Stuttgart, Universiẗat, Diss., 2008.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1965. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1975. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 161-175).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1915. / Vita. Published also without thesis note. "List of the plays, novels, romances and ballads": p. 211-229.

Universiẗat, Diss., 2005--Hamburg. / Erscheinungsjahr an der Haupttitelstelle: 2004.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-12-18Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:55:26Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 mesquita_mc_me_assis.pdf: 369808 bytes, checksum: 18ebed3362d72e57b7120e9521fe7209 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho apresenta uma leitura do romance histórico Lealdade (1997), de Márcio Souza, que mostra a trajetória do protagonista Fernando Simões Correia em busca de sua identidade. O enredo relembra episódios do século XIX, na província do Grão-Pará e Rio Negro, quando a região combatia por sua independência. Assim, a luta pela identidade cultural que se estabelece na província dá-se paralelamente àquela do protagonista: ao lado do embate entre a identidade e a alteridade que vemos registrado na narrativa histórica da região, vemos o protagonista pender ora à identificação com o “outro”, ora ao afastamento dele, encarando-o como inimigo. A chegada da Corte portuguesa ao Brasil (1808) e a invasão de Caiena pelo exército português (1809) são fatos históricos que alteram a identificação que o protagonista, nascido em Belém, tem com os portugueses ou com os paraenses. Os procedimentos intertextuais, como aquele estabelecido com a trilogia do escritor gaúcho Érico Veríssimo, por exemplo, são destacados nesta leitura. / This essay presents an analysis of the historical novel Lealdade (1997), written by Marcio Souza, which shows the protagonist Fernando Simões Correia in search of his identity. The plot remembers episodes of the nineteenth century, in the province of Grão-Pará and Rio Negro, when the region was fighting for its independence. Thus, the fight for cultural identity that is established in the province occurs parallely to protagonist’s fight: there is the fight between identity and otherness, recorded in the historical narrative of the region, and a pendulum with the protagonist that sometimes has a identification with the other and sometimes he gets away from him, facing him as an enemy. The arrival of the Portuguese Royal Family to Brazil (1808) and the invasion of the Portuguese Army in Caiena (1809) are historical facts that change the identity of the protagonist, born in Belém-PA, has with the Portuguese or the people who were born in Pará. Intertextual procedures, such as that established with the trilogy of the Brazilian writer Erico Verissimo, for example, are featured in this reading.

This thesis explores the emergence and development of the Iraqi Kurdish novel between 1970 and 2011, aiming to demonstrate that it engages with political discourses, and that the political situation influenced the themes and structural development of the novel. It will seek to elucidate why, when we examine the history of Kurdish literature over the last fifty years, the first point that may attract our attention is its emergence from the political events. Based on this notion the current study has been divided into three historical phases; 1970-1991, 1991-2003 and 2003-2011. A chapter has been dedicated to each stage, examining two novels from each period, one from the Soranî and one from the Behdînî dialect. Chapter Two discusses the historical background of Iraqi Kurdistan and its influence on the emergence of the novel. Chapter One has been allocated to establishing the methodological background of the textual analysis, which has adopted Lucien Goldmann’s genetic structuralist theory. Such a theory, I will argue, proves helpful in order to discover the link between socio-political conditions and the form of literary works within a society, as Goldmann himself tried to do through his theoretical approach. Chapter Six discusses the results of the study. The thesis demonstrates how the political situation has formed the Iraqi Kurdish novel in terms of both formal and thematic structures, examining the notions of both the ’hero’ and the ‘world vision’ in the novels. It explores the reasons behind the dominant tragic world vision in the first stage, the hopeless worldview in the second, and the self-critical vision in the third phase. In addition, it examines the problematic nature of the hero in the novels, from their emergence until 2011.

Women's fight for the franchise in both America and England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was accompanied by scrutiny of women's relationship to the State by those with varying perspectives on the suffrage battle. In the industrial, post-agricultural age, motherhood defined a woman's place in western society, as well as her rights under and service to the State; if the normative role of the male citizen was the soldier, the normative role for women was the mother. Yet for all of the ways an embrace of maternalism limited women's access to the public realm, it also laid the groundwork for the women's movement, and motherhood was often seen as a route to citizenship by those on both sides of the suffrage battle. As women began to re-imagine themselves as enfranchised citizens, many social theorists, politicians, and novelists continued to debate the rights and roles of women across the body of the mother; thinkers as varied as Theodore Roosevelt, H. G. Wells, and Emma Goldman all wrote tracts about motherhood and the future of the nation. Rather than entering the old debates on the value or liability of maternalism for feminism, my dissertation will argue that the modernist period introduced a new and still-overlooked figure: the anarchic mother. In their essays and novels, Goldman, Rebecca West, John Galsworthy, and Virginia Woolf turned away from the emblem of the Republican Mother and toward a radical new figure. Rather than sacrificing her individual needs to the Republic, the anarchic mother's individual pursuit of liberty challenged the authority of the State and its cultural institutions. An important group of modernist novels and essays employs the figure of the mother to represent not tradition and unity but rebellion, separatism, abstention, or statelessness. This undertheorized figure in modernist and feminist thought clarifies Virginia Woolf's call, in Three Guineas, for allegiance to no country. If Woolf and many other artists were ambivalent as they linked motherhood and anarchy, contemporary feminists inherited both the possibilities and contradictions of the anarchic mother as they reexamine women's relationship to citizenship in the 21st century.

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