Inaug.-Diss.--Phil. Fak.--Köln--Universität, 1992. / Bibliogr. p. 157-163.

Texte remanié de: Thesis Ph. D.--Boulder--University of Colorado. / Bibliogr. p. 201-215. Index.

De nombreuses études témoignent des liens qui existent entre les moyens de transport et la littérature, du point de vue du marcheur, du voyageur en train ou de l'automobiliste. À son tour, cette thèse s'interroge sur le vélo, longtemps négligé, en tant qu'objet qui façonne notre interaction avec des textes et propose une interface unique pour appréhender le monde. Cet ouvrage se propose d'étudier le cyclisme utilitaire et récréatif au tournant du XXe siècle dans une sélection de textes en anglais et en français, dont des romans, des récits de voyage et des guides. Il s'agit de démontrer que le vélo est devenu un dispositif privilégié, qui permet de faire bien plus que simplement déplacer des personnages d'un endroit à un autre. Les voyages à vélo deviennent un moyen de structurer les récits, de les ponctuer ou de dépeindre une nouvelle expérience sensorielle et esthétique. Le vélo est une des nombreuses technologies qui ont transformé la vie quotidienne à la fin de l'ère victorienne. La littérature démontre que cette technologie a contribué dans une certaine mesure à l'émergence d'une modernité accélérée, subjective et marchande que John Urry conçoit comme un fondement du XXe siècle. Or cette thèse révèle que depuis ses débuts, le vélo allait à contre-courant de la culture dominante, proposant une modernité alternative qui remettait en question la société bourgeoise, patriarcale et capitaliste. En brouillant les différences entre les classes et les sexes, en proposant une interaction plus responsable et stimulante avec la machine, en permettant une expérience corporelle et sociale de l'espace, le vélo a proposé une route à propulsion humaine vers le progrès. / The compelling links between modes of transport and literature have been widely examined from the perspective of the walker, the train traveller and the car driver. This thesis engages with the long overlooked bicycle as an object that actively shapes our interaction with text and provides a unique interface for viewing the world. I assess literary treatments of utilitarian and recreational cycling in a range of English and French fiction, as well as some travel writing and non-fiction, from the turn of the twentieth century. I show how the bicycle became a favoured literary device, allowing writers to do much more than simply make a story appear up-to-date or move a character from place to place; authors used cycle journeys as a means to structure or punctuate their narratives or depict a novel sensory and aesthetic experience. The late-Victorian era saw the emergence of the modern bicycle along with a host of other transport and communication technologies that transformed everyday life. Literature from the early period of the bicycle's adoption shows how this technology contributed in some measure to the emergence of an accelerated, subjective, commodified modernity that the critic John Urry argues defined the twentieth century. Yet this thesis reveals that from the earliest days of its use, the bicycle played a crucial counter-cultural role, proposing an alternative modernity that directly challenged bourgeois, patriarchal, capitalist society. From blurring gender and class divisions, to offering a more empowering interaction with the machine, to allowing an embodied and social experience of space, the bicycle suggested a human-powered route to progress.Mots clefs en français: Littérature anglophone, littératures comparées cultural studies, vélo, technologie, transports, modernité.Mots clefs en anglais: English literature, comparative literature, cultural studies, bicycles, technology, transport, modernity.

Diss.--Lett.--Chemnitz--Univ., 1999. / Contient des extraits de récits de voyages en anglais. Bibliogr. p. 223-234. Notes bibliogr. Index.

Texte remanié de: Thesis Ph. D.--University of Michigan. / Bibliogr. p. 212-223.

Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Littérature anglophone--Aix Marseille 1, 2008. Titre de soutenance : La filiation paternelle dans la poésie de Paul Durcan, Sharon Olds et Peter Redgrove. / Bibliogr., 18 p.

Dissertation--Saarbrücken--Universität des Saarlandes, 2002. / Bibliogr. p. 396-419.

This study examines Anglophone Caribbean national identities to interrogate multiple and varied economies that manage citizens in the interest of economic and social production and/or the policing of national identities. It is particularly concerned with the gendered character of these economies. The formation and preservation of these national identities rely heavily on gender and sexual difference as Anglophone Caribbean national identities are inextricably linked to expressions of Afro-Caribbean masculinity. Thus I analyze novels and cultural representations of Afro-Caribbean masculinity in cricket, calypso and chutney-soca music in Trinidad's carnival. I also examine Afro-Caribbean religions, Revivalism and Rastafarianism, as well as Afro-Caribbean practices of masking. I examine these practices in order to interrogate the reproduction of colonial practices of marginalization and exclusion. These colonial practices, I argue, are inherent in the cultural politics that inform these cultural performances while denying modes of national belonging that refuse dictated performances of national identities. The literary and cultural performances in this project span three epochs in Caribbean history: post emancipation, independence, and post independence to assess the shifting cultural landscapes that shape postcolonial subjectivities. In Sylvia Wynter's The Hills of Hebron and Orlando Patterson's The Children of Sisyphus, I examine sexual economies in which power is negotiated and contested in a struggle to chart the gendered borders of citizenship and production. I then turn to Lakshmi Persaud's For the Love of My Name to analyze violence exacted against ethnically marked national collectives as an instrument of political and economic aggression that disproportionately affects women. My critique of Earl Lovelace's The Dragon Can't Dance and contemporary performances in calypso and chutney-soca carnival competitions, considers how operative traditions seek to govern post-independent cultural politics. By drawing parallels between the formation of Afro and Indo-Trinidadian nationalisms, I argue that these identity formations establish cultural difference while also dictating cultural performances to advance and police national identities. Lastly, I engage Lovelace's Salt, Garfield Ellis' Such as I Have and contemporary discourses concerning cricket performance, remuneration, and women's limited access to cricket. I argue that cricket becomes a cultural commodity in the perpetuation of a regional national identity that is dependent on gender constructs. Thus this study demonstrates how representations of culture can be mobilized to challenge ideologies and political practices of exclusion, marginalize women in the formation and performance of national identities and govern cultural politics.

Texte remanié de: Th. Ph. D. / Bibliogr. p. 91-97.

Projet professionnel personnel de bibliothécaire : gestion de projet : bibliothéconomie : Villeurbanne, ENSSIB : 2008. / Texte intégral. Résumé en français et en anglais. Bibliogr. f. 87-90. Index.