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81	Werewolves, wings, and other weird transformations: fantastic metamorphosis in children's and young adult fantasy literature / Fantastic metamorphosis in children's and young adult fantasy literature Chappell, Shelley Bess January 2007 (has links) Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2007. / Bibliography: p. 239-289. / Introduction -- Fantastic metamorphosis as childhood 'otherness' -- The metamorphic growth of wings : deviant development and adolescent hybridity -- Tenors of maturation: developing powers and changing identities -- Changing representations of werewolves: ideologies of racial and ethnic otherness -- The desire for transcendence: jouissance in selkie narratives -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix: "The great Silkie of Sule Skerry": three versions. / My central thesis is that fantastic motifs work on a metaphorical level to encapsulate and express ideologies that have frequently been naturalised as 'truths'. I develop a theory of motif metaphors in order to examine the ideologies generated by the fantastic motif of metamorphosis in a range of contemporary children's and young adult fantasy texts. Although fantastic metamorphosis is an exceptionally prevalent and powerful motif in children's and young adult fantasy literature, symbolising important ideas about change and otherness in relation to childhood, adolescence, and maturation, and conveying important ideologies about the world in which we live, it has been little analysed in children's literature criticism. The detailed analyses of particular metamorphosis motif metaphors in this study expand and refine our academic understanding of the metamorphosis figure and consequently provide insight into the underlying principles and particular forms of a variety of significant ideologies. / By examining several principal metamorphosis motif metaphors I investigate how a number of specific cultural beliefs are constructed and represented in contemporary children's and young adult fantasy literature. I particularly focus upon metamorphosis as a metaphor for childhood otherness; adolescent hybridity and deviant development; maturation as a process of self-change and physical empowerment; racial and ethnic difference and otherness; and desire and jouissance. I apply a range of pertinent cultural theories to explore these motif metaphors fully, drawing on the interpretive frameworks most appropriate to the concepts under consideration. I thus employ general psychoanalytic theories of embodiment, development, language, subjectivity, projection, and abjection; poststructuralist, social constructionist, and sociological theories; and wide-ranging literary theories, philosophical theories, gender and feminist theories, race and ethnicity theories, developmental theories, and theories of fantasy and animality. The use of such theories allows for incisive explorations of the explicit and implicit ideologies metaphorically conveyed by the motif of metamorphosis in different fantasy texts. / In this study, I present a number of specific analyses that enhance our knowledge of the motif of fantastic metamorphosis and of significant cultural ideologies. In doing so, I provide a model for a new and precise approach to the analysis of fantasy literature. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / [12], 294 p Fantasy in literature Metamorphosis in literature Children -- Books and reading Fantastic fiction Authorship -- Psychological aspects Psychoanalysis and literature fantastic metamorphosis transformation fantasy literature fantasy genre contemporary children's literature children's fiction contemporary young adult literature young adult fiction fantasy motifs metaphor theory fantasy as metaphor ideology psychoanalysis childhood otherness adolescent hybridity intersubjectivity Lacanian register theory werewolves werewolf fiction selkies Harry Potter series (1997-2007) Switchers trilogy (1997-1999)
82	Une oubliothèque mémorable. L’écriture de l’histoire dans la trilogie allemande de L.-F. Céline Wesley, Bernabé 03 1900 (has links) No description available. L.-F. Céline Sociocritique trilogie allemande oubli collectif amnésie collective roman français XXe siècle D'un château l'autre Nord Rigodon Roman sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale paradigme du passé réécriture genres littéraires désuets chroniques spectre Roman historiographique vocation léthéenne oubliothèque oubliogramme Sociocritic German trilogy Collective oblivion XXth century french novel Castle to Castle North Rigadoon Second World War Paradigm of the past Lethean novel Rewriting Obsolete literary genres
83	Combating the Banality of Evil: Portrayals of the Literary Female Villain in GÃ¼nter Grass's Danziger Trilogie and Novella, Im Krebsgang. Baumgarten, Joseph Ephraim 10 August 2005 (has links) (PDF) In Günter Grass's Danzig Trilogy and novella, Im Krebsgang, an antagonistic female type makes a repeated appearance. She appears in the guise of Susi Kater and Luzie Rennwand in Die Blechtrommel, and as Tulla Pokriefke in the other works, Katz und Maus, Hundejahre, and Im Krebsgang. This antagonistic female type is not like other women in these works. A review of Le Deuxième Sexe by feminist Simone de Beauvoir reveals several crucial components contributing to woman's position in society. Most essentially, a woman's natural attributes and (dis)abilities and the conventions of society have enforced her historical submission to man. This thesis analyzes how the antagonistic female type, or villain, compares and contrasts with other female figures in these works by Grass, according to a paradigm derived from Beauvoir's description of woman. From this analysis, a better understanding of the female villain's nature emerges. Indeed, such a comparison demonstrates that certain female figures in the works of Grass transcend their historically oppressed or subdued status by refusing to submit to those natural handicaps and societal restrictions identified by Beauvoir, and thus become a threat to man's status or security as an antagonistic female type, or villain. However, the villain figure is not always inherently evil, but possesses the capacity to change. The villain and victim can reconcile their differences and may even form a friendly relationship. This evolving villain-victim duality becomes most clear in Grass's work, Im Krebsgang, and suggests the possibility of assuaging contemporary conflicts as educators sympathize with the experiences of both extremist groups and victimized parties and help them come to terms with their differences. Günter Grass Danzig Trilogy Danziger Trilogie Krebsgang Blechtrommel Katz und Maus Hundejahre Crabwalking Cat and Mouse Dog Years Tin Drum örtlich betäubt Tulla Pokriefke Ursula Pokriefke Susi Kater Luzie Rennwand Vero Lewand Niobe Schwarze Köchin Oskar Matzerath Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex woman as Other female villain female antagonist femmes fatales la femme fatale Gewöhnung habituation Rede von der Gewöhnung Ben and Dieter Vergangenheitsbewältigung German Language and Literature Slavic Languages and Societies
84	Günter Grass und die bildende Kunst / Eine interdisziplinäre Untersuchung der Schaffensjahre 1947 bis 1977 / Günter Grass and the Visual Arts / An Interdisciplinary Study of the Creative Period between 1947 and 1977 Krason, Viktoria 22 June 2017 (has links) No description available. 400 800 Intermedialität Wort-Bild-Beziehungen Bildlichkeit Buchgestaltung Buchkunst Illustration Grafik Doppelbegabung Nachkriegszeit Klassische Moderne Expressionismus Kubismus Surrealismus Abstraktion Gegenständlichkeit Tiere "Die Blechtrommel" "Hundejahre" "Danziger Trilogie" "Der Butt" intermediality word-and-image word and image relationships imagery book design book art illustration graphic arts double talent post-war period classic modern art Expressionism Cubism Surrealism abstraction figuration animals "The Tin Drum" "Dog Years" "Danzig Trilogy" "From a Diary of a Snail" "The Flounder" Philologien (PPN621711713)

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