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Estrada-Berg, Victoria. "Art Criticism and the Gendering of Lee Bontecou's Art, ca. 1959 - 1964." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5587/.
Повний текст джерелаMurray, Jessica. ""Notes for the Manual Assembly"." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1157616/.
Повний текст джерелаMalick, Neeraj. "The politics of laughter : a study of Sean O'Casey's drama." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39493.
Повний текст джерелаAbramowitz, Rachel I. "Donald Barthelme and 'Not-Knowing', 1964-1987." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c183d6a9-86f9-4337-b6c5-4efdc6dc0731.
Повний текст джерелаCranford, Dennis R. (Dennis Ray). "Harmonic and Contrapuntal Techniques in the Late Keyboard Works of Cesar Franck." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279361/.
Повний текст джерелаCollett, Rachel Joan. "Turning back : continuity and difference in modernist and postmodernist reflexivity." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4256.
Повний текст джерелаENGLISH ABSTRACT: The primary function of paintings and novels in Western culture has historically been considered the depiction or description of reality. Over the course of the last century, however, the inherent reflexivity of both art and literature has become progressively more insistent and programmatic, in such a way as challenges the relationship between form and the world. A re-thinking of the role of representation is thus central to both modernism and postmodernism. This thesis is an investigation into the relationship between modern and postmodern reflexivity. Through the close examination of four artists who serve as case studies, I argue that literary and artistic modernism‟s emphasis on form and subjectivity, as well as the tendency of postmodern art and writing to flaunt its own status as rhetoric/fiction, are different facets of a continuous response to a rapidly changing world. Using the insights of post-structuralist theory, I suggest that whereas modernism‟s reflexive drive is directed towards truth and self-knowledge, postmodern reflexivity is centrally concerned with the elusive, continually shifting nature of meaning. What emerges in the light of the practice of individual artist and authors, however, is that the modern and postmodern reflexive modes are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but can co-exist, producing a vital and necessary tension.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Beskrywing en uitbeelding van die werklikheid word geskiedkundig as die kernfunksies van skilderye en die roman in die Westerse kultuur beskou. Gedurende die laaste eeu het die inherente refleksiwiteit van beide kuns en letterkunde toenemend meer programmaties en sistematies geword. Dit het geskied op „n wyse wat die verhouding tussen vorm en die wêreld uitdaag. „n Herbesinning van die rol van uitbeelding of representasie is gevolglik van sentrale belang vir beide modernisme en postmodernisme. Hierdie tesis is „n ondersoek na die verwantskap tussen moderne en postmoderne refleksiwiteit. Deur „n noukerige ondersoek van vier kunstenaars se werk, stel ek voor dat die letterkundige en artistieke klem van modernisme op vorm en subjektiwiteit, sowel as die gebruiklike kenmerk van retoriek/fiksie, verskillende aspekte is van „n voortdurende weerkaatsing op „n vinnig veranderende wêreld is. Deur die teoretiese perspektiewe van post-stukturalisme toe te pas, stel ek voor dat modernistiese refleksiwiteit neig na die waarheid en selfkennis, terwyl postmoderne refleksiwiteit fokus op die onbepaalde en veranderlike aard van betekenis. Nietemin, uit my kritiese beskouing van die kreatiewe praktyk van afsonderlike kunstenaars en skrywers blyk dit dat die modernistiese en postmodernistiese refleksiewe benaderinge nie noodwendig mekaar uitsluit nie, maar saam kan bestaan en „n dinamiese en noodsaaklike spanning skep.
Sena, Yara Máximo de. "Uma leitura do Relatório do Inquérito "Leituras infantis" de Cecília Meireles." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/251328.
Повний текст джерелаDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: Este trabalho tem o intuito de tomar o Relatório do Inquérito "Leituras Infantis" realizado por Cecília Meireles com estudantes cariocas do terceiro ao quinto ano da escola primária, no ano de 1931 e publicado em 1934, como objeto-fonte de investigação, no âmbito das suas condições de produção. Conhecer e interpretar os dados oferecidos neste Relatório sobre as leituras e os gostos infantis nos anos 30, através das preferências e aversões quanto a livros, autores, gêneros e práticas de leitura indicadas sob o ponto de vista dos entrevistados. Apoiados nos estudos teórico-metodológicos da História Cultural (Chartier, 1990), compreendendo que é preciso desconfiar das respostas oferecidas pelas crianças, pois elas não estão num campo neutro, mas de lutas, competições e concorrências, onde os grupos tentam impor seus valores e concepções, indiciando o que liam, gostavam ou não e o que era desejável informar que lesse ou apreciasse. E por outro lado, a organização e a interpretação do Inquérito "Leituras Infantis" realizada por Cecília Meireles também se insere neste jogo de representações ligadas à história da leitura e da literatura para crianças de um determinado tempo e local.
Abstract: The present work has the objective of taking as source, in the scope of its writing, the "Relatório do Inquérito Leituras Infantis", made by Cecilia Meireles with students from Rio de Janeiro, from the third until the fifth year of primary school, in the year of 1931 and published in 1934. In addition, its purpose is to know and interpret the data offered by this report about the literature read by the children and also the children's preferred reading in the 30's, through the preferences and aversions to the books, authors, genders and the reading matter from the point of view of the interviewees. Based on the theoretical-methodological studies of Cultural History (Chartier, 1990), it was understood that it was necessary to be cautious about the answers given by the children, because they are not in a neutral field, but a field of fights and competitions, where the groups try to impose their values and ideas, indicating what they had read, liked or disliked, and what the child felt he should respond to the interviewer about what they had read or appreciated. Furthermore, the organization and interpretation of the "Inquérito Leituras Infantis" made by Cecilia Meireles, is also part of this game of representations connected to the history of the reading and the literature for children in a certain time and space.
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Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte
Mestre em Educação
Arima, Hiroko 1959. "The Theme of Isolation in Selected Short Fiction of Kate Chopin, Katherine Anne Porter, and Eudora Welty." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278060/.
Повний текст джерелаKruger, Marieke, and Marieke Malan. "Reflecting self : an exploration of drawing trace as reciprocity between self and life-world, with reference to my own drawing and selected works of Diane Victor." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96943.
Повний текст джерелаENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study postulates that drawing functions as a valuable vehicle that facilitates reciprocity between the drafter and her life-world. This relationship of exchange can bring about transformation of the self. The study is a qualitative study that aims to establish an understanding of how drawing functions as a vehicle facilitating reciprocity between the drafter and her life-world. In order to effectively research the transformative potential of reciprocity between artist, drawing, and life-world, theoretically and practically, the study is divided into two main parts. Firstly, it constitutes a theoretical section, which forms the foundation for further exploration in the second part of the study. Secondly, the study focuses on the practical manifestation of the theories as manifest in my drawings and in selected drawings of Diane Victor, whose work primarily functions as ‘a third person perspective’ in relation to my own work. The study is rooted in a psycho-analytical framework, focusing on Self psychology and Intersubjective Psychoanalysis of personality psychologists such as Jung, Miller, Goldberg and McAdams, amongst others, as well as the writings of philosophers, art historians and drawing theorists such as Jacques Derrida, Catherine de Zegher, and Suzi Gablik. Valuable links are forged between the transformative potential of drawing, the psychological and the spiritual. Parallels are drawn between notions derived from self-psychology and theology, based on the premise that human beings constitute body (physical aspect), soul (mind and emotion) and spirit, three components that are hardly divisible and that work together in drawing, effecting the transformation of the self. I argue that a failure to acknowledge the significance of the interactivity between these facets limits and inhibits the transformative potential of the drawing process. Through interactivity between the self and her life-world through drawing, moments of ‘recognition’ and ‘knowing’ occur - concerning hidden ‘truths’ of the self, which could affect personal transformation. In this study, life-world comprises inner and outer world, a visible and invisible world. The visible world focuses on the interaction of the self with nature and culture, and the invisible world focuses on the interaction of the self with a psychic world, which includes the workings of the conscious and unconscious mind in drawing and their connection with a spiritual dimension. The spiritual aspect in drawing is researched through the notions of transformative “presence” and the “transcendent function” of drawing. The study explores the psychological and spiritual value of drawings as transformative selfobjects to address the general neglect of the spiritual. I affirm that there exists a mutually conducive potential and influence that the interplay between the spiritual and the psychological in the drawing process bring about. As a “selfobject”, a drawing attains its own ‘silent visual language’ replacing or assisting the role of the therapist, becoming pivotal in a transformative ‘interpersonal dialogue’. Lastly, Jung (Miller, 2004:4) claims that the unification of the conscious and unconscious eventually results in “a living birth that leads to a new level of being, a new situation” (Miller, 2004:4).
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie veronderstel dat teken funksioneer as 'n waardevolle voertuig wat wisselwerking fasiliteer tussen die tekenaar en haar omwêreld, ‘n wisselwerking wat kan lei tot transformasie van die self. Die studie is 'n kwalitatiewe studie wat daarop gemik is om 'n begrip te kweek van hoe teken funksioneer as voertuig wat wisselwerking fasiliteer tussen die self en haar omwêreld. Ten einde die transformatiewe potensiaal van sodanige wisselwerking deur middel van teken effektief te bestudeer op ʼn teoretiese asook ʼn praktiese vlak, word die studie verdeel in twee hoofdele. Eerstens bied die studie 'n teoretiese gedeelte wat die grondslag vorm vir verdere ondersoek in die tweede deel. Tweedens fokus die studie op die praktiese manifestasie en toeligting van die teorieë in my tekeninge en in geselekteerde tekeninge van Diane Victor, wie se werk hoofsaaklik funksioneer as ‘ʼn derde persoon perspektief’ in verhouding tot my eie werk. Die studie is gewortel in 'n psigo-analitiese raamwerk, met die fokus op Selfsielkunde en Intersubjektiewe Psigo-analise van persoonlikheidsielkundiges soos Jung, Miller, Goldberg en McAdams, onder andere, sowel as die geskrifte van filosowe, kunsgeskiedkundiges en tekenteoretici soos Jacques Derrida, Catherine de Zegher en Suzi Gablik. Die studie het dus ten doel om betekenisvolle bande te smee tussen die transformerende potensiaal van teken, die sielkundige asook geestelike werking wat dit teweegbring. Parallelle word getrek tussen begrippe in selfsielkunde en teologie, gebaseer op die veronderstelling dat die mens bestaan uit liggaam (fisiese aspek), siel (verstand en emosies) en gees. Hierdie onderskeie aspekte (liggaam, siel en gees), is moeilik deelbaar en werk onlosmaaklik saam in die tekenproses ten einde die transformasie van die self te bevorder en te bewerkstellig. Ek argumenteer dat indien ‘n mens versuim om die betekenis en waarde van die interaktiwiteit tussen hierdie fasette te herken, word die transformatiewe potensiaal van die tekenproses misken. Teken kan derhalwe beskou word as ʼn effektiewe voertuig wat wisselwerkende prosesse tussen die self en haar leefwêreld fasiliteer, waartydens daar oomblike van ‘erkenning’ en ‘weet’ voorkom met betrekking tot verborge ‘waarhede’ van die self wat persoonlike transformasie kan beïnvloed. In hierdie studie word daar na omwêreld verwys as 'n interne asook ʼn eksterne wêreld, 'n sigbare en onsigbare wêreld. Wisselwerking dui op die interaksie van die self met die natuur asook kultuur as die sigbare. Wisselwerking dui ook op interaksie van die self met 'n psigiese, onsigbare wêreld. Hierdie psigiese wêreld van die self omvat die bewuste en onderbewussyn deur middel van teken, asook die verband met' n geestelike dimensie. Die geestelike aspek in teken word bestudeer deur die konsepte van transformatiewe "teenwoordigheid" en die "transedentale funksie" van teken. Die studie ondersoek die sielkundige en geestelike waarde van tekeninge wat as transformatiewe ‘selfobjekte’ die potensiaal besit om die algemene verwaarlosing van die geestelike aan te spreek. Ek bevestig dat daar 'n wedersydse bevorderlike wisselwerking en invloed bestaan tussen die geestelike en die psigologiese wat deur wederkerige prosesse binne die tekenproses gefasiliteer word. As 'n ‘selfobjek’ kommunikeer tekeninge deur hul eie ‘stille visuele taal’ en toon die potentiaal om die rol van ʼn terapeut te vervang, of alternatiewelik, te ondersteun, deur middel van visuele ‘interpersoonlike dialoog’. Laastens, beweer Jung dat die eenwording van die bewuste en onbewuste eventueel kulmineer in "ʼn lewende geboorte wat lei tot 'n nuwe vlak van bestaan, 'n nuwe situasie" (Miller, 2004:4).
Duncan, Dawn E. (Dawn Elaine). "Language and Identity in Post-1800 Irish Drama." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277916/.
Повний текст джерела鄺雯怡. "格非復歸傳統的理論建構與文學實踐研究 :以"江南三部曲"為例 =;"Return to the tradition" of Ge Fei : his theoretical exploration and creation practice : a case from Jiang Nan Trilogy". Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3954182.
Повний текст джерелаVieira, Filho Edgar Rosa. "A antropofagia como poética do traduzir: diálogos com Oswald de Andrade." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2017. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20357.
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The present dissertation aims at discussing the appropriateness of the approximation between the concept of anthropophagy, put forward by Oswald de Andrade (1890-1954) in the Brazilian modernist movement in the 1920’s, and the phenomenon of literary translation, more specifically the translation of poetry. In order to verify the possibility of defining a poetics of translating as anthropophagic, we traced the modernist metaphor/concept back to its creation (1928), going through its first association with the phenomenon of translation, proposed by the Brazilian poet and translator Augusto de Campos in the introduction of his book “Verso, reverso, controverso” (1978), and through the critical-reflexive elaboration carried out by Eneida Maria de Sousa (1985) and Else Ribeiro Vieira (1990), reaching the studies on amerindian perspectivism and shamanism, associated with the translation practice in Helena Martins (2012) and Álvaro Faleiros (2013). We then sought suitability in the traced associations, by analyzing Oswald’s translation of the poem “Hechos pasados” (Canto do passado), by the Chilean poet Arturo Torres-Rioseco (1897-1971), inserted in the collection of translated poems “Arturo Torres-Rioseco: Poesias” (1945). Although Oswald himself never approximated his cannibalistic metaphor to the translation phenomenon, as seen in current reflections in the Translation Studies field, we decided to bring up this discussion, since his attitude and choices as a translator seem to suggest the appropriateness of such association
A presente dissertação tem como objetivo discutir a pertinência da aproximação entre o conceito de antropofagia, desenvolvido pelo movimento modernista da década de 1920, especialmente na figura de Oswald de Andrade (1890-1954), e a prática de tradução literária, em específico a tradução de poesia. A fim de verificarmos a possibilidade de se pensar em uma poética antropofágica do traduzir, propõe-se um rastreamento da metáfora/conceito modernista desde a sua idealização (1928), passando por sua primeira associação ao fenômeno da tradução, realizada pelo poeta e tradutor Augusto de Campos na introdução do livro Verso, reverso, controverso (1978), e pela elaboração crítico-reflexiva realizada pelas pesquisadoras Eneida Maria de Sousa (1985) e Else Ribeiro Pires Vieira (1990), até chegar-se aos estudos sobre perspectivismo e xamanismo ameríndios associados à prática tradutória em Helena Martins (2012) e Álvaro Faleiros (2013). Verificou-se a razoabilidade das aproximações rastreadas, por meio da análise da tradução oswaldiana do poema “Hechos pasados” (Canto do passado) do poeta chileno Arturo Torres-Rioseco (1897-1971), inserida no livro Arturo Torres-Rioseco: Poesias (1945). Embora Oswald não tenha relacionado sua metáfora canibal ao fenômeno da tradução, como vê-se em reflexões atuais no campo dos Estudos da Tradução, adentraremos essa discussão, uma vez que a postura do poeta ao traduzir parece nos sugerir a pertinência de tal aproximação
LoVerde, Andrew Jack. "A literature of change: Slave narrative rhetoric in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1234.
Повний текст джерелаOttley, Dianne. "Grace Crowley's contribution to Australian modernism and geometric abstraction." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2254.
Повний текст джерелаGrace Crowley was one of the leading innovators of geometric abstraction in Australia. When she returned to Australia in 1930 she had thoroughly mastered the complex mathematics and geometry of the golden section and dynamic symmetry that had become one of the frameworks for modernism. Crowley, Anne Dangar and Dorrit Black all studied under the foremost teacher of modernism in Paris, André Lhote. Crowley not only taught the golden section and dynamic symmetry to Rah Fizelle, Ralph Balson and students of the Crowley-Fizelle Art School, but used it to develop her own abstract art during the 1940s and 1950s, well in advance of the arrival of colour-field painting to Australia in the 1960s. Through her teaching at the most progressive modern art school in Sydney in the 1930s Crowley taught the basic compositional techniques as she had learnt them from Lhote. When the art school closed in 1937 she worked in partnership with fellow artist, Ralph Balson as they developed their art into constructive, abstract paintings. Balson has been credited with being the most influential painter in the development of geometric abstraction in Australia for a younger generation of artists. This is largely due to Crowley’s insistence that Balson was the major innovator who led her into abstraction. She consistently refused to take credit for her own role in their artistic partnership. My research indicates that there were a number of factors that strongly influenced Crowley to support Balson and deny her own role. Her archives contain sensitive records of the breakup of her partnership with Rah Fizelle and the closure of the Crowley-Fizelle Art School. These, and other archival material, indicate that Fizelle’s inability to master and teach the golden section and dynamic symmetry, and Crowley’s greater popularity as a teacher, was the real cause of the closure of the School. Crowley left notes in her Archives that she still felt deeply distressed, even forty years after the events, and did not wish the circumstances of the closure known in her lifetime. With the closure of the Art School and her close friend Dangar living in France, her friendship with Balson offered a way forward. This thesis argues that Crowley chose to conceal her considerable mathematical and geometric ability, rather than risk losing another friend and artistic partner in a similar way to the breakup of the partnership with Fizelle. With the death of her father in this period, she needed to spend much time caring for her mother and that left her little time for painting. She later also said she felt that a man had a better chance of gaining acceptance as an artist, but it is equally true that, without Dangar, she had no-one to give her support or encourage her as an artist. By supporting Balson she was able to provide him with a place to work in her studio and had a friend with whom she could share her own passion for art, as she had done with Dangar. During her long friendship with Balson, she painted with him and gave him opportunities to develop his talents, which he could not have accessed without her. She taught him, by discreet practical demonstration the principles she had learnt from Lhote about composition. He had only attended the sketch club associated with the Crowley- Fizelle Art School. Together they discussed and planned their paintings from the late 1930s and worked together on abstract paintings until the mid-1950s when, in his retirement from house-painting, she provided him with a quiet, secluded place in which to paint and experiment with new techniques. With her own artistic contacts in France, she gained him international recognition as an abstract painter and his own solo exhibition in a leading Paris art gallery. After his death in 1964, she continued to promote his art to curators and researchers, recording his life and art for posterity. The artist with whom she studied modernism in Paris, Anne Dangar, also received her lifelong support and promotion. In the last decade of her life Crowley provided detailed information to curators and art historians on the lives of both her friends, Dangar and Balson, meticulously keeping accurate records of theirs and her own life devoted to art. In her latter years she arranged to deposit these records in public institutions, thus becoming a contributor to Australian art history. As a result of this foresight, the stories of both her friends, Balson and Dangar, have since become a record of Australian art history. (PLEASE NOTE: Some illustrations in this thesis have been removed due to copyright restrictions, but may be consulted in the print version held in the Fisher Library, University of Sydney. APPENDIX 1 gratefully supplied from the Grace Crowley Archives, Art Gallery of New South Wales Research Library)
Batista, Miguel. "Bildung and initiation : interpreting German and American narrative traditions." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14616.
Повний текст джерелаMiddelkamp, Vera. ""Wir haben die Firma gewechselt, aber der Laden ist der alte geblieben": Kurt Tucholsky and the medialized public sphere of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933)." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1633.
Повний текст джерелаJohnson, Amy R. "Stranger in the Room: Illuminating Female Identity Through Irish Drama." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/918.
Повний текст джерелаTitle from screen (viewed on May 23, 2007) Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-83)
Krüger, Johanna Alida. "The Actual versus the Fictional in Betrayal, The Real Thing and Closer." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18570.
Повний текст джерелаAlthough initially dismissed as superficial, Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, and Patrick Marber’s Closer use the theme of marital betrayal as a trope to investigate metatheatrical and epistemological issues. This study aims to demonstrate how these three plays define and explore the concept of authenticity within the fictional as well as the actual world; how arbitrary the construction and mediation of the characters’ identities are, not only from their own perspective, but also from the audience’s; the significance of the audience’s role in these plays and how issues of authenticity, fictionality and dishonesty impact on a genre that depends on illusion. This study intends to provide a new interpretation of these three texts through an analysis drawn from postmodern and poststructuralist theories, concerning the concept of authenticity within art and language. This study finds that the fictional worlds in these plays are created through mediation, which includes everyday language as well as complex works of art. Authenticity is shown to be an elusive concept. Language is either unsuccessfully used to force authentic responses from characters, or as a shield. In Betrayal, language functions as a protective barrier, preventing the characters from knowing one another. The Real Thing suggests that although inauthenticity may be established, the inverse is not necessarily true. In Closer, the characters try in vain to access authenticity through different registers of language. Furthermore, neither the body nor the mind is shown to be the locus of authenticity in Closer. Within the postmodern context where originality is impossible, mimicry is not seen as something external and inauthentic, but as inextricably part of human existence. The audience is drawn into the fictional world of these plays as its members are able to identify with the disillusionment of the characters and their inability to form a definitive view of each other. Simultaneously, the audience is ousted from the fictional world by being reminded of the author’s presence through metatheatrical devices. These plays take advantage of the fictional status of theatre to explore issues of authenticity, positioning them in direct opposition to postdramatic and verbatim plays.
Afrikaans & Theory of Literature
D. Litt. et Phil. (Theory of Literature)
Kruger, Johanna Alida. "The Actual versus the Fictional in Betrayal, The Real Thing and Closer." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18570.
Повний текст джерелаAlthough initially dismissed as superficial, Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, and Patrick Marber’s Closer use the theme of marital betrayal as a trope to investigate metatheatrical and epistemological issues. This study aims to demonstrate how these three plays define and explore the concept of authenticity within the fictional as well as the actual world; how arbitrary the construction and mediation of the characters’ identities are, not only from their own perspective, but also from the audience’s; the significance of the audience’s role in these plays and how issues of authenticity, fictionality and dishonesty impact on a genre that depends on illusion. This study intends to provide a new interpretation of these three texts through an analysis drawn from postmodern and poststructuralist theories, concerning the concept of authenticity within art and language. This study finds that the fictional worlds in these plays are created through mediation, which includes everyday language as well as complex works of art. Authenticity is shown to be an elusive concept. Language is either unsuccessfully used to force authentic responses from characters, or as a shield. In Betrayal, language functions as a protective barrier, preventing the characters from knowing one another. The Real Thing suggests that although inauthenticity may be established, the inverse is not necessarily true. In Closer, the characters try in vain to access authenticity through different registers of language. Furthermore, neither the body nor the mind is shown to be the locus of authenticity in Closer. Within the postmodern context where originality is impossible, mimicry is not seen as something external and inauthentic, but as inextricably part of human existence. The audience is drawn into the fictional world of these plays as its members are able to identify with the disillusionment of the characters and their inability to form a definitive view of each other. Simultaneously, the audience is ousted from the fictional world by being reminded of the author’s presence through metatheatrical devices. These plays take advantage of the fictional status of theatre to explore issues of authenticity, positioning them in direct opposition to postdramatic and verbatim plays.
Afrikaans and Theory of Literature
D. Litt. et Phil. (Theory of Literature)
Pasi, Juliet Sylvia. "Theorising the environment in fiction: exploring ecocriticism and ecofeminism in selected black female writers’ works." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23789.
Повний текст джерелаThis thesis investigates the relationship between humans and the nonhuman world or natural environment in selected literary works by black female writers in colonial and post-colonial Namibia and Zimbabwe. Some Anglo-American scholars have argued that many African writers have resisted the paradigms that inform much of global ecocriticism and have responded to it weakly. They contend that African literary feminist studies have not attracted much mainstream attention yet mainly to raise some issues concerning ecologically oriented literary criticism and writing. Given this unjust criticism, the study posits that there has been a growing interest in ecocriticism and ecofeminism in literary works by African writers, male and female, and they have represented the social, political (colonial and anti-colonial) and economic discourse in their works. The works critiqued are Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (1988) and The Book of Not (2006), Neshani Andreas’ The Purple Violet of Oshaantu (2001) and No Violet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013). The thrust of this thesis is to draw interconnections between man’s domination of nature and the subjugation and dominance of black women as depicted in different creative works. The texts in this study reveal that the existing Anglo-American framework used by some scholars to define ecocriticism and ecofeminism should open up and develop debates and positions that would allow different ways of reading African literature. The study underscored the possibility of black female creative works to transform the definition of nature writing to allow an expansion and all encompassing interpretation of nature writing. Contrary to the claims by Western scholars that African literature draws its vision of nature writing from the one produced by colonial discourse, this thesis argues that African writers and scholars have always engaged nature and the environment in multiple discourses. This study breaks new ground by showing that the feminist aspects of ecrocriticism are essential to cover the hermeneutic gap created by their exclusion. On closer scrutiny, the study reveals that African women writers have also addressed and highlighted issues that show the link between African women’s roles and their environment.
English Studies
D. Litt. et Phil. (English)
Kolodney, Uri. "A different war, a different sex : gay identity politics in Israeli cinema." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/28286.
Повний текст джерелаtext
Langerman, Jorike. "Diek Grobler : an artists monograph with interactive catalogue." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5138.
Повний текст джерелаArt History, Visual Arts & Musicology
M.A. (Art History)
Holloway, Marilyn June. "Cole Porter : the social significance of selected love lyrics of the 1930s." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4209.
Повний текст джерелаEnglish
M.A. (English)
Zavala, Oswaldo. "Literature to infinity: a Borgesian genealogy of contemporary Mexican narrative." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3012.
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