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21	The Certainty of Uncertainty Nagle, Julie 15 May 2009 (has links) In this paper I investigate the limitations of memory, physical and psychological effects on individuals’ perception that effect memory, and the impact of those limitations on our ability to recall objective truth. The paper is introduced with an explanation of my interest in the subjective narrative voice in historical accounts and questions the possibility of a completely objective voice. In the first chapter, a fantastical biographical story of the life of Tycho Brahe is used as an example of the difficulty in parsing truth from legend. Descriptions of changes in scientific methods exemplify the uncertainty of scientific fact. I propose that Brahe sought empirical data to replace the unfiltered memory perception an anosmic lacks. Additionally, if Brahe had a sense of smell his murder may have been unsuccessful. In the second chapter I describe anosmia, then explain the dominant theories of how olfaction takes place, and memory storage through smell. Memory recall through associated odors is unfiltered by the intellect, and unalterable, while other forms of memory are subject to change as our psyche continually reforms the experience. An objective account of events is impossible. I search instead for histories where myth, legend, truth, and imagination converge. limitations of memory subjective narrative voice miscalculations scientific methods speculation fact smell olfaction odor anosmia delirium suspension of disbelief cognitive dissonance selective exposure Art and Design Arts and Humanities
22	Gender ideology and narrative form in the novels of Henry Handel Richardson Pratt, Catherine Cecilia, English, Australian Defence Force Academy, UNSW January 1994 (has links) This thesis is a feminist reading of the work of Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946), which considers her four major novels: Maurice Guest (1908), The Getting of Wisdom (1910), The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1930), and The Young Cosima (1939). It proposes that Richardson foregrounds the work of gender ideology in her novels, and that her work is also conscious about its own fictional procedures. This thesis argues that Richardson consciously examines the ideological aspect of narrative modes, such as naturalism, the Bildungsroman, and popular romance. Moreover, it illustrates her attempts to invent narrative strategies which subvert the conventional assumptions about gender inherent in those forms. ???Gender Ideology and Narrative Form??? draws on recent theoretical approaches to narrative, ideology, subjectivity, and dialogism, to argue that Richardson makes the ideological shaping of her stories most visible through manipulations of genre, plot, narrative voice, and point of view. Aspects of ideology examined include the Victorian and late-Victorian equation of masculinity with public rationality, mind, public achievement, and genius: and, on the other hand, the association of femininity with the body, passion, and private or domestic spaces. The thesis also considers some of the values and assumptions about gender implicit in nineteenth-century scientific thinking. Henry Handel Richardson has been viewed as a conservative writer, in both aesthetic and political terms. By contrast, I suggest that she resists the moral and representational codes of the realist or naturalist form, and that her uncompromising oppositional strategy achieves a number of radical results. It exposes and criticises the masculinist bias of certain representational methods; it offers new ways of representing female experience; and it insists that the private sphere must be treated also as a political space in which crucial power relationships are at work. My approach to Henry Handel Richardson???s fiction opens new ways to see her work as the product of a distinctive feminist consciousness. Henry Handel Richardson Australian women authors gender identity in literature narrative form narrative voice gender ideology Australian fiction Australian women's writing historical fiction feminist consciousness Maurice Guest Getting of Wisdom Fortunes of Richard Mahony Young Cosima
23	Gender ideology and narrative form in the novels of Henry Handel Richardson Pratt, Catherine Cecilia, English, Australian Defence Force Academy, UNSW January 1994 (has links) This thesis is a feminist reading of the work of Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946), which considers her four major novels: Maurice Guest (1908), The Getting of Wisdom (1910), The Fortunes of Richard Mahony (1930), and The Young Cosima (1939). It proposes that Richardson foregrounds the work of gender ideology in her novels, and that her work is also conscious about its own fictional procedures. This thesis argues that Richardson consciously examines the ideological aspect of narrative modes, such as naturalism, the Bildungsroman, and popular romance. Moreover, it illustrates her attempts to invent narrative strategies which subvert the conventional assumptions about gender inherent in those forms. ???Gender Ideology and Narrative Form??? draws on recent theoretical approaches to narrative, ideology, subjectivity, and dialogism, to argue that Richardson makes the ideological shaping of her stories most visible through manipulations of genre, plot, narrative voice, and point of view. Aspects of ideology examined include the Victorian and late-Victorian equation of masculinity with public rationality, mind, public achievement, and genius: and, on the other hand, the association of femininity with the body, passion, and private or domestic spaces. The thesis also considers some of the values and assumptions about gender implicit in nineteenth-century scientific thinking. Henry Handel Richardson has been viewed as a conservative writer, in both aesthetic and political terms. By contrast, I suggest that she resists the moral and representational codes of the realist or naturalist form, and that her uncompromising oppositional strategy achieves a number of radical results. It exposes and criticises the masculinist bias of certain representational methods; it offers new ways of representing female experience; and it insists that the private sphere must be treated also as a political space in which crucial power relationships are at work. My approach to Henry Handel Richardson???s fiction opens new ways to see her work as the product of a distinctive feminist consciousness. Henry Handel Richardson Australian women authors gender identity in literature narrative form narrative voice gender ideology Australian fiction Australian women's writing historical fiction feminist consciousness Maurice Guest Getting of Wisdom Fortunes of Richard Mahony Young Cosima
24	The Voices of David Foster Wallace: Comic, Encyclopedic, Sincere Hoffman, Yonina A. January 2019 (has links) No description available. Literature Language American Literature narrative voice ethics David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest Broom of the System The Pale King narration rhetorical narrative theory prose rhythm rhetoric style tone values rhythm Updike Pynchon Joyce comic encyclopedic sincerity affect
25	”I was anxious to keep her in ignorance” : - berättarperspektiv och makt i Emily Brontës Wuthering Heights Edström, John January 2014 (has links) Denna uppsats redogör för och undersöker berättarperspektiv och maktrelationer i Emily Brontës roman Wuthering Heights. På vilket sätt läsaren tar del av romanens komplexa berättande, om det är samma berättare genom hela romanen eller om det skiftar, vilka maktrelationer som existerar mellan romangestalterna och förhållanden mellan makt och berättarperspektiv undersöks genom analys av verket. wuthering heights emily brontë heathcliff catherine linton nelly dean mr lockwood narratology narrative narrative study narrator narrative voice power relations homosocial desire wuthering heights emily brontë heathcliff catherine linton nelly dean mr lockwood narratologi narrativstudie narrativ makt maktanalys relationer relationsanalys homosocialitet homosociala band berättarperspektiv berättarröst berättare berättaranalys brontësystrarna

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