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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Disabilities of Fiction: Reading Madness in Twentieth-Century American Women's Literature

Peterson, Erica Lyn 05 1900 (has links)
In this dissertation, disability theories frame readings of madness in select works by Shirley Jackson, Sylvia Plath, and Toni Cade Bambara. The dissertation explores the relationship between madness and fiction, with the author demonstrating the productive and generative aspects of madness. Close readings of the literary works emphasize the impact of madness on structural and formal elements including narrative perspective, sustained metaphors, and narrative time. In chapter one, I use the disability theory concepts of narrative prosthesis and aesthetic nervousness to read Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. In chapter 2, I analyze Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle to explore the concept of unreliable narration, observing similarities between the social model of disability and reader-centric theories of unreliable narration. In chapter 3, I explore unhealthy disability and medical treatment in the sustained metaphors of light and darkness in Plath's hospital stories, "Tongues of Stone," "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams," and "The Daughters of Blossom Street." In chapter 4, I use disability history to read narratives of medical institutionalization in Plath's novel The Bell Jar. In chapter 5, I use Bambara's concept of "other kinds of intelligences" to develop a Black feminist methodology for reading mad intelligences in Bambara's novel The Salt Eaters. In the dissertation's conclusion, I note prejudice against madpersons in recent legal policies promoting involuntary psychiatric institutionalization, using Bambara's short story "The Hammer Man" to demonstrate the violence of such policies.
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Morrison, Bambara, Silko : fractured and reconstructed mythic patterns in Song of Solomon, The salt eaters, and Ceremony

Hinkson, Warren. 17 April 2018 (has links)
Cette thèse explique le développement de la théorie critique des mythes (myth criticism) de Northrop Frye et veut démontrer que l'examen critique des mythes est un paradigme approprié pour analyser le développement des conventions littéraires anglaises et la communication d'archétypes dans des œuvres littéraires postmodernes. En examinant, à la lumière d'archétypes bibliques, de rites religieux provenant d'Afrique de l'ouest, de folklore amérindien et du mythe monomythique de la perte d'identité, trois romans afro-américains et amérindiens, je suggère que la théorie de Frye est applicable aux œuvres postmodernes amérindiennes et afro-américaines autant qu'elle l'est aux œuvres du canon traditionnel. Cette étude retrace les origines de la théorie de Frye et met en lumière la présence d'archétypes et de structures bibliques dans la fiction afro-américaine et amérindienne ainsi que la communication d'archétypes africains continentaux à la culture afro-américaine par un mélange d'ancienne religion africaine et d'archétypes bibliques. Ainsi, puisqu'il s'agit d'une application de la théorie de Frye, cette thèse enrichira notre compréhension du développement des conventions littéraires et de la portée de cette théorie, et permettra une remise en question de notre conception de la littérature afro-américaine et amérindienne.

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