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Antonia Bembo : Les Goûts Réunis, royal patronage, and the role of the woman composer during the reign of Louis XIV /Fontijn, Claire Anne. January 1994 (has links)
Diss.--Philosophie--Durham--Duke Univ., 1994. / Bibliogr. p. 680-705. Index.
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The spaces between : A.S. Byatt and postmodern realismRohland-Lê, Andrea Louise January 1999 (has links)
Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.
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A.S. Byatt : writing feminist issuesPearce, Margaret January 1994 (has links)
A. S. Byatt attempts to recover lost voices in Possession and Angels and Insects (a collection of two novellas) by examining the limiting roles of women in literature and society. Chapter one examines Possession in which the characters search for their connections to the literary past, ultimately locating them through a lesser-known, female, Victorian poet. In chapter two I consider "Morpho Eugenia," the first novella in Angels and Insects. Byatt illustrates how the male gaze names women and defines their roles. In the second novella, "The Conjugial Angel," analyzed in chapter three, Byatt (re)tells Emily Jesse's story, one formerly appropriated by Alfred Tennyson in In Memoriam. I conclude that Byatt attempts to relocate her heroines from the margins to the center by deconstructing hierarchical patterns of storytelling. Rather than replacing male-monopolized narratives with female ones, Byatt undermines the dominating viewpoint by demonstrating the way in which it obscures all other perspectives.
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Laminations : nostalgia and the undifferentiated narrator in three novels by A.S.ByattQuarrie, Cynthia January 2003 (has links)
This study focuses on the first three historiographic novels in a projected quartet---The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower---which historicises what we now refer to as the "crises in representation" that occurred over the late 50s and into the 60s. I trace the figure of the Undifferentiated Narrator, both as it is referred to and read by the characters in the world of the novels, and as it is invoked or broken up by the forms of the narratives themselves. / My methodology is outlined in the first section, wherein I place a reading of Byatt's work within the context of contemporary debate regarding the ethics of representation. Then I treat each novel separately, since each is a self-contained novelistic experiment with a different form of literary realism. / In the end I conclude that Byatt's use of polyvocality and multiple histories help us to come to terms with nostalgia for the self-present self, by showing us that it haunts every narrative (and anti-narrative) and is a coercive figure in every life.
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Laminations : nostalgia and the undifferentiated narrator in three novels by A.S.ByattQuarrie, Cynthia January 2003 (has links)
No description available.
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A.S. Byatt : writing feminist issuesPearce, Margaret January 1994 (has links)
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Verbal and visual language and the question of faith in the fiction of A.S. ByattSorensen, Susan D. 11 1900 (has links)
This study investigates the relation between faith in a transcendent reality and
faith in language, both verbal and visual, in the work of English novelist and critic
Antonia Byatt. Her ideal conception of communication combines the immediacy and
primal vigour of the visual with the methodical pragmatism of words. However, Byatt's
characters who exemplify this effort at double vision - in particular Stephanie Potter
Orton in the 1985 novel Still Life - find in their quests frustration and even death rather
than fulfillment.
My investigation focuses on A. S. Byatt's presentation of the way language
attempts to represent and interact with three particular areas: fundamental personal
experiences (childbirth, death, love), perceptual and aesthetic experiences (colour and
form, painting), and transcendent experiences (supernaturalism and Christian religion). I
consider all stages of her career to date - from her first novel The Shadow of the Sun
(1964) to Babel Tower (1996). Although Possession: A Romance (1990) has garnered
most of the critical attention accorded to Byatt, I argue that this novel is not generally
representative of her principles or style. A neo-Victorian romance, part parodic and part
nostalgic, combined with an academic comedy, Possession shares neither the sombre
mythological and psychological fatalism of her 1960s fiction nor the modified realism of
her middle-period fiction. Still Life and The Matisse Stories (1993) are the works that
best elucidate Byatt's major preoccupations; they intently strive to combine the most
powerful aspects of verbal and visual knowledge.
The methodological basis for this study is pluralist; it emphasizes close reading,
combined with phenomenological, biographical, and thematic criticism. As Byatt does, I
rely principally on the ideas of writers and artists rather than theorists; she cannot be
understood without specific reference to George Eliot, Donne, Forster, Murdoch, Van
Gogh, and Matisse (among others).
Byatt's quest for truth and transcendent meaning and her investigation of the
trustworthiness of words have undergone recent changes; she seems more sharply aware
of the limitations of language and the unattainability of absolute truth. Her writings in the
1990s about paintings and colour emphasize their intrinsic value rather than their ability
either to revitalize the word or suggest the numinous.
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Identität zwischen Dekonstruktion und (Re-)Konstruktion im zeitgenössischen britischen Roman Peter Ackroyd, Iain Banks und A. S. ByattDegenring, Folkert January 2007 (has links)
Zugl.: Mannheim, Univ., Diss., 2007
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Tradition und Transformation - der fiktionale Dialog mit dem viktorianischen Zeitalter im (post)modernen historischen Roman in Grossbritannien /Deistler, Petra, January 1999 (has links)
Diss.--Freiburg(Breisgau)--Univ., 1998. / Bibliogr. p. 279-295.
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Writing the body spiritual : sexual/textual/spiritual links in the writings of Antonia White, Emily Coleman and Djuna Barnes /Chait, Sandra M. January 1997 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1997. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [240]-248).
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