Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington University, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 266-283).

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2005. / Title from title screen. LeeAnne Richardson, committee chair; Marilynn Richtarik, Margaret Mills Harper, committee members. Electronic text (56 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May 2, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-56).

British contemporary writer Zadie Smith is often representative of cosmopolitan writers of the twenty-first century: in both her fiction and nonfiction, she joins a multicultural background and broad, varied interests to an ethic based on the importance of interpersonal relationships and empathetic respect for the other. But while Smith is often considered the poster child for the contemporary British cosmopolitan, her ethics are in fact rooted in the one rather staid member of the canon: EM Forster, whose emphatic call to ‘only connect’ grounds all of Smith's fiction. Her latest novel, 2012's NW, further expands her relationship to Forster in highlighting both the promise and the limitations of empathy and cosmopolitan connection in the context of modern urban British life. This paper uses Kwame Anthony Appiah's definition of “rooted cosmopolitanism” to explore Forster's and Smith's shared ethics. I argue that their relationship grounds and influences Smith's literary rooted cosmopolitanism: that while she writes books for the age of globalization, her deliberate ties to the British canon suggest an investment in maintaining and reinvigorating the British novelistic tradition as a pathway to a collective British identity that is as expansive, modern, and empathetic as her novels.

Literacy theory, a multi-disciplinary, late-twentieth century endeavor, examines the acts of reading and writing as cognitive and social processes, seeking to define the relationship between reading and writing and other social and cognitive - especially linguistic - acts. As such, literacy theory intersects with discussions of public and individual education and reading habits that surface with the rise of the mass reading public. This dissertation analyzes scenes of reading and writing in the fiction of Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence and Aldous Huxley as implicit authorial discourses on the function of literacy, including properties of written language and the social consequences of literate acts. It argues that reading and writing form important thematic concerns in Modernist fiction, defines fiction that theorizes about reading and writing as "literacy fiction," and proposes fictional dramatizations of literate activity as subjects for literacy theory. Chapter I argues that early twentieth-century Britain is an important historical site for intellectual consideration of literacy because near-universal access to education across social classes influences an increase in middle and working class readers. Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway provides a test case for the analysis of scenes of reading because her democratic concern with education is well established in the scholarly literature. Chapter II argues that in "The Celestial Omnibus" and "Other Kingdom," Forster critiques use of literacy as cultural capital. Chapter III argues that Forster's A Room with a View and Howards End portray the dangers of naive reading and the difficulties of autodidacticism for the working class, respectively. Chapter IV argues that Lawrence's "Shades of Spring" and Sons and Lovers introduce the theoretically unexplored topic of literacy's influence on intimate relationships. Chapter V argues that Huxley's Brave New World responds to the Modernist discourse on literacy by addressing the restriction of individual literacy by the State and elite intellectuals. The conclusion summarizes Modernist representation of literacy, states the significance of the methodology and its further applications, and refines the definition of literacy fiction. Because Modernist writers scrutinize the relationship between external forces and the individual psyche, their anxiety-tinged portraits treat both cognitive and social functions of literate acts.

Submitted by Divisão de Documentação/BC Biblioteca Central (ddbc@ufam.edu.br) on 2015-10-21T15:04:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação - Alexandre M. Aguiar.pdf: 8594585 bytes, checksum: c3945e3c68b06eb68321ddb20ca69d85 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Divisão de Documentação/BC Biblioteca Central (ddbc@ufam.edu.br) on 2015-10-21T15:08:27Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação - Alexandre M. Aguiar.pdf: 8594585 bytes, checksum: c3945e3c68b06eb68321ddb20ca69d85 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Divisão de Documentação/BC Biblioteca Central (ddbc@ufam.edu.br) on 2015-10-21T15:14:08Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação - Alexandre M. Aguiar.pdf: 8594585 bytes, checksum: c3945e3c68b06eb68321ddb20ca69d85 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-10-21T15:14:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação - Alexandre M. Aguiar.pdf: 8594585 bytes, checksum: c3945e3c68b06eb68321ddb20ca69d85 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-24 / FAPEAM - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas / This master´s dissertation completes a historical-literary analysis of the novel Howards End, written by the English novelist E. M. Forster. The first chapter presents the author´s life, as well as his travels abroad and novels published. Secondly, we analyze the narrative; emphasize the facts, characters and symbolic elements described by the author. Finally, the third chapter, we compare Howards End with On Beauty by Zadie Smith, approaching the facts, characters and symbolic elements written in these works. Howards End was published in 1910 during the Eduardian time, when the Victorian era is over. There was a conflict in England during this time of intense transition between the “new” and “old”, since England has no longer control over its colonies and political and economic questions in Europe seem to increase with totalitarian regimes in German and Italy. In the narrative, there is a resistance to the new changes represented by the sisters Schlegels who are intellectual and emancipated, daughters of an English mother and a German father. On the other hand, the impositions of traditions represented by the clan Wilcox, as well as the integration of another nucleus, the Basts, originally proletarians in that society. The initial conflict begins when the matriarch of the Wilcox, for a symbolic gesture of friendship, decides to leave her old cottage house, Howards End, to the old sister (Margaret), without letting her know about this decision. The families have their paths crossed with that conflict which is the core of most parts of the novel of E. M. Forster, as he seems to suggest that personal relationships represent the only possibility to comprehension of a chaotic world. / Esta dissertação de mestrado faz uma análise histórico-literária do romance Howards End, do escritor inglês E. M. Forster. O primeiro capítulo apresenta a vida do autor, assim como suas viagens ao exterior e os romances publicados. No segundo, faremos uma análise da narrativa; enfatizando os fatos, as personagens e os elementos descritos pelo autor. Por fim, no terceiro, compararemos Howards End com On Beauty, de Zadie, e faremos uma abordagem dos fatos, das personagens, e elementos descritos nessas obras. Howards End foi publicado em 1910 durante a época Eduardiana, quando o período conhecido como Era Vitoriana se encerra. Nesse momento de intensa transição na Inglaterra havia o conflito entre o “novo” e o “velho”, já que a Inglaterra não possuía mais controle sobre suas colônias, e questões políticas e econômicas na Europa parecem surgir com a ascensão de regimes totalitários na Alemanha e Itália. Na narrativa, há a resistência ao novo representado pelas irmãs Schlegel que são intelectuais e emancipadas, filhas de mãe inglesa e pai alemão e, do outro lado, a imposição das tradições representadas pelo clã Wilcox, assim como a integração de outro núcleo, os Bast, de origem proletária e marginalizada naquela sociedade. O conflito inicial se dá quando a matriarca dos Wilcox, por um gesto simbólico de amizade, decide deixar sua velha casa de campo, Howards End para a irmã mais velha Schlegel (Margaret), sem que essa tome conhecimento da decisão. As famílias têm seus destinos entrecruzados a partir desse conflito que é o cerne de boa parte da obra de E. M. Forster, quando ele parece sugerir que as relações interpessoais representam a única possibilidade de compreensão de um mundo caótico.

In this thesis I argue that understanding Forster’s effeminate male characters is central to understanding the novels that they appear in. Tibby in Howards End and Cecil in A Room with a View are often viewed as inconsequential figures that provide comic relief and inspire pity. But if, instead of keeping them at the margins, readers put Tibby and Cecil in direct contact and conflict with the dominant themes of gender identity, gendered power structures, and gender equality in these novels, these characters develop a deeper significance that details the fin de siècle’s ever-changing attitudes regarding prescribed gender roles for both men and women. Indeed, by examining Forster’s feminized male characters, one can chart the development of these roles in both the larger world and Forster’s prescription for gender evolution in his novels.

Modern populärkultur verkar under de senaste åren ha framfört en trend i att gestalta sina antagonister som flerdimensionella. Men är komplexitet det enda sättet att göra en antagonist intressant på? I denna fallstudie undersöks antagonisterna i BioShock och Heathers: The Musical, för att förstå den tematiska funktionen av en komplex och en enkel antagonist. Det sker med ett scenurval som identifierar berättelsernas tematik och förtydligar antagonisternas karaktärsdrag. Scenerna förtydligar om antagonisterna är runda eller platta, hur de bedöms inom moral och makt samt framför vad de har för funktion i berättelsernas tematiska mål. Resultatet visar att den enkla antagonisten förespråkar en ytlig ideologi som den sprider och ger komplexitet till andra karaktärer, medan den komplexa antagonisten ger tillfälle till reflektion inom moralen av sin egen ideologi. Slutsatsen av studien blir att de två antagonisttyperna fyller användbara funktioner beroende på hur djupgående en berättelse är villig att utforska ett problem eller ideologi.

This thesis explores E. M. Forster's interest in the politics of music, illustrating the importance of music to Forster's conceptions of personal relationships and imperialism, national character and literary influence, pacifism and heroism, class and amateurism. Discussing Forster's novels, short stories, essays, lectures, letters, diaries, and broadcast talks, the thesis looks into the political nuances in Forster's numerous allusions and references to musical composition, performance, and consumption. In so doing, the thesis challenges previous formalistic studies of Forster's representations of music by highlighting his attention to the contentious relations between music and political contingencies. The first chapter examines A Passage to India, considering Forster's depictions of music in relation to the novel's concern with friendship and imperialism. It explores the ways in which music functions politically in Forster's most ‘rhythmical' novel. The second chapter focuses on Forster's description of the performance of Lucia di Lammermoor in Where Angels Fear to Tread. Reading this highly crafted scene as Forster's attempt to ‘modernize' fictional narrative, it discusses Forster's negotiation of national character and literary heritage. The third chapter assesses Forster's Wagnerism, scrutinizing the conjunction between Forster's rumination on heroism and his criticism of Siegfried. The chapter pays particular attention to Forster's uncharacteristic silence on Wagner during and after the Second World War. The fourth chapter investigates Forster's celebration of musical amateurism. By analysing his characterization of musical amateurs and professionals in ‘The Machine Stops', Arctic Summer, and Maurice, the chapter discusses the gender and class politics of Forster's championing of freedom and idiosyncrasy.

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