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1	Dante and the suffering soul Gardner, Patrick Meredith. January 2009 (has links) Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2009. / Thesis directed by Ralph McInerny for the Institute of Medieval Studies. "April 2009." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 380-393).
2	The Visio Baronti in its early medieval context Lucey-Roper, Michelle M. January 2000 (has links) The focus of this thesis is the Visio Baronti (VB), an account of a seventh-century monk's journey to the other world. This text serves as a metaphoric fulcrum to support a more extensive study of early medieval conceptions of the other world and the historical context in which visionary accounts were produced. Chapter 1 contains an introduction to ideas of the other world, a survey of types of visionary experiences, their uses, imitations and historiographical responses to them. Chapter 2 focuses on medieval and modern responses to visions. This chapter includes a survey of the terminology for dreams and visions found in theoretical writings, compares dream theory with otherworld visions and identifies medieval methods of determining the validity of a visionary experience. Chapter 3 investigates the manuscript tradition of the VB, in order to illuminate medieval receptions and treatments of this text. Because the text appears unusual for the seventh century, chapter 4 provides an analysis of the grounds for dating the VB to the seventh century, while chapter 5 treats the VB in its seventh-century monastic context and assesses what influences shaped this text. Chapter 6 compares Barontus's vision with ninth-century visions and other Carolingian writings to consider Carolingian interest in the VB in light of their contributions to the genre. Chapter 7 examines the artistic response to this text through an examination of the illustrations which accompany the text in the ninth-century St Petersburg manuscript. A brief conclusion to this study follows. 800
3	Visions of the future in the science fiction of H.G. Wells. January 1999 (has links) by Leong Hang-Tat. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-110). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter One --- The Concepts of Utopia and Dystopia in Literature --- p.7 / Chapter Chapter Two --- The Early H. G. Wells: The Time Machine --- p.30 / Chapter Chapter Three --- From Dystopia to Utopia: Wells's Ambivalence in When the Sleeper Wakes --- p.50 / Chapter Chapter Four --- Utopia and the Scientific World State: A Modern Utopia --- p.68 / Conclusion --- p.91 / Notes --- p.97 / Works Cited --- p.105 Future, The, in literature Utopias in literature Dystopias in literature
4	《搜神記》中的死後世界: 一個富有中國本土文化特色的地下世界. / 搜神記中的死後世界 / 一個富有中國本土文化特色的地下世界 / "Sou shen ji" zhong de si hou shi jie: yi ge fu you Zhongguo ben tu wen hua te se de di xia shi jie. / Sou shen ji zhong de si hou shi jie / Yi ge fu you Zhongguo ben tu wen hua te se de di xia shi jie January 2001 (has links) 李淑文. / "2001年1月" / 論文 (哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2001. / 參考文獻 (leaves 114-121) / 附中英文摘要. / "2001 nian 1 yue" / Li Shuwen. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2001. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 114-121) / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / 撮要 --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii / 目錄 --- p.iv / Chapter 第一章 --- 導論 / Chapter 一´Ø --- 引言 --- p.1 / Chapter 二´Ø --- 硏究方法 --- p.4 / Chapter 三´Ø --- 六朝志怪的特性 --- p.6 / Chapter 1´Ø --- 志怪小說的內容 / Chapter 2´Ø --- 志怪小說的寫作手法 / Chapter 3´Ø --- 志怪小說的寫作動機 / Chapter 四´Ø --- 選擇《搜神記》的原因 --- p.14 / Chapter 1 ´Ø --- 從文學角度看 / Chapter 2´Ø --- 從內容看 / Chapter 五´Ø --- 本文結構與內容 --- p.16 / Chapter 第二章 --- 《搜神記》的成書與流傳 / Chapter 一´Ø --- 成書 --- p.18 / Chapter 1 ´Ø --- 資料來源 / Chapter 2´Ø --- 寫作目的 / Chapter 二 ´Ø --- 流傳 --- p.22 / Chapter 第三章 --- 《搜神記》中「死而復生故事」內容分析 --- p.30 / Chapter 一´Ø --- 死而復生的原因 --- p.32 / Chapter 1´Ø --- 被司命誤召 / Chapter 2´Ø --- 未當死 / Chapter 二´Ø --- 死而復生的詮釋 --- p.36 / Chapter 1´Ø --- 精誠所至 / Chapter 2´Ø --- 徵兆 / Chapter 三´Ø --- 死後的去處及生活 --- p.41 / Chapter 1´Ø --- 死後往天上及其生活 / Chapter 2´Ø --- 死後往泰山及其生活 / Chapter 第四章 --- 《搜神記》中「鬼故事」內容分析 --- p.47 / Chapter 一´Ø --- 鬼顯現的原因 --- p.50 / Chapter 1´Ø --- 死於非命 / Chapter 2´Ø --- 安葬不宜 / Chapter 3´Ø --- 未嫁而死 / Chapter 二´Ø --- 死後的去處及其生活 --- p.58 / Chapter 1 ´Ø --- 死後的去處 / Chapter 2 ´Ø --- 死後的生活 / Chapter 三´Ø --- 死者與生者的關係 --- p.60 / Chapter 第五章 --- 《搜神記》中死後世界的承傳與轉變 --- p.65 / Chapter 一´Ø --- 死而復生與漢代流行思想 --- p.67 / Chapter 二´Ø --- 《搜神記》中死後世界的承傳與轉變 --- p.74 / Chapter 1 ´Ø --- 死後的去處 / Chapter 2´Ø --- 死後世界的官僚架構組織 / Chapter 3´Ø --- 死後的生活 / Chapter 4´Ø --- 死者與生者的關係 / Chapter 第六章 --- 總結 --- p.109 / 參考書目 --- p.114 干寶 , fl. 317-322 Death in literature Future, The, in literature Chinese fiction--History and criticism Gan, Bao , fl. 317-322
5	A Study of Body-and-Soul Poetry in Old and Middle English Tuck, Mary Patricia 08 1900 (has links) In this paper I will examine the sources for the tradition of the address of the soul to the body or the dialogue between, the two. I will consider the Old and Middle English poetic expressions of the body-and-soul legend in terms of the criticism of the ten poems which specifically belong to that tradition and the elements which constitute that genre. I will also deal with those poems written at the same time which exhibit one or more of those elements, with the body-and-soul tradition in English morality plays, with the Ars Moriendi, and with the Dance of Death. I will demonstrate that a shift occurs in the consideration of death from a concern for the soul to a preoccupation with the grotesque and gruesome aspects of death. The address and dialogue forms fall into disuse as a vehicle for theological argument concerning the responsibility for sin, and the view of death reflected by the popular pictorial representations of the Dance of Death becomes prominent. body-and-soul poetry Old English homilies Ars Moriendi Death in literature. Theological anthropology in literature. Future life in literature.
6	Fantastic Empires: Imaginary Travel in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Russia Bruce, Stephen Andrew January 2024 (has links) This dissertation examines Russian fantastical travel narratives from 1784 to 1855, an era of substantial imperial conquest, in which authors of various backgrounds, both Russian and non-Russian, wrestled with questions of cultural identity and the prospects for Russia’s development on the global scale, while in a profound but often contentious relationship with the countries of Western Europe. My chapters cover three different categories of fantastic travel. The first includes journeys to undiscovered space, including Antarctica and the Moon (in works by Shcherbatov, Lyovshin, Kiukhelbeker, and Senkovsky), which largely criticize Russian expansionism. The second is stories of travel to or in the distant future (Vilgelm Kiukhelbeker, Faddei Bulgarin, and Vladimir Odoevsky), which project a more positive view of Russian imperial destiny. The third category is metafictional travel, through maps and the written page (Veltman), which deconstructs the very notion of imperial reality. I argue that writers employed the genre of fantastic travel literature, as well as specific devices such as dreams and frame narratives, to critically interrogate and reshape the imperial and national ideologies of their time. These works anticipate modern science fiction by using a wide range of spatial and temporal settings to create new worlds that highlight the possibilities or faults of their own societies, for satirical or didactic purposes—and as such they benefit from the application of recent theories of science fiction. Given the diverse range of authors and time periods I investigate, my work also has a taxonomic purpose, delineating the thematic evolution of fantastic travel narratives in different categories and paving the way for more targeted analyses of these understudied works. Russian literature Travel in literature Future, The, in literature Eighteenth century Nineteenth century Territorial expansion Moon Science fiction Levshin, Vasiliĭ, 1746-1826 Senkovskīĭ, Osip Ivanovich, 1800-1858 Bulgarin, Faddeĭ, 1789-1859
7	The carceral in literary dystopia: social conformity in Aldous Huxley’s Brave new world, Jasper Fford’s Shades of grey and Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy Chamberlain, Marlize 02 1900 (has links) Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-127) / This dissertation examines how three dystopian texts, namely Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Jasper Fforde’s Shades of Grey and Veronica Roth’s Divergent trilogy, exhibit social conformity as a disciplinary mechanism of the ‘carceral’ – a notion introduced by poststructuralist thinker Michel Foucault. Employing poststructuralist discourse and deconstructive theory as a theoretical framework, the study investigates how each novel establishes its world as a successful carceral city that incorporates most, if not all, the elements of the incarceration system that Foucault highlights in Discipline and Punish. It establishes that the societies of the texts present potentially nightmarish future societies in which social and political “improvements” result in a seemingly better world, yet some essential part of human existence has been sacrificed. This study of these fictional worlds reflects on the carceral nature of modern society and highlights the problematic nature of the social and political practices to which individuals are expected to conform. Finally, in line with Foucault, it postulates that individuals need not be enclosed behind prison walls to be imprisoned; the very nature of our social systems imposes the restrictive power that incarcerates societies / English Studies / M.A. (English Studies) Dystopia Utopia Science fiction Social systems Social conformity Post-structuralism Michael Foucault Jacques Derrida Future societies Satire Prison Dystopian fiction Young adult dystopian fiction Imprisonment Power Hegemony Discipline Docility Carceral Discourse Discursive formations 809.93372 Roth, Veronica -- Themes, motives Roth, Veronica. Shades of grey Fforde, Jasper -- Themes, motives Fforde, Jasper -- Shades of grey Dystopias in literature Science fiction -- Themes, motives Future, The, in literature Conformity in literature

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