This thesis is a selected edition of thirty-six unpublished letters and fragments from Thomas Henry Hall Caine to Dante Gabriel Rossetti with an introduction and explanatory notes. The letters have been chosen to illustrate Caine's typical interests and concerns as these appear in the body of eighty-six unpublished letters and fragments contained in the Angeli Papers in Special Collections at the University of British Columbia Library. Although the letters are far from being masterpieces of epistolary art, they are of historical interest as a chronicle of the friendship which was initiated by letter. The introduction provides a background for the letters, using, in so far as possible, unpublished contemporaneous material from the Angeli and Penkill Papers. Hall Caine knew Rossetti for less than three years; for two of those years the friendship was conducted almost exclusively by letter, but for the last ten months of Rossetti1s life they lived together. The friendship began when Caine published a eulogistic article on Rossetti's poetry, and sent a copy to him. Caine was then an eager, ambitious, and very naive twenty-six year old Liverpudlian; Rossetti, a known painter and poet of fifty-one, was lonely, frightened, filled with morbid phantasies and a chloral hydrate addict. He was virtually a recluse in his gloomy London house, but Caine's letters revived his interest in literary criticism and during the last years of his life Rossetti taught Caine about literature. His "pupil's" interest and energy also helped to inspire Rossetti on his own behalf, for in 1881 he published a revised edition of Poems and a new book, Ballads and Sonnets. Very shortly after Rossetti*s death, Caine published his Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1882), a biography of his friend which included some seventy-five fragments of the "nearly two hundred letters" he had received from Rossetti. In 1908 Caine included a large section on Rossetti in My Life, and in 1928 he produced a considerably altered version of his first biography. Caine became a prolific and popular novelist and playwright, was knighted for his war effort, and made a Companion of Honour "in recognition of his distinction in literature," but in spite of his successes, skepticism remains concerning his reliability as Rossetti's biographer. The doubts must have sprung from Caine's character—he had a romantic sensibility, a flair for seeing the simplest events dramatically, and a distinct taste for self-aggrandizement. However, although contemporaneous materials indicate that he inspired a certain wariness among Rossetti’s intimates, there are no concrete reasons to doubt his veracity in matters of fact. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

References to stories and storytelling appear throughout Alice Munro's five short story cycles: DANCE OF THE HAPPY SHADES, LIVES OF GIRLS AND WOMEN, SOMETHING I'VE BEEN MEANING TO TELL YOU, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? and THE. MOONS OF JUPITER. This thesis contends that stories--mentioned briefly or recounted at length--provide counterpoint to experience for Munro's characters. Oral and written stories influence them throughout life, but especially in youth, when they eagerly identify with, and imitate, fictional figures. In LIVES and WHO, storytelling becomes central because their protagonists are a writer and an actress. Occasionally, the narrators in all five works reflect on the difficulty of expressing truth in fiction, but SOMETHING raises this issue repeatedly. By embedding stories within her narratives, Munro imitates the workings of memory; moreover, she draws attention to her narratives as texts rather than glimpses of reality. A feminine perspective on narrative gradually emerges, in which the woman narrator sees her task not as imposing order, but as discovering order that already exists. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

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張銘豪. / "2001年9月" / 論文 (哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2001. / 附參考文獻. / 附中英文摘要. / "2001 nian 9 yue" / Zhang Minghao. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2001. / Fu can kao wen xian. / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / 引言 --- p.3 / Chapter 第一章 --- p.6 / Chapter <一> --- 理解人類之模式 --- p.6 / Chapter (1) --- 反對問題a的有效性 --- p.6 / Chapter (2) --- 對反對問題a有效性之回應 --- p.8 / Chapter <二> --- 問題B --- p.11 / Chapter (1) --- 對問題β第一個預設的質疑 --- p.11 / Chapter (2) --- 對問題β第二個預設的質疑 --- p.19 / Chapter (a) --- 本納´Ø威廉士（Bernard Williams)的論証 --- p.20 / Chapter (b) --- 歷史研究的獨一無二論証(Argument of Uniqueness) --- p.22 / Chapter <三> --- 以詮釋學理解人類初探 --- p.26 / Chapter (1) --- 詮釋活動的特點 --- p.27 / Chapter (a) --- 對象是融貫的或缺融貫的 --- p.27 / Chapter (b) --- 能把對象的意含與傳遞意含的載體作出區別 --- p.27 / Chapter (c) --- 詮釋活動是預設著由某主體開展或爲某主體而開展的 --- p.28 / Chapter (2) --- 日常生活中對人的行爲的說明 --- p.30 / Chapter (a) --- 經驗性意義（experiential meaning) --- p.30 / Chapter (i) --- 意義是對主體有的意義（meaning is for a subject) --- p.31 / Chapter (ii) --- 意義是某東西底意義(meaning is of something ) --- p.31 / Chapter (iii) --- 意義是某個場域中的意義（things only have meaning in a field ) --- p.32 / Chapter (b) --- 經驗性意義之例示 --- p.32 / Chapter (3) --- 日常生活中對人的行爲之說明帶有詮釋活動的特點 --- p.34 / Chapter <四> --- BA原則 --- p.36 / Chapter <五> --- 第一章結語 --- p.38 / Chapter 第二章 --- p.39 / Chapter < 一 > --- 掃除現代哲學的基本偏見 --- p.40 / Chapter (1) --- 現代哲學的基本偏見 --- p.40 / Chapter (2) --- 對現代哲學基本偏見之反駁 --- p.44 / Chapter <二> --- 正面地建立「人是一種自我詮釋的動物」的論旨 --- p.50 / Chapter (1) --- 宣稱 I- 我們某一些情感具有「意¨إ‘歸屬」的特性 --- p.50 / Chapter (2) --- 宣稱II-這類情感中的意¨إ‘，其中某一些帶有「主體指涉」的特性 --- p.55 / Chapter (a) --- 對羞恥感進行分析以揭示意¨إ‘帶有主體指涉的特性 --- p.57 / Chapter (b) --- 主體指涉的意¨إ‘之兩個特性 --- p.59 / Chapter (i) --- 意¨إ‘是一種情感詞彙 --- p.59 / Chapter (ii) --- 「主體指涉」不等同於「自我指涉（self-referring) 」 --- p.60 / Chapter (3) --- 宣稱III-主體指涉特性的情感是讓我們得以理解「人之爲人」的基礎 --- p.60 / Chapter (a) --- 重要底界域 horizon of significant --- p.60 / Chapter (b) --- 強式評估 Strong-evaluation --- p.63 / Chapter (4) --- 宣稱 IV- 這類情感是由我們自身所接納的「陳構」所構成的 --- p.64 / Chapter (5) --- "宣稱V-這些陳構,又可被稱爲詮釋，其建立需要語言" --- p.66 / Chapter <三> --- 第二章結語 --- p.67 / Chapter 第三章 --- p.69 / Chapter <一> --- 自我證釋、自我理解與實踐理性 --- p.69 / Chapter <二> --- 麥肯泰爾論傳統的合理性 --- p.70 / Chapter (1) --- 問題γ --- p.70 / Chapter (2) --- 解答問題γ的進路 --- p.71 / Chapter (3) --- 傅統的合理性 --- p.71 / Chapter (4) --- 傅統合理性論旨的對象同一性問題 --- p.73 / Chapter (5) --- 解答傅統合理性論旨的對象同一性問題 --- p.75 / Chapter (6) --- 以真理底符合論來理解傅統的進步 --- p.19 / Chapter <三> --- 第三章結語 --- p.87 / 結語 --- p.89

Mannu Bhandari is a critically-acclaimed author in contemporary India. The two stories from Trishanku Aur Anya Kahaniyam (Trishanku and Other Stories), "Trishanku" and "Darar Bharne Ki Darar" ("The Rift of Filling in the Rift"), are presented translated from the original Hindi into English. These stories, written from the viewpoint of adolescent female narrators, explore the concept of rebelling against long-established tradition in India, seen from the standpoint of young persons seeking maturity. Each contains a 'story within a story' wherein a marriage is highlighted: one a non-traditional 'love-marriage,' and the other a traditional, arranged marriage which is unhappy. In addition, there is a commentary in which facets of Mannu Bhandari's literary skill and implications of the above-mentioned themes are considered, and various problems of translating from the Hindi language into English while trying to do justice to a consummate artist are discussed.

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