Orientador: Ana Maria Domingues de Oliveira / Banca: Luiz Roberto Velloso Cairo / Banca: Marlise Vaz Bridi / Resumo: Este estudo propõe uma análise da recepção crítica do escritor João Antônio (1937-1996), publicada no período compreendido entre 1990 e 1996, a partir de um conjunto de textos reunidos por ele mesmo e que se encontram depositados em seu Acervo, na Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Assis - UNESP. Este trabalho representa a terceira etapa de um projeto maior que visa à reconstituição de toda a fortuna crítica do escritor; O primeiro levantamento, realizado por Jane Christina Pereira, intitula-se Estudo crítico da bibliografia sobre João Antônio: 1963 - 1976; a segunda fase corresponde à pesquisa realizada por Cássia Ferreira Alves, cujo título é Estudo Crítico da bibliografia sobre João Antônio (1978-1989); uma quarta parte está prevista para ser realizada por outro pesquisador que finalizará a análise dos textos publicados desde 1996 até os dias atuais. O material aqui analisado mostra como a crítica, publicada em jornais, interpretou e divulgou as obras de João Antônio em uma determinada época. Este trabalho aponta dados relevantes para fundamentar estudos sobre o autor, tanto os de caráter mais avançados, como os históricos-críticos, quanto os de fases iniciais, para os que desconhecem a bibliografia do escritor. / Abstract: This study proposes an analysis of the João Antonio's critic reception (1937-1996), published between the time from 1990 to 1996, from a collection of texts done by himself and located in his archive, at Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Assis - UNESP. this study represents the third part of a bigger project that seeks to rebuild all the critic treasure about this author, The first research, done by Jane Christina Pereira, is titled Critic Study on the Bibliography of João Antônio: 1963-1976; the second part done by Cássia Alves Ferreira, is titled Estudo Crítico da Bibliografia sobre João Antônio (1963-1976); and it is predicted a fourth part, to be conquered by another researcher, which, will finish analyzing the texts from 1996 to our days.. The material analyzed demonstrates how critics on newspapers interpreted and divulged the work of João Antônio in a determinate time. This work raises relevant data that can be used as foundation for studies of the author, even the ones with an advanced aspect, or the historic and critics, or the ones that are just begin and to whom the João Antonio's bibliography is unknown. / Mestre

Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar as condições e possibilidades do feminismo de Virginia Woolf à luz do momento sócio-econômico e cultural em que viveu e do qual foi um dos ícones. Por causa de sua formação e do panorama histórico da época, suas posições assumem um caráter extremamente ambíguo. Este estudo mostra que a autora oscila entre ser ícone de toda uma geração e outsider, romancista e crítica literária, intelectual e leitora comum, senhora das letras e feminista, crítica do gosto e proponente de uma nova estética literária, vitoriana esnobe e modernista. Tanto sua natureza criativa quanto os elementos propostos em sua estética literária resultam de sua visão de mundo e de sua relação ambígua com a realidade. / The aim of this dissertation is to analyze the conditions and possibilities of Virginia Woolf’s feminism in the light of the social, economical and cultural environment in which she lived and of which she became one of the icons. Because of her background and of the historical setting of her time, her positions take on an extremely ambiguous character. This study shows that the author bends from a whole generation icon to an outsider, from novelist to literary critic, from highbrow to common reader, from lady of letters to feminist, from “woman of taste" to proponent of a new literary aesthetics, from Victorian snob to modernist. Both her creative nature and the elements she suggests in her literary aesthetics result from her view of the world and from her ambiguous relationship with reality.

Este trabalho analisa os prefácios aos livros Lira dos vinte anos, O conde Lopo e Macário, do escritor romântico Álvares de Azevedo (1831 1852), buscando discernir e sistematizar os pressupostos básicos do pensamento crítico presente nesses textos. Visando contextualizar as discussões ali promovidas em face do debate romântico no Brasil e no exterior, a pesquisa recorre também a outros ensaios críticos do autor para o esclarecimento de questões levantadas pelos prefácios e, eventualmente, a alguns de seus poemas e a outras de suas obras. O cotejo entre os textos do corpus propiciou a reconstrução de uma rica tessitura de referências bibliográficas, especialmente francesas, caso de Théophile Gautier, e portuguesas, como Lopes de Mendonça, às quais o autor constantemente se volta. Essa tessitura explicita um vasto horizonte de leituras, que vai muito além de Byron e Musset, fontes mais recorrentes entre os românticos da segunda geração brasileira, projetando a figura eminente do crítico literário que já se entrevia em Azevedo, mesmo nos seus primeiros ensaios. O distanciamento dos esforços nacionalistas, principal objetivo da maioria dos críticos e escritores brasileiros no oitocentos, permitiu que Azevedo se vinculasse a uma outra concepção de crítica literária, de origem alemã, elaborada sobretudo pelos irmãos Schlegel e por Novalis. Essa aproximação, que pode ter ocorrido tanto por via direta, quanto por meio de traduções francesas, portuguesas, ou mesmo, inglesas, fez com que Álvares de Azevedo se posicionasse de maneira distinta da de seus contemporâneos em relação a sua própria composição e a dos autores mencionados ao longo dos prefácios e ensaios. / This research investigates the prefaces to the books Lira dos vinte anos, O conde Lopo and Macário, by the Romantic writer Álvares de Azevedo (1831-1852). Its purpose is to devise and systematize the fundamental conjectures of the critical thinking found in these texts. With a view to contextualizing the discussions they provide in parallel with the Romantic debate taking place both in Brazil and abroad, this research makes use of yet other critical essays by the author in order to elucidate questions raised in the prefaces and, occasionally, in some of his poems and other works. Confronting the texts from the corpus made it possible to reconstitute a rich array of bibliographic references, especially French and Portuguese, as Théophile Gautier and Lopes de Mendonça, to which the author constantly turns. Such an array evinces a vast horizon of readings that goes far beyond Byron and Musset the most common sources among the Brazilian second generation of Romantics projecting the eminent figure of the foreseeable literary critic in Azevedo even in his primitive essays. His distancing from nationalist struggles, major goal of the majority of Brazilian critics and writers during the 1800s, allowed Azevedo to relate to another conception of literary criticism, one of German origin, designed mainly by the Schlegel brothers and Novalis. Such approximation, which may have taken place through both direct contact and French, Portuguese or even English translations, made Álvares de Azevedo take a different stand from that of his contemporaries regarding his own production and that of the authors mentioned throughout his prefaces and essays.

Daniel Westover traces Thomas's poetic development over six decades, demonstrating how the complex interior of the poet manifests itself in the continually shifting style of his poems. / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1100/thumbnail.jpg

Poetry by Post is a four-month poetry subscription service that will run from November of 2013 to February of 2014. I will produce one mailing per month that will include a letterpress-printed broadside that features a poem of my choosing and an accompanying literary analysis and reply postcard, also letterpress-printed, all contained within calligraphed envelopes and posted with vintage stamps. Subscriptions are available at $150 for the series or $50 for an individual mailing and will not exceed 50 in number. The inaugural Poetry by Post will feature Midwestern poets Jennie Kinneberg Wrisley, Eric McHenry, Catherine Tufariello, and Ted Kooser. I have taken "Midwestern" to mean anyone who has simply spent a good bit of time in the large swath of land in the middle of the U.S. And much like the Midwest, the poetry featured will be plainspoken but no less profound for that.

This is an examination of the critical reception and canonical status of Ernest Bucklers <i>The Mountain and the Valley </i> and Sinclair Rosss <i>As For Me and My House</i>. While both novels have been regarded as important works of Canadian literature,<i> As For Me and My House</i> is currently regarded as a canonical novel and <i>The Mountain and the Valley</i> is not. This study examines the notion of the Canadian canon and its relation to Bucklers and Rosss novels to show how the specific case of Ross and Buckler illustrates the process of Canadian canon formation. Through a review of the critical work produced on each novel, an understanding of trends in Canadian critical practice and theory, and the application of canon theory, this thesis examines the reasons for the differences in the reception and status of the two works. This thesis argues that the interplay between critical trends, academic interests, and literary value ultimately determines the canonical status of a text.

This thesis investigates the womanist theme of spirituality in Amy Tan’s novel, The Bonesetter’s Daughter. Spirituality unfolds in five linked themes: ghosts, ghostwriting, nature, bones, and memory. In structure, the thesis is composed of four parts. The Introduction proposes spirituality as a womanist way of reading The Bonesetter’s Daughter. Chapter one investigates how the spirit of Gu Liu Xin, the Chinese grandmother, plays a critical role in developing the psychological integrity of Ruth Luyi Young, the American-born Chinese granddaughter. The second chapter examines how Gu Liu Xin’s ghost helps to guide LuLing Liu Young, Liu Xin’s daughter and Ruth’s mother, out of the hazardous situation in China, and how Gu’s spirit sustains LuLing in times of alienation and hardship in America. The thesis concludes that spirituality is essential for a subjugated woman character to achieve her personal and political freedom as well as her physical and spiritual wholeness.

This dissertation follows two interrelated lines of inquiry. The first, I formulate as follows: (1) How, historically speaking, has the discourse of literary criticism thought the book? How has it represented the book? Used the book? Put simply, what has the book become in the hands of the critic? Though, of course, answers to such questions will vary widely—especially as they intersect with related matters concerning the critic, herself, and what Henry Sussman refers to as the perceived “task of the critic”—it is my contention that the discourse of literary criticism remains unified by its inability to extricate itself from what I call the transcendent orientation to literature: an orientation that has both ancient and modern coordinates. In Part 1 of the dissertation, I map criticism’s ongoing historical affair with transcendence—an affair that begins as far back as the Platonic dialogues, but that can be traced right up through the twentieth century, in and through the work of any number of critics, and many prominent schools of literary critical thought. I, then, formulate the second of my two lines of inquiry as follows: (2) How might the materialist critic, imbued by Deleuzean sensibilities, think the book anew? And, by extension, how might the materialist re-think the role or task of the critic? In Part 2, I shift the focus from the transcendent to the immanent (or immanentist) orientation; that is, from the logic of representation to what philosopher Gilles Deleuze—a prominent voice within this dissertation—labels “the logic of sensation”; also, from fixed essences (i.e., fixed laws, identities) to potential powers; from being to becoming; from the regulated and scientized practices of the institutional critic (spawning predictable results) to the “co-creative” encounters of the critic-artisan (unleashing pure potentials from the book). In short, Part 2 of the dissertation explores the question of how the book opens up to its own becomings—i.e., its own difference, its own transformation. To that end, I will enter into a number of co-creative relations of my own with various works of American literature (including, Kerouac’s On the Road, Melville’s Moby-Dick, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, and William Gass’s On Being Blue).

This dissertation follows two interrelated lines of inquiry. The first, I formulate as follows: (1) How, historically speaking, has the discourse of literary criticism thought the book? How has it represented the book? Used the book? Put simply, what has the book become in the hands of the critic? Though, of course, answers to such questions will vary widely—especially as they intersect with related matters concerning the critic, herself, and what Henry Sussman refers to as the perceived “task of the critic”—it is my contention that the discourse of literary criticism remains unified by its inability to extricate itself from what I call the transcendent orientation to literature: an orientation that has both ancient and modern coordinates. In Part 1 of the dissertation, I map criticism’s ongoing historical affair with transcendence—an affair that begins as far back as the Platonic dialogues, but that can be traced right up through the twentieth century, in and through the work of any number of critics, and many prominent schools of literary critical thought. I, then, formulate the second of my two lines of inquiry as follows: (2) How might the materialist critic, imbued by Deleuzean sensibilities, think the book anew? And, by extension, how might the materialist re-think the role or task of the critic? In Part 2, I shift the focus from the transcendent to the immanent (or immanentist) orientation; that is, from the logic of representation to what philosopher Gilles Deleuze—a prominent voice within this dissertation—labels “the logic of sensation”; also, from fixed essences (i.e., fixed laws, identities) to potential powers; from being to becoming; from the regulated and scientized practices of the institutional critic (spawning predictable results) to the “co-creative” encounters of the critic-artisan (unleashing pure potentials from the book). In short, Part 2 of the dissertation explores the question of how the book opens up to its own becomings—i.e., its own difference, its own transformation. To that end, I will enter into a number of co-creative relations of my own with various works of American literature (including, Kerouac’s On the Road, Melville’s Moby-Dick, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, and William Gass’s On Being Blue).

This is an examination of the critical reception and canonical status of Ernest Bucklers <i>The Mountain and the Valley </i> and Sinclair Rosss <i>As For Me and My House</i>. While both novels have been regarded as important works of Canadian literature,<i> As For Me and My House</i> is currently regarded as a canonical novel and <i>The Mountain and the Valley</i> is not. This study examines the notion of the Canadian canon and its relation to Bucklers and Rosss novels to show how the specific case of Ross and Buckler illustrates the process of Canadian canon formation. Through a review of the critical work produced on each novel, an understanding of trends in Canadian critical practice and theory, and the application of canon theory, this thesis examines the reasons for the differences in the reception and status of the two works. This thesis argues that the interplay between critical trends, academic interests, and literary value ultimately determines the canonical status of a text.