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Chambless, Cathleen F. "Nec(Romantic)." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1933.
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NEC(ROMANTIC) is a poetry collection thematically linked through images of insects, celestial bodies, bones, and other elements of the supernatural. These images are indicative of spells, but the parenthesis around romantic in the collection’s title also implies idealism. The poems explore the author’s experiences with death, grief, love, oppression, and addiction. NEC(ROMANTIC) employs the use of traditional forms such as the villanelle, sestina, and haiku to organize these experiences. Prose poetry and a peca kucha ground the center of NEC(ROMANTIC) which alternates between lyrical and narrative gestures.
NEC(ROMANTIC) is influenced by Sylvia Plath. The author uses Plath’s methods of compression, sound, and rhythm to create a swift, child-like tone when examining emotionally laden topics. Ilya Kaminsky influences lyrical elements of the poems, including surrealism. Spencer Reese’s combination of the natural and personal world is also paramount to this book. Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde influence NEC(ROMANTIC)’s political poetry.
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George, Laura Joan. "Romantic reading and feminist writing : political tropology /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487778663284657.
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Treadwell, James. "Transcendence and irony in prose autobiographical writing 1817-1834." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240280.
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Altrows, Kim Jessica. "Structured journal writing for recovery from romantic relationship loss." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ58525.pdf.
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Cherry, Thomas Hamilton. "Variation Within Uniformity: The English Romantic Sonnet." TopSCHOLAR®, 2014. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1396.
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The English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century wrote numerous poems from genres and styles all across the poetic spectrum. From the epics of ancient origin concerning kings and fanciful settings to the political odes on fallen leaders and even the anthropological histories of what it meant to live in their time, these poets stretched their stylistic legs in many ways. One of the most interesting is their use of the short and rule-bound sonnet form that enjoyed a reemergence during their time. Though stylized throughout its existence, the sonnet most often falls into a specific form with guidelines and rule. What makes the Romantic interest in this form noteworthy is that like the other forms, they found new ways to use the sonnet as a means of poetic experimentation and creative expression. Exploring the various internal and external variations, those changes that took place within the lines and phrases of the sonnet and those that form the organizing and rhyming portions of the poem, this study seeks to establish the ways the Romantics took the uniform techniques of the sonnet and stretched its bounds to find new means of creativity. Close reading of the poems of William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley reveals the variant use of caesura, creative dissonance, as well as original organization and rhyme scheme to accomplish purely Romantic goals within the uniformity of the sonnet form.
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Chen, Hsiu-Yu. "Romantic dialogues : writing the self in De Quincey and Woolf." Thesis, Durham University, 2013. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7362/.
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Virginia Woolf has been recognised as a pioneering modernist writer creating a new literary voice. It is not unusual to discover in Woolf’s writings the aesthetic and literary traces of those past traditions and influences which have been woven into her modern narratives. One significant, but often overlooked, influence comes from the Romantic period and the essayist, Thomas De Quincey. De Quincey’s stylish essays inspire Woolf’s art. Both writers’ fascination with representing the self (and their devotion to creating a literary thinking about, and narrative of, the subject) indicates a shared affinity between these two writers in spite of important cultural, historical, and social differences between them. My treatment of the self in De Quincey and Woolf is aware of the aesthetic and literary affinities between them and those cultural and historical differences that divide them. Tracing important connections between these two important writers sheds light on the larger concerns and patterns of both the literary scenes of Romanticism and Modernism. Six chapters in three sections focus on three main aspects of the self central to De Quincey and Woolf—the art of literature, the representation of time and the question of autobiographical writing. Chapter One and Two investigate De Quincey’s literature of power and Woolf’s art of fiction to examine the relationship between literary representation and the self. Chapter Three and Four discuss issues of time and self in De Quincey and Woolf. The final two chapters contend that De Quincey’s and Woolf’s reflections on literary representation, and time as a philosophical problem are embodied in their writings of the self across their respective literary careers. A project of this kind is alert to and enriches a recent burgeoning critical interest from Romanticists and Modernists alike in the exchanges, interchanges, bequests, and legacies of Romanticism to Modernism.
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Jones, Andrew Cessna. "Exposing romantic folly comic performance in Mark Twain's foreign travel writing /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
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Beattie-Smith, Gillian L. "Romantic subjectivity : women's identity in their nineteenth-century travel writing about Scotland." Thesis, University of the Highlands and Islands, 2017. https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/romantic-subjectivity(349c0dbd-3b37-4b79-b18d-623aa76f421e).html.
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Women's identities are created and performed relational to the contexts in which they live and by which they are bound. Identities are performed within and against those contexts. Romantic subjectivity: women's identity in their nineteenth-century travel writing about Scotland, is concerned with the location of women and their creation and construction of relational identity in their personal narratives of the nineteenth century. The texts taken for study are travel journals, memoirs, and diaries, each of which narrates times and journeys in Scotland. The subjects of study are three women writers whose identities have been located relational to their husband, brother, or father. They are Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, whose work was located with her husband's, William Hazlitt; Dorothy Wordsworth, whose work was located relational to her brother's, William Wordsworth; and Elizabeth Grant, whose identity was located with that of her father and his Highland estate. The texts considered are Journal of My Trip to Scotland, written by Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt in 1803; Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland, 1803 and Journal of my second tour in Scotland, 1822, written by Dorothy Wordsworth; and Memoirs of a Highland Lady, written by Elizabeth Grant about her life before 1830. The focus of study is Romantic subjectivity in the texts of the three women writers. Women's relational performativity to the prevailing social and cultural norms is examined and considered in the context of women writers; women's travel writing; and ideologies of women's place in the nineteenth century.
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March, Rosemary. "Lady Caroline Lamb and 'the page affair' : literary life and romantic writing." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440434.
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Zampa, Dawn-Marie. "The word and the womb, women writing the maternal in the Romantic period." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0017/MQ52684.pdf.
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Chiou, Tim Yi-Chang. "Romantic posthumous life writing : inter-stitching genres and forms of mourning and commemoration." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1a316a0f-7365-4555-8bc8-9e09b47ec674.
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Contemporary scholarship has seen increasing interest in the study of elegy. The present work attempts to elevate and expand discussions of death and survival beyond the ambit of elegy to a more genre-inclusive and ethically sensitive survey of Romantic posthumous life writings. Combining an ethic of remembrance founded on mutual fulfilment and reciprocal care with the Romantic tendency to hybridise different genres of mourning and commemoration, the study re- conceives 'posthumous life' as the 'inexhaustible' product of endless collaboration between the dead, the dying and the living. This thesis looks to the philosophical meditations of Francis Bacon, John Locke and Emmanuel Levinas for an ethical framework of human protection, fulfilment and preservation. In an effort to locate the origin of posthumous life writing, the first chapter examines the philosophical context in which different genres and media of commemoration emerged in the eighteenth century. Accordingly, it will commence with a survey of Enlightenment attitudes toward posthumous sympathy and the threat of death. The second part of the chapter turns to the tangled histories of epitaph, biography, portraiture, sepulchre and elegy in the writings of Samuel Johnson, Henry Kett, Vicesimus Knox, William Godwin and William Wordsworth. The Romantic culture of mourning and commemoration inherits the intellectual and generic legacies of the Enlightenment. Hence, Chapter Two will try to uncover the complex generic and formal crossovers between epitaph, extempore, effusion, elegy and biography in Wordsworth's 'Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg' (1835-7) and his 'Epitaph' (1835-7) for Charles Lamb. However, the chapter also recognises the ethical repercussions of Wordsworth's inadequate, even mortifying, treatment of a fellow woman writer in his otherwise successful expression of ethical remembrance. To address the problem of gender in Romantic memorialisation, Chapter Three will take a close look at Letitia Elizabeth Landon' s reply to Wordsworth's incompetent defence of Felicia Hemans. Mediating the ambitions and anxieties of her subject, as well as her public image and private pain, 'Felicia Hemans' (1838) is an audacious composite of autograph, epitaph, elegy, corrective biography and visual portraiture. The two closing chapters respond to Thomas Carlyle's outspoken confidence in 'Portraits and Letters' as indispensable aids to biographies. Chapter Four identifies a tentative connection between the aesthetic of visual portraiture and the ethic of life writing. To demonstrate the convergence of both artistic and humane principles, this cross-media analysis will first evaluate Sir Joshua Reynolds's memoirs of his deceased friends. Then, it will compare Wordsworth's and Hemans's verse reflections on the commemorative power and limitation of iconography. The last chapter assesses the role of private correspondence in the continuation of familiar relation and reciprocal support. Landon's dramatic enactment of a 'feminine Robinson Crusoe' in her letters from Africa urges the unbroken offering of service and remembrance to a fallen friend through posthumous correspondence. The concluding section will consider the ethical implications for the belated memorials and services furnished by friends and colleagues in the wake of her death.
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Kenyon, Jones Christine Mary. "'Kindred brutes' : approaches to animals in Romantic-period writing, with special reference to Byron." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/kindred-brutes--approaches-to-animals-in-romanticperiod-writing-with-special-reference-to-byron(cba20d7b-0bbc-4ec9-9c81-ced8cc4d058d).html.
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McInnes, Andrew. "Wollstonecraft's ghost : the fate of the female philosopher in the Romantic period." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3897.
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Mary Wollstonecraft’s ghost haunts women’s writing of the Romantic period. After her untimely death in 1797, and the publication of William Godwin’s candid biography in 1798, Wollstonecraft’s reputation was besmirched by the reactionary press in an attack on radical support for revolutionary ideals. Wollstonecraft’s campaign for women’s rights was conflated with a representation of her as sexually promiscuous, politically dangerous and religiously unorthodox. For women writing after Wollstonecraft’s death, an engagement with her political ideals risked identification with her lifestyle, deemed both improper and impious. My thesis explores how women writers negotiated Wollstonecraft’s scandalous reputation in order to discuss her influential feminist arguments and develop their own positions on these pressing issues in post-revolutionary Britain. In the early nineteenth century, Wollstonecraft’s life and work gets elided with the figure of the female philosopher, already popular in both pro- and counter-revolutionary writing of the 1790s. After Wollstonecraft’s death, fictional female philosophers echo elements of her biography whilst voicing an often caricatured version of her arguments. By rejecting these satirically overblown feminist positions, women writers could adopt a more moderate form of feminism, often closer to Wollstonecraft’s original polemic, to critique cultural restrictions on women, revealing how these warp female behaviour. My project modifies our understanding of the origins of modern feminism by focussing on Wollstonecraft’s reception across a range of socially and politically diverse texts, and the ways in which the process of reading itself is treated as potentially revolutionary.
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McKeever, Gerard Lee. "Enlightened fictions and the romantic nation : aesthetics of improvement in long-eighteenth-century Scottish writing." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5768/.
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This thesis participates in the current scholarly reassessment of Scottish Romanticism. Working across conventional Enlightenment and Romantic paradigms, it argues for a ‘long eighteenth century’ view of this writing with salient roots in the Union of 1707. Framed by the rapid economic and social change experienced by Scotland over much of this period, it proposes that Scottish Romanticism is best understood as a modal series of material that engages in various ways with ideas of ‘improvement’, the Enlightenment’s ubiquitous doctrine of progress. This engagement is significantly translated through a negotiation of alternative national identity structures available to Scots at the time: Britishness and forms of Scottishness. As these formations become implicated in a pervasive ‘dialectics of improvement’, Scottish writing develops a series of innovative aesthetic strategies that probe the complex political function of literature. Coordinated around a hegemonic Britishness that is laying claim to the priorities of improvement, forms of Scottishness are repeatedly pushed into alternative roles, including the model of the ‘romantic nation’. Chapters address many of the key Scottish writers of the period as well as some of their less well-known contemporaries, using local case studies as a means to connect and focus the study’s broader concerns. In Chapter One a sequence of fundamentals pertaining to the analysis of Scottish culture is addressed, exploring issues of nation, identity, class and institutional context, alongside the complementary evolution of aesthetic ideologies and cultural nationalisms. Chapter Two turns to Robert Burns as a prime mediator between cultural formations, his sophisticated poetry and self-presentations positioned as crucial to the developing relationship between Scottishness and improvement, while he innovatively heralds future, aesthetic constructions of nationhood. Moving into the early nineteenth century, Chapter Three traces the full emergence of ‘aesthetic nationalism’, primarily in the novels of Walter Scott. Always a contested process, such tension is magnified via the work of James Hogg, before the effects of a pervasive irony in this literary formation are examined. In Chapter Four the improvement problematic in long-eighteenth-century Scotland is further developed, John Galt’s fiction offering extensive reflections, with an ancillary focus on Elizabeth Hamilton shedding light on some key ideological dilemmas and the important role of gender within this trajectory. Finally, a thematic coda uses a reading of Thomas Carlyle to reflect on these aesthetic components of a profound experience of modernisation, their subsequent mediation and continuing relevance.
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Fusfield, William David. "Walden's "Conclusion" : Henry David Thoreau's transcendental synthesis of the classical peroration and early-romantic "Combinational Writing" /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8223.
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Taujanskaitė, Aurelija. "Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding: The Situation of Writing a Novel." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20120831_092258-48880.
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The object of the research is Austen’s and Fielding’s situation of writing a novel through their works Pride and Prejudice by Austen and Bridget Jones’s Diary by Fielding. Though, these women authors are representatives of the two different epochs of English literature their novels are frequently taken in parallel. In order to carry out the research, the comparative and feminist criticism methods were applied. The comparative methodology was useful in order to analyze the meanings of similarity or distinction in the novels Pride and Prejudice by Austen and Bridget Jones’s Diary by Fielding, also, to compare two different contexts for writing two novels.Tyrimo objektas – Džeinės Austen ir Helenos Fielding romano rašymo situacija remiantis jų kūriniais: Austen Puikybė ir prietarai bei Fielding Bridžitos Džouns dienoraštis. Nors autorės yra skirtingų laikotarpių anglų rašytojos, jų kūriniai yra dažnai lyginami.Bakalauro darbe buvo naudojami lyginamosios bei feministinės kritikos metodai. Lyginamasis metodas buvo taikomas ištirti romanų Puikybė ir prietarai ir Bridžitos Džouns dienoraštis panašumo ar savitumo reikšmes, palyginti kūrinių rašymo kontekstus. Kadangi Austen ir Fielding yra moterys rašytojos, feministinės kritikos metodas buvo naudojamas atskleisti moterų literatūros savitumą.
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Gallagher, Kelly A. "RUBBER MEETS ROAD: RESEARCHING, WRITING, AND PRODUCING ANORIGINAL PLAY." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1526384703233597.
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Martins, Verónica Alexandra da Conceição. "Sintra romântica." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/20513.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura com a especialização em Interiores e Reabilitação do Edificado, apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa, para obtenção do grau de Mestre.O Projeto Final de Mestrado aqui apresentado é um trabalho teórico-prático que consiste na reabilitação de um edifício romântico de 1926 da autoria do Arquiteto Raul Lino localizado em Sintra na encosta da serra. Consta também o estudo e analise de conceitos de modo a fundamentar as estratégias adotadas. O trabalho incide no desafio de reabilitar uma casa tardo-romântica em degradação, adaptando-a a um novo uso e à atualidade, sem esta perder a sua identidade, contribuindo para a valorização e diminuição do património edificado em deterioração e ao abandono. Sintra, como fundamentado ao longo do trabalho, é naturalmente uma vila romântica especialmente devido ao seu microclima com o aparecimento de nevoeiro e vegetação abundante criando uma atmosfera nostálgica e misteriosa. Tirando partido destas características, vários arquitetos e cenógrafos ergueram palácios, casario e jardins criando cenários idílicos e fantásticos contribuindo para acentuar a atmosfera e paisagem romântica. Estas condições agradaram e atraíram vários artistas e escritores a Sintra com o intuito de se inspirarem para as suas obras. Vários escritores de pensamento romântico procuravam um lugar calmo e tranquilo com condições que permitissem o isolamento, introspeção, a exaltação do eu, onde se pudessem concentrar em si próprios. Com este encadeamento, entende-se pertinente a criação do um lugar que permitisse a realização desses desejos fomentando assim a cultura na vila. Assim tirando partido da localização e das condições geográficas, é proposto um retiro para escritores onde estes se podem abstrair dos seus deveres e preocupações do dia-a-dia existindo lugar para o isolamento e simultaneamente para a convivência com outros intelectuais pontualmente se assim o desejarem. O projeto consiste na reabilitação do edifício de três pisos e a criação de um novo corpo com um conceito privado em relação à casa existente trabalhando as várias escalas até à pormenorização dos interiores e ambientes.
ABSTRACT: The final project of master’s degree here stated it’s a theoretical-practical work consisting in a rehabilitation of a romantic building from 1926 by architect Raul Lino located in Sintra on the hillside. It also includes the study and analysis of concepts in order to support the strategies adopted. The work focuses on the challenge of rehabilitating a degraded late-romantic house, adapting it to a new use and to nowadays, without losing its identity, contributing to the appreciation and reduction of the deteriorating built heritage and abandonment. Sintra, as reasoned throughout the project, is naturally a romantic village especially due to its microclimate with the appearance of fog and abundant vegetation creating a nostalgic and mysterious atmosphere. Taking advantage of these features, various architects and set designers have raised palaces, houses and gardens creating idyllic and fantastic scenery contributing to accentuate the atmosphere and romantic landscape. These conditions pleased and attracted several artists and writers to Sintra in order to be inspired for their works. Several romantic-minded writers were looking for a calm and peaceful place with conditions that would allow isolation, introspection, and exaltation of self, where they could concentrate on themselves. With this chain, it is pertinent to create a place that would allow these wishes to be fulfilled, thus fostering the culture in the village. Taking advantage of location and geographical conditions, a writers’ retreat is proposed so they can abstract from their day-to-day duties and concerns, existing room for isolation and at the same time coexistence with other intellectuals occasionally if they want to. The project consists of the rehabilitation of the three-floors building and the creation of a new building with a private concept in relation to the existing house, working the various scales to the detail of the interiors and environments.
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Stotesbury, John A. "Apartheid, liberalism and romance : a critical investigation of the writing of Joy Packer /." Doctoral thesis, Umeå (Sweden) : Umeå university, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36972376r.
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Benn, Sheila Margaret. "Pre-romantic attitudes to landscape in the writings of Friedrich Schiller /." Berlin : W. de Gruyter, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35565205n.
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Abu-Jamouse, Khalid. "'Lurid figures' : anxieties of motion, disfiguration and death in romantic biographical writings." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322889.
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Deganutti, Marianna. "Writing exile : Fulvio Tomizza." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:be1d8655-e5b6-40e1-94b7-7c173808e8a1.
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This thesis focuses on the unusual phenomenon of exile from a frontier land, as it is explored by the work of the Istrian writer Fulvio Tomizza. It deals with the diaspora from Istria, a territory at the intersection of different civilizations – the Italian and the Croat-Slovenian – which has historically shaped a mixture of cultures and languages, remarkable for its hybridity. The massive exile which took place at the end of the Second World War, after the redefinition of the Italo-Yugoslav border, presents original features which, by taking advantage of the narrative tool, overturn traditional parameters attributed to exile. Focusing on Fulvio Tomizza’s novels Materada, La ragazza di Petrovia and L’albero dei sogni, and also on some of his most significant essays, I will seek to outline the specific traits that typify the detachment from one’s own native country. In particular, I shall suggest that identity and idioms are called into question even before characters have left their homeland. In addition, exile begins with a clarification of characters’ sense of belonging, which inevitably leads them to split, making the choice of whether to abandon the home country even more complicated. Once abroad, characters will develop a deep sense of estrangement, dictated by the impossibility of fitting into any other context, which will eventually drive them to a double, parallel, unsuccessful exile. In order to investigate fully the characteristics of Fulvio Tomizza’s exile, I will employ some linguistic postulates to examine the bilingualism and diglossia of the origins. The theoretical approaches of Edward Said, Sigmund Freud and Julia Kristeva will be used to inform my analysis of the more subtle mechanisms which rule exile, starting with doubleness and examining the dynamics which commonly characterize the exilic experience, including those in relation to the elaboration of the narrative itself. The novelty of this work lies in its approach to exile without preconceived arguments, which run the risk of limiting the analysis of the topic, and in the exploration of the most crucial aspects of a frontier land shaken by a territorial redefinition. This thesis also aims to reallocate the figure of Fulvio Tomizza, who has as yet not been investigated in any significant manner, most often being neglected or misunderstood. The aim is also to highlight one of the most European writers of the Italian second Novecento and his relationship with Eastern European languages and literatures.
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Miller, Stephanie Joanne Dolskaya-Ackerly Olga. "An experiment in music romantic music aesthetics through the writings of C.S. Lewis /." Diss., UMK access, 2004.
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Thesis (M.M.)--Conservatory of Music. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2004."A thesis in music history and literature. Typescript. Advisor: Olga Dolskaya-Ackerly. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Feb. 27, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-68). Online version of the print edition.
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Lai, C. T. Y. "Frozen music : English Romantic writings and the architecture of the city, 1811-1830." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2011. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1331892/.
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This thesis explores the implications of architecture in English Romanticism. Writings and buildings can be connected by virtue of certain affinities. Specifically, literary texts and architectural structures respond to a common set of cultural and socio-political conditions. I have largely confined my study to metropolitan architecture; in so doing, I aim to contribute to the on-going dialogue about the importance of the city in Romanticism. The architectural changes that took place in London in the opening decades of the nineteenth century occurred alongside the major shifts in social, political, economic and intellectual life. The volatility of the age is reflected in the Romantic use of architectural imagery and metaphor to illustrate different forms of instability in various contexts: the instability of power, of personal life and of art forms (whether written, built or painted). In other words, the Romantic engagement with the architectural is a representation of, or reaction to, processes of change. Crucially, the building boom in the early 1800s, notwithstanding its importance to the development of London, ironically intensified the Romantic obsession with impermanence, and the literary or artistic use of architecture is frequently characterized by the tension between construction and collapse. Buildings, as material artefacts of collective and personal history, can act as records of an age, a nation or an individual life. This thesis examines architecture on two levels, firstly in relation to national identity, and secondly in relation to the individual subject. The discussions aim to highlight the socio-political implications of certain buildings, as well as the affective side of the built environment, as portrayed in imaginative writings that communicate an intensely personal understanding of the changing city and its architecture. Material drawn from literary works and the history of actual buildings is woven together with extracts from periodicals and architectural theory to document the relevance of architecture to Romanticism. The selected works of a number of authors and artists, including Keats, De Quincey, Shelley, Soane and Turner, are read in relation to the literature-architecture interconnections.
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Thompson, Carl Edward. "Travelling to a martyrdom : the voyages and travels genre and the romantic imagination." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2af04026-129e-4731-a0fc-255071484fc6.
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This thesis explores the influence of the voluminous travel literature of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries on the imagination of Romantic writers such as Wordsworth and Byron, with particular reference to the theme of suffering in travel. It examines the ways in which Romantic travel, and Romantic writings about travel, are often 'scripted' by a body of prior travel literature which today is largely overlooked. The travel texts in question all foreground the elements of danger and discomfort in the travelling experience, and the thesis begins by arguing that an interest in the traveller's misadventures was an integral part of the appeal of travel writing in this period, constituting almost a mode or sub-genre within Voyages and Travels. Taking one strand of this literature of 'misadventure', the narrative of shipwreck, mutiny and other maritime misadventures, Chapter 1 explores the different rhetorical strategies used by writers to recount the sufferings of travellers. Accounts by John Newton, William Dampier, John Byron, George Shelvocke and others illustrate, broadly, a shift from Providentialism to sentimentalism in the handling of misadventure; they illustrate also the various philosophical, theological and political issues which are involved for any reader trying to make sense of the sufferings described. Chapter 2 then considers how these conventions of misadventure are borrowed by another sub-genre of Voyages and Travels, the exploration narrative. Using the accounts of James Cook, John Ross, Edward Parry, James Bruce and Mungo Park, the chapter argues that in being thus exploited by explorers, a further layer of political significance - touching on matters of empire and modernity attaches itself to the idea of suffering in travel. Chapters 1 and 2 illuminate positive stimuli to the Romantic interest in misadventure, showing how suffering in travel could be regarded as signifying, variously, divine election, authenticity, moral worth, political protest, and much else besides. Chapter 3 is short contextual chapter which suggests that there was also a negative stimulus to the Romantic taste, for misadventure, in the form of a rapidly growing, diversifying tourism. Focussing especially on the picturesque tourist delineated by William Gilpin, and the classical Grand Tourist influenced by Joseph Addison, it suggests that Romantic writers and travellers prized discomfort and danger in travel not only for its own sake, but also because it served to distinguish them from other types of recreational traveller. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss Wordsworth and Byron respectively, showing how the conventions and attitudes explored in Chapters 1 and 2, and the use of travel as a mode of social distinction explored in Chapter 3, play out in both the writings and the actual travels of these two major Romantic figures. Both men present themselves as misadventurers, and borrow rhetorical strategies from the earlier travel literature to do so. At the same time, Wordsworth and Byron each borrow different elements from the earlier texts, or make a different inflection of the same inherited conventions. Exploring these differences, and referring to a range of texts notably the Salisbury Plain poems, The Borderers and the 'Analogy Passage' of The Prelude for Wordsworth, and Childe Harold, Don Juan Canto 2 and The Island for Byron chapters 4 and 5 articulate the very different political, philosophical and aesthetic points being made by Wordsworth and Byron as they pose, both on the page and in actuality, as suffering travellers.
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Mazzeo, Tilar Jenon. "Producing the Romantic 'literary' : travel literature, plagiarism, and the Italian Shelley/Byron circle /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9412.
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Zavatti, Francesco. "Writing History in a Propaganda Institute : Political Power and Network Dynamics in Communist Romania." Doctoral thesis, Södertörns högskola, Historia, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29855.
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In 1990, the Institute for Historical and Socio-Political Studies of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party was closed, since the Party was dissolved by the Romanian Revolution. Similar institutions had existed in all countries belonging to the Soviet bloc. This Institute was founded in 1951 under the name of the Party History Institute, and modelled on the Marx-Lenin-Engels Institute in Moscow. Since then, it served the Communist Party in producing thousands of books and journals on the history of the Party and of Romania, following Party orders. Previous research has portrayed the Institute as a loyal executioner of the Party’s will, negating the agency of its history-writers in influencing the duties of the Institute. However, the recent opening of the Institute’s archive has shown that a number of internal and previously obscured dynamics impacted on its activities. This book is dedicated to the study of the Party History Institute, of the history-writers employed there, and of the narratives they produced. By studying the history-writers and their host institution, this study re-contextualizes the historiography produced under Communist rule by analysing the actual conditions under which it was written: the interrelation between dynamics of control and the struggle for resources, power and positions play a fundamental role in this history. This is the first scholarly inquiry about a highly controversial institute that struggled in order to follow the constantly shifting Party narrative canon, while competing formaterial resources with rival Party and academic institutions. The main actors in this study are the history-writers: Party veterans, young propagandists and educated historians, in conflicting networks and groups, struggled in order to gain access to the limited resources and positions provided by the Party, and in order to survive the political changes imposed by the leadership. By doing so they succeed, on many occasions, to influence the activities of the Institute.
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Bazzoni, Maria Alberica. "Writing for freedom : body, identity and power in Goliarda Sapienza's narrative." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d99db352-1203-479b-9f1c-7099e384ffe9.
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This thesis explores the theme of freedom in Goliarda Sapienza's narrative, focusing in particular on three works: Lettera aperta (1967), L'arte della gioia (1998, posthumous) and Io, Jean Gabin (2010, posthumous). The analysis concentrates on the interplay between body and power in processes of identity formation; the main aspects taken into consideration are gender, sexuality and political ideology, with specific attention to the power involved in human relationships. This thesis comprises four chapters. The first three develop a close textual analysis of individual works, each one progressing from the exploration of the internal composition of the self to the analysis of identity in its interpersonal and socio-political dimension. The fourth chapter engages with a comparative analysis of the same works’ narrative structures, accounting for the role of writing in the evolution of Sapienza’s narrative. I identify the pivotal tension of Sapienza's works in the ideal of freedom, and propose to define her narrative as Epicurean and anarchic, characteristics that place it at the intersection of post-structuralist and Marxist-feminist discourses. Overall, I argue in favour of Sapienza's originality and significance within the context of 20th-century Italian literature. I suggest an affinity between Sapienza's works and the literary legacy of Pirandello and Svevo, as well as certain tenets of postmodern fiction, but also a significant difference, concerning the presence of a tension towards agency and subjectivity, extraneous to the trajectory of the modern and postmodern subject. From a position of marginality and ex-centricity, Sapienza gives voice to a radical aspiration to individual and social transformation, in which writing and literary communication are granted a central role. Her works trace the parable of a strenuous deconstruction of oppressive norms and structures, aimed at retrieving a space of powerful bodily desire, which constitutes the foundation of the process of becoming a subject.
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Sloan, Philip J. "Assembling the identity of "writer"." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1416523281.
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Vauloup, Jeanne. "D’une Grèce l’autre : l’écriture de l’histoire dans les récits de voyage en Grèce de Chateaubriand et Edgar Quinet." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017CLFAL013/document.
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Au sortir de la domination ottomane, les voyageurs français se rendent en Grèce dans l’optique de parcourir une terre chargée d’histoire, au passé glorieux mais au présent décevant. Chateaubriand et Quinet sont de ces écrivains-voyageurs qui rendent compte de la situation de crise vécue au tournant de la guerre d’indépendance hellène (1821-1830). Au travers de leur regard d’ « hommes-frontières » – à la fois écrivains et historiens – ces peintres français du paysage grec ont décrit une Hellade plurivoque, au début et à la fin de la guerre de soulèvement national. Cette étude questionne l’intrusion de l’histoire dans leurs récits de voyage fictionnels et rend compte de la fabrique de leur pensée grecque sise au cœur de leurs carrières respectives. L’historiographie romantique en est alors à ses prémisses dans la mesure où l’histoire émerge à peine comme discipline scientifique. C’est pourquoi, par le prisme de la littérature et de l’imagination, le récit de voyage se présente comme un genre idoine à l’écriture de l’histoire, propre à la fragmentation des discours par le travail du palimpseste. Tels des Janus aux yeux tournés vers le passé autant que vers l’avenir, Chateaubriand et Quinet en Grèce s’inscrivent dans l’histoire de leur temps, au tournant des Révolutions européennes, par le biais d’une écriture de l’histoire immédiate tout en peignant des paysages à portée historiqueEarly after the fall of the ottoman domination, the French travelers went to Greece in order to wander through a land full of history, with a glorious past but a deceiving present. Chateaubriand and Quinet were writers and travelers who reported the crisis lived at the turning point of the Hellenic war of independence (1821-1830). Through their gaze of “borders-men” – both writers and historians – these French painters of the Greek landscape described a plurivocal Hellade, at the beginning and the end of the war of national uprising. This study question the intrusion of history in their fictional travel narratives and report the making of their Greek thought situated at the heart of their respective career. The romantic historiography was just at its premises because history as a scientific discipline was barely emerging. Thus, through the prism of literature and imagination, travel narrative was a fitting genre for writing history, propitious to the fragmentation of speeches by the work of palimpsest. As Januses with their eyes turned to the past as well as to the future, in Greece, Chateaubriand and Quinet inscribed themselves in the history of their time, at the turning point of the European Revolutions, through a writing of the immediate history while painting landscapes with historical dimension
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Zwicker, Marianne Christine. "Journeys into memory : Romani identity and the Holocaust in autobiographical writing by German and Austrian Romanies." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6201.
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This PhD thesis examines the ‘working through’ of traumatic memories of the Holocaust and representations of Romani cultural identity in autobiographical writing by Romanies in Germany and Austria. In writing their memories in German, these Romani writers ended the ‘muteness’ previously surrounding their own experiences of persecution in the Third Reich and demanded an end to the official silence regarding the Romani Holocaust in their home countries. The thesis aims to explore how the writing of these narratives works to create a space for Romani memories within German language written tradition and to assert a more positive Romani identity and space for this identity in their homelands. Further, it aims to demonstrate that, in the struggle to create this safe space, their texts also reveal insecurity and landscapes that are not free from threat. The thesis also addresses the broad question of whether or not the shift from oral to written tradition in order to represent experiences of the Holocaust will result in a continuation of Romani writing in Germany and Austria. The thesis begins by examining the first Romani accounts of Holocaust memories published in Germany (1985) and Austria (1988) and ends with more recent narratives published in 2006 (Germany) and 2007 (Austria). In chapters one and two on writing by Philomena Franz and Ceija Stojka, I focus on their pioneering texts as assertions of space for Romani identity within their homelands; I analyse how these authors work through their traumatic memories by narrating their experiences and by identifying the landscapes of Germany and Austria as Heimat. In chapter 3, I continue to explore themes of Heimat and identity in Alfred Lessing and Karl Stojka ’s accounts which, while working through their own traumatic memories of the Third Reich, struggle with the loss of Romani cultural identity in their homelands. In chapter four, I address the generational memory of the Holocaust in Otto Rosenberg’s account of his experiences in the concentration camps and his daughter Marianne Rosenberg’s recent autobiography. In chapter 5, I will examine the presence of the ‘threat of Auschwitz’ in Stefan Horvath’s writing, in which he remembers the attack on a Romani settlement in 1995 which killed his son and three other Romanies in Oberwart, Austria. In all of these chapters, attention will also be given to the editorial construction of these texts as well as their reception. Throughout the thesis, I take a comparative approach, referring to similarities and differences between the works of these authors.
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Hall, Christine. ""Pancosmic" church - specific românesc : ecclesiological themes in Nichifor Crainic's writings between 1922 and 1944 /." Uppsala : Uppsala universitet, 2008. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/31598.
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Lecharpentier, Coralie. "Variation dialectale et orthographique en romani : étude à partir d'une page du réseaux social Facebook." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMR115.
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Le romani, ou romanes, est une langue parlée historiquement par des communautés qui s’autodénomment « Roms », « Sintos » et « Calos ». Dans cette thèse, on se propose d'analyser une page du réseau social Facebook, comportant de nombreux messages en langue romani. Dans un premier temps, nous identifierons les dialectes présents sur la page et étudierons la diversité des pratiques orthographiques. Puis, on analysera comment la variation est prise en compte par les locuteurs, en évoquant les problématiques d'intercompréhension, d'identité et de revitalisation. Le but de notre recherche est de faire un état des lieux des besoins, réussites et représentations des locuteurs du romani afin d’accompagner ce qui pourrait être un processus d’autogestion langagièreRomani, also known as Romanes, is a language historically spoken by communities who call themselves “Roma”, “Sinti” and “Kalo”. The purpose of this thesis is to study a page of the social network Facebook which includes many messages written in Romani language. First of all, we will identify the dialects used on the page and we will describe the diversity of spelling practices. Then, we wil analyze the way variation is taken into account by the speakers, discussing the issues of mutual understanding, identity and revitalization. Our research focuses on determining the needs, successes and representations of the Romani speakers in order to support a possible linguistic self-management
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Weavil, Victoria. "Community, women and selfhood in the writings of Michel Leiris and Carlo Emilio Gadda." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bd528880-e440-47c7-bc14-ec07c77948a0.
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This study sets out to uncover the thus far unexplored affinities between the works of Carlo Emilio Gadda and Michel Leiris, two key figures of twentieth-century literature whose place within the broader European literary panorama has been largely overlooked. Through an inquiry into three interconnected areas – the question of 'community'; the relationship between male self and female other; and writing as a space in which a fractured experience of subjectivity is both played out and exposed – I argue that their works are underpinned by a parallel tension, between a nostalgia for a lost experience of unity and a recognition of its impossibility within a fractured modernity. Chapter One examines the relationship between the individual and the communal. With a focus on Gadda's Giornale di guerra e di prigionia, and Leiris's involvement in a series of key intellectual, literary and political societies of the 1930s and 1940s, it argues that while both authors were drawn to a form of communal integration, both were ultimately thwarted in their attempts to reinstate it. Chapter Two continues this inquiry into the relationship between self and other through an examination of the dysfunctional relationship between individual (male) self and (female) other. With a focus on Leiris's L'Age d'homme and Gadda's Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, it questions the extent to which any authentic relationship between male self and female other is ruled out, and examines the association between sexuality and fear that underpins their approach to the sphere of the female at large. The final chapter examines the implications of the authors' shared loss of faith in the notion of a unified, authentic experience of selfhood for their approach to the literary act itself. Through a study of these three key areas, this study thus sets out to respond to the need for further contextualisation of these two key figures of the twentieth-century European literary panorama, in the conviction that a comparative examination will shed new light both on their individual works and on their shared affinity with a number of key tenets of twentieth-century European thought.
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Toninato, Paola. "The rise of written literature among the Roma : a study of the role of writing in the current re-definition of Romani identity with specific reference to the Italian case." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2004. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1224/.
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So far, textual hetero-representations of the Romani people (usually called `Gypsies' by the non-Roma) have focused on their foreignness and alleged `non-conformity' to the dominant order. Such depictions, conflating history and myth, art and reality, promote the perception of an unbridgeable divide between the `primitive', `illiterate' Roma and the `civilized' society. In this respect, the forging of a fictional `Gypsy' identity can be seen as an ethnic strategy aimed at endorsing harsh policies of oppression and social marginalization of the Roma. The recent rise of *a Romani written literature has shown that, contrary to common belief, the Roma cannot simply be defined as people `without writing'. This thesis aims to highlight the complex features of their literature, characterized by an irreducible plurality of voices and styles which is in striking contrast with the rigid, monolithic structure of the conventional images of the 'Gypsy'. The intertextual, hybrid features of Romani literature seem to suggest alternative ways of looking at Romani identity which substantially undermine the rigid binarism of ethnocentric definitions of the 'Gypsy'. More specifically, the study of Romani literature enables us to view Romani textual hetero- and auto-representations not as irreconcilable, mutually exclusive terms, but in the light of their interconnections and mutual influences. The adoption of a dynamic, intercultural approach is a crucial factor in our understanding of the complex features of Romani identity, and may ultimately contribute to a profound (and long due) reassessment of the troubled Roma/Gağe relationship.
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Crippa, Simona. "Marguerite Duras : la tentation du théorique." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030102.
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Marguerite Duras a assurément pensé à la littérature en se mesurant sans cesse à sa production littéraire et plus amplement, à sa production artistique. Littérature, cinéma, théâtre font en effet l’objet d’une réflexion constante chez l’écrivain qui montre par là une tendance certaine pour la pensée théorique. Si Marguerite Duras a pu s’exprimer négativement vis-à-vis de la théorie, c’est parce qu’elle redoute les dérives de l’esprit théorique qui peut parfois se révéler dogmatique. L’adhésion à l’idéologie du PCF d’abord partagée puis contestée, fait ainsi l’objet de sévères critiques qui donneront raison dans son œuvre à des textes littéraires traversés par cette épreuve du théorique doctrinaire. D’autres engagements théoriques et politiques prouveront en revanche incontestablement l’attrait intellectuel de l’écrivain envers une époque qui, entre les années 1960 et 1980, fait avancer le discours de la théorie et notamment de la modernité littéraire. Cette thèse se propose de montrer que la théorie occupe sans cesse l’esprit de l’auteur, qu’elle se révèle particulièrement sous la forme d’une tentation à laquelle l’écrivain ne succombe jamais définitivement, et qui donc revient comme une obsession habiter et interroger son œuvre. Cette tentation s’intègre d’abord à la vie de Duras qui évolue au sein d’une génération fortement politisée et marquée par la pensée critique. Elle saura ensuite s’incorporer à l’activité créatrice de l’auteur et, dès lors, à sa pratique littéraire et artistique. La tentation du théorique suit ainsi deux directions. Elle passe par une aventure publique, sans pour autant jamais témoigner d’une voix chorale désireuse de se joindre notamment aux nouvelles tendances du Nouveau Roman. Elle se manifestera plutôt comme une voix solitaire, une voix qui s’exprime à travers la confidence privée. Cette voix murmure dans son œuvre ses critères conceptuels personnels qui accompagneront néanmoins la modernité littéraire. La voix de la tentation théorique se confondra enfin à la voix poétique de l’auteur qui révélera, à travers un jeu réflexif, la force productive de son écriture. Vouée sans cesse à faire résonner le mouvement du dernier mot, dépassant les cloisons génériques, la puissance créatrice prodigieuse de Marguerite Duras ira nourrir le paysage à plusieurs facettes de son œuvre ainsi que celui de l’Ecriture moderneFor sure Marguerite Duras always thought about literature by comparing herself to the rest of literature and the artistic production of her time. Indeed, literature, cinema and theater are the reflexive centers of a constant thinking which shows how much theory is a main issue for the writer herself. Her apparent and negative odds against theory in general are all because of the wanderings of the dogmatic way of the theoretical spirit. Being an active member of the French Communist Party (PCF), sharing its ideological point of view and then quitting it made way for a severe criticism and gave to her literary works a doctrinal trial. Others theoretical and political commitments may decidedly show in contrast her intellectual attraction of the writer for her age which, between the 1960s and the 1980s, made theory and literary modernity look forward. This essay will show how theory is always on Duras’s Mind as it is for her such a temptation that she never totally succumbs to, and that came back as an obsession to haunt and question her works. This temptation marks at first place her life that went through a harsh political generation that also dealt with criticism and thinking. This temptation would also be an important part of her creativity process and made her way unto literary and artistic technicals. The Theoretical temptation she dealt with went on two different ways. She went on a public adventure but without never belonging to the chorus of her times or explicitly belonging to the New Novel too. She stood as a solitary voice, a voice of her that expressed herself as a intimate confidence. This voice whispered in her writings her personal and conceptual thoughts that escorted modernity in literature. Her voice made of theoretical temptation would mingle at last with her poetical voice which reveals, through a reflexive game, the productive strengh of her writing. Vowed to a never-ending movment unto the last word, beyond the walls of all genres, the tremendous creativity of Marguerite Duras will give birth to a mesmerizing landscape in her works that goes unto the modern writing
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Jen, Shing-Jiou, and 鄭幸矯. "From Romantic to Liberation—Passion Writing in Yeh Shih-Tao’s Novel." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29902448751381955977.
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HUNG, KAI-TING, and 洪凱婷. "On the Free Writing Experience and Effect on People Who Have Romantic Loss." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/xguybt.
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The present study aims to explore (1) the free writing experience of people with romantic loss and (2) how their writing has an effect on their recovery from romantic loss. Six participants were recruited through the information published on Facebook and BBS. To investigate the subjects’ writing experience and effect, we collected the data from qualitative semi-structure in-depth interview and adopted thematic analysis. The four-week free writing in the study requires the subjects to do the writing at least fifteen minutes a day and three days a week. After they finished their four-week writing, the subjects were interviewed individually. The results of the study were shown according to the following themes: 1. The free writing experience of people with loss of romantic love: (a) maintenance of their personal writing habits with expectations and concerns at the same time, (b) inner self-talk and outward connection to other people, (c) objective organization and analysis of their thoughts, aiming to understand themselves and the cause and effect of the romantic relationship, (d) recalling the past and looking at the present, along with mood changes, (e) free writing as a source of creation, and (f) subjects’ feedback and comments on their own free writing. 2. The free writing effect on recovery process: (a) self-confidence and self-worth rebuilding, (b) new perspectives on love (c) expression and reliance of emotion, (d) new ways of thinking, (e) self-expectations and self-encouragement, and (f) increase of self-understanding. The last part of the study discusses the results and provides suggestions on related work and directions for future research.
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"Couples’ Conflict Through an Attachment Lens: A Brief, Theory-Driven Writing Intervention." Doctoral diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.62930.
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abstract: Emerging adulthood represents a liminal space between adolescence and adulthood. Attachment with a romantic partner is commonly developed during this time; however, the nature of the dating relationship often remains ambiguous and/or undefined. Dating provides emerging adults the opportunity to develop their romantic competence and navigate these particular attachment relationships. Conflict, and how it is managed, is a critical variable during this time and differentiates between couples who progress in their relationship from those who terminate. What is more, partners may become stuck in destructive cycles, or patterns, of conflict (i.e., demand-withdrawal). Using the theoretical frameworks of attachment theory and emotionally focused couples therapy, this study’s goal it to examine the impact of a brief writing-intervention on relational quality, secure attachment behaviors (i.e., accessibility, responsiveness, and engagement) and attachment dimensions (i.e., anxiety, avoidance). Sixty-seven participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions for a two-wave study: (1) a treatment condition that was provided an educational presentation regarding couples’ negative cycles of interaction and attachment needs, followed by a guided writing task; (2) a comparison condition that only received the educational presentation; and (3) a control condition that received neither the educational presentation nor the writing task. Hypotheses proposed that participants in the treatment condition would experience increased relational quality, secure attachment behaviors (for both themselves and their partner), and greater secure attachment (i.e., decreased anxiety and avoidance) across time compared to the comparison and control conditions. Data did not support the hypotheses. These findings offer important implications for the development of future brief couples’ interventions and aim to generate future research.Dissertation/Thesis
Doctoral Dissertation Communication Studies 2020