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Geary, James P. "Social Realism in Central America: the Modern Short Story Translated." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1215444512.
Full textAlberca, García María del Mar. ""Por mala conciencia escritores de poesía social" : Jaime Gil de Biedma en el contexto del realismo social español de postguerra /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3064464.
Full textGrassbaugh, Andrea L. "Reading Jonathan Franzen as a Zombie Novelist: Addressing Reductive Assessments of Contemporary Social Realism." Walsh University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=walsh1556046783239868.
Full textMILLER, JEFFREY WILLIAM. "NOVEL RESISTANCE: CULTURAL CAPITAL, SOCIAL FICTION, AND AMERICAN REALISM, 1861-1911." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1023305969.
Full textKim, Bong-Gwang. "The Politics of Romance: Henry James's Social (Un)Conscious." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277823/.
Full textGodbey, Margaret J. "Vying for Authority: Realism, Myth, and the Painter in British Literature, 1800-1855." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/81444.
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Over the last forty years, nineteenth-century British art has undergone a process of recovery and reevaluation. For nineteenth-century women painters, significant reevaluation dates from the early 1980s. Concurrently, the growing field of interart studies demonstrates that developments in art history have significant repercussions for literary studies. However, interdisciplinary research in nineteenth-century painting and literature often focuses on the rich selection of works from the second half of the century. This study explores how transitions in English painting during the first half of the century influenced the work of British writers. The cultural authority of the writer was unstable during the early decades. The influence of realism and the social mobility of the painter led some authors to resist developments in English art by constructing the painter as a threat to social order or by feminizing the painter. For women writers, this strategy was valuable for it allowed them to displace perceptions about emotional or erotic aspects of artistic identity onto the painter. Connotations of youth, artistic high spirits, and unconventional morality are part of the literature of the nineteenth-century painter, but the history of English painting reveals that this image was a figure of difference upon which ideological issues of national identity, gender, and artistic hierarchy were constructed. Beginning with David Wilkie, and continuing with Margaret Carpenter, Richard Redgrave and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, I trace the emergence of social commitment and social realism in English painting. Considering art and artists from the early decades in relation to depictions of the painter in texts by Maria Edgeworth, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Mary Shelley, Joseph Le Fanu, Felicia Hemans, Lady Sydney Morgan, and William Makepeace Thackeray, reveals patterns of representation that marginalized British artists. However, writers such as Letitia Elizabeth Landon and Robert Browning supported contemporary painting and rejected literary myths of the painter. Articulating disparities between the lived experience of painters and their representation calls for modern literary critics to reassess how nineteenth-century writers wrote the painter, and why. Texts that portray the painter as a figure of myth elide gradations of hierarchy in British culture and the important differentiations that exist within the category of artist.
Temple University--Theses
Harrison, Dana M. "Realism in Pain: Literary and Social Constructions of Victorian Pain in the Age of Anaesthesia, 1846-1870." Thesis, Temple University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3564812.
Full textIn 1846 and 1847, ether and chloroform were used and celebrated for the first time in Britain and the United States as effective surgical anaesthetics capable of rendering individuals insensible to physical pain. During the same decade, British novels of realism were enjoying increasing cultural authority, dominating readers' attention, and evoking readers' sympathy for numerous social justice issues. This dissertation investigates a previously unanswered question in studies of literature and medicine: how did writers of social realism incorporate realistic descriptions of physical pain, a notoriously difficult sensation to describe, in an era when the very idea of pain's inevitability was challenged by medical developments and when, concurrently, novelists, journalists, and politicians were concerned with humanitarian reforms to recognize traditionally ignored and disadvantaged individuals and groups in pain? By contextualizing the emergence of specific realist novels including works by Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Reade, William Howard Russell, and Charles Dickens, within larger nonfiction discourses regarding factory reform, prison reform, and war, this dissertation identifies and clarifies how realist authors, who aim to demonstrate general truths about "real life," employed various descriptions of physical pain during this watershed moment in medicine and pain theory, to convince readers of their validity as well as to awaken sympathetic politics among readers.
This study analyzes Gaskell's first industrial novel, Mary Barton (1848), Reade's prison-scandal novel, It is Never Too Late to Mend (1856), Russell's Crimean War correspondence (1850s) and only novel, The Adventures of Doctor Brady (1868), and Dickens's second Bildungsroman, Great Expectations (1861), thereby revealing different strategies utilized by each author representing pain - ranging from subtle to graphic, collective to individualized, urgent to remembered, and destructive to productive. This study shows how audience expectations, political timing, authorial authority, and medical theory influence and are influenced by realist authors writing pain, as they contribute to a cultural consensus that the pain of others is unacceptable and requires attention. These realist authors must, in the end, provide fictionalized accounts of pain, asking readers to act as witnesses and to use their imaginations, in order to inspire sympathy.
Haruna, Abdullahi [Verfasser]. "African fiction and its social context. A critical analysis of social realism in Festus Iyayi's works / Abdullahi Haruna." München : GRIN Verlag, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1189313782/34.
Full textSmith, Jennifer Ann. "Developing pupil understanding of school-subject knowledge : an exploratory study of the role of discourse in whole-class teacher-pupil interaction during English literature lessons." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/21152.
Full textBush, Melissa Ann. "Art from the Macchiaioli to the Futurists: Idealized Masculinity in the Art of Signorini and Balla." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5655.
Full textGao, Weiqian. "El realismo mágico en la literatura china contemporánea. Gabriel García Márquez y Mo Yan." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/458762.
Full textMagic realism has made a continued and enormous impact on contemporary novels since the middle eighty of last century. The reason is not only because the extensive and profound characteristics of the novels but because his novels fit on the need of Chinese contemporary literature in different periods. The pioneer novels in mid – eighty learned the form from García Márquez, Juan Rulfo in order to overturn the view that the literature is the tool of Political Ideology and let the literature return to itself. Root-seeking literature was one of the most important literature ideological trends of Chinese contemporary literature in the New Period. In the process of adopting foreign current of literacy thoughts, many writers expressed that Magic realism had left a deep impression on their works. I mainly discusses what revelation the Root-seeking novels have given us after the dialogue between these two literature ideological trends.
Naqvi, Syeda Sughra. "Social misrepresentations and their role in breeding violence : a comparative study of realism in contemporary Pakistani literature in perspectives of fundamentalism, neoliberalism, and neocolonialism." Thesis, La Rochelle, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LAROF004.
Full textIslam, Muslims and Pakistan have been obsessively under discussion, particularly with negative portrayals, in the mainstream media and scholastic colloquy in the post 9/11 period. This research project is an attempt to represent some of the misrepresentations which are familiarized along with political lines for making an unknown a known. The decolonised representation of such misrepresentations is needed to understand this phenomenon and the ideologies working behind the scenes for popularizing these unfamiliar representations of/by fundamentalism and fundamentalists in comparison with misrepresentations of/by liberalism and liberals. Thus, the thesis is divided into three sections; a) Fundamentals of Islam and Fundamentalism, b) Neoliberalism and Neo-global colonialism, and c) Social Misrepresentations which are breeding psychological trauma for humanity in the post 9/11 era. This project highlights the variant aspects of the reluctance of fundamentalism in post-postcolonial contemporary Pakistani literature, both in English and Urdu, analysing comparatively the similarities and variances, both exclusive and inclusive, of its extensive canvas The contemporary world of English Literature in Pakistan and the different approaches provide material for examining who is who and what is what, in order to determine the underlying motives at work behind the scenes, especially the schools of thought encouraging extremism of all kinds, working against peace and harmony in favor of violence and terrorism. Literature, in this context, is a mouthpiece of the Age. We will be analysing the social misrepresentations using Moscovici’s theories of social representations which are used to familiarise the unfamiliar or defamiliarize the familiar. Similarly, Roy’s theory of facts in fiction is utilised for analysing contemporary Pakistani literature (examples are taken from Mohsin Hamid’s and UmairaAhmed's contributions) as a mouthpiece of the twenty-first century while examining Chomskian views of neocolonialism. Meanwhile, fundamentalism or Islamism will be inspected under the theoretical lens of la ikraha fid Deen, presented in the Holy Quran and Hadith. Hopefully, the research would be able to provide a comprehensive, productive groundwork that will be helpful to spread a peaceful message with a moderate approach to life, against extremism
Sarmento, Rosemari. "Do Cortiço à Cidade de Deus : a representação dos de baixo na literatura e no cinema." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/77136.
Full textThis dissertation lies between literature and cinema. It examines two Brazilian novels O cortiço and Cidade de Deus through a comparative study between literary narratives and their corresponding filmic adaptations, raising the problem of connecting art and social reality. This study argues that both literary narratives from a naturalist/realist project are representations of urban poverty translated into a historically contextualized social phenomenon; which reveals acute moments, firstly from an imperial Brazil and then from the contemporary country it became. The films establish a dialogue with social approaches brought up by the original texts, as well as their narrative procedures, although they have kept their own specific film aesthetic propositions. Further, the confrontation of the corpora demonstrates the division process, which has historically refined this society in classes, or guettos, economically and culturally segregated; and in doing so, it has also stigmatized this group of people as undesired and potentially dangerous, the so-called os de baixo (the ones below). The analysis articulates literary and filmic narrative settings, in terms of order/disorder concepts, showing the evidence of a perverted Brazilian social logic based on its own nonsense and inequality. Thus, this study affirms the existence of a historically concrete social relation system in Brazilian romances and films corresponding to the configuration of Brazil itself.
Bloss, Hazel Ruth. "'Die Zeit der innern Weltumseglungen': representation of the people and examination of the self in the works of Berthold Auerbach (1812-1882) and Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl (1823-1897)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491575.
Full textRovira, Martínez de Contrasta María Isabel. "Los aprendizajes de Benito Pérez Galdós: del periodista político al novelista en ciernes (1865-1876)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/458239.
Full textThe aim and objective of the present thesis has been the thorough and exhaustive finding, contrasting, chronological organizing and close analysis of the early periodical articles that Benito Pérez Galdós assiduously published between 1865 and 1876 in La Nación (one hundred and thirty reviews between 1865-1866 and 1868), La Revista del Movimiento Intelectual de Europa (forty columns from the years 1865 to 1867), El Debate (two hundred seventy eight editorials in 1871) and the Revista de España (forty seven contributions between 1870 y 1876) about a ranging and heterogeneous variety of themes, such as societal issues, music, theater, literature, religion and, most relevantly, Spanish politics.
Hentea, Marius. "Social reality and narrative form in the fiction of Henry Green." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34554/.
Full textGriffith, Joann D. ""All Men are Builders": Architectural Structures in the Victorian Novel." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/316376.
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Nineteenth-century Britain experienced a confluence of a rapidly urbanizing physical environment, radical changes in the hierarchical relationships in society as well as in the natural sciences, and a nostalgic fascination with antiquities, especially gothic architecture. The realist novels of this period reflect this tension between dramatic social restructuring and a conservative impulse to remember and maintain the world as it has been. This dissertation focuses on the word structure to unpack the implications of these opposing forces, both for our understanding of the social structures that novels reflect, and the narrative structures that novels create. To address these issues, I examine the architectural structures described in Victorian realist novels, drawing parallels with their social and narrative structures. In Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit (1855), George Eliot's Adam Bede (1859), and Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) and Jude the Obscure (1895), descriptions of houses and barns, churches and cathedrals, shops and factories, and courthouses and schools are thematically important because they draw our attention to the novels' interest in the social structures that underlie the fictional worlds they represent. Buildings provide spaces where members of a community may work towards a shared purpose; they also embody that community's common knowledge, values, and ideals. These novels take up the thematic concern with structure through their own formal narrative structuring work. Much like an architect builds a physical structure, novels build a narrative structure by carefully arranging patterns, sequences, proportions, and perspectives. An examination of a novel's description of a building reveals moments of self-reflexive consideration of the narratives it constructs. These are moments that interrogate the building materials of narrative and how their arrangement becomes meaningful, that consider what the narrative structure can accommodate and what it excludes, and that invite us to attend to the ways in which the act of structuring a narrative situates it in time, in relation to the past, present, and future. The choices an architect makes about ornaments and materials, the way a building integrates the surrounding environment, and the way its proportions compare to a human scale, all constitute a kind of language; moreover, the way people interact with, in, and around these built spaces suggests it is a dynamic and evolving language. Preeminent Victorian art and social critic John Ruskin's architectural treatise, The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849) serves as a master key to interpreting the Victorian understanding of architectural language in the novels under investigation. Because Ruskin's writings pervaded mid-century artistic discourse, and because he turned his critical gaze on such a wide range of the mid-nineteenth century's most important aesthetic, social, philosophical, and ethical concerns, his work provides an invaluable bridge between the physical, social, and narrative structures in these novels. Each of Ruskin's "lamps" represents a specific architectural principle; each chapter in this project pairs a novel with a lamp with thematic and formal resonance.
Temple University--Theses
Masdeu, Paola. "Övernaturliga vardagar : En studie av det övernaturliga i svensk litteratur som medel för social kritik." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Gender, Culture and History, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1403.
Full textThis essay analyses the existence of a literary tendency in Sweden the last decade, which shares many similarities with magical realism. The study includes the work of three writers: Majgull Axelsson with Aprilhäxan; John Ajvide Lindquist with Hanteringen av odöda and Låt den rätte komma in; and finally a short story of Alejandro Leiva Wegner, “Elixir”.
Focus for this work is to expose how these writers use supernatural events/people as a strategy to create a new identity and to effect social criticism, strategies that are common to magical realism.
The aim of this work is therefore to clarify generalities about magical realism as a genre and give it a place in Swedish literature and in a changing Swedish society. Furthermore this essay defines a unique term for the genre as adapted to the Swedish reader and with some characteristics of its own: “övernaturlig realism” (supernatural realism).
Tekin, Kugu. "Parody In The Context Of Salman Rushdie." Phd thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12611466/index.pdf.
Full texts magical realistic fiction. The magical realism of Rushdie&rsquo
s fiction presents a complex Third World experience which constitutes an alternative to, and challenges the Eurocentrism of western culture. The form and content of Rushdie&rsquo
s novels are so intense and rich that the whole body of his work comes to the fore, not as an outcome of the two clashing civilisations, that is East and West, but rather as an immense medley of the two cultures. While &ldquo
writing back to the empire&rdquo
, Rushdie draws on innumerable sources ranging from such grand narratives as Genesis, Iliad, Ramayana, A Thousand and One Nights, Hindu, Persian, Greek, and Norse mythologies, and local cultural traditions, to modern politics mingling fiction and reality in a broad historical perspective, so that his work becomes a synthesis of East and West, an international aesthetic plane where diversities express themselves freely. The dissertation focuses particularly on Rushdie&rsquo
s Midnight&rsquo
s Children, The Moor&rsquo
s Last Sigh,and Shalimar The Clown.
it contains an introductory chapter, a theory chapter, including two subchapters, a development chapter with three subchapters which analyse the above mentioned three novels, and a conclusion chapter. The introductory chapter presents an overview of the issues to be investigated in the subsequent chapters. The theory chapter deals with the concepts of colonialism, nationalism, and the past and the present of postcolonial literary theory with reference to its leading theorists, such as M. Foucault, E. Said, H. Bhabha, and other recent critics
this chapter also introduces magical realism by reference to a number of current definitions and approaches. The following three subchapters, which focus on the analyses of the three novels, explore how parody functions both thematically and structurally in relation to Rushdie&rsquo
s magical realism. The concluding chapter demonstrates that Rushdie&rsquo
s work creates an unrestrained plane of an international culture where multiple visions and diversities can find a room to assert themselves.
Cifo, González Manuel. "Rodrigo Rubio: vida y obra literaria." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Murcia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/10759.
Full textRodrigo Rubio is a writer whom most critics have placed within the so-called social realism, and more precisely within an existential realism, with strong christian roots.Furthermore, his literature, has, from beginning to end, a high autobiographical content, together with a strong individual reflection and deep psychological motivations.Rubio himself always stood for committed literature with a strong realistic vocation and testimonial character. Hence, his permanent defence of literature as a testimony of the life of human beings and their daily, and so often fruitless, struggle for happiness. Because, for Rodrigo Rubio, literature an life cannot be separated, as he has showed all throughout his works, and the title of this Tesis Doctoral has intended to state.
Balinisteanu, Mihai Tudor. "Narrative, social myth and reality in contemporary Scottish and Irish women's writing : Kennedy, Lochhead, Bourke, Ni Dhuibhne and Carr." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6273/.
Full textRayneard, Max James Anthony. "Performing Literariness: Literature in the Event in South Africa and the United States." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12083.
Full textIn this dissertation "literariness" is defined not merely as a quality of form by which texts are evaluated as literary, but as an immanent and critical sensibility by which reading, writing, speaking, learning, and teaching subjects within the literary humanities engage language in its immediate aesthetic (and thus also historical and ethical) aspect. This reorientation seeks to address the literary academy's overwhelming archival focus, which risks eliding literary endeavor as an embodied undertaking that inevitably reflects the historical contingency of its enactment. Literary endeavor in higher education is thus understood as a performance by which subjects enact not only the effect of literary texts upon themselves but also the contingencies of their socio-economic, national, cultural, and personal contexts. Subjects' responses to literature are seen as implicit identity claims that, inevitably constituted of biases, can be evaluated through the lens of post-positivist realism in terms of their ethical and pragmatic usefulness. Framing this reoriented literariness in terms of its enactment in higher education literature classrooms, this dissertation addresses its pedagogical, methodological, and personal implications. The events of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the literature arising from it serve as a pivotal case study. The TRC Hearings, publically broadcast and pervasive in the national discourse of the time, enacted a scenario in which South Africans confronted the implications for personal and national identities of apartheid's racial abuses. The dissertation demonstrates through close reading and anecdotal evidence how J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull formally reactivate this scenario in the subject in the event of reading, while surveys of critical responses to these texts show how readers often resisted the texts' destabilizing effects. A critical account of the process that resulted in Telling, Eugene - a stage production in which U.S. military veterans tell their stories to their civilian communities - analyzes the idea of literariness in the U.S. and assesses its potential for socially engaged literary praxis.
Committee in charge: Linda Kintz, Chairperson; Suzanne Clark, Member; Michael Hames-Garcia, Member; John Schmor, Outside Member
Davi, Tânia Nunes. "O cinema de Nelson Pereira dos Santos e Leon Hirszman na (re)leitura de Vidas secas e São Bernardo, de Graciliano Ramos." Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, 2010. https://repositorio.ufu.br/handle/123456789/16287.
Full textEsta tese aborda a relação entre Cinema, Literatura e História a partir das adaptações fílmicas de São Bernardo e Vidas Secas - obras literárias de Graciliano Ramos levadas à tela pelos cineastas Leon Hirszman (1973) e Nelson Pereira dos Santos (1963), respectivamente. O escritor e os cineastas, pelas suas posições estéticas e políticas, procuraram edificar suas obras por meio de discussões que apontassem para os projetos, visões de mundo e ideais das categorias sociais não hegemônicas, mostrando um Brasil multifacetado e heterogêneo. Para perceber essas posições procuramos captar suas relações com as variadas propostas do realismo e das esquerdas ao longo da adaptação, produção e recepção dos livros e dos filmes, pois cada um buscou construir sua crítica às proposições e políticas das categorias sociais hegemônicas, assim como defendeu, a seu modo, posições estéticas e políticas paralelas, mas não necessariamente idênticas na busca por representar o Brasil.
Doutor em História
Zahoor, Abubaker. "Desires & Debacles." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1607264387584207.
Full textFantina, Richard. "Charles Reade's Sensational Realism." Scholarly Repository, 2007. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/60.
Full textErsoy, Ersev. "Social reality and mythic worlds : reflections on folk belief and the supernatural in James Macpherson's Ossian and Elias Lönnrot's Kalevala." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7842.
Full textTroscianko, Emily Tamarisk. "The literary science of the 'Kafkaesque'." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:47188ae7-a32b-41e8-b591-303b7d9367de.
Full textSilva, Efraim Oscar. "João Gilberto Noll e a subversão do real (representação, deslocamentos e permanência em O quieto animal da esquina e Harmada)." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/4733.
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This master thesis discusses the real s representation on João Gilberto Noll s novels O quieto animal da esquina (1991) and Harmada (1993). Firstly, it focuses on the ways of representing the real in the classic, the modern and the contemporary novel as well as aspects from Realism and Naturalism in the Brazilian literature, emphasizing the existence of a social criticism tradition in this literature. Then, this study deals with structural questions related mainly to the narrative focus, time and space, questioning the last ones also based on some readings on anthropology, psychology and geography. This procedure intends to show that O quieto animal da esquina and Harmada keep formal and thematic features proper to the classic and the modern novel realistic representation. At the same time, they make a shift on this representation by reformulating, creating a tension and subverting themes and narrative instances in order to express, in a singular diction and throughout the time and space immobility of the represented individuals, the disaggregation and the lack of collective ideals that characterize the contemporary Brazilian society.
Esta dissertação discute a representação do real nos romances O quieto animal da esquina (1991) e Harmada (1993), de João Gilberto Noll. Atém-se, a priori, às formas da representação do real no romance clássico, no romance moderno e no romance contemporâneo, assim como em aspectos do Realismo e do Naturalismo na literatura brasileira, enfatizando a existência de uma tradição de crítica social nessa literatura. Num segundo momento, o estudo centra-se em questões de ordem estrutural suscitadas pelos dois romances, relativas principalmente a focalização, tempo e espaço, problematizando as duas últimas a partir, também, de algumas leituras da antropologia, da psicologia e da geografia. Com esse percurso pretendemos mostrar que O quieto animal da esquina e Harmada conservam traços formais e temáticos próprios da representação realista do romance clássico e do romance moderno, ao mesmo tempo em que operam um deslocamento nessa representação, reformulando, tensionando e subvertendo temas e instâncias narrativas. E o fazem para exprimir, numa dicção singular, e por meio da imobilidade espaçotemporal dos sujeitos ali representados, a desagregação e a falta de ideais coletivos que caracterizam a sociedade brasileira contemporânea.
Lambert, Ian J. "Realism and social science." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.278516.
Full textPaquereau, Marine. "Le réalisme social américain à l'ère postmoderne : (Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford)." Thesis, Dijon, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015DIJOL017/document.
Full textHis study focuses on the works of Russell Banks, Raymond Carver and Richard Ford. They started writing during the 1960s and 1970s, at a time when the self-reflexivity and metafictional play of postmodernist writers were drawing a lot of critical attention in academic circles. However, they consider themselves to be realist writers. In “A Few Words about Minimalism,” John Barth suggested that the return to realist fiction in the mid-1970s could be both a reaction against so-called “postmodernist” fiction and a symptom of the social and economic unease of the period. Indeed, Cathedral, Continental Drift and The Sportswriter describe in accurate detail the everyday lives of ordinary American men and women during Reagan’s presidency. This study demonstrates that these authors are part of the American realist tradition, but that their strand of social realism also takes into account the postmodern context in which they write, by dealing with problems of representation that are typical of the period. Their works both use and challenge the literary conventions associated with the realist tradition, by underlining the artificiality of mimetic illusion at a time when reality itself is seen as a linguistic construct
Ruan, W. "Arnold Bennett : A study in realism." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373370.
Full textLai, Wood-yan, and 黎活仁. ""Socialist realism" in China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31231184.
Full textHull, G. T. B. "Moral realism and social criticism." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1369567/.
Full textKirk, Ned Charles. "Grażyna Bacewicz and social realism /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11372.
Full textDobozy, Tamas. "Towards a definition of dirty realism." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ56533.pdf.
Full textRave, Maria Eugenia B. "Magical Realism and Latin America." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2003. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/RaveMEB2003.pdf.
Full textDavies, Sian Martin. "The language of Hardy's fiction : realism and history." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359236.
Full textSavory, Stephen John. "Artificial realism : form and content in Elizabethan fiction." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.236510.
Full textForrest, David. "Social Realism : a British art cinema." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10351/.
Full textAdams, Jeff. "Documentary graphic novels and social realism." Oxford Bern Berlin Bruxelles Frankfurt, M. New York, NY Wien Lang, 2003. http://d-nb.info/990541126/04.
Full textPalmieri, Vanina. "La notion d'insignifiance dans l'œuvre narrative, théâtrale et théorique de Natalia Ginzburg." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00932774.
Full textMichaux, Marianne. "Entre politique et littérature: les écrivains belges du réel (1850-1880)." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212119.
Full textHowat, Tyler Paul. "Scott Pilgrim's Gaming Reality: An Introduction to Gamer Realism." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1343318875.
Full textAdams, Jennifer. "Magic Realism in Holocaust Literature : Troping the Traumatic Real." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.521912.
Full textLopes, Leanne. "Realism in Russian literature capturing truth and eliciting responses /." Click here to view, 2010. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/englsp/2/.
Full textProject advisor: Robert Inchausti. Title from PDF title page; viewed on Mar. 24, 2010. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on microfiche.
Ngara, Kudzayi Munyaradzi. "Imagining the real-magical realism as a post-colonial strategy for narration of the self in Zakes Mda's Ways of dying and the Madonna of Excelsior." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9422_1254822217.
Full textThe thesis examines the role of magical realism as a postcolonial trope in Ways of Dying and The Madonna of Excelsior. It begins by stating that the author uses magical realism as an alternative strategy for self narration in the face of the dominant ideologies of colonialism (apartheid) and nationalism. Chapter One examines the absurd taxonomies of colour that were legislated under apartheid in South Africa and, using ideas of postcolonial deconstruction, locate Toloki and Niki as characters in existing in incongrous circumstances. Chapter Two shows the strategies adopted by Toloki to fashion his own reality as opposed to accepting a place within a predetermined objective reality. Chapter Three examines the examination of sex as a physical act and the gendered rolesof women. The thesis concludes by considering the place and possiblities of Mda's writing in the canon of Southern African Literature in the light of the rich heritage of elements that are magical on the sub-continent of Africa.
Spear, Keith. "A genetic model of duality in Latin American magical realism /." View online, 1995. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998781347.pdf.
Full textRourke, Warren Jeremy. "K. Sello Duiker's realism: form, critique, and floating kingdoms." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27551.
Full textMathews, Peter David 1975. "Strategies of realism : realist fiction and postmodern theory." Monash University, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8656.
Full textBrindley, Nicola. "Writing complexity : the American novel and systems realism." Thesis, Keele University, 2014. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/3216/.
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