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11	Lady Libertines, Female Fops, and Lady Julia Fulbank: Aphra Behn's Extraordinary Female Characters. Amundsen, Sarah Audine 16 June 2011 (has links) (PDF) Aphra Behn has, throughout her life and subsequent years, been both demonized as a writer of bawdy and licentious plays and poetry as well as being hailed as the forerunner of female writers. She was a woman writing in a man's world, and not only survived the experience, but was exceptionally successful in her efforts. While so little is known about her background, the numerous plays she has left behind demonstrate a skilled author in many forms, as well as a creative and innovative storyteller. This thesis will examine how Behn used the traditional theatrical forms of the time and created dynamic female characters that were quite unique in their own ways. Stock characters were a standard in Restoration comedies, and she used these types to make significantly stronger female characters than those portrayed by her contemporary male playwrights. I will examine and compare her female libertines to the traditional male libertines in the plays The Rover or The Banish't Cavaliers and The Feign'd Curtizans or A Night's Intrigue. Following this, I will describe how her female fop in Sir Patient Fancy is so much superior to the customary male fop. The succeeding chapter will examine Lady Julia Fulbank from The Luckey Chance or An Alderman's Bargain and demonstrates how Behn was able to move outside of the traditional types of characters expected in these plays to create an entirely new character that has no counterpart in any Restoration play. Behn used the forms and tools available to her to create much more independent and dominant female characters than those expected in the genre. She created a voice for women, and the voice strongly declared that women were as capable, if not more so, than men. Aphra Behn libertines cuckolds restoration theatre Film and Media Studies Theatre and Performance Studies
12	Sexuality, aesthetics, and punishment in the libertine novel Gómez, Elena-Juliette. Faulk, Barry J. January 2004 (has links) Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2004. / Advisor: Dr. Barry Faulk, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Jan. 18, 2005). Includes bibliographical references.
13	La mort du libertin agonie d'une identité romanesque / Michel, Ludovic January 1993 (has links) Mémoire de maîtrise : Lettres : Lille III : 1992. / Bibliogr. p. 173-178.
14	Libertines Real and Fictional in Rochester, Shadwell, Wycherley, and Boswell Smith, Victoria 05 1900 (has links) Libertines Real and Fictional in Rochester, Shadwell, Wycherley, and Boswell examines the Restoration and eighteenth-century libertine figure as it appears in John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester's Satyr against Mankind, "The Maim'd Debauchee," and "Upon His Drinking a Bowl," Thomas Shadwell's The Libertine, William Wycherley's The Country Wife, and James Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763. I argue that the limitations and self-contradictions of standard definitions of libertinism and the ways in which libertine protagonists and libertinism in general function as critiques of libertinism. Moreover, libertine protagonists and poetic personae reinterpret libertinism to accommodate their personal agendas and in doing so, satirize the idea of libertinism itself and identify the problematization of "libertinism" as a category of gender and social identity. That is, these libertines misinterpret-often deliberately-Hobbes to justify their opposition and refusal to obey social institutions-e.g., eventually marrying and engaging in a monogamous relationship with one's wife-as well as their endorsement of obedience to nature or sense, which can include embracing a libertine lifestyle in which one engages in sexual encounters with multiple partners, refuses marriage, and questions the existence of God or at least distrusts any sort of organized religion. Since any attempts to define the word "libertinism"-or at least any attempts to provide a standard definition of the word-are tenuous at best, it is equally tenuous to suggest that any libertines conform to conventional or standard libertinism. In fact, the literary and "real life" libertines in this study not only fail to conform to such definitions of libertinism, but also reinterpret libertinism. While all these libertines do possess similar characteristics-namely affluence, insatiable sexual appetites, and a rebellion against institutional authorities (the Church, reason, government, family, and marriage)-they often misinterpret libertinism, reason, and Hobbesian philosophy. Furthermore, they all choose different, unique ways to oppose patriarchal, social authorities. These aberrant ways of rebelling against social institutions and their redefinitions of libertinism, I argue, make them self-satirists and self-conscious critics of libertinism as a concept. libertinism Libertine Hobbes Rochester Shadwell Wycherley Boswell Libertines in literature. Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692. Libertine.
15	Pier Vittorio Tondelli: Letteratura Minore e Scrittura dell'Impegno Sociale Gastaldi, Sciltian 20 March 2014 (has links) Abstract This thesis illustrates the social engagement in the literary writings of Pier Vittorio Tondelli, an Italian gay author whose works have been described by many Catholic, Materialists, and gay critics as frivolous and disengaged. The dissertation summarizes the mutation of the Italian literary concept of impegno from Neorealism to Postmodernism, through a selection of the texts of Elio Vittorini, Italo Calvino, Franco Fortini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Leonardo Sciascia, and Umberto Eco. It shows how Tondelli’s interpretation of the role of the writer falls within the definitions given by Calvino and Eco. Moreover, the thesis demonstrates that Altri libertini and Pao Pao satisfy the characteristics of littérature mineure established by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, though Tondelli’s oeuvre is socially engaged instead of being politically engaged because of his lack of a political ideology. The dissertation highlights the core of Tondelli’s social commitment in his passionate defense of the outcasts in: Altri libertini where drug addicts, homosexuals, transsexuals, and bums are the protagonists; Pao Pao where a group of gay soldiers is described in its grotesque and camp attempt to “homosexualize” their barrack; Rimini where the Riviera Adriatica is portrayed as a place where everyone passes by and no one belongs; Camere separate through the love story of a gay couple in which one partner has to survive his lover’s death, due to an illness that is demonstrated in this thesis to be AIDS, while fighting against the homophobia of their families, institutions, society, and religion. Most of Tondelli’s socially excluded characters are introduced to the reader through an internal homodiegetic point of view. Another important component of Tondelli’s impegno is his open defense of both pop-culture and counter-cultures: gay, hippies, rockers, experimental theatre, street artists and alternative radio, which are central in all his writings. Pier Vittorio Tondelli Italian Literature Gay Literature 20th Century Italian Literature Minor Literature Engagement Social Engagement Camp Gay Studies Queer Studies Queer Theory Literary Criticism Impegno Elio Vittorini Impegno e letteratura Impegno e intellettuali Pier Paolo Pasolini Italo Calvino Franco Fortini Leonardo Sciascia Umberto Eco Alberto Arbasino Letteratura del XX secolo Letteratura italiana contemporanea Impegno sociale Letteratura minore Critica letteraria Letteratura del '900 Antonio Gramsci Homophobia Gender Studies Omofobia AIDS Literature HIV Literature Commitment Homoerotic Literature Separate Rooms Camere separate Other Libertines Altri libertini Dinnery Party Rimini Pao Pao Il diario del soldato Acci Correggio Reggio Emilia Narratori delle pianure Emilia Romagna Italia Italy Jesuit School Gesuiti Catholicism Cattolicesimo Beat Literature Pop Literature Noir Postmodernismo Postmoderno Postmodern Postmodernism Federico Fellini Eugenio Bolongaro Gary Cestaro Antonio Spadaro Fulvio Panzeri Religione Religion Pop Culture Mass Culture 1977 DAMS Bologna Movimento del '77 Michel Foucault Esther Newton 0298 0313 0401 0291 0318
16	Pier Vittorio Tondelli: Letteratura Minore e Scrittura dell'Impegno Sociale Gastaldi, Sciltian 20 March 2014 (has links) Abstract This thesis illustrates the social engagement in the literary writings of Pier Vittorio Tondelli, an Italian gay author whose works have been described by many Catholic, Materialists, and gay critics as frivolous and disengaged. The dissertation summarizes the mutation of the Italian literary concept of impegno from Neorealism to Postmodernism, through a selection of the texts of Elio Vittorini, Italo Calvino, Franco Fortini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Leonardo Sciascia, and Umberto Eco. It shows how Tondelli’s interpretation of the role of the writer falls within the definitions given by Calvino and Eco. Moreover, the thesis demonstrates that Altri libertini and Pao Pao satisfy the characteristics of littérature mineure established by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, though Tondelli’s oeuvre is socially engaged instead of being politically engaged because of his lack of a political ideology. The dissertation highlights the core of Tondelli’s social commitment in his passionate defense of the outcasts in: Altri libertini where drug addicts, homosexuals, transsexuals, and bums are the protagonists; Pao Pao where a group of gay soldiers is described in its grotesque and camp attempt to “homosexualize” their barrack; Rimini where the Riviera Adriatica is portrayed as a place where everyone passes by and no one belongs; Camere separate through the love story of a gay couple in which one partner has to survive his lover’s death, due to an illness that is demonstrated in this thesis to be AIDS, while fighting against the homophobia of their families, institutions, society, and religion. Most of Tondelli’s socially excluded characters are introduced to the reader through an internal homodiegetic point of view. Another important component of Tondelli’s impegno is his open defense of both pop-culture and counter-cultures: gay, hippies, rockers, experimental theatre, street artists and alternative radio, which are central in all his writings. Pier Vittorio Tondelli Italian Literature Gay Literature 20th Century Italian Literature Minor Literature Engagement Social Engagement Camp Gay Studies Queer Studies Queer Theory Literary Criticism Impegno Elio Vittorini Impegno e letteratura Impegno e intellettuali Pier Paolo Pasolini Italo Calvino Franco Fortini Leonardo Sciascia Umberto Eco Alberto Arbasino Letteratura del XX secolo Letteratura italiana contemporanea Impegno sociale Letteratura minore Critica letteraria Letteratura del '900 Antonio Gramsci Homophobia Gender Studies Omofobia AIDS Literature HIV Literature Commitment Homoerotic Literature Separate Rooms Camere separate Other Libertines Altri libertini Dinnery Party Rimini Pao Pao Il diario del soldato Acci Correggio Reggio Emilia Narratori delle pianure Emilia Romagna Italia Italy Jesuit School Gesuiti Catholicism Cattolicesimo Beat Literature Pop Literature Noir Postmodernismo Postmoderno Postmodern Postmodernism Federico Fellini Eugenio Bolongaro Gary Cestaro Antonio Spadaro Fulvio Panzeri Religione Religion Pop Culture Mass Culture 1977 DAMS Bologna Movimento del '77 Michel Foucault Esther Newton 0298 0313 0401 0291 0318

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