Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2005. / Title from title page screen, viewed September 27, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Ronald Strickland (chair), Victoria Harris, Janice Neuleib. Table of contents page gives incorrect page numbers. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-138) and abstract. Also available in print.

黃小梅. / 論文(哲學碩士) -- 香港中文大學硏究院中國語言及文學學部, 1998. / 附參考文獻. / 中英文摘要. / Huang Xiaomei. / Chapter 上編 --- 硏究目的、方法與理念 / Chapter 第一章 --- 緖論 / Chapter 第一節： --- 硏究目的 / Chapter 第二節： --- 硏究範圍與方法 / Chapter 第二章 --- 人文精神的理念 / Chapter 第一節： --- 人文精神的基本槪念 / Chapter 第二節： --- 近年有關人文精神的論爭 / Chapter 第三章 --- 宗璞的小說創作理念與人文精神的關係 / Chapter 第一節： --- 宗璞的小說觀與人文精神的關係 / Chapter 1) --- 小說須具社會性、可讀性和啓示性 / Chapter 2) --- 小說須雅俗共賞 / Chapter 第二節： --- 宗璞的小說創作要求與人文精神的關係 / Chapter 1) --- 內容方面 / Chapter 2) --- 表達手法方面 / Chapter 3) --- 作家學養方面 / Chapter 下編 --- 宗璞小說體現的人文精神 / Chapter 第一章 --- 宗璞的人文精神思想形成 / Chapter 第一節： --- 耕讀世家的學術薰陶 / Chapter 1) --- 家族良好的學術風氣 / Chapter 2) --- 中日戰爭時期的家庭敎育 / Chapter 第二節： --- 外國文學的啓迪 / Chapter 第二章 --- 宗璞小說對人的“生命´ح的理解 / Chapter 第一節： --- 生命是脆弱的 / Chapter 第二節： --- 生命擁有靈魂一一愛 / Chapter 第三節： --- 生命必須受尊重 / Chapter 第三章 --- 宗璞小說對人格素質的思考 / Chapter 第一節： --- 一般人格素質：建立眞、善、美的人格 / Chapter 1) --- 個人修身要求克己眞誠 / Chapter 2) --- 待人處事要求寬容友善 / Chapter 3) --- 以美的人格建立美的世界 / Chapter 第二節： --- 知識分子的獨特人格素質 / Chapter 1) --- 宗璞小說裏“知識分子´ح的涵義 / Chapter 2) --- 知識分子的獨特人格素質一一對政治的自覺 / Chapter [I] --- 團結愛國的情操 / Chapter [II] --- 具氣節以嫌棄奸邪的處事態度 / Chapter [III] --- 捨身貢獻的精神 / Chapter 第三節： --- 女性知識分子的獨特人格素質一一剛柔並濟 / Chapter 1) --- 宗璞對女性知識分子的看法 / Chapter 2) --- 女性知識分子的獨特人格素質 / Chapter [I] --- 剛一一面對磨難堅強勇敢 / Chapter [II] --- 柔一一面對愛情深厚專一 / Chapter 第四章 --- 宗璞小說對人生的探索 / Chapter 第一節： --- 人生充滿遺憾與不如意 / Chapter 1) --- 人生受著命運的播弄 / Chapter 2) --- 人生須面對困惱的抉擇 / Chapter 3) --- 人的愛情充滿災劫與苦痛 / Chapter 4) --- 人與人溝通時有阻礙 / Chapter 第二節： --- 人生意義的思考與追尋 / Chapter 1) --- 宗璞小說展現的人生意義 / Chapter [I] --- 人生的意義在於建設國家 / Chapter [II] --- 人生的意義在於追求眞理 / Chapter [III] --- 人生的意義在於擁有富足的精神境界 / Chapter 2) --- 宗璞小說展現不同人生意義的原因 / Chapter [I] --- 敎育政策的影響 / Chapter [II] --- 作家經歷文革的磨難 / Chapter [III] --- 作家心靈的練達 / Chapter 第五章 --- 結論

“The Ontological Imagination: Living Form in American Literature” proposes a new theory of the imagination as a way forward from the long academic critique of the human subject. It is unclear how we should conceive of the human—of our potential, for example, for self-knowledge, independent thought, or moral choice—after the critiques of self-presence, intentionality, and autonomy that have come to define work in the humanities. This dissertation offers an image of the human responsive to such challenges. I argue that a set of major nineteenth-century American writers (Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, Henry James, and Walt Whitman) held a paradoxical conception of the imagination as both the mark of human uniqueness—the faculty that raises the mind above the world’s sheer givenness, allowing for creative action—and the space of our greatest intimacy with the nonhuman world. For these writers, the highest human achievements simultaneously differentiate us from the rest of nature and abolish our difference from it. Chapter 1, “Emerson’s ‘Doctrine of Life’: Embryogenesis and the Ontology of the Fragment,” presents an Emerson whose investigations of emotional numbness reveal a disintegrative force immanent to living beings. In the new science of embryology—a model of life at its most impersonal—he finds a non-teleological principle of growth by which a human life or an imaginative essay might attain fragile coherence. Chapter 2, “‘Concrete Imagination’: William James’s Post-Critical Thinking,” claims that James’s multifaceted career is best understood as a quest for an intellectual vitality that would not abandon self-consistency. I argue that an ontology of thinking underlies his seemingly disparate projects: his theory of the will as receptivity, his conception of faith as mental risk, and his late practice of exemplification over sequential argument. Chapter 3, “‘The Novel is a Living Thing’: Mannerism and Immortality in The Wings of the Dove,” argues that Henry James envisions the novel as an incarnation, a means of preserving the life of a beloved young woman beyond her death. Through formal techniques inspired by painterly mannerism, James creates a novelistic universe that unfixes the categories of life and death. Chapter 4, “‘Like the Sun Falling Around a Helpless Thing’: Whitman’s Poetry of Judgment,” emphasizes the figural and perspectival features of Whitman’s poetry at even its most prosaic in order to show how the imagination grounds us in a common world rather than detaching us from it. In opposition to an ethics for which realistic recognition of the world demands suppression of the imagination, Whitman’s realism requires acts of imaginative judgment. In sum, “The Ontological Imagination” hopes to reorient study of nineteenth-century American literature by revising both its traditional humanist reading and its recent posthumanist critique. On the level of the discipline, by defining literary form as a singular space in which the human imagination and impersonal life are revealed as indivisible, I make a case for the compatibility of the new formalist and ontological approaches to literary study.

Thesis--Paris. / Includes bibliographical references (t. 1, p. [1]-12 (2d group)) and index.

Inaug.-Diss.--Bonn. / Lebenslauf. "Verzeichnis der benutzten Werke": p. 100-104.

Bibliography: leaves [274]-281 / vi, 281 leaves ; 31 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English Language and Literature, 1992

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2003. / Adviser: Linda Bamber. Submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 246-251). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

Inaug.-Diss.--Bonn. / Lebenslauf. "Verzeichnis der benutzten Werke": p. 100-104.

"Karnāṭaka Yūnīvarsiṭī dvārā Pī.-eca. Ḍī upādhi ke lie svīkṛta śodhaprabandha." / In Hindi. Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-344).

Dissertation (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2010. / Directed by Scott Romine; submitted to the Dept. of English. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jul. 19, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-127).