Academic literature on the topic 'Richardson, Dorothy Miller, – 1873-1957'

Ce travail explore le domaine d'intersection entre le texte et la sexualite, en proposant d'etudier l'inscription d'une subjectivite feminine au sein des recits de dorothy richardson (pilgrimage), katherine mansfiels (the collected short stories), et jean rhys (the left bank, quartet, after leaving mr mackenzie, et good morning, midnight). Il s'appuie sur les theories lacaniennes de l'ordre langagier pour faire apparaitre dans ces ecritures feminines des modeles enonciatifs particuliers, fondes sur une pratique de la litterature comme espace de lecture. La figure de la lectrice dans le texte surgit dans ces textes comme le trope revelateur de la nature discursive de la feminite qui s'articule a la sexuation des proces de la signification. Dorothy richardson, katherine mansfield et jean rhys, en textualisant la femme, orientent d'ecriture vers un deficit semantique, et, de diverses manieres, presentent la lecture comme un discours (du) feminin
This study explores the field of intersection between text and sexuality, as it proposes to examine the inscription of a feminine subjectivity within the fictional writings of dorothy richardson (pilgrimage), katherine mansfield (the collected short stories), and jean rhys (the left bank, quartet, after leaving mr mackenzie, and good morning, midnight). This analysis of gender takes root in the lacanian theories of the symbolic order of language in order to identify particular enunciative patterns, based on the practice of literature as a reading activity. The figure of the female reader in the text appears in these texts as the narrative locus for the exposition of the discursive nature of feminity and of gender identity, bound up with the sexual implications of signifying processes. By writing feminity into their texts, dorothy richardson, katherine mansfield and jean rhys direct the writing activity toward a semantic loss, and, through diferrent narrative strategies, offer a vision of reading as a feminine form of discourse, as the discourse of the female gender

From the first electric lights in London along Pall Mall, and in the Holborn Viaduct in 1878 to the nationalisation of National Grid in 1947, the narrative of the simple ascendency of a new technology over its outdated predecessor is essential to the way we have imagined electric light in London at the end of the nineteenth century. However, as this thesis will demonstrate, the interplay between gas and electric light - two co-existing and competing illuminary technologies - created a particular and peculiar landscape of light, a 'lightscape', setting London apart from its contemporaries throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Indeed, this narrative forms the basis of many assertions made in critical discussions of artificial illumination and technology in the late-twentieth century; however, this was not how electric light was understood at the time nor does it capture how electric light both captivated and eluded the imagination of contemporary Londoners. The influence of the electric light in the representations of London is certainly a literary question, as many of those writing during this period of electrification are particularly attentive to the city's rich and diverse lightscape. Though this has yet to be made explicit in existing scholarship, electric lights are the nexus of several important and ongoing discourses in the study of Victorian, Post-Victorian, Modernist, and twentieth-century literature. This thesis will address how the literary influence of the electric light and its relationship with its illuminary predecessors transcends the widespread electrification of London to engage with an imaginary London, providing not only a connection with our past experiences and conceptions of the city, modernity, and technology but also an understanding of what Frank Mort describes as the 'long cultural reach of the nineteenth century into the post-war period'.

Wong, Yong Yi.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-151).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Abstract --- p.i
摘要 --- p.iii
Contents --- p.iv
Introduction --- p.1
Chapter Chapter 1 --- Colours and Letter; Painting and Writing: Literary Impressionism in Pilgrimage --- p.32
Chapter Chapter 2 --- Notes and Words; Listening and Reading: Music and Reading in Pilgrimage --- p.79
Chapter Chapter 3 --- Consonance --- p.113
Conclusion Arts in a Chord --- p.132
Work Cited --- p.143

How did cinema influence the many writers who also constituted the first generation of moviegoers? In Spectatrices, I argue that early moviegoing was a rich imaginative reservoir for anglophone writers on both sides of the Atlantic. Coming to cinema from the vantage of the audience, I suggest that women of the 1920s found in moviegoing a practice of experimentation, aesthetic inquiry, and social critique. My project is focused on women writers not only as a means of reclaiming the femininized passivity of the audience, but because moviegoing offered novel opportunities for women to gather publicly. It was, for this reason, a profoundly political endeavor in the first decades of the 20th century. At the movies, writers such as Jessie Redmon Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, H.D., Dorothy Richardson, and Virginia Woolf developed concepts of temporary community, alternative desire, and discontinuous form that they then incorporated into their literary practice. Where most scholarship assessing cinema’s influence on literature is governed by the medium-specificity of film, my project emphasizes the public dimension of the movies, the fleeting and semi-anonymous intimacy of the moviegoing audience. In turning to moviegoing, Spectatrices opens new methods of comparison and cross-canonical reorganization, focusing on the weak social ties typified by moviegoing audiences, the libidinal permissiveness of fantasy and diva-worship, the worshipful rhetoric by which some writers transformed the theater into a church, and most significantly, the creation of new public formations for women across different axes of class, gender, and race. In this respect, cinema’s dubious universalism is both an invitation and a problem. Writers from vastly different regional, racial, linguistic, and class contexts were moviegoers, together and apart; but to say they had the same experience is obviously inaccurate. In this project, I draw from historical accounts of moviegoing practices in their specificity to highlight that whereas the mass-distributed moving image held the promise, even the premise, of shared experience, moviegoing was structured by difference. The transatlantic organization of the project is meant to engage and resist this would-be universality, charting cinema’s unprecedented global reach while describing differential scenes and modes of exhibition. Focusing on moviegoing not only permits but requires a new constellation of authors, one that includes English and American, Black and white, wealthy and working class writers alike. Across these axes of difference, women theorized the politics and possibilities of gathering, rethinking the audience as a vital and peculiar social formation.

The third chapter examines the new aesthetic and sensory experiences of the cyclist. Returning to some authors already examined and integrating others such as J. W. Allen (1865–1944), J. H. Rosny (1856–1940), Alfred Jarry and Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), I analyse the ways in which the bicycle offered direct contact with speed and mechanism alongside a rich sensory experience. Cyclists enjoyed a hybrid of mechanical and corporeal sensations which provided rich ground for literary experimentation. The close relationship between rider and machine allowed a questioning of the man/machine dichotomy, moving away from the alienation of the industrial era in order to achieve a more empowering and meaningful interaction with technology.