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11	Always Painting the Future: Utopian Desire and the Women's Movement in Selected Works by United States Female Writers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Balic, Iva 08 1900 (has links) This study explores six utopias by female authors written at the turn of the twentieth century: Mary Bradley Lane's Mizora (1881), Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant's Unveiling Parallel (1893), Eloise O. Richberg's Reinstern (1900), Lena J. Fry's Other Worlds (1905), Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915), and Martha Bensley Bruère's Mildred Carver, USA (1919). While the right to vote had become the central, most important point of the movement, women were concerned with many other issues affecting their lives. Positioned within the context of the late nineteenth century women's rights movement, this study examines these "sideline" concerns of the movement such as home and gender-determined spheres, motherhood, work, marriage, independence, and self-sufficiency and relates them to the transforming character of female identity at the time. The study focuses primarily on analyzing the expression of female historical desire through utopian genre and on explicating the contradictory nature of utopian production. Utopia fin-de-siecle feminism Women authors, American -- 19th century. Women authors, American -- 20th century. Feminism in literature. Utopias in literature. Women in literature.
12	Arthur Schnitzler's Outsider-Insiders in <i>Fin de Siècle Vienna</i> Hurst, Jordan Dwayne 29 July 2013 (has links) No description available. Foreign Language Germanic Literature Language Minority and Ethnic Groups European Studies Literature German Austrian Austria Vienna Arthur Schnitzler Gustl Else Fridolin Albertine Schnitzler Fin de Siecle Outsider-Insider Outsider Insider Jewish Austrian Army Leutnant Gustl Fraulein Else Traumnovelle Self-Hatred Double Bind
13	Values in life and literature : a comparative reading of the depiction of disintegration, insecurity and uncertainty in selected novels by Thomas Mann, William Faulkner and Thomas Pynchon Wilke, Magdalena Friedericke 06 1900 (has links) The reading of selected literary texts in this thesis traces the changes from a divinely ordered world of stability (Thomas Mann's Bud<lenbrooks) to surroundings characterized by insecurity (William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury) to an unstable environment giving rise to largely futile attempts at finding answers to seemingly illogical questions (Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49). As a product of the accelerated speed of technological progression and the information revolution in the twentieth century, man is more often than not incapable of adjusting to changed circumstances in a seemingly hostile environment. Indeed, instability and unpredictability are external factors determining the sense of insecurity and uncertainty characterising the 'world' depicted in the literary texts under consideration. For this reason judicious use will be made of philosophical and psychoanalytical concepts, based, amongst others, on Nietzschean and Freudian theories, to explain the disintegration of families, the anguish experienced by individuals or, indeed, the shifting identities informing the portrayal of character in selected literary texts. / Afrikaans and Theory of Literature / D.Litt. et Phil. (Theory of Literature) Reflections of life in Literature Psychological/ philosophical values Characterization techniques Comparative reading Language and the unconscious Fin de siecle Disintegration Individual anguish Fixation, its psychological impact 'Inner life' portrayal Memory monologue, selective, associative Shifting identities Postmodernism Irrational quests Characters as textual construct 813.009353 Characters and characteristics Philosophy
14	Values in life and literature : a comparative reading of the depiction of disintegration, insecurity and uncertainty in selected novels by Thomas Mann, William Faulkner and Thomas Pynchon Wilke, Magdalena Friedericke 06 1900 (has links) The reading of selected literary texts in this thesis traces the changes from a divinely ordered world of stability (Thomas Mann's Bud<lenbrooks) to surroundings characterized by insecurity (William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury) to an unstable environment giving rise to largely futile attempts at finding answers to seemingly illogical questions (Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49). As a product of the accelerated speed of technological progression and the information revolution in the twentieth century, man is more often than not incapable of adjusting to changed circumstances in a seemingly hostile environment. Indeed, instability and unpredictability are external factors determining the sense of insecurity and uncertainty characterising the 'world' depicted in the literary texts under consideration. For this reason judicious use will be made of philosophical and psychoanalytical concepts, based, amongst others, on Nietzschean and Freudian theories, to explain the disintegration of families, the anguish experienced by individuals or, indeed, the shifting identities informing the portrayal of character in selected literary texts. / Afrikaans and Theory of Literature / D.Litt. et Phil. (Theory of Literature) Reflections of life in Literature Psychological/ philosophical values Characterization techniques Comparative reading Language and the unconscious Fin de siecle Disintegration Individual anguish Fixation, its psychological impact 'Inner life' portrayal Memory monologue, selective, associative Shifting identities Postmodernism Irrational quests Characters as textual construct 813.009353 Characters and characteristics Philosophy

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