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Chung, Yuen-lam Carmen, and 鍾婉霖. "Modern American women: victims or victors?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45007433.
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Chung, Yuen-lam Carmen. "Modern American women : victims or victors? /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31570835.
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Hicks, Amanda W. "A comparison of informal reading inventories : a literature review and case study /." View abstract, 2001. http://library.ccsu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/showit.php3?id=1630.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2001.Thesis advisor: Patti Lynn O'Brien. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Reading and Language Arts." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-44).
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Lucas, Regina Marie. "Ralph and Lily: Victims in a Boundary World." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626174.
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Martin, Jessica Held. "Victims and aggressors black and Jewish interethnic relationships in contemporary American literature /." Connect to this title online, 2009. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1249065641/.
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Keable, Penelope Susan. "Creators, creatures and victim-survivors word, silence and some humane voices of self-determination in apocalyptic literature from the Wycliffe Bible of 1388 to the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights of 1993 /." Connect to full text, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/407.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 1995.Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 21, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Studies in Religion, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 1995; thesis submitted 1994. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.
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Ue, Wai Hung Tom. "Victims of Circumstances: Victorian Realism and the Transnational Narratives of Dickens, Daudet, and Gissing." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=97261.
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Drawing on Hans Robert Jauss' theory of the horizon of expectations, I examine a character type that George Gissing identifies in the title of his short story "A Victim of Circumstances" (1893) as it appears in four works: Charles Dickens' Bleak House (1853), Alphonse Daudet's Jack (1876), Gissing's Workers in the Dawn (1880) and Veranilda (1903). This thesis reveals how these novelists converse about individual agency and deterministic circumstances. It argues that these three Victorian novelists repeatedly subvert simplistic readings of their characters as passive victims and, in this way, suggest the greater importance of perceptive social reading as a way of dealing with adverse circumstances. It thus illuminates Gissing's status as a reader and writer who is heavily influenced by his contemporaries, and sheds light, to a limited extent, on the impacts of both Dickens on French literature and Daudet on Victorian British literature.Par l'entremise du cadre théorique d'horizon des attentes développé par Hans Robert Jauss, cette thèse examine le type de personnage que George Gissing caractérise dans le titre de son conte "A Victim of Circumstances" (1893), et ce, dans quatre oeuvres: Bleak House (1953) de Charles Dickens, Jack (1876) d'Alphonse Daudet et de Gissing, Workers in the Dawn (1880) et Veranilda (1903). La thèse met en évidence le discours de ces écrivains sur les choix de l'individu et les circonstances déterministes. L'argument avancé dans la thèse est que ces trois romanciers de l'époque victorienne résistent couramment à une lecture simpliste qui représenterait leurs personnages comme des victimes passives, et ainsi soulignent l'importance d'une mise en contexte social de la lecture afin de permettre la compréhension de circonstances difficiles. La thèse révèle que Gissing est à la fois un lecteur et un écrivain fortement influencé par ses contemporains. De plus, elle examine, dans un petit échantillon de textes, l'influence de Dickens sur la littérature française et celle de Daudet sur la littérature britannique de l'époque victorienne.
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Keable, Penelope Susan. "Creators, Creatures and Victim-Survivors: Word, Silence and Some Humane Voices of Self-Determination from the Wycliffe Bible of 1388 to the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights 1993." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/407.
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This analysis of apocalyptic rhetoric brings nine generations of the written text of the Johannine Apocalypse into a contemporary (1989-1994) framework which includes phenomena such as self-determination, mutual interdependence and psychoterror. The discussion is mediated by disciplines and backgrounds of Religion and Literature. The critical method is religio-literary. Literary themes from the Johannine Apocalypse, especially themes of annihilation, torment, blessedness and rapture, structure the discussion. These themes are related to ideas of self-determination such as were proclaimed at the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights (UNWCHR), Vienna, 1993. The discussion questions the axioms of self determination, especially the matter of indivisibility which came to issue during UNWCHR, Vienna, 1993. Some policies and practices of the Australian government's human rights activities are discussed. Attention is then redirected to the Johannine Apocalypse as a polyvalent source of apocalyptic ideation and a source of social empowerment.
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Esterhuysen, Marie. "Die drenkeling in die werk van D.J. Opperman, met spesiale verwysing na Joernaal van Jorik." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22009.
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Bibliography: pages 154-155.In discussing the drowning figure in the work of DJ Opperman, it is assumed that the themes of decline and resurgence are central to the work of the author. With respect to these dual motifs the following became apparent: (a) that the decline inevitably leads to new life, and of necessity, must precede it. (b) This universal paradox of decline and resurgance is characterised by an endless repetition in time. (c) Man as an individual is inextricably caught between the dichotomous forces of birth and death. The individual is recognisable throughout Opperman's work. Through man's intimate connection with water as a medium of birth and death, the individual or "enkeling" is also seen as the drowned figure or "drenkelingfiguur". Reference to this drowned figure carries the joint connotations of drowning or submergence and decline. The condition of decline indicates the disappearance of the drowning figure below the water-line or surface. Such alienation can also be brought about by means of other elements which can become the metaphorical equivalent of water as the medium of submergence.
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DeRusha, Tracy L. "A comprehensive study and critical analysis of literature related to violence in teen dating relationships." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2007. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2007/2007derushat.pdf.
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Ehlert, Cathy. "Adolescent dating violence a review of literature on development, prevalence, perceptions, help-seeking and prevention programs /." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2007. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2007/2007ehlertc.pdf.
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Clarke, Loretta. "The complexities of working with adult clients who have histories of severe childhood trauma a systematic literature review with clinical illustrations : a dissertation submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Health Science, 2004." Full thesis. Abstract, 2004. http://puka2.aut.ac.nz/ait/theses/ClarkeL.pdf.
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Braden, Heidi Elizabeth. "Lily Bart and Isabel Archer: Women Free to Choose Lifestyles or Victims of Fate?" ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/453.
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This thesis argues that Isabel Archer of Henry James’s novel The Portrait of a Lady and Lily Bart of Edith Wharton’s novel The House of Mirth were nineteenth-century characters struggling to assert their social and sexual independence in a male dominated society. Although Isabel inherits a fortune that allegedly enables her to have more autonomy than Lily, both characters are negatively affected by their inability to conceive of their lives outside of social convention.
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Imran, Arfa. "“I survived”: Coping Strategies for Bullying in Schools : A Systematic Literature Review from 2009-2020." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Jönköping University, HLK, CHILD, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-50396.
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Bullying has been recognised as the most severe problem for children in school settings in the past few decades. It can have a tremendous psychological impact on the child, which can affect not only his or her learning but also everyday functioning and overall well-being. Understanding how students handle ‘bullying incidents’ in different situations may help researchers set new foundations to develop more comprehensive and effective educational and intervention programs. The purpose of this systematic literature review was to investigate the use of different coping strategies for bullying in middle and high school children. A search for scholarly articles evaluating such measures has been carried out in ERIC, SCOPUS, and PSYCH INFO, which resulted in seven articles. 12 coping strategies emerged as a result which included self-control, compliance, relaxation, retaliation, seeking assistance, distancing, concealment, verbal aggression, self-blame, victimization, self-harm, and drug abuse. Coping strategies for bullying in these articles covered a wide range of essential aspects to counter bullying incidents and stress, bullying definitions, and bullying situations. Limitations and implications for future research and practice have been considered.
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Bullard, Angela Denise. "The representation of rape in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadias." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2826.
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This thesis examines the complex and conflicting arguments surrounding the crime of rape in early modern England and how the important literary texts, Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadias, explore the issue of rape. The thesis explores Sidney's attitude toward a system that sanctioned systematic sexual violence towards women as expressed in the text; as part of this it explores the way that the text differentiates rape from seduction.
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Williams, Jocelyn. "Canadian incest autobiography /." Internet access available to MUN users only, 2003. http://collections.mun.ca/u?/theses,177714.
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Keable, Penelope Susan. "Creators, Creatures and Victim-Survivors: Word, Silence and Some Humane Voices of Self-Determination from the Wycliffe Bible of 1388 to the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights 1993." University of Sydney, Religion, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/407.
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This analysis of apocalyptic rhetoric brings nine generations of the written text of the Johannine Apocalypse into a contemporary (1989-1994) framework which includes phenomena such as self-determination, mutual interdependence and psychoterror. The discussion is mediated by disciplines and backgrounds of Religion and Literature. The critical method is religio-literary. Literary themes from the Johannine Apocalypse, especially themes of annihilation, torment, blessedness and rapture, structure the discussion. These themes are related to ideas of self-determination such as were proclaimed at the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights (UNWCHR), Vienna, 1993. The discussion questions the axioms of self determination, especially the matter of indivisibility which came to issue during UNWCHR, Vienna, 1993. Some policies and practices of the Australian government's human rights activities are discussed. Attention is then redirected to the Johannine Apocalypse as a polyvalent source of apocalyptic ideation and a source of social empowerment.
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Mikhailovich, Katja, and Katja Mikhailovich@canberra edu au. "Making meaning of women and violence: echoes of the past in the present." University of Canberra. Education, 1998. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050810.164434.
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This thesis presents a feminist genealogy of ideas concerned with male violence against
women from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. The thesis has two
components: the first examines feminist, psychotherapeutic and socio-legal literature,
examining how knowledge about female victims of male violence has been constituted;
the second analyses memory work conducted with two groups of women exploring
personal meanings about victims and violence.
Each chapter describes pivotal moments in the history of women and violence showing
how seemingly disparate ideas emerged to become precursors of contemporary
knowledge which have given rise to a range of institutional responses to violence. Late
nineteenth-century feminists created new ways of speaking about violence against
women, however, their ideas were incongruent with prevailing discourses of the era.
The advent of Freudian thought also brought about a new language with which to talk
about violence placing the victim of violence firmly under the therapeutic gaze. During
the 1930s and 1940s the founders of victimology utilised Freud's work as evidence for
their proposition that female victims were often complicit in their own victimisation. In
the1970s feminists challenged victim blaming ideology and redefined violence as a
social and political issue. Twentieth century psychotherapeutic discourses tended to
position victims of violence within discourses of psychopathology. However, more
recently survivors have been defined in terms of traumatisation, constituting alternative
possibilities for subjectivity following victimisation.
The memory work used in this study enabled a consideration of the relationship
between discourse and women's understandings of violence. Although remnants of all
the discourses could be found in the women's narratives, some resonating with more
authority than others, no one discourse operated deterministically to totalise
subjectivity. Rather, it is evident that identities associated with survival are complex,
dynamic and fluid.
The legacy of the discourses described in this thesis continues to be apparent in
community attitudes, institutional responses to violence and survivors' concepts of self.
This thesis considers the potential implications of these discourses for women's
subjectivity.
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Kozee, Jeffrey Paul. "The dangers of credulity Mary Robinson and the trope of victimization /." Click here to access thesis, 2007. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/summer2007/jeffrey_p_kozee/Kozee_Jeffrey_P_200708_MA.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia Southern University, 2007."A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Art." In English, under the direction of Douglass Thompson. ETD. Electronic version approved: December 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-85)
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Resano, Dolores. "Of heroes and victims: Jess Walter’s The Zero and the satirical post-9/11 novel." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/458996.
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This dissertation analyzes a typically overlooked novel within the corpus of post-9/11 fiction studies, Jess Walter’s The Zero (2006), and puts forward some hypotheses for this under-examination. It suggests that the debates that arose in the United States in the wake of 9/11—regarding the status of fiction in the face of tragedy, the theses about the demise of irony and satire, the high expectations put on canonical authors to give meaning to the event, and standardized interpretations of what a “good 9/11 novel” should be—all contributed to construct readings of The Zero that fell within the somewhat prescriptive approaches established by the first wave of post-9/11 fiction studies, and thus overlooked the subversive potential of Walter's novel. While recent academic output is starting to explore The Zero in innovative ways, early reception of the novel failed to examine it conceptually and formally, favoring as it did a trauma studies approach that resulted in a bland analysis of the discursive exploration that the novel carries out. On the other hand, the novel’s use of satirical humor has been mostly ignored, and this is partly explained by the currency of outdated theoretical conceptions of what constitutes a satirical novel. Therefore, this dissertation carries out a revision of the theoretical corpus on narrative satire and proposes its renewal through the theories of carnivalization of Mikhail Bakhtin. Approaching the novel through the notions of satirical carnival, dialogism, and intertextuality reveals how satire is a very effective way of exploring and questioning the discursive apparatus that mobilized in the United States after the attacks. Such is the object of the novel, the interaction with, the representation and the eventual subversion of a nationalist discourse that was underpinned by its appeal to foundational myths and cultural themes and that was highly accepted by the general population, which allowed the Bush administration to respond to the attacks in military terms and to suspend certain rights and freedoms on the domestic front, under the premise of promoting security. This dissertation seeks to demonstrate how satire understood this way is especially suited for constructing a dialogical, polyphonic and inquisitive narrative that not only questions but also dialogues with the American nation after 9/11.La presente tesis explora una novela poco estudiada del corpus de ficción post-11-S, The Zero (2006), de Jess Walter, y propone algunas hipótesis que puedan explicar esta falta de atención. Se sugiere que los debates que se originaron en los Estados Unidos tras el 11-S—respecto al estatus de la ficción frente a la tragedia, la supuesta falta de adecuación del humor satírico e irónico para explicarla, las grandes expectativas depositadas en los autores canónicos para que dieran sentido al hecho, y las interpretaciones un tanto prescriptivas y normativas por parte del campo de los “post- 9/11 fiction studies”—contribuyeron a determinar ciertas lecturas de The Zero dentro de los parámetros establecidos por la primera ola de ficción post-11-S, pasando por alto el potencial subversivo de la novela de Walter. La recepción temprana de la novela ha tendido a desatender el análisis formal y conceptual de The Zero al favorecer una aproximación desde los estudios del trauma que resulta en un análisis insustancial de la exploración discursiva que la novela lleva a cabo. Por otra parte, se ha ignorado casi por completo su uso del humor satírico, y ello en parte se explica por ciertas concepciones teóricas un tanto parciales y anticuadas sobre qué es una novela satírica. Por lo tanto, la tesis lleva a cabo una revisión del corpus teórico sobre la sátira narrativa y propone su renovación a través de las teorías de carnivalización de Mikhail Bakhtin. La aproximación a la novela desde las nociones de carnaval satírico, dialogismo, e intertextualidad revela como la sátira es un modo muy efectivo de explorar y cuestionar el aparato discursivo que se movilizó en Estados Unidos tras los atentados. Tal es el objeto de la novela, la interacción con, representación y eventual subversión de un discurso nacionalista que se sostuvo por la apelación a mitos fundacionales y temas culturales de alta aceptación entre la población, lo cual permitió una respuesta militar y el abandono de ciertas libertades en el frente doméstico con el fin de garantizar la seguridad. La tesis busca demostrar como la sátira entendida de este modo es especialmente idónea para construir un relato dialógico, polifónico e inquisidor que no solo cuestione sino que dialogue con la nación estadounidense tras el 11-S.
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Fetile, Khanyisa. "An analysis of the representation of sexual abuse in selected post-apartheid novels." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/3822.
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This study examines the way in which three South African novelists, K. Sello Duiker, Phaswane Mpe and Sindiwe Magona portray the sexual abuse of men and women in the post-apartheid era. The novels under discussion are: Thirteen Cents (2000) and The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001) by K.Sello Duiker, Beauty’s Gift (2008) by Sindiwe Magona and Phaswane Mpe`s Welcome to Our Hillbrow. It will also look at the characters and the events to show that sexual abuse can be physical, traumatic and emotional, and that it affects both males and females, reinforcing in a sense Pucherova`s assertion that “both men and women are oppressed by a patriarchal heterosexist society” (2009:937).
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Vecchione, Nina. "The end of the world as we know it curing disability and recovering from victimization in Margaret Atwood's novels /." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1707435991&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Sielke, Sabine. "Reading rape : the rhetoric of sexual violence in American literature and culture, 1790-1990 /." Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press, 2002. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/prin031/2001036274.html.
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Vestal, Paul D. "Remember gay victims an exploration into the history, testimony, and literature of the persecution of homosexuals by the Third Reich and their effect on a queer collective consciousness /." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05142008-150238/.
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Vestal, Paul D. "Remember Gay Victims: An Exploration into the History, Testimony, and Literature of the Persecution of Homosexuals by the Third Reich and Their Effect on a Queer Collective Consciousness." The University of Montana, 2008. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05142008-150238/.
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The persecution of homosexuals by the Nazis under National Socialism during the Second World War has historically been ignored and almost completely erased. However, within the past two and a half decades a significant number of historical, academic, sociological, and literary inquiries and works have uncovered this once forgotten past. Because of these investigations, the anti-homosexual actions inflicted upon gay men by the Third Reich have the ability to impact the continual creation of a queer collective memory and consciousness. Unfortunately, many queers do not know the historic connotations and denotation of the pink trianglea symbol worn by homosexual males within the concentration campsnow so readily used by the queer community today as a representation of pride. By analyzing the history, testimonies, fictional account of gay persecution, and attempts of reestablishment in the usage of the pink triangle, this thesis seeks to establish the history of persecution of gay men as a solidifying piece of the queer collective consciousness. Such a collective consciousness will not only remember and commemorate those gay lives lost during the Holocaust, but it will also allow the queer community to have a viable political and social past and future that will allow such atrocities to occur never again.
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Hensley, Jordan C. "La Guerra Civil Española en la memoria histórica: Una conversación continua con el pasado." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1432737918.
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Ennis, Michael J. "The M.S. Wilhelm Gustloff in German Memory Culture: A Case Study on Competing Discourses." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396530744.
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Rathburn, Fran M. (Frances Margaret) 1948. "The Ties that Bind : Breaking the Bonds of Victimization in the Novels of Barbara Pym, Fay Weldon and Margaret Atwood." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278737/.
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In this study of several novels each by Barbara Pym, Fay Weldon, and Margaret Atwood, I focus on two areas: the ways in which female protagonists break out of their victimization by individuals, by institutions, and by cultural tradition, and the ways in which each author uses a structural pattern in her novels to propel her characters to solve their dilemmas to the best of their abilities and according to each woman's personality and strengths.
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Brittnacher, Hans Richard. "Erschöpfung und Gewalt : Opferphantasien in der Literatur des Fin de siècle /." Köln : Bölhau Verl, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb388850628.
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Adedokun, Mosunmola. "Workplace Violence in the Healthcare Sector. A review of the Literature." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-26486.
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Background: Healthcare workers are most at risk and most vulnerable toworkplace violence (WPV) when compared to other professions. Despite highrates of exposure to violence, it is highly underreported.Aim: To identify the prevalence rate of WPV and the existing demographicrelationship to WPV in the healthcare sector. To check for risk factors and healthimplications of this type of WPV on victims. Also, this research work intends tohighlight the proposed strategies and interventions that can be used to mitigateagainst this type of WPV.Methods: To achieve this aim, a literature review methodology was employed.The Malmö university library and google scholar search engines were utilizedwith several inclusion criteria to arrive at a total of 24 articles for this review.Results: Prevalence rate for WPV is high with the prevalence for non-physicalviolence being higher than physical violence. Age and years of experienceshowed a significant relationship with being a victim of WPV while gender didnot provide a conclusive result. There were few cases of physical injuries but ahigh percentage of victims of nonphysical violence suffered from psychologicaltrauma such as fear, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder - PTSD, andanxiety. Prevention strategies and interventions have been recommended byvictims and researchers of WPV.Conclusion: WPV is an existing phenomenon with adverse effects which reducethe quality of lives and services of workers. There is need for effective preventivemethods to reduce WPV such as the implementation of zero-tolerance policy toWPV, the presence of police officers in at-risk health care facilities andinvolvement of victims in the development of prevention strategies.
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Hogue, Kari L. "Representaciones de la Guerra Civil Espanola en la novela y el cine: Hacia una comprension del pasado y una reconciliacion con la realidad actual." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363358669.
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Jeo, Noella. "Perry Smith and Josef Kavalier : historical and literary victimized victimizers /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd938.D4.
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Chew, Ellen C. "Goethe’s "Gretchentragodie" in Song: A Multidimensional Woman, not Victim." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1458893328.
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Aubert, Melanie. ""Last days of the victim": A case study in translating Argentine crime fiction." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28443.
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This thesis is based on the author's English translation of key passages of an Argentine crime novel: Jose Pablo Feinmann's Ultimos dias de la victima (1979). The thesis establishes a theoretical framework revolving around the original text and its translation. This theoretical framework examines the novel's place in the history of the crime fiction genre in Argentina, translation's role in this history, the socio-political context in which the novel was created, and the linguistic, cultural, stylistic, and interpretive challenges of its translation. Most importantly, this thesis will examine how the novel can be translated for an audience who might not be aware of the socio-political situation that provides the context for a number of interpretations of this story.
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Standen, Alex May. "Re-thinking the victim : representations of gender violence in the narratives of Dacia Maraini." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/2914/.
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This thesis explores representations of gender violence in the works of Dacia Maraini, tracing a pathway from early novels in which her protagonists suffer predominantly non-physical oppression, to later works which foreground victims of more extreme bodily violence. Taking a chronological approach, it contextualises her work and situates individual texts in their broader cultural framework, highlighting the changes and continuities that these differing backgrounds have provoked. Maraini’s unique position as both author and social commentator is similarly established, with the interplay of her narrative and feminist commitment emerging as a central concern. Fundamental to the thesis is the figure of the female victim, through whom motifs that are recurrent in Maraini’s oeuvre are identified and analysed. The thesis proposes two main lines of argument. Firstly, that there is a change in the way in which Maraini represents gender violence: from signifying one manifestation of women’s overall oppression under patriarchy, it becomes the dominant theme in a number of texts, presented as a specific phenomenon to be understood and exposed. Secondly, that whilst in many of her early texts her protagonists develop strategies for resisting their abusive situations, Maraini’s later female victims demonstrate little agency and, moreover, appear to submit to the violence they undergo.
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Dornelles, Clara Zeni Camargo. "Co-constructing the victim in counseling sessions for couples at the Women's Police Station." Florianópolis, SC, 2000. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/78687.
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Este estudo descreve sessões de orientação em que um casal com problemas conjugais e uma assistente social se encontram para falar sobre os problemas do casal, na Delegacia da Mulher de Florianópolis, Brasil. Seguindo perspectivas de estudos da fala em interação e métodos microetnográficos de pesquisa (Erickson & Shultz, 1981; Erickson, 1992), descrevo as principais atividades de fala (Gumperz, 1982) e realizações dos participantes no evento. Estas atividades-as falas mecânica, sobre o problema, de conselho e de acordo-foram identificadas pela análise dos modelos de participação (Goodwin, 1990) estabelecidos. É na fala sobre o problema que se realiza a tarefa interacional mais importante: a co-construção da vítima. Embora as ações dos participantes se orientem para a pauta institucional (Drew & Heritage, 1992) do encontro, suas realizações podem desafiar ordens sociais pré-existentes. A análise do trabalho de face (Goffman, 1967) em um dos modelos de participação da fala sobre o problema-a disputa mediada/tribunal-demonstra que os procedimentos de mediação não são suficientes para evitarem os danos às faces do marido e da esposa, já que tanto um quanto o outro geralmente usam trabalho de face agressivo: protegem a própria face ameaçando a do outro. Nesses casos, o trabalho de face se torna trabalho moral (Drew, 1998) e ganha a disputa aquele que melhor projeta um eu moralmente correto e vitimizado. Enfatizo o caráter interdisciplinar do presente trabalho, que espero possa ser útil aos estudos futuros sobre questões de vitimização, violência conjugal e interação.
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Islam, Muntasir. "MODERN SLAVERY ACT (2015): A CRITICAL INSIGHT INTO THE UK’S FIGHT AGAINST SLAVERY & HUMAN TRAFFICKING FROM THE VICTIM’S PERSPECTIVE, A LITERATURE REVIEW." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24265.
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Modern Slavery is a complex type of crime. It may take many forms starting from the forced labor, servitude, sexual exploitation, organ harvesting, slavery, to trafficking and others. UK’s Modern Slavery Act, 2015 is undoubtedly an admirable effort to tackle such heinous crimes in the society however the act is criticized as weak regarding the victim support and wellbeing during and after the identification. All potential victims upon consent are referred at first by the first responders to National Referral Mechanism (NRM) process which is a UK framework adopted in 2009 in line with the council of Europe’s directives to identify & support victims of modern slavery. There are two separate guidance’s regarding the NRM process one is for England & Wales and the other is for Scotland & Northern Ireland. The aim of this literature review study is to explore the wellbeing status of the modern slavery victims during the post identification (NRM) period and how does the act support such victims. The study finds that it lacks a needs-based support system for victims that addresses issues like safe housing, advocacy, adequate so called “reflection and recovery” time period of support resulting in poor trust and confidence among the victim groups upon the authorities. Moreover, structural changes like amendments to the labor, immigration laws are required to make a long-term meaningful impact on the lives of the victims. At last the author provides some recommendations about the matters affecting the lives of the victims the most.
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Winters, Casey John. "Bullying in the Wizarding World: Victim, Peer, and Adult Responses in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9054.
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Bullying is a phenomenon faced by students worldwide, and bibliotherapy is one viable classroom strategy to teach students how best to respond to bullying behavior. Although ample research exists on appropriate picture books with bullying themes, few studies have analyzed the content of middle-grade books for effective responses to bullying, despite the prevalence of bullying among middle school students. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was selected due to its accessibility, its instances of responses to bullying, and its reader demographics. Researchers created a coding instrument to document all textual instances of bullying, victim responses, peer responses, and adult responses. Coders used this documentation to tally the frequency of various response types among victims, peers, and adults. Results from this frequency count were used to compare response types in the novel with research on response effectiveness--responses that reduce bullying and/or support the victim. Findings reveal that the most common response among victims, peers, and adults is "no response described."Among textual responses, victims commonly respond ineffectively through revenge-seeking, peers respond ineffectively by participating in the bullying, and adults respond effectively by listening to the victim or giving advice. Therefore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone represents a wide range of effective and ineffective responses to bullying, both of which can be presented in bullying discussions with students. Researchers include a table with bullying response examples from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to aid education stakeholders in using the novel for these bibliotherapeutic discussions
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Ryder, Emily Jennifer Hana. "Memory, perception, reception : following the fate of the victims of Italy's anni di piombo through the writing of their children." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7056/.
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This thesis considers some of those who were killed in politically-motivated attacks, often referred to as ‘terrorism’, which took place during Italy’s anni di piombo. Six works written by victims’ children will be used as a lens through which to examine the collective memory and the victims’ place therein. In recent years, there has been a shift in the way that this period of Italian history - the anni di piombo – has been remembered. Where previously the perpetrators of the violence of those years dominated public discourse, in the last decade the principal narrative has become more victim-centred. The biographical works written by victims’ children have inevitably contributed to this change in the memory narrative. The techniques employed in their writing in order to change the existing public image of their fathers will be analysed in this thesis, along with certain themes that recur throughout the six works and broader victim-centred discussion of this period. Analysis begins with a thorough outline of the political and historical context of the anni di piombo, including case studies of two of the most famous victims of this period and a consideration of the written works of some of the former terrorists. Following this preliminary contextualisation, each of the six books and their authors will be studied in detail to provide a foundation for the analysis contained in the final three chapters. The themes examined in the second half of the thesis are second-generation writing, forgiveness and commemoration. Using these themes as a framework, a rigorous investigation of the place that the victims hold in collective memory; the role their children’s writing has played in shaping and maintaining their public image and the longer-term impact that these changes can be seen to have had within a broader societal and political perspective is undertaken. On the basis of this study, it is evident that the victims’ place in the collective memory of the anni di piombo has changed dramatically since that period of violence concluded. The victims’ children have been very significant in enacting this change and their writing has placed them in a position from which they can continue to exert influence and promote a victim-centred approach to history.
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Wise, Anaïs L. "L’Ironie Mériméenne ou l’art de transformer le coup de griffe en coup de maître." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1353864469.
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McGuinness, Lucy Gabrielle. "A study and edition of St. Victor's 'Commentary on Lamentations'." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1998. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-study-and-edition-of-st-victors-commentary-on-lamentations(6a7eaafb-8853-46df-9c5f-a5207c6a5043).html.
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Olson, Danel. "9/11 Gothic : trauma, mourning, and spectrality in novels from Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Jess Walter." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/25276.
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Al Qaeda killings, posttraumatic stress, and the Gothic together triangulate a sizable space in recent American fiction that is still largely uncharted by critics. This thesis maps that shared territory in four novels written between 2005 and 2007 by writers who were born in America, and whose protagonists are the survivors in New York City after the World Trade Center falls. Published in the city of their tragedy and reviewed in its media, the novels surveyed here include Don DeLillo’s _Falling Man_ (2007), Jonathan Safran Foer’s _Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close_ (2005), Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s _The Writing on the Wall_ (2005), and Jess Walter’s _The Zero_ (2006). The thesis issues a challenge to the large number of negative and dismissive reviews of the novels under consideration, making a case that under different criteria, shaped by trauma theory and psychoanalysis, the novels succeed after all in making readers feel what it was to be alive in September 2001, enduring the posttraumatic stress for months and years later. The thesis asserts that 9/11 fiction is too commonly presented in popular journals and scholarly studies as an undifferentiated mass. In the same critical piece a journalist or an academic may evaluate narratives in which unfold a terrorist's point of view, a surviving or a dying New York City victim's perspective, and an outsider's reaction set thousands of miles away from Ground Zero. What this thesis argues for is a separation in study of the fictive strands that meditate on the burning towers, treating the New York City survivor story as a discrete body. Despite their being set in one of the most known cities of the Western world, and the terrorist attack that they depict being the most- watched catastrophe ever experienced in real-time before, these fictions have not yet been critically ordered. Charting the salient reappearing conflicts, unsettling descriptions, protagonist decay, and potent techniques for registering horror that resurface in this New York City 9/11 fiction, this thesis proposes and demonstrates how the peculiar and affecting Gothic tensions in the works can be further understood by trauma theory, a term coined by Cathy Caruth in Unclaimed Experience (1996: 72). Though the thesis concentrates on developments in trauma theory from the mid 1990s to 2015, it also addresses its theoretical antecedents: from the earliest voices in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that linked mental illness to a trauma (Charcot, Janet, Breuer, Freud), to researchers from mid-twentieth century (Adler, Lindemann) who studied how catastrophe affects civilian minds not previously trained to either fight war or withstand cataclysm. Always keeping at the fore the ancient Greek double-meaning of trauma as both unhealing “wound” and “defeat,” the thesis surveys tenets of the trauma theorists from the very first of those who studied the effects on civilian survivors of disaster (of what is still the largest nightclub fire in U.S. history, which replaced front page coverage of World War II for a few days: the Cocoanut Grove blaze in Boston, 1942) up to those theorists writing in 2015. The concepts evolving behind trauma theory, this thesis demonstrates, provide a useful mechanism to discuss the surprising yearnings hiding behind the appearance of doppelgängers, possession ghosts, terrorists as monsters, empty coffins, and visitants that appear to feed on characters’ sorrow, guilt, and loneliness within the novels under discussion. This thesis reappraises the dominant idea in trauma studies of the mid-1990s, namely that trauma victims often cannot fully remember and articulate their physical and psychic wounds. The argument here is that, true to the theories of the Caruthian school, the victims in these novels may not remember and express their trauma completely and in a linear fashion. However, the victims figured in these novels do relate the horrors of their memory to a degree by letting their narration erupt with the unexpectedly Gothic images, tropes, visions, language, and typical contradictions, aporias, lacunae, and paradoxes. The Gothic, one might say, becomes the language in which trauma speaks and articulates itself, albeit not always in the most cogent of signs. One might easily dismiss these fleeting Gothic presences that characters conjure in the fictions under consideration as anomalous apparitions signalling nothing. However, this thesis interrogates these ghostly traces of Gothicism to find what secrets they hold. Working from the insights of psychoanalysis and its post-Freudian re-inventers and challengers, it aims to puzzle out the dimensions of characters’ mourning in its “traumagothic” reading of the texts. Characters’ use of the Gothic becomes their way of remembering, a coded language to the curious. This thesis holds that unexpressed grief and guilt are the large constant in this grouping of novels. Characters’ grief articulation and guilt release, or the desire for symbolic amnesia, take paths that the figures often were suspicious of before 9/11: a return to organized religion, a belief in spirits, a call for vengeance, psychotherapy, substance abuse, splitting with a partner, rampant sex with nearby strangers, torture of suspects, and killing. All the earnest attempts through the above means by the characters to express grief, vent rage, and alleviate survivor guilt do so without noticeable success. True closure towards their trauma is largely a myth. No reliable evidence surfaces from the close reading of the texts that those affected by trauma ever fully recover. However, as this thesis demonstrates, other forms of recompense come from these searches for elusive peace and the nostalgic longing for the America that has been lost to them.
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Adjadji, Anani Guy. "L’enfant et la violence dans le roman africain de l’ère postcoloniale." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL047.
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Que ce soit dans le domaine médiatique, social ou littéraire, la violence, la guerre et la précarité sont des termes qui refont surface dans les différents discours portant sur la situation générale du continent africain. Dans la littérature spécialement, ces expressions dominent les publications issues aussi bien de l’ère coloniale que postcoloniale. Par conséquent, ce travail de thèse a pour objectif principal d’analyser les différents discours axés sur la représentation de la violence postcoloniale dans des œuvres romanesques publiées par des auteurs africains issus de l’Afrique d’expression française. Toutefois, en laissant en marge la figure du dictateur, cette thèse aborde la thématique des enfants, notamment celui des enfants-soldats. Elle analyse les dispositifs narratifs au moyen desquels les auteurs mettent en place un enfant ou un adolescent comme figure principale dans un contexte d’une écriture de violence extrême. C’est dans cette mesure que notre corpus est composé de deux publications d’Ahmadou Kourouma et une d’Emmanuel Dongala soulevant cette thématique de différentes manières. Publiées dans les années 2000 et à travers la mise en exergue du phénomène d’utilisation des enfants à des fins militaires, ces œuvres ont posé les bases d’une nouvelle structure narrative dans l’histoire de la littérature africaine d’expression française. Cette thèse démontre que l’introduction de la voix d’un enfant dans ces textes offre une vue particulière émanant de la classe inférieure de la société sur les violences postcoloniales. En outre cette thèse établit un lien de causalité entre la violence postcoloniale et la violence colonialeViolence, war, poverty and precariousness are typical terms, which are repeatedly present in different discourses about the African continent, be it in the media or in the social sphere. In literature, these expressions also dominate the publications of both the colonial and the post-colonial era. Therefore, this work has the main objective of analysing the portrayal of postcolonial violence in selected works published by African French-speaking authors, but without taking into account the figure of the dictator. It emphasizes the issue of children, most especially child soldiers. Moreover it analyses the narrative methods used by the authors, by means of which a child or teenager becomes the main figure in the context of extreme violence. Two novel publications of Ahmadou Kourouma and one of Emmanuel Dongala form the basis of this dissertation. These are works of two authors who, starting in the year 2000, created new structures in the history of French African literature by their intensive writing about the military use of children. It turned out that in their novels, the voice of a child offers a particular view from the lower class of society on postcolonial violence. In addition, the dissertation establishes a causal relationship between postcolonial and colonial violence
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Daily, Ruby Ray. "The Victorian Governess as Spectacle of Pain: A Cultural History of the British Governess as Withered Invalid, Bloody Victim and Sadistic Birching Madam, From 1840 to 1920." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2014. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/291.
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This thesis examines the celebrity of governesses in British culture during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Victorian governess-mania was as pervasive as it was inexplicable, governesses comprising only a tiny fraction of the population and having little or no ostensible effect on the social, political, or economic landscape. Nevertheless, governesses were omnipresent in Victorian media, from novels and etiquette manuals to paintings, cartoons and pornography. Historians and literary critics have long conjectured about the root cause of popular fixation on the governess, and many have theorized that their cultural resonance owed to the host of contradictions and social conundrums they embodied, from being a `lady' who worked, to being comparable to that bugbear of Victorian society, the prostitute.
However, while previous scholarship has maintained that governess-mania was produced by their peculiarity as social or economic actors, I intend to demonstrate that this nonconformity was extrapolated in visual and literary depictions to signify a more prurient deviance, specifically a fixation on human suffering. This analysis reveals that whether depicted in mainstream press or in nefarious erotica, popular interest in governesses was contoured by a fixation on their perceived relationship to corporal violence. Over the course of the nineteenth century governesses were increasingly portrayed as the victims of a huge range of internal and external threats, such as disease, sterility, assault, murder, rape, and even urban accidents like train crashes or gas leaks. Cast as flagellant birching madams in pornographic fantasy, governesses were also construed as deriving erotic authority through the infliction of pain on others. From imagining the governess as a pitiful victim of brutality or conversely eroticizing her as the stewardess of sadomasochism, all of these constructs rely on the dynamics of violation, on bodies that experience misfortune and bodies that mete that it out. Utilizing a wide array of sources and methodological approaches, I will demonstrate that the Victorian governess was not only popularly correlated with social or sexual irregularity, but that these themes were ultimately circumscribed by a larger preoccupation with the governess as an icon of violence and pain.
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Hultgren, Kristina. "Huis clos et le Triangle Dramatique de Karpman." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Franska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-36194.
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Ce mémoire a pour objectif d’étudier si les trois protagonistes dans la pièce de théâtre Huisclos, écrite par Jean-Paul Sartre en 1944, sont sous l’emprise d’un jeu relationnel, notammentle Triangle Dramatique de Karpman. Un Triangle Dramatique se compose de trois rôles, uneVictime, un Persécuteur et un Sauveur. L’essence du Triangle Dramatique est de déstabiliserl’autre et de répéter des scénarios de vie souvent dysfonctionnels mis en place tôt dans la vie.The objective of this research is to study whether the three protagonists in the theatre play NoExit (Huis clos), written by Jean Paul Sartre in 1944, are influenced by a relationship game, in this case Karpman’s Drama Triangle. The Drama Triangle consists of three roles, a Victim, aPersecutor, and a Rescuer. The essence of the Drama Triangle is to destabilise others, accordingto a life script that is often dysfunctional and set early in life.
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Pinheiro, Renata Kabke. "VIVIANE E MORGANA: UMA NOVA DICOTOMIA EM MEIO À TENSÃO DISCURSIVA DE AS BRUMAS DE AVALON." Universidade Catolica de Pelotas, 2011. http://tede.ucpel.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/164.
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Previous issue date: 2011-07-01This work comprises a linguistic-discursive analysis of the characters Viviane and Morgaine in the novel The Mists of Avalon (1983) by Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999). The main objective addresses the investigation of the presence of myths about the power, the role and the depiction of women in the discourse related to those characters within the book. The theoretical support is based on the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) model of Norman Fairclough (2001), the Systemic-Functional Grammar of Michael Halliday (1994) and Matthiessen & Halliday (1997), on the relationship among literature, discourse and gender (CRANNY-FRANCIS, 1990; FUNCK, 1998; et al) and on the concept of myth of Roland Barthes (1980). Divided into three chapters, after the theorethical part where we also make some considerations about gender we present the author, the book and the characters. Next, we describe the methodology used for the analysis and discuss the data with reference to: a) the depiction of women; b) the power of women, as belonging/granted to or taken from them; c) the role of women, with emphasis on the gender dichotomy and on the roles traditionally and hegemonically considered male or female . The study draws some conclusions about the permanence of myths related to the power, the role and the depiction of women found in the linguistic materiality of the text, despite the frequent classification of The Mists of Avalon as a feminist work. Furthermore, we propose that a new literary dichotomy that of "Bitch / Victim" instead of the well-known "Witch / Angel" is established in the work, perpetuating negative images of women at the same time that, due to the centering around female characters and the relative empowerment of women, a tension between discourses of patriarchal and feminist basis does not allow the text to be labeled as aligned exclusively with either of them
Este trabalho constitui uma análise linguístico-discursiva das personagens Viviane e Morgana do romance As brumas de Avalon (1983) de Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930-1999). O objetivo principal remete à investigação dos mitos relativos ao poder, ao papel e às representações da mulher que se fazem presentes no discurso relacionado às personagens dentro da obra. A fundamentação teórica busca sustentação na Análise Crítica do Discurso (ACD) de Norman Fairclough (2001), na Gramática Sistêmico-funcional de Halliday (1994) e Matthiessen e Halliday (1997), na relação literatura, discurso e gênero (CRANNY-FRANCIS, 1990; FUNCK, 1998; et al) e no conceito de mito de Roland Barthes (1980). Dividido em três capítulos, após a parte teórica onde também fazemos algumas considerações a respeito de gênero apresentamos a autora, a obra e as personagens. A seguir, descrevemos a metodologia utilizada na análise e discutimos os dados encontrados relativos a: a) a representação feminina; b) o poder da mulher, como pertencente/concedido a ela ou usurpado dela; c) o papel da mulher, com ênfase na dicotomia de gêneros e nos papéis tradicional e hegemonicamente ligados a eles. O estudo chega a conclusões quanto à perpetuação de mitos em relação ao poder, ao papel e às representações da mulher encontrada na materialidade linguística do texto de Marion Zimmer Bradley, apesar da frequente classificação de As brumas de Avalon como uma obra feminista. Além disso, propomos que uma nova dicotomia literária a da Megera/Vítima em lugar da já conhecida Bruxa/Anjo é estabelecida na obra, perpetuando imagens negativas da mulher ao mesmo tempo em que, com a centralidade nas personagens femininas e a concessão de um certo poder à mulher, um movimento de tensão entre discursos de bases patriarcal e feminista não permita que o texto possa ser classificado como afiliado exclusivamente a qualquer um deles
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Merchan, Sierra Monica. "Nymphes exotiques, indigènes victimes ou créatures vulgaires. Images des femmes grande-colombiennes d'après les voyageurs du XIXe siècle." Thesis, Lyon, École normale supérieure, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013ENSL0752/document.
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Mon travail de recherche se propose de combler des lacunes concernant l’iconogaphie des femmes sud-américaines. Etant donné l’absence d’écoles d’art ainsi que d’ateliers d’impression en Grande Colombie jusqu’à la première moitié du XIXe siècle, les images en général sont rares. Quand on en trouve, il s’agit des portraits de quelques femmes extraordinaires comme des saintes ou des épouses des hauts fonctionnaires, donc des représentantes d’une minorité aisée et créole. Les artistes locaux ont surtout peint les grands hommes et notamment les héros des jeunes Républiques. En revanche, sur la vie quotidienne de la plupart des femmes, qu’elles soient Indiennes, Métisses, Noires ou même Créoles, nous n’avons que très peu de témoignages. La Grande Colombie comme la Nouvelle Grenade, par ailleurs, souffrait d’un manque d’attrait. Cette région n’a jamais représentée dans l’imaginaire des voyageurs européens, les richesses légendaires des vice-royautés du Pérou ou de la Nouvelle Espagne (Mexique). C’est seulement à l’orée du XIXe siècle que cette zone équatoriale commence à faire parler d’elle et ce changement significatif est dû au grand voyage scientifique de Humboldt et Bonpland. Grâce à la médiatisation de ces explorateurs, un nombre important de voyageurs français décide de suivre leurs pas. Parmi eux, un petit nombre écrit et publie des récits illustrés. Leurs gravures et lithographies apportent donc les documents nécessaires pour combler en partie le vide pictural féminin. Ces images n’ont jusque là pas suscitées d’études historiques approfondies d’autant qu’elles ont longtemps été considérées comme des simples ornements accompagnant le texte. Cette thèse propose de démontrer, au contraire, le rôle primordial de cette iconographie, sa puissance symbolique et sa contribution au discours qui caractérise alors la littérature de voyage. Qu’elles soient guidées par des observations concrètes ou par la pure imagination, ces descriptions picturales et littéraires permettent de dégager les principaux stéréotypes élaborés sur les femmes grande-colombiennes et ce malgré leur riche multiplicitéThe aim of this thesis is to fill in certain gaps in the iconographic treatment of South American women. Due to the lack of art schools and printing workshops in Gran Colombia through the first half of the nineteenth century, images in general are rare. The existing works are portraits of such extraordinary women as saints or wives of important officials, thus representatives of a wealthy Creole minority. Local artists tended to choose as subjects prominent men, notably the heroes of the young Republics. By contrast, the daily lives of most women, whether Indian, Métis, Black or even Creole, were rarely featured. In addition, like New Granada, Gran Colombia suffered from a relative lack of attractiveness. In the imagination of European travelers this region never represented the legendary wealth of Viceroyalties like Peru or New Spain (Mexico). It was only at the dawn of the nineteenth century that this equatorial zone attracted significant interest due in large part to the great scientific exploration of Humboldt and Bonpland. Thanks to their many publications, a large number of French travelers decided to follow their footsteps. Among them, a small group wrote and published illustrated volumes. Their engravings and lithographs provide the material needed to restore at least partially the lack of female images. To this point such iconography has not generated in-depth historical study, since it has long been considered merely ornamental and secondary to the text. This thesis proposes to demonstrate the contrary by focusing upon the sizeable role of this iconography, its symbolic power and its contribution to the discourse then characteristic of travel literature. Based upon specific observations or drawn purely from imagination, these pictorial and literary descriptions enable the identification of the principal stereotypes developed to characterize Gran Colombian women, despite the fact of their rich cultural multiplicity
La presente tesis busca llenar algunos vacíos existentes en los estudios sobre la representación iconográfica de las mujeres suramericanas. Debido a la ausencia de escuelas de Bellas Artes y talleres de impresión en la Gran Colombia hasta mediados del siglo XIX, la producción general de imágenes era escasa. Los artistas locales apostaban por retratar a hombres influyentes, particularmente los héroes de la naciente República, y las pocas obras sobre mujeres que se realizaban correspondían a santas o esposas de los altos funcionarios, representantes de la opulenta minoría criolla. Son entonces pocos los testimonios iconográficos que se conservan de la vida cotidiana de la mayoría de las mujeres de origen amerindio, mestizo, negro e incluso criollo. La Gran Colombia sufría además de la misma falta de atracción que aisló durante siglos a la Nueva Granada: en el imaginario de los viajeros europeos, la región no se comparaba con la legendaria riqueza de los virreinatos de Perú y Nueva España. Sólo hasta principios del siglo XIX, la América equinoccial se convirtió en un centro de interés tras las expediciones científicas de Humboldt y Bonpland. Gracias a sus múltiples publicaciones, varios viajeros franceses decidieron seguir sus pasos, publicando, además, sus relatos de viaje ilustrados con grabados y litografías. Unos trabajos que proveen el material necesario para suplir, al menos parcialmente, la ausencia de imágenes femeninas en la Gran Colombia. Hasta la fecha, esta iconografía no ha generado estudios históricos específicos pues ha sido considerada siempre ornamental y secundaria frente al texto de los relatos. El objetivo de este estudio es entonces demostrar lo contrario, revelando su papel protagónico, su poder simbólico y su influencia en el discurso literario característico de los relatos de viajeros. Por tanto, ya sean inspiradas por la imaginación o guiadas por la observación empírica, las descripciones pictóricas y literarias de estos relatos permiten la identificación de los principales estereotipos elaborados sobre las mujeres grancolombianas a pesar de su heterogeneidad cultural
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Bruner, Brittany. ""This, too, was myself": Empathic Unsettlement and the Victim/Perpetrator Binary in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6284.
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At first glance, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a tale that reinforces binaries. One of these is the self/other binary that is central to David Hume's and Adam Smith's theories of sympathy that conceive of a self imaginatively identifying and experiencing fellow-feeling for an other. However, this notion is complicated because Jekyll and Hyde are the same person. Further, many critics argue that Stevenson actually challenges binary thinking. While Hume and Smith do not challenge the self/other binary in connection with sympathy, trauma theory critics do challenge a self/other binary that lies at the heart of sympathy: the victim/perpetrator binary. Noted trauma theorist Dominick LaCapra develops a method of empathizing called empathic unsettlement where a secondary witness listens with empathy to a victim's traumatic witness while recognizing the difference of his or her position as a witness. He argues that perpetrators may also warrant understanding, but this understanding does not come through empathy. However, one of the hallmarks of empathic unsettlement is that it does not neatly resolve or replace traumatic narratives. Therefore, I argue that empathic unsettlement could also be a useful method for allowing a perpetrator to witness. While practicing empathic unsettlement for a perpetrator may not be worth the risk in real life, performing a thought experiment in literature can test how using empathy might provide a better way to theorize perpetration. Using two witnesses who attempt to practice empathic unsettlement for Jekyll and Hyde, Dr. Hastie Lanyon (who fails), and Mr. Gabriel John Utterson (who succeeds), I will show how empathic unsettlement could be used for both a victim and perpetrator to tease out the complexities of assessing a traumatic situation.
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Wagner, Tsipi. "Secular Understanding and Shattering the Myth of the American Dream: A Chronological Analysis of Changing Attitudes and Depictions of Murder within the Twentieth-Century American Literary Canon." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/72.
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Extreme violence, which often results in murder, is a prominent theme in the American literary canon; therefore, it deserves a wider and more focused lens in the study of Twentieth-Century American literature. Murder and entertainment seldom coexist in canonical literature, but the very nature of the murder, foreign to many readers, consequently piques one’s curiosity, and demands special attention.
The literary texts I have chosen to discuss are four novels and three plays. They all belong to the genre known in literature as ‘a crime novel or play.’ The murderers are easily identified, and their criminal acts have been carried out successfully, often with much forethought and detail. My focus has been to conduct a psychological study to highlight the impetus for the crime. Three basic themes have captured my attention:
1- Is the murder a sin or a crime? What is the role of religion in the lives of the
accused?
2- Is it right to blame society for such horrendous acts?
3- How is the American Dream portrayed in these works?
The closer we get to the end of the Twentieth-Century, the harder it is to detect an affirmative ending in the works of literature I have explored. The insatiable appetite for material consumption overshadows the pursuit of happiness, or, maybe happiness is defined by material wealth. The critical question is: can American society read the warning written on the wall?
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Begines, Cerrada Francisco Javier. "Las contradicciones de Carmen en Cinco horas con Mario de Miguel Delibes : Una perspectiva multifacética de la mujer en el franquismo." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-37356.
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En Cinco horas con Mario, Delibes nos cuenta la historia de una Carmen que representa al sector conservador de la España de la época. Sin embargo, si profundizamos en el texto también nos vamos a encontrar a una Carmen que se rebela y que es víctima del franquismo. Esta tesina tiene como propósito demostrar que en el texto de Delibes va a aparecer una Carmen multifacética que hará que la novela consiga reflejar desde distintos puntos de vista la situación social en la que la mujer se vio envuelta durante el periodo franquista.In Cinco horas con Mario, Delibes tells us the story of a Carmen who represents the conservative sector of Spain at the time. However, if we delve into the text we will also find a Carmen who rebels and is a victim of Francoism. The purpose of this thesis is to show that a multifaceted Carmen will appear in Delibes' text which will make the novel reflect the social situation in which women were involved during the Franco period from different points of view.