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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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V.S. Naipaul : A critical study

Pocock, A. J. January 1984 (has links)
No description available.
2

Reading V.S. Naipaul : fiction and history, 1967-1987.

Prescott, Lynda. January 1990 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Open University. BLDSC no. DX93574.
3

Figuring Naipaul : The subject of the postcolonial world

Rao, D. V. January 1988 (has links)
No description available.
4

V. S. Naipaul : "L'énigme de l'arrivée : l'éducation d'un point de vue /

Labaune-Demeule, Florence. January 1900 (has links)
Issu de: Thèse de doctorat--Analyse du discours--Lyon 3, 1999. Titre de soutenance : Analyse des marques stylistiques du point de vue narratif dans deux romans de V. S. Naipaul : "A house for Mr Biswas" et "The enigma of arrival.
5

V.S. Naipaul : homelessness and exiled identity /

Cader, Roshan. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2008. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.
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A critical review of two books by Patrick French, 'The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul' and 'India: A Portrait'

French, Patrick Rollo January 2015 (has links)
This submission for the PhD by Research Publications consists of two published books by Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul (2008) and India: A Portrait (2011). The portfolio is accompanied by a critical review summarising the aims, objectives, methodology, results and conclusions of the books, and showing how they form a coherent body of work and contribute significantly to the expansion of knowledge. The World Is What It Is (2008) is a biography of Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul, positioning him within a Caribbean and early postcolonial literary lineage, despite his ancestral connections to India and his “stateless” claims as a world novelist. India: A Portrait (2011) is a study of Indian politics, economics and society since 1947, told mainly through the stories of individuals from different sections of society, and using historical background to analyse rapid recent social change in the period after economic “liberalization”. The trajectory of the two publications is built around a conviction that individual experience can illuminate a larger period or civilization, and that our ideas of the unfamiliar, whether in the past or in different societies, can often be poorly grounded in the way people perceive themselves. In each case, the books challenge existing notions and use evidence based on detailed research and interviews in the field. In the case of The World Is What It Is, almost none of the archival material used had previously been studied, and in India: A Portrait, subjective one-to-one interviews were supplemented by new original data. For example, a survey was undertaken to determine what proportion of MPs in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, were hereditary: this involved double-sourcing information on the family background of all 545 Indian MPs – and revealed that nepotism was more deeply embedded than had previously been realised. Both books come out of a vision developed during two-and-a-half decades of research into colonial and postcolonial history. The guiding motivation has been to communicate a distinct historical view of the period before and after the end of the global British empire, in particular in South Asia and among its diaspora.
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Furniture and Possessions in <em>A House for Mr. Biswas</em> by V.S. Naipaul

Lind Bonnier, Kerstin January 2009 (has links)
<p>In V.S. Naipaul’s novel <em>A House for Mr. Biswas </em>furniture and possessions are consistently present and their path can be clearly traced, but they are rarely brought to the fore as the central image in the unfolding events of the novel. To borrow a metaphor from movies: the furniture is not the leading actor; the house is. The furniture has a supporting role in the story. This essay explores how the furniture and other possessions in <em>A House for Mr. Biswas </em>underline and illustrate various aspects and themes of the novel from the perspective of what the things in themselves project, what their role is and what they say about the character of Mr. Biswas and his life’s trajectory in the overall colonial context.</p>
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Furniture and Possessions in A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

Lind Bonnier, Kerstin January 2009 (has links)
In V.S. Naipaul’s novel A House for Mr. Biswas furniture and possessions are consistently present and their path can be clearly traced, but they are rarely brought to the fore as the central image in the unfolding events of the novel. To borrow a metaphor from movies: the furniture is not the leading actor; the house is. The furniture has a supporting role in the story. This essay explores how the furniture and other possessions in A House for Mr. Biswas underline and illustrate various aspects and themes of the novel from the perspective of what the things in themselves project, what their role is and what they say about the character of Mr. Biswas and his life’s trajectory in the overall colonial context.
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Une place dans le monde : l'image du home dans l'oeuvre de V.S. Naipaul

Dion-Ortega, Antoine January 2006 (has links) (PDF)
Ce travail a pour objectif de circonscrire, dans l'oeuvre de V.S. Naipaul, une image chère à celui-ci: le home. Nous voulons mettre en valeur l'ambiguité de cette image chez celui-ci. En effet, elle désigne, dans l'oeuvre, tantôt un espace propre et vital, sans lequel le sujet ne serait pas en mesure de « tenir » face aux épreuves du réel, tantôt un lieu imaginaire et factice, symptomatique d'une personnalité schizoïde. Nous respectons dans ce travail l'ambivalence avec laquelle est « traitée » l'image du home. Il s'agira de ne pas négliger l'une ou l'autre des significations que prend alternativement celle-ci. Dans un premier temps, nous établissons un lien entre l'image du home chez Naipaul, et la notion de lieu (place) dans la théorie contemporaine anglo-saxonne. Les auteurs auxquels nous référons interrogent les diverses acceptions que peut prendre le terme de « lieu » en fonction des situations historiques. C'est la valeur de « retraite » accordée au lieu qui retient particulièrement notre attention. Dans le deuxième chapitre, nous mettons à profit les oeuvres de Gaston Bachelard et d'Emmanuel Levinas, qui tous deux ont tenté d'atteindre aux « fondements » de l'habiter. Nous tentons de saisir en quoi leurs réflexions se distinguent nettement de celles des auteurs étudiés dans la première partie. Bachelard et Levinas, grosso modo, ont eu tendance à faire l'apologie du lieu entendu comme « retraite ». Celle-ci, chez ces auteurs, est une condition insigne de l'existence. Nous faisons contraster cette apologie avec quelques romans de Naipaul dans lesquels le home figure avant tout, pour les narrateurs, un objet de détestation. La raison en est simple: chez Naipaul, les narrateurs n'ont le plus souvent pas de maison. Le home devient alors un objet de frustration. Enfin, nous soulignons une certaine tendance, chez l'auteur, à employer le langage clinique lorsqu'il s'agit du home. L'image du « lieu de retraite » est souvent, dans l'oeuvre, traitée comme une formation défensive du sujet. Le home prend ainsi place dans une théorie des défenses, que Naipaul élabore lors de ses voyages en Inde. La « retraite » prend une connotation nettement clinique qui se rapproche de la dissociation. Nous explorons ce que nous appelons la « métaphore clinique » des reportages sur l'Inde. Pour finir, nous montrons que cette « métaphore clinique » est peu à peu abandonnée par l'auteur, qui admet que le home peut être le signe d'une créativité, et non seulement d'une défense.
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Representaties van culturele identiteit in migrantenliteratuur : de Indiase diaspora als case studie /

Speerstra, Uldrik, January 2001 (has links)
Proefschrift--Universiteit Leiden, 2001. / Résumés en anglais et en frison. Bibliogr. p. 275-288.

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