<p>The aim of this study is to analyse the sexual power relations in contemporary urban novels of Swedish female writers.</p><p>I have identified a discourse in these novels as a heteronormative matrix which power is ruled by norms and assumptions about normality in both the heterosexual and lesbian stories. For this purpose I have related to Ivar B. Neumanns theory that individuals always find a way to confront the discourse by three different strategies. These strategies are used in my study as tools to organise these novels, because it is possible to see that the protagonists find at least one of these strategy’s to her protest.</p><p>The first strategy I studied was the docile. Here I argument that the heroines in Alla vilda, Jag minns alla mina älskare och hur de brukade ta på mig, Inte enklare än så, Lögner and Att älska henne do not reject the discourse about sexual power relationships. The second strategy, named the oppositionist, implies the protagonists refusing to be left as victims. In one way or another, either by change the rolls of the sexes (Ta vad man vill ha) or by problematising the order of them (Ego girl) or find lesbianism as a way to reject the discourse (both the novels by Mian Lodalen: Smulklubbens skamlösa systrar and Trekant). The reluctant is the last strat-egy who is the creative one, which rejects some things and adapt to other. Here I place the heroines from Stjärnor utan svindel, Andra sidan Alex and Storlek 37.</p><p>The result of this study is that despite quite different strategies to oppose against the hetero-sexual power discourse and the normative femininity everyone relates to it and thereby con-firms it.</p>

The Native American characters in Love Medicine and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian experience prejudice from other Native Americans and suffer from internalized norms and values. This study examines whether or not the prejudice the fictional characters in Love Medicine and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indianexperience and express as Native Americans unite them as a community or not. It also investigateshow they view white society andif the Native American characters have prejudice against the members of their own tribal community. The analysis is partially based on postcolonial theory and focuses on terms such as internalisation, acculturation and prejudice. The thesis found that the communitiesare united on the premises that they conform to the Native American norms but any deviation from these norms has the potential to divide them.

A tese que aqui se apresenta tem por finalidade proceder à análise crítica do processo de criação dos artistas José Leonilson e Louise Bourgeois. Fazendo uso da metodologia da Literatura Comparada, entendida em termos de investigação do espaço intervalar, pressupõe-se sua eficácia na análise de obras tais como as dos artistas citados, consideradas em função de três elementos principais. São estes a relação entre o processo de criação e a subjetividade; o desenvolvimento de temáticas de ordem afetiva e a elaboração de peças que congregam elementos visuais e verbais. Tomou-se como pressuposto a possibilidade de reflexão a respeito do sentido da produção dos artistas tendo como base a noção de ressonância entre palavras e imagens poéticas, conforme sugerido por Gaston Bachelard. Nesse sentido a tese propõe um aprofundamento do espaço intervalar da Literatura Comparada, identificado na alternância entre aproximação e distanciamento entre imagens. Assim procedeu-se operativamente a um trabalho de análise da obra de Leonilson e Bourgeois de forma associativa, buscando a ressonância do sentido de suas imagens em imagens poéticas e literárias que também refletem sobre a relação entre a subjetividade e o processo de criação, bem como elaboram uma dimensão afetiva. Tais procedimentos, sustentados em estudos críticos sobre a poesia, permitiu delimitar alguns elementos fundamentais para a caracterização do espaço intervalar de criação de Leonilson e Bourgeois. A tese desenvolve-se sobre as noções de gesto poético e imagem poética, as quais permitem caracterizar o espaço de criação dos artistas nos termos de uma paisagem litorânea desenhada pela conversa entre o artista e o outro. Conversa constituída na alternância entre fala e silêncio. / This thesis aims to analyse José Leonilson’s and Louise Bourgeois’ creative processes. The applied methodology relies on the conception of Comparative Literature as analytical enterprise operating in “in-between” spaces. Thus, such methodology, as we try to demonstrate, would be adequate as a critical approach of visual art productions such as elaborated by these artists. We operated having on site three main characteristics of their productions. The first of them is the strong relation between the creative process and the artists’ subjectivity. This was observed also in relation to the emotional thematic developed by the artists’, as much as the relation between verbal and visual elements in their pieces. We further assumed that the elaboration of meaning regarding these artists pieces might be developed with the notion of resonance between words and images, as proposed by Gaston Bachelard. In such sense, the thesis tries to enhance the comparative “in-between” space as the space where images alternatively near and distance themselves from one another. Thus, the analysis of Leonilson’s and Bourgeois’ production operated through the association between their images and those of other poetic and literary pieces which also depict on the relation between the creative process and subjectivity, as much as on the emotional dimension claimed by these artists. Such procedures, sustained by critical studies on poetry as well, enabled us to characterise Leonilson’s and Bourgeois’ creative process as an “inbetween” place. In order to reach this place, the thesis operated on the notions of poetic gesture and of poetic images, which unfold in the identification of the creative process as something of the order of a seaside landscape drawn by the conversation between the artist and the other. A conversation sustained by speech as much as by silence.

This dissertation demonstrates how the rise of historical criticism in Germany transformed practices of reading, writing, and public address in the related fields of classicism and biblical criticism in a transnational context. In the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, writers on both sides of the Atlantic rendered these practices foundational to the goals of self-formation, cultural and spiritual renewal, and educational reform. In this process, Germaine de Staël's De l'Allemagne (1814) played a key role in disseminating new historically informed modes of teaching, preaching, translating, and reconstructing secular and religious texts among Transcendentalists. I show that her cultural study epitomizes crucial characteristics and functions of the historically informed textual practices that Johann Gottfried Herder's works articulated paradigmatically in Germany and which we find refracted in reviews, addresses, essays, and translations by many Antebellum American scholars, especially Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral)--Johan Wolfgang von Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 1976. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-280). Also issued online.

The aim of this study is to analyse the sexual power relations in contemporary urban novels of Swedish female writers. I have identified a discourse in these novels as a heteronormative matrix which power is ruled by norms and assumptions about normality in both the heterosexual and lesbian stories. For this purpose I have related to Ivar B. Neumanns theory that individuals always find a way to confront the discourse by three different strategies. These strategies are used in my study as tools to organise these novels, because it is possible to see that the protagonists find at least one of these strategy’s to her protest. The first strategy I studied was the docile. Here I argument that the heroines in Alla vilda, Jag minns alla mina älskare och hur de brukade ta på mig, Inte enklare än så, Lögner and Att älska henne do not reject the discourse about sexual power relationships. The second strategy, named the oppositionist, implies the protagonists refusing to be left as victims. In one way or another, either by change the rolls of the sexes (Ta vad man vill ha) or by problematising the order of them (Ego girl) or find lesbianism as a way to reject the discourse (both the novels by Mian Lodalen: Smulklubbens skamlösa systrar and Trekant). The reluctant is the last strat-egy who is the creative one, which rejects some things and adapt to other. Here I place the heroines from Stjärnor utan svindel, Andra sidan Alex and Storlek 37. The result of this study is that despite quite different strategies to oppose against the hetero-sexual power discourse and the normative femininity everyone relates to it and thereby con-firms it.

This thesis studies how architecture and planning influence community living through relationships between public spaces, housing, and circulation that focus on stimulating social activities for the betterment of service industry workers’ way of life. Our built environment can not only connect people to one another or to activities or to places, but it can also isolate people. For the service-based populace of Lake Louise, Alberta, isolation is a recurring factor in various aspects of their lives. The design attempts to establish connections between the people and the community, to eradicate the barriers that fragment the community without neglecting the necessity of refuge for the individual.

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral)--Johan Wolfgang von Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 1976. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-280).

Thesis (Master of Arts)--Miami University, Dept. of Mass Communication, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], iv, 63 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 58-63).

Techn. University, Diss., 2002--Braunschweig.