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191	"A Mere Clerk" representing the urban lower-middle-class man in British literature and culture : 1837-1910 / Banville, Scott Douglass. January 2005 (has links) Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2010 Aug 17.
192	Material literature in Anglo-Saxon poetry Schubert, Layla A. Olin, 1975- 06 1900 (has links) x, 208 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / The scattered instances depicting material literature in Anglo-Saxon poetry should be regarded as a group. This phenomenon occurs in Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, and The Husband's Message. Comparative examples of material literature can be found on the Ruthwell Cross and the Franks Casket. This study examines material literature in these three poems, comparing their depictions of material literature to actual examples. Poems depicting material literature bring the relationship between man and object into dramatic play, using the object's point of view to bear witness to the truth of distant or intensely personal events. Material literature is depicted in a love poem, The Husband's Message, when a prosopopoeic runestick vouches for the sincerity of its master, in the heroic epic Beowulf when an ancient, inscribed sword is the impetus to give an account of the biblical flood, and is also implied in the devotional poem The Dream of the Rood, as two crosses both pre-and-post dating the poem bear texts similar to portions of the poem. The study concludes by examining the relationship between material anxiety and the character of Weland in Beowulf, Deor, Alfred's Consolation of Philosophy, and Waldere A & B. Concern with materiality in Anglo-Saxon poetry manifests in myriad ways: prosopopoeic riddles, both heroic and devotional passages directly assailing the value of the material, personification of objects, and in depictions of material literature. This concern manifests as a material anxiety. Weland tames the material and twists and shapes it, re-affirming the supremacy of mankind in a material world. / Committee in charge: Martha Bayless, Chairperson, English; James Earl, Member, English; Daniel Wojcik, Member, English; Aletta Biersack, Outside Member, Anthropology Material literature Anglo-Saxon poetry Poetry Beowulf Dream of the rood Husband's message Weland the Smith Medieval literature Cultural anthropology Folklore Material culture
193	‘In-Yer-Head’ Theatre : Staging the Mind in Contemporary British Drama. Towards a Quantum Psychopoetics of the Stage / Le théâtre « in-yer-head » : écritures de l’espace mental sur la scène britannique contemporaine. Vers une psychopoétique quantique du drame Ayache, Solange 20 January 2017 (has links) Cette étude s’intéresse à l’espace mental comme nouveau terrain d’exploration du drame britannique contemporain, et examine les manifestations d’un mouvement qui « met en pièces » les régions inexplorées des pensées inconscientes et les contrées impénétrables du traumatisme. Puisant dans les découvertes de la psychanalyse et des sciences cognitives, inspiré par le changement de paradigme de la mécanique quantique et ses interrogations sur le rôle et la nature de la conscience, ce théâtre non plus tant « in-yer-face » que « in-yer-head » s’éloigne de la sensibilité des années 1990. Les pièces de Crimp, Kane, Churchill, Cooper, Frayn, Stephens, Payne, Haddon, Ravenhill, Neilson et d’autres déconstruisent et reconstruisent le personnage comme la somme virtuelle de tous ses possibles. Le mode d’existence spéculatif, diffracté et pluriel du sujet renouvelle les définitions du réalisme psychologique et du réalisme théâtral. Ce travail étudie les modalités de cette « psychopoétique quantique » autour de concepts clés comme la probabilité ou l’incertitude, et montre comment des métaphores issues de la théorie quantique comme la dualité onde-particule ou les mondes multiples servent à illustrer l’indétermination de la psyché en évoquant les mécanismes de défense et autres symptômes qui constituent la réalité subjective d’esprits affectés par le traumatisme, la psychose, le stress ou la maladie neurologique. Nous montrons qu’en explorant la nature de la conscience, du soi et de la réalité ainsi que la condition des femmes, ces pièces posent des questions philosophiques sur le libre arbitre et la possibilité de choix dans un monde devenu plus incertain et imprévisible que jamais. / This study asserts that the human mind has become the new frontier in contemporary British drama, and interrogates and assesses manifestations of this movement which stages uncharted regions of thought and the dark territories of traumatic mindscapes. Drawing on theories from psychoanalysis and cognitive science, and inspired by the paradigm shifts of quantum mechanics and its interrogations on the role and nature of consciousness, this new theatre moves from “in-yer-face” to “in-yer-head” and away from the sensibility of the “nasty nineties.” Plays by Crimp, Kane, Churchill, Cooper, Frayn, Stephens, Payne, Haddon and others deconstruct and reconstruct the character as thevirtual sum of all her possibilities. In these mental spaces, the subject’s speculative, diffracted and plural mode of existence redefines psychological realism and stage realism. Examining the modalities of a quantum “psychopoetics” around key concepts such as probability and uncertainty, I show how metaphors borrowed from quantum theory based on the double slit-experiment, the wave-particle duality, the wavefunction collapse, the observer effect, quantum decoherence, quantum entanglement, and the many-worlds interpretation are used to emphasise the intrinsic indeterminacy of our minds. They evoke a number of psychological defense mechanisms and other symptoms that constitute the subjective reality of disturbed minds affected by trauma, psychosis, stress or neurological disease. By exploring the nature of mind, the self, and reality, and the condition of women, these plays address philosophical questions about free will and choice in a world that has become more uncertain and unpredictable than ever. Théâtre contemporain Littérature britannique In-Yer-Face Espace mental Martin Crimp Sarah Kane Caryl Churchill Physique quantique Contemporary theatre British literature In-Yer-Face Mental space Martin Crimp Sarah Kane Caryl Churchill Quantum physics
194	Enfleshing Faith: Secularization and Liturgy in Romantic and Victorian Literature McQueen, Joseph January 2020 (has links) No description available. Literature British and Irish Literature Religion Theology Romanticism Victorian literature British literature secular secularization religion theology ritual liturgy Wordsworth, William Keats, John Dickens, Charles Keble, John Yonge, Charlotte Pater, Walter Wilde, Oscar
195	The Narrative Space of Childhood in 21st Century Anglophone Arab Literature in the Diaspora Ben-Nasr, Leila 27 August 2019 (has links) No description available. American Literature British and Irish Literature Gender Studies Literature childhood narrative space of childhood Anglophone Arab literature diaspora child narrators Arab American literature Arab British literature coming-of-age narratives Arab American girlhood Arab masculinity
196	Discipline and Surveillance of Non-Docile Heroines in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South and "The Poor Clare" and Sheridan Le Fanu's The Rose and the Key Pope, Madelaine Rose 10 May 2019 (has links) No description available. British and Irish Literature Gender Studies Literature European Studies 19th-century British Literature Victorian Literature disicpline disciplinary system Michel Foucault Discipline and Punish Psychiatric Power Abnormal sovereign surveillance pantoptic schema Elizabeth Gaskell Sheridan Le Fanu
197	Tracing the Origins of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Rake Character to Depictions of the Modern Monster Conrad, Courtney A. 11 June 2019 (has links) No description available. Language Arts Literature rake monster British literature Gothic literature Romance Clarissa Richardson, Samuel Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman Wollstonecraft, Mary Frankenstein Shelley, Mary Tess of the DUrbervilles Hardy, Thomas Dracula Stoker, Bram patriarchy
198	The Man in the Transatlantic Crowd: The Early Reception of Edgar Allan Poe in Victorian England Wall, Brian Robert 10 June 2008 (has links) (PDF) An important anomaly in transatlantic criticism is the contrast between transatlantic theory and the applied criticism of literature through a transatlantic lens. While most transatlantic scholars assert the value of individual strands of thought throughout the globe and stress the importance of overcoming national hegemonic barriers in literature, applied criticism generally favors an older model that privileges British literary thought in the nineteenth century. I claim that both British and American writers can influence each other, and that mutations in thought can travel both ways across the Atlantic. To argue this claim, I begin by analyzing the influence of Blackwood's Magazine on the literary aesthetic of Edgar Allan Poe. While Poe's early works read very similar to Blackwood's articles, he positioned himself against Blackwood's in the middle of his career and developed a different, although derivative, approach to psychological fiction. I next follow this psychological strain back across the Atlantic, where Oscar Wilde melded aspects of Poe's fiction to his own unique form of satire and social critique. Oscar Wilde Edgar Allan Poe transatlanticism transatlantic criticism literary criticism nineteenth-century literature comparative literature mutation English literature American literature British literature transatlantic studies print studies English Language and Literature
199	Intention and the Mid-seventeenth Century Poetry Edition Russell, Shaun James 31 August 2022 (has links) No description available. British and Irish Literature Literature book history intention poetry early modern herbert milton philips shakespeare benson poems renaissance early-modern literary analysis publishing editing historicism intentionality english literature british literature 17th century seventeenth century poetics bibliography authorship readership readers publishers poets
200	Articulating Dolls: Pygmalionism in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Matlock, Michelle Marie January 2022 (has links) No description available. Literature British and Irish Literature American Literature Gender Studies English literature British literature American literature Victorian literature Victorian nineteenth century nineteenth-century literature gender feminism femininity girlhood dolls studies Pygmalionism Pygmalion Galatea doll statue puppet automaton tableau non vivant

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