts and the question of whether she is fabricating the truth or has simply forgotten crucial moments of her past. The reader is also constantly made aware that Grace attempts to ensure better conditions for herself in the penitentiary, and she will therefore not disclose any information that might be damaging to her character. That which she discloses partly depends on her relationship in terms of trust with Doctor Jordan. A few episodes where Grace loses consciousness are reviewed, as well as instances where she exposes her literary background and her ability to change words or ideas in texts that she has read. It is concluded at the end of the first section that the truth eludes the reader. With this in mind, it is examined in the second section that the issue of truth is complicated, and even undermined, by the gender and class inequity of the patriarchal society in which Grace, Mary and Nancy are instrumentalised and exploited. The relationship between Grace and Mary is explored in order to demonstrate the happy memories that are relevant in Grace's present, where her past remains illusive. The reader is also drawn into these cheerful experiences, and takes Mary's presence for granted until the neuro-hypnotic seance, during which Grace's double consciousness is revealed. Her 'friend' Mary is exposed as a facet of Grace's own personality. Class oppression is explored further through the characters of Nancy and Mrs Humphrey, who are trapped in a vicious circle that Grace escapes by engaging in the creative activity of quilt-making. In this way she is able to express her solidarity with Mary and Nancy as victims of patriarchal injustice. In the Conclusion an overview of the question of truth is given and it is demonstrated how truth is inseparable from the issues of class and gender relations. The lack of traditional closure in Alias Grace is explored briefly. Grace's camaraderie and solidarity with her two friends, as well as her retelling of the Biblical account of the Garden of Eden through her tapestry work, is shown to be a transgressive agency that marks the greater significance of the novel.
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Murray, Jennifer. "Perspectives paradoxales : le sens de l'histoire chez Margaret Atwood." Besançon, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000BESA1016.
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Margaret Atwood, romancière et poetesse canadienne, est souvent considérée sous l'angle de sa représentation de la vie contemporaine. Cependant, son écriture s'est progressivement tournée vers le problème de l'inscription textuelle de l"'histoire", terme qui nous renvoie à la fois aux éléments du passé et à notre compréhension de ce passé dans le présent. Ici sont examinées The journal of Susanna Moodie, The robber bride, et Alias Grace ; trois oeuvres de Margaret Atwood qui se construisent autour de la problématique du discours historique dans un engagement dynamique. L'étude de la représentation de l'histoire dans l'oeuvre de Margaret Atwood implique une analyse des interventions de l'écrivain sur ses textes sources afin d'interroger les processus de sélection et de réaménagement de ces traces textuelles ainsi que de comprendre la signification des transformations faites. . .
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Bolander, Alisa Curtis. "Margaret Cavendish and Scientific Discourse in Seventeenth-Century England." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd422.pdf.
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Nugent, Ashley Frances. ""Odd Apocalyptic Panics"| Chthonic Storytelling in Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam." Thesis, Florida Atlantic University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10844499.
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I argue that Margaret Atwood’s work in MaddAddam is about survival; it is about moving beyond preconceived, thoughtless ideology of any form with creative kinship. Cooperation and engagement cannot be planned in advance, and must take the form of something more than pre-established ideology. I will discuss MaddAddam in light of Donna Haraway’s recent work in which she argues that multispecies acknowledgement and collaboration are essential if humans are to survive and thrive in the coming centuries. By bringing the two texts into dialogue, one sees that Atwood’s novel constitutes the kind of story deemed necessary by Haraway for making kin in the Chthulucene. Various scenes depicting cooperation and interdependence among humans and other animals offer chthonic models of kinship; these relationships, as opposed to ideological and anthropocentric isolation, will serve as the means of surviving and thriving within an ongoing apocalypse.
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Neneve, Miguel. "Imperialism and resistance in the work of Margaret Laurence." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1996. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/158030.
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Análise das obras da escritora canadense Margaret Lauren? com auxilio da teoria sobre pós-colonialismo. Verifica-se que a autora, apesar de ser canadense branca escreve contra o imperialismo e o colonialismo britânico tanto na África como no Canadá. Conclui-se que as obras da autora são pós-coloniais e devem ser lidas como tais.
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Slagle, Judith Bailey. "Gothic Interactions: Italian Gothic Translations of Margaret Holford Hodson." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3222.
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