Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2006. / Title from PDF title page screen. Advisor: Rober L. Kelly; submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-172).

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I interpret Civil War romanticism by looking at well-known archetypal characters such as the knight, the Puritan, and the Christ figure. I argue that sectional reunion occurred, in part, because Americans shared a common celebration of the Christian/chivalrous hero expressed through stories about the lives and personalities of leading figures of the Civil War. Western traditions like Christianity and its medieval warrior code, chivalry, conditioned Americans to seek heroes who conformed to a certain pattern that resembled the knightly ideal. Chivalry did not crowd-out other forms of masculine behavior, but during the nineteenth century, the British century, Americans had not yet created a man in their own image. That would come later with the twentieth century’s most favored man: the cowboy. Americans created Robert E. Lee as a knight figure resembling Western heroes such as King Arthur. Unlike the more controversial Confederate notables Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis, the Lee figure offered Americans the genteel, Christ-like, hero who could be made to represent all of white America. Davis was too defiantly unreconstructed to ever affect much sectional agreement, and Jackson simply could not be made to fit the chivalrous pattern. Thus, Lee allowed southerners to identify themselves as uniquely chivalrous and honorable compared to the modern North. At the same time, the Lee figure provided northerners the opportunity to romanticize a charming, orderly, Old South while rejecting the violent, narrow-minded, states' rights South best symbolized by Davis. I prefer to interpret commentary about the Civil War as storytelling and do not use terms such as the Lost Cause or Civil War memory. High-ranking officers, the common solider, and those who never participated in the Civil War each told stories about it. Due to the large number of stories told, certain common themes became evident in American interpretations of the Civil War era. Common stories include: Lee at Appomattox, Jackson's unmerciful marches against Union forces, and Davis (almost) eluding capture dressed as a woman. Taken together the sub-stories reveal much about the grand narrative of the Civil War, and how Americans, though succeeding to a great extent, failed to completely reunite.

This thesis analyzes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contribution to the revival of chivalric ideals in late Victorian England. The primary sources of this study are Doyle's historical novels and the secondary sources address the different aspects of the revival of the chivalric ideals. The first two chapters introduce Doyle's historical novels, and the final four chapters define the revival, the class and gender issues surrounding the revival, and the illustration of these in Doyle's novels. The conclusion of the thesis asserts that Doyle supported the revival of chivalric ideals, and the revival attempted to maintain, in the late nineteenth century, the traditional class and gender structure of the Middle Ages.

O propósito deste trabalho é mostrar que na concepção do Romance d A Pedra do Reino e o príncipe do sangue do vai-e-volta, do escritor paraibano Ariano Suassuna, estão presentes, como elementos constitutivos, dois (sub)gêneros narrativos de origem hispânica, os livros de cavalaria e o romance picaresco, antagônicos, em sua origem. Fortemente vinculados a um tempo e a um espaço bem definidos, eles passam por adaptações para deslocar-se adequadamente para a ambiência dA Pedra do Reino. O autor incorpora em seu texto um farto acervo de manifestações da cultura popular nordestino-sertaneja (em cujas características híbridas se acentuam os traços de origem ibérica) como catalisador, encaixe e amálgama desses elementos. Recorre-se, no trabalho, à análise comparativa, com o propósito de identificar as marcas dos gêneros aludidos e os mecanismos adaptativos, aos quais recorre o autor. / The purpose of this paper is to show that in the conception of the novel Romance dA Pedra do Reino e o príncipe do sangue do vai-e-volta by the Brazilian writer Ariano Suassuna, the chivalry books and the picaresque novel, two narrative subgenres of Hispanic origin, stand out as constitutive elements. Strongly attached to a well defined notion of time and space, they go through adaptations to suit adequately the environment of the Romance dA Pedra do Reino. The author includes in his narrative an extensive collection of Northeast-centered popular cultural manifestations (in whose hybrid characteristics are stressed out Iberian traits) as catalyst and amalgam of these elements. The comparative analysis is used with the aim of identifying the traits of the gender models considered and the adaptable mechanisms employed by the author.

CARDOSO, Maria Inês Pinheiro. Cavalaria e picaresca no romance D' A Pedra do Reino de Ariano Suassuna. 2010. 547f. Tese (Doutorado) - Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Letras Modernas da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, São Paulo, 2010. / Submitted by anizia almeida (aniziaalmeida80@gmail.com) on 2016-09-09T12:17:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_tese_mipcardoso.pdf: 3562395 bytes, checksum: 030144ce6a8af7214aab818446c7f935 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-09-13T17:46:50Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_tese_mipcardoso.pdf: 3562395 bytes, checksum: 030144ce6a8af7214aab818446c7f935 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-13T17:46:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2010_tese_mipcardoso.pdf: 3562395 bytes, checksum: 030144ce6a8af7214aab818446c7f935 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / The purpose of this paper is to show that in the conception of the novel Romance dA Pedra do Reino e o príncipe do sangue do vai-e-volta by the Brazilian writer Ariano Suassuna, the chivalry books and the picaresque novel, two narrative subgenres of Hispanic origin, stand out as constitutive elements. Strongly attached to a well defined notion of time and space, they go through adaptations to suit adequately the environment of the Romance dA Pedra do Reino. The author includes in his narrative an extensive collection of Northeast-centered popular cultural manifestations (in whose hybrid characteristics are stressed out Iberian traits) as catalyst and amalgam of these elements. The comparative analysis is used with the aim of identifying the traits of the gender models considered and the adaptable mechanisms employed by the author. / O propósito deste trabalho é mostrar que na concepção do Romance d'A Pedra do Reino e o príncipe do sangue do vai-e-volta, do escritor paraibano Ariano Suassuna, estão presentes, como elementos constitutivos, dois (sub)gêneros narrativos de origem hispânica, os livros de cavalaria e o romance picaresco, antagônicos, em sua origem. Fortemente vinculados a um tempo e a um espaço bem definidos, eles passam por adaptações para deslocar-se adequadamente para a ambiência d'A Pedra do Reino. O autor incorpora em seu texto um farto acervo de manifestações da cultura popular nordestino-sertaneja (em cujas características híbridas se acentuam os traços de origem ibérica) como catalisador, encaixe e amálgama desses elementos. Recorre-se, no trabalho, à análise comparativa, com o propósito de identificar as marcas dos gêneros aludidos e os mecanismos adaptativos, aos quais recorre o autor.

O propósito deste trabalho é mostrar que na concepção do Romance d A Pedra do Reino e o príncipe do sangue do vai-e-volta, do escritor paraibano Ariano Suassuna, estão presentes, como elementos constitutivos, dois (sub)gêneros narrativos de origem hispânica, os livros de cavalaria e o romance picaresco, antagônicos, em sua origem. Fortemente vinculados a um tempo e a um espaço bem definidos, eles passam por adaptações para deslocar-se adequadamente para a ambiência dA Pedra do Reino. O autor incorpora em seu texto um farto acervo de manifestações da cultura popular nordestino-sertaneja (em cujas características híbridas se acentuam os traços de origem ibérica) como catalisador, encaixe e amálgama desses elementos. Recorre-se, no trabalho, à análise comparativa, com o propósito de identificar as marcas dos gêneros aludidos e os mecanismos adaptativos, aos quais recorre o autor. / The purpose of this paper is to show that in the conception of the novel Romance dA Pedra do Reino e o príncipe do sangue do vai-e-volta by the Brazilian writer Ariano Suassuna, the chivalry books and the picaresque novel, two narrative subgenres of Hispanic origin, stand out as constitutive elements. Strongly attached to a well defined notion of time and space, they go through adaptations to suit adequately the environment of the Romance dA Pedra do Reino. The author includes in his narrative an extensive collection of Northeast-centered popular cultural manifestations (in whose hybrid characteristics are stressed out Iberian traits) as catalyst and amalgam of these elements. The comparative analysis is used with the aim of identifying the traits of the gender models considered and the adaptable mechanisms employed by the author.

Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / Due to their unique expertise, military officers have always held a special position within Western society. Yet, while individuals who have demonstrated knowledge of warfare and prowess in battle have long been held in high regard by society and the members of their profession, it is those who have also demonstrated the ideals of citizenship and chivalry who serve as the icons for thoughtful military officers. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the evolution of the citizen-officer ideal- through a close study of historical and literary case studies. By establishing a common theme or values among completely separate exemplars of this ideal, a continuum joining Odysseus, Cincinnatus, Beowulf, and Gawain to Washington, Chamberlain, and Marshall might eventually be carried forward to the present and the modern military officer. Specific focus is given to the roles that classical notions of citizenship and the Code of Chivalry have played in shaping the ethos of the American officer. / Lieutenant, United States Navy

This study was conducted with the motive to analyze and demonstrate the differences and similarities of three Swedish newspapers’ coverage about two different murders. The main focus of the study was to compare and contrast the newspapers’ descriptions of one male and one female murderer. Through the study we also aimed to answer the question “Is it possible to apply the Chivalry Hypothesis in the newspapers descriptions of the murderers?” The Chivalry Hypothesis proclaims that women get treated in a more lenient way than men in the judicial system of America. A study from 2006 discovered that a specific newspaper in USA did in fact not treat criminal women in a more lenient way than criminal men. Our most important theoretical standpoints was that of discourse; as discourse analysis in the way Norman Fairclough preferred it was the method that was used. As we compared differences between the sexes gender studies was also a major theoretical part of the study. The result of our empirical analysis showed that a man and a woman which had committed similar murders during the same time period was partially treated and described different from each other in the articles. The result also showed partial support for the thesis about the Chivalry Hypothesis being translatable to Swedish news-press.

Den föreliggande studien syftade till att undersöka hur förövares- samt brottsoffers könstillhörighet samvarierar med strafflängd för individer dömda för grov misshandel.  Granskning av domar efter lagändringen den första juli 2017 där grov misshandel var det primära brottet genomfördes för att samla in data för jämförelse mellan män och kvinnor som förövare samt brottsoffer. Totalt användes 100 domar till analyserna med 61 manliga och 39 kvinnliga förövare. Det översiktliga resultatet indikerade att strafflängd inte samvarierade med vare sig förövarens eller brottsoffrets könstillhörighet när dessa undersöktes separat. Det återfanns däremot en signifikant samvariation för sammansättningarna av förövarens och offrets könstillhörighet och strafflängd. Skillnad återfanns endast mellan gruppen med kvinnliga förövare och manliga offer och gruppen med kvinnliga förövare och kvinnliga offer. Vid stratifiering för om fler brott än grov misshandel har påverkat straffvärdet samt för om förövaren tidigare var dömd återstod däremot inte denna skillnad. Resultatet diskuterades utifrån tidigare forskning samt teorierna Focal concerns och Paternalism/Chivalry theory, med fokus på grov misshandel som ett könsnormativt brott samt de metodologiska begränsningarna med den föreliggande studien. / The present study aimed to examine how the gender of perpetrators and victims of aggravated assault relates to the length of prison sentences. Data was collected to compare male and female perpetrators and victims from sentences where aggravated assault was the primary offense, after the change in legislation the first of July 2017. A total of 100 cases were included in the analysis with 61 male and 39 female perpetrators. In summary the result indicated that the length of the prison sentence did not relate to the gender of perpetrators or victims when examined separately. However, a significant result was found between perpetrator and victim gender constitution and the length of sentences. The difference was only found between the group with female perpetrators and male victims and the group with female perpetrators and female victims. The effect did not remain when stratifications were made regarding additional crimes besides aggravated assault affecting sentencing length and for prior convictions. The results are discussed in view of prior research, Focal concerns and Chivalry/Paternalism theory, with focus on aggravated assault as a gender normative crime together with the methodological limitations of the current study.