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'Berlin Alexanderplatz' in Context: Alfred Doeblin's Literary Practice
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Among the Modernist Ruins: British Writing and the Architecture of the State
<p>Long before “modernism” achieved currency as a literary term, a striking number of British authors turned to what had already been termed “modernist” in architecture to make sense of the modern movement in literature. In modern architects' ultra-visible ability to destroy the forms of tradition, …
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these americas: Black and Indigenous Poetics Exhausting the Human
… and methodologies to examine lineages of poetic practice in the Americas through their interrelated literary, historical, material, spiritual, and social contexts of production, circulation, and reception in a hemispheric framework. In this I cast the Americas as a meeting place wherein its …
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"What's the Use of Trying to Read Shakespeare?": Modes of Memory in Virginia Woolf's Fiction and Essays
… Woolf’s writing is intended as an interactive practice of cultural memory, challenging her readers to become responders and to engage critically with the canon. I further argue that Woolf offers herself as inheritor of a literary practice that actively seeks to shape the values and social …
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The Poetics of Liminality and the Politics of English Literary Culture, 1635-1700
… by the concrete and not the metaphorical, or so literary history has often told us. "The Poetics of Liminality" tells a different story. By calling attention to themes and forms of in-between-ness in literature spanning the 1630s to the 1690s, this study sets forth a view of seventeenth-century …
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Embodying Identity: Representations of the Body in Welsh Writing in English
… and historically aware accounts of Welsh literary practice. Most importantly, however, this thesis offers a new and radical contribution to the rapidly expanding critical literature on Wales concerned with exploring the construction of identity in a Welsh cultural context. While the need …
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梁放文学作品中的人道关怀 = THE HUMANITARIAN CONCERN EXPRESSED IN LIANG FANG'S LITERARY WRITINGS
… which have been highly recommended by eminent literary reviewer not only in Malaysia, but also from other countries, such as Huang Wanhua, Zhou Jing Bo from China and Zheng Ming Li from Taiwan. Liang Fang had written many interesting stories, he showed his cares and compassion on the people who …
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The conjured drawings of Carlo Scarpa: a magic-real inquiry into architectural representation
… on a close examination of Carlo Scarpa's drawing practices at the Brion cemetery located in San Vito d'Altivole, Italy. Informed by the literary practice of magic-realism and Massimo Bontempelli's thoughts on the ontology of the real, it projects Scarpa's drawing practices into larger questions of …
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Towards a Phenomenology of Literary Language: Wyndham Lewis and the Expressions of Being
… is to transcend the academic orthodoxies of literary scholarship to restore the reader to their rightful place as the subject of Wyndham Lewis’s writing. As a case study for a phenomenological approach to literary theory rooted in an exploration of the phenomenological potentialities of …
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The Forgotten Trope: Metonymy in Poetic Action
This thesis seeks to advance literary theory and in particular the theory of poetic language by developing a theory of metonymy as a literary trope. After a critical assessment of available views on metonymy, the first part of the thesis sets out to explore and analyse the aesthetic status, …
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The image of human condition: Sidney’s Arcadia and the Conflicts of Virtue
… have often found between Sidney’s theory and literary practice. Like the Philippists, peculiarly open to the ideas of humanist scholarship, Sidney draws his philosophical precepts from an eclectic mix of sources. These various strands of philosophical, political and theological thought are …
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Perspectivas sobre intelectualidades negras baianas nas ausências e presenças na Festa Literária Internacional de Cachoeira
… black intellectuals within the International Literary Festival of Cachoeira (FLICA) in the years 2011, 2012 and 2013, from the reading of the registration forms that the event's organization sends to the Federal Government's Fazcultura project. Bahian intellectual production is seen in this …
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An ecofeminist creation : how Poor Things rewrites and re-animates Frankenstein
… subverts historical myth with fictional fact (or literary certainties, such as Victor Frankenstein producing the Creature). Poor Things' continual disruption of notions of truth and reality constitutes a postmodern novel that questions any concrete conclusions and problematizes the notion of …
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Viewing Zimbabwean literature through an Africana womanist lens: a critical reading of selected texts to investigate Charles Mungoshi’s treatment of African women in Ndiko Kupindana Kwamazuwa and Waiting for the Rain
… research contributes an Afrocentric focus to literary practice in the expanding Africana womanist literature through its use in literary fiction about Black women.
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"A sea that had no shores" : the fiction of Violet Trefusis in relation to V. Sackville-West and V. Woolf
… The research focuses, in Chapter Three, on the literary relationship sustained by Sackville-West, Woolf, and Trefusis which produced an, up to now unexplored, intertextual space where Challenge (1919), Orlando (1928) and Broderie Anglaise (1935) are interwoven. The apprehension of androgyny is …
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Los campos literario y de poder en el virreinato del Perú: Los escritos de Juan del Valle y Caviedes (1645-1697)
… satiric writer in the viceroyalty of Peru. His literary career is a crucial contribution to the Peruvian literary field of the 17th century and poses a particular interest regarding the relationship between the literary field and the field of power. My research focuses on Caviedes’ position in …
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Agency and its Discontents: Nationalism and Gender in the Work of Pakistani Women
… tropes.The central concern is how these complex literary interventions figure across a hegemonic nationalist historiography which refuses to grant them a representational space. My project views the literary practice of these women authors in terms of what is at stake when their varied and …
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Prose for art's sake: creating and documenting an American aesthetic, 1810 - 1860
… arts to query how American authors defined literary practice with respect to developing dialogues on visual aesthetics. I argue that when American authors cultivated professional and interpersonal connections with American painters and sculptors, they did so not because they envisioned their …
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Rewriting Christina Rossetti : cross-gendered sibling rivalry, fraternal intervention and the counter-poetics of dissidence
… are gendered. I employ the tools of feminist literary practice and new historicism in order to reveal the extent to which the treatment of Rossetti both by her brothers and various critics, has reflected patriarchal pressures and strictures. Primary manuscripts, some unpublished, or published …
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Scenes of Reading: Forgotten Antebellum Readers, Self-Representation, and the Transatlantic Reprint Industry
… people participated in transatlantic antebellum literary culture in a far more central and sophisticated manner than has been assumed. Employing "scenes" of reading--self-representations of what, where, how, and why African Americans and the white working classes read--as primary texts, this …
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