'n Ondersoek na die armoede-diskoers en die uitings patriargie, bloedskande en apartheid in Triomf van Marlene Van Niekerk.

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???.

The very mention of the genre of the 'girls' school story' tends to provoke sniggers. Critics, teachers and librarians have combined throughout the century to attack a genre which encourages loyalty, hard work, team spirit, cleanliness and godliness. This dissertation asks why this attack took place and suggests one possible answer - the girls' school story was a radical and therefore feared genre. The thesis provides a brief history of the genre with reference to its connections with the Victorian novel and its peculiarly British status. Through examination of reading surveys, newspapers and early critical works it establishes both the popularity of the genre amongst its intended audience and the vitriolic nature of the attack against it. Biographical information about the writers of the school story begins to answer why the establishment may have been afraid of the influence of the purveyors of girls' school stories. By discussing their depiction of education, religion, women's roles and war the dissertation shows in what respects the genre can be seen as radical and shows how the increasing conventionality of the genre coincided with its decline in vigour and popularity. The influence of the oeuvre is then revealed in the discussion of its effects on adult literature.

This dissertation investigates the extent and type of influence the Shona folktale has had on the writing of the Shona novel. Of particular interest is how much influence the folktale has had on the early writers of Shona novels as compared to the modern writers. The study investigates folktale influence on the development of plot, setting and characterisation in targeted novels. With regard to the development of plot, the study focuses on folktale influence on the following aspects; the exposition, complication, climax and resolution. Looking at setting, the study investigates folktale influence on setting as place, time or social circumstances in which the stories happen. The study also investigates the type of characters the novelists portray and seek to detect any folktale influence on characterisation. / African Languages and Literature / Thesis (M.A.)

Orientador: Suzi Frankl Sperber / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T11:43:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vilalva_WalniceAparecidaMatos_D.pdf: 1765630 bytes, checksum: aea76c7a57770a73fe9a05a28b8a6d60 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: O tema da donzela-guerreira engendra processo configural que retoma matizes de composição do tema na cultura popular. O que podemos perceber pelas variantes da produção oral é a manutenção do molde da donzela-guerreira européia que chega até nossos dias como herança do processo de colonização. O romance brasileiro, ao tratar desta donzela, fundamentalmente nos dois romances aqui analisados, Grande sertão: Veredas e Memorial de Maria Moura, insere-a em novo espaço, o sertão, permitindo, assim, uma reelaboração da performance e o aprofundamento de elementos configurais que apenas estavam apresentados na produção oral; a saber, a dinâmica da guerra, a composição do bando, a instituição da marginalidade / Abstract: The subject of the maiden-warrior produces configural process that retakes shades of composition of the subject in the popular culture. What we can perceive for the variants of the verbal production is the maintenance of the mold of the European maiden-warrior who is seen until our days as inheritance of the settling process. The Brazilian romance, when dealing with this maiden, basically in the two romances analyzed here, Grande sertão: Veredas e Memorial de Maria Moura , inserts her in a new space, the hinterland, allowing, thus, a rework of the performance and the deepening of configural elements that were only presented in the verbal production; they are the dynamics of the war, the composition of the flock, the institution of the marginality / Doutorado / Literatura Brasileira / Doutor em Teoria e História Literária

Orientador: Marcia Azevedo de Abreu / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T06:17:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Almeida_LeandroThomazde_M.pdf: 532448 bytes, checksum: 95de9570bce6a06d85047c31a903fc13 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: A avaliação dos romances de Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, contemporânea aos seus lançamentos, foi predominantemente elogiosa. Isso fica claro por meio das críticas, notícias de publicação e notas diversificadas que foram publicados nos jornais oitocentistas cariocas. Essa recepção crítica, no entanto, conflita com a que foi realizada posteriormente, sobretudo nas histórias literárias do século XX, as quais cristalizaram uma avaliação dos romances macedianos apontando-os como exemplos de puerilidade e sentimentalismo, o que os tornariam próprios para a leitura das mocinhas. Dessa forma, analisar essa primeira recepção, perceber as convenções que regulavam o gênero romanesco na época, e a forma como Macedo inseriu sua produção nesse cenário, constitui-se uma tarefa que certamente lançará uma visada sobre a obra macediana que relativizará o anacronismo que freqüentemente regula essa recepção crítica posterior, além de permitir ao leitor contemporâneo uma familiarização com o diálogo que a obra de Macedo travou com sua própria época / Abstract: The evaluation of the novels of Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, at the time of their release, was predominantly of praise. This critical reception, however, conflicts with the previous one, especially of the literary works of the 20th century, which crystallized an evaluation of the Macedo novels, marking them as examples of childishness and sentimentalism. Thus, analyzing this first reception, noticing the conventions that regulated the Romanesque genre at that time, and the way in which Macedo inserted his production into this scenario, is a task that will certainly shed new light on the works of Macedo, which will reduce to relativity the anachronism that often regulates this later critical reception / Mestrado / Literatura Brasileira / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

M.A. (African Languages) / The main aim of this study is to focus on symbolism as a literary technique in D P S Monyaise's novel, Bogosi Kupe. In this work a semiotic study of Monyaise' s Bogosi Kupe will be dealt with, the existence of a symbol will be investigated, traced, interpreted and its function . described according to African historical, cultural and ethical context. The biography of Monyaise and the approach with regard to Symbolism in Bogosi Kupe will be discussed...

Henry James (1843-1916) is a curious and, by his own choice, enigmatic figure. We have a great many dates, a few letters, and little else. James's fragment of autobiography, vast as it is; is strangely unrevealing. There is a wealth of impressions as one would expect from such a writer but precious little about the man. Henry James was chary of describing his personal feelings - so much so that some doubted his ability to have any strong emotions. His autobiography, interesting as it is, is pure observation, memories of people, places and impressions, all marvellously sensitive, but little personal feeling. Intro., p. 1.

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This study constitutes a single strand of a wider argument for a thorough-going reassessment of the place of fantasy literature within the canon. In particular, it aims to redress a marked lack of critical attention paid to the distinct movement towards fantastic modes of representation in the mid-twentieth century.