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Vasconcelos, Pinto Mercia de. "The Brazilian Pastoril : a history of a popular musical genre." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364207.
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Grafton, Kathryn. "Paying attention to public readers of Canadian literature : popular genre systems, publics, and canons." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27707.
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Paying Attention to Public Readers of Canadian Literature examines contemporary moments when Canadian literature has been canonized in the context of popular reading
programs. I investigate the canonical agency of public readers who participate in these programs: readers acting in a non-professional capacity who speak and write publicly
about their reading experiences. I argue that contemporary popular canons are discursive spaces whose constitution depends upon public readers. My work resists the common
critique that these reading programs and their canons produce a mass of readers who read the same work at the same time in the same way.
To demonstrate that public readers are canon-makers, I offer a genre approach to contemporary canons that draws upon literary and new rhetorical genre theory. I contend
in Chapter One that canons are discursive spaces comprised of public literary texts and public texts about literature, including those produced by readers. I study the intertextual dynamics of canons through Michael Warner’s theory of publics and Anne Freadman’s
concept of “uptake.” Canons arise from genre systems that are constituted to respond to exigencies readily recognized by many readers, motivating some to participate. I argue that public readers’ agency lies in the contingent ways they select and interpret a literary
work while taking up and instantiating a canonizing genre.
Subsequent chapters examine the genre systems of three reading programs: One Book, One Vancouver, a public book club; Canada Reads, a celebrity “book brawl”; and The Complete Booker, an online reading challenge. Chapter Two explores how a reading public and canon are called forth by organizers and participants of the One Book, One Vancouver genre system. Chapter Three analyzes public readers’ collective literary selection within the canonizing genre of the Canada Reads brawl. Chapter Four
investigates how participants in The Complete Booker genre system instantiate the canon of the Man Booker Prize in ways that construct distinct subject positions of public readers who can evaluate the Canadian Booker winners in meaningful ways for their imagined public. My conclusion proposes that paying attention to public readers offers us new insights into reading as shared practice and Canadian literature.
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Rawson, Angela. "A critical linguistic analysis of a popular comic genre in Japan." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2001. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1021.
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This research will focus on the issue of power and gender in the language of Japanese comics (manga). Comics in Japan are enormously popular and are read by a wide audience. They are aimed at specific audiences and it is my argument that the language of manga helps to reinforce certain social stereotypes - particularly the inferiority of women and the dominance of males. The language of children's manga will be analyzed using the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), which concerns itself with the relation between ideology and power in discourse. The analysis will be at various levels including lexica-semantic, pragmatic, textual and ideological. The texts to be analyzed will be Japanese manga in the original Japanese language. Manga aimed at specific audiences, i.e. young boys and girls, will be analyzed to determine the presence of male-dominant ideology in the text. I argue that an interpretation of the text under the framework of GOA supports the hypothesis that the ideology of male dominance is present in manga and that it has become normalized in Japan.
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Corbett, John B. "Functional grammar and genre analysis : a description of the language of learned and popular articles." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1992. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2510/.
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There has been a growing interest in the form and function of academic English, especially among teachers of English as a Foreign Language. `Academic' English, however, covers a variety of genres, including specialist and non-specialist writings across a range of disciplines. Little is known about the linguistic similarities and differences among these genres. This thesis aims to add to the study of academic English by investigating learned and popular articles in the fields of biology, computing and history. The descriptive framework is based mainly on Halliday's functional grammar, although reference is made to other linguistic theories, such as Winter's clause relations. Eighteen articles from the three fields were selected, nine learned articles and nine corresponding popular articles. Extracts from these articles form the small corpus analysed. After an introductory chapter, the second chapter reviews the nature of theme in English, and performs a thematic analysis on the corpus. The third chapter reviews the ideational function of language, and investigates how the language of the corpus articles represents reality. The fourth chapter reviews the interpersonal function of language and investigates this aspect of the corpus. The penultimate chapter comments on discourse patterns in the articles. The conclusion suggests that the similarities and differences between learned and popular articles, and between science and the humanities, are a result of systematic functional variation among genres.
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Christie, Thomas A. "Notional identities : ideology, genre and national identity in popular Scottish fiction, 1975-2006." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/7149.
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One of the most striking features of contemporary Scottish fiction has been its shift from the predominantly realist novels of the 1960s and 1970s to an engagement with very different modes of writing, from the mixture of realism and visionary future satire in Alasdair Gray’s Lanark (1981) to the Rabelaisian absurdity and excess of Irvine Welsh’s Filth (1998). This development has received considerable critical attention, energising debates concerning how such writing relates to or challenges familiar tropes of identity and national culture. At the same time, however, there has been a very striking and commercially successful rise in the production of popular genre literature in Scotland, in categories which have included speculative fiction and crime fiction. Although Scottish literary fiction of recent decades has been studied in great depth, Scottish popular genre literature has received considerably less critical scrutiny in comparison. Therefore, the aim of my research is to examine popular Scottish writing of the stated period in order to reflect upon whether a significant relationship can be discerned between genre fiction and the mainstream of Scottish literary fiction, and to consider the characteristics of such a connection between these different modes of writing. To achieve this objective, the dissertation will investigate whether the features of any such shared literary concerns are inclined to vary between the mainstream of literary fiction in Scotland and two different, distinct forms of popular genre writing. My research will take up the challenge of engaging with the popular genres of speculative fiction and crime fiction during the years 1975 to 2006. I intend to discuss the extent to which the national political and cultural climate of the period under discussion informed the narrative form and social commentary of such works, and to investigate the manner in which, and the extent to which, a specific and identifiably Scottish response to these ideological matters can be identified in popular prose fiction during this period. This will be done by discussing and comparing eight novels in total; four for each chosen popular genre. From the field of speculative fiction, I will examine texts by the authors Iain M. Banks, Ken MacLeod, Margaret Elphinstone and Matthew Fitt. The discussion will then turn to crime fiction, with an analysis of novels by Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre, Denise Mina and Louise Welsh. As well as evaluating the work of each author and its relevance to other texts in the field, consideration will be given to the significance of each novel under discussion to wider considerations of ideology, genre and national identity which were ongoing both at the time of their publication and in subsequent years. The dissertation’s conclusion will then consider the nature of the relationship between the popular genres which have been examined and the mainstream of Scottish literary fiction within the period indicated above.
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Al-Bataineh, Afaf Badr. "The modern Arabic novel : a literary and linguistic analysis of the genre of popular fiction, with special reference to translation from English." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/1233.
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The aim of this thesis is to examine the notion of 'genre' in general as a basic unit in linguistic, cultural and literary analysis. Chapter One is an introduction to this study outlining my aims and objectives which are mainly related to popular fiction in English and Arabic. Chapter Two discusses the theory of genre both from a linguistic and a literary point of view, underlining crosscultural differences and similarities. These critical insights should enable us to form an overall picture of how the subject of my case study (Mills & Boon and its translation into Arabic) is viewed in the languages and cultures concerned: this particular genre has not been acceptable to the Western literary establishment until recently, and is not acceptable to the Arabic critical establishment even today. Chapter Three historically deals with the first attempts in writing novels in Arabic. This was influenced by translation, but an Arabic genre nevertheless emerged. Chapter Four critically focuses on this aspect of the canonization of the novel in Arabic. This has influenced the development of popular fiction in this language. Chapter Five presents a detailed analysis of one particular example of popular fiction in Arabic, one which was seen negatively by the critics. Chapter Six discusses the tension between the canon and the periphery as far as the novel is concerned. This is illustrated by an analysis of an Arabic novel which we take to be a good example of popular fiction. Chapter Seven deals with aspects of Eastern and Western translation theory relevant to my analysis of genre. Chapter Eight presents a detailed analysis of a Mills & Boon novel in English and its translation into Arabic. Finally, Chapter Nine briefly summarizes the issues discussed and points us towards some general direction and pedagogic implications.
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Williams, Katlyn E. "American magic: authorship and politics in the new American literary genre fiction." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6664.
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This project examines how a subset of contemporary American literary cross-genre authors use popular forms within their fiction to comment on, interact with, and critique the possibilities of formula fiction and modern fan communities. I argue that the historic feminization of the popular (set against the stoicism of realism), combined with the startlingly masculine histories of popular genres like science fiction and fantasy, has resulted in distinct differences in the style and aims of male and female authors utilizing hybrid forms. The writers comprising the focus of this study, Junot Díaz, Michael Chabon, Margaret Atwood, and Kelly Link, create a range of competing modes of genre mixing that clarify the lingering effects of popular genre’s marginalization by the literary elite and the academy.
The chapters of this project move through these modes by examining, respectively, toxic nerd fantasies and fandoms, the impact of fan fiction and its universalizing impulse, the rise of “speculative fiction,” and the role of domestic fabulism in reimagining the limited frameworks of realism and celebrating the possibilities of mass tropes and forms. Each of these chapters interrogates the author’s impact on the developing field of the new American literary genre fiction, linking their public personas as fans and scholars of genre to the attitudes and ideologies advanced by their fiction. These projects, anti-imperialist or feminist in nature, make self-conscious arguments about the value of the popular genres with which they interact. By focusing on the links between the author’s persona, public reception, and cultural fandoms, and the impact of these elements on contemporary cross-genre fiction, I attempt to revitalize genre theory in a manner that challenges its historically hierarchal configurations, particularly for women authors and consumers of the popular.
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Naugle, Briel Nichole. "Nobody does it better how Cecily Von Ziegesar's controversial novel series "Gossip girl" spawned the popular genre of teen chick lit /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1205333187.
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Fabbri, Franco. "Genre theories and their applications in the historical and analytical study of popular music : a commentary on my publications." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2012. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/17528/.
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There can be little doubt that the usage of the concept of genre remains widespread in discourses around music, cinema, theatre, literature. However, for a long period of time, musicologists have paid little attention to genre which is considered to be an outdated legacy of positivism: a concept belonging to amateurish criticism or daily musical practice – and incompatible with the hegemonic ideology of ‘absolute music’. In the commentary that follows, the history of my own efforts to bring genre back to the theoretical core of musicological debate is outlined, and intertwined with the work of other scholars (sociologists, cultural theorists, anthropologists) who helped re-define genre as a useful concept in the scholarly study of music. Popular music, as a set of genres from which paramusical elements – and related social conventions – were never expelled as spurious (as formalist musicology did with respect to Western art music), was obviously my main focus, although in some writings I deal with classical music, electronic music and traditional (folk) music. After examining at some length the development of my theory of genre (definitions, ‘rules’ and conventions, inter-genre relations and intra-genre diachronic development), the commentary focuses on a number of studies of specific (mostly popular) genres, music scenes, forms, artists, where genre is an underlying concept. One of the most delicate aspects of any theory about genre, and one that has been at the centre of my investigation for so long, is that of diachronic development; as a consequence, the history of popular music became at some point a favourite subject for my study – my contributions are outlined in the commentary which can be read in conjunction with my writings on the subject. Finally, a section is dedicated to my writings on music technology, music industry, and media. In the conclusions my work on genre is contextualised nationally and internationally, with some considerations on linguistic issues; the commentary ends with a brief outline of my future research plans.
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Hirao, Akiko. "Binding a Universe: The Formation and Transmutations of the Best Japanese SF (Nenkan Nihon SF Kessakusen) Anthology Series." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20723.
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The annual science fiction anthology series The Best Japanese SF started publication in 2009 and showcases domestic writers old and new and from a wide range of publishing backgrounds. Although representative of the second golden era of Japanese science fiction in print in its diversity and with an emphasis on that year in science fiction, as the volumes progress the editors’ unspoken agenda has become more pronounced, which is to create a set of expectations for the genre and to uphold writers Project Itoh and EnJoe Toh as exemplary of this current golden era. This thesis analyzes the context of the anthology series’ publication, how the anthology is constructed, and these two writers’ contributions to the genre as integral to the anthologies and important to the younger generation of writers in the genre.
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McAvan, Em. "The postmodern sacred: popular culture spirituality in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and fantastic horror." Thesis, McAvan, Em (2007) The postmodern sacred: popular culture spirituality in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and fantastic horror. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/188/.
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In my thesis I argue that the return of the religious in contemporary culture has been in two forms the rise of so-called fundamentalisms in the established faiths-Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, even Buddhist-and the rise of a New Age style spirituality that draws from aspects of those faiths even as it produces something distinctively different. I argue that this shift both produces post-modern media culture, and is itself always-already mediated through the realm of the fictional. Secular and profane are always entangled within one another, a constant and pervasive media presence that modulates the way that contemporary subjects experience themselves and their relationship to the spiritual. I use popular culture as an entry point, an entry point that can presume neither belief nor unbelief in its audiences, showing that it is 'unreal' texts such as Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Matrix and so on that we find religious symbols and ideas refracted through a postmodernist sensibility, with little regard for the demands of 'real world' epistemology.
I argue that it is in this interplay between traditional religions and New Age-ised spirituality in popular culture that the sacred truly finds itself in postmodernity.
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McAvan, Em. "The postmodern sacred : popular culture spirituality in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and fantastic horror /." McAvan, Em (2007) The postmodern sacred: popular culture spirituality in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and fantastic horror. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/188/.
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In my thesis I argue that the return of the religious in contemporary culture has been in two forms the rise of so-called fundamentalisms in the established faiths-Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, even Buddhist-and the rise of a New Age style spirituality that draws from aspects of those faiths even as it produces something distinctively different. I argue that this shift both produces post-modern media culture, and is itself always-already mediated through the realm of the fictional. Secular and profane are always entangled within one another, a constant and pervasive media presence that modulates the way that contemporary subjects experience themselves and their relationship to the spiritual. I use popular culture as an entry point, an entry point that can presume neither belief nor unbelief in its audiences, showing that it is 'unreal' texts such as Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Matrix and so on that we find religious symbols and ideas refracted through a postmodernist sensibility, with little regard for the demands of 'real world' epistemology.
I argue that it is in this interplay between traditional religions and New Age-ised spirituality in popular culture that the sacred truly finds itself in postmodernity.
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Causo, Roberto de Sousa. "Ondas nas Praias de um Mundo Sombrio: New Wave e Cyberpunk no Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-12032014-123051/.
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O objetivo deste estudo é fornecer uma análise dos dois principais movimentos dentro da ficção científica em língua inglesa vinculados ao pós-modernismo, a New Wave da década de 1960 e o Movimento Cyberpunk da década de 1980, estabelecendo comparações com a produção de ficção científica do mesmo período, dentro das Primeira e Segunda Ondas da Ficção Científica Brasileira. Questões de política literária serão sempre evocadas, como maneira de relativizar o peso teórico das discussões, tentando estabelecer que intenções, procedimentos e programas literários existem inseridos em contextos pessoais, sociais e mesmo nacionais. Essa abordagem é amparada pelo conceito do Campo de Poder, do sociólogo francês Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), e de diversos intérpretes de suas idéias. A partir dos trabalhos de críticos e teóricos como Clive Bloom, Scott McCracken, Ken Gelder, Michel de Certeau e Robert Scholes, este trabalho propõe que a ficção científica, como gênero literário de raízes populares, é capaz de exercer o papel de uma literatura que faz a crítica da modernidade, sem recorrer necessariamente aos aspectos formais associados à literatura pós-modernista, incluindo o texto fragmentário, a mistura de gêneros e códigos literários. A pesquisa conduz a uma reflexão a respeito da situação da ficção de gênero vis-à-vis a predileção da ficção pós-modernista pela metaficção e pelo experimentalismo.The objective of this study is to provide an analysis of the two main literary movements in English-written science fiction associated to postmodernism, the New Wave of the 1960s and the Cyberpunk Movement of the 1980s, establishing comparisons with science fictional production of the same periods in the First and Second Waves of Brazilian science fiction. Issues of literary politics will be constantly considered, as a way to relativize the theoretical charge of the arguments, trying to establish that intentions, proceedings, and literary programs exist inserted in personal, social, and even national contexts. This approach is supported by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieus concept of Field of Power, and also by a number of readers of his ideas. Taking from the works of critics and theoreticians such as Clive Bloom, Scott McCracken, Ken Gelder, Michel de Certeau, and Robert Scholes, this work claims that science fiction as a literary genre of popular roots can play out the role of a literature that performs a criticism of modernity without relying on those formal aspects associated with postmodernist literature, including fragmentary prose and the mixing of genres and literary codes. The research leads to a reflection concerning the situation of genre fiction vis-à-vis postmodernist fictions propensity for metafiction and experimentalism.
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Vieira, Keila. "Trans*formations of the Womanly Body : hybrid feminine representation in manga-inspired quadrinhos." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE3052/document.
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Nous nous concentrons sur la reproduction visuelle de la « femme » dans le quadrinhos en tant que référence de la période créatif et innovante de la littérature visuelle au Brésil au travers du manga. Cette thèse étudie le fait que la « femme » en tant que personnage principal peut être vu comme un simple critère esthétique pour un regard masculin érotique. Cependant, nous trouvons également dans ces caractéristiques un contrepoids, puisque dans ce référentiel érotique, ces personnages féminins sont devenus un exemple de liberté personnelle d´indépendance et d´autonomie au Brésil. Nous analysons de manière entrelaçé l´immigration au Brésil et au Japon, la représentation visuelle féminin en quadrinhos, manga et manga-inspirés quadrinhos, le fandom et les contradictions fémininesThe visual reproduction of the "woman" in quadrinhos marks a creative and innovative period of the visual literature in Brazil concerning its hybridization with manga. This thesis concerns the fact that this "woman" can be seen as a simple aesthetic criterion for an erotic male gaze. However, we argue that this characteristic becomes a counterweight for women´s personal freedom, independence and autonomy in Brazil. We analyse it through a carnivalization which mark the immigration of Japanese to Brazil and of Brazilian Japanese to Japan with the female visual representation in quadrinhos, manga and manga-inspired quadrinhos, the fandom and feminine contradictions
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Alberto, Maria. "Studies in Black, Emerald, Pink, and Midnight: Tracking Rescriptions of Holmes and Watson through Convergence Culture." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1461668949.
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Garland, L. "Conventions of love and marriage in late Byzantine literature : An analysis of Byzantine attitudes towards sexual relationships and the concept of romantic love, with especial reference to popular and learned romance genres in Byzantium." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371647.
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Sadoun, Clara. "Le roman de La Vie parisienne, 1863-1970: presse, genre, littérature et mondanité, 1863-1914." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209915.
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Fondée en 1863,la Vie parisienne est une revue illustrée, galante et mondaine qui connut, jusqu'aux années 1930, un très grand succès. La thèse ici présentée s'attache à en retracer l'histoire, à en étudier le discours social, notamment sur les femmes, et son implication - problématique - dans le champ littéraire.
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Leavitt, Joshua. "By the Book: American Novels about the Police, 1880-1905." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1598175125397595.
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Akiki, Karl. "La recette du roman populaire, facon Alexandre Dumas." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00913451.
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Le roman populaire est souvent associé à une littérature de seconde zone, gravitant autour des Lettres nobles. C'est surtout son public qui est décrié puisqu'il s'agit d'un lectorat de consommation qui impose à l'auteur un mode d'écriture particulier. Toutefois, certains auteurs comme Alexandre Dumas ont réussi à dépasser ce mépris en étant reconnus par la nation française. Pour cet écrivain prolifique, la reconnaissance voit le jour dans les couloirs sombres du Panthéon. Ses œuvres, elles, demeurent sur le parvis! Ce travail a l'ambition de montrer que l'écriture dumasienne détient un poids littéraire des plus considérables à travers sa sollicitation par les foules. Deux œuvres retiennent notre attention vu qu'elles sont connues de tous mais pas nécessairement lues par tous : Le Comte de Monte-Cristo et Les Trois Mousquetaires. Après un constat premier sur la réception double accordée à ces romans, nous analyserons leur imaginaire (personnages, espaces et scènes de genre) d'une part et leur structure narratologique (morphologie, narrateur et narration) d'autre part. Cette lente dissection tentera de comprendre, à partir de sa deuxième et de sa troisième partie, le mécanisme de l'attrait exercé par la plume de Dumas sur la grande masse des lecteurs. L'on aboutit ainsi à des ingrédients particuliers qui sont la signature de l'auteur. Néanmoins, force nous est de constater que cette recette est partagée par d'autres écrivains. Elle permet à la littérature populaire de regagner ses galons et d'affirmer sa légitimité.
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Kastelein, Barbara. "Popular/post-feminism and popular literature." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1994. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36104/.
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This thesis is concerned with the ambivalence expressed towards feminism by many women in the last decade and identifies post-feminism as a problematic through which to explore this in contemporary women's writing. It focuses on selected fictional and non-fictional texts of the 1980s and 1990s and examines the ways in which they engage with feminist concerns. Until now, post-feminism has not been studied through its articulations in popular literature. To do justice to the wide range of views held by women and avoid a defensive and pessimistic reading of commercialised mainstream culture, I have made use of intertextual readings. The methodology is derived from feminist critical theory and cultural studies in order to address the relation between feminist and non-feminist literary texts and the dynamic interchange between what have been labelled as feminist politics and mainstream or consumer women' s interests. The significance of the research lies in the identification of ways in which such works of fiction and nonfiction provide an outlet for women's voices which could serve as a basis for developing feminist criticism and politics. The thesis is divided into three chapters, the different themes of which illustrate post-feminist concerns. In the first, I address the literature of popular therapy by women. The second chapter focuses on contemporary fictional and non-fictional writings by women on sex. The final chapter examines women' s relationship to transgression through genres of crime writing. I have found that popular literary forms used by women may offer a progressive and complex reading of post-feminism. I conclude that post-feminism has drawn on popular elements of feminism and that, at the beginning of the 1990s, one may identify a reincorporation of feminism into postfeminism.
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English, Elizabeth Catherine. "Rethinking lesbian modernism : sexuality and popular genre fiction." Thesis, University of London, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540103.
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Stewart, Susan Louise Trites Roberta Seelinger. "Genre, ideology, and children's literature." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3172884.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2004.Title from title page screen, viewed November 22, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Roberta Seelinger Trites (chair), Karen Coats, C. Anita Tarr. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-256) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Jordan, Emily. "Automated genre classification in literature." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17578.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Computing and Information Sciences
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This thesis examines automated genre classification in literature. The approach described uses text based comparison of book summaries to examine if word similarity is a feasible method for identifying genre types. Genres help users form impressions of what form a text will take. Knowing the genre of a literary work provides librarians, information scientists, and other users of a text collection with a summative guide to its form, its possible content, and what its members are about without having to peruse individual topic titles. This makes automatically generating genre labels a potentially useful tool in sorting unmarked text collections or searching the web. This thesis provides a brief overview of the problems faced by researchers wishing to automate genre classification as well as the current work in the field. My own methodology will also be discussed. I implemented two basic methods for labeling genre. The results collected using them will be covered, as well as future work and improvements to the project that I wish to implement.
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Bizzotto, Julie. "Serializing sensation : the dynamics of genre in Victorian popular fiction." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2012. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/22fd6aa4-4a07-ab4a-db4f-fb916e00ad69/9/.
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'Serializing Sensation' examines the correlation between two major trends of the mid- nineteenth century: sensation fiction and periodical serialization. The project studies five popular novels published during the 1860s and early 1870s within the original periodicals in which they were first published, evaluating how periodical location influenced contemporary readings and interpretations of the texts. Specifically, the study examines how the distinctive structure and identity of a periodical - its range of articles, the type of fiction it published, its readership - heightened, augmented, subverted, or enhanced the sensational attributes of the serialized novels. By doing so, the study endeavours to reconsider standard interpretations of the sensation genre and develop new methodological approaches to studying and evaluating the sensation novel. Overall, in reading the novels intertextually with the periodicals, the project aims to gain a more developed understanding of how the sensation genre engaged with some of the major cultural discourses of the period. By incorporating a mix of well-known novels and lesser-known texts, as well as a range of journals spanning from the popular to the political, the cross-sectional, comparative approach of the study allows the project to extend beyond authors, novels, and periodicals characteristically associated with the sensation genre. The variety of novels also provides a concentrated scrutiny of the sensational narrative techniques popularized in the 1860s, as well as the scope to examine how sensational methodology was rewritten and revised .as the sensational sixties gave way to the 1870s.
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Vuohelainen, Minna Maria. "The popular fiction of Richard Marsh : literary production, genre, audience." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.499054.
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This thesis provides a detailed overview of the popular fiction of 'Richard Marsh' (pseudonym of Richard Bernard Heldmann, 1857-1915). The most extensive such study extant, it examines the author's literary production, in 1880-83 under his given name Bernard Heldmann, and in 1888-1915 under the pseudonym 'Richard Marsh'. By methodically presenting previously uncollected material on . Heldmannl Marsh, the thesis provides a substantial research tool for scholars interested in the author's work. The thesis further analyses the dynamics of the mass market of the turn of the century through a detailed study of Heldmannl Marsh's popular fiction. While the literary production of Bernard Heldmann is considered in the first chapter of the thesis, the remaining three chapters focus on the career and fiction of 'Richard Marsh'. The thesis argues that after his early literary work as Bernard Heldmann in the 1880s, Richard Marsh emerged in the 1890s as a professional provider of popular fiction. The thesis examines his prolificacy, his keen business acumen, his ability to respond to popular demand, and his professional practice as a commercial author. It explores the genres in which Heldmannl Marsh wrote, including boys' adventure and school stories, gothic, and crime fiction, emphasising their topicality and arguing that Heldmannl Marsh's fiction provides us with important insights into public interests and popular culture in the period 1880-1915. While the thesis examines a range of fiction produced by Marsh, it particularly focuses on the generic overlapping that frequently occurs in the author's work. Through a detailed discussion of Marsh's urban gothic and short prison fiction, the thesis analyses how Marsh mixes popular genre fiction with elements from other types of commercially successful, often factual prose. The thesis argues that by fusing material from several genres in this way, Marsh widens the appeal of his fiction which, to contemporary audiences, would have been resonant with factual as well as fictional echoes
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Crowley, Adam. "Liminality in Popular Fiction." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2003. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/CrowleyA2003.pdf.
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Gromov, Mikhail D. "Swahili popular literature in recent years." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-90984.
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The article outlines recent trends in popular writing in Swahili in Kenya and Tanzania, the research being mainly based on titles published after the year 2000, by both well-known writers and newcomers. The author also generalises on some basic social and cultural factors accountable for the present state of popular literature in both countries.
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Gromov, Mikhail D. "Swahili popular literature in recent years." Swahili Forum 15 (2008), S. 5-13, 2008. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11488.
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The article outlines recent trends in popular writing in Swahili in Kenya and Tanzania, the research being mainly based on titles published after the year 2000, by both well-known writers and newcomers. The author also generalises on some basic social and cultural factors accountable for the present state of popular literature in both countries.
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Kapphahn, Krista R. L. "Gender and genre in Welsh Arthurian literature." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/830d28a1-f27b-4d4c-9107-e1bed5c304c1.
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This project is a study of gender and genre in medieval Welsh Arthurian texts, focusing on variations between the so-called 'heroic' and 'courtly' genres, both of which underwent considerable adaptation within a Welsh milieu. It establishes models for the examination of gender in medieval Welsh texts: the competing masculine ideologies of heroism and chivalry, the clergy, and the bards; the feminine models which divide primarily on biological lines and include maidens, mothers and witches as well as the enduring motif of the sovereignty goddess. I discuss what we may term a 'native' version of Arthur – that is, texts not displaying the influence of either Geoffrey of Monmouth, the verse romances of Chrétien de Troyes, or the many other English and continental Arthurian adaptations – and explore how gender is used within a heroic and nostalgic genre to reflect an idealised Welsh past. Finally I focuse on the three so-called 'Welsh romances', Welsh translatio of courtly French poems which likely originated at least partly from native tales. Here the inherent difficulty in reconciling the ideals of the native 'heroic' tradition and the continental 'chivalric' one, very much in fashion in the high middle ages, becomes most apparent. Through examining both explicit and subtextual ideologies within the texts, I show that the Welsh redactors were creating a consciously hybrid, Welsh product using facets of important literary genres.
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Wallace, Don (Donald A. N. ). Carleton University Dissertation Sociology. "Consumption, class, and taste: the construction of the market for popular literature." Ottawa, 1992.
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Yang, Chung-Ying. "The detective genre in the narrative of Eduardo Mendoza." Connect to resource, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1236857946.
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Reid, Joshua. "Translation Fragmentation and the ‘Transformission’ of Genre." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2859.
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Boland, Stephanie Jane. "Modernism and non-fiction : place, genre and the politics of popular forms." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30162.
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This thesis considers the hitherto unexplored question of modernism and non-fictional genres. Although modernist studies have long been attentive to the implications of modernism’s “manifestos”, and recent work on modernist magazines has shed new light on forms beyond poetry and fictional prose, little attention has been afforded to other non-fictional writing. Similarly, although a growing school of criticism has emphasised the significance of “the everyday” in modernist texts, few have examined non-fiction concerned with leisure or daily life – a particularly unusual omission given the rich possibilities such texts offer for our understanding of how everyday lives relate to wider society. This thesis examines instructional texts which make radical interventions in the social and political upheavals which follow the First World War. Contra to the well-debunked yet still pervasive narratives which typify the modernist text as a work of disinterested – even isolated – genius, these examples demonstrate a broad-ranging, complex engagement with popular venues. Surveying examples of popular genres such as cookbooks, travel guides and radio programs written by a range of canonical and lesser-known modernist writers, it demonstrates how modernist writers re-appropriated the common features of such mainstream forms in order to stage various (and varied) interventions in local and national affairs. Its reading of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Somerset (1949) and Scottish Scene: The Intelligent Man’s Guide to Albyn (1934), by Hugh MacDiarmid and Lewis Grassic Gibbon, shows how adopting the “textual codes” of travel guides provided authors with a means of writing back against the over-simplistic narratives of region and nation popular in other examples of the genre. Likewise, The Alice B Toklas Cook Book (1954) and F.T. Marinetti’s The Futurist Cookbook (1932) are read as divergent examples of texts which stage radical interventions in food practices as they relate to nationhood and conflict. Comparable interventions are also unearthed in the media. Flann O’Brien’s Cruiskeen Lawn columns (1940-66), published under the name Myles na gCopaleen, are often read in studies of Irish political and cultural consciousness. This thesis argues that they must also be read in terms of genre, demonstrating how a subversive use of headlines, bylines and other page architecture signals O’Brien’s use of the newspaper form itself to pass comment on the cultural and political life of the Republic of Ireland. Finally, this thesis turns to broadcast culture, with a chapter on radio and documentary films. Through readings of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen's radio broadcasts, and the GPO Film Unit collaboration of Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden, this chapter shows how irony and experiment allowed writers to turn state-sanctioned media to their own ends during the interwar years – suggesting that literary readings are crucial to understanding modernism's engagement with new media. Through these different readings, this thesis highlights the sheer diversity of modernist genres which have either received little critical attention, or whose formal specifics have been under-acknowledged. As a result, it is able to reframe modernism’s approach to several areas of twentieth-century life, approaching anew pressing areas of concern in the field – for instance, space and place, the circulation of texts, the everyday, and the commercial, lowbrow and domestic – demonstrating the critical importance of instructive genres to understanding literary modernism.
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Johnson, Eric David. "Crossover narratives: intersections of race, genre and authenticity in unpopular popular music." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2904.
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This thesis analyzes the construction of racialized notions of authenticity within American popular musical genres across the span of the 20th Century, but especially from a crucial period between the years 1938 and 1965. In these pages I argue that the discursive construction of genres is a narrative act, one intended to provide symbolic resolution to real and felt dilemmas in people's lives. My first chapter focuses on the singer, Nat "King" Cole, arguing that the retrospective construction of the rock and roll genre as an example of a hybrid or crossover musical from by critics in the late 1960s and early 1970s helped fix in the popular imagination a notion of "authentic black music" which effectively marginalized Cole, an important African American musician whose musical style was at odds with this critical construction of racial style. My second chapter argues that jazz trumpeter John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie's efforts to combine African American and Afro-Caribbean musical forms included a strategic discursive crafting of a narrative of origins which placed jazz as an expression of musical Afro-internationalism. My third chapter argues that critics and audience involved in the blues revival of the early 1960s reconstructed what had been a female-dominated African American popular form as a kind of unpopular popular music: music distinguished in the marketplace by its supposed transcendence of the marketplace via its vernacular roots, and as a musical form dominated by the male figure of the rural bluesman. In conclusion I argue that these efforts to narrate authentic and anti-capitalistic origin for and expressions of popular, commercial forms reveal, within the American public imagination, deep-seated anxieties about the gulf between the cultural influence of African American music and the social and political situation of African American citizens, and, on another level, anxieties about the contradictions inherent in the experience of transcendent pleasure through commercial musical forms.
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Trainin, Sarah Jean. "The rise of mass culture theory and its effect on golden age detective fiction." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2255.
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Johnson, Susan Kaye. "Cabalas and cabals in restoration popular literature." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1574.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.Thesis research directed by: English Language and Literature. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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MacCallum-Stewart, Esther. "The First World War and popular literature." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421434.
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Hales, Ashley Anderson. "Sympathy and transatlantic literature : place, genre, and emigration." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9468.
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This thesis posits Enlightenment articulations of sympathy, in its capacity for establishing connections and its failures, as an appropriate methodology to articulate transatlantic literary exchange. Focusing on the sympathetic gap, the space sympathy must traverse, this thesis investigates the effect of emigration and place on genre and follows the trajectory from documentary to fictive forms and from a small gap to one unable to be bridged. Because the gap of sympathy is a spatial argument, the distance between is crucial as it indicates relationship. The introduction outlines my argument, with particular attention to transatlantic criticism, what is meant by the gap of sympathy, and the triad of place, emigration and genre. The first chapter discusses how Adam Smith articulated how one person is able to maintain a stable identity and is able to connect with another through imaginative comparison. The chapter establishes the trajectory of sympathy as the gap moves from smallest to unbridgeable, through comparison, sympathy and the failure of sympathy. In a series of case studies, Chapters Two through Five test out Smith’s theories in literary works; they examine the trajectory of transatlantic sympathy, where the gap moves from rhetorically being small to gaping, and moves generically from documentary forms to fiction. Chapter Two uses emigration guides written by British emigrants, who, because of their emigrant status, write from both an American and British perspective. The guides, because of their promotional intent, tend to underplay the gap of sympathy. Although they could be read as documentary and objective, the guides evidence ideological and rhetorical similarities to transatlantic fiction and thus serve as an entrance into the themes and stylistics one tends to associate with literary genres. Chapter Three examines the transatlantic correspondence of the Kerr family. As the Kerr family corresponds transatlantically (separated in space by the Atlantic and in time by more than 50 years), the issue of space becomes paramount to understanding the correspondence as well as if sympathy works in this generic register. Generically, the transatlantic letter is meant to provide virtual presence amid long stretches of absence; it also becomes an analogue for the absent other and the means by which the family may continue to be imagined across the gap of sympathy. Chapter Four examines Susanna Rowson’s transatlantic works, particularly Charlotte Temple, Slaves in Algiers, and Reuben and Rachel. Rowson’s own emigrant experience provides an entrée to the pain of transcultural sympathy that we see most clearly in Reuben and Rachel. Throughout her works Rowson also advocates a sympathy that is active and moral, rather than emotionally vacuous. Reuben and Rachel illustrates the gap of sympathy being bridged most effectively in cross-cultural adaptations and yet finally settles for a sympathy that must acknowledge separation and difference as well. Chapter Five explores the failures of sympathy and sociability present in Charles Brockden Brown’s gothic novels, Wieland and Edgar Huntly. Characters’ frontier locations and claustrophobic versions of sociability, as well generically, the gothic turn and failure of epistolary exchange, signals the moral ambiguity connected with becoming ‘this new man’ of America. Brown’s epistolary fiction briefly considered offers another generic attempt to examine how the gap of sympathy may be bridged and extend beyond the confines of the family. The Afterword points to the total breakdown of sympathy as a turn inward and away from sociability, where the self becomes frantic and frenetic (as evidenced by Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer); it points to some useful applications to the gap of sympathy for transatlantic literary studies.
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Lee, Wonseok. "Diversity of K-Pop: A Focus on Race, Language, and Musical Genre." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1526067307402648.
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Brocken, Michael. "The British folk revival : an analysis of folk/popular dichotomies from a popular music studies perspective." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266140.
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Hershkowitz, Robin Hershkowitz. "Popular Memoirs of Women Held Captive." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530381667241048.
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McMullen, Cheyenne. "ASMR, Spectrograms, and Adam Young: Shaping a Genre Through Frequencies." OpenSIUC, 2021. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2839.
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Spectrogram analysis of the most popular works of Adam Young’s four major projects; Owl City, Sky Sailing, Port Blue, and The Score Project. Spectrograms reveal several elements separate to what waveforms can show, and better show elements like frequency saturation, frequency ranges, overtones, and timbral sections. All these elements also can be used to better describe the phenomenon of the Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) and can also be seen on a spectrogram. Because of the ability to see these different elements, a spectrogram provides a good vehicle to analyze and compare elements of Young’s works and ASMR.After analysis, Young’s works show similar types of spectrograms to ASMR content, but the link between the influences between the two is not certain, it is probable that popular music and the ASMR phenomenon are linked in some measurable way. This thesis provides insight into how to further and continue music and ASMR research.
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Kemp, Emma Kathleen Margaret. "'...plutot que de me fixer dans un genre' : the prose fiction of Andre Gide in the light of notions of genre." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369854.
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Kwan, Becky Siu Chu. "A genre analysis of literature reviews in doctoral theses /." access full-text access abstract and table of contents, 2005. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/thesis.pl?phd-en-b19887632a.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2005."Submitted to Department of English and Communication in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy" Includes bibliographical references (leaves 351-359)
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Berglund, Jeffrey Duane. "Cannibal fictions in U.S. popular culture and literature /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487935573771863.
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Simon, Cheryl Inez. "Gender, genre and globalization, discourses of femininity in the popular culture of the 1990s." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ39033.pdf.
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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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Shinn, Abigail Naomi. "Edmund Spenser and the popular press." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2386/.
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This thesis examines the relationship between the work of the sixteenth century English poet Edmund Spenser and the popular press. Previous critical debate has focused upon Spenser‟s debt to the classical traditions of epic, pastoral and georgic, and the work of Italian poets such as Ariosto, rather than considering the role played by more ephemeral and cheap English publications; my research helps to readdress this imbalance. By combining a close reading of Spenser‟s work with an analysis of widely available publications such as almanacs, books of husbandry, calendars, Elizabethan storybooks, the book of Raynarde the Foxe and the Golden Legend, I have endeavoured to open out Spenser‟s literary environment to include the popular. This has involved an analysis of popular publications in relation to theories of copia and encyclopaedic reading practices and demonstrates that Spenser was fascinated by the process of publication as well as the mental and physiological effects of reading. My research includes an analysis of the continuities between medieval and early modern texts, the body as text and the text as relic, the eye as a conduit for lust and iconographic creation, the problems of defining readership and reader response, the blurring of religious iconography across the boundaries of Protestant and Catholic expression, the mutability of time systems and the ramifications of counsel and censorship. This work contributes to studies concerned with the history of the book and the rise of print culture, while also adding to the critical body of Spenser studies. This thesis has an interdisciplinary focus and draws upon the work of historians such as Peter Burke, Tessa Watt and Elizabeth Eisenstein alongside works of literary criticism.
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McCarthy, Jessica E. Schubert. "Genre bending the work of American women's writing, 1860-1925 /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2009/j_mccarthy_042209.pdf.
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Berman, Julia E. "African American tropes in popular film /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3091899.
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