Thesis--Yale University. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [357]-361).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2006. / "Translation of the Ḥikāyat Abī al-Qāsim al-Baghdādī al-Tamīmī"--P. 153-422. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 423-442).

Thesis--University of Stockholm. / Includes index. Bibliography: p. 169-177.

This dissertation seeks to articulate how early modern texts formalize their affective qualities in instances of ambiguity. Positioned within the recent turn away from humoral theories of the passions and toward the rhetorical underpinnings of affect in early modern criticism, my project offers an interpretive strategy that privileges the perspective of the text by attending to the vulnerabilities of first-person perspectives in ambiguous rhetorical structures and figures. I argue that these forms signal more than sites of critical debate encoded in the text, as Shoshanna Feldman has suggested; they also privilege textual perspective and reveal affect to be a feature of form. I argue that textual ambivalence may be approached through the logic of catachresis in order to examine how these instances may be read in ways that maintain the strangeness of their didactic and disruptive capability. Reorienting how one approaches ambiguity, I suggest, exposes the potential of often ignored textual elements and suggests that early modern literature models an interpretive agenda dependent upon vulnerable perspectives. Reconceiving the interpretive strategies solicited by each text, I argue that early modern literature embraces the benefits of individual and collective vulnerability. I examine how Marlowe’s Edward II disrupts the binary structure of the king’s two bodies in order to turn an accusation of weakness against authority itself. I turn to Donne’s poetry and prose to argue that it models a hospitable interpretive method that uses form to manage ambiguity from the perspectives of his textual voices while orienting readers to welcome the strangeness of his contradictions. I then pursue an analysis of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part I that reorients Falstaff’s function in the play as its unlikely focal perspective, a position that stages a resistance to the play’s power structures. Finally, I briefly consider how my analysis bears on familial and rhetorical conventions in Shakespeare’s Tempest and Webster’s Duchess of Malfi. Attending to the formal practices that construct literary affect, this project reconsiders the ways in which early modern English literature navigates the intersections of vulnerability that articulate a text’s orientation to the cultural networks in which it was produced.

The anonymous Old English translation of the Admonitio ad Filium Spiritualem ascribed to St. Basil has hitherto been accessible only in the 1848/9 editions ofHW. Norman and the 1974 unpublished PhD dissertation ofL.E. Mueller. This edition takes into consideration the work of both editors, but pursues the relevant issues somethat further, beginning with the ascription of the work to iElfric. I use the single authoritative Hatton Ms 76A as the basis for my text; the critical introduction includes sections on the history of this manuscript and its two transcriptions, its possible relation to known Latin manuscripts of the text, and its orthography, punctuation and accent marks, and a full list of the annotations in the tremulous hand of the Worcester scribe. In considering the transmission of the text to iElfric, I include sections on St. Basil's status as a monastic legislator to explain the text's currency, the penitential tradition and the place of the Admonitio within the iElfiic canon. I conclude with analysis of the Old English text, its linguistic focus, style and structure, arguing that the Old English text may not be as incomplete as has previously been thought. To accompany my text I provide textual notes, a full commentary, which includes identification of the sources of some concepts not found in the Latin, and a Glossary. As Appendices I include a transcription of a part of Bodley Ms 800, the closest available version of iElfric's source, a provisional handlist of manuscripts in British libraries and elsewhere containing part or all of the Latin Admonitio, and a list of the accent marks on Hatton Ms 76A, ff 55-67v, together with a chart to show their line-distribution.

Orientador: Adalberto Luis Vicente / Banca: Andressa Cristina de Oliveira / Banca: Alexandre Bonafim Felizardo / Resumo: Este trabalho propõe o estudo do poema em prosa de dois poetas simbolistas: o brasileiro João da Cruz e Sousa (1861-1898) e o nicaraguense Rubén Darío (1867-1916). A presente dissertação busca compreender os aspectos do poema em prosa dos autores citados, relacionando-os com o período simbolista no Brasil e na Hispano-América, a fim de demonstrar a importância das inovações e das rupturas realizadas pelos autores no campo da poesia por meio do poema em prosa. Para isso, partimos da obra Missal (1893) de Cruz e Sousa, composta por 45 poemas em prosa, que tendem mais para o lado impressionista, já foi alvo de muitas críticas ao longo da História Literária, sendo por vezes considerado um livro de menos importância dentro do quadro geral de obras do poeta brasileiro. Em paralelo a essa obra, analisamos também Poemas en prosa (1948) de Rubén Darío, uma compilação argentina que reúne 25 poemas em prosa do autor nicaraguense esparsos em várias obras ao longo de sua vida. A comparação entre essas poéticas nos permite compreender as produções em prosa de ambos os autores, bem como verificar a importância dessas rupturas para a poesia moderna / Abstract: Ese trabajo propone un estudio del poema en prosa de dos poetas modernistas: el brasileño João da Cruz e Sousa (1861-1898) y el nicaragüense Rubén Darío (1867-1916). Nuestra disertación busca comprender los aspectos del poema en prosa de los autores citados, relacionándolos con el período modernista en Brasil y en Hispanoamérica, con el objetivo de demostrar la importancia de las innovaciones y de las rupturas realizadas por los autores en el campo de la poesía a través del poema en prosa. Para eso, utilizamos la obra Missal (1893) de Cruz e Sousa, compuesta por 45 poemas en prosa que se acercan a la tendencia impresionista y que fue objeto de varias críticas a lo largo de la Historia de la Literatura, siendo muchas veces considerado un libro de menor importancia dentro de la relación de las obras del poeta brasileño. Paralelamente a esa obra, analizamos también Poemas en prosa (1948) de Rubén Darío, una compilación argentina que reúne 25 poemas en prosa del autor nicaragüense, que se encuentran aislados en varias obras a lo largo de su vida. La comparación entre esas poéticas nos permite comprender y valorizar las producciones en prosa de ambos autores, así como percibir la contribución que la poesía modernista dejó para la poesía de vanguardia / Mestre

Cette thèse propose une approche globale des Déserts de l’Amour de Rimbaud. Étant donné les nombreuses incertitudes véhiculées par l’œuvre, une étude de son manuscrit autographe s’impose tout d’abord, étude visant à établir l’ordre des feuillets, l’établissement du texte, la date de transcription par une expertise en écritures, mais encore à évaluer son degré d’achèvement, l’éventualité de détenir en l’état un manuscrit complet et déterminer enfin l’auteur de la numérotation atypique des feuillets. L’approche générique, après être revenue sur la notion même de genre et ses implications, s’appliquera à définir le caractère générique du récit de rêve puis problématisera le genre formel des Déserts de l’Amour à partir d’une réflexion sur le poème en prose. Dans le souci d’une approche générique contextuelle seront abordés plusieurs auteurs représentatifs de nos deux genres (Nodier, Bertrand, Nerval) et plus particulièrement le Baudelaire des Petits Poëmes en prose. Nous proposerons enfin une lecture, un commentaire littéraire détaillé des Déserts de l’Amour. / This thesis proposes a global approach to The Deserts of Love. Given the many uncertainties surrounding this text, the prerequisite for its analysis is the exploration of Rimbaud’s manuscript, to prove the order of the folios, to provide an accurate text, to establish its date of transcription by a diachronic study of the poet’s handwriting ; the ambition is also to judge the extent to which this is a finished work, whether the known text is complete and, lastly, to determine the source of the untypical numbering of the folios. After examining the concept of genre and its implications, the generic approach will seek to define the generic status of the dream narrative and then problematise the formal genre of The Deserts of Love on the basis of a reflexion on the subject of the prose poem. The need to contextualise this generic approach requires the analysis of several representative authors in the two generic fields involved (Nodier, Bertrand, Nerval) and in particular of the Baudelaire of the Petits Poëmes en prose. The thesis concludes with a detailed literary commentary of The Deserts of Love.

AFRIKAANS: Hierdie studie ondersoek die funksionering van die begrip "grens" in die Afrikaanse prosa van 1974 - 1988 teen die agtergrond van die oorlog op die grens tussen Angola en Namibië. In Hoofstuk 1 word enkele hipotetiese uitgangspunte gestel, o.a. dat die woord "grens" in sy wydste betekenis. funksioneer in die kontemporêre Afrikaanse prosa, dat dit verarmend sou wees om 'n "toets" op te stel vir "grensliteratuur" en dat die "grenswerke" veral dit gemeen het dat hulle ‘n strewe verteenwoordig om grense oor te steek of te vernietig. Die doel van die studie is nie om ‘n lys kriteria op te stel vir ‘n klassifikasie van ‘n teks as grensprosa nie, maar eerder om die kompleksiteit aan te toon van die netwerk van betekenisse wat die grens in sy vele verskyningsvorme genereer. In Hoofstuk 2 word gekyk na die begrip "oorlogsliteratuur" en na die invloed van oorlog op die literatuur. Die Britse literatuur van die Tweede Wereldoorlog word as model geneem omdat dit literatuur is wat gebore is uit 'n konvensionele oorlog wat gewen is deur die volk waarvan die skrywers volksgenote is; die oorlogsliteratuur van die Lae Lande word bygereken omdat dit ‘n voorbeeld is van literatuur van mense wat onder die oorlog gely het en die Amerikaanse literatuur oor die Vietnamese oorlog word dan daarmee vergelyk. Laasgenoemde literatuur is gebore uit 'n nie-konvensionele, teen-insurgensieoorlog wat verloor is. Uit die vergelyking word sekere tendense gedistilleer. Daar word ten slotte gekyk na die toestand in Suid-Afrika en raakpunte en verskille met albei oorloë word uitgelig. Hoofstuk 3 ondersoek tekste wat 'n aanloop vorm tot die grensprosa. Dit sluit werke in soos Op pad na die grens, en sekere verhale uit Heupvuur, Roofvis en Skrikbewind van P J Haasbroek, sowel as verhale uit Kortsluitings van Henk Wybenga. Hoofstuk 4 handel oor vyf werke wat aantoonbaar 'n militêre strekking het en sodoende die naaste aan "grensprosa" kom. Hulle is ‘n wêreld sonder grense, ‘n Basis oorkant die grens, Om te awol, Forces favourites en Wie de hel het jou vertel. Hierdie tekste gaan oor personasies wat as dienspligtige soldate, regstreeks met die oorlog te doen het. Inter- en intrapersoonlike konflikte speel hier af teen die gedurig teenwoordige agtergrond van die oorlog. Hoofstuk 5 behandel vier werke, Die laaste Sondag, Die jaar nul, Grensgeval en Jonkmanskas. Waar die grensoorlog in die tekste wat in Hoofstuk 3 bespreek word, altyd na te speur is in die handelinge van die personasies, word die oorlog hier ‘n terloopse gegewe wat aanleiding gegee het tot die meer regstreekse ondersoek van ander grense; dit sluit in interpersoonlike grense en veral die kleurgrens. In Hoofstuk 6 word 'n sintese gemaak deur die inligting wat ingewin is met die teksondersoek in Hoofstukke 3, 4 en 5 te meet aan die tendense wat volgens Hoofstuk 2 by oorlogsliteratuur in die algemeen aangetref word. In die lig hiervan word dan gekyk hoe die begrip "grens" meerduidig funksioneer. Die wye betekenis van die woord “grens” maak dit moontlik om baie tekste as “grensliteratuur” te bestempel, maar die geldigheid van die term word aangetas wanneer dit te wyd gebruik word. Aan die ander kant is dit verarmend om die term "grens" tot die landsgrens te beperk. ENGLISH: The aim of the study was to investigate the functioning of the word "grens" (border) in prose relating to the war on the border of Namibia and Angola. In the first chapter some hypothetical statements are made, among others that, in the Afrikaans literature, the word "border" is used in the widest possible sense. To try and formulate a "test" along which a text could be classified as "border literature" would be futile. What the contemporary prose has in common, is that it tends to extend across literary borders and to break down racial and other barriers. The purpose of this dissertation, therefore, is to show the complex ways in which the word "grens" functions, rather than merely to show common denominators. In Chapter two the literature of the Second World War and the Vietnamese conflict is investigated to serve as a contextual marker. This is because the British literature of the Second World War represents the work of "winners" of a conventional war. The war literature of the Low Countries tells of ordinary civilians who suffer as a result of the war while the American literature of the Vietnam war shows the literary reaction to an unconventional struggle. The South African situation is then compared to this. Afrikaans texts range from exploratory war prose, through combat literature to works which use the war simply as a backdrop for other forms of conflict. Chapter three covers the work of three authors, J C Steyn, P J Haasbroek and Henk Wybenga. These works of prose seem to form a preamble to the war literature. The texts dealt with in chapter four represent Afrikaans “combat literature” dealing primarily with the thoughts and actions of soldiers in the front line. Although the war takes place on a geographical border, other borders or barriers are also referred to. Chapter five is concerned with novels and short stories in which the war plays an incidental part, although it may have been the cause of other barriers which are investigated. Here the emphasis falls mainly on inter-personal barriers, the colour barrier in particular. In Chapter six a synthesis is made by comparing the information gleaned from chapters 3, 4 and 5 to the tendencies described in chapter 2. "Border literature" (grensliteratuur) seems a plausible term, though it may be too wide and should be augmented by "war literature" which, in itself, is not wholly satisfactory either. / Thesis (DLitt)--University of Pretoria, 2011. / Afrikaans / unrestricted

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abstract: A collection of eight stories set in American landscapes that are distorted, anachronistic or magical. The characters in these stories are hunting monsters, touring strange museums, dating shapeshifters and performing death-defying illusions, but the greatest mysteries they encounter are the most human: obsession, loneliness, loss. As they struggle to distinguish fantasy and reality, they also strive to transform and transcend the things that haunt them. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.F.A. Creative Writing 2014