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Aly, Islam Mahmoud Mohamed. "Using Historical Bindings in Producing Contemporary Artists' Books". Thesis, University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4811.
Texto completo da fonteHuggins, Linda Wreford. "Techniques in contemporary book illustration". Thesis, Rhodes University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008567.
Texto completo da fonteFriedman, Sara A. "The Legacy of Lynd Ward in Contemporary Artists' Books". Thesis, The George Washington University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10113266.
Texto completo da fonteLynd Ward, an American Expressionist artist, and “father of the graphic novel,” helped shape the conventions of contemporary artists’ books. His legacy has influenced the direction beyond the graphic novel in areas such as the use of Expressionism and printmaking in the artists’ book, breaking graphic conventions, and using the artists’ book to convey a socio-political commentary. This paper will explain his influence and legacy by comparing his work to four contemporary artists’ books. Ward’s work, however, has only recently been recognized as a significant influence on graphic novels and has yet to be fully acknowledged as an influence on American artists’ books.
Bell, Alice R. "Science as pantomime : explorations in contemporary children's non-fiction books". Thesis, Imperial College London, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/11844.
Texto completo da fonteSullivan, Joseph C. "Contemporary assessment of benthic macroinvertebrates and fish interactions in the Truckee River, NV". abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1472981.
Texto completo da fonteChang, Ching-Yu. "Little mouse : a journey : the making of a picture-book artwork". Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22870.
Texto completo da fonteBiressi, Anita Ruth. "True crime : a study of contemporary books and magazines in context". Thesis, University of East London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322426.
Texto completo da fonteYoung, Hiu-tung. "Problems of translating contemporary Japanese comics into Chinese the case of Crayon Shinchan /". Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B39848863.
Texto completo da fonteSharapova, Elisabeth Marklund. "Implicit and explicit norm in contemporary Russian verbal stress". Uppsala : Uppsala University, Dept. of Slavic Languages : Distributor : Uppsala University Library, 2000. http://books.google.com/books?id=tkhgAAAAMAAJ.
Texto completo da fonteKing, Zachary Harrison. "Comic book realism: sincerity, ethics, and the superhero in contemporary American literature". Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6782.
Texto completo da fonteYoung, Hiu-tung, e 楊曉彤. "Problems of translating contemporary Japanese comics into Chinese: the case of Crayon Shinchan". Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39848863.
Texto completo da fonteLewis, David Harry. "The metafictive in picture books : a theoretical analysis of the nature and origins of contemporary children's picture books, with case studies of children reading picture book texts". Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1994. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10021312/.
Texto completo da fontePalsdottir, Anna Heida. "History, landscape and national identity : a comparative study of contemporary English and Icelandic literature for children". Thesis, Coventry University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.247964.
Texto completo da fonteBleeker, Joshua James. "The Trinity and spiritual growth in contemporary evangelicalism". Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
Texto completo da fonteSOUZA, GABRIEL GIRNOS ELIAS DE. "DESIGN FICTIONS: GRAPHIC DESIGN AND PROFESSIONAL DISCOURSE IN CONTEMPORARY BOOKS OF INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE OFFICES". PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2015. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=25607@1.
Texto completo da fonteCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO
O trabalho investiga o papel que o design de livros impressos adquiriu na cultura disciplinar da arquitetura desde a última década do século XX, principalmente em monografias produzidas por expoentes com fama e atuação internacional. Compreendendo que o design de livros tem sido crescentemente usado como instrumento de constituição de uma identidade ou atitude pública de arquitetos., o objetivo do estudo é analisar se e como certos atributos do discurso profissional e mesmo da obra arquitetônica dos escritórios (que são tanto o autor quanto o assunto) se fazem presentes na configuração formal dada aos livros e, especialmente, na linguagem gráfica das apresentações de projeto contidas neles. Para isso, o trabalho contextualiza a inserção cultural e potencialidade expressiva do livro impresso em face à recente realidade de mídias eletrônicas e, especificamente, ao desenvolvimento histórico das relações entre a disciplina da arquitetura e suas mídias de difusão, apresentando também uma reflexão metodológica sobre os fatores, elementos e conceitos a serem considerados para uma análise do design de livros de arquitetura. A tese apresenta em seguida três estudos de caso, dos quais o principal é o influente S,M,L,XL, monografia de Rem Koolhaas e seu escritório OMA feita em parceria com o designer Bruce Mau (1995). Os outros estudos, mais sucintos, tratam de livros inspirados nesse primeiro caso: FARMAX: Excursions in Density, do escritório MVRDV (1998), e Yes is More: an archicomic on architectural evolution, de Bjarke Ingels Group (2009). A partir de paralelos e divergências entre esses três casos, a tese procura ressaltar aspectos relevantes das dinâmicas profissionais e culturais internas à disciplina da arquitetura na contemporaneidade.
The dissertation investigates the role of book design in architecture s disciplinary culture since the last decade of the twentieth century, especially in monographs produced by firms internationally famed. Considering that book design has been increasingly used by famous architects as a tool for the construction and display of public identity and attitude, the goal of this work is to analyze whether and how some attributes of professional discourse and even of designs from the architecture offices (who are both authors and the subjects), are incorporated in the formal configuration given to books and, especially, in the graphic language of project presentations in them. The dissertation examines the cultural role and expressive potential of the printed book medium in the context of recent times electronic media and, specifically, in the historical development of relations between the discipline of architecture and its media of diffusion. It presents a methodological reflection on factors, elements and concepts to consider for a design analysis of architecture books. Then, it makes three case studies, the main case being the influential S,M,L,XL (1995), monograph by architect Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) made in partnership with graphic designer Bruce Mau. The two other shorter analysis address books inspired by the first case: FARMAX: Excursions in Density, from MVRDV (1998), and Yes is More: an archicomic on architectural evolution (2009), from Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). Through comparing the similarities and divergences between those three books, the dissertation seeks to highlight relevant aspects of professional and cultural dynamics internal to the architecture discipline in contemporary times.
Opperman, Susan. "Transmuting the mundane into transcendence : migrations of myth and its connection to contemporary comic books". Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6823.
Texto completo da fonteENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the human capacity of modifying established myth in the light of new circumstances. It focuses on the changing status of myth and mythical cosmologies in Western culture as advances in telematics and techno-culture has led to the abundant proliferation of mythic content in modern society. The rise of scientific, secular and rational tendencies in the Occident has resulted in the demystification and negation of some myths and the cultural realities they once supported. Mythical symbols, however, do exhibit a certain degree of independence from their original set ontologies, growing and transforming continuously within contemporary culture as they are communicated to all social spheres. A particular focus is placed on the demystification of myth and its ability to be appropriated within other discourses, most notably fiction. As such, myth tends to exhibit certain migratory and conservational qualities that this study investigates. This serves as background for this thesis that is primarily located within the broader theoretical argument of myth as a system of world-representation in society, the main point of discussion is the re-appropriation of myth within the narrower field of visual signification, specifically the comics medium, as exemplified in the works of Neil Gaiman and Conrad Botes, as well as in my own work.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die tesis ondersoek die menslike kapasiteit om gevestigde mites te wysig in die lig van nuwe omstandighede. Dit fokus op die veranderlike status van mites en mitiese kosmologieë in die Westerse kultuur, aangesien vooruitgang in die telematiek en tegnokultuur gelei het tot ’n ryk proliferasie van mitiese inhoud in die moderne samelewing. Die opkoms van wetenskaplike, sekulêre en rasionele tendense in die Weste het die demistifikasie en negasie van sommige mites en kulturele realiteite wat hulle eens ondersteun het, tot gevolg gehad. Mitiese simbole vertoon egter ’n sekere graad van onafhanklikheid van hul oorspronklike vasgestelde ontologieë en groei wild binne die kontemporêre kultuur, aangesien hulle deurlopend gekommunikeer word aan verskillende sosiale sfere. Daar word veral gefokus op die demistifikasie van die mite en sy vermoë om geapproprieer te word binne ander diskoerse, veral in fiksie. As sodanig is mites geneig tot migrasie en die vertoon van konserverende kwaliteite, soos ondersoek in hierdie studie. Alhoewel die tesis eerstens gelokaliseer is binne die breër teoretiese argumentasie rondom mite as ’n sisteem van wêreldrepresentasie in die samelewing, is die kern van diskussie die re-appropriasie van die mite binne die smaller veld van visuele betekenisgewing, spesifiek in strippe as medium, soos uitgelig in die werke van Neil Gaiman en Conrad Botes, asook in my eie werk.
Bradley, Darin Colbert Ross John Robert. "The little weird self and consciousness in contemporary, small-press, speculative fiction /". [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3703.
Texto completo da fonteDiar, Fares Sonja. "All is well : An analysis of positivity through adjectives in two contemporary New Age self-help books". Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-40144.
Texto completo da fonteDitty, John Glenn. "A program for training preachers to use the historical books of the Old Testament in contemporary proclamation". Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
Texto completo da fonteKilpatrick, Helen Claire. "Ideologies in contemporary picture book representations of tales by Miyazawa Kenji". Australia : Macquarie University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/62731.
Texto completo da fonteThesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2004.
Bibliography: p. 301-332.
Introduction -- The significance of Miyazawa Kenji's ideals in (post) modern Japanese children's literature -- Re-presenting Miyazawa Kenji's tales: cultural coding and discourse analysis -- Tale of "Wildcat and the acorns" (Donguri to Yamaneko): self and subjectivity in the characters and haecceitas in the organic world -- Beyond dualism in "Snow crossing" (Yukiwatan) -- Kenji's "Dekunobõ ideal in "Gõshu the cellist" (Serohiki no Gõshu) and "Kenjũ's park" (Kenjũ kõenrin) -- Beyond the realm of Asura in "The twin stars" (Futago no hoshi) and "Wild pear (Yamanashi) -- The material and immaterial in "The restaurant of many orders (Chũmon no õi ryõriten) -- Conclusion.
This thesis investigates ideologies in contemporary picture books of Miyazawa Kenji's tales from the perspective of the acculturation of children in (post)modern Japan. Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) was writing in the early 20'" century, yet he is currently the most prolifically published literary figure in picture book form and these pictorialisations are widely promulgated to children and throughout cultural and educational institutions in Japan. Given Kenji's prominence as a devoutly Buddhist author with a unique position within Japanese literature, the thesis operates on the premise that the picture books are working, inter aha, to decode or encode the inherent Buddhist ideologies of self, identity and subjectivity and that the picture book re-versions are attempting to be 'authentic' to these. (Unlike many other works adapted for picture books, Kenji's original words are left intact.) Such selflother interactions are important to the construction of identity because childhood itself is an ideological construction premised on assumptions about what it means to be a child and what it means to 'be'; in other words, "such fictions are premised on culturally specific ideologies of identity" (McCallum, 1999: 263). Picture books, with their two forms of narrative discourse, pictures and words, are more ideologically powerful than words alone because the pictures also carry attitudes and therefore doubly inscribe both the explicit and implicit ideologies inherent in the words. -- By utilising Miyazawa Kenji's non-humanist Buddhist ideologies as a basis, this investigation compares how different artists are (re-)inscribing these ideals in the most frequently pidorialised versions of his children's tales. It is primarily an investigation into how the artistic responses re-situate or respond to ideologies of self and subjectivity inherent in a select corpus of focused pre-existing texts. Ultimately, the thesis shows how different pictures can shape story and how the implied reader is interpellated into certain subject positions and viewpoints from which to read the texts. This involves an intertextual approach which explores how art and culture interact to imply significance.
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Harel-Vivier, Mathieu. "Photographies, abstraction et réalité : l'agencement comme processus artistique". Thesis, Rennes 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014REN20025/document.
Texto completo da fonteDeveloped based on questions from the author’s artistic practice, this thesis examines the relationship between some artists, mainly contemporary, and the reality of the photographic picture, its ability to produce abstraction and to fit within a display. Considered here in a double perspective, the concept of display is seen, on one hand, as the process of the artist working with pictures and, on the other hand, as an organizational model that foster a variety of connections, like constellations do.Entitled “display’s conditions”, the first part deals with photographic acting-Out, the appropriation of a picture as well as the detachment that sometimes these two actions involve like in Christian Marclay’s and Wolfgang Tillmans’s practices. As an alternative to these various movements which spur on the artist’s impetus towards reality, photographic abstraction is considered for further study through the analysis of artistic works like Pierre Cordier’s, Michael Flomen’s or James Welling’s.The second part describes how the “display of pictures” is invested by a functioning that is a feature of editingand Warburg’s atlas. Several works are observed in which the display of pictures is delimited by the frame(John Baldessari and John Stezaker) scattered through the pages of a book (Hans-Peter Feldmann’s, LuisJacob’s, Gerhard Richter’s, etc.) and spread out in the exhibition space: on the walls, the ground and tables(Pierre Leguillon, Batia Suter, Wolfgang Tillmans). The interest is finally moved on the issue of displaytransmission, its aim of non-Hierarchy, especially in the context of public and private collections exhibited(Des images comme des oiseaux, Le Mur, Les Peintres de la vie moderne).As the outcome of this text that appears beside a series of plates, a new collection of annotated and captionedphotographs is developed, dedicated to the artistic practice of the author
Evans, Janelle Gay. "Letters, Books, ‘Parroquates' and Kangaroo Skins: An intertextual response to the correspondence of First Fleet Convict Matthew Everingham [1768-1817]". Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25721.
Texto completo da fonteDespain, Shannon Marie. "A Content Analysis of Family Structure in Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1930 -- 2010". BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3648.
Texto completo da fonteCole, Lorna. "An examination of the suitability of some contemporary South African fiction for readers in the post-developmental reading stage". Thesis, Rhodes University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003412.
Texto completo da fonteLeMoal, Lara Lise. "Rendering the visible world : a critical examination of internalization, representation, order, and naming in a selection of contemporary metafictive alphabet books". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43396.
Texto completo da fonteGhosal, Torsa. "Books with Bodies: Experientiality in post-1980s Multimodal Print Literature". The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1495399434096337.
Texto completo da fonteDomingues, Maria Izabel Velazquez. "Alasdair Gray's Lanark in the scottish contemporary scene : a matter of postmodern identity". reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/134290.
Texto completo da fonteThis is a critical reading of Lanark: a Life in Four Books, a novel by the Scottish writer Alasdair Gray (b. 1934), whose talent and style provide a fitting example of Scotland’s contemporary literature. The aim of this investigation is to determine the role played by Gray’s production in the literary, cultural and sociopolitical spheres of present-day Scottish life. In his blending of fiction and metafiction, of art and autobiography, the author faces the paradoxes involved in the attempt to stress the marks of a national identity. Gray’s work cannot be considered without recognizing that his literature is both local and universal. It belongs to the Scottish cosmos which is highlighted by cultural struggles as well as it is dominant, once it is carried out in English reaching readers all over the world from within the limits and format determined by the English Language. That is one of the reasons why this research aims to shed light on the current Scottish literary scene, attempting to fill an existing gap in the Brazilian academic curriculum respecting the treatment and approach of Literatures produced in English in our undergraduate and graduate courses. The dissertation is divided into three parts. The first contextualizes Gray in Scotland’s literature in its relation to the formation, ratification and revaluation of the concept of a sense of national identity as observed diachronically, throughout the period between 1940s and 1970s. The second section focuses on the new looks at Scotland’s cultural scenario by a distinguished group of writers burst with style, history and post-devolution vision, the New Scottish Writers. Gray’s strategies to deal with a fictional and biographical context in Lanark and his reflection upon world’s nature and worth are of great importance for this work. By the reading of Linda Hutcheon’s understanding on historiographic metafiction, intertextuality, parody and irony in postmodernism, I attempt to frame in Chapter Three the literary maneuvers Gray makes in using such textual resources in his novel. I hope that the result of this doctoral thesis may be useful both as a reflection upon the present state of the discussion about Scotland’s postmodern literature, and as a means of making the Brazilian academic readers more familiar with the work of Alasdair Gray.
Chan, Suet Ni. "In the periphery of the margin: white masculinity in contemporary American fiction /Chan Suet Ni". HKBU Institutional Repository, 2017. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/351.
Texto completo da fonteBradley, Darin Colbert. "The Little Weird: Self and Consciousness in Contemporary, Small-press, Speculative Fiction". Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3703/.
Texto completo da fonteReavis, E. "Adolescent Female Identity Development and Its Portrayal in Select Contemporary Young Adult Fiction". Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/116.
Texto completo da fonteSánchez, Txuma. "Prácticas artísticas contemporáneas y edición de artista". Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/458029.
Texto completo da fonteJohnson, Shelley. "This little chicken went to Africa : a historical survey into the development of narrative structures within relief printmaking in community centres in South Africa and a formal analysis of the relevance of the medium in contemporary children's picture book illustration". Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1725.
Texto completo da fonteWhen dealing with emergent literacy in South Africa, the didactic aspects of picture books are often privileged over their aesthetic quality and the idea of reading for pleasure. The themes of the books are not always locally relevant and for economic reasons, they often fail to reach the communities that need them the most. By looking at the history of relief printing within a community environment, I hope to highlight how communities themselves may be able to develop locally relevant children’s picture books, instituting a ‘grassroots’ approach rather than the paternalistic ‘top down’ approach of the past. I will also be looking at the narrative and stylistic elements of relief printing that are complimentary to the picture book genre and how these can be utilised for a pleasurable rather than didactic approach to the narratives.
Sharp, Christine Helen. "Aurora : an illustrated novella". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41466/1/Christine_Sharp_Thesis.pdf.
Texto completo da fonteMcGowan, Jack. "Slam the book : the role of performance in contemporary UK poetics". Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/89799/.
Texto completo da fonteFrist, Clayton Robert. "Adaptation in the German-Speaking Comic Book Genre: Perspectives on the Austrian Comic Book Author Nicolas Mahler". Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1433260874.
Texto completo da fonteGilfedder, Jeanette. "A Contemporary Italian Publishing Phenomenon: The Millelire Series". Thesis, Griffith University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367132.
Texto completo da fonteThesis (Masters)
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
School of Humanities
Arts, Education and Law
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Adema, J. "Knowledge production beyond the book? : performing the scholarly monograph in contemporary digital culture". Thesis, Coventry University, 2015. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/8222ccb2-f6b0-4e5f-90de-f4c62c77ac86/1.
Texto completo da fonteOLIVEIRA, ANA PAULA FONSECA DE. "HYBRIDISM AND THE EXPANSION OF THE NARRATIVE OF THE CHILDREN S CONTEMPORARY OBJECT BOOK". PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=31157@1.
Texto completo da fonteCONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Esta dissertação discute o hibridismo presente nos livros-objeto infantis contemporâneos, na tentativa de evidenciar como os fundamentos da natureza híbrida da linguagem do Design e a experiência intersemiótica revelam-se como interações presentes em enredos multissensoriais, expandindo as narrativas encontradas no livro-objeto infantil. O olhar sobre o ato de ler não se restringe à decifração de letras grafadas em qualquer que seja o suporte, mas se expande para a absorção das representatividades estabelecidas. O design de livros influencia a leitura não apenas em aspectos funcionais, mas também simbólicos e, por isso, pode ser considerado um mediador de leitura, que conduz o leitor em sua jornada. A dissertação apresenta a leitura de dois livros-objeto infantis selecionados nas obras de Kveta Pacovská e Roger Mello, designers/ilustradores/ artistas plásticos reconhecidos internacionalmente com o prêmio Hans Christian Andersen. Buscou-se verificar os processos com os quais são ativadas e ampliadas as suas histórias no hibridismo dos processos narrativos. Para isso, a dissertação se apoiou na concepção do híbrido como categoria analítica proposta por Braida (2012).
This thesis discusses the hybridism in the contemporary children s Object Books, in an attempt to elucidate how the hybrid nature of the design language and of the intersemiotic experience, reveal the interactions in the multisensory stories, expanding the narratives found in children s Object Books. A look at the act of reading is not restricted to the deciphering of written letters – in whatever sort of support, but in the absorption of established representativeness. Book design influences that reading, not only in functional aspects, but also in symbolic ones, and that is why it can be considered as a reading-mediator, driving the reader through his journey. The thesis presents the reading of two children s object-books chosen from the works from Kveta Pacovská and Roger Mello, both internationally recognized designers/illustrators and plastic artists awarded with the Hans Christian Andersen prize. In these books, the progress from which the histories were activated and amplified in the hybridism of the narrative process was accounted. The theses is based on the notion of hybrid as an analytical category as proposed by Braida (2012).
Winget, Lindsay. "What Is America Reading?: The Phenomena of Book Clubs and Literary Awards in Contemporary America". Thesis, Boston College, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/569.
Texto completo da fonteExperience as an English major, a bookseller, a publishing intern, and a reader has formed questions in my mind about why people read what they do. My interest is focused in two particular "categories" of literature that vie for readers' attention: book clubs and literary awards. Because my skills are in literary interpretation and not societal or industrial analysis, I explored this supposed dichotomy by reading and comparing books from each category. In the "book club" books (My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult and The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards), I found a remarkable familial structure at the core: a daughter with a medical condition; a mother struggling to cope emotionally; a father who distances himself through work and offers profound symbolism via a hobby; an older brother who rebels; an outside couple, professionally involved in the action and romantically involved in each other. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning books, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson and Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, stretch farther with voice, style, and imagery. I found them intellectually and personally more satisfying. In addition pursuing academic interests, I also grew to better understand the variety of purposes for which we read. Though I concluded that if all four novels were to be labeled, they should simply be named "middlebrow," I came to appreciate different writers' strengths — research, personal experience, mastery of language — even when they do not match my personal criteria as a reader
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2008
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
Discipline: College Honors Program
Baurin, Camille. "Le metacomic : la réflexivité dans le comic book de super-héros contemporain". Thesis, Poitiers, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012POIT5018/document.
Texto completo da fonte“Comic Book” is the Anglo-Saxon, more specifically American term employed to describe a specific material medium for comics. The epochal moment in the history of the comic book was the 1938 publication of « Superman », which marked the starting point of the hegemony of the figure of the superhero in comic production. Over the course of the twentieth century, authors and publishers have used various strategies for winning over readers and securing their loyalty. Among these, the technique of rewriting is the most significant. Thus, the superhero has been the subject of many reinterpretations, and consequently, has born witness to many facets of the United States’ history. The publications of the 1980s have seen the rise of a reflexive approach in which the superhero becomes an object of critique himself. This new genre is here referred to as Metacomic. Drawing on a representative body of works, the doctoral thesis at hand examines the strategies that constitute this reflexivity, as well as the multiple discourses that it gives rise to. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter gives an account of the comic book industry and explains its particularities, as well as the hegemonic position of the superhero genre in the industry. The second chapter attempts a definition of reflexivity in comic books, which permits to establish a body of works to be examined. The third chapter attempts an analysis of the ideological aspects of this metafiction in order to show how the crisis of the superhero reflects on a certain discourse on American history and politics. The fourth and last chapter examines how the analysed comics establish the superhero as an agent of imag
Guirau, Marcelo Cizaurre. "História e forma em Ragtime, The Book of Daniel e Homer & Langley, de E. L. Doctorow". Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-17102014-184030/.
Texto completo da fonteThe novels by E. L. Doctorow studied here draw a critically illuminating panorama of American History in the 20th century. In The Book of Daniel, we follow the trajectory of the American Left from the thirties up to the sixties. In Ragtime, the historical scenery is the Belle Époque and the ragtime era, from the beginning of the century up to World War I. In Homer & Langley, the time frame is broadened to include almost the entire century from World War I up to de eighties. In those novels, we find a dialectical relationship between the impulse to bring forth connections and represent a larger social and historical picture, and the difficulty of achieving such a project through the very language and logic of fragmentation which obstructs the making of articulations and renders representation difficult. In this work, I try to read the ambiguities and hesitations of the form in those three novels as productive uncertainties potential lessons to contemporary critical thinking. Novels such as Ragtime, The Book of Daniel e Homer & Langley are animated more by a hermeneutics of the concrete than by a poetics of relativity. The analysis of the representational strategies those novels employ to depict the historical material from which they are made shows how those narratives reinvigorate the historical novel today
Borgstrom, Liam. "Between a book and a soft place : an investigation into the contemporary teaching of typography and book design at South African Higher Education Institutions". Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59323.
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Lente, Sandra van. "Cultural exchange in selected contemporary British novels". Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät II, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17133.
Texto completo da fonteThis thesis analyses representations of cultural exchange in contemporary British novels in the context of migration and the British literary field. It offers a multilayered approach: the combination of cultural exchange theory and its categories with narratological tools do justice to the aesthetic side of the novels as well as their socio-political and historical contexts that are particularly relevant for novels dealing with migration. Cultural exchange theory analyses appropriation and transformation processes, i.e. how the concepts, cultural practices as well as representations change when they are transferred into a different cultural context. Furthermore, this thesis takes into consideration that all novels exist as material objects within a literary field that is affected by editors, marketing people, reviewers, and other agents. The results support the following theses: Contact and exchange are implicitly and explicitly depicted as something positive, with two of the novels emphasising the virtues of selective appropriation. However, the exchange processes mainly work in one direction only and contact between (British) Asian and (white) British characters is limited. The blame for this is often put on the immigrants and their families. The selected texts focus on obstacles and conflicts in exchange processes without offering solutions to the conflicts. In this context, religion or religious fervour along with a lack of education are most often depicted as the main obstacle for reciprocal cultural exchange. The aesthetic means employed are analysed as well as their effects, e.g. whether form and content reinforce each other or produce contradictions. Finally, the thesis shows which novels deconstruct and contradict existing stereotypes and which ones are complicit in reproducing them. Primary texts: Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003), Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers (2004), Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani (2006) and Maggie Gee’s The White Family (2002).
Callon-Wells, Nicole. "L'émergence de l'album de jeunesse contemporain. Ruptures et continuité". Thesis, Paris Est, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PEST0011.
Texto completo da fonteThe domain of contemporary picture books for children, in their multiple forms, is inventive and without formalized borders. It is shared between image and text, and presented as a hybrid form at with movable frontiers between illustrated books, picture books, comic books, and graphic novels. Our references are deliberately restrained to concern French language picture books and their development from 1945 to today, with a significant selection of works from author-illustrators. This makes visible the influences that have shaped today’s position: the status of the child in society, impact of technology, commercial needs, and major artistic trends. The analysis of the relationship between image and text takes us to question the place of the album in the iconotextuel environment. Is it possible to separate its singularity and for us to ask questions of the genre? After tracing the sources of picture books with the meeting dynamic of images and words from the Renaissance to the XXIst century, we analyze the emergence of the contemporary picture book, and its separation from comic books between 1900 and 1939. We can see that the very particular relationship that has developed between the physical book and the functioning of the iconotext, has led to the creation of a type between the two
Domingue, Etienne. "Vers une herméneutique pluraliste du religieux dans les récits de superhéros : une approche orientée par la pensée de McLuhan". Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/8813.
Texto completo da fonteDavila, Victor. "THE ILLUSION OF ART: MY AMALGAMATION OF ILLUSTRATION AND CONTEMPORARY ART". Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3753.
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Callon-Wells, Nicole. "L'émergence de l'album de jeunesse contemporain. Ruptures et continuité". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris Est, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PEST0011.
Texto completo da fonteThe domain of contemporary picture books for children, in their multiple forms, is inventive and without formalized borders. It is shared between image and text, and presented as a hybrid form at with movable frontiers between illustrated books, picture books, comic books, and graphic novels. Our references are deliberately restrained to concern French language picture books and their development from 1945 to today, with a significant selection of works from author-illustrators. This makes visible the influences that have shaped today’s position: the status of the child in society, impact of technology, commercial needs, and major artistic trends. The analysis of the relationship between image and text takes us to question the place of the album in the iconotextuel environment. Is it possible to separate its singularity and for us to ask questions of the genre? After tracing the sources of picture books with the meeting dynamic of images and words from the Renaissance to the XXIst century, we analyze the emergence of the contemporary picture book, and its separation from comic books between 1900 and 1939. We can see that the very particular relationship that has developed between the physical book and the functioning of the iconotext, has led to the creation of a type between the two
Papantoniou, Nowak Stéphane. "Le livre. Dedans / Dehors. Autour des éditions Al Dante : la question du medium : Livre, transmédialité et intermédialité. Contemporanéité et avant-garde. Questions de création littéraire et artistique. L'édition comparée". Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSEN002.
Texto completo da fonteThis doctoral thesis offers to study poetic practices in and out of the book from poets’ itineraries published by the Al Dante publishing house. The thesis is questioning the performance's notion, most often reduced to its scenic's dimension, but also the avant-garde's idea, too often limited to a political history which has ended. The avant-garde notion doesn't appear anymore as the element structuring the group but as an acting spectrality, leading to mix political issues - criticism of the institutions, criticism of the dominant language, challenges the places assigned by culture - with aesthetic issues. It is therefore a question of poetic translation as actualization of the political situation, and of transmediation. The stylistic approach has been gradually supplanted by a mediological approach to problematize heterogeneous practices. The Al Dante publishing house specificities allow us to see the book in a more general poetic ecosystem, where the book is no longer the only purpose, but the mediation between a process of creation and public events. So we can read this contemporary moment not only as the emergence of dominant themes, but also as a crisis of the book’s centrality and its economy. The Al Dante publishing house practices has led us to defend a theory of “editorial gesture” that cannot be reduced to the layout of manuscript or the production of a book and its marketing, but sometimes leads to the creation of books that didn’t find an editorial space. To push the boundaries of edition, to think the specificity poetry-action’s book is raising paradoxes: the disintegration of the linearity of the speeches, the reconfiguration of the page’s space, the specific adaptation of the books forms and fonts. These practices concern the book’s performative dimension. So it participates in a renewed way to a "typographic performance"
Wenzel, Jan. "Jedes Buch ein Sourcebook". Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-60999.
Texto completo da fonteAdams, Victoria. "Doing it by the book : the uses of paratext in creating expectation and determining structural genre in contemporary British fiction". Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1191.
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