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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Literature, Asian"”.
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Scripting Anxiety/scripting Identity: Indian Mutiny, History, and the Colonial Imaginary, 1857--1911
… over ""homeland"" insecurities as manifested in literature, film, and new media."
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"Desire and Redemption: The Two Worlds in ""Jin Ping Mei"
"With the help of the literary theories of desire and of network, I argue that Jin Ping Mei represents desire as having a network structure. Almost no one depicted in this novel can escape from this network, and the network reproduces itself repeatedly. Using this literary model of a ""network of …
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Overlapping Terrains: Orientalism, Indian Nationalism and the Erotics of Cross -Cultural Contact
"The dissertation explores issues of cross-cultural erotics in twentieth-century narratives set in colonial India. It examines narratives by E. M. Forster, Mircea Eliade, Maitreyi Devi and Rabindranath Tagore, which provide a romance setting for themes of East/West encounter. The necessity of …
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Situation Type, Context Coercion and the Meanings of the Chinese Aspect Marker Le
Three experiments were conducted to obtain empirical evidence for the situation approach: an off-line sentence interpretation test, an off-line sentence naturalness judgment test, and an on-line experiment which used the moving window paradigm to investigate the processing of le in …
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Beyond Belief: Zhou Zuoren's Rationalist Writings and the Chinese Enlightenment
… to attain social progress, and for its using literature as a propaganda tool. Zhou proposed an alternative view of Enlightenment, which is an adherence to this world and to everyday life, a reliance on rational knowledge as the criterion for truth, an unconditional denial of violence, and an …
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Rasa in Indian Aesthetics: Interface of Literature and Sculpture
… contribution of this work to the fields of art, literature, and philosophy are discussed in the concluding section.
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The Horror, the Horror: The Repetition and Compulsion of a Genre
Examining how Chinese filmmakers, through the decades, (re)interpreted The Phantom of the Opera (Julian, 1925) and its source novel, Gaston Leroux's 1910 Le Fantome de L'Opera, in the Ye Ban Ge Sheng series, as well as how Hollywood and Japan borrowed from each other in the Ringu (Nakata, 1998)/The …
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Prisoners of History: Bengali Cultural Nationalists and the Hindu Past
All four authors chosen for this study were prolific writers, and have exerted influence in varying degrees on literary, political and religious trends and movements in Bengal and India. This study is not in any way an attempt to encompass the significance of their careers and influences in their …
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The Empire of Fashion: Taste, Gender, and Nation in Modern Japan
"Following from the work of Henri Lefebvre, I emphasize how the impact of capitalism and the intensification of fashion created a new awareness of the concept of everyday life in modern Japan. I analyze the way in which a peripheral elite disaffected with the government criticized the excessive …
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Reading Violence: Gender, Violence, and *Representation in India and Pakistan (1947--Present)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.
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Discourse and Psyche: Three Women's Texts of Empire
"While the period of the last fifteen years has seen the publication of numerous analyses of women's writing of empire, the study of colonial women's texts has been limited by critics' working within the theoretical framework of complicity and resistance. Rather than exploring the dynamic psychic …
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"Struggles to Become ""Americans"": Historical and Contemporary Experiences of Asian Pacific American Immigrants in Children's and Young Adult Fiction, 1945--1999"
… fiction books were identified as books about Asian Pacific Americans that were published between 1945 and 1999. Although the publishing trends demonstrate an increase in quantity and improvement in quality, the number of books published is extremely insignificant as compared to the several …
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Mysticism in Indian English Poetry (Sri Aurobindo, Puran Singh, Sri Ananda Acharya, Krishnamurti, India)
Defining mysticism as the quest for, and the attainment of, complete self-realization, this dissertation examines the work of four major and nine minor Indian English mystical poets. The study devotes a chapter each to mysticism in the poetry of Sri Ananda Acharya, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Puran Singh, …
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Three Plays by Rabindranath Tagore: Translated, and With an Introduction (Drama, Bengali, India)
… first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1913. The preliminary section delineates the main reasons behind the neglect and misunderstanding that have characterized criticism of Tagore's dramatic output, both in India and in other countries. In an attempt to offer a more …
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Cyborg Bodies, Human Minds: Robert Venditti's The Surrogates, Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita and the Great Myth of Posthumanism
The topic of humans altered and improved through advanced cyborg technology—technology that amalgamates animal and machine—has long been of interest in science fiction, gaining popularity in most Western countries and Japan. This paper examines two graphic novel series, Robert Venditti’s The …
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The myth of a homogeneous speech community: The speech of Japanese women in non-traditional gender roles
The overall objective of this dissertation research was to account for heterogeneous language use closely linked to changes in speakers' social lives and ultimately to provide empirical evidence against a mythical, stereotyped view of Japan as a homogeneous speech community. As the most revealing …
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Aspects of Kejia phonology
This thesis is concerned with four aspects of Kejia phonology: initial consonants, diphthong representations and syllabification, the domain of tone sandhi, and the notion of geminate inalterability. The analysis is in line with the non-linear framework of generative phonology.
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From 'a room of one's own' to 'a room in the home': Discourses of negation in Indian feminist post-colonial fiction of Anita Desai, Mannu Bhandari and Ashapurna Devi
The theoretical writings of many European and American feminists on Third World women and feminism foreground several problems regarding their understanding of Third World women. These problems are being increasingly brought to light by Third World women like, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Gayatri …
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Recovery and translation of zero anaphoric subjects in Chinese
In reading a narrative, it is crucial to know who the writer is referring to. When the subject of each sentence is made explicit, this task of identifying the referent is simple. However, in a discourse-oriented language like Chinese, there is no grammatical requirement to have a subject in each …
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Gao Xingjian and Chinese experimental theatre
This study focuses on the life and works of Gao Xingjian, a leading Chinese experimental dramatist in post-Mao China, and his zealous search for an alternative theatre in the 1980s. Acclaimed by critics both in China and overseas as the Chinese counterpart of European innovators of avant-garde …
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