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1	Walt Whitman's Influence Abroad Boozman, Aileen Paul 08 1900 (has links) This paper is a study of Walt Whitman's influence in England, Northern European countries, Southern Europe, Latin America, and other countries. Literary influence Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Influence.
2	"A blur of potentialities" : the figure of the trickster in the works of Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark Wilkinson, Lorna Christine Rose January 2017 (has links) This thesis explores the figure of the trickster in the works of Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark. By looking at these writers’ treatment of elusive, illusive and allusive characters, the thesis argues that they each incorporated what can be read as “trickster” figures in their fiction as a means of addressing anxieties about art, society and the self. The trickster is a character-type found in narratives from a multitude of cultures and eras, and is typically characterised by his subversive presence, his boundary-crossing and his role as a healer of predicament. While the trickster is often perceived as a universal phenomenon arising from a collective unconscious, this thesis instead focusses on writers’ intentional inclusion of trickster characters in literature as a way of thinking through specific problems. Bowen, it will be shown, interpolated tricksy characters drawn from myth and fairy-tale into her fiction in order to expose a perceived rift between art and academia; Taylor used the trickster to think about the construction of identity in post-war Britain; Murdoch took models from Shakespeare to create tricksters that helped her explore the ethics of writing fiction; and Spark’s tricksters allowed her to conceptualise truth and lies, and good and evil. Concentrating on four mid-century writers whose works have been seen to vary in genre and style, this thesis demonstrates that a trickster paradigm emerged in mid-twentieth-century British fiction – a period not previously associated with the trickster. Influenced by converging strands of trickery and allusion in art through the early decades of the twentieth century, notable mid-century British writers used outsider characters to probe social and artistic shifts in a landscape fractured by war and to reach for a sense of healing. By identifying such characters as trickster figures, this thesis sheds new light on patterns of subversion, healing and character in mid-century fiction. It explores the particular affinity the trickster had with women’s writing, and illustrates how the trickster was important to twentieth-century concerns surrounding metafiction and the role of the reader. 823
3	León de Greiff y la tradición literaria Ramirez Rojas, Marco 25 February 2013 (has links) Dans ma thèse “León de Greiff y la tradición literaria” je fais une étude du concept de « Tradition » dans l’œuvre poétique de l’un des plus importants écrivains colombiens du XXème siècle. Je propose que l’appropriation greiffienne de différents éléments provenant de diverses sources littéraires – comprenant la littérature orientale, la poésie médiévale européenne, la poésie française symboliste –, défie la notion classique du concept de «tradition». Pour De Greiff, celle-ci constitue un espace individuel d’autocréation construit à partir d’affinités esthétiques et philosophiques, et non sur la base d’une continuité chronologique ou une appartenance géographique. L’approche théorique de notre étude se concentre sur les idées de Harold Bloom, T.S. Eliot et Octavio Paz. Sur la base de leurs théories j’ai essayé d’élaborer une définition alternative du concept de la Tradition. -- “León de Greiff y la tradición literaria” examines the particular concept of “tradition” underlying the work of this major XXth century Colombian poet. I contend that the appropriation of several literary and historical sources – ranging from medieval European literature, oriental sources, to the most symbolists French poets – undertaken by De Greiff challenges the classical notion of this idea. I have proposed a reading of this author’s poetry as an attempt to observe tradition as an unrestricted space of individual creation operating through aesthetic and philosophical affinities rather than strict chronological continuity. The theorical approach of my dissertation focuses on the works of Harold Bloom, T.S. Eliot and Octavio Paz. Based on their ideas I have tried to elaborate an alternative definition of the concept of Tradition. León de Greiff Tradición literaria Poesía colombiana Colombian poetry Poésie colombienne Literary tradition Modernismo latinoaméricano Influencia literaria Literary influence Influence littéraire tradition littéraire
4	León de Greiff y la tradición literaria Ramirez Rojas, Marco 25 February 2013 (has links) Dans ma thèse “León de Greiff y la tradición literaria” je fais une étude du concept de « Tradition » dans l’œuvre poétique de l’un des plus importants écrivains colombiens du XXème siècle. Je propose que l’appropriation greiffienne de différents éléments provenant de diverses sources littéraires – comprenant la littérature orientale, la poésie médiévale européenne, la poésie française symboliste –, défie la notion classique du concept de «tradition». Pour De Greiff, celle-ci constitue un espace individuel d’autocréation construit à partir d’affinités esthétiques et philosophiques, et non sur la base d’une continuité chronologique ou une appartenance géographique. L’approche théorique de notre étude se concentre sur les idées de Harold Bloom, T.S. Eliot et Octavio Paz. Sur la base de leurs théories j’ai essayé d’élaborer une définition alternative du concept de la Tradition. -- “León de Greiff y la tradición literaria” examines the particular concept of “tradition” underlying the work of this major XXth century Colombian poet. I contend that the appropriation of several literary and historical sources – ranging from medieval European literature, oriental sources, to the most symbolists French poets – undertaken by De Greiff challenges the classical notion of this idea. I have proposed a reading of this author’s poetry as an attempt to observe tradition as an unrestricted space of individual creation operating through aesthetic and philosophical affinities rather than strict chronological continuity. The theorical approach of my dissertation focuses on the works of Harold Bloom, T.S. Eliot and Octavio Paz. Based on their ideas I have tried to elaborate an alternative definition of the concept of Tradition. León de Greiff Tradición literaria Poesía colombiana Colombian poetry Poésie colombienne Literary tradition Modernismo latinoaméricano Influencia literaria Literary influence Influence littéraire tradition littéraire
5	León de Greiff y la tradición literaria Ramirez Rojas, Marco January 2013 (has links) Dans ma thèse “León de Greiff y la tradición literaria” je fais une étude du concept de « Tradition » dans l’œuvre poétique de l’un des plus importants écrivains colombiens du XXème siècle. Je propose que l’appropriation greiffienne de différents éléments provenant de diverses sources littéraires – comprenant la littérature orientale, la poésie médiévale européenne, la poésie française symboliste –, défie la notion classique du concept de «tradition». Pour De Greiff, celle-ci constitue un espace individuel d’autocréation construit à partir d’affinités esthétiques et philosophiques, et non sur la base d’une continuité chronologique ou une appartenance géographique. L’approche théorique de notre étude se concentre sur les idées de Harold Bloom, T.S. Eliot et Octavio Paz. Sur la base de leurs théories j’ai essayé d’élaborer une définition alternative du concept de la Tradition. -- “León de Greiff y la tradición literaria” examines the particular concept of “tradition” underlying the work of this major XXth century Colombian poet. I contend that the appropriation of several literary and historical sources – ranging from medieval European literature, oriental sources, to the most symbolists French poets – undertaken by De Greiff challenges the classical notion of this idea. I have proposed a reading of this author’s poetry as an attempt to observe tradition as an unrestricted space of individual creation operating through aesthetic and philosophical affinities rather than strict chronological continuity. The theorical approach of my dissertation focuses on the works of Harold Bloom, T.S. Eliot and Octavio Paz. Based on their ideas I have tried to elaborate an alternative definition of the concept of Tradition. León de Greiff Tradición literaria Poesía colombiana Colombian poetry Poésie colombienne Literary tradition Modernismo latinoaméricano Influencia literaria Literary influence Influence littéraire tradition littéraire
6	The representations of masculinities in 1920s American literature: Ernest Hemingway and Willa Cather Moran, Omar Agustin 01 January 2001 (has links) This thesis examines how masculinity is attained through various displays of violence, ambivalence, heterosexuality, and sentimentality in the works of Ernest Hemingway and Willa Cather. Literary Influence asculinity in literature Gender identity in literature American Literature Gender and Sexuality
7	Anti-Romance: How William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” Informed John Keats’s “Lamia” Gonzalez, Shelly S 25 March 2014 (has links) The purpose of this thesis is to analyze John Keats’s “Lamia” and his style of Anti-Romance as informed by William Shakespeare’s own experimentation with Romance and Anti-Romance in “King Lear.” In order to fulfill the purpose of my thesis, I explore both the Romance and the Anti-Romance genres and develop a definition of the latter that is more particular to “King Lear” and “Lamia.” I also look at the source material for both “King Lear” and “Lamia” to see how Shakespeare and Keats were handling the originally Romantic material. Both Shakespeare and Keats altered the original material by subverting the traditional elements of Romance. In conclusion, the thesis suggests that Shakespeare’s Anti-Romance, “King Lear,” and his general reworking of the Romance genre within that play informed Keats’s own experimentation with and deviation from the traditional Romance genre, particularly in “Lamia.” English Literature English Literature Poetry Literary Analysis Anti-Romance Romance William Shakespeare Shakespeare John Keats Keats Keats's Letters King Lear Lamia Sir Philip Sidney Sidney Aesthetic Development Poetic Development Renaissance Romantic Era Drama Classic Literature Intertextuality Literary Influence Literary Development Genre Literary Sources Literary Origins Tradition Experiment Pastoral Anti-Pastoral English Language and Literature Literature in English, British Isles

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