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Jackson, Andrew.
Goethe and the nobility as characterisation and presentation of self.
Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6964/ 
► Goethe had a complex and evolving relationship with the nobility, for reasons which can in part be inferred from his biography. This thesis, however, is…
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▼ Goethe had a complex and evolving relationship with the nobility, for reasons which can in part be inferred from his biography. This thesis, however, is primarily concerned with examination of relevant texts, and is largely confined to the years before the journey to Italy in 1786. The first three chapters cover the period before his arrival in Weimar. This is followed by an account of the relevant works from the first Weimar decade (1775-1786), with some biographical detail. The main weight has fallen on Wilhelm Meisters theatralische Sendung, a text which is still sometimes undervalued, and has a rather limited bibliography. It is naturally a more direct reflection of his social attitudes than the three major plays associated with the decade, which however have been given separate, more cursory treatments in the three final chapters. General themes include the emergence of Goethe from immature, or at least inherited, stereotypes of the nobility, first towards an attempted alliance between it and the ‘Genie’ of the Sturm und Drang, and then to a more detailed critique made possible by personal experience. The final phase (final, that is, within the limited time frame) was the formation and development of an internal ideal of nobility with an increasingly tenuous relationship with social and political reality. Goethe’s picture of nobility as performance and presentation of self is considered, and its links, for the non-noble author, with theatre and theatrical role performance. Other recurring themes include court manners and their value, both inherently and as an analogue of the heightening which for Goethe was essential to art, court life as a paradigm of social life in general, and the related subject of flight from society.
Subjects/Keywords: PN0080 Criticism; PT Germanic literature
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Jackson, A. (2015). Goethe and the nobility as characterisation and presentation of self. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6964/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Jackson, Andrew. “Goethe and the nobility as characterisation and presentation of self.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6964/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Jackson, Andrew. “Goethe and the nobility as characterisation and presentation of self.” 2015. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Jackson A. Goethe and the nobility as characterisation and presentation of self. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2015. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6964/.
Council of Science Editors:
Jackson A. Goethe and the nobility as characterisation and presentation of self. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2015. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6964/
University of Glasgow
2.
McLennan, Alistair.
Monstrosity in Old English and Old Icelandic literature.
Degree: PhD, 2010, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2287/
;
http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.525528
► Thesis Abstract. The purpose of this thesis is to examine Old English and Old Icelandic literary examples of monstrosity from a modern theoretical perspective. I…
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▼ Thesis Abstract. The purpose of this thesis is to examine Old English and Old Icelandic literary examples of monstrosity from a modern theoretical perspective. I examine the processes of monstrous change by which humans can become identified as monsters, focusing on the role played by social and religious pressures. In the first chapter, I outline the aspects of monster theory and medieval thought relevant to the role of society in shaping identity, and the ways in which anti-societal behaviour is identified with monsters and with monstrous change. Chapter two deals more specifically with Old English and Old Icelandic social and religious beliefs as they relate to human and monstrous identity. I also consider the application of generic monster terms in Old English and Old Icelandic. Chapters three to six offer readings of humans and monsters in Old English and Old Icelandic literary texts in cases where a transformation from human to monster occurs or is blocked. Chapter three focuses on Grendel and Heremod in Beowulf and the ways in which extreme forms of anti-societal behaviour are associated with monsters. In chapter four I discuss the influence of religious beliefs and secular behaviour in the context of the transformation of humans into the undead in the Íslendingasögur. In chapter five I consider outlaws and the extent to which criminality can result in monstrous change. I demonstrate that only in the most extreme instances is any question of an outlaw’s humanity raised. Even then, the degree of sympathy or admiration evoked by such legendary outlaws as Grettir, Gísli and Hörðr means that though they are ambiguous in life, they may be redeemed in death. The final chapter explores the threats to human identity represented by the wilderness, with specific references to Guthlac A, Andreas and Bárðar saga and the impact of Christianity on the identity of humans and monsters. I demonstrate that analysis of the social and religious issues in Old English and Old Icelandic literary sources permits nuanced readings of monsters and monstrosity which in turn enriches understanding of the texts in their entirety.
Subjects/Keywords: 800; PD Germanic languages; PT Germanic literature
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McLennan, A. (2010). Monstrosity in Old English and Old Icelandic literature. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2287/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.525528
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
McLennan, Alistair. “Monstrosity in Old English and Old Icelandic literature.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2287/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.525528.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
McLennan, Alistair. “Monstrosity in Old English and Old Icelandic literature.” 2010. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
McLennan A. Monstrosity in Old English and Old Icelandic literature. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2010. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2287/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.525528.
Council of Science Editors:
McLennan A. Monstrosity in Old English and Old Icelandic literature. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2010. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2287/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.525528
University of Glasgow
3.
Chambers, Helen E.
Supernatural and irrational elements in the works of Theodor Fontane.
Degree: PhD, 1977, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5328/
► The purpose of this thesis is to examine in the fictional works of Theodor Fontane, the ironic realist, those elements which may be appropriately termed…
(more)
▼ The purpose of this thesis is to examine in the fictional works of Theodor Fontane, the ironic realist, those elements which may be appropriately termed supernatural or irrational. While noting these elements, previous studies have usually singled out individual themes or motifs in selected works. This is an attempt to examine in detail
the full range of such irrational material which, at first sight, would seem incongruous and alien in the context of novels celebrated for their representation of social reality.
The central supernatural motifs under consideration are ghosts and fairy-tales; irrational concepts examined include fate and predestination, with the attendant themes of grace, prophecy, premonition and omen, together with the closely allied concepts of superstition and religion, and the motif of the character with elemental affinities.
A more or less chronological approach has been adopted, in order to
bring out the progression or development in the employment of the material; although the novels have, on occasion, been arranged in groups (Chapters IV-VII) in order to facilitate a comparative study, The section on the fictional works is preceded by an examination of the Wanderunven durch die Mark Brandenburg and autobiographical works, as possible sources of supernatural and irrational motifs and themes.
The study reveals a complex range of functions performed by the elements under examination, and a degree of progression can be discerned.
Broadly speaking, irrational and supernatural material is presented indirectly in the novels, through the perception or utterances of the characters, and the references become more oblique in the later novels.
The irrational material can be seen, in many cases, to be fundamental to the structural development of the work in question, and whereas in earlier works the irrationally contrived structure is often obtrusive, in later
novels, such as Effi Briest, the integration of these elements with more realistic aspects of motivation and structure is complete.
Supernatural
elements which appear in Vor dem Sturm (Chapter III) and the
crime stories (Chapter IV) as directly experienced phenomena recur in the early social novels (Chapter V) solely in conversational contexts. Supernatural references scarcely figure in the later Berlin novels (Chapter VI), which explore social themes other than marital discord.
They re-emerge, however, in Unwiederbringlich and Effi Briest (Chapter VII), where disharmony in marriage is again a central theme. Fairy tale imagery, at first invoked to symbolise ideal or alluring feminine qualities, later serves to deny the validity of the idyll in modern life.
In Der Stechlin (Chapter VIII), where the majority of irrational and supernatural elements recur in a conciliatory and reflective context, their conventional functions have been largely superseded, but their continued presence confirms that they are essential features of Fontane's
expressive diction, and it is in his final novel that the elemental figure finds her most developed and…
Subjects/Keywords: PT Germanic literature
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Chambers, H. E. (1977). Supernatural and irrational elements in the works of Theodor Fontane. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5328/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Chambers, Helen E. “Supernatural and irrational elements in the works of Theodor Fontane.” 1977. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5328/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Chambers, Helen E. “Supernatural and irrational elements in the works of Theodor Fontane.” 1977. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Chambers HE. Supernatural and irrational elements in the works of Theodor Fontane. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 1977. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5328/.
Council of Science Editors:
Chambers HE. Supernatural and irrational elements in the works of Theodor Fontane. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 1977. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5328/
University of Glasgow
4.
McLennan, Alistair.
Monstrosity in Old English and Old Icelandic literature.
Degree: PhD, 2010, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2287/
► Thesis Abstract. The purpose of this thesis is to examine Old English and Old Icelandic literary examples of monstrosity from a modern theoretical perspective. I…
(more)
▼ Thesis Abstract.
The purpose of this thesis is to examine Old English and Old Icelandic literary examples of monstrosity from a modern theoretical perspective. I examine the processes of
monstrous change by which humans can become identified as monsters, focusing on the role played by social and religious pressures.
In the first chapter, I outline the aspects of monster theory and medieval thought relevant to the role of society in shaping identity, and the ways in which anti-societal behaviour is identified with monsters and with monstrous change. Chapter two deals more specifically
with Old English and Old Icelandic social and religious beliefs as they relate to human and monstrous identity. I also consider the application of generic monster terms in Old English and Old Icelandic.
Chapters three to six offer readings of humans and monsters in Old English and Old Icelandic literary texts in cases where a transformation from human to monster occurs or
is blocked. Chapter three focuses on Grendel and Heremod in Beowulf and the ways in which extreme forms of anti-societal behaviour are associated with monsters. In chapter four I discuss the influence of religious beliefs and secular behaviour in the context of the
transformation of humans into the undead in the Íslendingasögur. In chapter five I consider outlaws and the extent to which criminality can result in monstrous change. I demonstrate that only in the most extreme instances is any question of an outlaw’s humanity raised. Even then, the degree of sympathy or admiration evoked by such
legendary outlaws as Grettir, Gísli and Hörðr means that though they are ambiguous in life, they may be redeemed in death.
The final chapter explores the threats to human identity represented by the wilderness, with specific references to Guthlac A, Andreas and Bárðar saga and the impact of
Christianity on the identity of humans and monsters. I demonstrate that analysis of the social and religious issues in Old English and Old Icelandic literary sources permits nuanced readings of monsters and monstrosity which in turn enriches understanding of the texts in their entirety.
Subjects/Keywords: PD Germanic languages; PT Germanic literature
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McLennan, A. (2010). Monstrosity in Old English and Old Icelandic literature. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2287/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
McLennan, Alistair. “Monstrosity in Old English and Old Icelandic literature.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2287/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
McLennan, Alistair. “Monstrosity in Old English and Old Icelandic literature.” 2010. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
McLennan A. Monstrosity in Old English and Old Icelandic literature. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2010. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2287/.
Council of Science Editors:
McLennan A. Monstrosity in Old English and Old Icelandic literature. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2010. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2287/
University of Glasgow
5.
Jackson, Andrew.
Goethe and the nobility as characterisation and presentation of self.
Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6964/
;
http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.679553
► Goethe had a complex and evolving relationship with the nobility, for reasons which can in part be inferred from his biography. This thesis, however, is…
(more)
▼ Goethe had a complex and evolving relationship with the nobility, for reasons which can in part be inferred from his biography. This thesis, however, is primarily concerned with examination of relevant texts, and is largely confined to the years before the journey to Italy in 1786. The first three chapters cover the period before his arrival in Weimar. This is followed by an account of the relevant works from the first Weimar decade (1775-1786), with some biographical detail. The main weight has fallen on Wilhelm Meisters theatralische Sendung, a text which is still sometimes undervalued, and has a rather limited bibliography. It is naturally a more direct reflection of his social attitudes than the three major plays associated with the decade, which however have been given separate, more cursory treatments in the three final chapters. General themes include the emergence of Goethe from immature, or at least inherited, stereotypes of the nobility, first towards an attempted alliance between it and the ‘Genie’ of the Sturm und Drang, and then to a more detailed critique made possible by personal experience. The final phase (final, that is, within the limited time frame) was the formation and development of an internal ideal of nobility with an increasingly tenuous relationship with social and political reality. Goethe’s picture of nobility as performance and presentation of self is considered, and its links, for the non-noble author, with theatre and theatrical role performance. Other recurring themes include court manners and their value, both inherently and as an analogue of the heightening which for Goethe was essential to art, court life as a paradigm of social life in general, and the related subject of flight from society.
Subjects/Keywords: 831; PN0080 Criticism; PT Germanic literature
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Jackson, A. (2015). Goethe and the nobility as characterisation and presentation of self. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6964/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.679553
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Jackson, Andrew. “Goethe and the nobility as characterisation and presentation of self.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6964/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.679553.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Jackson, Andrew. “Goethe and the nobility as characterisation and presentation of self.” 2015. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Jackson A. Goethe and the nobility as characterisation and presentation of self. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2015. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6964/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.679553.
Council of Science Editors:
Jackson A. Goethe and the nobility as characterisation and presentation of self. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2015. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6964/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.679553
University of Glasgow
6.
Mackenzie, Colin Peter.
Vernacular psychologies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English.
Degree: PhD, 2014, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5290/
;
http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616434
► This thesis examines the vernacular psychology presented in Old Norse-Icelandic texts. It focuses on the concept 'hugr', generally rendered in English as ‘mind, soul, spirit’,…
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▼ This thesis examines the vernacular psychology presented in Old Norse-Icelandic texts. It focuses on the concept 'hugr', generally rendered in English as ‘mind, soul, spirit’, and explores the conceptual relationships between emotion, cognition and the body. It argues that despite broad similarities, Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English vernacular psychology differ more than has previously been acknowledged. Furthermore, it shows that the psychology of Old Norse-Icelandic has less in common with its circumpolar neighbours than proposed by advocates of Old Norse-Icelandic shamanism. The thesis offers a fresh interpretation of Old Norse-Icelandic psychology which does not rely on cross-cultural evidence from other Germanic or circumpolar traditions. In particular, I demonstrate that emotion and cognition were not conceived of ‘hydraulically’ as was the case in Old English, and that 'hugr' was not thought to leave the body either in animal form or as a person’s breath. I show that Old Norse-Icelandic psychology differs from the Old English tradition, and argue that the Old English psychological model is a specific elaboration of the shared psychological inheritance of Germanic whose origins require further study. These differences between the two languages have implications for the study of psychological concepts in Proto-Germanic, as I argue that there are fewer semantic components which can be reliably reconstructed for the common ancestor of the North and West Germanic languages. As a whole, the thesis applies insights from cross-cultural linguistics and psychology in order to show how Old Norse-Icelandic psychological concepts differ not only from contemporary Germanic and circumpolar traditions but also from the Present Day English concepts used to describe them. The thesis comprises four chapters and conclusion. Chapter 1 introduces the field of study and presents the methodologies and sources used. It introduces the range of cross-cultural variety in psychological concepts, and places Old Norse-Icelandic 'hugr' and its Old English analogue 'mōd' in a typological perspective. Chapter 2 reviews previous approaches to early Germanic psychology and introduces the major strand of research that forms the background to this study: Lockett’s (2011) proposal that Old English vernacular psychology operated in terms of a ‘hydraulic model’, where the 'mōd' would literally boil and seethe within a person’s chest in response to strong emotions. Chapter 3 outlines the native Old Norse-Icelandic psychological model by examining indigenously produced vernacular texts. It looks first at the claims that 'hugr' could leave the body in animal form or as a person’s breath. It then describes the relationship between emotion, cognition and the body in Old Norse-Icelandic texts and contrasts this with the Old English system. Chapter 4 examines the foreign influences which could potentially account for the differences between the Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic systems. It looks first at the imported medical traditions which were known…
Subjects/Keywords: 839; P Philology. Linguistics; PD Germanic languages; PT Germanic literature
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Mackenzie, C. P. (2014). Vernacular psychologies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5290/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616434
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mackenzie, Colin Peter. “Vernacular psychologies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5290/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616434.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mackenzie, Colin Peter. “Vernacular psychologies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English.” 2014. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Mackenzie CP. Vernacular psychologies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2014. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5290/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616434.
Council of Science Editors:
Mackenzie CP. Vernacular psychologies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2014. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5290/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616434
University of Glasgow
7.
Chambers, Helen E.
Supernatural and irrational elements in the works of Theodor Fontane.
Degree: 1977, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5328/
;
http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.451059
► The purpose of this thesis is to examine in the fictional works of Theodor Fontane, the ironic realist, those elements which may be appropriately termed…
(more)
▼ The purpose of this thesis is to examine in the fictional works of Theodor Fontane, the ironic realist, those elements which may be appropriately termed supernatural or irrational. While noting these elements, previous studies have usually singled out individual themes or motifs in selected works. This is an attempt to examine in detail the full range of such irrational material which, at first sight, would seem incongruous and alien in the context of novels celebrated for their representation of social reality. The central supernatural motifs under consideration are ghosts and fairy-tales; irrational concepts examined include fate and predestination, with the attendant themes of grace, prophecy, premonition and omen, together with the closely allied concepts of superstition and religion, and the motif of the character with elemental affinities. A more or less chronological approach has been adopted, in order to bring out the progression or development in the employment of the material; although the novels have, on occasion, been arranged in groups (Chapters IV-VII) in order to facilitate a comparative study, The section on the fictional works is preceded by an examination of the Wanderunven durch die Mark Brandenburg and autobiographical works, as possible sources of supernatural and irrational motifs and themes. The study reveals a complex range of functions performed by the elements under examination, and a degree of progression can be discerned. Broadly speaking, irrational and supernatural material is presented indirectly in the novels, through the perception or utterances of the characters, and the references become more oblique in the later novels. The irrational material can be seen, in many cases, to be fundamental to the structural development of the work in question, and whereas in earlier works the irrationally contrived structure is often obtrusive, in later novels, such as Effi Briest, the integration of these elements with more realistic aspects of motivation and structure is complete. Supernatural elements which appear in Vor dem Sturm (Chapter III) and the crime stories (Chapter IV) as directly experienced phenomena recur in the early social novels (Chapter V) solely in conversational contexts. Supernatural references scarcely figure in the later Berlin novels (Chapter VI), which explore social themes other than marital discord. They re-emerge, however, in Unwiederbringlich and Effi Briest (Chapter VII), where disharmony in marriage is again a central theme. Fairy tale imagery, at first invoked to symbolise ideal or alluring feminine qualities, later serves to deny the validity of the idyll in modern life. In Der Stechlin (Chapter VIII), where the majority of irrational and supernatural elements recur in a conciliatory and reflective context, their conventional functions have been largely superseded, but their continued presence confirms that they are essential features of Fontane's expressive diction, and it is in his final novel that the elemental figure finds her most developed and enigmatic form,…
Subjects/Keywords: 830; PT Germanic literature
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APA (6th Edition):
Chambers, H. E. (1977). Supernatural and irrational elements in the works of Theodor Fontane. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5328/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.451059
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Chambers, Helen E. “Supernatural and irrational elements in the works of Theodor Fontane.” 1977. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5328/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.451059.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Chambers, Helen E. “Supernatural and irrational elements in the works of Theodor Fontane.” 1977. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Chambers HE. Supernatural and irrational elements in the works of Theodor Fontane. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 1977. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5328/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.451059.
Council of Science Editors:
Chambers HE. Supernatural and irrational elements in the works of Theodor Fontane. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 1977. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5328/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.451059
University of Glasgow
8.
Leslie, Laura.
Adorno as the devil in Mann’s 'Doctor Faustus': aspects of modernism in music, literature and critique.
Degree: 2014, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5233/
► Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus is considered to be one of the most important works of literature produced in the twentieth century. It is a study…
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▼ Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus is considered to be one of the most important works of literature produced in the twentieth century. It is a study of music, of genius, of culture and of the political and aesthetic crises of modernism, centring on the nefarious pact the main character, a composer, makes with the devil. This diabolical figure is fundamental to any critical analysis of Faustus, and for many scholars the devil has become synonymous with the philosophical works of Mann’s collaborator on this project, the German philosopher and social theorist Theodor W. Adorno. The image of Adorno as the Devil has continued to fascinate scholars in the decades since the publication of Mann’s novel, resulting in a wide range of critical and interpretive responses. This dissertation will explore aspects of the works of both men, seeking to reveal the importance of Doctor Faustus, Philosophy of Modern Music and Aesthetic Theory as expressions of the crises of modernity, using Jean-François Lyotard’s essay Adorno as the Devil to illustrate the continued relevance of these works to discourses concerning the future of art and philosophy.
Subjects/Keywords: BH Aesthetics; ML Literature of music; PT Germanic literature
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Leslie, L. (2014). Adorno as the devil in Mann’s 'Doctor Faustus': aspects of modernism in music, literature and critique. (Thesis). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5233/
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Leslie, Laura. “Adorno as the devil in Mann’s 'Doctor Faustus': aspects of modernism in music, literature and critique.” 2014. Thesis, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5233/.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Leslie, Laura. “Adorno as the devil in Mann’s 'Doctor Faustus': aspects of modernism in music, literature and critique.” 2014. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Leslie L. Adorno as the devil in Mann’s 'Doctor Faustus': aspects of modernism in music, literature and critique. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Glasgow; 2014. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5233/.
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Leslie L. Adorno as the devil in Mann’s 'Doctor Faustus': aspects of modernism in music, literature and critique. [Thesis]. University of Glasgow; 2014. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5233/
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University of Glasgow
9.
Mackenzie, Colin Peter.
Vernacular psychologies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English.
Degree: PhD, 2014, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5290/
► This thesis examines the vernacular psychology presented in Old Norse-Icelandic texts. It focuses on the concept 'hugr', generally rendered in English as ‘mind, soul, spirit’,…
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▼ This thesis examines the vernacular psychology presented in Old Norse-Icelandic texts. It focuses on the concept 'hugr', generally rendered in English as ‘mind, soul, spirit’, and explores the conceptual relationships between emotion, cognition and the body. It argues that despite broad similarities, Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English vernacular psychology differ more than has previously been acknowledged. Furthermore, it shows that the psychology of Old Norse-Icelandic has less in common with its circumpolar neighbours than proposed by advocates of Old Norse-Icelandic shamanism. The thesis offers a fresh interpretation of Old Norse-Icelandic psychology which does not rely on cross-cultural evidence from other Germanic or circumpolar traditions. In particular, I demonstrate that emotion and cognition were not conceived of ‘hydraulically’ as was the case in Old English, and that 'hugr' was not thought to leave the body either in animal form or as a person’s breath. I show that Old Norse-Icelandic psychology differs from the Old English tradition, and argue that the Old English psychological model is a specific elaboration of the shared psychological inheritance of Germanic whose origins require further study. These differences between the two languages have implications for the study of psychological concepts in Proto-Germanic, as I argue that there are fewer semantic components which can be reliably reconstructed for the common ancestor of the North and West Germanic languages. As a whole, the thesis applies insights from cross-cultural linguistics and psychology in order to show how Old Norse-Icelandic psychological concepts differ not only from contemporary Germanic and circumpolar traditions but also from the Present Day English concepts used to describe them. The thesis comprises four chapters and conclusion. Chapter 1 introduces the field of study and presents the methodologies and sources used. It introduces the range of cross-cultural variety in psychological concepts, and places Old Norse-Icelandic 'hugr' and its Old English analogue 'mōd' in a typological perspective. Chapter 2 reviews previous approaches to early Germanic psychology and introduces the major strand of research that forms the background to this study: Lockett’s (2011) proposal that Old English vernacular psychology operated in terms of a ‘hydraulic model’, where the 'mōd' would literally boil and seethe within a person’s chest in response to strong emotions. Chapter 3 outlines the native Old Norse-Icelandic psychological model by examining indigenously produced vernacular texts. It looks first at the claims that 'hugr' could leave the body in animal form or as a person’s breath. It then describes the relationship between emotion, cognition and the body in Old Norse-Icelandic texts and contrasts this with the Old English system. Chapter 4 examines the foreign influences which could potentially account for the differences between the Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic systems. It looks first at the imported medical traditions which were known…
Subjects/Keywords: P Philology. Linguistics; PD Germanic languages; PT Germanic literature
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Mackenzie, C. P. (2014). Vernacular psychologies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5290/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mackenzie, Colin Peter. “Vernacular psychologies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5290/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mackenzie, Colin Peter. “Vernacular psychologies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English.” 2014. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Mackenzie CP. Vernacular psychologies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2014. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5290/.
Council of Science Editors:
Mackenzie CP. Vernacular psychologies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2014. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5290/
University of Glasgow
10.
Denison, Stephanie Susan.
The function of self-awareness in selected novellen by Theodor Storm.
Degree: PhD, 1998, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1745/
Abstract available: p. [2]
Subjects/Keywords: PT Germanic literature; PN0080 Criticism
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Denison, S. S. (1998). The function of self-awareness in selected novellen by Theodor Storm. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1745/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Denison, Stephanie Susan. “The function of self-awareness in selected novellen by Theodor Storm.” 1998. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1745/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Denison, Stephanie Susan. “The function of self-awareness in selected novellen by Theodor Storm.” 1998. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Denison SS. The function of self-awareness in selected novellen by Theodor Storm. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 1998. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1745/.
Council of Science Editors:
Denison SS. The function of self-awareness in selected novellen by Theodor Storm. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 1998. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1745/
University of Glasgow
11.
Rambo-Hood, Markee H.
What a difficult task it is for music to fulfil the demands of an epic theatre: a discussion of the role of epic music in Bertolt Brecht's plays.
Degree: 2009, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2298/
► Music is an essential component of theatre. Music was crucial for the early Greek plays, to the height of Italian opera and up to our…
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▼ Music is an essential component of theatre. Music was crucial for the early Greek plays, to the height of Italian opera and up to our current theatre. The writer and director Bertolt Brecht recognized the impact music had in the theatre and incorporated music into his extensive Epic Theatre theories. At the same time though, I have encountered discontinuity between Theatre and Music Studies, as the two rarely overlap. In this thesis I look to ascertain the exact role that music plays within Brecht’s Epic Theatre theories. I will also discuss if Brecht’s theories operate in the same format for all of my case studies and lastly, I will conclude if Brecht’s theories were static or if they developed over time. With this I hope to determine if Brecht’s Epic Music is an achievable theatrical device. To do this, I will first define Epic Theatre and Epic Music. From this I will formulate a structure against which to place the plays The Threepenny Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930) and The Mother (1932). I will then analyse my three case studies against this structure to determine how the music functions within each play. From this point I aim to determine the exact role that music plays within Brecht’s theories in order to give proper weight and significance to an essential component of Epic Theatre and to determine if Epic Music is a viable theory.
Subjects/Keywords: BH Aesthetics; PT Germanic literature; ML Literature of music
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Rambo-Hood, M. H. (2009). What a difficult task it is for music to fulfil the demands of an epic theatre: a discussion of the role of epic music in Bertolt Brecht's plays. (Thesis). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2298/
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Rambo-Hood, Markee H. “What a difficult task it is for music to fulfil the demands of an epic theatre: a discussion of the role of epic music in Bertolt Brecht's plays.” 2009. Thesis, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2298/.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Rambo-Hood, Markee H. “What a difficult task it is for music to fulfil the demands of an epic theatre: a discussion of the role of epic music in Bertolt Brecht's plays.” 2009. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Rambo-Hood MH. What a difficult task it is for music to fulfil the demands of an epic theatre: a discussion of the role of epic music in Bertolt Brecht's plays. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Glasgow; 2009. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2298/.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Rambo-Hood MH. What a difficult task it is for music to fulfil the demands of an epic theatre: a discussion of the role of epic music in Bertolt Brecht's plays. [Thesis]. University of Glasgow; 2009. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2298/
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Glasgow
12.
Denison, Stephanie Susan.
The function of self-awareness in selected novellen by Theodor Storm.
Degree: PhD, 1998, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1745/
;
http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325258
Subjects/Keywords: 800; PT Germanic literature; PN0080 Criticism
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Denison, S. S. (1998). The function of self-awareness in selected novellen by Theodor Storm. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1745/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325258
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Denison, Stephanie Susan. “The function of self-awareness in selected novellen by Theodor Storm.” 1998. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1745/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325258.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Denison, Stephanie Susan. “The function of self-awareness in selected novellen by Theodor Storm.” 1998. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Denison SS. The function of self-awareness in selected novellen by Theodor Storm. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 1998. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1745/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325258.
Council of Science Editors:
Denison SS. The function of self-awareness in selected novellen by Theodor Storm. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 1998. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1745/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325258
University of Glasgow
13.
Allan, Shona Millar.
"Das Lebend'ge will ich preisen" : from Ästhetik to Humanität : a comparative study of Byron and Goethe with special reference to Don Juan and the West-östlicher Divan.
Degree: PhD, 1999, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1185/
► This comparative study of Byron and Goethe seeks to explore the idea that there may be a far more fundamental similarity between the mode of…
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▼ This comparative study of Byron and Goethe seeks to explore the idea that there may be a far more fundamental similarity between the mode of writing of these two poets than has been noted to date. Although there has been, and continues to be, much written about each poet individually there has been little produced on the two poets considered together since the first half of the 20th century - the biographical coincidences and the influence of Goethe's Faust on Byron's Manfred having been exhausted.
The initial chapter of this thesis examines this debate before proceeding, in Chapters 2 and 3, to an examination, first of all Goethe's reception of Byron as revealed in his letters, journals, conversations and reviews and then, similarly, to Byron's reception of Goethe. Suspecting that the uniquely aesthetic, vital quality of Byron's and Goethe's poetry may well be the common factor in both, it is an exploration of this 'particularity' that provides the focus in Chapter 4. Having established that there is a fundamental link between Goethe and Byron in their views about art, aesthetics and the function of poetry, it is to close textual analysis of the West-östlicher Divan and Don Juan that I turn in Chapter 5. This close examination illuminates these connections better than any purely theoretical analysis could, and thus appropriately supports Goethe's and Byron's view that the only way to express the particular is precisely through the particular.
Subjects/Keywords: PT Germanic literature; PR English literature
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Allan, S. M. (1999). "Das Lebend'ge will ich preisen" : from Ästhetik to Humanität : a comparative study of Byron and Goethe with special reference to Don Juan and the West-östlicher Divan. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1185/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Allan, Shona Millar. “"Das Lebend'ge will ich preisen" : from Ästhetik to Humanität : a comparative study of Byron and Goethe with special reference to Don Juan and the West-östlicher Divan.” 1999. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1185/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Allan, Shona Millar. “"Das Lebend'ge will ich preisen" : from Ästhetik to Humanität : a comparative study of Byron and Goethe with special reference to Don Juan and the West-östlicher Divan.” 1999. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Allan SM. "Das Lebend'ge will ich preisen" : from Ästhetik to Humanität : a comparative study of Byron and Goethe with special reference to Don Juan and the West-östlicher Divan. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 1999. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1185/.
Council of Science Editors:
Allan SM. "Das Lebend'ge will ich preisen" : from Ästhetik to Humanität : a comparative study of Byron and Goethe with special reference to Don Juan and the West-östlicher Divan. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 1999. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1185/
University of Glasgow
14.
Allan, Shona Millar.
"Das Lebend'ge will ich preisen" : from Ästhetik to Humanität : a comparative study of Byron and Goethe with special reference to Don Juan and the West-östlicher Divan.
Degree: 1999, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1185/
;
http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.513054
► This comparative study of Byron and Goethe seeks to explore the idea that there may be a far more fundamental similarity between the mode of…
(more)
▼ This comparative study of Byron and Goethe seeks to explore the idea that there may be a far more fundamental similarity between the mode of writing of these two poets than has been noted to date. Although there has been, and continues to be, much written about each poet individually there has been little produced on the two poets considered together since the first half of the 20th century - the biographical coincidences and the influence of Goethe's Faust on Byron's Manfred having been exhausted. The initial chapter of this thesis examines this debate before proceeding, in Chapters 2 and 3, to an examination, first of all Goethe's reception of Byron as revealed in his letters, journals, conversations and reviews and then, similarly, to Byron's reception of Goethe. Suspecting that the uniquely aesthetic, vital quality of Byron's and Goethe's poetry may well be the common factor in both, it is an exploration of this 'particularity' that provides the focus in Chapter 4. Having established that there is a fundamental link between Goethe and Byron in their views about art, aesthetics and the function of poetry, it is to close textual analysis of the West-östlicher Divan and Don Juan that I turn in Chapter 5. This close examination illuminates these connections better than any purely theoretical analysis could, and thus appropriately supports Goethe's and Byron's view that the only way to express the particular is precisely through the particular.
Subjects/Keywords: 800; PT Germanic literature : PR English literature
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Allan, S. M. (1999). "Das Lebend'ge will ich preisen" : from Ästhetik to Humanität : a comparative study of Byron and Goethe with special reference to Don Juan and the West-östlicher Divan. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1185/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.513054
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Allan, Shona Millar. “"Das Lebend'ge will ich preisen" : from Ästhetik to Humanität : a comparative study of Byron and Goethe with special reference to Don Juan and the West-östlicher Divan.” 1999. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1185/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.513054.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Allan, Shona Millar. “"Das Lebend'ge will ich preisen" : from Ästhetik to Humanität : a comparative study of Byron and Goethe with special reference to Don Juan and the West-östlicher Divan.” 1999. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Allan SM. "Das Lebend'ge will ich preisen" : from Ästhetik to Humanität : a comparative study of Byron and Goethe with special reference to Don Juan and the West-östlicher Divan. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 1999. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1185/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.513054.
Council of Science Editors:
Allan SM. "Das Lebend'ge will ich preisen" : from Ästhetik to Humanität : a comparative study of Byron and Goethe with special reference to Don Juan and the West-östlicher Divan. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 1999. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1185/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.513054
University of Glasgow
15.
Docherty, Vincent John.
The reception of Heimito von Doderer as exemplified by the critics' response to Ein Mord den jeder Bericht and Die Merowinger.
Degree: PhD, 1984, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5324/
► The primary impulse for this dissertation was the striking disparity between the initial critical reaction to Doderer's works in the 1950s and early 1960s, and…
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▼ The primary impulse for this dissertation was the striking disparity
between the initial critical reaction to Doderer's works in the 1950s
and early 1960s, and the long-term evaluation of his literary stature •
.In the Introduction, an outline of the theoretical foundations of
the study is followed by a brief survey of the academic criticism devoted
to Doderer. This survey attempts to establish whether the 'new beginning'
in Doderer criticism inspired in the mid-1970s by Anton Reininger
and Hans Joachim Schroder has succeeded in clearing the way for a more
balanced approach to Doderer's work. The survey reveals, however, that
recent Doderer criticism has seen an alarming increase of interest in
Doderer the man, as opposed to Doderer the writer.
Chapter One is devoted to the reception accorded to Doderer's Ein
Mord den jeder begeht. The critical reaction to Doderer's novel can be
directly linked to suggestions made by his publishers in their 'Verlags- . prospekt' as to how the novel ought to be read, namely as anything but
a detective novel. A detailed examination of Doderer's use of motifs
familiar from detective fiction indicates that the author so consistently
'breaks the rules' of classical detective story writing that Ein Mord
den jeder begeht might justifiably be regarded as a forerunner of the
parodies of the detective novel so common in modern literature. An
examination of Doderer's novel in the context of its first publication
in 1938 reveals how uncannily closely the detective element in Ein Mord
den jeder begeht resembles the official Nazi line on detective fiction,
and this throws up the vexed question of whether Doderer's 'anti-detective
novel' was an attempt to placate the Nazi censor. However, a comparison
with Friedrich DUrrenmatt's anti-detective stories shows that the ideology
of the irrational which informs Doderer's novel is not necessarily
fascistic in nature, as some of Doderer's critics imply.
A brief 'Excursus' on Claus Hubalek's television adaptation of Ein
Mord den jeder begeht is intended to illustrate the difficulties involved
in transferring Doderer's work to a visual medium. The critics' reactions
to Hubalek's play provide a useful up-to-date picture ofoDoderer's
current literary standing.
In Chapter Two, the focus is turneq on the critical response provoked
by Doderer's most controversial work, Die Merowinger. The outrageous
plot and 'scurrilous' style of this novel present the reviewer with an
unenviable dilemma, for he is confronted with a new work by a major
titerary figure which does not conform with the pattern of the author's
past successes. The survey of the reception of Die Merowinger is intended
to illuminate how the reviewers were so prejudiced by their familiarity
with what many regard as a 'Viennese trilogy', Die strudlhofstiege, Die
erleuchteten Fenster and Die D~onen, that they were unable to arrive at
a reasonably open-minded evaluation of Die Merowinger. The key problem
in Doderer reception is the identification of the author with…
Subjects/Keywords: PN0080 Criticism; PN0441 Literary History; PT Germanic literature
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Docherty, V. J. (1984). The reception of Heimito von Doderer as exemplified by the critics' response to Ein Mord den jeder Bericht and Die Merowinger. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5324/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Docherty, Vincent John. “The reception of Heimito von Doderer as exemplified by the critics' response to Ein Mord den jeder Bericht and Die Merowinger.” 1984. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5324/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Docherty, Vincent John. “The reception of Heimito von Doderer as exemplified by the critics' response to Ein Mord den jeder Bericht and Die Merowinger.” 1984. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Docherty VJ. The reception of Heimito von Doderer as exemplified by the critics' response to Ein Mord den jeder Bericht and Die Merowinger. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 1984. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5324/.
Council of Science Editors:
Docherty VJ. The reception of Heimito von Doderer as exemplified by the critics' response to Ein Mord den jeder Bericht and Die Merowinger. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 1984. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5324/
University of Glasgow
16.
Hyslop, Rachel Ann.
The concept of typology in Schiller, Nietzsche and Jung: an historical and comparative study.
Degree: 2008, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/285/
► From the earliest times humankind has classified individuals into types in order to explain human differences and behaviour. The idea of typology was intrinsic to…
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▼ From the earliest times humankind has classified individuals into types in order to explain human differences and behaviour. The idea of typology was intrinsic to the thought of Schiller, Nietzsche, and Jung. Although a small amount of research has been undertaken into typology in Schiller’s and Nietzsche’s works, and there has been an explicit recognition of the importance of typology in Jung by Jungian analysts, there has been no comparative study between these three thinkers. Therefore I proposed to bridge this gap with a detailed and comparative analysis of their main link – typology.
In order to analyse fully the typological concepts present in Schiller, Nietzsche and Jung’s works, and to compare them in both their synchronic and diachronic contexts, it was necessary to examine chronologically their own differing conceptions of typology, and to study the extent to which they draw on their predecessors, before comparing them. Friedrich Schiller was instrumental in the typology of the human personality as he was the first to elucidate two fundamentally different types of cultural production – the naïve and the sentimental – and from this typological distinction he elaborated the psychological pairing of realist and idealist in Über naïve und sentimentalische Dichtung (1795-6). His typology of human nature, evolved in Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen (1795), classified three drives of the individual human: Stofftrieb; Formtrieb; and Spieltrieb. In the same work, in which he was concerned with the problem of yearning for personality, his preoccupation with opposing modes and the problems to which they give rise came to the fore. This argument later attracted the attention of Jung, as well as being, so Jung claimed, the problem that Nietzsche had his Zarathustra identify and work through in Also sprach Zarathustra (1883-1885). This was the problem of opposites entailing such opposing modes as good and evil, or above and below. Furthermore, Nietzsche’s ideas on the typological pair Apollonian and Dionysian, Die Geburt der Tragödie (1872), were heavily indebted to Schiller. Carl Jung, having benefited from the insight of the two previously mentioned thinkers’ typological works, included chapters in recognition and criticism of their types in his main typological work, Psychologische Typen (1921). In this work, he made typology integral to the conceptualisation of the human individuation-process. His typology was a formulation of structural elements of the psyche, intended to help understand the wide variations in individuals. Jung’s typological works, brought together in the sixth volume of the Gesammelte Werke, ultimately spell out eight types: two attitudes – extravert and introvert - each containing four functions; thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition. Two further (arche) types, the animus and anima, in belonging to the shadow of the eight types, were further, complicated elements in this typology.
The explicit and significant links displayed an intimate connection between these three…
Subjects/Keywords: B Philosophy (General); PT Germanic literature; BF Psychology
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Hyslop, R. A. (2008). The concept of typology in Schiller, Nietzsche and Jung: an historical and comparative study. (Thesis). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/285/
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hyslop, Rachel Ann. “The concept of typology in Schiller, Nietzsche and Jung: an historical and comparative study.” 2008. Thesis, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/285/.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hyslop, Rachel Ann. “The concept of typology in Schiller, Nietzsche and Jung: an historical and comparative study.” 2008. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Hyslop RA. The concept of typology in Schiller, Nietzsche and Jung: an historical and comparative study. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Glasgow; 2008. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/285/.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Hyslop RA. The concept of typology in Schiller, Nietzsche and Jung: an historical and comparative study. [Thesis]. University of Glasgow; 2008. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/285/
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Glasgow
17.
Betteridge, Tom.
'Yes, the century is an ashen sun': poem and subject in the philosophy of Alain Badiou.
Degree: PhD, 2016, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7108/
► This thesis examines the relation between philosophy, the poem and the subject in the mature philosophy of Alain Badiou. It investigates Badiou’s decisive contribution to…
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▼ This thesis examines the relation between philosophy, the poem and the subject in the mature philosophy of Alain Badiou. It investigates Badiou’s decisive contribution to these questions primarily by means of comparison, especially to Martin Heidegger, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Theodor Adorno, as well as by analysing Badiou’s readings of poems and prose by Paul Celan and Samuel Beckett respectively as sites of potential dialogue with his immediate predecessors. The thesis stresses the importance of French philosophy’s German heritage, emphasising not only Badiou’s radical departure from Heidegger and his legacy, but also the former’s wholesale rejection of philosophies that would, in the wake of twentieth-century violence and beyond, proclaim their own end or completion. The thesis argues Badiou’s innovative readings of Celan and Beckett to be crucial to understanding this endeavour: for Badiou, both writers use the poem to affirm novel conceptions of subjectivity capable of transcending the historical conditions of their presentation. The title quotation from Badiou’s The Century, ‘Yes, the century is an ashen sun’, anticipates both the affirmative nature of these subjective figures, and their presience, beyond the bounds of a twentieth-century ‘ashen sun’ pervaded by melancholy, for the ‘new suns’ of the twenty-first.
The thesis is in four chapters. The first chapter unfolds the central concepts of Badiou’s departure from Heidegger using Paul Celan’s poems to focus the enquiry. It is guided by two of Badiou’s most condensed declarations about the poem, that, firstly, ‘the modern poem harbours a central silence’, and secondly, that ‘Celan completes Heidegger’. The second chapter exposes the political implications of Heidegger’s writings on Friedrich Hölderlin and the role of the subject therein, offering at its close some thoughts about what Badiou calls, following Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, the poem’s ‘becoming-prose’. It concludes by drawing the poem and politics into relation by way of the philosophical category of the subject. The third chapter reads Badiou’s concept of ‘anabasis’ against Heidegger’s ‘homecoming’ in order to think the possibility of a collective political subject’s formation in the wake of Auschwitz. The final chapter examines the imbrication of the Two of love and the ‘latent poem’ in Badiou’s reading of Samuel Beckett’s late prose, contrasting this ‘affirmative’ reading of Beckett to Theodor Adorno’s earlier emphases on negation. Following its investigations of subjectivity, poem and prose throughout, the thesis concludes by returning to the title quotation in order to unfold the particular relations between subject, affirmation and negation Badiou’s philosophy enacts, and to offer further routes forward for research regarding Badiou’s philosophy and aesthetic figuration.
Subjects/Keywords: B Philosophy (General); BH Aesthetics; PN Literature (General); PN0080 Criticism; PR English literature; PT Germanic literature
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Betteridge, T. (2016). 'Yes, the century is an ashen sun': poem and subject in the philosophy of Alain Badiou. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7108/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Betteridge, Tom. “'Yes, the century is an ashen sun': poem and subject in the philosophy of Alain Badiou.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7108/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Betteridge, Tom. “'Yes, the century is an ashen sun': poem and subject in the philosophy of Alain Badiou.” 2016. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Betteridge T. 'Yes, the century is an ashen sun': poem and subject in the philosophy of Alain Badiou. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2016. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7108/.
Council of Science Editors:
Betteridge T. 'Yes, the century is an ashen sun': poem and subject in the philosophy of Alain Badiou. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2016. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7108/
University of Glasgow
18.
Betteridge, Tom.
'Yes, the century is an ashen sun' : poem and subject in the philosophy of Alain Badiou.
Degree: PhD, 2016, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7108/
;
https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.688170
► This thesis examines the relation between philosophy, the poem and the subject in the mature philosophy of Alain Badiou. It investigates Badiou’s decisive contribution to…
(more)
▼ This thesis examines the relation between philosophy, the poem and the subject in the mature philosophy of Alain Badiou. It investigates Badiou’s decisive contribution to these questions primarily by means of comparison, especially to Martin Heidegger, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Theodor Adorno, as well as by analysing Badiou’s readings of poems and prose by Paul Celan and Samuel Beckett respectively as sites of potential dialogue with his immediate predecessors. The thesis stresses the importance of French philosophy’s German heritage, emphasising not only Badiou’s radical departure from Heidegger and his legacy, but also the former’s wholesale rejection of philosophies that would, in the wake of twentieth-century violence and beyond, proclaim their own end or completion. The thesis argues Badiou’s innovative readings of Celan and Beckett to be crucial to understanding this endeavour: for Badiou, both writers use the poem to affirm novel conceptions of subjectivity capable of transcending the historical conditions of their presentation. The title quotation from Badiou’s The Century, ‘Yes, the century is an ashen sun’, anticipates both the affirmative nature of these subjective figures, and their presience, beyond the bounds of a twentieth-century ‘ashen sun’ pervaded by melancholy, for the ‘new suns’ of the twenty-first. The thesis is in four chapters. The first chapter unfolds the central concepts of Badiou’s departure from Heidegger using Paul Celan’s poems to focus the enquiry. It is guided by two of Badiou’s most condensed declarations about the poem, that, firstly, ‘the modern poem harbours a central silence’, and secondly, that ‘Celan completes Heidegger’. The second chapter exposes the political implications of Heidegger’s writings on Friedrich Hölderlin and the role of the subject therein, offering at its close some thoughts about what Badiou calls, following Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, the poem’s ‘becoming-prose’. It concludes by drawing the poem and politics into relation by way of the philosophical category of the subject. The third chapter reads Badiou’s concept of ‘anabasis’ against Heidegger’s ‘homecoming’ in order to think the possibility of a collective political subject’s formation in the wake of Auschwitz. The final chapter examines the imbrication of the Two of love and the ‘latent poem’ in Badiou’s reading of Samuel Beckett’s late prose, contrasting this ‘affirmative’ reading of Beckett to Theodor Adorno’s earlier emphases on negation. Following its investigations of subjectivity, poem and prose throughout, the thesis concludes by returning to the title quotation in order to unfold the particular relations between subject, affirmation and negation Badiou’s philosophy enacts, and to offer further routes forward for research regarding Badiou’s philosophy and aesthetic figuration.
Subjects/Keywords: 841; B Philosophy (General); BH Aesthetics; PN Literature (General); PN0080 Criticism; PR English literature; PT Germanic literature
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Betteridge, T. (2016). 'Yes, the century is an ashen sun' : poem and subject in the philosophy of Alain Badiou. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7108/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.688170
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Betteridge, Tom. “'Yes, the century is an ashen sun' : poem and subject in the philosophy of Alain Badiou.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7108/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.688170.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Betteridge, Tom. “'Yes, the century is an ashen sun' : poem and subject in the philosophy of Alain Badiou.” 2016. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Betteridge T. 'Yes, the century is an ashen sun' : poem and subject in the philosophy of Alain Badiou. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2016. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7108/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.688170.
Council of Science Editors:
Betteridge T. 'Yes, the century is an ashen sun' : poem and subject in the philosophy of Alain Badiou. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2016. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7108/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.688170
University of Glasgow
19.
McAra, Catriona Fay.
'Some parallels in words and pictures': Dorothea Tanning and visual intertextuality.
Degree: PhD, 2012, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3722/
► In 1989 the American Surrealist associated painter, sculptor, and writer Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) suggested an intermedial dimension to her multifaceted œuvre in her essay ‘Some…
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▼ In 1989 the American Surrealist associated painter, sculptor, and writer Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) suggested an intermedial dimension to her multifaceted œuvre in her essay ‘Some Parallels in Word and Pictures.’ Taking this essay as a critical point of departure, this thesis offers an intertextual theorisation of Tanning’s practice. It concerns the role of narrative in her work, and the way in which she borrows from the histories of art and literature as source materials. The thesis presented here is that Tanning’s work from the context of Surrealism and beyond makes reference to the fairy tales and other, more extensive works of literature which she read in her youth whilst at work in her public library in Galesburg, Illinois, whether implicitly in visual references or explicitly in her works’ titles. Throughout, the library is read as a key source of inspiration. This is true too of the impact which Tanning’s belated visit to the Louvre had on her post-Surrealist stylistic development.
Broadly, this thesis aims to rethink the methodologies used to interpret Surrealism, and reunite the literary and visual aspects upon which the Surrealist movement was initially founded. This interdisciplinary approach contributes fresh perspectives by marrying the history of Surrealism with that of the fairy tale, including that of Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen, and the fairy tale illustrations of Gustave Doré, Maxfield Parrish, Arthur Rackham, and John Tenniel. The anti-fairy tale emerges as useful critical tool in defining the intertext which appears when Surrealism and the fairy tale are paired. The ‘demythologising’ project of Angela Carter is useful to call upon in the articulation of the anti-fairy tale, and her work is easily placed in dialogue with that of Tanning, especially in terms of its feminist leanings. The dialogic, intertextual theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, further developed by Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes, support this reading of Tanning’s visual narratives. More recently such theories of intertextuality have manifested themselves in the work of Dutch narratologist Mieke Bal who proposes a model of ‘preposterous history’ in order to creatively re-read the relationship between source (or pre-text) and intertext.
This research is primarily text-based and devotes long-awaited attention to Tanning’s literary works which are read visually, including her short story ‘Blind Date’ (1943), and her novel 'Abyss' (1977), later reworked and republished as 'Chasm: A Weekend' (2004). I argue that her novel provides textual continuity with her Surrealist visual narratives of the 1940s creating a more cyclical, ‘preposterous’ shape to her career than has previously been acknowledged.
Subjects/Keywords: PS American literature; N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR; PT Germanic literature; NB Sculpture; ND Painting; PZ Childrens literature; PR English literature
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McAra, C. F. (2012). 'Some parallels in words and pictures': Dorothea Tanning and visual intertextuality. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3722/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
McAra, Catriona Fay. “'Some parallels in words and pictures': Dorothea Tanning and visual intertextuality.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3722/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
McAra, Catriona Fay. “'Some parallels in words and pictures': Dorothea Tanning and visual intertextuality.” 2012. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
McAra CF. 'Some parallels in words and pictures': Dorothea Tanning and visual intertextuality. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2012. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3722/.
Council of Science Editors:
McAra CF. 'Some parallels in words and pictures': Dorothea Tanning and visual intertextuality. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2012. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3722/
University of Glasgow
20.
Malecka, Joanna.
The ethics, aesthetics and politics of Thomas Carlyle’s 'French Revolution'.
Degree: PhD, 2017, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8182/
► ‘The Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics of Carlyle’s French Revolution’ examines the work of Thomas Carlyle as a crucial aesthetic intervention in the modern reception of…
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▼ ‘The Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics of Carlyle’s French Revolution’ examines the work of Thomas Carlyle as a crucial aesthetic intervention in the modern reception of the French Revolution in Europe. It interrogates the prevalent critical constructions of Carlyle’s work and finds them to proceed predominantly from the Whig historical agenda, structured around such key nineteenth-century concepts as utilitarianism and civilisational and moral progress. Within this critical framework, Carlyle’s largely conservative cultural stance and Christian spirituality are hardly allowed any creative potential and, ever since the famous fabrication of James Anthony Froude who depicted Carlyle as ‘a Calvinist without the theology’, they have been perceived as artistically-stunted, irrational, and out of touch with the nineteenth-century political, social and cultural realities. In examining Carlyle’s involvement with German Romanticism on the one hand, and with contemporary British periodical press on the other, this thesis proposes a more comprehensive reading of Carlyle’s politics, aesthetics and spirituality in an attempt to represent his radically open, catholic and indeed cosmopolitan artistic agenda which taps into the Scottish Enlightenment concept of rationality, Calvinist scepticism towards nineteenth-century progressivism and acute perception of evil in this world, and post-Burkean Romantic aesthetics of the sublime. We chart the aesthetic movement from Carlyle’s early dialogue with Schiller and Goethe to ‘The Diamond Necklace’, Carlyle’s first artistic rendition of the French pre-revolutionary scene, delivered as a (Gothic) moral tale and anticipating The French Revolution (a historical work that uniquely employs the Gothic genre within historical narrative, arguably unparalleled in British post-Burkean Romanticism). The critical reception of The French Revolution in Britain is examined, with special attention paid to the highly unfavourable review by Herman Merivale in The Edinburgh Review, in order to challenge the Whig line in Carlylean criticism and to expose the fundamental artistic, political and moral disagreement between Carlyle and Merivale. Carlyle’s Calvinist stance sees both Merivale’s and Thomas Babington Macaulay’s facile exorcism of the categories of good and evil from their historical agendas as irrational given the recent French terror (which, in Carlyle’s reading, released its demons precisely through such a botched ethical deal). Similarly, I highlight Carlyle’s close dialogue with John Stuart Mill both in their correspondence, and in the publications in the London and Westminster Review, while I argue that this intellectual exchange is crucial for the reading of The French Revolution as a text challenging Mill’s utilitarianism, and written within the institutional framework of the contemporary periodical press. Finally, Carlyle is seen to make capital of the concepts of Gothic and sublime, introduced by Edmund Burke and popularised by the Anti-Jacobin Review in Britain, by applying them directly to…
Subjects/Keywords: BR Christianity; BS The Bible; DA Great Britain; DC France; JA Political science (General); PQ Romance literatures; PR English literature; PT Germanic literature
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Malecka, J. (2017). The ethics, aesthetics and politics of Thomas Carlyle’s 'French Revolution'. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8182/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Malecka, Joanna. “The ethics, aesthetics and politics of Thomas Carlyle’s 'French Revolution'.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8182/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Malecka, Joanna. “The ethics, aesthetics and politics of Thomas Carlyle’s 'French Revolution'.” 2017. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Malecka J. The ethics, aesthetics and politics of Thomas Carlyle’s 'French Revolution'. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2017. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8182/.
Council of Science Editors:
Malecka J. The ethics, aesthetics and politics of Thomas Carlyle’s 'French Revolution'. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2017. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8182/
University of Glasgow
21.
Malecka, Joanna.
The ethics, aesthetics and politics of Thomas Carlyle's 'French Revolution'.
Degree: PhD, 2017, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8182/
;
https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.716901
► ‘The Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics of Carlyle’s French Revolution’ examines the work of Thomas Carlyle as a crucial aesthetic intervention in the modern reception of…
(more)
▼ ‘The Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics of Carlyle’s French Revolution’ examines the work of Thomas Carlyle as a crucial aesthetic intervention in the modern reception of the French Revolution in Europe. It interrogates the prevalent critical constructions of Carlyle’s work and finds them to proceed predominantly from the Whig historical agenda, structured around such key nineteenth-century concepts as utilitarianism and civilisational and moral progress. Within this critical framework, Carlyle’s largely conservative cultural stance and Christian spirituality are hardly allowed any creative potential and, ever since the famous fabrication of James Anthony Froude who depicted Carlyle as ‘a Calvinist without the theology’, they have been perceived as artistically-stunted, irrational, and out of touch with the nineteenth-century political, social and cultural realities. In examining Carlyle’s involvement with German Romanticism on the one hand, and with contemporary British periodical press on the other, this thesis proposes a more comprehensive reading of Carlyle’s politics, aesthetics and spirituality in an attempt to represent his radically open, catholic and indeed cosmopolitan artistic agenda which taps into the Scottish Enlightenment concept of rationality, Calvinist scepticism towards nineteenth-century progressivism and acute perception of evil in this world, and post-Burkean Romantic aesthetics of the sublime. We chart the aesthetic movement from Carlyle’s early dialogue with Schiller and Goethe to ‘The Diamond Necklace’, Carlyle’s first artistic rendition of the French pre-revolutionary scene, delivered as a (Gothic) moral tale and anticipating The French Revolution (a historical work that uniquely employs the Gothic genre within historical narrative, arguably unparalleled in British post-Burkean Romanticism). The critical reception of The French Revolution in Britain is examined, with special attention paid to the highly unfavourable review by Herman Merivale in The Edinburgh Review, in order to challenge the Whig line in Carlylean criticism and to expose the fundamental artistic, political and moral disagreement between Carlyle and Merivale. Carlyle’s Calvinist stance sees both Merivale’s and Thomas Babington Macaulay’s facile exorcism of the categories of good and evil from their historical agendas as irrational given the recent French terror (which, in Carlyle’s reading, released its demons precisely through such a botched ethical deal). Similarly, I highlight Carlyle’s close dialogue with John Stuart Mill both in their correspondence, and in the publications in the London and Westminster Review, while I argue that this intellectual exchange is crucial for the reading of The French Revolution as a text challenging Mill’s utilitarianism, and written within the institutional framework of the contemporary periodical press. Finally, Carlyle is seen to make capital of the concepts of Gothic and sublime, introduced by Edmund Burke and popularised by the Anti-Jacobin Review in Britain, by applying them directly to…
Subjects/Keywords: 809; BR Christianity; BS The Bible; DA Great Britain; DC France; JA Political science (General); PQ Romance literatures; PR English literature; PT Germanic literature
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Malecka, J. (2017). The ethics, aesthetics and politics of Thomas Carlyle's 'French Revolution'. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8182/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.716901
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Malecka, Joanna. “The ethics, aesthetics and politics of Thomas Carlyle's 'French Revolution'.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed December 11, 2019.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8182/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.716901.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Malecka, Joanna. “The ethics, aesthetics and politics of Thomas Carlyle's 'French Revolution'.” 2017. Web. 11 Dec 2019.
Vancouver:
Malecka J. The ethics, aesthetics and politics of Thomas Carlyle's 'French Revolution'. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2017. [cited 2019 Dec 11].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8182/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.716901.
Council of Science Editors:
Malecka J. The ethics, aesthetics and politics of Thomas Carlyle's 'French Revolution'. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2017. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8182/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.716901
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