Thesis (Th. M.)--Grace Theological Seminary, 1985. / Abstract. Bibliography: leaves 121-146.

Thesis--Cologne. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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À la fin des années 70, lorsqu’on commence à s’interroger autour des changements historico-politiques qui intéressent les deux “moitiés” de l’Europe, la crise du bloc communiste et la fin des idéologies, la référence à la Modernité est inévitable : on discute la crise de la modernité, d’une modernité inaccomplie ou accomplie. Comment est-ce que le paradigme littéraire change en cette “période de mutation”? Comment s’exprime dans la littérature contemporaine la recherche du sens? On assiste, dans le panorama littéraire, au retour du sujet et du besoin anthropologique de la narration, à la fonction du narrateur comme témoin et médiateur d’histoires d’autrui. À travers la narration de récits de vie, des destins “fragmentés”, des biographies réinventées, on peut remarquer l’intention de ressusciter des “marginalia”, des traces oubliées par l’Histoire : on essaie de donner un sens à une vie ou de saisir une vie par le sens, de représenter la quête d’un centre métaphysique par le personnage qui revit le conflit et la dissociation entre “âme et forme”. Ce sont des récits de filiations, ils narrent des relations père-fils, de l’histoire de la faute et de l’origine du pouvoir, mais aussi des vies marginales, des traces de l’histoire et du rôle du narrateur en tant que témoin. Les auteurs ont recours au mythe : on s’interrogera alors sur le sens nouveau de la représentation du mythe dans ces récits en tant qu’interprétation allégorique du contemporain et d’une relation nouvelle au temps ; on questionnera son utilisation en tant qu’allégorie vide et énigmatique. / In the late 70s, when one begins to wonder about the historical and political changes regarding the two “halves” of Europe, the crisis of the communist bloc and the end of ideology, the reference to Modernity is inevitable: the crisis of modernity is discussed – a modernity accomplished or unaccomplished. How does the literary paradigm change in this “time of mutation”? How is it expressed the search for meaning in the contemporary literature? We are the witnesses, in the literary scene, of the subject’s return and of the anthropological need of narration (the function of the narrator as a mediator of others’ stories). Through the narration of life stories, “fragmented” destinies, reinvented biographies, we can see the intention of resurrecting the “marginalia”, the traces forgotten by history: we try to give meaning to a life or to grasp a life by meaning, we try to represent the quest for a metaphysical centre through the character reliving the conflict and the dissociation between “soul and forms”. The authors use the myth: we will ask the new meaning of the representation of myth in these stories as an allegorical interpretation of contemporary and a new relationship to time; we will question its use as empty and enigmatic allegory.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2005. / Completed at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 281-293).

This dissertation examines the lives and material production of the early modern women known as the Nuns of Little Gidding, Mary Collett Ferrar (1603-1680) and Anna Collett (1605-1639). The religious community at Little Gidding, Huntingsonshire (now Cambridgeshire), founded in 1626 by Mary Woodnoth Ferrar and her son Nicholas, housed forty-some members of the extended Ferrar, Collet, and Mapletoft family and their retainers. They devoted their lives to prayer, Bible study and memorization, contemplation, acts of charity, and the production of several unique Bible concordances or harmonies (as well as some Bible histories) of which fifteen are extant. Women were central to the spiritual life of the community, in particular, Mary and Anna who took vows of chastity. They were also the primary creators of the concordances, a task that entailed cutting up printed Bibles, reorganizing the text according to a complex scheme devised by Nicholas Ferrar. The resulting harmonized Gospel suppressed the discrepancies and differences in the four canonical accounts and produced a single, seamless narrative that preserved every detail of the originals. Close study of the relationship between image and text in the Gospel harmonies shows that the women sometimes chose particular images not to illustrate but rather to undermine the authority of the biblical narrative. Images might restore women to an account that minimizes, trivializes, or elides their importance in the life of Jesus. Thus, while their explicit task was to harmonize the Gospel accounts, the women were surreptitiously "deconstructing" them to reveal their discord.

Since its 1605 quarto publication, Ben Jonson's Sejanus has inspired much critical commentary. Although criticism credits Jonson with a compositorial role in the Quarto's production, critics continue to assess its marginalia as a defense against application or a scholarly pretense. Editors have pared down the marginalia, setting them as footnotes or endnotes; others have relegated them to appendices; still others have abandoned them entirely. Neither critics nor editors have weighed Jonson's marginalia beside the dramatic text they inform. Reading the Quarto Sejanus as a composite of margins and centre, within its bibliographical, theoretical, and literary contexts, shows it to be a learned study in emergent theories of historiography. In its innovations, the composite redresses the inefficacies of contemporary historians and editors. To understand Sejanus's textual interactions. the opening chapter examines tbe quarto itself. In each feature of its composition - from its title page, through its prefatory epistle, laudatory poems, and argument, to its very mise-en-page - the Quarto Sejanus declares itself the learnedly innovative product of long labour, and demands to be read as such. Chapter 2 considers the impact upon Renaissance historiographers of historiographic models, ranging from Gildas Sapiens to North's Plutarch, and theoretic models, from the Florentine to the Polybian. The composite Sejanus is innovatively Polybian in its comprehensive attention to human cause and circumstance. Sejanus' historiographic claims are tested against Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Chapter 3 begins the process of investigating Sejanus's bibliographical innovations. The investigation begins with the reception of the scholarly text in 1605 through three interdependent early-modern practices - margination. education, and reading - to show that, having no conception of supplemenlarity, the Renaissance reader read the whole page. Chapter 4 produces something afthe Quarto Sejanus's bibliographical context through two contemporary marginated texts - Matthew Gwinne's Latin drama Nero and Sir John Harington's translation of Orlalldo Furioso. Chapter 5 tests my claims to the Quarto Sejanus's bibliographical innovation within the context created in Chapter 4. The Quarto's composite fonn transcends the limits of the text to a degree unmatched by its dramatic or historiographic contemporaries, allowing Jonson to model right and ill-reasoned action through psychologically realized characters within vividly historicized events. / Graduate

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This thesis introduces the study of inmate marginalia as a method for understanding inmates’ uses of texts in prison libraries and for understanding the motivations for these uses. Marginalia are the notes, drawings, underlining, and other markings left by readers in the texts with which they interact. I use the examples of the Talmudic projects to set a precedent for the integration of marginal discourses into the central discourse of society. Next, I discuss the arguments surrounding the use of texts in prison libraries, including an outline for an ideal study of inmate marginalia. Finally, I discuss the findings of my on-site research at four prison libraries in Washington State. After scanning evidence of marginalia from forty-eight texts, a relatively small sample, I divided the marginalia by gender of facility, genre of text, address of the marginalia, and type of marginalia and found statistically significant correlations (p < 0.05) between gender and genre, gender and address, gender and type, and genre and type. However, while these correlations are statistically weak and require further investigation, the statistically significant correlations indicate the potential for integrating inmate marginalia studies into the scholarly discussions regarding inmates’ interactions with texts in prison.

O objeto deste trabalho consiste na transcrição, classificação e análise da marginália de Mário de Andrade (1893-1945) na poesia do romantismo brasileiro. A pesquisa dedicou-se ao estudo das notas de margem apostas pelo escritor modernista nas obras de Gonçalves Dias, Álvares de Azevedo, Casimiro de Abreu, Fagundes Varela e Castro Alves conservadas em sua biblioteca. Como paratextos, as notas vinculam-se a diferentes projetos de crítica do romantismo, inacabados ou concluídos para publicação, assim como revelam matrizes do poeta e ficcionista. Pode-se afirmar que o estudo do autor de Macunaíma sobre os \"cinco grandes românticos\" nasce na marginália, nutre notas de trabalho, esboços e planos no arquivo - nos dossiês Amor e medo, Castro Alves e Artigos por escrever - e chega às versões publicadas - \"Álvares de Azevedo I e II\", \"Mosqueiro nº 2\", \"Álvares de Azevedo I, II e III\", \"Momento\", \"Amor e medo\" e \"Castro Alves\" - sem que os textos éditos esgotem a reflexão original. / This study consists of the transcription, classification and analysis of Mário de Andrade\'s marginalia (1893-1945) on Brazilian romantic poetry. The research has been focused on studying the notes made by the Brazilian modernist writer and critic on the books of Gonçalves Dias, Álvares de Azevedo, Casimiro de Abreu, Fagundes Varela and Castro Alves, all of which are part of his personal library kept in IEB-USP. Considered as paratexts, the notes relate to different projects - either finished or unfinished - of studying Brazilian Romanticism, as well as reveal sources for the poet and novelist. It is possible to affirm that Mário de Andrade\'s study of the \"five grand romantics\" is born in the marginalia, nourishes notes, sketches and plans in his archives - manuscripts Amor e medo, Castro Alves and Artigos por escrever - and turns into the published versions of his works - \"Álvares de Azevedo I e II\", \"Mosqueiro nº 2\", \"Álvares de Azevedo I, II e III\", \"Momento\", \"Amor e medo\" and \"Castro Alves\" - without exhausting the original material.