Tesi: "Time in literature"

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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.

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Sugden, 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.

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American Literature and Global Time, 1812-59 explores the effects of the early stages of globalization on time consciousness in antebellum American literature and non-fiction. It argues that oceanic trade, extracontinental imperialism, immigration, and Pacific exploration all affected how antebellum Americans configured their national pasts, presents, and futures. The ensuing pluralisation of time that followed disallowed cogent conceptions of national identity. It analyses transnational geographies to examine how they transmit heterogeneous times. The project’s interest is in U.S. national sites that counterintuitively acted as fulcrums for the importations of foreign times and non-U.S. sites that interacted with and modified the homogenous progressive time of nationalism. As such, my project seeks to combine the transnational and temporal turns. It argues that the ethnic, racial, and geographic contestation emphasized by transnational critics found parallels in how antebellum Americans conceived of time. Conversely, it suggests that there were profound links between globalization and the sorts of instabilities in time identified by the critics of the temporal turn. Over its course my project identifies a series of “global times” that came into being in the years between the War of 1812 and the discovery of petroleum in 1859. These fall under three broad headings. First, what I term, entangled times that came about as a result of the movement of ships across borders and different social contexts; secondly, foreign local times that re-set the clock of imperialism and national progress; and, thirdly, a huge mass of reconfigurations in the origins and futures of the still-young United States.

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Scheel, 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.

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Cho, Ju Gwan. "Time philosophy in Derzhavin's poetics /". The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487694389392671.

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Barrett, Christine. "Navigating Time: Cartographic Narratives in Early Modern English Literature". Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10320.

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In the sixteenth century, the cartographic revolution was rapidly changing the experience of everyday life in England. Modes of thinking and inhabiting space (such as astronomy, trigonometry, surveying, and cartography) were advanced and refined, and in England, the map went from rarity to ubiquity in less than seventy years. Navigating Time explores how literary strategies changed in response to this rapid shift in the technology of spatial representation. I consider four epics, the epic being the early modern genre most overtly invested in matters of empire (and thus, in matters of space and history). Building on the insights of the spatial turn in the humanities, I argue that the epic offers a radical critique of the technological innovations of the cartographic revolution and the menace those innovations posed. Alongside this critique, the early modern epic outlined a new poetics centered on navigation. Epics by Holinshed, Spenser, Drayton, and Milton sought to encompass the representational possibilities of the map, but also to highlight and exceed the map's narrative insufficiency. Holinshed's Chronicles reforms the topography of the city, converting its streets and alleys into historical texts and presenting historiography and mapping as competing interpretive frameworks for urban space. The Faerie Queene redefines genre as the conduct of bodies in space, making it thus impossible to fix Faeryland as a mappable terrain, and asserting the continuous interpretation required by allegory against the compression imposed by the map. Drayton's Poly-Olbion seems at first to be a verbal map of Britain, but the poem quietly insists on the power of literature not to mimic but rather to supplant the world it describes, becoming the terrain a map can only represent. Finally, Milton's Paradise Lost creates a form of navigating without a destination, by transforming history into a geographic expanse that cannot be mapped, only wandered.

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Benning, Sheri-Lynne Marie. "In Ordinary Time". Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6752/.

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In Ordinary Time consists of two parts, a critical introduction and novel. Focused by my sister Heather Benning’s site-specific sculptural installations, the introductory essays perform a fine topography of place, specifically of the wilderness and watersheds of my natal home in central Saskatchewan, a landscape exhausted by the current reign of corporate agriculture. While each essay can be considered discretely, they are better read as a whole as themes, stories, and various thinkers are returned to in the manner of leitmotifs. With each return, understanding deepens and alters – this movement suggestive of the ongoing nature of my meditation on place, how it shapes who we are. To further trace my continued engagement with these themes, the introduction is interleaved with poems from my collection of new and selected, The Season’s Vagrant Light (Carcanet Press 2015). Similarly, In Ordinary Time constitutes an archive of the subtleties that generate a sense of place. Set mainly between the mid-1930s and the mid-1950s, the novel centres on eight-year-old Luke Abend and his mother, Magda, descendents of German-speaking, Catholic Russians, who immigrated to rural Saskatchewan to escape religious persecution. Their intertwined narratives, which give voice to the harsh exigencies of life on a subsistence farm, reveal that not only ancestral history and inherited faith determine identity, but also that intimacy with place shapes who we are. Refashioned from the remnants of the family farm, both In Ordinary Time and the introductory essays will stand in stark contrast with Saskatchewan’s corporatized prairie. These works will invite the reader in, even as she is expelled by the current un-livability of the milieux. By coupling the sensation of intimate dwelling with the contemporary reality of rural abandonment, these projects will make manifest the complex costs attendant to the dramatic shift in Saskatchewan’s farming terrain.

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Brown, 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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Trecento Italy, the century of Dante and Petrarch as well as the mechanical clock, represented a pivotal moment of innovation to formal measures of time. These creative expressions reflected transforming notions of ingenuity, and of man’s ability to shape the world and time in which he lived. While the mythic awakening of the self-conscious individual in Renaissance Italy has been largely demystified, criticism has tended to overlook the concurrent shifts to the Trecento temporal imagination, born of parallel practices that sought to recover cosmogonic secrets, and thus power over time. An intriguing conceptual connection lies in the multifaceted ingegno (and its Latin ancestor, ingenium), not merely a faculty or talent but a touch of the divine within, the dynamic enactment of which impels movement in, and beyond, time. Privileging the exceptional ingegno of Trecento to Quattrocento Italy, my dissertation engages in a three-part investigation of its manifestations, which evoke temporal tensions in the dialectic between particular and universal, finite ontology and pure existential being. Part one re-examines the mechanical clock, both a symbol and instrument, and its complex relation to bells in Trecento Florence. Informed by these symbols, part two, turning to poetic ingegno, conducts close readings of Dante’s Commedia and Petrarch’s Canzoniere — granting particular attention to the orologio of Paradiso 10, and the circularity of sestina 30, “Giovene donna sotto un verde lauro,” each emblematic of the manner in which the poets reconstitute time. Finally, part three considers the centrality of the human “maker” in the time matrix of Quattrocento Florence, juxtaposing the strategies of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Girolamo Savonarola to maximize, and transcend, finite time. This multidimensional approach not only excavates a more complete image of time in Renaissance Italy, but also reimagines the progression from Dante to Petrarch, and Petrarch to Italian poetry thereafter. The examination, I suggest, illuminates a paradoxical legacy: on one hand, in the glorification of man’s creativity; and on the other, in the existential anxiety of the time-conscious individual, endemic to modern chronophobia. The increasingly abstracted and self-referential time bespeaks a conspicuous absence of the sacred center, anticipating the transience that has plagued modernity.
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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.

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Skordili, 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.

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Manglis, Alexandra. "Fathoming the depths of Thoreauvian time". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0257d110-915d-4746-958b-eaf15e6e225c.

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This thesis endeavors to engage in contemporary Thoreauvian scholarship by providing an original reading of Thoreau’s works using a critical framework based on Wai Chee Dimock’s concept of “deep time.” As such, it argues that Thoreau’s infamous embrace of political and rhetorical dissent takes shape in his writings most strongly in his construction of time-frames that break with or stand against his contemporaries’ own use, sense, and measuring of time in antebellum New England. Focusing on two aspects of Henry David Thoreau’s work, the thesis argues firstly that Walden’s resistance to familiar, sequential understandings of time manifests in myth, wherein time and history are shaped holistically rather than sequentially. Secondly, it posits that Thoreau’s excursion narratives resist the dominant recordings of history of his time by forming alternative historiographies within their structures, accommodating otherwise silent or ignored historical elements, at the expense of otherwise smooth, uninterrupted narratives. Having thus established Thoreau’s temporal structures, the thesis goes on to look at Annie Dillard and Susan Howe in order to trace out Thoreau’s previously unacknowledged formation of temporal structures in his texts as a genealogy that emerges in late twentieth-century American literature. Consequently, the thesis provides an alternative reading of Thoreau that moves toward a rethinking of his location in nineteenth-century America and its twentieth-century literature.

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Choi, Stephanie Lynne, e 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.

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This paper analyzes two novels set in the current anthropocene1 era that show the complexity of the relationship between human systems and natural systems through specific climactically/environmentally destructive events. Both the novels Flight Behavior and Heat & Light show the intersecting conflicts arising from human relationships/systems, religious systems, and natural systems in the anthropocene through a realistic fiction story. The paper argues that these novels are not a part of traditional environmental novels, which are usually rooted in the science fiction genre, but are a part of a new wave and budding genre of climate fiction – a genre more aligned with realistic fiction, that creates plot lines representative of climactic change and environmental damage already occurring/will continue to occur without societal change. The novels represent how the genre shows climate change as the real and "wicked" problem that it, and this paper works to apply complexity theory to the intersecting conflicts of them.

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Rubenzer, Carly J. "A comprehensive literature review on childbirth a time of options /". Online version, 2008. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2008/2008rubenzerc.pdf.

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Clancy, Brian Thomas. "From Time to Totality| The Aesthetic Temporality of Objecthood". Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10687332.

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This 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 20^th-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 20^th-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.)

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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.

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Walts, 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.

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Sassone, 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.

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Wickerson, 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.

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Smethurst, 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.

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McNeill, 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.

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Rotondi, 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.

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Braun, 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.

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Radford, 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.

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Frank, Rebecca M. "The Last Time I Saw Manila". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337007672.

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Harradine, 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.

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This thesis explores the interconnecting themes of time, death and the subjective in relation to performance, the performative and the critical act of writing. It is structured as a heterogenous series of case studies of a range of performed and petformative events, each offering a focus for an investigation of how the key terms of time and death operate in and around that event, and of how those terms lead to other areas of investigation. It deploys analytical and conceptual frameworks from, amongst others, the disciplines of psychoanalysis, queer theory, cultural studies, the visual arts, literary theory and performance studies to develop a series of interdisciplinary readings of subjects including the perfonnative construction of subjectivity, the temporality of photography, the temporal and spatial aspects of domestic architecture in relation to performance and installation, and the epistolary exchange as performance event. The thesis also addresses the problematics of how to engage in the process of critical writing in response to the ephemerality of performance, and theorises "performative writing" in relation to the broader themes of time and death. A range of textual forms are deployed in the text, including fictional autobiography, love letters, instructions for scientific experiments, prose poems and fragmented essays in multiple voices. By repeatedly reinventing the form through which the writing is presented, the thesis also implicitly explores the limits of textuality in the context of the creation and presentation of the doctoral thesis itself.

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Somervell, 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.

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McDowall, 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/.

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This project proposes that the reading of an artist’s book is one that may entail an experience that is distinctive to the medium, one that encompasses a shift of expectations of what a book is or does. That there is an awareness of the book held in the hands, and of its interactivity and deployment in time, and that this combination of tactile and cognitive negotiation of the mechanisms of the book’s structure, sequence and content make for a particularity of engagement. As a dialogical relationship, coming from a personal and infinitely variable experience of the book by its reader/viewer, this is one that is inherently elusive and complex to analyse. In investigating the nature of the temporality of self-reflexive dynamics as an underlying characteristic of the medium, this thesis submits that the foregrounding of the synthesis in time of the mutable and the concrete may be an apposite and constructive approach to exposition and evaluation of this heterogeneous field. The development of this research and the setting out of the enquiry has been undertaken through the production and methodology of my practice, which takes such auto-reflectivity as manifest subject. The thesis approaches the questions by means of the allusion to the occurrences and strategic use of self-conscious metafictional play in literature, not as a directly comparative study but by appraising the effect in terms of relational, and at times implicit association. Following an outline of the contexts of the critical study of artists’ books and of structuralist and post-structuralist narratology and literary theory in terms of the specular, the main portion of the writing is in the form of self-contained sections, in each of which a range of figures and mechanisms are considered, forming an overall constellation of shifting interconnection.

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Pedersen, 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.

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Background: The prevalence of diabetes and obesity has been on the rise for many years and the search for new and effective dietetic solutions aiming at reducing calories, reducing body mass and improving diabetes has been ongoing. Currently, the intermittent fasting diet - the practice of alternating periods of eating and fasting - is gaining popularity. One of them is Time-restricted feeding (TRF), which time-limits energy intake within a defined window of time up to 10 hours per day without necessarily altering diet quality or quantity. A reduction in calorie intake, bodyweight, blood pressure, oxidative stress, inflammation biomarkers and triglycerides are evident with TRF studies conducted so far. Aim: The aim of the thesis is to investigate the effects of time-restricted feeding on glycemic biomarkers in human studies. Methods: A literature study is conducted with six chosen experimental studies which are primarily randomized controlled trials or randomized crossover trials with a TRF window of maximum 10 hours per day and predominantly with participants with overweight/obesity, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Results: Compared to either baseline and/or control group, fasting glucose was reduced in 3 out of 6 TRF studies, while fasting insulin was reduced in 3 out of 5 TRF studies and HbA1C was decreased in 1 out of 2 TRF studies. For postprandial response, 1 out of 2 TRF studies found a reduction in glucose and likewise for insulin. Mean glucose levels were reduced in 1 out of 3 TRF studies. Insulin resistance was reduced in 3 out of 4 TRF studies while insulin sensitivity was reduced in the one study measuring this. Beta cell function improved in 2 out of 2 TRF studies compared to the control group or baseline. Conclusion: There are indications that TRF has an effect on glycemic biomarkers and thus potentially being able to reduce the risk and/or improve the treatment of type 2 diabetes. But in order to give a more definite answer more studies need to be conducted. In general, these studies should preferably have more participants and be methodologically stronger when it e.g. comes to the control of the dietary regimen.

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Pipes, 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.

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Petrova, Erma. "The semiotics of time travel: Studies in simulation and causality". Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6282.

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The Semiotics of Time Travel: Studies in Simulation and Causality is a study of the philosophical/literary idea of simulation as defined mainly by Jean Baudrillard. The thesis, however, does not aim to be a commentary on Baudrillard. It uses his ideas as a starting point, and then proposes its own definition of simulation, with emphasis on temporality and causality. Specific cases of simulation are traced in Oedipus Rex, Macbeth, Italo Calvino's short stories, and Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy. In each case, a detailed literary analysis of the work is used to advance the theoretical argument. The approach is best described as interdisciplinary, covering a range of ideas in philosophy, semiotics, and literature. The strong unifying thread in all the chapters is a semiotic analysis of temporal paradoxes, as well as the underlying definition of temporal paradoxes as a subset of simulation, a connection whose various aspects are explored in the different chapters. The thesis also seeks to broaden the definition of simulation, making connections between simulation and other concepts, such as analytical statements (Hans Reichenbach), performative statements (Stanley Cavell), scientific observation (John Searle), narrative structure (Aristotle), and the nature of signs (Umberto Eco). The aim is a philosophical platform for the analysis of simulation as a tool for a semiotic analysis of temporal and causal paradoxes.

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Thompson, 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.

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Curran, Patrick M. "The Problem of Time in Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel"". W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625884.

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Kong, Kim-Por Paul, e 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.

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林小燕 e 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.

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Bullock, 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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This study traces spatial and temporal disturbances in the modem short story structure. Edgar Allan Poe's "indefinitiveness" and Kenneth Burke's "actualization" serve as historical foundations for this investigation, which leads to contemporary frameworks proposed by such theorists as Gerard Genette, Umberto Eco, Wolfgang Iser, Paul Ricoeur, Peter Brooks, James Phelan, and Susan Sniader Lanser. In particular, I explore how effect operates as a predominant concern of short fiction. Short fiction is a rhetorical interaction encumbered by spatial and temporal constraints, and its narrative teleology is necessarily disrupted by rhetorical techniques. Narrative's boundaries are purposefully violated, its tempo twisted and contorted, exposing a purposeful tension in the rhetorical engagement of author, text and reader. Instabilities crafted within the text disrupt time-space expectations of readers.Importantly, effect is perceived as a rhetorical device within short fiction, and so in this study the text serves as a site of transference privileging equally writer and reader. Conditions of possibility and understanding are invested in the text by the author through techniques of spatial disruption and temporal discontinuity, and then reinvested in the reader by the narrative through the text's generation of uncertainty. Short fiction serves as an invitation by the author for the reader to construct explanations; devices work to disrupt the time-space constraints of the genre, establishing as they do a narrative contract between author and reader that is resolved in and from the text.Burke considers this to be shaping prose fiction to the author's purposes, an act which "involves desires and their appeasements" - and one which purposefully aims for a particular effect. But what are the limits of purposefulness in short fiction? I examine both textual effect and reader affect, relying particularly on Iser and Eco, and turn to Brooks in conclusion to summarize the role of desire in and from the text, and to Phelan to critique the place of rhetoric in establishing and maintaining that desire. My analysis discloses that time-space disruption, employed as a rhetorical strategy by short story writers, serves to heighten rather than threaten the mediated engagement of writer/text/reader in short fiction, producing a measured effect.
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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.

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白雲開 e 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.

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Levine, 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.

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Dillon, 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.

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Vazquez, 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.

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Representations 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.

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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.

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Weiss, 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.

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Barbieri, 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/.

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A presente dissertação propõe-se a analisar o tempo na obra Grande Sertão: Veredas, de João Guimarães Rosa. Inicialmente, apresentam-se algumas teorias sobre o tempo baseadas em textos de Lessing, Santo Agostinho, Koselleck, para chegar às teorias do tempo da narrativa, cujos princípios são retirados principalmente dos ensaios de Benedito Nunes e Mendilow. Fundamentada nessas teorias sobre o tempo, a análise é desenvolvida com o intuito de apresentar as formas de temporalidade no romance de Guimarães Rosa. Assim, situa-se a obra no campo literário brasileiro em que o autor a escreveu. Como consequência, abordam-se algumas referências ao tempo histórico que estão explícitas na fala de Riobaldo, como a passagem da Coluna Prestes pelo Norte e Nordeste brasileiros. Por fim, estudando as descrições de cenas, as imagens criadas a partir do ambiente do sertão, as alegorias a partir de elementos naturais (vento, rio, buritis), pretende-se expor como o tempo aparece em diversos momentos do romance. No último capítulo, desenvolve-se a discussão sobre o tempo das formas, demonstrando-se como a constituição da cena da enunciação põe em jogo categorias do tempo. Parte-se inicialmente da organização da estrutura do romance, a saber, do monólogo em forma de diálogo entre um velho fazendeiro sertanejo e um doutor da cidade. Definem-se em seguida os tempos da enunciação (a narração a partir do presente) e do enunciado (os fatos passados da vida do ex-jagunço). Comparando o romance rosiano com dois machadianos (Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas e Dom Casmurro), apresentam-se as semelhanças e diferenças entre as formas de constituir as narrativas. Com isso, chega-se à caracterização dos autores fictícios (nas obras de Machado de Assis) e da figura do narrador (no romance de Guimarães Rosa). No final, propõe-se que a organização da primeira parte do romance de Guimarães Rosa, cujo divisor é o episódio do julgamento de Zé Bebelo na fazenda Sempre Verde, é um correlato da elaboração de um devir outro do eu do narrador, que acontece a partir da enunciação. Como a enunciação é definida pelo tempo do presente, o narrador, ao relembrar os fatos de sua vida, projeta outras figuras para o que ele foi (jagunço, atirador e chefe), pois se culpa pelas consequências de suas ações no passado, sendo que a principal é a morte de Diadorim. Essa organização da narração engendra formas de tempo que são os resultados que esta dissertação se propôs a discutir
The 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

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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.

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Sirls, Kathryn M. "There Is A Time". DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/959.

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This thesis consists of a creatively constructed nonfiction memoir told in eight chapters. It begins with an introductory chapter written in the present tense, in which the narrator struggles with the notions of life and death while wandering the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, France. She reflects on being among hundreds of thousands who have died knowing that, very recently, she almost died herself. The chapters that follow take the reader on a journey through the narrator's life and what led up to her near death experience. The story culminates with a return to the present, back in the cemetery, where the narrator comes to terms with the notion that her life is a gift. This piece is an examination of the human experience through one young woman's eyes, a look at life and death and the events that give us the will to live. The narrator explores her own diseases and observations about her own body in the context of the human experience--how we cope with disease and attempt to move past artificial ideals set for the human body, coming to a better understanding of ourselves

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Curtin, Maureen Frances. "It is Time for Voices in "Between the Acts"". W&M ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625885.

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Kick, Donata. "The time is now : the roles of apocalyptic thought in early Germanic literature". Thesis, Durham University, 2006. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4918/.

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This study investigates the different purposes for which apocalyptic thought was employed in early Germanic texts. The main focus lies on Anglo-Saxon sources. Both prose texts and poetry are taken into consideration, and cross-references to tenth-century material from the Continent are made wherever appropriate. The first three chapters provide an investigation of the ways in which Church authorities used apocalyptic material for purposes of instilling an urge to repentance and/or conversion in their audiences. Chapter 1 discusses patristic and Anglo-Saxon responses to the thousand years mentioned in Revelation 20 and finds a significant difference in the way the material was discussed by learned monastics and by populist preachers. Chapter 2 traces the Antichrist motif in Continental and Anglo-Saxon sources, with special regard to regional preferences in the treatment of the material. Chapter 3 broadens the view to consider Anglo-Saxon preaching in general. It discusses the different use of apocalyptic material by AElfric, Wulfstan, and the Blickling homilists, before approaching the prose and poetry found in the Vercelli Book and manuscript Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 201.Chapter 4 discusses material in Old Norse since sources relating to late tenth- and early eleventh century Scandinavia offer a unique opportunity to hear the voices of the laity at whom apocalyptic material was directed. The chapter starts with an overview of the conversion of Norway and Iceland by King Óláfr Tryggvason and his missionaries before moving on to discuss skaldic verse from the conversion phase. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the curious mixture of pagan and Christian themes in the Eddie poem Vqluspá. Previous studies on the Judgement Day motif show either a regional focus (e.g. Anglo-Saxon England), limit themselves to a specific genre of texts (e.g. Old English poetry), or focus on the act of Judgement itself and/or discuss descriptions of the tortures of Hell or the joys of Paradise. In contrast to these, the present study's comparative and interdisciplinary approach provides a more detailed picture of early medieval ideas about the end of the world, and responses to them by the laity.

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Neal, 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.

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Cleary, Emma. "Jazz-shaped bodies : mapping city space, time, and sound in black transnational literature". Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2014. http://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/2205/.

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“Jazz-Shaped Bodies” addresses representations of the city in black transnational literature, with a focus on sonic schemas and mapping. Drawing on cultural geography, posthumanist thought, and the discourse of diaspora, the thesis examines the extent to which the urban landscape is figured as a panoptic structure in twentieth and twenty-first century diasporic texts, and how the mimetic function of artistic performance challenges this structure. Through comparative analysis of works emerging from and/or invested with sites in American, Canadian, and Caribbean landscapes, the study develops accretively and is structured thematically, tracing how selected texts: map the socio-spatial dialectic through visual and sonic schemas; develop the metaphorical use of the phonograph in the folding of space and time; revive ancestral memory and renew an engagement with the landscape; negotiate and transcend shifting national, cultural, and geographical borderlines and boundaries that seek to encode and enclose black subjectivity. The project focuses on literary works such as James Baldwin’s intimate cartographies of New York in Another Country (1962), Earl Lovelace’s carnivalising of city space in The Dragon Can’t Dance (1979), Toni Morrison’s creative blending of the sounds of black music in Jazz (1992), and the postbody poetics of Wayde Compton’s Performance Bond (2004), among other texts that enact crossings of, or otherwise pierce, binaries and borderlines, innovating portals for alternative interpellation and subverting racially hegemonic visual regimes concretised in the architecture of the city. An examination of the specificity of the cityscape against the wider arc of transnationalism establishes how African American, AfroCaribbean, and Black Canadian texts share and exchange touchstones such as jazz, kinesis, liminality, and hauntedness, while remaining sensitive to the distinct sociohistorical contexts and intensities at each locus, underscoring the significance of rendition — of body, space, time, and sound — to black transnational writing.

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Joyau, 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.

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Alderson, 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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