Thesis (B.A.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 34-35).

Texte remanié de: Th. doct.--Université d'Uppsala, Suède, 2001. / Notes bibliogr. Index.

Thesis (B.A.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 38-40).

Thesis (B.A. (Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Depts. of English and History, 1996? / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-54).

Thesis (B.A.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-46).

Zugl.: Köln, Univ., Diss., 2009

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / This thesis examines a new kind of literary history developed in four postmodern historical romances: Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient, and Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang. By foregrounding their intertexts, these novels expose acts of violence and terror directed against scapegoats, particularly those constructed as criminals, who are perceived to threaten social stability. The novels of Ondaatje and Carey transform these criminals from social transgressors to heroes, from victimizers to victims. They first reconstruct and expose the social dynamics of specific historical contexts drawn from their precursor texts, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Herodotus’s Histories, Great Expectations and Lorna Doone, and then create a form of communal history, which for the first time voices the suppressed narratives of the disenfranchised. The theoretical framework used in the analysis of each text and its intertextual “double” is developed through analyses of desire and imitation in space as well as time. The thesis links René Girard’s theory of rivalry and violence in mimetic desire to Julia Kristeva’s and Susan Friedman’s theories of reading at the point of intersection between a text and its precursors, newly allowing the application of Girard to the complex intertextual dynamics of the sub-genre of metahistorical romance. This approach reconfigures this sub-genre as a form of simultaneous and paratactic history. It adapts Amy Elias’s and Brian McHale’s theories of spatial tropes as literary techniques which collapse, onto one plane, or juxtapose, different historical periods, characters and events, as a means to examine the ����dark areas” of history. In this process the thesis considers each modern text and its precursor to explore the role of Girard’s rivalrous doubles within and across texts in activating or interrupting cyclical violence. The historical scapegoats, given the opportunity to recognize and tell their histories in the modern texts, generate a new form of communal history, which challenges earlier depictions and celebrations of violence and the persecution of scapegoats. These new histories recoil from violence and reconstruct scapegoats through attention to the complex intersection of political and legal policies, cultural values and practices informing their previous historical representation. They allow Girard’s cycles of violence to be broken, reimagining the scapegoat not in terms of singular identifications as anarchist, spy, convict and outlaw, but as multi-faceted, able to be renewed in multiple identifications as heroic.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2008. / Title from title screen (viewed 29 Apr. 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2008; thesis submitted 2007. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

Orientador: Márcio Orlando Seligmann-Silva / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T23:35:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AmsbergdeAlmeida_Aline_M.pdf: 946021 bytes, checksum: b8d724b015a176fbfef1916322d1ef0c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Baseada nas reflexões de autores como David Le Breton, Denise Sant'Anna, Katherine Hayles, Jean Baudrillard, e Gilles Deleuze, problematizo a relação entre o corpo e a subjetividade nos contos do australiano Peter Carey, relaciono a modificação e mutação do corpo às teorias pós-modernas. Segundo Donna Haraway, na pós-modernidade as tecnologias nos habitam, transformando-nos em ciborgues, sendo a escrita (e, portanto, a literatura) a tecnologia própria dos ciborgues. David Le Breton explica que o corpo é o "rascunho a ser corrigido", complementando a afirmação de Peter Pál Pelbart de que "o eu é o corpo", ao referir-se à relação entre o ser humano e o corpo na contemporaneidade. Tal relação está presente na obra de Peter Carey, especialmente nos contos reunidos no livro The Fat Man in History, edição de 1993. The fat Man in History destaca-se no do contexto da obra do autor por dar relevância ao corpo e mostrar, de maneiras diversas, sua plasticidade e variações / Abstract: Based on the theories of authors such as David Le Breton, Denise Sant'Anna, Katherine Hayles, Jean Baudrillard e Gilles Deleuze, I deal with the relation between the body and the subjectivity relating the body's mutation and modification to the postmodern theories. According to Donna Haraway, in the postmodern era the technology inhabits us, turning us into cyborgs, and the writing (and so, literature) is the cyborgs very technology. David Le Breton explains that the body is a sketch to be corrected, and this goes together with Pelbart's claim that "the body is me", referring to the relation between the body and the human being in the contemporary era. Such a relation is present in Peter Carey's work, mainly in the short stories collected in The Fat man in History, 1993 edition. The Fat Man in History gets a special place in Carey's work because it highlights the body and shows, in many ways, the body's plasticity and mutation / Mestrado / Historia e Historiografia Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

Includes errata tipped in between leaf 224 and 225. / Bibliography: leaves 226-238. / 238 leaves ; 30 cm / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Adelaide University, Dept. of English, 2001