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Browning, Veronica. "Speaking time : intersections of literature and chronosophy /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9515.
Full textSugden, Edward. "American literature and global time, 1812-59." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0c1a68fe-2e17-48bd-851b-00133ca256f0.
Full textScheel, Kathleen Mary. "Space, time and the pilgrimage in modernist literature /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2076.
Full textCho, Ju Gwan. "Time philosophy in Derzhavin's poetics /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487694389392671.
Full textBarrett, Christine. "Navigating Time: Cartographic Narratives in Early Modern English Literature." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10320.
Full textBenning, Sheri-Lynne Marie. "In Ordinary Time." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6752/.
Full textBrown, Christopher E. "Writing Time: Dante, Petrarch, and Temporality." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:23845461.
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Cook, Jordan Ellington. "Space, Time, and the Self in 20th Century Literature." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1525456817163611.
Full textSkordili, Beatrice. "Destroying time topology and taxonomy in "The Alexandria Quartet /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU0NWQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=3739.
Full textManglis, Alexandra. "Fathoming the depths of Thoreauvian time." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0257d110-915d-4746-958b-eaf15e6e225c.
Full textChoi, Stephanie Lynne, and Stephanie Lynne Choi. "Human Experience in a Time of Climate Change through Literature." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624940.
Full textRubenzer, Carly J. "A comprehensive literature review on childbirth a time of options /." Online version, 2008. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2008/2008rubenzerc.pdf.
Full textClancy, Brian Thomas. "From Time to Totality| The Aesthetic Temporality of Objecthood." Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10687332.
Full textThis dissertation constructs a philosophy of perception that creates what I call a “perceptive ontology of objects.” This ontology emphasizes, not the subjective perspectivalism of human identity, but the dynamic emergence of objects into objecthood through impersonal modalities of space, time, light, and sound. Objecthood is an attempt to render perceptive experience as something neither wholly subjective nor wholly objective. Here objects are connected with subjectivity and yet still external. I argue that modernist authors present changeable, novelistic surfaces, which submit the novel’s material objects to epistemological doubt. This creates radically interruptive moments of heightened perception, rupturing immediate experience from the more conventionally mimetic, referential, and social surfaces of the novel found within literary realism. These perceptive experiences create representational effects which I call “the mimesis of sensation.” This creates a sensory surface in the story world through which the reader aligns with the perceptive experiences of characters. This form of readerly connection is distinct from either Aristotelian empathy on the one hand, or Brechtian estrangement, on the other. “The moment,” a temporality distinct from the present, the modernist works of authors like Mallarmé, Woolf, Joyce, and Kafka foreground perception itself, altering visions of time to construct discrete and static temporalities. These discontinuous moments create forms of abstract continuity. They thus create a dialectical relationship with narrative.
These event-like ruptures, occurring through encounters with the surface of objects, offer two distinct notions of time that could serve as alternatives to the post-structuralist critique of the materiality of the signifier as seen in theorists like Derrida and Barthes. First, the surface of the text becomes an expansive medium of perception: a collection of perpetual gestures, interruptions, reflections, and possibilities which arises, not through linguistic play, but through a composite surface of language and perception. A totality emerges through perceptive processes in relation to this medium, not through the infinite deferral of the signified, but through the ongoing logical recession of the object through epistemological immanence. Here I also take an important departure from the work of other theorists of modernity—Baudelaire, Bergson, Benjamin, and Deleuze, and others—who suggest an imagistic immediacy to the experience of non-chronological time. My notion of the modernist literary object is distinctively not a ready-to-point-to image. I critique the centrality of images in 20th-century theories of temporality, arguing that modernism constructs moments of readerly critical alignment not through the satisfaction of visual desire, but by foregrounding processes of apprehension, perception, and inquiry: attempting to decipher an object which is never quite fully known.
Even as the modernist techniques I study draw attention to the artifice of representation and the difficulties of constructing knowledge, they also frame objects of perception, constructing scenes of aesthetic totality—available to the spectator so long as she acknowledges the mediated lens through which she looks. I see totality as the possibility that perception could be made whole, the possibility that there is a form of subjectless experience in which perceptive inquiry creates order (as forms of abstract continuity). These totalities, perceivable not in chronologies of external perceptible phenomena, but within impersonal faculties of apprehension, as they coincide with these forms of deeper time, also invoke pathos (through the acknowledgment of dimensions of fate). In four chapters, each devoted to a respective modernist author, the project shows how the works of Mallarmé, Woolf, Joyce, and Kafka reveal relationships between what I call modernism’s “moments” and the receding totality of the object.
Chapter 1 of the dissertation argues that a relationship exists between Mallarmé’s reception of impressionism and the poet’s linguistic theory. Here I examine Mallarmé’s writings on the impressionist plein air technique in his essay, “The Impressionists and Édouard Manet” (1876). Plein air means more for Mallarmé than just painting outdoors. Air, in Mallarmé’s eyes, is a full presence. Atmosphere is the key to a deep and abstract form of naturalism in his work. Other subjects in this chapter include atmospheric modalities like breath or respiration, speech and the sounds of words, or aspects of nature like weather. In Chapter 2, the novelistic objects of perceptive ontology in Woolfian impressionism create a temporal rupture from realism’s more conventional referential representation. I argue that Woolf creates another type of realism through her experiments with time. Importantly, I break from the work of 20th-century continental theorists of radical time influenced by Bergson (like Deleuze) in which the image plays a central, functional role. Woolf’s moments challenge the idea of a Bergsonian image-form not subject to doubt in order to open the imaginative field of literature to what I call “the mimesis of sensation.” (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.)
Romanow, Rebecca Fine. "The postcolonial body in queer space and time /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2006. http://0-digitalcommons.uri.edu.helin.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3225329.
Full textWalts, Dawn Simmons. "Time's reckoning time, value and the mercantile class in late medieval English literature /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1185814575.
Full textSassone, Robert Louis. "Time and Beowulf : the impact on Anglo-Saxon poetry of Christian and non-Christian Germanic traditions regarding time." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312486.
Full textWickerson, Erica Harriett. "Towards an architecture of narrative time : telling subjective time in selected works by Thomas Mann and other writers." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708875.
Full textSmethurst, Paul. "Space, time and place in the postmodern novel." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309297.
Full textMcNeill, W. A. C. "Heidegger and the modification of 'Being and Time'." Thesis, University of Essex, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.374717.
Full textRotondi, Zeno. "Current controversies in the literature on time inconsistency and monetary policy." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326574.
Full textBraun, Ashley Nicole. "Between the ticks of the clock: time in children's fantasy literature." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/192294.
Full textRadford, Andrew. "The discoveries of time in Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels." Thesis, University of York, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286037.
Full textFrank, Rebecca M. "The Last Time I Saw Manila." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337007672.
Full textHarradine, David John. "Chronographies : performance, death and the writing of time." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2005. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1855.
Full textSomervell, Tess Elizabeth Sophie. "Reading time in Paradise lost, The Seasons, and The Prelude." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709447.
Full textMcDowall, John Charles. "The time of reading : artists' books and self-reflexive practices in literature." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20652/.
Full textPedersen, Henrik Bo. "The effect of time-restricted feeding on glycemic biomarkers : A literature study." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kemi och biomedicin (KOB), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-97732.
Full textPipes, Candice L. "It's Time To Tell: Abuse, Resistance, and Recovery in Black Women's Literature." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1278001806.
Full textPetrova, Erma. "The semiotics of time travel: Studies in simulation and causality." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6282.
Full textThompson, Sally Ann. "The prose of Iurii Trifonov : a writer and his time." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385470.
Full textCurran, Patrick M. "The Problem of Time in Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625884.
Full textKong, Kim-Por Paul, and 江劍波. "The child in time: postmodern representationsof childhood in the novels of Ian Mcewan." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31952045.
Full text林小燕 and Shiu Yin Lam. "The literary theories of Emperor Jianwen (503-551) and the 'Time-consciousness' in his poetry." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31213224.
Full textBullock, Kurt E. "Narrative space and time : the rhetoric of disruption in the short-story form." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1213154.
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Choy, Gregory. "Sites of function in Asian American literature : tropics of place, agents of space /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9454.
Full text白雲開 and Wan-hoi Anthony Pak. "Literature and the masses in China at the time of the MayFourth Movement." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1988. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3120885X.
Full textLevine, Caroline Elizabeth. "The collapse of realism : time, knowledge and representation in Victorian narrative." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362741.
Full textDillon, Brian. "The temporality of rhetoric : the spatialization of time in modern criticism." Thesis, University of Kent, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300481.
Full textVazquez, Amber Susan Cobb. "Common Ends| Death and the Poor in the Time of Dickens." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3607679.
Full textRepresentations of death in nineteenth-century British literature highlight the shared experiences of the poor and working classes and give voice to their common fears and perceptions. The poor negotiate their connection to the past, present, and future via spaces associated with death, which is indicative of the desperation of their situation as well as their differences from the middle and upper classes. This dissertation focuses on the period between the 1830s and early 1860s, a time of intense political activity by and concerning the poor. Charles Dickens, sympathetic to the lower classes and keenly attuned to his culture, offers a wealth of material to theorize the relationships between death, poverty, and literature. I also include texts by authors such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and George Eliot, as well as less-studied writers such as Thomas Noel, W.J. Linton, and Thomas Cooper.
The first chapter focuses on the workhouse, whose association with death arises from the lower-classes’ widespread fear of dying inside workhouse walls. In the second chapter, I argue that walking funeral processions transform the landscape, which becomes a space for social reunion and highlights the importance of mobility to class identity. Chapter three considers how the grave is used to recall the past and to contemplate the future in Dickens’s novels and in the works of Chartist poets. The fourth, and final, chapter explores the afterlife as a site to comment on and imaginatively correct the plight of the poor. The coda focuses on Our Mutual Friend (1865) to analyze briefly the use of the river as a space of death that encapsulates both danger and redemption.
Gallant, Alison Dara. ""The story comes up different every time" : Louise Erdrich and the emerging aesthetic of the minority woman writer /." Connect to resource, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1243523540.
Full textWeiss, Katherine. "“Response 2” of Carol Fischer’s “Dramatic Time: Phenomena and Dilemmas”." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2287.
Full textBarbieri, Marcio Jose Pivotto. "O tempo das formas em Grande Sertão: Veredas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8149/tde-02122011-130655/.
Full textThe aim of the dissertation is to analyse time in João Guimarães Rosas novel Grande Sertão:Veredas. Based on texts of Lessing, St. Augustine and Koselleck, it initially exposes some theories about time to arrive to studies of narrative time whose principles are drawn mainly from essays of Benedito Nunes and Mendilow. Based on these theories about time, the analysis is developed to present the forms of temporality in Guimarães Rosas novel. Thus, the dissertation inserts the work in Brazilian literary field in which the author wrote it. As a result, it quotes some references of historical time that are explicit in Riobaldo speech, such as the passage of the Prestes Column through Northern and Northeastern Brazil. By studying the scene descriptions, the images taken from the backlands, the allegories figured by natural elements (wind, river, buritis etc.), the dissertation shows the ways how several species of time appear represented in the novel. The last chapter develops the concept of time of the forms, demonstrating the ways the set up of the enunciation scene dramatizes categories of time. The chapter starts by the analysis of the organization of the novels structure, namely, a monologue, as a dialogue between an old farmer of the backlands and a \"doctor\" (doutor) of the city, in order to define the enunciations time (the present of narration act) and the storys time (the past actions and facts of the story of bandit (jagunço) Riobaldos life). Comparing Rosa\'s novel with two novels written by Machado de Assis (Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas and Dom Casmurro), the dissertation studies some similarities and differences that exist between the ways these authors structure their novels. Thus, it characterizes the fictional authors (in Machado de Assiss works) and the figure of the narrator (in Guimarães Rosas novel). Finally, it concludes that the organization of the first part of Guimarães Rosas novel whose turning point is the episode of Zé Bebelos judgment in the Sempre Verde (Always Green) farm is an objective correlate of the becoming another of the narrators identity. Since enunciation is defined by narrators present time (the narrator tells the facts of his life now), it produces past figures representing what he was (bandit (jagunço), shooter and boss of bands of bandits). The narrator blames himself on account of the consequences of his actions in the past, such as the principal one of them, the death of Diadorim. This narrative organization engenders forms of time that are exposed and studied by the dissertation
William, Jennifer Marston. "Zeiträume : time, space, and metaphor in German-language novels of the twentieth century /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486462702467453.
Full textSirls, Kathryn M. "There Is A Time." DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/959.
Full textCurtin, Maureen Frances. "It is Time for Voices in "Between the Acts"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625885.
Full textKick, Donata. "The time is now : the roles of apocalyptic thought in early Germanic literature." Thesis, Durham University, 2006. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4918/.
Full textNeal, Madelyn Grace. "Feminist Reclamations of the Patriarchal Representation of Linear Time in Film and Literature." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1624466870121231.
Full textCleary, Emma. "Jazz-shaped bodies : mapping city space, time, and sound in black transnational literature." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2014. http://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/2205/.
Full textJoyau, Isabelle Francoise Michele. "An investigation of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335734.
Full textAlderson, Simon James. "Iconic forms in English poetry of the time of Dryden and Pope." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283900.
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