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  • 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.
101

Modernity and tradition : Chinese theories of literature from 1900 to 1930

Feng, Liping January 1994 (has links)
This thesis examines the development of Chinese theories of literature in the early twentieth century: what was considered as literature, the role of the writer and reader, and the function of literature in society. The central purpose of the thesis is to retrace the Western-influenced theories of literature of the 1920s back to the theoretical developments at the turn of the century. The thesis also shows that, as a whole, modern Chinese theories of literature are deeply rooted in traditional Chinese poetics. In characterizing traditional Chinese theories, it compares the latter with the mimetic model of Western literature. Throughout the thesis, the account of the theoretical developments makes constant reference to the changes taking place within two major literary genres: lyrical poetry and the narrative.
102

Menander and the expectations of his audience

Ciesko, Martin January 2004 (has links)
Fiktion der Handlung? This highly conventional genre can, I claim, through both embracing and problematising its very conventionality express itself with irony and subtlety that is at least as effective as open self-praise by poets in comic genres that allow it.
103

The Muwāzana of al-Āmidī

Ashtiany, Julia January 1983 (has links)
This study serves as an introduction to al-Āmidī's critical thought and to one version of a hitherto unpublished section of al-Muwāzana, Cambridge University Library Ms. Qq286 (which is reproduced in anno- tated form, Appendix, D). It also examines some of the main trends in the recent study and evaluation of 'Abbasid criticism,of which al- Muwāzana has, in the Arab world, become a focus. The Appendix (A-C) discusses editions and manuscript versions of the text, providing a reconstruction of the jumbled Ms. Qq286, and concludes that those portions of the work previously considered lost are most probably to be looked for in a different form - that of complementary rather than consecutive texts, fragments of one of which are already available in the footnotes to AZZĀM's standard edition of the Diwan of Abū Tammam; these are examined in some detail. Textual problems are also examined, in the light of related problems of interpretation, in Chapter I, in which the structure of the surviving portions of al-Muwāzana, which has often been considered haphazard, is shown to serve a specific didactic purpose consistent with the details of al-Āmidī's practical criticism. Chapter II_looks at this framework in greater detail, showing to what extent Āmidī is bound by inherited techniques, but also in what ways he succeeds in promoting a novel and rigorous definition of the scope of criticism. Chapter III continues Chapter II's scrutiny of the details of al-Āmidī's critical method, and explores the key element in al-Āmidī's critical thought, the notion of poetry as 'truth'; Chapter IV shows how he attempts to justify this notion in historical terms, and how, in so doing, he succeeds - where Ibn Ṭabāṭabā had earlier failed - in establishing poetic 'truth' as a general concept of some versatility. One of the concerns of Chapters II to IV is thus to reassess al-Āmidī's originality in the light of his transformation of earlier criticism, the nature of his debt to which- has often been misunderstood. The other is to reply to the question raised in the Introduction - what is the value of 'Abbasid criticism? can we afford to neglect it in favour of a direct approach to Arabic poetry? - by contrasting al-Āmidī's conception of the relationship between critic, reader and text with the concerns which dominate Arabic literary studies today. These are shown not to be without weaknesses and inconsistencies; the conclusion suggests that al-Āmidī's concern with poetic 'realism' - a contrast is implied with the current interest in the 'phantastic' and 'baroque' elements in 'Abbasid poetry - might provide fruitful ground for future literary research.
104

Appreciating the present : Smith, Sutherland, Frye, and Pacey as historians of English-Canadian poetry

Kokotailo, Philip, 1955- January 1992 (has links)
This thesis argues that as historians of English-Canadian poetry, A. J. M. Smith, John Sutherland, Northrop Frye, and Desmond Pacey explicitly promote the value of past conflict reconciled into present harmony. They do so by claiming that such reconciliation marks the maturity of English-Canadian culture. This thesis also argues, however, that the interactive progression of their histories implicitly undermines this value. It does so because each critic appreciates a different group of poets for realizing their shared cultural ideal, thereby establishing contradictory representations of what they all claim to be the culmination of English-Canadian literary history. The thesis concludes that while their lingering sense of present cultural maturity should now be fully renounced, the value these critics place on reconciliation is well worth preserving and transforming.
105

In their own terms : American literary historiography in the United States and Italy, 1829 to present /

Pontuale, Francesco. January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in English. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 299-325). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:NR29517
106

Hagar Olsson och den nya teatern teatersynen speglad i teaterkritiken 1918-1929 och i Hjärtats pantomim /

Fridell, Lena. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis--Göteborg. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-221).
107

The criticism and reviewing of Brooks Atkinson

McNeely, Jerry Clark, January 1956 (has links)
Thesis--University of Wisconsin. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record.
108

Hagar Olsson och den nya teatern teatersynen speglad i teaterkritiken 1918-1929 och i Hjärtats pantomim /

Fridell, Lena. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis--Göteborg. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Bibliography: p. 188-221.
109

The race with class towards a materialist methodology for race in film studies /

Sim, Gerald Sianghwa. January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 2007. / Supervisors: Louis Schwartz, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 255-267).
110

Returning thirds on reading literature /

Kujansivu, Heikki Markus. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of Comparative Literature, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

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