Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves : [41]-42).

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Letter – human oldest way of communication in written form, known from 18th century BC in Egypt. Epistolary prose – the collection of letters and correspondence, which appeared in early 18th century (in the age of Enlightenment) is still alive till our days. The first signs of Lithuanian epistolary appeared in literature in interwar period. Much more epistolary works appeared from the end of 20th century up to the beginning of the 21st century (modernism and postmodernism.) In this writing for a Master degree three modern Lithuanian epistolary examples are being studieg: the novel Letters from Viešvilė (2001) by Leonardas Gutauskas, narrative The best metaphysical friend by Herkus Kunčius and novel And Tomorrow We’ll Have to Go On (2002) by Ugnė Barauskaitė. These examples have common features and they are: the letter, the situation between the addressee and the author, dialogue (monologue), the outlook of feelings, the subjectivity and the need of a game. The aim of the work – the research of the transformation of modern epistolary and the influence of modern poetry on epistolary prose. These issues are almost unknown in Lithuanian literary criticism. Obviously, the questions are far too abstract, for that reason I have formulated concrete tasks of a research: The influence of some poetical elements of modern prose ( for example the subjectivity of narration, the criticism and search of values, inner monologue and the technique of stream-of-consciousness) on... [to full text]

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This thesis examines the nature of identity and the problems implicit in attempts to affirm it within the context of nineteenth century modernity. By exploring a number of texts from Romanticism to the fin de siecle, it can be. seen that autonomous and coherent identity is not a stable entity. Drawing upon Rene Descartes'work on constructions of selfhood as a starting point, these ideas can be detected in an assessment of identity's alter ego - the disidentical self which is characterised by masks, disguises, madness, pathological behaviour, criminality and addiction. Examples of such paradigms for disidentity can be found in a variety of cultural texts and genres throughout the century, from the self-consciously 'high' poetry of Matthew Arnold, Alfred Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins to the popular Gothic novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker. These metaphorisations of a crisis for identity in the nineteenth century are reflected in the analyses of insanity by physicians such as W.A.F. Browne and Henry Maudsley, prominent cultural critics such as Arthur Hallam and Amold, and the degeneration theorists of the late nineteenth century. Much of the project is shaped by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' assessment of modernity found in The Communist Manifesto, in particular their descriptions of nineteenth century socio-cultural topographies as fluid and vaporous. Stable identity is effectively threatened from a plethora of directions, including the Orient, criminality, sexual deviancy, scientific discovery and accelerated social change. Taking into consideration the many different ways in which identity can be problematised in the nineteenth century, three important sites of disidentification have been chosen for the purposes of this argument. Chapter one examines the split-personality, chapter two religious madness, and chapter three addiction. Each chapter demonstrates that within the conditions of nineteenth century modernity, the fragility and consequent fragmentation of individual identity is evoked in many different manifestations.

Errata pasted in front end-papers. / Bibliography: leaves 410-432. / ix, 432 leaves ; 30 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 Linguistics, 1997?

Thesis--Johns Hopkins University.

Th. Ph.D.--Literature--Minneapolis (Minn.)--University of Minnesota, 1988.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois, 1926. / Vita. "Reprinted from the University of Illinois studies in language and literature, volume XIII, number 2." "Chronological list of references to prose fiction in the eighteenth century": p. 172-176. Bibliography: p. 177-183.