Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Consciousness in literature."”.
-
Reading Consciousness: Analyzing Literature through William James' Stream of Thought Theory
Proceeding from the assumption that psychoanalytic theory has yielded insightful literary interpretations, I propose that equally legitimate readings result from analyzing consciousness in literature. William James' "Stream of Thought" offers a psychological theory of consciousness from which I …
-
Iris Murdoch's genealogy of the modern self : retrieving consciousness beyond the linguistic turn.
In this dissertation I argue that Murdoch's philosophical-ethical project is best understood as an anti-Enlightenment genealogical narrative. I maintain that her work consistently displays four fundamental features that typify genealogical accounts: 1) liberation (i.e., subversion) from a dominant …
-
The Hindu concept of pure consciousness in the poetry of pure consciousness in the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rabindranath Tagore, and W. B. Yeats: a comparative study
<p>This dissertation presents a study of the Hindu concept of pure consciousness in the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rabindranath Tagore, and W. B. Yeats. The main emphasis of the study is on affinities and influences—a product of shared values, contacts and cross-fertilizations. The poetry of …
-
The Little Weird: Self and Consciousness in Contemporary, Small-press, Speculative Fiction
… speculative fiction deviates from other genres in depicting the processes of consciousness in narrative. I study how the confluence of contemporary cognitive theory and experimental, small-press, speculative fiction has produced a new narrative mode, one wherein literature portrays not the …