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Speaking the heart's truth : language and self-realization in the Canadian novels of Margaret LaurenceLindberg, Laurie K. 03 June 2011 (has links)
In each of her Canadian-set novels, Margaret Laurence features a female protagonist searching for her identity. Hagar, in The Stone Angel; Rachel, in A Jest of God; Stacey, in The Fire-Dwellers; and Morag, in The Diviners--each one, in her own way and with a different degree of success, attempts to discover who she is and what her life means. Through these characters, Laurence expresses her faith in the power of language, for it is at least partly through language that each achieves her measure of victory and comes to terms with herself and her life.For Hagar Shipley, words used precisely, cleverly, and artistically constitute a source of pleasure and pride. Yet Hagar often uses language to assert her superiority and otherwise to distance herself from others and from life. Her epiphany arrives late, but not too late for her to speak at least once "the heart's truth." Rachel Cameron, like Hagar, demonstrates a keen sensitivity to language. Rachel, however, listens to the words and voices which she hears in an effort not to control others but to discover an authentic voice, and thus an identity, of her own. As she learns to speak of herself to others, she also learns that disclosure is not always necessary, for silence can heal as well as threaten.Rachel's sister Stacey also learns to accept silence. Terrified by the violence of modern life, Stacey seeks to build bridges between herself and those she loves. Her frequent failures to communicate lead her to question the efficacy of language, but in the end she affirms language as a means of communication as she also comes to see that "the silences aren't all bad." Her conclusions are shared by Morag Gunn, who has as a successful "wordsmith" made words her life, yet who has learned to accept occasional silences. Morag's relationships with others and her achievements as a novelist have convinced her of the power, as well as the limitations, of language, a conviction that we can assume her creator, Margaret Laurence, shares.
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Modelling the public intellectual : the case of Matthew ArnoldMcLeod, Tenielle Robyn 02 January 2008 (has links)
My thesis is titled Modeling the Public Intellectual: The Case of Matthew Arnold. Matthew Arnold, arguably the most influential critic of his age (Trilling 190) has also proven to be an influential model for the public intellectual currently in Canada and elsewhere. The role and work of public intellectuals is complex and who or what they are is the topic of vigorous debate and sometimes extreme disagreement. Because Arnold is so influential and controversial as a literary and social critic, I want to develop and to communicate a better understanding of his achievements and to explore the connection between his work and the role of the public intellectual. To that end, I draw on three of his works, The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (1864), Culture and Anarchy (1869) and Literature and Dogma (1873). In the course of a decade, Arnold asserts and expands the role of criticism in society and the kinds of issues a poet, critic, and inspector of schools feels competent to address while defining his own personal version of the Victorian Sage (Holloway). I also want to explore why criticism produced in the nineteenth century, particularly in Arnolds work, promotes the figure and activities of the public intellectual. Moreover, I will reaffirm, via Arnolds example, the importance of the relationship between literature and life and show how this connection nourishes the idea of the public intellectual in the English-speaking world.
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Robert Penn Warren's internal injuries: ''a picnic on the dark side of the moon''Samaha, Marylouise 15 May 2009 (has links)
Robert Penn Warren has a facility for transforming region and history into fiction
and poetry. His novel Flood: A Romance of Our Time (1964) and his poem sequence
“Internal Injuries” (1968) stand out insofar as they share a leitmotif; that is, he uses
images of imprisonment to represent the loss of free and responsible selfhood under a
technocratic dispensation. He is the quintessential loneliness artist, as can be heard
through the voices of his characters.
His literary criticism is a testament to his concerns about how one comes to
reconcile oneself to place. His theory of literature provides us a unique window on
what it means to discover oneself in the tumult of a rapidly changing landscape. The use
and misuse of technology to augment one’s relationship to place and self is my
overriding concern. In Fiddlersburg, the town in Flood, melodrama hangs in the air like
rotting perfume. All that will remain once the town is flooded is the penitentiary.
In “Internal Injuries,” Warren’s poem-within-a-poem sequence about the loss of
self within the modern city, Warren invokes the penitentiary to represent and speak for
the loss of self and the feeling of lonesomeness. Flood speaks to “Internal Injuries” in the sense that Warren oscillates between the discovery of self in Flood to the loss of self
in “Internal Injuries.”
I give my observation of how Warren’s critical work forms a dialogue with his
creative work, offering insight as to how the oldest maximum-security penitentiary in
Kentucky speaks to the lost and found selves of Warren’s world. Finally, I deal with the
problem of modernity and Warren’s perennial concern about the alienation of the self
and how he wrestles with it from a deeply personal and experiential perspective. The
reader will find that Warren’s critical and creative works form a kind of inside passage.
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Narrative aesthetics, multicultural politics, and (trans)national subjects : contemporary fictions of Canada /Lundgren, Jodi, January 2001 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 357-384).
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Das Verhältnis Stendhals zur MusikBeau, Albin, January 1930 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hamburgische Universität, 1930. / Vita. Errata leaf inserted. Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-94).
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Information und Wertung Untersuchungen zum theater-und filmkritischen Work von Herbert Ihering.Krechel, Ursula, January 1972 (has links)
Inaug.-Diss.--Cologne. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 355-366.
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Literaturkritik in "Novyj mir" von 1945 bis 1956 /Köhler, Joachim, January 1975 (has links)
Thesis--Bonn. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-405) and index.
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Interpretation and method studies in the explication of literature /Nordin, Svante. January 1978 (has links)
Thesis--Lund. / Added t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-183) and index.
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Die Florentiner Macchiaioli (Studien zur Malerei und Kunsttheorie Italiens im neunzehnten Jahrhundert).Naujack, Alexander, January 1972 (has links)
Diss.--Tübingen. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 274-307.
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Kunstanschauung und Kunstkritik in der nationalsozialistischen Presse die Kritik im Feuilleton des "Völkischen Beobachters," 1920-1932 ...Köhler, Gerhard, January 1937 (has links)
Inaug.-diss.--Munich. / Lebenslauf. "Quellenverzeichnis": p. 257-266.
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