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Tomlinson, Dennis Churchill. "Nature and technology in GDR literature." Thesis, University of Bath, 1993. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332289.
Full textMcMullin, Geoffrey Peter. "Nature and natural phenomena in Thomas Mann's fiction." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266500.
Full textSumner, David Thomas. ""Speaking a word for Nature" : the ethical rhetoric of American nature writing /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9986764.
Full textTypescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes transcripts of interviews with Stephen Trimble, Barry Lopez, Annick Smith, Bill Kittredge, David James Duncan, Don Snow, David Quammen, and Terry Tempest Williams. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 367-373). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
Holmes, Christopher. "Second nature : custom, calendars, and Tudor literature." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=19539.
Full textWhite, H. R. B. "Nature and the Natural Man in some Medieval English writers." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371776.
Full textLadino, Jennifer K. "Back to nature : American nostalgia from the closed frontier to the end of nature /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9492.
Full textWang, Laura Li Ching. "Natural Law and the Law of Nature in Early British Beast Literature." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11234.
Full textTallarico, Tracy L. "The Changing Nature of our Return to Nature." Ohio Dominican University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oduhonors1367850905.
Full textNyman, Jon. "Nature and Culture: Teaching Environmental Awareness Through Literature." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-25701.
Full textGoodyear, Renee Semanski. "Bridging the curriculum thematically: Nature and literature meet." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/609.
Full textHuyssen, Carmen. "Translating nature: A corpus-based study." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26378.
Full textGreen, Louise. "The nature industry : reflections on culture at the end of nature." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7416.
Full textAt the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century the concept of nature assumes a new visibility. I argue that this visibility, which takes the form of an anxiety about 'the end of nature', can be linked to a sense of crisis surrounding the possibility of life in late capitalist society. An understanding of the 'end of nature', I suggest, can best be achieved by returning to the work of Theodor Adorno. In particular, the figure of the constellation seems to offer a effective mode of analysis for addressing the complexities contained in this cultural phenomenon. The cultural texts I have chosen to juxtapose are drawn from a series of seemingly unconnected areas of cultural life: a parkway, a utopian novel, an exhibition of chimpanzee paintings, a dystopian novel, a series of popular films and a number of philosophical essays and cultural commentaries. I say seemingly unconnected because my thesis attempts to show how the general sense of 'the end of nature' emerges in different ways in these different discursive forms and representational arenas. What emerges from this constellation of elements is an image of nature as that which holds and conceals the irreducible contradictions of living in consumer society. The image makes visible how things like landscapes, animals and human bodies, become marginalized and/or reduced to commodities sometimes even in the very act of trying to conserve them. What also becomes evident in the phenomenon of the end of nature is an inflation in the value of the concept of 'nature'. If in some ways, the new value acquired by nature seems simply to repeat an earlier movement, in which reified nature becomes the desired alternative to the degraded landscape of industrial production, this interpretation does not sufficiently account for the extent and intensity of recent interest in nature. This inflation in the value of nature is not only a tum away from history. It also involves recognizing something about the agency of what is not human. Nature returns as a sign of loss and of value not only because of real environmental concerns, but also because, in a lived condition of increasing abstraction, it contains the promise of something outside.
Lewis, James Fielding IV. "The theory and practice of nature: reinventing nature through the literature of Jim Harrison." Thesis, Montana State University, 2007. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2007/lewis/LewisJ0807.pdf.
Full textBunthoff, Kathryn C. "Consuming Nature: Literature of the World that Feeds Us." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1241616520.
Full textWeisend, Ausma Skerbele. "Poetry, nature and science: romantic nature philosophy in the works of Novalis and E. T. A. Hoffmann." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1249485965.
Full textDeGenaro, William. "The nature of working-class literature: an ecofeminist critique." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu997116409.
Full textBerkemeier, Caleb. "Marx, Marxism, and Human Nature." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1335454402.
Full textDunser, Maria Lynn. "Reading nature, reading Eve reading human nature in John Milton's Paradise Lost /." Master's thesis, Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2008. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-04032008-144046.
Full textJacobus, Robert J. "Defining environmental theology content analysis of associated literature /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1885.
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Raine, Anne Elizabeth. "A thing wide open : nature, modernity, and American women writers /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9424.
Full textFeldman, Lee. "Player-Response on the Nature of Interactive Narratives as Literature." Thesis, Chapman University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10822281.
Full textIn recent years, having evolved beyond solely play-based interactions, it is now possible to analyze video games alongside other narrative forms, such as novels and films. Video games now involve rich stories that require input and interaction on behalf of the player. This level of agency likens video games to a kind of modern hypertext, networking and weaving various narrative threads together, something which traditional modes of media lack. When examined from the lens of reader-response criticism, this interaction deepens even further, acknowledging the player’s experience as a valid interpretation of a video game’s plot. The wide freedom of choice available to players, in terms of both play and story, in 2007’s Mass Effect, along with its critical reception, represents a turning point in the study of video games as literature, exemplifying the necessity for player input in undergoing a narrative-filled journey. Active participation and non-linear storytelling, typified through gaming, are major steps in the next the evolution of narrative techniques, which requires the broadening of literary criticism to incorporate this new development.
Ballard, Gail D. "Nature Among the Mormons: An Ecocritical Approach to Mormon Literature." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1996. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/MormonThesesB,10586.
Full textSipley, Tristan Hardy 1980. "Second nature: Literature, capital and the built environment, 1848--1938." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10911.
Full textThis dissertation examines transatlantic, and especially American, literary responses to urban and industrial change from the 1840s through the 1930s. It combines cultural materialist theory with environmental history in order to investigate the interrelationship of literature, economy, and biophysical systems. In lieu of a traditional ecocritical focus on wilderness preservation and the accompanying literary mode of nature writing, I bring attention to reforms of the "built environment" and to the related category of social problem fiction, including narratives of documentary realism, urban naturalism, and politically-oriented utopianism. The novels and short stories of Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and Mike Gold offer an alternative history of environmental writing, one that foregrounds the interaction between nature and labor. Through a strategy of "literal reading" I connect the representation of particular environments in the work of these authors to the historical situation of actual spaces, including the western Massachusetts forest of Melville's "Tartarus of Maids," the Virginia factory town of Davis's Iron Mills, the Midwestern hinterland of Sinclair's The Jungle, and the New York City ghetto of Gold's Jews without Money. Even as these texts foreground the class basis of environmental hazard, they simultaneously display an ambivalence toward the physical world, wavering between pastoral celebrations and gothic vilifications of nature, and condemning ecological destruction even as they naturalize the very socio-economic forces responsible for such calamity. Following Raymond Williams, I argue that these contradictory treatments of nature have a basis in the historical relationship between capitalist society and the material world. Fiction struggles to contain or resolve its implication in the very culture that destroys the land base it celebrates. Thus, the formal fissures and the anxious eruptions of nature in fiction relate dialectically to the contradictory position of the ecosystem itself within the regime of industrial capital. However, for all of this ambivalence, transatlantic social reform fiction of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century provides a model for an environmentally-oriented critical realist aesthetic, an aesthetic that retains suspicion toward representational transparency, and yet simultaneously asserts the didactic, ethical, and political functions of literature.
Committee in charge: William Rossi, Chairperson, English; Henry Wonham, Member, English; Enrique Lima, Member, English; Louise Westling, Member, English; John Foster, Outside Member, Sociology
Barsby, Tina. "Olive Schreiner : women, nature, culture." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20138.
Full textThis dissertation locates Olive Schreiner as a nineteenth-century colonial woman writer who challenges the traditional association of men with culture, and women with nature. In Schreiner's writing the oppression of women is situated within an understanding of the social construction of "woman" as closer to nature than man. Through the lives of her central female characters, Schreiner shows how this definition of "woman" works to position women as "other" to culture, both preventing their access to public power and marginalising their fully social activities within culture. Schreiner attempts to displace definitions of culture constituted through a system of binary oppositions which inevitably privilege masculinity as opposed to femininity by redefining culture in three distinct ways. The patriarchal conception culture as the sole preserve of men is rejected in Schreiner's demands for women's educational and legal equality, and for their right to economic independence. Conventional notions of culture are equally refused in Schreiner's stress on women's traditional domestic labour as essential to the very emergence and continuation of culture. Finally, the deconstruction of sexual difference as a fixed immutable category within Schreiner's writing exposes the definition of "woman" as socially constructed and legitimated. The contradictions and tensions within and between these demands illustrate the limits of Schreiner's feminist and socialist politics, and point to how her writing both challenges and articulates aspects of dominant nineteenth-century ideology. At the same time, such contradictions were vitally important in motivating Schreiner's on-going attempt to change radically the position of women within culture. Moreover, the co-existence of apparently conflicting demands within Schreiner's redefinition of culture suggests the terms of a resolution of the perennial problem within feminist discourse around competing claims for women's equality or for a recognition of their difference.
Morgan, Verity. "'The nature of things'." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.
Find full textSchroder, Simone. "Turning nature into essays : the epistemological and poetic function of the nature essay." Thesis, University of Bath, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.760937.
Full textDunning, Marie-Madeleine. "Patrick White and the nature of the artist." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314946.
Full textVoss, Dahlia Louise. "Theorizing nature seeking middle ground /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2005. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2005/voss/VossD0505.pdf.
Full textVicas, Astrid. "The nature of fictional discourse." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39800.
Full textHutchings, Kevin Douglas. "Imagining nature : Blake's vision of materiality /." *McMaster only, 1998.
Find full textLankford, Megan. "Nature and grief : an ecocritical analysis of grief in children's literature." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/23715.
Full textBourns, Timothy. "Between nature and culture : animals and humans in Old Norse literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6f561cfd-74d7-4369-b4e8-a78f030ccb16.
Full textStewart, Kirsty. "Nature and narratives : landscapes, plants and animals in Palaiologan vernacular literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2c1ad3f2-6ca1-4a5b-b682-fbb0bfc58fd2.
Full textCanavan, Diane D. "The Nature of Reading Instruction in a Literature-based Reading Program." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332714/.
Full textKent, Neil. "Light and nature in late 19th century nordic art and literature /." Uppsala : Universitätet, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35408280q.
Full textLumsden, Paul. "The bear in selected American, Canadian, and Native literature, a pedagogical symbol linking humanity and nature." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq23022.pdf.
Full textZUELKE, KARL WILLIAM. "Speaking a Word for Nature: Representations of Nature and Culture in Four Genres of American Environmental Writing." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1054746030.
Full textKnickerbocker, Scott Bousquet. "Modern ecopoetics : the language of nature/the nature of language /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1232423261&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textTypescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 238-248). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
Finn, Margaret Louise. "Immanent Nature: Environment, Women, and Sacrifice in the Nature Writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, and Sarah Orne Jewett." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/60456.
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There remains in Hawthorne criticism today, despite critical rediscovery of his texts in terms of the public sphere, an echo of denunciation that he did not do the cultural work that his contemporaries did, that he "distrusted" and "punished" women, and that his work is irrelevant to today's young readers. He has been largely neglected, as well, by contemporary environmental critics who have found nature in his texts to be insufficiently mimetic. This ecocritical reading of Hawthorne in conjunction with that of Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Sarah Orne Jewett resolves these critical problems in that he is established as a nature writer, narratively rendering nature observation (sketches) and an environmental agenda (tales and novels) of expiation for maternal wilderness penetration. The all-important work of Hawthorne might then be called ecological, making him highly relevant in today's world. He is relevant in terms of women, as well, as nature unfolds in gendered terms in his works, and he, along with Sedgwick, positions the human female at scenes of primal violence at the heart of New England colonization, which set in motion the devastation of the American wilderness. Hawthorne's female is a corrective presence to which males remain blind. Jewett envisions a post-white-masculine-hegemonic world of female ascendancy, based on female symbiosis with nature, the fruition of Hawthorne and Sedgwick's preferencing of the female. Environmental criticism examines the human-nature relationships and ecological subtexts in literary texts and encompasses a critique of American culture, a gendered understanding of the landscape, an application of geographical discussion of place and of concepts from ecology and conservation biology. It employs a multi-disciplinary perspective and calls for the addition of "worldnature" or "environmentality" to the categories of cultural criticism. This ecocritical approach combines the historical philosophical, deconstructive, and psychoanalytic perspective of Patocka, Lacan, Derrida, and Staten with ecofeminism, integrating matters of geology, ecology, art, nature writing, and quantum mechanical physics.
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Shugart, Helene Anna. "Disinheriting the father: the nature and function of feminist rhetorical appropriation /." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487854314871775.
Full textKavanagh, Matthew. "Second nature: American fiction in the age of capitalist realism." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18440.
Full textDeuxième nature : la fiction américaine à l'époque du réalisme capitaliste Au cours des années 1990, le triomphe mondial du capitalisme a paradoxalement rendu les choses plus difficiles à voir. Le capitalisme est non seulement de plus en plus déréalisé (p. ex. : cybercapital), son ubiquité même le rend imperceptible, à un point tel qu'il semble être un élément neutre de la réalité objective. La présente dissertation aborde comment les auteurs américains ont réagi à la « spectralité » qui fait en sorte que l'expérience quotidienne est de plus en médiatisée au sein du marché. J'examine les stratégies formelles des œuvres de Bret Ellis, Chuck, Palahniuk, Don DeLillo, William Gibson et autres auteurs afin de représenter ce qui ne peut être représenté : ce que Slavoj ?i?ek appelle la fonction impersonnelle et anonyme des rouages du marché mondial. Le premier chapitre se veut une interprétation formelle de l'œuvre American Psycho d'Ellis, un roman dont la narration claustrophobe représente le monde du capitalisme tardif au niveau de son concept (« This is not an exit »). Souffrant d'un manque de perspective, Patrick Bateman vit une expérience du monde très fermée. Puisqu'il est incapable de reconnaître ailleurs, il ne peut s'imaginer autrement; faisant preuve d'un manque de connaissance de l'antagonisme, Patrick présente des excès de brutalité frénétique de plus en plus violents. Bien qu'American Psycho présente la violence sadique de Patrick comme étant un symptôme, mon deuxième chapitre laisse entendre que les raclées consensuelles de Fight Club traitent la violence en tant que fétiche. Le roman de Palahniuk vise à domestiquer l'antagonisme en en faisant une pièce de théâtre masochiste. Toutefois, ses limites sont affreusement évidentes. La stratégie de Fight Club de manque de foi pathologique a une incidence, entre autres sur le dédoublement de personnalité du narrateur. Le troisième chapitre aborde
Gifford, Terry. "Beyond pastoral poetry : notions of nature in poetry 1942-1992." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358103.
Full textHoward, Laura Lynn. "The nature of Thomas Hardy's walls." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23067.
Full textBell, Nathan M. "The Green Horizon: An (Environmental) Hermeneutics of Identification with Nature through Literature." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30435/.
Full textKulling, Edwin Rene. "Human nature in William Golding's The spire." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
Full textDavis, William Paul. "The “Lords” and “Witnesses” of creation: Mythologizing and demythologizing nature in American literature." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1054561390.
Full textManning, S. L. "The nature of provicialism : Some nineteenth-century Scottish and American fiction." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372632.
Full textGair, Christopher. "From naturalism to nature : complicity and resistance in Jack London's novels." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335868.
Full textWallace, Molly. "Novel ecologies : nature, culture, and capital in contemporary U.S. fiction and theory /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9329.
Full textPritchard, Gregory R., and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Econstruction: The nature/culture opposition in texts about whales and whaling." Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2004. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050826.111722.
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