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The image of Africa in the poetry of Neto and Senghor /Brás, A. R. (Alberto Raimundo) January 1982 (has links)
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Getting back to their texts : a reconsideration of the attitudes of Willa Cather and Hamlin Garland toward pioneer life on the Midwestern agricultural frontierGustafson, Neil January 1995 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 330-343). / Microfiche. / ix, 343 leaves, bound 29 cm
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The Artist-God who ???disguides his voice???: a reading of Joseph Campbell???s interpretation of the dreamer of Finnegans WakeSkuthorpe, Barret, School of English, UNSW January 2006 (has links)
This thesis is concerned with engaging a critic who has been neglected by his peers in the field of Joyce studies for more than forty years. This critic, Joseph Campbell, is an American scholar more popularly known for his studies in myth. However, he began his intellectual career contributing to a subject that emerged in the early years of the critical reception of Finnegans Wake: that the dream depicted in Joyce???s final masterpiece is dependent on a Dreamer. The neglect Campbell???s work has endured is largely due, this thesis argues, to an inaccurate treatment of his reading of this dream figure. This inaccuracy largely stems from a critic, Clive Hart, who engages with the debate of the Dreamer as an introductory means to demonstrating the ???structural??? theories involved in the Wake. As a minor feature of Hart???s analysis, Campbell???s theory of the Dreamer is identified with another method, one belonging to a fellow American Joycean, Edmund Wilson, a method incongruent with Campbell theories of dream consciousness. Subsequently, Campbell remains an undeveloped scholar within Joyce criticism. To counter Hart???s inaccurate depiction of Campbell, this thesis argues that there is provision in early scholarship to re-evaluate Campbell???s theory of the Dreamer in more developed terms. In this respect, the thesis is divided up into three sections. The first section is a literary review of this early scholarship, demonstrating certain influential strains of thought equivalent to Campbell???s ???metaphoric??? concept of the Dreamer, one that contrasts with the rigid, ???literal??? ideas his work is predominantly identified. The second section examines Campbell???s account in detail and the specific criticism it drew from Hart. Finally, the third section argues that Campbell???s interpretation of the Dreamer is best engaged through an archetypal account of the Dreamer, one that regards the symbols encountered in the Wake through the ???guiding??? features of a mythological concept of the psyche sensitive to the reflexive tendencies of the dream portrayed, Campbell???s ???cosmogonic cycle???.
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Images of revolution, metaphor, politics and history in German early romanticism / Tom MortonMorton, Tom (Thomas James) January 1990 (has links)
Bibliography: leaves 436-449 / 449 leaves ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dept. of German, University of Adelaide, 1990
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"The darkness at our back door" : maps of identity in the novels of David Malouf and Christopher Koch / by Amanda E. NettelbeckNettelbeck, Amanda E. January 1991 (has links)
Bibliography: leaves 201-208 / iv, 208 leaves ; 31 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 1992
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Lu Xun : the Chinese "Gentle" Nietzsche = Lu Xun : Zhongguo "wen he" de NicaiZhang, Zhaoyi. January 2001 (has links)
Parallel title in Chinese characters. Includes bibliographical references (p.[179]-192) and index.
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Third World' female experience in Africa and the USA as represented in four novels by Yvonne Vera and Toni MorrisonWellmann, Julie Gail 04 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MA) -- Stellenbosch University, 2003. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The following thesis aims to place black, female
experience at the centre of an analysis of four main
texts. These texts are Yvonne Vera's Nehanda and Without
a Name as well as Toni Morrison' s Song of Solomon and
Beloved. By comparing and analysing these four novels,
also utilising selected works from various theorists such
as bell hooks and Chandra Mohanty, "mainstream" feminist
theory is interrogated. Different political and social
contexts are examined from the perspectives of writers
and theorists that have conventionally been relegated to
the margins of literary theory. The experiences of black
people all over the world are marginalised and this
thesis attempts to examine these texts without assuming
that the experiences of the characters are "different" or
"other". The first chapter focuses mainly on Morrison' s
Song of Solomon but used Vera's Nehanda to comment on
some spiritual similarities between an African female
character and an African American female character.
Chapter two focuses more strongly on African,
specifically Zimbabwean, female experience during the
second war of independence (or Chimurenga) in Zimbabwe. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Solomon, maar maak gebruik van Vera se Nehanda om Die
tesis analiseer vier hooftekste vanuit die perspektief
van swart, vroulike ervaring. Die tekste is Yvonne Vera
se Nehanda en. Without a Name, sowel as Toni Morrison se
Song of Solomon en Beloved. Hierdie vier romans word
vergelyk. en ook, met die hulp van geselekteerde werke van
verskeie teoretici soos bell hooks en Chandra Mohanty,
geanaliseer in 'n poging om "hoofstroom" feministiese
teorie krities te benader. Verskillende sosiaal-politiese
kontekste word ondersoek, spesifiek vanuit die
perspektiewe van skrywers en teoretici wat konvensioneel
gesproke gereduseer is tot die marges van literere
teorie. Teen die agtergrond van die gemarginaliseerde
ervaringe van swart mense regoor die wereld, probeer die
tesis om hierdie tekste te analiseer sonder om te aanvaar
dat die ervaringe van die karakters "verskillend" of
"anders" is. Die eerste hoofstuk fokus hoofsaaklik op
Morrison se Song of kommentaar te lewer op die spirituele
ooreenkomste tussen 'n swart vroulike karakter uit Afrika
en 'n Afro-Amerikaanse vroulike karakter. Hoofstuk twee
fokus skerper op 'n Afrika, en spesifiek Zimbabwiese,
vroulike ervaring gedurende die tweede
onafhanklikheidsoorlog in daardie land.
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'I want to tell the story again': re-telling in selected novels by Jeanette Winterson and Alan WarnerCollett, Jenna Lara January 2011 (has links)
This thesis investigates acts of ‘re-telling’ in four selected novels by Jeanette Winterson and Alan Warner.Re-telling, as I have defined it, refers to the re-imagining and re-writing of existing narratives from mythology, fairy tale, and folktale, as well as the re-visioning of scientific discourses and historiography. I argue that this re-telling is representative of a contemporary cultural phenomenon, and is evidence of a postmodern genre that some literary theorists have termed re-visionary fiction. Despite the prevalent re-telling of canonical stories throughout literary history, there is much evidence for the emergence of a specifically contemporary trend of re-visionary literature. Part One of this thesis comprises two chapters which deal with Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry (1989) and Weight (2005) respectively. In these chapters, I argue that, although the feminist and historiographic elements of her work are significant, there exist further motivations for Winterson’s acts of re-telling in both Sexing the Cherry and Weight. In Chapter One, I analyse Winterson’s subversion and re-imagining of historiography, as well as her re-telling of fairy tale, in Sexing the Cherry. Chapter Two provides a discussion of Winterson’s re-telling of the myth of Atlas from Greek mythology, in which she draws on the discourses of science, technology, and autobiography, in Weight. Part Two focuses on Warner’s first two novels, Morvern Callar (1995) and These Demented Lands (1997). In both novels, Warner re-imagines aspects of Christian, Celtic and pagan mythology in order to debunk the validity of biblical archetypes and narratives in a contemporary working-class setting, as well as to endow his protagonist with goddess-like or mythical sensibilities. Chapter Three deals predominantly with Warner’s use of language, which I argue is central to his blending of mythological and contemporary content, while Chapter Four analyses his use of myth in these two novels. This thesis argues that while both Winterson and Warner share many of the aims associated with contemporary re-visionary fiction, their novels also exceed the boundaries of the genre in various ways. Winterson and Warner may, therefore, represent a new class of re-visionary writers, whose aim is not solely to subvert the pre-text but to draw on its generic discourses and thematic conventions in order to demonstrate the generic and discursive possibilities inherent in the act of re-telling.
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The suspension of mastery and the desire for imaginary : applying Jacques Lacan's theory of the imaginary to the beholder/image dialectic as realised in selected paintings by Lucy Cobern and Gerhard RichterCobern, Lucy Rebecca 21 May 2013 (has links)
This dissertation seeks to explore the nature of the self/other, subject/object dialectic that can be found in Jacques Lacan's theory of the Minor Stage and his notion of Imaginary mastery, and how this relationship can be re-read in terms of a beholder/image relationship. What I seek to demonstrate in exploring the relationship between the beholder and the image is the staging of two opposing emotions, aggression and desire and the consequential tussle for mastery that arises from the self/other, and hence the beholder/image, dichotomy. I seek to explore the reasons why such a beholder/image relationship becomes ambivalent, due to veiled, obscured and fragmented images. / KMBT_363 / Adobe Acrobat 9.54 Paper Capture Plug-in
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Dr Johnson's critical assumptions in the preface to Shakespeare: an essay in descriptive methodGouws, John Stephen January 1973 (has links)
"His criticism may be considered as general or occasional. In his general precepts, which depend upon the nature of things and the structure of the human mind, he may doubtlessly be safely recommended to the confidence of the reader: but his occasional and particular positions were sometimes interested, sometimes negligent, and sometimes capricious." With certain qualifications, it would be the opinion of those critics who share a great admiration of the man that this statement might well have been made of Johnson himself. There are those, however, whose esteem of Johnson is perhaps not so great. One thus finds Alan Tate writing: "One is constantly impressed by Johnson's consistency of point of view, over the long pull of his self-dedication to letters. There is seldom either consistency or precision in his particular judgements and definitions -- a defect that perhaps accounts negatively for his greatness as a critic: the perpetual reformulation of his standards, with his eye on the poetry, has done much to keep eighteenth century verse alive in our day. His theories (if his ideas ever reach that level of logical abstraction) are perhaps too simple for our taste and too improvised; but his reading is disciplined and acute." Tate is eager to perpetuate the notion of Johnson as a critic with a massive common sense and little more, an imputation which Johnson would not only resent, but dismiss as short-sighted. Intro., p. 1.
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