Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1998. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 221-228). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--Cleveland State University, 2009. / Abstract. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Sept. 28, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-65). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center and also available in print.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2008. Graduate Programme in Education. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-195). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR39037

Le but poursuivi dans cette étude est triple. En premier lieu, nous tentons ici d'apporter une contribution aux applications de la méthode psychanalytique. Nous visons ensuite, grȃce à cette méthode, à apporter un peu plus de lumière sur Jean de Sponde, poète baroque de la fin du XVIème siècle jusqu'ici assez peu connu. Enfin, dans un dernier point, dépassant le personnage de Jean de Sponde, nous tȃctions de définir, après tant d'autres, mais en tenant compte des enseignements de la psychanalyse, ce que nous appelons 1'instant spondien, qui n'est qu'une autre forme de l'instant baroque. Nous nous justifions ainsi, par avarice, aux yeux de ceux qui reprochent à la psychanalyse de ne mener le plus souvent qu'à l'auteur. Jean de Sponde nous intéresse en soi, mais nous n'arrivons à lui qu'à travers ses poèmes (ici, les Sonnets d'Amour, moins étudiés que le reste de son oeuvre), en étudiant successivement les motifs (Chapitre I), les images (Chapitre II) et la structure (Chapitre III) au coeur de ces sonnets. Ces trois aspects--ou niveaux--des Sonnets d'Amour révèlent une personnalité bifrons qui repose toute entière sur un système de tensions opposées, lesquelles sont comme les pôles d'une dialectique constance-inconstance, stabilité-mouvement, désordre-harmonie. Ceci nous permet de poser que Jean de Sponde est un poète du paradoxe intensément vécu, ce qui lui confère une certaine modernité. Le poème--le poème baroque en particulier--est considéré pour finir comme le moment et le lieu euphoriques où se résout, du moins en apparence, l'expérience douloureuse et tragique de la contradiction. / Arts, Faculty of / French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Department of / Graduate

The present thesis offers a comparative analysis of the theme of feminine doubling, which has not yet been taken into academic consideration. It examines the strategies of construction of relationships bonding mother-figures, daughter-figures, and father-figures in the various texts selected for inclusion in this dissertation from British and Polish literature. The key argument is that the tie between feminine doubles can be positive. A mother-figure (or the first wife) is capable of sharing her experiences with her daughter-figure (or the second wife). The second pivot of this exploration is the figure of a sexual mother. The dissertation comprises three parts. The aim of the first section of the thesis is to provide an introduction to the broad cultural context of the mid-nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Polish literature. The second, pivotal part is an exploration of the themes of feminine doubling and feminine sexuality as manifested in the Polish texts, including Narcyza Żmichowska’s The Heathen, Maria Konopnicka’s “Miss Florentine”, Maria Komornicka’s “On Father and his Daughter” and Zofia Nałkowska’s “Green Shore”. It also consists of an interrogation of the shifts occurring in the plot of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca: these shifts concern the protagonists and the nature of their relationships with the sexual mother-figures. The present analysis stems from the conviction that a comparative reinterpretation of the two novels has been largely overlooked so far. The aim of the thesis is to apply various theoretical approaches that enable the reader to bring together the Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and écriture féminine. The broad psychoanalytical context, including the works of the forgotten Freudian scholar Sabina Spielrein, provides a basis for the comparison. It also enables a profound, intertextual, and inspiring analysis. The thesis is meant to provide a much-needed new reading of Polish women's literature in a comparative structure, so that these texts may be afforded their appropriate position within the British and Polish critique. The innovative features of the research include its comparative character, and the implementation of various psychoanalytical approaches to the Polish works. Additionally, the thesis focuses on literary analysis. It incorporates the findings of various scholars interested in issues associated with “femininity”: it emphasises the importance of gender and feminist issues to the literary (re)interpretation of women’s texts. The present investigation is not conclusive and should be viewed as a stepping stone for further comparative exploration of Polish novels penned by women.

Thesis advisor: Kevin Ohi / Thesis advisor: Kayla Walczyk / Fiction, in that it need not position itself at a safe distance from melancholia in order to point at with a theoretical probe, presents a more accurate vision of the melancholic structure. Instead of simply describing and defining melancholia, fiction can inhabit the space of the pathology. In this way, it can perform the consuming and debilitating suffering that ensues after the experience of an inexpressible loss. In doing so, it can force the reader to experience in the act of reading what it would be like to meet melancholia in all its disturbing allure and destructive capacities. Certain fictional representations of loss, in the way they pull their readers into a melancholic vortex, profoundly enact the difficulties that result in this encounter. The capacity of fiction to render the melancholic structure in all its complexity is evident in Marguerite Duras’ The Ravishing of Lol Stein and in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. In the way these texts perform the dynamics of the melancholic structure, they push beyond the precipice of where scientific language is forced to stop. This reading of The Ravishing of Lol Stein and To the Lighthouse is not an attempt to psychoanalyze fictional characters or the authors who created them; such a study is highly speculative and relatively unproductive. It is an attempt to recognize how melancholy seems to be functioning in and performed by these texts, and in this interpretive schema, recognizing how fiction can do what theory cannot. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2018. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: English.

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral)--Freiburg (Breisgau), 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-315).

Honors project (B.A.) -- Carson-Newman College, 2009. / Project advisor: Dr. Shannon Collins. Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-89).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1994. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [195]-199).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Department of Germanic Studies, August 2002. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.