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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Tulsa, 1987. / Bibliography: leaves 230-235.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 389-418).

Inaug.-diss.--Münster. / Lebenslauf. "Bibliographie": p. 119-122.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1998. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 317-329).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2008. / Adviser: Belinda Boyd. Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-59).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Iowa, 1999. / Supervisor: Steve Thunder-McGuire. Title-page, preliminaries, Certificate of approval, and Thesis summary issued in paper (iii, 15 leaves, bound ; 28 cm.). Title-page, preliminaries, Certificate of approval, and Thesis summary also issued on CD-ROM (3 files, 62.7 kilobytes).

This essay stresses the importance of the visual and material aspects of these manuscripts. By examining her work in relation to collage practices, it highlights Dickinson's role as an avant-garde figure in both American poetry and material culture. Rather than write interlocking theses that connect each reading, I aim to demonstrate the ways in which an art historical consideration of Dickinson's envelope manuscripts complicates the already open-ended nature of her poetry through associating the texts with the cultural phenomena of the scrapbook. Additionally, I will foreground the importance of the materiality of these works through emphasizing the role of correspondence in Dickinson's life.

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the potential influence of Plato's Symposium on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, by analyzing similarities between the two texts. Such comparisons, I argue, enhance our reading and understanding of Brontë's novel as a specifically philosophical discourse on metaphysical concepts. By examining the infrastructure of Wuthering Heights, I propose that its specific complexity adheres to models of philosophical inquiry as presented in the Symposium. After my introduction, Chapter 2 investigates the resonances of Aristophanes' speech in Plato's work that are manifest in Brontë's conceptualizations of love: Platonic love, the divided self, and unity of being. Chapter 3 details structural similarities between the two texts, the most important being narrative progression and complexity, are closely examined. Chapter 4 explores similarities between Plato's and Brontë's representations of punishment and discipline, including instances of physical, bodily punishment and examples of punishment aimed at individual reform. In approaching Brontë's novel in terms of, and as, philosophical discourse, this thesis highlights the fair amount of homogeneity between it and the Symposium, and illustrates the validity of an approach to Wuthering Heights which seeks both to clarify and to respect its complexity by searching out its constituent ideas.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-12T18:37:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 arquivo8283_1.pdf: 1199432 bytes, checksum: b3226ecbf790b659bcae6df5a32710fb (MD5) license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Esta dissertação aborda a leitura e interpretação da obra poética de Emily Dickinson, focalizando certos aspectos ligados à sua auto-reclusão e subseqüente exclusão dos círculos literários da época, as quais tiveram decisiva influência em sua escrita. No embasamento teórico deste trabalho, valho-me da noção de biografema , idealizada por Roland Barthes, além de recorrer a outros conceitos literários mais atuais. Concentro-me sobretudo no aspecto poético que denomino estrangeirização , o qual permeia, a meu ver, toda a obra de Emily Dickinson, e não foi, ao que parece, estudado até agora, seja nos Estados Unidos, seu país natal, seja no Brasil, onde os seus poemas sempre mereceram atenção, tanto do público quanto da crítica literária