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Peel, Robin William. "Roots and rootlessness : image of deracination in English prose 1910-1915." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.279756.
Full textSantilli, Nicola. "The problem with the prose poem in English literature : towards a definition." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1998. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-problem-with-the-prose-poem-in-english-literature--towards-a-definition(591aae5a-a4c6-424a-8e14-56444c8915d4).html.
Full textHackler, Neal. "From stage to page: Restoration theatre and the prose of Andrew Marvell." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28757.
Full textHarris, Jason Marc. "Folklore, fantasy, and fiction : the function of supernatural folklore in nineteenth and early twentieth-century British prose narratives of the literary fantastic /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9456.
Full textBailey, Elaine. ""A singular person": Portraits of subjectivity in the poetry and prose of Matilda Betham." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28949.
Full textXu, Zhangfeng. "'The Anglo-Saxon chronicle', A.D. 1017-66." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2018. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=239283.
Full textRobson, Lynn Alison. "'No nine days wonder' : embedded Protestant narratives in early modern prose murder pamphlets 1573-1700." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2641/.
Full textPatrick, Jean L. S. "Fred Newton Scott and prose rhythm." Thesis, Kansas State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/9945.
Full textMushakavanhu, Tinashe. "Anarchies of the mind : a contrapuntal reading of the poetry and prose of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Dambudzo Marechera." Thesis, University of Kent, 2017. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/69686/.
Full textDe, Villiers Dawid Willem 1972. "Interregnum in Providence : the fragmentation of narrative as quest in the prose fictions of Heman Melville." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53472.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: Herman Melville (1819-1891) remains a recalcitrant and enigmatic presence in the Western canon. This dissertation explores the radical narrative strategies engaged by Melville in the composition of his prose fictions. It is my contention that Melville's writings to an important degree constitute a subversive response to the privileged apocalyptic and teleological narratives of the day-national, ontological, metaphysical, and literary, or aesthetic-and that he primarily engages these narratives in terms of the archetypal symbolism of the romantic quest. Against this linear and goal-oriented, or plotted, progress, Melville's own narratives assert the nonredemptive forces of time, change, and natural flux, which the quest is symbolically meant to conquer and subject to a redemptive pattern. Melville's critique of the quest takes the shape of a radical fragmentation of its agonistic, evolutionary force-its progress-which is always directed towards a resolvent end. In this sense, most of his protagonists may be defined as questers, characters who seek, by some (individuating) action, to achieve a monumental point of closure. But the Melvillean narrative (even when narrated by the protagonist) always resists this intention. His rhetoric is digressive and improvisational, his style heterogeneous and parodic, and his endings always indeterminate and equivocal. Significantly, this same quality renders his prose fictions highly resistant to an apocalyptic hermeneutics that strives to redeem the monumental "meaning" of the work from the narrative itself. The destabilising questions raised in Melville's work with regard to redemptive plot and progress ultimately centre on the idea of Providence, in other words, the authorising telos that informs, governs and justifies the quest. By fragmenting this quest, Melville undermines the effective presence of Providence, clearing away what he perceives to be an illusion of control harboured in a dual but related image of the providential God and the providential author as external, "metaphysical" authorities directing their worlds in terms of a master plan toward final and meaningful closure. Melville's fiction, then, imaginatively (and philosophically) engages a world in which such stable authorising centres are absent. It is in terms of this absence that I intend to examine the nature of Melville's prose fictions. The focus in this dissertation is specifically on Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man. Throughout, however, the canonical Moby-Dick and the unfinished and posthumous Billy Budd, are also drawn into the discussion in order to clarify and extend the points raised.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Herman Melville (1819-1891) bly 'n weerspannige en enigmatiese aanwesigheid in die Westerse kanon. Hierdie verhandeling ondersoek die radikale narratiewe strategiëe wat deur Melville ingespan is tydens die komposisie van sy fiksie in prosa. Ek gaan van die standpunt uit dat Melville se werk tot 'n groot mate gedefinieer word deur 'n ondermynende reaksie teen die bevoorregte apokaliptiese en teleologiese narratiewe diskoerse van sy tyd-nasionaal, ontologies, metafisies, en literêr, of esteties-en dat hy hoofsaaklik hierdie diskoerse ondersoek in terme van die argetipiese simboliek van die romantiese soektog of "quest." Teenoor hierdie lineêre en doelgerigte, of beraamde ("plotted"), vooruitgang, beklemtoon Melville se eie verhale die nie-verlossende kragte van tyd, verandering, en natuurlike stroming, dit wat die "quest" simbolies beoog om te oorwin en onderwerp aan 'n verlossings-patroon. Melville se kritiese beoordeling van die "quest" neem die vorm aan van 'n radikale fragmentering van die opposisionele, evolusionêre krag---die progressie-wat altyd op 'n beslissende slot gerig is. In hierdie sin kan ons die meerderheid van sy protagoniste as soekers ("questers") definieer, karakters wat poog, deur middel van die een of ander (individuerende) handeling, om 'n monumentale slot te behaal. Maar die Melvilliese verhaal (selfs wanneer deur die protagonis vertel) werk altyd dié voorneme teë. Sy retorika is uitwydend en improvisatories, sy styl heterogeen en parodies, en sy slotte altyd onbeslis en dubbelsinnig. Dit is aanmerklik dat hierdie einste eienskap sy fiksie hoogs weerstandig maak teen 'n apokaliptiese hermeneutiek wat poog om die monumentale "betekenis" van die werk uit die narratief self te herwin of "verlos." Die ondergrawende vrae wat in Melville se werk ten opsigte van die beslissende verloop ("plot") en progressie geopper word word uiteindelik grotendeels gekoppel aan die idee van die Voorsienigheid, met ander woorde, die outoriserende telos wat die "quest" beïnvloed, regeer en regverdig. Deur die "quest" te fragmenteer, ondermyn Melville die effektiewe teenwoordigheid van die Voorsienigheid, en verwyder daarmee dit wat hy ervaar as 'n illusie van beheer wat behoue bly in die dubbele beeld van die bestierende God en die bestierende outeur as eksterne, "metafisiese" outoriteite wat hulle wêrelde in terme van 'n uitgewerkte plan na 'n finale en betekenisvolle einde lei. Melville se fiksie, dus, op verbeeldingsryke (en filosofiese) wyse, stel 'n wêreld daar waarin sulke outoriserende sentra afwesig is. Dit is in terme van hierdie afwesigheid wat ek beoog om die aard van Melville se fiksies te ondersoek. Hierdie verhandeling fokus op Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter en The Confidence-Man. Die kanonieke Moby-Dick en die onvoltooide en postume Billy Budd word egter deurgaans in die bespreking opgeneem ter wille van die duidelikheid en uitbreiding van die argument.
Cantara, Linda Miller. "St. Mary of Egypt in BL MS Cotton Otho B.X new textual evidence for an old English saint's life /." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2001. http://lib.uky.edu/ETD/ukyengl2001t00018/pdf/lcantara.pdf.
Full textHawkins, Judith Bernadette. "A difference in women's and men's academic prose." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/854.
Full textNielson, James. "Elizabethan realisms : reading prose from the end of the century." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74597.
Full textThese works, traditionally grouped together because of the interaction of their authors at the end of the 16th century, include Robert Greene's "cony-catching" and "confessional" pamphlets, the texts of the controversy between Thomas Nashe and Gabriel Harvey, and Harvey's manuscript drafts, as well as more familiar works such as Nashe's Unfortunate Traveller.
The theoretical issue of "the real" as a textual effect has been divided up according to the three nominal categories of persons, places and things, but the thesis falls methodologically into two halves. The opening chapters aim at reintroducing the figures of Greene, Nashe and Harvey, and exploring the quasi-genres of confession, invective and rough draft as exemplary models of the textual construction of a realistic person. They also attempt an alternative form of reading which is an amalgam of cento, summary, close reading, theoretical aside, and running commentary. In the second half, microreadings of the Marprelate Tracts, the cony-catching pamphlets, and texts by Nashe are used to shed light on theoretical issues of textual "place" such as the rhetorical construction of "presence" and metaphorical "movement." Once the relationship between premodern and postmodern textuality has been sketched, the final chapter offers a critique of the unreflexive academic practice of doing "readings," and argues for a new literalism and the self-subversion of the figurative in an "extrarhetorical" reading of Nashe's Lenten Stuffe.
Aghoghovwia, Philip Onoriode. "Ecocriticism and the oil encounter : readings from the Niger Delta." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86488.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study seeks to understand the ways that environmental concerns and the phenomenon of oil production in the Niger Delta are captured in contemporary literary representations. In the thesis, I enlist several works, five poetry collections and a Nollywood video film, produced between 1998 and 2010, to investigate and analyse the different ways they engage with the effects of oil extraction as a form of violence that is not immediately apparent. Amitav Ghosh argues that representing something of such magnitude as oil modernity can only be done adequately through narratives of epic quality such as realist fiction or the historical novel. I move away from Ghosh’s assumptions to argue that the texts, poetry and video film have adequately captured the oil encounter, but not on a grand scale or through realist fiction. I situate Niger Delta representations of the oil encounter within the intellectual frame of petrocultures, a recent field of global study which explores the representational and critical domain within which oil is framed and imagined in culture. In their signification of what I call the “oil ontology”, that is, the very nature and existence of oil in the Delta, lived-experience in its actual quotidian specificity, takes precedence in the imagination of the writers that I study. I propose that the texts, in very different ways, articulate these experiences by concatenating social and environmental concerns with representations of the oil encounter to produce a petro-literary form which inflects and critiques the ways in which oil extraction, in all its social and environmental manifestations, inscribes a form of violence upon the landscape and human population in the oil sites of the Delta. I suggest that the texts articulate a place-based, place-specific form of petroculture. They emphasis the notion that the oil encounter in the Delta is not the official encounter at the point of extraction but rather the unofficial encounter with the side-effects of the oil extraction. The texts, in very different ways address similar concerns of violence as an intricate feature in the Delta, both as a physical, spectacular phenomenon and as a subtle, unseen category. They conceive of violence as a consequence of the various forms of intrusion and disruption that the logic of oil extraction instigates in the Niger Delta. I suggest that the form of eco-poetics that is articulated gives expression to environmental concerns which are marked off by an oily topos in the Delta. I maintain that in projecting an artistic vision that is sensitive to environmental and sociocultural questions, the writings that we encounter from this region also make critical commentary on the ontology of oil. The texts conceive the Niger Delta as one that provides the spatial and material template for envisioning the oil encounter and staging a critique of the essentially globalised space that is the site of oil production.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die maniere waarop omgewingsbelange en die instellings van olieproduksie in die Delta van die Niger-rivier vasgevang word in kontemporêre letterkundige voorstellings. In my tesis gebruik ek verskeie werke – vyf versamelings van gedigte en ‘n Nollywood [Nigeriese] video, almal geskep tussen 1998 en 2010 – om die verskillende wyses waarop hierdie tekste omgaan met die gevolge van olie-ontginning, as ‘n vorm van geweld wat nie onmiddellik opvallend is nie, na te vors en te analiseer. Amitav Ghosh argumenteer dat, om ‘n fenomeen van sulke geweldige omvang soos olie-moderniteit uit te beeld, slegs na behore uitgevoer kan word in narratiewe van epiese dimensies; byvoorbeeld realistiese fiksie of die historiese roman. Ek beweeg weg van Ghosh se aannames deur te argumenteer dat die tekste (gedigte en ‘n video-film) wel die olie-ervaring behoorlik vasvang, maar nie op groot skaal soos in realistiese fiksie nie. Ek plaas die Niger-Delta uitbeeldings van die olie-ervaring binne die groter raamwerk van Petro-kulture: ‘n nuwe studiegebied wat die voorstellings- en kritiese domein waarbinne olie gekonseptualiseer en kultureel verbeel(d) word, ondersoek. In hul voorstellings van die olie-ontologie van die Delta neem die ervaringswêreld in sy daaglikse werklikhede (in die gekose skrywers se uitbeelding daarvan) ‘n sentrale plek in. Ek konstateer dat die tekste, hoewel op heel uiteenlopende maniere, hierdie ervarings artikuleer deur sosiale en omgewings-oorwegings byeen te bring met uitbeeldings van die olie-ervaring ten einde ‘n petro-literêre vorm te skep wat die maniere waarop olie-ontginning, in al die sosiale en omgewings-effekte daarvan, ‘n vorm van geweld op die landskap en die menslike bevolking van die olie-ontginningsgebiede van die Delta inskryf, inflekteer en krities analiseer. Ek stel dit dat die tekste ‘n plek-gebaseerde en gebieds-spesifieke vorm van Petrokultuur artikuleer. Hulle benadruk die feit dat die olie-ervaring in die Delta nie die offisiële ontmoeting by die ontginningspunt is nie, maar eerder die onoffisiële ondervinding van die newe-effekte van die olie-ontginningsproses. Op hul verskillende wyses spreek die tekste ‘n ooreenstemmende besorgdheid uit aangaande die ingewikkelde rol wat geweld in die Delta speel – beide as ‘n fisiese, ooglopende fenomeen en as ‘n subtiele, ongesiene kategorie. Die tekste konseptualiseer geweld as seinde die gevolg van die verskeie vorme van ingryping en versteuring wat deur die logika van die olie-ontginningsproses in die Niger-Delta meegebring word. Ek suggereer dat die vorm van eko-poëtika wat hier geartikuleer word, uitdrukking gee aan omgewings-oorwegings wat in die Delta deur ‘n olie(rige) topos omgrens word. Ek maak die stelling dat, deur middle van ‘n artistieke visie wat gevoelig is vir omgewings-en sosiale vrae, die tekste wat in hierdie gebied ontstaan, kritiese kommentaar bied op die ontologie van olie. Die tekste verbeel die Niger-Delta as ‘n gebied wat die ruimtelike en materiële templaat voorsien om die olie-ervaring te visualiseer en te konseptualiseer, om sodoende ‘n kritiek te skep van die geglobaliseerde ruimte van olie-produksie.
Bowen, Scarlett K. "The labor of femininity : working women in eighteenth-century British prose /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9837908.
Full textSmit, Willem Jacobus. "Becoming the third generation: negotiating modern selves in Nigerian Bildungsromane of the 21st century." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2335.
Full textENGLISH ABTRACT: In recent years, original and exciting developments have been taking place in Nigerian literature. This new body of literature, collectively referred to as the ―third generation‖, has lately received international acclaim. In this emergent literature, the negotiation of a new, contemporary identity has become a central focus. At the same time, recent Nigerian literary texts are articulating responses to various developments in the Nigerian nation: Nigeria‘s current political and socio-economic situation, diverse forms of cultural hybridisation, as well as an increasing trans-national consciousness, to mention only a few. Three 21st-century novels – Chimamanda Nogzi Adichie‘s Purple Hibiscus (2004), Sefi Atta‘s Everything Good Will Come (2004) and Chris Abani‘s GraceLand (2005) – reveal how new avenues of identity-negotiation and formation are being explored in various contemporary Nigerian situations. This study tracks the ways in which the Bildungsroman, the novel of self-development, serves as a vehicle through which this new identity is articulated. Concurrently, this study also grapples with the ways in which the articulation and negotiation of this new identity reshapes the conventions of the classical Bildungsroman genre, thereby establishing a unique and contemporary Nigerian Bildungsroman for the 21st century. The identity that is being negotiated by the third generation is multi-layered and inclusive, as opposed to the exclusive and unitary identities which are observable in Nigerian novels of the previous two generations. Such inclusivity, as well as the hybrid environments in which this identity is being negotiated, results in a form of ―identity layering‖. Thus, the individual comes into being at the point of intersection, overlap and collision of various modes of self-making. Such ―layering‖ allows the individual, albeit not without challenge, to perform a self-styled identity, which does not necessarily conform to the dictates of society. At the same time, the identity is negotiated by means of an engagement, in the form of intertextual dialoguing, with Nigeria‘s preceding literary generations. The most prominent arenas in which this new identity is negotiated include silenced domestic spaces, religo-cultural traditions, constructs of gender and nation, as well as in multicultural and hybrid communities. The investigation conducted in this thesis will, consequently, also focus on such areas of Nigerian life, as they are portrayed in the focal texts. Various theories of literary analysis (some of which specifically focus on Nigeria), Bildungsroman theory, theories of allegory, (imaginative) nation formation, feminism, gender and performativity, as well as theories of cultural identity and cultural exchanges, will form the critical and theoretical framework within which this investigation will be executed. Chapter One explores how Purple Hibiscus‘s protagonist, Kambili Achike, negotiates her gender identity and voice in order to constitute herself as an independent, self-authoring individual. Chapter Two, which focuses on Everything Good Will Come, investigates the dialectic relationship between Enitan Taiwo‘s national and personal identity, which inevitably leads to her quest to reconceive her gender identity, since national identity, as she finds out, is always an engendered construct. In its analysis of GraceLand, Chapter Three turns to the difficulties that Elvis Oke faces when he attempts to negotiate an alternative masculine identity within a rigid patriarchal system and between the cracks of a fraudulent African modernity.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In die afgelope paar jaar was daar opwindende, oorspronklike ontwikkelinge in Nigeriese literatuur. Hierdie nuwe literatuurkorpus, wat gesamentlik bekend staan as die ―derde generasie, het onlangs internasionale erkenning ontvang. In hierdie opkomende literatuur, kry die soeke na 'n nuwe, kontemporêre identiteit ‘n sentrale fokus. Terselfdertyd reageer onlangse Nigeriese literêre werke met verskeie ontwikkelinge in die Negeriese nasie: Nigerië se huidige politieke en sosio-ekonomiese situasie, diverse vorme van kultuurverbastering asook 'n toenemende trans-nasionale bewustheid, om maar ‘n paar te noem. Drie 21ste eeuse romans – Chimamanda Nogzi Adichie se Purple Hibiscus (2004), Sefi Atta se Everything Good Will Come (2004) en Chris Abani se GraceLand (2005) – onthul hoe nuwe kanale van identiteidsonderhandeling en –vorming in verskeie kontemporêre Nigeriese situasies ondersoek word. Hierdie studie ondersoek die maniere waarop die Bildungsroman, die roman van selfontwikkeling, as ‗n medium dien waardeur hierdie nuwe identiteit geartikuleer word. Terselfdertyd sal hierdie studie ook worstel met die maniere waarin die artikulasie en soeke na hierdie nuwe identiteit die konvensies van die klassieke Bildungsroman genre hervorm, en daardeur 'n unieke en kontemporêre Nigeriese Bildungsroman vir die 21ste eeu vestig. Die identiteit wat ontwikkel deur die derde generasie is veelvlakkig en inklusief en staan teenoor die eksklusiewe, eenvormige identiteite wat in Nigeriese romans van die vorige twee generasies opgemerk word. Hierdie inklusiwiteit, sowel as die hibriede omgewings waarin hierdie identeite ontwikkel word, lei tot die vorming van identiteitslae. Die individu kom dus tot stand by die kruising, oorvleueling en botsing van verskillende metodes van selfvorming. Hierdie vorming van lae laat die individu toe, alhoewel nie sonder uitdagings nie, om 'n selfgevormde identiteit te hê wat nie noodwndig aan die eise van die gemeenskap voldoen nie. Terselfdertyd word hierdie identiteit onderhandel deur ‗n skakeling met Nigerië se voorafgaande literêre generasies in die vorm van intertekstuele dialoog. Die mees prominente omgewings waar hierdie nuwe identiteit onderhandel word, sluit stilgemaakte huishoudelike spasies, religieus-kulturele tradisies, konstrukte van gender en nasie, sowel as multi-kulturele en hibriede gemeenskappe in. Die ondersoek wat in hierdie tesis uitgevoer sal word, sal daarom ook fokus op hierdie areas van Nigeriese lewe, soos deur die fokale tekste voorgestel. Verskeie teorieë van literêre analise (sommige wat spesifiek op Nigerië fokus), Bildungsromanteorie, teorieë van allegorie, (denkbeeldige) nasievorming, feminisme, gender en performatiwiteit, sowel as teorieë van kultuuridentiteit en -uitruiling, vorm die kritiese en teoretiese raamwerk waarbinne hierdie ondersoek uitgevoer sal word. Hoofstuk een ondersoek hoe Purple Hibiscus se protagonist, Kambili Achike, haar genderidentiteit onderhandel en uitdrukking gee om haarself as onafhanklike, self-skeppende individu te vorm. Hoofstuk twee, wat fokus op Everything Good Will Come, ondersoek die dialektiese verhouding tussen Enitan Taiwo se nasionale en persoonlike identiteit, wat onvermydelik lei tot die herbedenking van haar genderidentiteit, aangesien nasionale identiteit, soos sy uitvind, altyd 'n gekweekte konstruk is. In sy analise van GraceLand, draai Hoofstuk drie om die moeilikhede wat Elvis Oke in die gesig staar wanneer hy probeer om ‘n alternatiewe manlike identiteit te onderhandel in 'n rigiede patriargale sisteem tussen krake van 'n bedrieglike Afrika-moderniteit.
Weaver, Kristina N. "Sayling, stories from the mothership: narrating political geographies of Nigerian campus cultism." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1512/.
Full textCostello, Paige E. "Prose and Polarization: Environmental Literature and the Challenges to Constructive Discourse." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/388.
Full textShepherd, Nicholas D. R. "Shadow and babble : a study of imagery and narrative voice in the prose fiction of Samuel Beckett, from Murphy to The unnamable." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22491.
Full textThe following study is concerned with a detailed examination of Samuel Beckett's prose fiction, from his earliest important writing up until the completion of the last book of his Trilogy. Although these works, widely recognized as being of seminal importance in the literary history of our time, have attracted a great deal of critical attention, I hope to contribute to this vast colloquy not merely by raising specific points of interpretation that appear to me to be both valid and hitherto unremarked (as well as challenging some popular misconceptions and critical heresies), but in the tenor of my approach to the texts, which stresses the need for a synthetic apprehension of their poetic texture and their narrative form, and insists that a thematic study of their imagery cannot be fruitfully conducted independently of a careful examination of their dramatic and rhythmical structure.
Grujić, Ana. "Her Impenetrable Prose: Disobedient Poetics and New Erotic Collectivities in Experimental Women's Writing." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1282106991.
Full textScanlon, Joan B. "Bending the rule : some representations of male and female homosexuality in English narrative prose from c. 1880 to 1930." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.278434.
Full textJones, M. Claire. "Vernacular literacy in late-medieval England the example of East Anglian medical manuscripts /." Connect to e-thesis, 2000. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/633/.
Full textPh.D. thesis submitted to the Department of English Language, Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow, 2000. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
Ahern, Stephen. "Between duty and desire : sentimental agency in British prose fiction of the later eighteenth century." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0027/NQ50101.pdf.
Full textSchöberlein, Stefan. "Cerebral imaginaries: brains and literature in the transatlantic sphere, 1800-1880." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6497.
Full textMay, Chad T. "Trauma and the historical imagination in British and American fiction, 1814-1986 /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3181110.
Full textTypescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 186-199). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
Naidu, Sam. "Towards a transnational feminist aesthetic: an analysis of selected prose writing by women of the South Asian diaspora." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012941.
Full textMeyers, Judith Marie. ""Comrade-Twin" : brothers and doubles in the World War I prose of May Sinclair, Katherine Anne Porter, Vera Brittain, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9336.
Full textAbatan, Adetutu Abosede. "Cultural perspectives and adolescent concerns in Nigerian young adult novels." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40308.
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Durkin, Philip. "A study of Oxford, Trinity College, MS 86, with editions of selected texts, and with special reference to late Middle English prose forms of confession." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f63833b4-b75f-48bb-b1db-892929806abc.
Full textLobsinger, Megan M. "The Last Chance Texaco." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1282763631.
Full textAbunasser, Rima Jamil. "Corporate Christians and Terrible Turks: Economics, Aesthetics, and the Representation of Empire in the Early British Travel Narrative, 1630 - 1780." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4444/.
Full textKaat, Jacques. "The reception of Dutch fictional prose in Great Britain : a reception-sociological study of Dutch twentieth century fictional prose in translation in Great Britain (1970-1983) in relation to the Dutch and English literary canon." Thesis, University of Hull, 1987. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3099.
Full textChin, Voon-sheong Grace, and 秦煥嫦. "Expressions of self/censorship: ambivalence and difference in Chinese women's prose writings from Malaysia andSingapore." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31245237.
Full textHubbard, Gillian Chell. ""Acquire and beget a temperance" : the virtue of temperance in The faerie queene book II and Hamlet : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1261.
Full textBreuls, Hendrik. "A Comparative Evaluation of Selected Prose by Maarten Maartens." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2005. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:14-1128409056394-13530.
Full textMaarten Maartens (1858-1915) ist das Pseudonym von Joost Maria Willem van der Poorten Schwartz, einem Holländer, der zwischen 1890 und 1914 lyrische Theaterstücke, Romane und Kurzgeschichten in der englischen Sprache verfasste. Aber "Maarten Maartens" ist mehr als nur ein Pseudonym, das ausgewählt worden war, weil es holländisch klang und doch leicht von englischen Lesern ausgesprochen werden konnte. Unter seinem eigenen Namen lebte Schwartz ein zurückgezogenes Leben auf seinem holländischen Landgut, während er unter seinem Heteronym Maarten Maartens das Leben eines Autors und eines Mannes von Welt führte. Seine Werke wurden in England, Amerika und Deutschland veröffentlicht. Wegen der Internationalität seiner Schauplätze und Themen, sowie auch wegen des Interesses, das er an allen sozialen Schichten zeigte, muss Maartens eher als europäischer denn als niederländischer oder britischer Autor betrachtet werden; vielleicht ist er sogar der erste Autor, der den europäischen Namen verdient. Die Tatsache, dass seine Themen nicht auf das Holländische beschränkt sind, wurde allerdings von der Kritik vernachlässigt, weil Rezensenten und Kritiker sich immer hauptsächlich auf die holländischen Elemente in seinen Werken konzentrierten. Doch wie es Maartens selbst im Vorwort zu seinem fünften Roman The Greater Glory (1894) formulierte: "Die moralischen Werte, die ich zu beschreiben suche, sind die der ganzen Menschheit. Es ist reiner Zufall, dass meine Schauplätze in Holland liegen, einem Land, dessen Einwohner, wie ich annehme, weder besser noch schlechter sind als meine Nachbarn." In dieser Dissertation wird Maartens zum ersten Mal in den literar-historischen Kontext des späten neunzehnten Jahrhunderts eingeordnet, und es wird untersucht, ob Maartens als minor author gelten sollte, der in seiner realistischen Schreibweise noch heute interessante Einblicke in einen längst vergangenen sozialen Mikrokosmos gewährt, bzw. in welchem Maße er sein selbst definiertes Ziel erreicht, über diesen Aspekt hinauszugehen. Für die allgemeine Bewertung wurden neben publizierten Werken auch eine Anzahl unveröffentlichter Manuskripte herangezogen, sowie auch Auszüge aus seiner privaten und literarischen Korrespondenz. Hinzu kommen einige (unveröffentlichte) Notizbücher mit privaten und philosophischen Betrachtungen. Maartens war erfolgreicher Autor von Romanen und Kurzgeschichten, aber es wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit die These vertreten, dass ihn seine Vorliebe für literarische tableaux eigentlich für die kurze Form prädestinierte. Da hier das Einfügen zahlloser Einzelheiten und ausführlicher moralisch-bewertender Erzählerkommentare gattungsbedingt nicht möglich war, musste sich Maartens auf das Wesentliche beschränken, so dass die Geschichten für sich selbst sprachen. Die Kurzgeschichte ermöglichte ihm, geschmacksgeschichtliche Veränderungen zu ignorieren und sich ausschließlich auf solche Details zu konzentrieren, die für ihn universelle Wahrheiten enthielten. Hätte er sich verstärkt dieser Form gewidmet, um seine besonderen Einblicken festzuhalten, wäre die englische Kurzgeschichte reicher geworden. Einige seiner Romane und Kurzgeschichten sind unveröffentlicht, doch es sind vier Erzählbände erschienen; weitere einzelne Geschichten wurden in Zeitschriften publiziert. Bis heute bleiben Maarten Maartens Romane, doch v.a. seine Kurzgeschichten einzigartige Untersuchungen der condition humaine
Pepperney, Justin R. "Religious Toleration in English Literature from Thomas More to John Milton." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1245245934.
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Full textMaarten Maartens (1858-1915) ist das Pseudonym von Joost Maria Willem van der Poorten Schwartz, einem Holländer, der zwischen 1890 und 1914 lyrische Theaterstücke, Romane und Kurzgeschichten in der englischen Sprache verfasste. Aber "Maarten Maartens" ist mehr als nur ein Pseudonym, das ausgewählt worden war, weil es holländisch klang und doch leicht von englischen Lesern ausgesprochen werden konnte. Unter seinem eigenen Namen lebte Schwartz ein zurückgezogenes Leben auf seinem holländischen Landgut, während er unter seinem Heteronym Maarten Maartens das Leben eines Autors und eines Mannes von Welt führte. Seine Werke wurden in England, Amerika und Deutschland veröffentlicht. Wegen der Internationalität seiner Schauplätze und Themen, sowie auch wegen des Interesses, das er an allen sozialen Schichten zeigte, muss Maartens eher als europäischer denn als niederländischer oder britischer Autor betrachtet werden; vielleicht ist er sogar der erste Autor, der den europäischen Namen verdient. Die Tatsache, dass seine Themen nicht auf das Holländische beschränkt sind, wurde allerdings von der Kritik vernachlässigt, weil Rezensenten und Kritiker sich immer hauptsächlich auf die holländischen Elemente in seinen Werken konzentrierten. Doch wie es Maartens selbst im Vorwort zu seinem fünften Roman The Greater Glory (1894) formulierte: "Die moralischen Werte, die ich zu beschreiben suche, sind die der ganzen Menschheit. Es ist reiner Zufall, dass meine Schauplätze in Holland liegen, einem Land, dessen Einwohner, wie ich annehme, weder besser noch schlechter sind als meine Nachbarn." In dieser Dissertation wird Maartens zum ersten Mal in den literar-historischen Kontext des späten neunzehnten Jahrhunderts eingeordnet, und es wird untersucht, ob Maartens als minor author gelten sollte, der in seiner realistischen Schreibweise noch heute interessante Einblicke in einen längst vergangenen sozialen Mikrokosmos gewährt, bzw. in welchem Maße er sein selbst definiertes Ziel erreicht, über diesen Aspekt hinauszugehen. Für die allgemeine Bewertung wurden neben publizierten Werken auch eine Anzahl unveröffentlichter Manuskripte herangezogen, sowie auch Auszüge aus seiner privaten und literarischen Korrespondenz. Hinzu kommen einige (unveröffentlichte) Notizbücher mit privaten und philosophischen Betrachtungen. Maartens war erfolgreicher Autor von Romanen und Kurzgeschichten, aber es wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit die These vertreten, dass ihn seine Vorliebe für literarische tableaux eigentlich für die kurze Form prädestinierte. Da hier das Einfügen zahlloser Einzelheiten und ausführlicher moralisch-bewertender Erzählerkommentare gattungsbedingt nicht möglich war, musste sich Maartens auf das Wesentliche beschränken, so dass die Geschichten für sich selbst sprachen. Die Kurzgeschichte ermöglichte ihm, geschmacksgeschichtliche Veränderungen zu ignorieren und sich ausschließlich auf solche Details zu konzentrieren, die für ihn universelle Wahrheiten enthielten. Hätte er sich verstärkt dieser Form gewidmet, um seine besonderen Einblicken festzuhalten, wäre die englische Kurzgeschichte reicher geworden. Einige seiner Romane und Kurzgeschichten sind unveröffentlicht, doch es sind vier Erzählbände erschienen; weitere einzelne Geschichten wurden in Zeitschriften publiziert. Bis heute bleiben Maarten Maartens Romane, doch v.a. seine Kurzgeschichten einzigartige Untersuchungen der condition humaine.
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