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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.
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Elements of the Gothic in the Works of Judith Thompson

LeDrew, Rebecca January 2012 (has links)
This thesis is an examination of the Gothic elements present in a selection of works by Canadian playwright Judith Thompson. The Gothic genre is marked by continual flux and adaptation, ensuring that its ability to inspire terror, as well as its relevance as a form of cultural critique, remains undiminished. Gothic texts seek to uncover the anxieties and uncertainties that societies would prefer to repress, and then forcing a confrontation with those elements. Frequently this pattern of repression and return takes the form of various kinds of hauntings, as well as the monstrous. As this emphasis on the “return of the repressed” would suggest, psychoanalysis will figure prominently in my analysis of Thompson’s work and is woven throughout the four chapters. Chapter One concentrates on establishing a working definition of the Gothic, its history and development, and the three subcategories of the genre that I will be focusing on in the subsequent chapters: the postmodern Gothic, the feminist Gothic and the Canadian Gothic. All three Gothic subgenres share their affinity for translating late twentieth-century anxieties into the language of the Gothic. They also share a resistance to closure or solutions of any kind, even if such solutions would seem to be advantageous to the author’s putative ideological stance. The works by Thompson I have chosen evidence her preoccupation with postmodern, feminist and contemporary Canadian concerns. She expresses these concerns in a unique style that blends contemporary literary techniques with the more timeless elements of the Gothic tradition.
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Gesellschaftliche Konstruktionen von Geschlecht und Sexualität im Spiegel der Pornografie

Wilke, Bettina. January 2003 (has links)
Freiburg, Univ., Diplomarb., 2003.
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Frauengestalten des Alten Testaments in der bildenden Kunst von 1850 bis 1918: Eva, Dalila, Judith, Salome.

Hatz, Mechthilde, January 1972 (has links)
Inaug.-Diss.--Heidelberg. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 320-327.
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The evolution and transformation of the Judith and Holofernes theme in Italian drama and art before 1627

Capozzi, Frank, January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1975. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 207-226).
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The influence of direct speech on the plot development and characterization in the Book of Judith

Giles, Wendy Pauline January 1995 (has links)
Although the Book of Judith has been thought to reflect a historical situation, this is not necessarily the case, and more recent literary critical studies have provided greater access to its intricacies. Judith contains a number of direct speeches, and direct speech in Hebrew literature in general, influences both plot development and characterization. This thesis is a discussion of how the direct speeches in Judith influence both its plot development and characterization. Since a number of the speeches contain irony, special attention has been given to this literary device.
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Literatura como memória, memórias como literatura: entrecruzamentos do autobiográfico com o ficcional em textos de Judith Grossmann e Virginia Woolf

Pereira, Fernanda Mota 22 February 2013 (has links)
238 f. / Submitted by Cynthia Nascimento (cyngabe@ufba.br) on 2013-02-22T13:08:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Mota Pereira.pdf: 1391988 bytes, checksum: 874efeda2cedf050bf4581ac42d3405f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Valdinéia Ferreira(neiabf@ufba.br) on 2013-02-22T14:59:13Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Mota Pereira.pdf: 1391988 bytes, checksum: 874efeda2cedf050bf4581ac42d3405f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-02-22T14:59:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fernanda Mota Pereira.pdf: 1391988 bytes, checksum: 874efeda2cedf050bf4581ac42d3405f (MD5) / Nesta tese, são tecidas reflexões sobre entrecruzamentos do autobiográfico com o ficcional no horizonte do tema: “literatura como memória, memórias como literatura”, expresso em seu título. O uso da palavra “como” entre os termos literatura e memória(s) simboliza migrações que os marcam, compreendendo, ainda, categorias textuais relacionadas a eles, a saber: a crítica e o arquivo. Migrações que têm sua cena na memória, concebida como um bloco mágico no qual imaginação, devaneios, lembranças, leituras de si e do outro se emaranham,constituindo, criativamente, narrativas literárias, diários, depoimentos, ensaios, artigos e arquivos, que compõem o corpus, aqui investigado, no âmbito da produção intelectual de Virginia Woolf e Judith Grossmann. Em narrativas e outras categorias discursivas eleitas para este estudo, vislumbra-se a representação de sujeitos, cuja tessitura amalgama-se na escrita de seus textos, desmarcando a distinção entre eles por configurarem-se como traços atuantes em grafias de si, presentes, mesmo sob o signo da ausência, nos mais diversos textos – de narrativas escritas em primeira pessoa a escritos nos quais esta não consta –, e por terem como esboço o arquitexto, delineado na memória. Cada uma das categorias discursivas mencionadas foi tratada em um capítulo desta tese, sem, contudo, deixar de trazer à baila as confluências que as atravessam e denotam seus entrelaces, sob o compasso de digressões e redes alusivas da memória. / Universidade Federal da Bahia. Instituto de Letras. Salvador-Ba, 2010.
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Remaking the Mould: Scriptural Types and Anglo-Saxon Heroes in "The Dream of the Rood," "Elene," and "Judith"

Haayema, Erin 11 1900 (has links)
My thesis explores the cultural and gender syncretic processes of Old English literature in three Anglo-Saxon poems: The Dream of the Rood, Elene, and Judith. Throughout my research I attempt to answer the question of syncretism as it is applied to Anglo-Saxon concepts of heroes and heroism in literature. While Old English scholars (including John M. Hill, Hugh Magennis, and Jane Chance) have developed this line of inquiry previously, my work pushes back on several assumptions that hinder their analyses. In particular, I resist the tendency of late 20th-century criticism to dichotomize the Germanic and Christian aspects of the texts, contending that since Latin Christianity was completely indigenized over a hundred years prior to the writing of these poems, it is impossible to discern a pre-Christian set of values and social norms. Instead, I discuss the converging influences of monastic and secular aspects of Anglo-Saxon in relation to the literary hero. I also examine the complex gender dynamics and performances that manifest in these three poems, arguing that the triumphant hero or heroine is able to succeed through a wide-ranging set of both masculine and feminine performances. Here I incorporate a subtle commentary of gender theory — especially Judith Butler’s theory of performativity — to complement my own textual criticism. As this sort of gender syncretism meets with the culturally syncretic writings of the Anglo-Saxon poets, a new and idealized type of hero emerges, one who accomplishes victory through both spiritual and secular, as well and masculine and feminine performances. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA) / This thesis aims to discuss the process and purposes of “remaking” the Anglo-Saxon hero in three Anglo-Saxon poems: The Dream of the Rood, Elene, and Judith. I examine how the poets blend various monastic and secular influences within Christianized Anglo-Saxon culture in order to establish a new and ideal literary hero, one who often resembles spiritual archetypes such as Christ or the Virgin Mary. I also explore the complex gender dynamics that emerge in these poems, and in particular how the protagonist — the hero or heroine — navigates a diverse range of both masculine and feminine performances in order to succeed.
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Recitations: The Critical Foundations of Judith Butler's Rhetoric

Brooks, Christina 11 1900 (has links)
<p> "Recitations: The Critical Foundations of Judith Butler's Rhetoric" explores the textures and patterns in the writing of Judith Butler. Notoriously difficult, Butler's rhetoric has garnered much scholarly and journalistic literature, and yet, to date, there remains no book-length study on this topic. At the same time, Butler scholars have tended to theorize her style as "subversive." Such a defense readily connects with Butler's general effort to contour and challenge the lines of social and cultural intelligibility, lines that deem some identities, especially sexual and racial ones, unacceptable. However, I argue that the framework of "subversion" ultimately reduces some of the generative tensions central to Butler's ideas, which I draw out by focusing on the ambiguity of "recitation."</p> <p> Drawing on cultural and literary theory, particularly at the intersections between poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, and semiology, I reframe Butler's writing through the questions of inheritance, paradigms, and critical alliances. Focused on three major works, I identify and research the thought of her key sources, and so the dissertation doubles as a study of G.W.F. Hegel (Butler's Subjects of Desire (1987), Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault (The Psychic Life of Power (1987), and Emmanuel Levinas (Giving an Account of Oneself(2005). Focusing on the ways that Butler re-articulates and revises the language of these influential writers, I develop a theory of Butler's style of critique that seeks to move discussions of her writing past the notions of "subversion" and "liberation." More broadly, I interpret the ambivalent scenes of identification and disavowal that Butler's writing stages to shed light on problems of modern critical subjectivity, marked by the inheritance of intellectual, social, and cultural structures that may trouble us, but that also form our identities and our relations to others.</p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Kfvinnor äro också människor : Om språk som maktredskap i normaliseringen av kvinnan som politiskt subjekt under rösträttskampen / Women are humans too : A study about language as a tool in the normalization of women as political subjects during the fight for the right to vote

Russell, Sophia January 2017 (has links)
Due to the standards and values that characterized our society through history women have had a hidden place in the historiography. By a qualitative media analysis these values have been analysed to find out how   women with the right to vote moved the values and how they were described in newspapers and magazines.  The study is from Judith Butlers interpretation of how the gender perspective went through a process of normalization. The linguistic dimension of women has been analysed for two reasons firstly to discover how women are described as political subjects in 1911 and 1921 and how this can have affected perceptions of gender and value.  In my study I came to the conclusion that their political interests and achievements most often were overshadowed because of their gender 1911 more than 1921.  During 1921 it was still more important that women were women than men were men. Secondly I have studied how the women through magazines tried to tone down the fact that they were ground breakers. The study resulted in that the women often described their female characteristics in relation to their political relevance to give the reader the impression that femininity and politics belong together. These phenomena showed up more often in magazines than newspapers and were interpreted as these connections between femininity and politics were a part woman’s leverage to get the right to vote. The study contributes to the research of women’s history and a wider understanding for how language and journalism can contribute to perceptions of genus.
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O campo da ambivalência. Poder, sujeito, linguagem e o legado de Michel Foucault na filosofia de Judith Butler / The field of ambivalence Power, subject, language and Michel Foucaults Legacy in the philosophy of Judith Butler.

Torrano, Luisa Helena 13 August 2010 (has links)
Judith Butler é mais conhecida como autora de Gender Trouble, no qual problematiza a maneira pela qual se pensava o gênero até então. A partir daí, ela publica diversas obras nas quais aprofunda e desenvolve sua filosofia, calcada em larga medida em considerações inicialmente propostas por Michel Foucault, partindo de sua noção de um poder produtivo dos sujeitos. Butler investiga os termos que desenham o campo de possibilidade dos sujeitos, desnudando como nossas noções de realidade são informadas pela linguagem, que indica apenas descrever aquilo que efetivamente molda e orquestra, chamando por transformação social e propondo uma ampliação da categoria de humano. / Judith Butler is better known for her best-seller Gender Trouble, that aims at troubling how gender has been thought until then. Afterwards she publishes several works that deepen and further develop her philosophy, largely based on considerations Michel Foucault has originally made, taking into account his idea of a power that positively produces the subjects. Butler inquires the terms that draw the field of possibility of the subjects, unveiling how our notions of reality are informed to us by language, that denotes to merely describe that which it actually frames into existence and orquestrates. She calls for social transformation and proposes an enlargement of the category of human.

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