Thesis (M.A.) University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 21, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:23:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-10-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:09:56Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 cordeiro_cf_me_mar.pdf: 1159086 bytes, checksum: 448936b60686b4c51dfd9fd70969a09a (MD5) / A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo perceber qual é o pensamento social a respeito da questão racial no Brasil da década de 1930, nas obras do ciclo da cana-de-açúcar do escritor paraibano José Lins do Rego (1901-1957). Para tanto, observamos as narrativas das quatro obras aqui priorizadas: Menino de Engenho (1932), Bangüê (1934), Usina (1936) e Fogo Morto (1943) e o que essas dizem a respeito dos personagens negros presentes. Assim, ao fazermos analise da narrativa acreditamos na possibilidade da literatura ser um elemento de compreensão da realidade social brasileira no período que ela foi composta / This research aims to discern what is the social thought about the racial issue in Brazil in the 1930s in José Lins do Rego‟s novels of the sugarcane cycle. Thus, we observe the narratives of the four prioritized works – Menino de Engenho (1932), Bangüê (1934), Usina (1936) and Fogo Morto (1943) – and what they say about the black characters. Therefore, in doing the narrative analysis, we believe in the possibility of literature as an element of understanding of Brazilian social reality during the period that the works were composed

This study advances and adds detail to our history of the reading of verse in England c.1350-1500. Scholarship has established major twelfth- and thirteenth-century changes in reading, and linked these changes to manuscripts containing the modern Middle English verse canon. Historians of early modern reading have also argued for distinctive changes in their own period. But the examination of reading between these two clusters of change has been limited. This study therefore asks how later medieval Middle English verse was read. The surviving copies of The Prick of Conscience and Speculum Vitae, two hugely successful religious instructional poems, form the primary body of evidence. This body is augmented by reference to hundreds of other manuscripts containing Middle English verse. Together, these can reveal much about what was normal and abnormal in reading. They are also an important part of the context for the reading of more canonical Middle English verse. Manuscript studies often proceeds through case studies of individual books and unusual evidence such as marginalia. This thesis turns to codicology to understand more widespread evidence for reading, combining qualitative case studies with quantitative techniques borrowed and developed from continental scholarship. The first chapter examines evidence of provenance, revealing that both The Prick of Conscience and Speculum Vitae were read by an impressive range of people and remained current into the sixteenth century. The second chapter considers the navigational aids used in copies of both poems. Reading in this period has been characterised as 'discontinuous', but it could be discontinuous in diverse ways, and readers also read continuously. The third chapter is a large-scale study of books' size and shape, showing how these features can reveal books' reading histories, sometimes in counterintuitive ways. The fourth chapter contends that readers in this period attended closely to rhyme and probably read for balanced rhyme structures. The fifth chapter uncovers the ways in which these poems were rewritten for new readers and investigates the composition of the Southern Recension of The Prick of Conscience, arguing that this new text was partly a formalist intervention. The conclusion summarises the new 'baseline' history of the reading of Middle English verse which is offered here, and gestures towards implications for our reading of the Middle English poems which are canonical today.

A presente dissertação propõe uma análise do romance A emparedada da Rua Nova, de Carneiro Vilela, com o objetivo de investigar de que forma os conceitos de modernidade e tradição se articulam com aspectos sociais da obra e do contexto em que ela foi escrita. A pesquisa investiga de que maneira a estrutura formal do romance-folhetim de Vilela uma narrativa de cunho policial está relacionada com a dinâmica das questões de classes, raças e gênero que compunham a sociedade recifense na segunda metade do século XIX. Verificou-se, por fim, a hipótese de que o princípio estrutural da obra formalizaria o deslocamento entre ideias liberais e prática brasileira, revelando uma relação de aparência e essência no seio de uma sociedade cuja modernização não passaria de um revestimento sobre os fortes alicerces de uma formação escravocrata e patriarcalista. / Our current research aims at studying the novel A emparedada da Rua Nova, by Carneiro Vilela, regarding in which ways the concepts of modernity and tradition are related to the social aspects of the novel and of the context in which it was written. Our goal is to examine the structure of Vilela\'s feuilleton, a kind of detective fiction, and how it relates to the dynamics of social classes, matters of races and gender in Recife\'s society from the second half of the nineteenth century. In this sense, we analyzed how the novels formal structure revealed the displacement between liberal ideas and social practice in Brazil, and it disclosed a system of appearances versus essence at the core of a society to which the modernization would be nothing more than coating over its enslaving and patriarchal foundations.

For several reasons, translingual writers, defined here as authors who write in a language that is not their native one, have gained increased visibility in recent years. This is particularly true in the context of French literature where, more frequently than before, and with a more explicit recognition of their particular status, translingual writers have received important literary prizes and have been welcomed into the French Academy. Central to this recognition is their rich and diverse mobilisation of life writing, a corpus curiously neglected in the study of the phenomenon of literary translingualism. This thesis focuses on the writers Andreï Makine, Hector Bianciotti, Vassilis Alexakis, Nancy Huston, Agota Kristof and Katalin Molnár. It demonstrates that the translingual experience, in its capacity to question one's sense of self and provide novel tools for the exploration of one's personal history and subjectivity (conceived as an experience in language), appears eminently suited to the genre of life writing and that, in the current configuration of the French literary space, life writing is demanded from translingual authors. It proposes an original cartography of contemporary translingual literature in French, suggesting that more than any similarities in the conditions of their literary adoption of French, what creates family resemblance between translingual writers is the types of relation with their adopted language that are constructed in their autobiographical texts.

The late Ming artist and poet Xu Wei (1521-1593) is most well known for his self-representation as a cultured "mountain hermit" and "eccentric", pursuing the literary ideals of originality, simple language and direct emotional expression. His wild ink-brush paintings, mental instability, numerous suicide attempts and the murder of his third wife all helped to consolidate Xu's image as China's Van Gogh. However, later hagiographies of Xu as the "patron saint of eccentrics" have led to a one dimensional view of Xu. This thesis presents Xu as someone who explored and wrestled with different and sometimes contradictory self-representations against a thorny political and social backdrop. It moves away from Xu's "eccentric" persona, instead examining his writings within the political context of the 16th century. Against the backdrop of Mongol and pirate invasions, Xu's close friend Shen Lian was executed by the Chief Grand Secretary Yan Song and his clique. Yet only a month after his friend's execution, Xu switched sides and worked as a ghost-writer for Hu Zongxian, a protégé of Yan Song. Yet with the fall of Yan Song in 1562 and the arrest of Hu Zongxian, this became an embarrassment for Xu. Fearing that he would be implicated with the Yan Song clique, Xu distanced himself from his flattering ghost-written poems. Overwhelmed by feelings of guilt, he explored the complexities of loyalty and identity in his poetry. Xu's career is representative of many Ming scholars who were frustrated by examination failure and the inability to find an official post. His literary ideals contradicted with lived reality. Xu is unique among Ming literati in voicing these contradictions.

This thesis presents a history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards and examines their status and role within Scotland’s literary and publishing culture. The Society was founded at a critical inter-war period during which Scottish writers, artists and cultural commentators were re-imagining Scotland’s political and cultural identity. The Society, therefore, was a product of this reformative era in Scotland’s modern history. The Society’s identity and position within this inter- and post-war reformation is reflected in the Literary Awards, which are a means by which the Society attempts to accomplish some of its constitutional aims. The purpose of this thesis is three-fold. Firstly, it has filled a conspicuous gap in modern Scottish cultural history by offering a historically accurate description of the founding of the Saltire Society in 1936 and the development of the Society’s Literary Awards up until 2015. Secondly, this thesis demonstrates how the Society’s Literary Awards function in relation to key critical discourses pertinent to contemporary book award culture, such as forms of capital, national identity and gender. Finally, this thesis proffers an in-depth analysis of book award judgment culture. Through an analysis of the linguistic and social interactions between Saltire Society Literary Award judges, this thesis is the first study of its kind which considers exactly how literary award judging panels facilitate the judgement process. What this thesis reveals is how, despite often being plagued by problems regarding finances and personnel, the Society’s Literary Awards have endured as a key feature of Scottish literary and publishing culture, so much so that they are now the only series of awards dedicated to awarding Scottish fiction, non-fiction, poetry and first books, as well as academic history and research books. Due to the persistence and enthusiasm of the Society’s administrators and literary award judges the awards have continued to thrive and evolve to accommodate developments and demands within Scottish literary culture.

This study is an interpretive analysis of Zimbabwean political auto/biographical narratives in contexts of changing culture, race, ethnicity and gender identity images of the self and nation. I used eclectic theories of postcolonialism to explore the fractured nature of both the processes of identity construction and narration, and the contradictions inherent in identity categories of nation and self. The problem of using autobiographical memory to recall the momentous events that formed the contradictory identities of self and nation in the creative imagination of the lives of Ian Smith, Maurice Nyagumbo, Abel Muzorewa, Joshua Nkomo, Doris Lessing, Fay Chung, Judith Garfield Todd, Tendai Westerhof and Lutanga Shaba have been highlighted. The study concluded that there are narrative and ideological disjunctures between experiencing life and narrating those experiences to create approximations of coherent identities of individual selves and those of the nation. The study argued that each of the stories analyzed in this study contributed a version of the multiple Zimbabwean narratives that no one story could ever tell without being contested by others. Thus the study explores how white Rhodesian auto/biographies depend on the imperial repertoire to construct varying, even contradicting, images of white identities and the Rhodesian nation, which are also contested by black nationalist life narratives. The narratives by women writers, both white and black, introduced further instabilities to the male authored narratives by moving beyond the conventional understanding of what is ‘political’ in political auto/biographies. The HIV and AIDS narratives by black women thrust into the public sphere personalized versions of self so that the political consequence of their inclusion was not only to image Zimbabwe as a diseased society, but one desperately in need of political solutions to confront the different pathologies inherited from colonialism and which also have continued in the post-independence period. / English Studies / (D. Litt. et Phil. (English))

MARQUES, Rodrigo de Albuquerque. A nação vai à província: do romantismo ao modernismo no Ceará. 2016. 173f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, Fortaleza, 2016. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-05-06T11:30:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_tese_ramarques.pdf: 2202442 bytes, checksum: b4c0ba8e92cba3ff7e3a51189d2fee0d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-05-06T14:58:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_tese_ramarques.pdf: 2202442 bytes, checksum: b4c0ba8e92cba3ff7e3a51189d2fee0d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-06T14:58:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_tese_ramarques.pdf: 2202442 bytes, checksum: b4c0ba8e92cba3ff7e3a51189d2fee0d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / This thesis aims at analyzing the dynamics of the National literary system according to Antonio Candido‘s terms, from a distant province far from big hegemonic centers of the country, embracing the periods of 1856 to 1930. It focuses on observing how such movements as Romanticism, Naturalism and Modernism structured themselves within the historical particularities which were configuring the field of literature in Ceará. An amount of poetic and romantic production from the above mentioned period, which is somehow closely connected to local circumstances, was selected in this thesis; however, such production was, at the same time, integrated 18th century assumptions concerning nationalism and, afterwards, if was attuned to more conservatives tendencies of Modernism. As opposed to the literary corpus, it is used a range of another sources, such as letters, popular poems, maps, articles, statistics, memoirs etc. to the purpose of supplying the reader with a more accurate dimension regarding the place of literature in the whole of the culture of the region and also of the country. / O presente trabalho procura analisar a dinâmica do sistema literário nacional, nos termos desenvolvido por Antonio Candido, a partir de uma província distante dos grandes centros hegemônicos do país, durante o período de 1856 a 1930. Objetiva-se verificar como os projetos nacionais do Romantismo, do Naturalismo e do Modernismo se comportaram diante das especificidades históricas que formaram o campo literário no Ceará. A tese recorta uma produção poética e romanesca do período em tela que, de algum modo, se vincularam estritamente às circunstâncias locais, mas que ao mesmo tempo se integravam aos pressupostos do nacionalismo oitocentista e, posteriormente, às tendências mais conservadoras do Modernismo. Em contraponto ao corpus literário, o trabalho utiliza uma gama de outras fontes, como cartas, poemas populares, mapas, crônicas, estatísticas, textos memorialísticos etc, a fim de propiciar ao leitor uma dimensão mais exata do lugar da literatura na totalidade cultural da região e do país.