Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2010. / Title from OhioLINK ETD abstract webpage (viewed May 17, 2010). Advisor: Susanna Fein. Keywords: Book of the Duchess; Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation; Pericles; Devotions upon Emergent Occasions; Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; Chaucer; Shakespeare; Thomas More; Donne; Bunyan; defenses against mortality.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 1989. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 252-293).

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of St Andrews, April 2008.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--Bowling Green State University, 2007. / Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 80 p. Includes bibliographical references.

viii, 91 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Caribbean cultural ideas and values placed on death and mourning, especially in relation to cultural roles women are expected to perform, are primary motivating factors in the development of female self and identity in Caribbean women's literature. Based on analysis of three texts, QPH, Annie John, and Beyond the Limbo Silence, I argue that notions of death and funerary rituals are employed within Caribbean women's literature to (re)connect protagonist females to their homeland and secure a sense of identity. In addition, while some texts highlight the necessity of prescribing to the socially constructed roles of women within the ritual context and rely on the uproper" adherence to the traditional process to maintain the status quo, other texts show that the inversion or subversion of these traditions is also an important aspect of funerary rituals and notions of death that permeate contemporary Caribbean culture. / Committee in Charge: Dr. Dianne Dugaw, Folklore; Dr. Lisa Gilman, English; Dr. Phil Scher, Anthropology

O trabalho ambiciona expor como se efetua a representação da morte na obra de Lev Tolstói. Não há, entretanto, uma análise da totalidade de sua obra, o que seria impossível em face do espaço reservado, mas o exame de uma amostra de três de suas narrativas-cânone a respeito da morte: A Morte de Iván Ilitch, Senhor e Servo e Três Mortes; textos que dialogam entre si. Nesse sentido, a pesquisa também disserta sobre as inter-relações existentes entre a morte e a criação literária, pautando-se em textos de Mikhail Bakhtin e Maurice Blanchot; e aponta os principais acontecimentos de morte na vida de Lev Tolstói, responsáveis por definir sua personalidade dualista e, em um segundo momento, conduzi-lo à conversão, processo narrado no fragmento Uma confissão. / The paper aims to show how the representation of death is done in the work of Lev Tolstoy. There isnt, however, an analysis of all of his work, which would be impossible face to the place settled, but the examination of a sample of three of its canon-narratives related to death: The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Master and Man and Three Deaths; texts that talk to one another. In this sense, the research also talks about the interrelations between literary creation and death, basing on texts by Mikhail Bakhtin and Maurice Blanchot, and highlights the main events of death in the life of Lev Tolstoy, responsible for defining his dualistic personality, and latter on, lead him to conversion, a process exposed in the fragment Confession.

Throughout her life Christina Rossetti was pursued by the thought of death. Many of her poems, especially her later poems, display her concerns about death. Her early poems show death as the destroyer of mortal things, reflecting her pessimism and her sometimes naturalistic views on life. Her death wish is sometimes associated with her thwarted desire for absolute love in the world. Her religious poems describe death as the gate to heaven or to hell, the final resting place from the pains of her life. Either as her religious yearning for a better place of Resurrection or as her way of expressing her unfulfilled desire in the world, her persistent theme of death is an expression of the conflict between a sometimes skeptical, sometimes religious view.

Orientador: Antonio Arnoni Prado / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T22:17:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tamura_CeliaMitie_M.pdf: 878929 bytes, checksum: c2f1614a116d1ff2fa0089c43b536c5b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: A partir da análise de obras literárias clássicas, como A Montanha Mágica, de Thomas Mann, A Morte de Ivan Ilitch, de Leon Tolstoi, e os contos de Luiz Vilela, pretende-se traçar um panorama da chamada ¿pornografia da morte¿, título de um estudo realizado pelo historiador Geoffrey Gorer, em 1955, na Inglaterra. Segundo Gorer, na sociedade capitalista, a morte passa a ser pornográfica, pois é tornada feia, indecente, obscena, e por isso deve ser ocultada / Abstract: From the analisis of classic literary works, like Thomas Mann¿s The Magic Mountain, Leo Tostoy¿s The Death of Ivan Ilitch, and the Luiz Vilela¿s short stories, this work intends to outline the so named ¿pornography of death¿, title of a Geoffrey Gorer¿s study on death. The capitalist society turned the death indecent and obscene / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

One of the principal techniques used by Lawrence Durrell in creating the rich and varied Alexandria Quartet is echo structure. Echo structures of similar construction (ether directly stated or implied) suffuse the text with additional meanings and achieve thematic significance and completeness. The symbolism of death and a new birth, or rebirth is a dominant means of conveying this in the Quartet, and particularly in Clea, its fourth and final book. Echo structure is created by the writer’s establishing actions, images, archetypes, allusions and characters in an early portion of the Quartet and generally suspending that entity until changed or unchanged, it recurs ata climactic moment to make its final appearance, in every case transformed because of the pressure of thematic resolution or to conform with overriding themes. The meaning is service precisely from the changes that occur in the entity between the first and final appearance. Rebirth may be nothing more than a metamorphosis in outward appearance or a change of an entity which generally produces something better for the person involved. It may be as profound as the spiritualization of the human being or a release of long pent-up creative energy. The change itself contributes to the meaning of the rebirth structure. IN any work of art there is usually a dominant theme, but many variations of the theme work throughout whenever some minor or superficial change occurs; this profoundly changes human destiny. Precisely this device of the echo structure furnishes a means for Durrell to convey his major theme of rebirth.

Much has been written in the past fifty years about John Donne and his work. His troubled life and enigmatic writings have made him seem a kindred spirit to a confused age. To our day the dissonant, abrupt, and calculatedly reckless style and the concern with the harsh realities of love and death have relevance which heretofore had been misunderstood or ignored.