Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of St Andrews, May 2007.

Thesis (doctoral)--Université Paris-Nord, 1997. / At head of title: Université Paris Nord, Paris XIII. Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-459).

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Ko Chung Man Cynthia. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-168). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgement --- p.i / Abstract --- p.iii / 摘要 --- p.v / "Introduction: Nationalism, Exile and Homelands" / Nationalism and Exile --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter One: --- Spaces of Nostalgia and Subversion: Memory as Imaginary Homelands / The Split Identities of the Political Exile --- p.22 / Memory as Imaginary Homelands for Exile Writers: Definition --- p.29 / Memory as Imaginary Homelands for Beidao and Brodsky --- p.40 / Concluding Remarks --- p.66 / Chapter Chapter Two: --- Obsession with the Past: Cities Traveled as Surrogate Homelands / The Exile Writers' Despair towards the Future --- p.68 / Cities Traveled as Surrogate Homelands: Definition --- p.72 / Surrogate Homelands in Beidao's and Brodsky's Endless Journey --- p.80 / Concluding Remarks --- p.104 / Chapter Chapter Three: --- Spaces of Solitude: The Linguistic Homelands / Exile and Language Crisis --- p.106 / Linguistic Homelands for Exile Writers: Definition --- p.112 / Linguistic Homelands for Beidao and Brodsky --- p.122 / Concluding Remarks --- p.151 / Conclusion: Textual Spaces as Homelands for the Exile Poets --- p.153 / Works Cited --- p.159

This thesis is an analysis of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses and The Moor's Last Sigh. The approach is twofold: (a) it seeks to establish an interplay between the concept of exile-in-narration (theme) and narrators-in-exile (form) as a reflection upon questions of rootlessness; and (b) it seeks to underscore this interplay as a recurring 'double bind' within each novel, such that the novels form a loosely bound trilogy that functions as a developing discourse on individual and national identity from a decentred perspective. The aim is similarly twofold: (a) it proposes that the metaphor of exile as a polarized state manifests itself as either an unreflecting pull of opposites or as a thoughtful acceptance of the inter-connectedness between ideas, people, places and things; and (b) it argues that once this polarization becomes evident, it disturbs all static narratives of selfhood and community to the point at which they can be reconceptualized, and yet remain open-ended.

This study is an investigation of the autobiographical narratives of two authors, the Pole Marek Hlasko, and the American Henry Miller. Though they lived in different times and places Miller and Hlasko, share some remarkable features with respect to temperament, philosophies of writing, and modes of narrative output. In the chapters that follow I will examine both the biographical and the textual points of contact between these two men, concentrating on the problem of self-inscription in the autobiographical novels, and on the games played with identity that both men engaged in throughout their artistic careers, especially during their periods of exile. / The first section provides a recapitulation of relevant biographical data together with a summary of the social and historical contexts as these affect the personal ideology of each writer. I begin with an expose of some parallels in the biographies and the autobiographical narratives of the two men, and subsequently turn to a summary of the broader polemics of authorial representation in works written in the first person. Here the traditional notion of equating the author of an autobiographical novel with its subject will be rejected in favour of examining the network of relationships that exist among the writer, the writer's cultural "persona", and the textual voice. Following this theoretical framework, I explore each author's personal script of emigration, his sense of self-understanding and self-positioning in the world, and the strategies of self-construction and self-invention undertaken both in the narratives and in the public arena. My analysis of each author's most representative autobiographical works of the exile period will finally suggest the conclusion that while the autobiographical impulse supplied the form for virtually all of Hlasko's and Miller's writing, it is the experience of exile that furnished the content for successful narrative self-revelation.

Honors Project--Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-89).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept of Comparative Literature, June 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 1987. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 180-203).

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris IV, 1976. / Includes index. Bibliography: p. 1265-1328.