Edith Wharton structured her novels using a technique that relies on what she called "crucial episodes" or "illuminating incidents" to reveal theme and develop character. In Wharton's novels this technique attains a rare perfection as subject matter, circumstance, and dialogue are repeatedly connected by succeeding episodes. In addition, Wharton's fictional method allowed her to stage a series of incidents that essentially foretell the nature of a novel's outcome, creating a dramatic sense of inevitability that is often mistaken for determinism or naturalism. Wharton used the same technique throughout her career, lending strength to her published theories of fiction. The House of Mirth (1905), Ethan Frome (1911), and The Age of Innocence (1921) are representative not only of her best work, but also of her basic structural technique.

林超純. / "2013年8月". / "2013 nian 8 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-128). / 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. / Lin Chaochun.

No contexto contemporâneo que busca a produção de novos conhecimentos a partir do passado, esta tese procura redimensionar as informações que se tem sobre a escritora mais popular do Brasil entre o final do século XIX e as duas primeiras décadas do século XX, Júlia Lopes de Almeida, contribuindo para enriquecer tanto a Literatura Brasileira quanto nosso patrimônio cultural. O trabalho seguiu duas linhas paralelas. Uma, historiográfica, na qual propus acrescentar informações relevantes sobre a vida da escritora carioca e sua trajetória na “República das Letras” brasileira. Isto incluiu apresentar aspectos particulares de sua escrita, temas e visão de mundo, considerados a partir de sua ótica feminina. Como resultado da pesquisa realizada no Brasil e em Portugal, pontuei os aspectos mais relevantes da recepção crítica de sua obra, no passado e no presente. Neste viés, apresentei material jornalístico e crítico em que ela e sua obra foram avalizadas no tempo em que viveu. Em relação ao presente, dei relevo à crítica acadêmica, integrada ao movimento de resgate das escritoras brasileiras do passado, apresentando de forma panorâmica as abordagens que estão sendo feitas e que demonstram a validade de sua produção para a cultura brasileira. Na segunda linha de trabalho, mais investigativa, busquei uma abordagem do texto romanesco selecionando três de seus romances para integrarem o corpus de análise: Memórias de Marta (1889), A Família Medeiros (1892) e Cruel Amor (1906). Com este propósito, rastreei indícios que pudessem revelar o posicionamento estético-ideológico de Júlia Lopes no qual se reflete a leitura que ela fez da sociedade de seu tempo e das questões mais importantes que estavam em pauta. Para isso, trabalhei com conceitos da narratologia dando destaque à categoria do narrador e a da VOZ. / In the contemporary context that searches new knowledgement looking back to the past, this thesis intends to (re)mesure the information about the most popular female writer betwen the two final decades of the XIX century and the two first of the XX: Júlia Lopes de Almeida. I intend to contribute to improve Brazilian Literature patrimoniun. My work goings on in two paralels lines. An historiographic one, in which I bring more information about the writer´s life and her trajectory in the “República das letras”. It includes to present some particulary aspects from her writing, themes, world vision, considered from a female otic. In this chapter, I brihg the information I collected as a result of two travels.One to Rio de Janeiro and the other to Portugal. In the other hand, I underline the academic critic with the brazilian female writers rescue movement. As a second line of investigation, I propose a textual aproching over three of her novels: Memórias de Marta, A Família Medeiros e Cruel Amor. I look for her aestetic and ideological statements in wich I can see her opinion about the most important questions that are presented in the society of her time. For that, I work with narratological conscepts and investigate the narrator category.

No contexto contemporâneo que busca a produção de novos conhecimentos a partir do passado, esta tese procura redimensionar as informações que se tem sobre a escritora mais popular do Brasil entre o final do século XIX e as duas primeiras décadas do século XX, Júlia Lopes de Almeida, contribuindo para enriquecer tanto a Literatura Brasileira quanto nosso patrimônio cultural. O trabalho seguiu duas linhas paralelas. Uma, historiográfica, na qual propus acrescentar informações relevantes sobre a vida da escritora carioca e sua trajetória na “República das Letras” brasileira. Isto incluiu apresentar aspectos particulares de sua escrita, temas e visão de mundo, considerados a partir de sua ótica feminina. Como resultado da pesquisa realizada no Brasil e em Portugal, pontuei os aspectos mais relevantes da recepção crítica de sua obra, no passado e no presente. Neste viés, apresentei material jornalístico e crítico em que ela e sua obra foram avalizadas no tempo em que viveu. Em relação ao presente, dei relevo à crítica acadêmica, integrada ao movimento de resgate das escritoras brasileiras do passado, apresentando de forma panorâmica as abordagens que estão sendo feitas e que demonstram a validade de sua produção para a cultura brasileira. Na segunda linha de trabalho, mais investigativa, busquei uma abordagem do texto romanesco selecionando três de seus romances para integrarem o corpus de análise: Memórias de Marta (1889), A Família Medeiros (1892) e Cruel Amor (1906). Com este propósito, rastreei indícios que pudessem revelar o posicionamento estético-ideológico de Júlia Lopes no qual se reflete a leitura que ela fez da sociedade de seu tempo e das questões mais importantes que estavam em pauta. Para isso, trabalhei com conceitos da narratologia dando destaque à categoria do narrador e a da VOZ. / In the contemporary context that searches new knowledgement looking back to the past, this thesis intends to (re)mesure the information about the most popular female writer betwen the two final decades of the XIX century and the two first of the XX: Júlia Lopes de Almeida. I intend to contribute to improve Brazilian Literature patrimoniun. My work goings on in two paralels lines. An historiographic one, in which I bring more information about the writer´s life and her trajectory in the “República das letras”. It includes to present some particulary aspects from her writing, themes, world vision, considered from a female otic. In this chapter, I brihg the information I collected as a result of two travels.One to Rio de Janeiro and the other to Portugal. In the other hand, I underline the academic critic with the brazilian female writers rescue movement. As a second line of investigation, I propose a textual aproching over three of her novels: Memórias de Marta, A Família Medeiros e Cruel Amor. I look for her aestetic and ideological statements in wich I can see her opinion about the most important questions that are presented in the society of her time. For that, I work with narratological conscepts and investigate the narrator category.

No contexto contemporâneo que busca a produção de novos conhecimentos a partir do passado, esta tese procura redimensionar as informações que se tem sobre a escritora mais popular do Brasil entre o final do século XIX e as duas primeiras décadas do século XX, Júlia Lopes de Almeida, contribuindo para enriquecer tanto a Literatura Brasileira quanto nosso patrimônio cultural. O trabalho seguiu duas linhas paralelas. Uma, historiográfica, na qual propus acrescentar informações relevantes sobre a vida da escritora carioca e sua trajetória na “República das Letras” brasileira. Isto incluiu apresentar aspectos particulares de sua escrita, temas e visão de mundo, considerados a partir de sua ótica feminina. Como resultado da pesquisa realizada no Brasil e em Portugal, pontuei os aspectos mais relevantes da recepção crítica de sua obra, no passado e no presente. Neste viés, apresentei material jornalístico e crítico em que ela e sua obra foram avalizadas no tempo em que viveu. Em relação ao presente, dei relevo à crítica acadêmica, integrada ao movimento de resgate das escritoras brasileiras do passado, apresentando de forma panorâmica as abordagens que estão sendo feitas e que demonstram a validade de sua produção para a cultura brasileira. Na segunda linha de trabalho, mais investigativa, busquei uma abordagem do texto romanesco selecionando três de seus romances para integrarem o corpus de análise: Memórias de Marta (1889), A Família Medeiros (1892) e Cruel Amor (1906). Com este propósito, rastreei indícios que pudessem revelar o posicionamento estético-ideológico de Júlia Lopes no qual se reflete a leitura que ela fez da sociedade de seu tempo e das questões mais importantes que estavam em pauta. Para isso, trabalhei com conceitos da narratologia dando destaque à categoria do narrador e a da VOZ. / In the contemporary context that searches new knowledgement looking back to the past, this thesis intends to (re)mesure the information about the most popular female writer betwen the two final decades of the XIX century and the two first of the XX: Júlia Lopes de Almeida. I intend to contribute to improve Brazilian Literature patrimoniun. My work goings on in two paralels lines. An historiographic one, in which I bring more information about the writer´s life and her trajectory in the “República das letras”. It includes to present some particulary aspects from her writing, themes, world vision, considered from a female otic. In this chapter, I brihg the information I collected as a result of two travels.One to Rio de Janeiro and the other to Portugal. In the other hand, I underline the academic critic with the brazilian female writers rescue movement. As a second line of investigation, I propose a textual aproching over three of her novels: Memórias de Marta, A Família Medeiros e Cruel Amor. I look for her aestetic and ideological statements in wich I can see her opinion about the most important questions that are presented in the society of her time. For that, I work with narratological conscepts and investigate the narrator category.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Few in the world value books more than writers do. They have an understanding of literature that it is hard for a non-writer to grasp – an awareness of the importance of words and stories, and their place in society. Therefore, when a writer has one of his own characters read a book, it generally means something. To pass over such a detail, to ignore the clues carefully placed, is to deprive oneself of the full meaning of a work. Every action, item, and movement in a novel contributes to the end, to the purpose and meaning of the work. A character in a novel might toss a book aside, think nothing of having an empty library, or merely note a title in passing. But to the writer, and so also to the reader, these actions are of great significance. This paper looks at The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and analysis the reading material of its hero, Newland Archer, in order to come to a better understanding of this character, Wharton’s narratives in general, and of Wharton herself. Newland Archer is a character who is in significant ways defined by the books he acquires and reads. Each book has been picked with such care it is possible to get a good idea of what type of person Archer is merely by looking at what he reads. It is therefore important to ask what his reading list says about him and why Wharton would have invested so much time in building this list. Wharton has made Archer’s library his autobiography.

張雪松. / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-265). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Zhang Xuesong.

Les nouvelles de Fitz-James O’Brien ont été réévaluées dès les années 1970 et jusqu’au début du XXIe siècle à la lumière de son origine irlandaise. L’enjeu de cette thèse est d’analyser les processus de re-nationalisation à l’œuvre dans l’interprétation de ses nouvelles : de déplacements sémantiques en projections langagières, le critique risque d’être hanté par l’histoire de l’Irlande. Il est nécessaire pour ce faire de retracer le parcours littéraire et journalistique de O’Brien, depuis ses débuts en tant que contributeur anonyme du courrier des lecteurs du journal nationaliste irlandais The Nation, jusqu’à la fondation du journal satirique américain Vanity Fair et sa mort d’une blessure qu’il a reçue au cours d’un combat de la guerre de Sécession. Il conviendra notamment d’analyser, tout le long de son parcours, le rôle de la bohème littéraire dans la construction d’un idéal artistique sans frontières et le rôle de la presse comme outil de diffusion de cet idéal et, paradoxalement, de construction d’un champ littéraire spécifiquement américain. Nous examinerons ensuite la réception de ses nouvelles et leurs adaptations. Enfin, il s’agira d’étudier les mécanismes interprétatifs qui mettent spécifiquement l’Irlande et l’« irlandicité » au cœur de la lecture des textes, ainsi que de mettre en lumière les effets rhétoriques qui permettent une telle lecture, tant dans les textes critiques que dans les nouvelles elles-mêmes. A cause de la nature éminemment référentielle de l’écriture d’O’Brien, le sens symbolique, parfois satirique, voire allégorique de ses nouvelles se dérobe au lecteur d’aujourd’hui qui se trouve contraint d’effectuer une laborieuse quête herméneutique. / Between the 1970’s and the early years of the 21st century, Fitz-James O’Brien’s short stories have been analysed with reference to his Irish birth. This dissertation aims to examine the mechanisms of re-nationalisation at work in the interpretation of his stories: by means of semantic displacements and linguistic projections, the critic runs the risk of being haunted by Irish history. It is thus necessary to reconstruct O’Brien’s literary and journalistic career, from his early anonymous contributions to the “correspondence” column of the Irish nationalist newspaper The Nation, to the creation of the American satirical magazine Vanity Fair, and his death from a wound he recieved in a skirmish during the American Civil War. This dissertation will analyse particularly the part that literary Bohemia played in creating an artistic ideal of “borderlessness,” and the part that the press played in circulating this idea, all the while partaking in the construction of a specifically American literary field. I will then examine the reception of O’Brien’s stories and how they were adapted throughout decades in various media. Finally, I will study interpretative mechanisms which place Ireland and Irishness at the centre of text-reading and I will highlight the rhetorical effects allowing such a reading, both in the critical texts and in O’Brien’s stories themselves. Because of the highly referential nature of his magazine writing, the symbolical, sometimes satirical or even allegorical meaning of his stories eludes today’s reader, who has no choice but to embark on a laborious hermeneutic quest.

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The lecture recital was given November 6, 1989. Five Preludes by Claude Debussy were preformed following a lecture on some important considerations of approaching the pedaling complexities in his solo piano works. In addition to the lecture recital, three other solo piano recitals were performed. The first solo recital consisted of works by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, and was performed on November 17, 1980. On March 1, 1982, the second solo recital was presented. This performance consisted of works by J. Brahms, W.A. Mozart, S. Prokofieff, and A. Schoenberg. The third solo recital was performed on November 21, 1988 and included the works of L. van Beethoven. A. Berg, F. Chopin, and C. Debussy. The four programs were recorded on tape and filed with the written version of the lecture as part of the dissertation.