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 20 of 23 for “"Realist Novel"”.
-
Negotiating Gossip in the Spanish Realist Novel
… device and narrative dynamic in four canonical realist novels of the Spanish Restoration of the 1880s by Emilia Pardo Bazán (Chapter 1), Benito Pérez Galdós (Chapter 2) and Leopoldo Alas (‘Clarín’) (Chapter 3). An Introduction presents a theoretical analysis and framework of chisme, beginning …
-
Refiguring George MacDonald: Science and the Realist Novel
<p>This article analyzes George MacDonald’s realist novels. It looks at how <em>David Elginbrod</em>, <em>Alec Forbes of Howglen</em>, and <em>Lilith </em>engage with scientific discourse and epistemological concerns of the period. These scientific and epistemological dealings include a positive …
-
Theology and the Narrative Form of the Victorian Realist Novel
… that Christian theology informs how Victorian realist novelists understood narrative perspective and the formal strategies used to communicate a narrator’s knowledge. Although the Victorian realist novel has typically been considered a secular form, I challenge this assumption by showing how …
-
‘Violent Emotion’ and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel, 1847–1895
… a poetics of violent emotion looks like in the novel between 1847 and 1895. It shows that for novelists such as Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, the problem of affective expression became a career-long preoccupation, reflected in both their compositional processes …
-
God and the Novel in India
The novel especially the realist novel has been generally understood as a secular, disenchanted form, but the history of the Indian novel complicates this view. A seminal trajectory of realist novels situated in India, by native and non-resident writers alike, presents a perception of God in the …
-
The Realism of George Moore
The problem. The realist novels of George Moore are extremely unlike one another in content and technique. While scholars have studied in detail the French influences in Moore's writing, the question of whether Moore was something more than an imitator of French fiction and whether he contributed …
-
The Counterfactual History Novel in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… has long since established the history novel’s general course, few critical readings of the history novel address the innovative means through which writers could manipulate the use of history within these novels. Nor, for that matter, have many scholars considered the relationship …
-
Being Talked About: Gossip and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… gossip and the development of the British novel over the course of the nineteenth century. Drawing on reevaluations of gossip by sociologists, as well as queer and feminist literary critics, I argue that nineteenth-century novelists rely on gossip in order to convey narrative information …
-
Comparative Analysis of <i>Al-Ard</i> by ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi and the Film by Youssef Chahine: Prison Literature and Collective Memory
… in a derogatory manner. <em>Al-Ard</em>, a 1954 novel<em> </em>by Egyptian author ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi has been described by many literary critics as a nationalist social realist novel that centers the <em>fallah </em>as a political agent. In the 1970s, <em>al-Ard</em> was adapted into a …
-
The Ethics of Collective Knowledge Production: The Individual and Club Membership in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Narrative
The nineteenth-century realist novel offers profound insights into the social processes through which knowledge is constructed. This study views the novel as an experimental forum for interrogating various paths to social incorporation, as the singular protagonist is absorbed into a wider cast of …
-
On the Distinctiveness of the Russian Novel: The Brothers Karamazov and the English Tradition
… rise, formation, and poetics of the Russian novel, many of which are themselves responses (or Russian corollaries) to Ian Watt's study of the rise of the novel in England; and it functions similarly under the assumption that the singularity of the Russian novel is a product of various …
-
Adulterous Nations: Family Politics and National Identity in the European Novel
… heroine of the nineteenth-century European novel as a symbol of national anxieties. The gendering of a nation or a nation-like collectivity as female has a long history, evident in expressions such as ""Mother Earth"" or ""Mother Russia"" and in myths considered foundational to modern …
-
Reading the Restaurant: Social Class, Identity, and the Culture of Consumption in the Nineteenth Century French Novel
… space.</p> <p>Through a close reading of the realist novel as a discourse on daily life, I intertwine cultural history and literary theory to look at some of the critical questions about the nineteenth century restaurant. I examine a sampling of novels in which the restaurant is integral to …
-
Attitudes towards polygamy in select African fiction
… in African communities. The African social-realist novel, especially when it is woman-authored, shows female characters as having to play docile, subservient roles and accept demeaning positions in polygamous marriages. Although it has been claimed that traditional African marriage creates a …
-
'As a Lover' & 'Exploring the Wreck': (Re)creating the lesbian past through historical fiction
CREATIVE COMPONENT <br/>'As a Lover' is a novel about identity, belonging and repression. It tells the story of the impact of the publication and subsequent banning of Radclyffe Hall’s 'The Well of Loneliness' (1928), which is considered to be the first overtly lesbian novel in English. It was …
-
Writing the New Life: Literary Form in the Spiritual Imagination of Middle-Class Ethical Socialism, 1880–1900
… extra-literary reality. In Chapter Two, novelist Olive Schreiner is seen to construct a holistic philosophy from the combination of Emersonian Transcendentalism and Darwinian materialism, formally reflected in the socialistically popular allegories of Dreams (1890). The third chapter …
-
The unhealed wound : Olive Schreiner's expressive art
… section I look at the dominant forms of the novel available to Olive Schreiner. The dominant mode of representation for metropolitan writers was the realist novel and women writers such as George Eliot found it an extremely effective way of articulating their experiences. The other …
-
Uneven Modernities, Uneven Masculinities: Manliness and the Galician Hinterland in the Novels of Emilia Pardo Bazán (1882-1896)
<p>The late-nineteenth-century realist canon in Spain is filled with male characters who are physically weak, effeminate, ineffectual, infantilized, or impotent, and, thus, decidedly "unmanly," which indicates a collective societal anxiety about masculinity in Spain at the end of the nineteenth …
-
Matters of verisimilitude: transitional and transnational realisms in Ireland, 1880-1940
… at odds with the conditions conducive to the realist novel, resulting in half-formed attempts at realism or a stunted naturalism. I argue instead that these narratives reproduce the cultural nationalism and anti-realist prejudices of leading figures of the Revival and do not satisfactorily …
-
Experience on trial: criminal law and the modernist novel
… this thesis argues that the criminal trial and realist novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries perfectly conform to this statement. But by the early twentieth-century, experience had, as Walter Benjamin put it, ‘fallen in value’. As such, the modernist novel and trial come to have …
Page 1 of 2