Dissertation--Münster--Universität, 1999.

Diss.--Tübingen--Univ., 1997. / Bibliogr. p. 213-223. Index.

Thesis (Honors)--University of South Florida, 2009. / "Spring 2009." Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-63).

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1978.

The remarkable challenges Finnegans Wake offers to its readers and to the very process of reading are the results of an evolution of Nonsense literature. Despite the unduly "serious" framework of criticism which has been built up around it, Joyce's anomalous last work is a radical "hoax" upon interpretation. The regular confluences of linguistic deconstruction (via word association as well as recurring word and phrase matrices) and ontological metaphor, developed from authors such as Rabelais, Sterne, and Lewis Carroll, are offered by the Wake as tests to the reader's (qua reader) sensibilities. As Nonsense, Finnegans Wake departs from typified modernist modus operandi (metonymic allusion) and instead explores the limits of metaphor. The stakes of Joyce's hoax are of vital interest to the contemporary student of literature and culture, since the Wake dares the reader to find new meanings rather than to project old ones; to exult its eccentricities and its difference; and all the while to call into question (as the text itself does), its authenticity and authority.

Bakgrund Av alla kända graviditeter avslutas 15-20 procent med missfall. Vid missfall förlorar kvinnan inte bara ett foster, utan hela sitt liv som framtida mamma. Kvinnan kan uppleva nedstämdhet, förnekelse, ilska, isolering, rädsla, hjälplöshet och misslyckande i samband med missfall. När en individ genomgår svåra känslor, kriser eller problem används psykologiska anpassningsstrategier för att bemästra eller hantera en situation. Coping är ett samlingsnamn på olika anpassningsstrategier. Coping kan delas upp i emotionellt inriktad och probleminriktad coping. Syfte Att belysa kvinnans copingstrategier efter missfall ur ett omvårdnadsperspektiv Metod Litteraturöversikt genomfördes som en samsökning via databasleverantören EBSCO. EBSCO innehåller följande databaser: Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Complete, CINAHL complete, MEDLINE, PsycINFO. I SveMed och PubMed genomfördes enskilda sökningar. Genomförda sökningar resulterade i 18 vetenskapliga artiklar som presenteras i en matris. Resultat. Kvinnor tillämpade emotionellt- och probleminriktad coping. Vanliga copingstrategier var att undvika, isolera, distansera, blockera och förneka känslor som uppstod vid missfall. Kvinnorna bekräftade att det sociala stödet hade betydelse för deras coping. Personcentrerad omvårdnad och information från kompetent vårdpersonal efterfrågades. Slutsats Copingstrategier varierar och är beroende på individ, miljö, påfrestningens natur och situation. Kvinnor vill ha bekräftelse från vårdpersonalen för att kunna acceptera och bearbeta psykologiska reaktioner som missfall orsakar. Professionellt bemötande, information och stöd kan bekräfta kvinnans känslor och reaktioner och eventuellt bidra till att stödja kvinnor till framgångsrik coping.

This thesis will read James Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a text that is fundamentally concerned with ecological issues, demonstrating awareness of the land beyond and outside of Dublin. Joyce frequently depicts the colonization of Ireland as centered on the control of land in the form of agriculture, which he brings into the political foreground of the novel's characters. I will argue further that this novel is critical of the violent nationalist rhetoric and insurrections of early 1900s Ireland, a movement which perpetuated the agricultural control of land. As an effective rebellion to this aporia, which Joseph Valente has termed “the metrocolonial double bind,” I will read the novel’s queer ecology, a non-violent resistance that moves beyond constricting categories of human/animal, urban/rural, and opens up the world for novel ways of living and being.

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This thesis is an analysis of the chiastic structure in the tenth episode of James Joyce's Ulysses, Wandering Rocks, and how it relates to the chiastic elements in the novel as a whole. My reading of Wandering Rocks and Ulysses is designed to explain the contradiction between the episode's appearance of structural stability and the novel's consistent denial of unifying structures. Chiastic structure will be shown to reflect a formal process of simultaneous growth and decay that develops in the novel, and the reading of Wandering Rocks will establish how the pattern traces points of convergence between the novel's aesthetics and the organic processes that occur in the referential level of the text. While I argue that Wandering Rocks announces an inevitable loss of structural stability, the examination of its structure reveals formal principles that remain consistent throughout Ulysses .

The Recurrence of Rhythm is an inquiry into the notion that the voice flows ??? a theme that continually recurs in the Homeric poems, Plato's Cratylus and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses. Through a re-interpretation of the meaning of rhythmos in pre-Socratic philosophy, I define rhythm as the particular manner in which the voice is flowing, and argue that it is the specific quality of phonetic writing to represent the flowing aspect of the voice. The Greek concept of rhythmos is held to be inseparable from the invention of phonetic writing and the transcription of the Homeric poems, and it is this new definition of rhythm that allows the thesis to engage in contemporary debates concerning the relationship between speech and writing (as developed by Derrida, Ong, Havelock, Parry, Lord and Prier). I also argue that the Platonic concept of rhythm qua metre provides an essential point of mediation between the Greek oral tradition and the history of Western literature, a move that sets the scene for a comparative study of Homer and Joyce. By developing an original concept of recurrence that pertains to both the repetition of themes in the Homeric poems and the heroic experience of living for the sake of the story, this thesis proposes that rhythm and recurrence are interrelated concepts that distinguish the lyrical and dramatic modes that structure the epic form of narrative found in both Homer's poems and Joyce's novels. Drawing upon the esthetic philosophy of Stephen Dedalus, I develop the dialectical theory of genre first outlined by Joyce in the Paris notebook, and argue that the latent lyricism contained in the narrative style of A Portrait is a proto-typical form of the interior monologue found in Ulysses. In opposition to the early modernist paradigm of Joyce criticism, this thesis rejects the notion that mythic archetypes function as Platonic ideals (i.e. the transcendent form of the modernist artwork), but rather holds that heroic themes recur in the mental stream of the modern subject, and manifest themselves immediately through Joyce???s use of the interior monologue technique.