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Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2012

Jeffrey Eugenides‟ Middlesex can be ascribed to many genres, one of which is the novel of immigration. Mikhail Bakhtin has suggested that each genre, indeed any literary motif, can be defined by its own chronotope, literally “time space,” “the intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships that are artistically expressed in literature.” The essay discusses the chronotope of immigration in Middlesex, and looks at how four specific intersections of time and space, embodied by the four houses inhabited by the Stephanides family, contribute to the unfolding of this particular immigration saga. The four houses can thus be seen to represent the key elements of this novel‟s instance of a chronotope of immigration, which brings up concepts such as assimilation, hybridity and “third space.” The essay also examines the relations of central characters to time, space and each other; the upstairs/downstairs and inside/outside dichotomies within each house providing interesting keys to inter-gender and inter-generational alienation within this chronotope of immigration.

The aim of this thesis was to define what strategies were applied to translate culture-specific items in the novel "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides. The notion of culture, translation and issues of the translatability of culture-specific items; translation strategies and cultural categories were defined. / Šio darbo tikslas - nustatyti kokiomis vertimo strategijomis buvo verčiamos kultūrinės realijos Jeffrey Eugenides romane "Midlseksas". Apibrėžtos kultūros, vertimo sąvokos bei problemos, su kuriomis susiduriama verčiant kultūrines realijas, taip pat vertimo strategijos bei kategorijos, į kurias yra skirstomos realijos.

Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2006. / Thesis advisor: Clayton Penniman. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Biological Sciences." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-74). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2006. / Thesis advisor: Clayton Penniman. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-45). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Der englischsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur widmet sich Ulrike Kohns Beitrag, „‘I was first one thing and then the other‘. Auf der Suche nach der Mitte in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex“, mit dem sich der erste Band der GenderGraduateProjects auch den Queer Studies öffnet. Sein innovativer Anspruch resultiert vor allem aus seiner forschungskritischen Qualität und seinem Charakter als textanalytisch versierter Gegenlektüre zu kritischen Stimmen, wie sie gegen Jeffrey Eugenides' Erfolgsroman Middlesex (2002) in den politisierten Diskussionen um angemessene ästhetische Repräsentationen intersexueller Identitätsentwürfe seit seinem Erscheinen erhoben worden sind. Eine solche gelinge, so der kritische Tenor, dem konventionell binaristischen Roman nicht. Kohns differenzierte literaturwissenschaftliche Analyse des Romans auf der Basis von Gérard Genettes narratologischem Instrumentarium zeigt aber, dass sich Eugenides‘ thematisch und strukturell komplexer, hoch intertextueller Text hinter seiner konservativ-heterosexuellen und männlichen Oberflächenstruktur der grundsätzlichen Problematik, unter dem Diktat binaristischer Epistemik und normativer Limitierungen ʻdas Andere‘ sprachlich je realisieren zu können, immer aufs Neue stellt und hierfür in vielschichtiger Weise Figuren der Spaltung, Transgression, Repetition und des Hybriden setzt. Kohns Lesart verdeutlicht, dass der Roman auf der Ebene der Fiktion mit dem intersexuellen ErzählerProtagonist-Hybriden Cal Stephanides die Modellierung einer intersexuellen Figur und eines positiven Identifikationsraums zwar verfehlt oder verweigert. Indem er in Figuren des Unsagbaren und der Spaltung die Problematik zugleich aber ästhetisch lesbar macht, sensibilisiert er metafiktional für akute Fehlstellen im Umgang mit intersexuellen Menschen und für ihre zwangsläufige Unsichtbarkeit innerhalb eines normativen, exklusiven, binären Systems. Damit erweist sich der Roman – entgegen aller kritischen Stimmen – als kulturkritisch und zeitpolitisch.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1983. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 25).

[Truncated abstract] This thesis examines the social and legal dynamics of support as it operated around women charged before the criminal courts in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century metropolis. It considers the nature and implications of the support made available to, or withheld from, female defendants by individuals to whom they were in some way connected. To this end, it explores the nuances of testimony offered by witnesses and defendants in an attempt to better understand the extent and effect of the support that could be negotiated by and from a range of groups, including family members, fellow household residents, neighbours and wider community members. How narratives were framed in either sympathetic or condemnatory terms was indicative of broader social attitudes and expectations regarding women and crime as well as of women's own relationships to households and neighbourhood. To the extent that this thesis aims to interrogate negotiations of support, it adopts legal narratives as a window through which to gain an insight into the social interactions and mediation of interpersonal relationships by eighteenth-century London women. The printed accounts of trials conducted at the Old Bailey and legal documents from the London and Middlesex Sessions records form the basis of the source material that contributed towards this study. These records provide contemporary narratives in which participants described their involvement in the legal system and articulated their relationships to events and to each other. As a result, they are invaluable for the wealth of qualitative detail they contain. These legal documents have also been complemented by other contemporary sources including newspaper reports and printed pamphlet literature. ... This thesis concludes first that neighbours and fellow household residents were usually in the strongest position to affect the outcome of criminal cases, either by offering assistance or disclosing incriminating information. The importance of household and neighbours rather than kin was closely tied to the domestic context in which many female crimes took place, and the 'insider knowledge' that was gained by living in close proximity to one another. However, if and when women retained links to family and kin who lived within travelling distance, they remained an important source of support. Secondly, the thesis identifies the detection and prosecution of crime as a gendered experience; contemporary social expectations about gender influenced both legal processes and the shaping of witness accounts. Thirdly, in its examination of local responses to female crime, the thesis supports the theory that a notable shift in sentiment towards female nature and legal culpability occurred during this period, which in turn affected the support offered to female defendants. Overall, the thesis demonstrates the paramount importance of witness testimony in articulating the circumstances surrounding female crimes, and the complex negotiations of interpersonal relationships which influenced how this evidence would be contextualised as supportive or not when it was delivered.

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