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Church, Joanne. "Jennifer Johnston and the Bildungsroman heroine." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61281.
Повний текст джерелаRivard, Jacques. "L'Universalité du théâtre de Marcel Dubé." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56934.
Повний текст джерелаThis thesis represents an analysis of five plays written by Marcel Dube giving clear indication of the universality of his works, particularly based on unpublished documents. These plays were written almost thirty years ago; nevertheless, they are still alive and applauded nowadays, which corroborates their universality. Also, on the unpublished recording tapes, actress Monique Miller, actor Jean Duceppe and author and critic Jean Ethier-Blais dwell precisely on the universality of Dube's works. Therefore I thought advisable to study this particular topic in the following plays: Zone, Florence, le temps des lilas, Bilan and Au retour des oies blanches.
On these unpublished recording tapes, Marcel Dube talks about himself and his life as a writer. We learn about his childhood, the beginning of his career, the people who surrounded and encouraged him, the social, cultural, and political environment that prevailed at the time he wrote his most famous plays. He also acknowledges his mistakes, his weaknesses, his ambitions and talks about the motives that prompted him to become a writer.
Furthermore, well known author and critic Jean Ethier-Blais expresses his ideas and feelings regarding the author and his works. Actors and personal friends Monique Miller and Jean Duceppe recollect the circumstances and the effect the dramatic art of Marcel Dube has had on French Canadian culture.
Wilson, Sonia. "La symbolique maternelle dans quatre romans de Françoise Mallet-Joris /." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59851.
Повний текст джерелаOcaña, Karen Isabel. "Synthetic authenticity : the work of Angela Carter, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26748.
Повний текст джерелаHighman, Kathryn Barbara. "A study of Ted Hughes's Birthday letters." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002235.
Повний текст джерелаGrimanis, Catherine. "The narrator in D.H. Lawrence's travel fiction : nostalgia, disillusion, and vision." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61874.
Повний текст джерелаAdams, Melinda J. "Re-making the Auden canon : new readings and critical interpretations of W.H. Auden's 1930's poems based on revised texts." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/833006.
Повний текст джерелаDepartment of English
Phillips, Malcolm. "Experiment and representation : the domestic surreal in contemporary British and American poetry." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14707.
Повний текст джерелаRoncone, Natalie Maria. "Jackson Pollock, 1930-1955 : the influence of the Old Masters." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3048.
Повний текст джерелаMurray, Matthew. "Body Matters: Gary Snyder, The Self and Ecopoetics." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2513/.
Повний текст джерелаVacani, Wendy. "A sense of place and community in selected novels and travel writings of D.H. Lawrence." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15154.
Повний текст джерелаCarstens, Johannes Petrus (Delphi). "Uncovering the apocalypse : narratives of collapse and transformation in the 21st century Fin de Siècle." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85700.
Повний текст джерелаENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation examines the idea of apocalypse through the lens of science fiction (sf) written during the current fin de siècle period. I have dated this epoch, known as the information era, as starting in 1980 with the advent of personal computing and ending in approximately 2020 when the functional limits of silicon-based digital manufacturing and production are expected to be reached. By surveying the field of contemporary sf, I identify certain trends and subgenres that relate to particular aspects of apocalyptic thought, namely, conceptions of the ‘terror of history,’ the sublimity of accelerated techno-scientific advance, the ‘affective turn’ in media-culture and posthuman philosophy. My principal method of inquiry into how the apocalypse is imagined or ‘figured’ in sf is the concept of hyperstition – a neologism (combining the words ‘hyper’ and ‘superstition’) coined by the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU). Hyperstition describes an aesthetic response whereby cultural fictions – principally, ideas relating to apocalypse – are imagined as transmuting into material realities. I begin by scrutinizing two posthumanist works of theory-fiction (theory written in the mode of sf) by the CCRU and 0rphan Drift which anticipate immanent human extinction and imagine the inception of a new evolutionary cycle of machine-augmented evolution This sensibility is premised on the sociallydestabilising cycles of exponential growth that characterise information-era technological developments, particularly in the digital industries, as well as the accelerated human impact on the natural environment. Central to my argument is the romantic materialist philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and their concepts of accelerationism, schizoanalysis and Bodies without Organs (BwO’s). Their ontology is constructed around the idea that exponential rates of development necessitate a new aesthetic paradigm that ventures beyond philosophies of human access. The narrative of apocalypse, approached from this perspective, can be interpreted in catastrophic or anastrophic terms; either as a permanent ending or as the beginning of something radically new. Using hyperstition, I also investigate the sf of Russell Hoban, Michael Swanwick, Brian Stableford, Charles Stross, Dan Simmons, M. John Harrison and Paul McAuley to see not only how these authors interpret the concept of cultural acceleration, but also to identify common threads. Countering the catastrophic ‘death of affect’ postulated by theorists such as Jean Baudrillard and Paul Virilio with the anastrophic rejoinder of cyberdelic information-era countercultures, I conclude by investigating the new ‘affective turn’ in contemporary media theory. The works of theoretical fiction and sf that I investigate are informed, as I demonstrate, by the Situationist techniques of psychogeography, dérive and detournement, as well as by the literary tropes of 18th and 19th century fin de siècle Gothic and dark Romantic fiction.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie proefskrif ondersoek die idee van apokalips deur die oogpunt van wetenskap fiksie (wf) soos geskryf gedurende die huidige ‘fin de siècle’ tydperk. Ek dateer hierdie epog, bekend as die inligtings-era, as die tydperk wat in 1980 begin met die koms van persoonlike rekenaars en nagenoeg eindig in 2020, wanneer die funksionele limiete van silikon gebaseerde digitale vervaardiging en produksie na verwagting bereik sal word. Deur die veld van kontemporêre wf in oënskou te neem, identifiseer ek sekere neigings en sub-genres wat vergelyk met sekere kenmerke van apokaliptiese denke, naamlik: begrippe soos die ‘verskrikking van geskiedenis’, die verhewendheid van versnelde tegno-wetenskaplike vooruitgang, die ‘emosionele omkeer’ in media-kultuur en post-humanistiese filosofie. My primêre metode van ondersoek van hoe die apokalips voorgestel of ‘beskryf’ kan word in wf, is die begrip van hiper-bygelowigheid - ‘n neologisme (samevoeging van die woorde ‘hiper’ en ‘bygeloof’) soos geskep deur die Kubernetiese Kultuur Navorsings-Eenheid (KKNE) en Nick Land, medestigter van die KKNE. Hiper-bygelowigheid beskryf die proses waarvolgens kulturele versinsels - hoofsaaklik opvattings met betrekking tot apokalips – in materiële realiteite omgeskakel kan word. Ek ondersoek ek twee post-humanistiese werke van teorie-fiksie (teorie geskryf volgens die wf metode) deur KKNE en 0rphan Drift, wat inherente menslike uitwissing verwag en die ontstaan van ‘n nuwe evolusionêre siklus van masjien-toename voorstel. Hierdie proses is gebaseer op die sosiaal-destabiliserende siklus van eksponensiële groei wat kenmerkend is van die inligtings-era se tegnologiese ontwikkelinge, veral in die digitale industrie, sowel as versnelde menslike impak op die natuurlike omgewing. Die kern van my beredenering is die goties-materialisties-teoriese standpunt soos deur Land ingeneem, sowel as die romanties-materialistiese filosofie van Deleuze en Guattari. Hierdie gevalle van neo-materialistiese (of objek-georiënteerde) filosofië word toegelig deur ‘n apokalipties-teoretiese basis bekend as akseleerasionisme. Hierdie uitgangspunt is ontwikkel rondom die idee dat die eksponensiële tempo van ontwikkeling ‘n klimaks sal bereik in ‘n evolusionêre ‘wipplank punt’ en dat ‘n nuwe estetiese paradigma nodig is wat dit bokant die filosofie van menslike vermoë kan waag sodat daar oor hierdie waarskynlikheid geteoretiseer kan word. Die beskrywing van apokalips, soos vanuit hierdie oogpunt beskou, kan vertolk word in beide katastrofiese of anastrofiese terme of as ‘n permanente einde of as die begin van iets wat radikaal nuut sal wees. Deur gebruik te maak van die hiperbygelowigheidsteorie, wat ‘n onderafdeling is van akseleerasionisme, ondersoek ek WF van Russell Hoban, Michael Swanwick, Brian Stableford, Charles Stross, Dan Simmons, M. John Harrison and Paul McAuley ten einde vas te stel hoe hierdie skrywers die konsep van kulturele akseleerasie interpreteer, maar ook om gemeenskaplike leidrade te identifiseer. Met teenargumentering ten opsigte van die katastrofiese ‘dood van affek’ gepostuleer deur teoretici soos Jean Baudrillard en Paul Virillio met die anastrofiese samevoeging van kuberdeliese inligtings-era-kontra-kulture, ondersoek ek die nuwe ‘gemoedsomkeer’ in kontemporêre mediateorie. Die werke van teoretiese fiksie, sowel as baie van die ander gevalle van wf wat ek ondersoek en soos deur my gedemonstreer, word toegelig deur Situasienistiese tegnieke van psigo-geografie, dérive en detournement, sowel as deur die literêre menigtes van die 19de eeu ‘fin de siècle’ donker Romantiese en Gotiese fiksie.
Domareki, Sarah. "To Stay or to Go? A Literary and Historical Study of French-Canadian Emigration From Quebec to New England, 1820-1930." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2005. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/DomarekiS2005.pdf.
Повний текст джерелаLeone, Matthew J. (Matthew Joseph). "The shape of openness : Bakhtin, Lawrence, laughter." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39750.
Повний текст джерелаThis study tests whether dialogism illuminates the shape of openness in Lawrence. As philosophers of potentiality, both Bakhtin and Lawrence explore the dialogic "between" as a state of being and a condition of meaningful fiction. Dialogism informs Women in Love. It achieves a polyphonic openness which Lawrence in his later fictions cannot sustain. Subsequently, univocal, simplifying organizations supervene. Dialogic process collapses into a stenographic report upon a completed dialogue, over which the travel writer, the poet or the messianic martyr preside.
Nevertheless, the old openness can be discerned in the ambivalent laughter of The Captain's Doll, St. Mawr or "The Man Who Loved Islands." In these retrospective variations on earlier themes, laughing openness of vision takes new, "unfinalizable" shapes.
Carneiro, Alan Silvio Ribeiro 1981. "Kadosh e o sagrado de Hilda Hilst." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270179.
Повний текст джерелаDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) publicou diversos livros de poesia nos anos de 1950 e 1960 e ainda escreveu algumas obras teatrais entre 1967 e 1970. O surgimento em 1970 da sua primeira obra em prosa é um momento importante de construção do seu projeto literário onde os limites entre vida e obra começam a ser cada vez mais estreitados. A pesquisa desta dissertação quer contribuir para a compreensão deste contexto a partir de uma leitura do conto Kadosh, publicado no ano de 1973, na obra de mesmo nome, tendo como foco a questão do sagrado. A metodologia utilizada partiu da leitura desta obra e do conjunto da produção de Hilda Hilst, para em seguida investigar no arquivo, em fotos, cartas, anotações e originais, os rastros da emergência desta problemática na obra da autora. O destaque particular foi dado para o período entre o final dos anos de 1960 e começo dos anos de 1970, relacionados ao contexto específico de produção de Kadosh. O resultado da pesquisa são os quatro ensaios, independentes, mas interconectados que se apresenta neste trabalho: o primeiro abordando como a questão do sagrado emerge enquanto um problema literário para Hilda Hilst, através da análise de algumas correspondências que tratam do ofício da literatura, apontando indiretamente como se configura para a autora uma imagem privada de si, nos anos de 1950 e 1960; o segundo enasio parte de excertos de textos e de originais para mostrar como se configura a problemática do sagrado na sua obra literária até a publicação da coletânea de Kadosh, apontando ao final, através da análise de alguns excertos críticos, como se forma uma imagem pública da autora, à época da publicação do conto, nos anos de 1973-74; o terceiro parte do campo de significações relacionados à religiosidade que estão presentes nos rastros do arquivo, para produzir uma interpretação de Kadosh, do ponto de vista do seu universo referencial e o último ensaio tece considerações sobre a forma como se caracteriza a escritura da autora no texto e que gera contradições com relação ao conjunto de representações religiosas do conto, constituindo-se deste modo a sua aproximação particular ao sagrado. Como subproduto da pesquisa produziu-se ao final uma edição comentada de Kadosh que aponta parte das referências feitas na obra. A conclusão desta pesquisa indica como, no trabalho com o arquivo, a relação vida e obra se constitui como um amálgama indissociável que determina o percurso da interpretação, sendo um lugar de contradição e um desafio para a crítica.
Abstract: Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published some books of poetry in the 1950's and 1960's and wrote some drama from 1967 to 1970. The appearance of her first book in prose, in 1970, is an important moment in the building of her literary project, when the limits between her personal life and her literary work get closer. The research os this dissertation intends to contribute to the understanding of this context, with an interpretation of the short story Kadosh, published in 1973, in the book with the same name, with a focus in the question of sacrality. The methodology began with the reading of this story and all the published books of Hilda Hilst, after this it was done a research in the archives, working with photos, letters, booknotes and the originals, looking for the signs of the appearance of this question in the work of the writer. The main attention was directed to the period between the end of the 1960's and the begining of the 1970's, more related to the context of Kadosh. The results of all this research are the four related essays, which are presented here: the first one analyses the appearance of the sacrality as a literary question for Hilda Hilst, working with some letters, which have as theme the problem of the writer's work, showing up Hilst's image of her own, in the 1950's and 1960's; the second essay choose some excerpts of Hilst's published books, of her originals and of some articles published in the print about Kadosh, showing up Hilst's public image, in 1973-74; the third one began with an analysis of the religious references, which can be seen in the signs of the archive to produce an interpretation of Kadosh; by the end, the last one is an analisys of the writing of the author in the short story, which produces a contradiction with the religious representations of Kadosh and constitutes the special approach of Hilst to sacrality. As another result of this research, it was organized a commented edition of the short story Kadosh, which indicates part of the references alluded by the text. The conclusion of this work show up how in the work with the archives, the relation between life and literary work as one whole directs the way of interpretation and build a place of contradictions, which plays a role in making the criticism a challenge.
Mestrado
Literatura Brasileira
Mestre em Teoria e História Literária
Roy, Sneharika. "The Migrating Epic Muse : conventions, Contraventions, and Complicities in the Transnational Epics of Herman Melville, Derek Walcott, and Amitav Ghosh." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030108.
Повний текст джерелаThis thesis offers collocational readings of traditional and postcolonial epics in transcultural frameworks. It investigates the specificities of modern postcolonial epic through a comparative analysis of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Derek Walcott’s Omeros, and Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy. It explores how these works emulate, but also rival, the traditional epics of Homer, Virgil, Ariosto, Camões, and Milton. Both traditional and postcolonial epic rely on generic conventions in order to aestheticize collective experience, setting it against the natural world (via epic similes), against history and imperial destiny (via genealogy and prophecy), and against the epic work itself (via ekphrasis). However, traditional epic emphasizes a unified worldview, characterized by harmonious conjunctions between trope and diegesis, genealogical continuities between ancestor and descendant, and self-reflexive ekphrastic associations between imperial history and the epic text commissioned to glorify it. From this perspective, the specificity of postcolonial epic can be formulated in terms of its ambivalent articulation of the postcolonial condition. In the works of Melville, Walcott, and Ghosh, tropes of heroic transfiguration are held in check by the mock-heroic, while empowering self-adopted hybrid affiliations co-exist, but cannot entirely compensate for, discontinuous genealogies marked by displacement, deracination, and colonial violence. This ambivalence finds its most powerful expression in the ekphrastic sequences where the postcolonial texts are most directly confronted with the impossible choice between commemorating experience and being critical of such commemoration
Durrer, Rebecca A. (Rebecca Ann). "Knightly Gentlemen: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and His Historical Novels." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500933/.
Повний текст джерелаAdams, Dana W. (Dana Wills). "Female Inheritors of Hawthorne's New England Literary Tradition." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279406/.
Повний текст джерелаNichols, Margaret K. "D. H. Lawrence and submerged cultures in Birds, beasts and flowers." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 1999. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/83.
Повний текст джерелаBachelors
Arts and Sciences
English Literature
Favor, Lesli J. "Interactions Between Texts, Illustrations, and Readers: The Empiricist, Imperialist Narratives and Polemics of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279069/.
Повний текст джерелаMott, Elizabeth J. "In search of a question : interrogating the '/' [slash] within discourses of inclusion." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/6508.
Повний текст джерелаShelton, Jeff Scott. "From College to Career: Understanding First Generation and Traditional Community College Transfer Students' Major and Career Choices." PDXScholar, 2013. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1408.
Повний текст джерелаSabado, Novau Marta. "L’école de Genève ˸ histoire, geste et imagination critiques (Georges Poulet, Jean Starobinski et Jean-Pierre Richard)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA094.
Повний текст джерелаThis dissertation proposes a history of the Geneva School through the comparative study of the works of Georges Poulet, Jean Starobinski and Jean-Pierre Richard. The first part traces the intellectual history of the group at a period in time marked by the influence of phenomenology and later, of structuralism; and by tensions between the new extra-academic criticism and traditional academic criticism. Based on the unpublished correspondence between these three authors, this historical account allows for the discovery of the group from within, and endeavors to link thought to life. The second part analyzes the works of Poulet, Starobinski and Richard in an attempt to grasp the specificity of the critical process, looking beyond their stylistic singularities and different theories and methods to which the three authors have been associated. The notion of “critical gesture” allows for an immanent analysis of their texts, focusing on the movements of interpretive thought. These authors employ images and metaphors to reflect on the critical act and on critical relations, and this imagination in turn influences their hermeneutic gestures. This brings their practice of dreamlike thought that transforms the interpretation of texts into an act of “critical imagination”, understood as the convergence between identification and distancing, discernment and creative force, logic and sensitivity
Simes, Peter A. "Literature in the Age of Science: Technology and Scientists in the Mid-Twentieth Century Works of Isaac Asimov, John Barth, Arthur C. Clarke, Thomas Pynchon, and Kurt Vonnegut." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30511/.
Повний текст джерелаGutensohn, Barbara Joyce. "Songs in the blood : the discourse of music in three Canadian novels." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/507.
Повний текст джерелаHiatt, Bryan. ""Living Outside the Madness" : reform and ecology in the work of Henry Thoreau and Gary Snyder." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/34024.
Повний текст джерелаGraduation date: 1997
Ntshangase, Duduzile Audrey. "A critical study of Elliot Zondi's historical dramas." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3038.
Повний текст джерелаThesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2001.
"論茅盾翻譯、評論和小說中的婦女解放論述(1919 -1930)". 2013. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5884264.
Повний текст джерела"2013年9月".
"2013 nian 9 yue".
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-146).
Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.
Abstract in Chinese and English.
Li Kailin.
Nel, Johannes Erasmus. "Harold Pinter : breading strategies with reference to The Birthday party, The Homecoming and One for the road." Thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2131.
Повний текст джерелаMorley, John. "The art of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg during the 1950s and 1960s : the transition from modernism to postmodernism." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5922.
Повний текст джерелаThesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1998.
Ewnetu, Anteneh Aweke. "The Representation of Ethiopian politics in selected Amharic novels, 1930 - 2010." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13857.
Повний текст джерелаClassics and World Languages
D. Phil. (Theory of Literature)
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)
Willard, Beth. "Perceptions of Mayakovsky post-Perestroika : the poet's reception in his jubilee year 1993." Master's thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151575.
Повний текст джерелаGame, David Russell. "D.H. Lawrence's Australia : degeneration and regeneration at the edge of empire." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148376.
Повний текст джерелаHolloway, 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)