This thesis investigates usages of books in domestic space in Colette's La Maison de Claudine. The central problematic emphasized in the research is that of escape. The thesis shows how book-objects can be appropriated to a number of possible ends in Colette's memoir, and shows how usages of books in the text complicate "boundaries" and "escape" as might traditionally be understood. The thesis also looks at the way observations derived from these themes are mirrored in Colette's poetics.

Poetry and Power: The Intersection of Poetry and Transformational Leadership uses literary analysis to show how poetry is an unexplored form of transformational leadership. The paper analyzes the essays and poems of Emerson, Shelley, Sidney, Plato, Carlyle, Whitman, Hugo, Kipling, Henley, and McKay, comparing them against the rhetoric of transformational leaders such as King, Kennedy, and Gandhi. Special attention is paid to how poetry embodies the four pillars of transformational leadership – idealized influence, inspirational motivation, individualized consideration, and intellectual stimulation.

This dissertation will undertake to determine the role and concept of experience in the development of the title character of Johann Wolfgang Goethes novel, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. Given the novels traditional status in German literary criticism as an (in some sense) exemplary Bildungsroman, the psychic development of Wilhelm Meister will be scrutinized especially insofar as it represents a model of the formation of modern human consciousness. I point to the distinction that the novel makes between the objective experiences that Wilhelm lacks and the subjective experiences that contribute to the formation of his personality: the biography or Lehrjahre of which the Tower Society finally includes in its pedagogical archive. Turning to critical reception of the secret Society of the Tower, I undertake to outline the scope and character of its interests, in order to explicate the interpretation that its humanistic pedagogy and liberal social agenda give to Wilhelms individual life and development. In the light shed more recently on the turn of the nineteenth century as a watershed of aesthetic humanism and its ideal of free humanity, I stress how erotic love changes in the modern social context of the novel from a binding moral relation to a subjective aesthetic experience that constitutes self-consciousness. The erotic Abenteuer or adventures of Lothario are identified both 1) as the Towers humanistic standard of healthy formative experience, and 2) as an anticipation of the nineteenth-century neologism, Erlebnis. Finally, love as adventure or Erlebnis will be situated within the psychological landscape of Wilhelms modern consciousness, so as to determine the reasons for his growing immunity to guilt, grief, and other negative psychic experiences, once he has been introduced into the modern Society of the Tower and has absorbed its humanistic ideology.

Throughout the decades of the 1970s and 1980s, literature written by Latin American women underwent a uniquely enriching narrative renovation. A preference for the theme of the erotic drove this process, and provided the primary source of power and the most salient characteristics of the texts in question. Three Latin American women writers from the last decades of the twentieth century who can be classified as representatives of this literary renaissance are Brazilian novelist Márcia Denser, Chilean writer Diamela Eltit, and Uruguayan novelist and poet Cristina Peri Rossi. In my dissertation I examine three novels from these authors that show their common interest in the theme of womens sexuality as a means to articulate a variety of attitudes, from the uneasiness caused by the rigidity of patriarchal norms and the repression of political regimes to the anxiety and anguish of daily life and the difficulty and complexity of human relationships. The novels are Densers Animal dos motéis (1981), Eltits Lumpérica (1983) and Peri Rossis Solitario de amor (1988). In these texts, the womans erotic desire is presented as a subversive act in which the woman appropriates power with the purpose of proposing not only new patterns of sexual behavior but also new political and cultural values and models that differ from those belonging to the male domain. As a comparatist, my work is to find differences as well. Thus, my research has also aimed to differentiate the treatment of eroticism in the fiction of Denser, Eltit, and Peri Rossi by contending that different narrative styles and perspectives toward female sexuality reveal the heterogeneity of the erotic imagination in Latin American womens prose.

The problematic of translation is viewed in this thesis through the theoretical framework of Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man. First, the notion of translatability is discussed, a move that involves arguments on language by Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Next, the discussion of translation is conducted through the context of a hermeneutic perspective on language and understanding. It is argued that translation is at center stage of every process of understanding and communication. Such being the case, translation should not be accessed from the viewpoint of translatability and its results cannot be judged according to the criteria of adequacy and correctness. The relation of translated version to original text, the difficulties of translation, and the goals of the translator can be treated as a boundary situation, as a test case and as an avenue through which other modes of communication should be viewed. The concluding argument is that the untranslatability must be situated at the core not only of translation but of language itself and precisely these disjunctions (between different languages, and between signifier and signified) bring the multiplicity of interpretations, allowing new approaches to translation, reading, understanding. Moreover, not only does translation clarify relationship to our own language but its untranslatability allows one to establish a dialogical medium necessary for any act of communication to take place. Since difference and untranslatability are valuable aspects of foreignness, which exists between languages, people, cultures, hermeneutics of translation has potential for bridging the gap between alienated linguistic and cultural systems.

Telugu - hindi pouranika geya pariseelana

Gender, partriarchy and resistance

Telugu samskruta kavyallo prakriya

Ffictional characterizations of christ across cultures

Proefschrift--Amsterdam. / "Stellingen": 3 p. laid in. "Literaturverzeichnis": p. [160]-163.