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University of Huddersfield
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Spencer, Hannah.
Semantic Prosody in Literary Analysis: A Corpus‐based Stylistic Study of H. P. Lovecraft’s stories.
Degree: 2011, University of Huddersfield
URL: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/12904/1/hspencerfinalthesis.pdf 
► This thesis is a bottom‐up corpus stylistic exploration of the text world of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories that focuses on the emergence of semantic prosodies via…
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▼ This thesis is a bottom‐up corpus stylistic exploration of the text world of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories that focuses on the emergence of semantic prosodies via keywords in context, collocation and
n‐grams. The study addresses existing views on semantic prosody and tests the nine‐word window of collocational force (Louw 2000). It uncovers linguistic aspects of Lovecraft’s stories that could not be detected intuitively and provides a firm basis for some subjective literary assumptions. It also demonstrates how Lovecraft primes (Hoey 2007) his readers throughout his
collection of stories to recognise and replicate the mental representations which surround invented proper nouns through triggering background knowledge intertextually.
Subjects/Keywords: PS American literature
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Spencer, H. (2011). Semantic Prosody in Literary Analysis: A Corpus‐based Stylistic Study of H. P. Lovecraft’s stories. (Masters Thesis). University of Huddersfield. Retrieved from http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/12904/1/hspencerfinalthesis.pdf
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Spencer, Hannah. “Semantic Prosody in Literary Analysis: A Corpus‐based Stylistic Study of H. P. Lovecraft’s stories.” 2011. Masters Thesis, University of Huddersfield. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/12904/1/hspencerfinalthesis.pdf.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Spencer, Hannah. “Semantic Prosody in Literary Analysis: A Corpus‐based Stylistic Study of H. P. Lovecraft’s stories.” 2011. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Spencer H. Semantic Prosody in Literary Analysis: A Corpus‐based Stylistic Study of H. P. Lovecraft’s stories. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Huddersfield; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/12904/1/hspencerfinalthesis.pdf.
Council of Science Editors:
Spencer H. Semantic Prosody in Literary Analysis: A Corpus‐based Stylistic Study of H. P. Lovecraft’s stories. [Masters Thesis]. University of Huddersfield; 2011. Available from: http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/12904/1/hspencerfinalthesis.pdf
Cardiff University
2.
Winston, Matthew.
The Gonzo text – the literary journalism of Hunter Thompson.
Degree: PhD, 2013, Cardiff University
URL: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/53042/
► More has been written about the life of Hunter S Thompson than about the writing which brought him fame, although the peculiar nature of his…
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▼ More has been written about the life of Hunter S Thompson than about the writing
which brought him fame, although the peculiar nature of his first-person literary
journalism makes his life and his work impossible to separate. Although the legend of
the outlaw journalist is an indispensible feature, the focus of this textually-oriented
study is Thompson’s method, conventionally called ‘Gonzo journalism’, and how it
operates. Drawing on theories of subjectivity and authorship informed by the work of
Derrida, Foucault, Barthes and John Mowitt, I attempt to analyse the Gonzo Text,
examining the place of various elements of ‘Gonzo’ style and content. Looking at key
themes in Thompson’s oeuvre - principally the problematics around representing drug
experiences and the subjective experience of edgework, the nature of myths of objective
and professional journalism in the context of political reportage, the interrogation of the
place of sports in American culture and ideology, and, ultimately, Thompson’s
engagement with ‘the death of the American Dream’ – I examine the ways in which the
Gonzo Text is constructed. The Text of Gonzo is placed in social, political and
historical contexts in terms of both wider American history of the period, and the
traditions of American journalism. Gonzo works can be read in terms of Thompson’s
renegotiation of the boundaries of reportable experience, of journalism, and even of
personal safety and legal liability, with the unusual place of the voice of the author
within Gonzo facilitating a unique type of hybrid Text. Blending fact and fiction into
undecidability allows the Text to operate in some senses as what Derrida termed a
‘pharmakon’ – a site and agent of the instabilities of categories which cannot hold it.
Gonzo journalism destabilises conventional ideas of literary journalism, and of
journalism itself, in its peculiarly unclassifiable nature.
Subjects/Keywords: PS American literature
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Winston, M. (2013). The Gonzo text – the literary journalism of Hunter Thompson. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cardiff University. Retrieved from http://orca.cf.ac.uk/53042/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Winston, Matthew. “The Gonzo text – the literary journalism of Hunter Thompson.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Cardiff University. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://orca.cf.ac.uk/53042/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Winston, Matthew. “The Gonzo text – the literary journalism of Hunter Thompson.” 2013. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Winston M. The Gonzo text – the literary journalism of Hunter Thompson. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cardiff University; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/53042/.
Council of Science Editors:
Winston M. The Gonzo text – the literary journalism of Hunter Thompson. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cardiff University; 2013. Available from: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/53042/
Cardiff University
3.
Wang, Mei-Chuen.
Narrative, genre and national myth in postmodern Canadian historical fiction.
Degree: PhD, 2010, Cardiff University
URL: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54365/
► This thesis investigates the expansion and continuing proliferation of Canadian historical fiction during the past three decades, and makes a case for reading a number…
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▼ This thesis investigates the expansion and continuing proliferation of Canadian historical fiction during the past three decades, and makes a case for reading a number of these novels as postmodern historical fiction. Characterized by the postmodern tendency to problematize history and cross genre boundaries, the novels discussed here are nevertheless rooted in their Canadian context. To establish a theoretical framework, the thesis reviews the reconfiguration of history in contemporary critical theories and its impact on the writing of history and historical fiction, and investigates the debate over Canada's postcoloniality. In the textual analysis, I address the questions raised by the interaction between postmodern problematization of history and local concerns in the selected novels. What narrative strategies are employed to launch an epistemological and ontological questioning of history? Are alternative reconceptualizations of history offered after the problematization? How do these texts achieve genre transgression through narrative devices and what is the purpose of this? What meta-narratives of national history are challenged? What national myths are subverted and dismantled? Are some other myths accidentally reasserted in this deconstructive process? What effects does this historical revisionism or scepticism have on the understanding of Canadian national identity? The focus of the discussion is on the relationships between formal experimentation and thematic concerns and the ways these texts interweave general critiques of history and its representation with specific investigations into the Canadian context. Finally, I propose explanations for the flourishing of contemporary Canadian historical fiction by taking into account both the combined theoretical framework and the complexities and subtleties of the texts under scrutiny. The thesis concludes that the authors of these novels have complicated the postmodern questioning of history at a variety of levels and made that questioning accommodate the novelists' concern with Canadian specificities.
Subjects/Keywords: PS American literature
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Wang, M. (2010). Narrative, genre and national myth in postmodern Canadian historical fiction. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cardiff University. Retrieved from http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54365/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Wang, Mei-Chuen. “Narrative, genre and national myth in postmodern Canadian historical fiction.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, Cardiff University. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54365/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Wang, Mei-Chuen. “Narrative, genre and national myth in postmodern Canadian historical fiction.” 2010. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Wang M. Narrative, genre and national myth in postmodern Canadian historical fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cardiff University; 2010. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54365/.
Council of Science Editors:
Wang M. Narrative, genre and national myth in postmodern Canadian historical fiction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cardiff University; 2010. Available from: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54365/
Cardiff University
4.
Winston, Matthew.
The Gonzo text – the literary journalism of Hunter Thompson.
Degree: PhD, 2013, Cardiff University
URL: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/53042/
;
http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.585301
► More has been written about the life of Hunter S Thompson than about the writing which brought him fame, although the peculiar nature of his…
(more)
▼ More has been written about the life of Hunter S Thompson than about the writing which brought him fame, although the peculiar nature of his first-person literary journalism makes his life and his work impossible to separate. Although the legend of the outlaw journalist is an indispensible feature, the focus of this textually-oriented study is Thompson’s method, conventionally called ‘Gonzo journalism’, and how it operates. Drawing on theories of subjectivity and authorship informed by the work of Derrida, Foucault, Barthes and John Mowitt, I attempt to analyse the Gonzo Text, examining the place of various elements of ‘Gonzo’ style and content. Looking at key themes in Thompson’s oeuvre - principally the problematics around representing drug experiences and the subjective experience of edgework, the nature of myths of objective and professional journalism in the context of political reportage, the interrogation of the place of sports in American culture and ideology, and, ultimately, Thompson’s engagement with ‘the death of the American Dream’ – I examine the ways in which the Gonzo Text is constructed. The Text of Gonzo is placed in social, political and historical contexts in terms of both wider American history of the period, and the traditions of American journalism. Gonzo works can be read in terms of Thompson’s renegotiation of the boundaries of reportable experience, of journalism, and even of personal safety and legal liability, with the unusual place of the voice of the author within Gonzo facilitating a unique type of hybrid Text. Blending fact and fiction into undecidability allows the Text to operate in some senses as what Derrida termed a ‘pharmakon’ – a site and agent of the instabilities of categories which cannot hold it. Gonzo journalism destabilises conventional ideas of literary journalism, and of journalism itself, in its peculiarly unclassifiable nature.
Subjects/Keywords: PS American literature
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Winston, M. (2013). The Gonzo text – the literary journalism of Hunter Thompson. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cardiff University. Retrieved from http://orca.cf.ac.uk/53042/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.585301
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Winston, Matthew. “The Gonzo text – the literary journalism of Hunter Thompson.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Cardiff University. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://orca.cf.ac.uk/53042/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.585301.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Winston, Matthew. “The Gonzo text – the literary journalism of Hunter Thompson.” 2013. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Winston M. The Gonzo text – the literary journalism of Hunter Thompson. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cardiff University; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/53042/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.585301.
Council of Science Editors:
Winston M. The Gonzo text – the literary journalism of Hunter Thompson. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cardiff University; 2013. Available from: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/53042/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.585301
University of Glasgow
5.
Hawthorn, Ruth.
'Then came a departure': writing loss in the Middle Generation.
Degree: PhD, 2012, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3712/
► Building on recent studies of twentieth-century elegy, this thesis examines the re-working of elegiac tropes in the poetry of Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman…
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▼ Building on recent studies of twentieth-century elegy, this thesis examines the re-working of elegiac tropes in the poetry of Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman and Robert Lowell - four writers among the Middle Generation of American poets who share a persistent preoccupation with loss. As personal and national disappointments and bereavements are reflected in their distinctly elegiac poetics, their work overtly questions not only the possibility of finding consolation, but also the worth of their subject and the ability of language to express, with any conviction or accuracy, what has been lost. Highly conscious of the elegiac tradition, their work collectively distorts this genre, moulding it into a flexible mode which is more readily able to reflect the historical and cultural developments of the mid-twentieth century.
Countering the still-prevalent view of these poets as “confessional” writers, this thesis’ focus on elegy challenges critics who have dismissed these four as solipsistic or narcissistic. Instead, they emerge as a group who were deeply invested in understanding their contemporary scene and whose most significant relationships were textual, rather than biographical. Their writing reveals an ongoing and serious engagement with one another’s work, as they built on each other’s poetic experiments. The thesis complicates the canonical divide which has entrenched these poets as the mainstream establishment, pitted against a more radical “postmodern” avant-garde, which includes the Beats, Black Mountain and the New York School. Through close textual analysis and an exploration of their links with Elizabeth Bishop, Schwartz, Jarrell, Berryman and Lowell are posited as poets whose engagement with the elegy has significantly altered the post-World War II poetic landscape.
Subjects/Keywords: PS American literature
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Hawthorn, R. (2012). 'Then came a departure': writing loss in the Middle Generation. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3712/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hawthorn, Ruth. “'Then came a departure': writing loss in the Middle Generation.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3712/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hawthorn, Ruth. “'Then came a departure': writing loss in the Middle Generation.” 2012. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Hawthorn R. 'Then came a departure': writing loss in the Middle Generation. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2012. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3712/.
Council of Science Editors:
Hawthorn R. 'Then came a departure': writing loss in the Middle Generation. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2012. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3712/
University of Glasgow
6.
Najemy, Phil.
"Sully": a sequence of poems exploring the Eastern New England accent, and an essay examining them in context.
Degree: PhD, 2014, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5054/
► A sequence of poems, mostly in a phonetically rendered Eastern New England accent, follows the exploits and thoughts of a young man from central Massachusetts,…
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▼ A sequence of poems, mostly in a phonetically rendered Eastern New England accent, follows the exploits and thoughts of a young man from central Massachusetts, as well as a cast of secondary characters. This is followed by an essay that examines the sequence's salient aspects of language, voice, place, and mythology, and attempts to situate each in a context of forbears and influences.
Subjects/Keywords: PS American literature
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Najemy, P. (2014). "Sully": a sequence of poems exploring the Eastern New England accent, and an essay examining them in context. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5054/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Najemy, Phil. “"Sully": a sequence of poems exploring the Eastern New England accent, and an essay examining them in context.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5054/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Najemy, Phil. “"Sully": a sequence of poems exploring the Eastern New England accent, and an essay examining them in context.” 2014. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Najemy P. "Sully": a sequence of poems exploring the Eastern New England accent, and an essay examining them in context. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5054/.
Council of Science Editors:
Najemy P. "Sully": a sequence of poems exploring the Eastern New England accent, and an essay examining them in context. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2014. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5054/
University of Birmingham
7.
Al-Tarawneh, Anoud Ziad.
Representations of women and aspects of their agency in male authored proletarian experimental novels from thirties America.
Degree: PhD, 2019, University of Birmingham
URL: http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/9015/
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https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.774309
► This thesis investigates the layered representations of women, their agency, and their class awareness in four leftist experimental novels from 1930s America: Langston Hughes' Not…
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▼ This thesis investigates the layered representations of women, their agency, and their class awareness in four leftist experimental novels from 1930s America: Langston Hughes' Not Without Laughter, Jack Conroy's The Disinherited, John Dos Passos' The Big Money, and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. It argues that the histories these novels engage, the forms they integrate, and the societal norms they explore enable their writers to offer a complex, distinct, sense of female representation and agency. All four novels present stereotyped or sentimentalised portrayals of women from the traces of early twentieth-century popular culture, a presentation which the novels' stories explore through nuanced, mobilised, or literally as well as figuratively politicised images of women. In order to investigate these representations, I read each novel within its associated cultural context. I also employ feminist and cultural historians' ideas about women's complex roles in 1930s America and earlier decades; cultural historians' arguments about the decade's documentary culture and its popular modes of expression; and literary historians' arguments about the blending of modernist form and leftist content in the decade's proletarian writings. The study contends that in their various and always changing representations of women these novels explore a spectrum of female agency within the sphere of proletarian politics and challenge the gendered conventions predominant in early twentieth century America.
Subjects/Keywords: PS American literature
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Al-Tarawneh, A. Z. (2019). Representations of women and aspects of their agency in male authored proletarian experimental novels from thirties America. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Birmingham. Retrieved from http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/9015/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.774309
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Al-Tarawneh, Anoud Ziad. “Representations of women and aspects of their agency in male authored proletarian experimental novels from thirties America.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Birmingham. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/9015/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.774309.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Al-Tarawneh, Anoud Ziad. “Representations of women and aspects of their agency in male authored proletarian experimental novels from thirties America.” 2019. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Al-Tarawneh AZ. Representations of women and aspects of their agency in male authored proletarian experimental novels from thirties America. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Birmingham; 2019. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/9015/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.774309.
Council of Science Editors:
Al-Tarawneh AZ. Representations of women and aspects of their agency in male authored proletarian experimental novels from thirties America. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Birmingham; 2019. Available from: http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/9015/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.774309
8.
Earle, Harriet.
'America through the looking-glass, lost' : conflict and traumatic representation in American comics since 1975.
Degree: PhD, 2015, Keele University
URL: http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/1324/
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https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.676869
► This thesis brings together two distinct areas of scholarship – trauma studies and comics. I focus on representations of trauma, specifically trauma arising from conflict…
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▼ This thesis brings together two distinct areas of scholarship – trauma studies and comics. I focus on representations of trauma, specifically trauma arising from conflict and war, in post-Vietnam American comics. Trauma studies is an established area within literary research, both in terms of conflict trauma and also personal trauma. For the most part, comics have been ignored. It is my contention that, by the nature of its form, comics is able to mimic the symptoms and presentation of a traumatic rupture in order to represent a traumatic event as accurately and viscerally as possible. My primary texts are taken from across the full spectrum of the comics form. I consider mainstream superhero comics alongside alternative and art comics; all primary texts were published after 1975 by American creators. The theoretical basis is drawn from Freudian, post-Freudian and contemporary clinical thought. The application of trauma theory to the comics form is a largely untraced path so in using this solid theoretical base I hope to reinvigorate these theories in light of a ‘new’ form. I also draw on the small corpus of critical texts in the field of comics studies. This thesis is structured around 6 key issues in conflict and traumatic representation. I conduct close analyses of my primary sources to consider the effectiveness of comics, both formally and thematically, in the areas of mourning, dreams and personal identity. I further consider how the formal concern of temporality and problematizing issue of postmodernism affect, and are affected by, the dual focus of comics and trauma.
Subjects/Keywords: 741.5; PS American literature
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Earle, H. (2015). 'America through the looking-glass, lost' : conflict and traumatic representation in American comics since 1975. (Doctoral Dissertation). Keele University. Retrieved from http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/1324/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.676869
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Earle, Harriet. “'America through the looking-glass, lost' : conflict and traumatic representation in American comics since 1975.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Keele University. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/1324/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.676869.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Earle, Harriet. “'America through the looking-glass, lost' : conflict and traumatic representation in American comics since 1975.” 2015. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Earle H. 'America through the looking-glass, lost' : conflict and traumatic representation in American comics since 1975. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Keele University; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/1324/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.676869.
Council of Science Editors:
Earle H. 'America through the looking-glass, lost' : conflict and traumatic representation in American comics since 1975. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Keele University; 2015. Available from: http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/1324/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.676869
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McGettigan, Katherine Ellen.
The material text and the literary marketplace in the novels of Herman Melville.
Degree: PhD, 2014, Keele University
URL: http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/4161/
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https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.726979
► This thesis examines Herman Melville's representations of the material text and the literary marketplace in the novels he published between 1846 and 1857. Thus far,…
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▼ This thesis examines Herman Melville's representations of the material text and the literary marketplace in the novels he published between 1846 and 1857. Thus far, scholarship has emphasized Melville's hostility towards literary production in mid-nineteenth century America, and positioned the book object as a constraint on his imagination. However, this thesis argues that the industrially produced and commercially circulated book was also a powerful source of inspiration for Melville, and that the printed book is both the subject of and a tool for literary representation in his novels. Combining book history and literary criticism, the thesis considers Melville's aesthetic engagements with the material text in order to provide new perspectives on central concerns in Melville's writing: authenticity, ambiguity, irony, and originality. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the technological, economic and social conditions of literary production in antebellum America, contemporary responses to those conditions, and previous studies of Melville's representations of and relations with the literary marketplace. Chapter 2 examines Melville's ludic uses of print in Typee and Omoo, and Chapter 3 considers the relationship between book covers, the market, and selfhood in Redburn and White-Jacket. Chapter 4 explore's the circulation of the book object in markets and metaphors in Moby-Dick. Chapters 5 and 6 return to the materiality of the text, examining the ambiguities of paper and papermaking in Pierre, and The Confidence-Man's construction of original writing through technologically reproducibility. The Conclusion then suggests that the material text and literary marketplace can be best understood as embodying potential for Melville, functioning as partial and contingent spaces in his works, in which a union of aesthetic and economic value is never fully realized, but is always possible.
Subjects/Keywords: 813; PS American literature
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McGettigan, K. E. (2014). The material text and the literary marketplace in the novels of Herman Melville. (Doctoral Dissertation). Keele University. Retrieved from http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/4161/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.726979
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
McGettigan, Katherine Ellen. “The material text and the literary marketplace in the novels of Herman Melville.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Keele University. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/4161/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.726979.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
McGettigan, Katherine Ellen. “The material text and the literary marketplace in the novels of Herman Melville.” 2014. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
McGettigan KE. The material text and the literary marketplace in the novels of Herman Melville. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Keele University; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/4161/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.726979.
Council of Science Editors:
McGettigan KE. The material text and the literary marketplace in the novels of Herman Melville. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Keele University; 2014. Available from: http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/4161/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.726979
University of Glasgow
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Najemy, Phil.
"Sully" : a sequence of poems exploring the Eastern New England accent, and an essay examining them in context.
Degree: PhD, 2014, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5054/
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► A sequence of poems, mostly in a phonetically rendered Eastern New England accent, follows the exploits and thoughts of a young man from central Massachusetts,…
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▼ A sequence of poems, mostly in a phonetically rendered Eastern New England accent, follows the exploits and thoughts of a young man from central Massachusetts, as well as a cast of secondary characters. This is followed by an essay that examines the sequence's salient aspects of language, voice, place, and mythology, and attempts to situate each in a context of forbears and influences.
Subjects/Keywords: 811.008; PS American literature
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Najemy, P. (2014). "Sully" : a sequence of poems exploring the Eastern New England accent, and an essay examining them in context. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5054/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.622014
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Najemy, Phil. “"Sully" : a sequence of poems exploring the Eastern New England accent, and an essay examining them in context.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5054/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.622014.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Najemy, Phil. “"Sully" : a sequence of poems exploring the Eastern New England accent, and an essay examining them in context.” 2014. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Najemy P. "Sully" : a sequence of poems exploring the Eastern New England accent, and an essay examining them in context. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5054/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.622014.
Council of Science Editors:
Najemy P. "Sully" : a sequence of poems exploring the Eastern New England accent, and an essay examining them in context. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2014. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5054/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.622014
11.
Brindley, Nicola.
Writing complexity : the American novel and systems realism.
Degree: PhD, 2014, Keele University
URL: http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/3216/
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► Although the relationship between literature and science has been a major focus of research in the last few decades, the influence of complex systems science…
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▼ Although the relationship between literature and science has been a major focus of research in the last few decades, the influence of complex systems science on recent American fiction has not yet been comprehensively documented. I argue that a significant body of that fiction is systems-aware and thus represents the world as a network of complex systems. In the first section of the thesis, I claim that the origin of systems fiction can be found in the nineteenth-century social novel, which displayed significant knowledge of system function. Despite the narrative challenges posed by the complex, nonlinear structure of systems, contemporary authors somewhat surprisingly turn to a broadly traditional form of realism rather than experimental literary techniques. Motivated by the desire for social engagement, systems realism conceptualises systems as fundamentally ordered and thus narratable, though it acknowledges that this order is frequently inaccessible. In the second section, I engage in a close reading of systems-aware fiction and explore the extent to which novels incorporate the principles and discourse of systems science. I suggest that these novels seek to understand social concerns through analogy and the creation of fictional models which foreground structural homologies between systems. In the third and final section, I argue that systems-awareness is vital to an understanding of recent ‘post-postmodern’ paradigms, and I demonstrate this through an exploration of emerging trends in fiction which are shaped by systems thinking. In particular, I focus upon the emergence of environmental concerns in recent American writing. To explore the extent to which authors have perceived reality as systemic and have engaged with the representational challenges presented by complex systems provides us with new ways of thinking about the novel as a form. For these reasons I suggest that systems realism is central to the contemporary history of the novel.
Subjects/Keywords: 813.009; PS American literature
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Brindley, N. (2014). Writing complexity : the American novel and systems realism. (Doctoral Dissertation). Keele University. Retrieved from http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/3216/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.699668
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Brindley, Nicola. “Writing complexity : the American novel and systems realism.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Keele University. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/3216/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.699668.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Brindley, Nicola. “Writing complexity : the American novel and systems realism.” 2014. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Brindley N. Writing complexity : the American novel and systems realism. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Keele University; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/3216/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.699668.
Council of Science Editors:
Brindley N. Writing complexity : the American novel and systems realism. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Keele University; 2014. Available from: http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/3216/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.699668
University of Glasgow
12.
Cowe, Jennifer.
Killing the Buddha: Henry Miller's long journey to Satori.
Degree: PhD, 2016, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7105/
► The aim of this thesis to is explore the relationship between Henry Miller, Zen Buddhism and how this may offer new ways of reading Miller.…
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▼ The aim of this thesis to is explore the relationship between Henry Miller, Zen Buddhism and how this may offer new ways of reading Miller. By exploring the life-long interest of Miller in Eastern Philosophy I hope to show that far from being the misogynistic, sexual miscreant of legend, he was in fact a deeply spiritual man who wished his work to inspire and motivate readers rather than be a form of titillation. My attempt here is not to rehabilitate Miller’s reputation in regards to race, religion or gender, but rather to examine his work through a more spiritual lens.
In the process I will attempt to use a more complete selection of Miller’s works than is commonly utilized by critics, although particular attention will be given to Tropic of Cancer, I will show how later, more spiritual works illuminate Miller’s Zen Buddhist beliefs. By using novels, essays, letters and pamphlets I hope to provide a wide-ranging examination of Miller’s oeuvre both chronologically and spiritually.
Two key words that will be found to re-occur throughout the thesis are ‘journey’ and ‘progression’. Journey in the sense that Miller saw his own life in Zen Buddhist terms; he existed to evolve and gain awareness though his life experiences through the writing and re-writing them until he could move beyond them. Progression in the sense that movement is crucial to the development of spirituality, the mind and heart must be open to new knowledge and understanding. I will show that Miller came to conceptualise both his life and work through the Zen Buddhist teaching of The Four Noble Truths and Miller’s daily implementation of The Eight Fold Path.
I will start by arguing that it is impossible to understand Miller’s journey without first examining the process by which he came to shape his own life narrative. The Zen peace of Miller’s later years was hard fought and gained at considerable price to both him and those close to him. Miller first had to develop a conceptualisation of creativity before he could be open to meaningful spiritual change. This thesis will examine the lasting influence of both Otto Rank and Henri Bergson on Miller’s idea of what it meant to be a writer, how reality in relation to his life experiences was malleable and how this provided Miller with the foundation on which to explore his spirituality. I will show how Miller’s close relationship to Surrealism caused him to re-think some of his positions in relation to language, style and freedom, yet ultimately why he felt impelled to continue on his journey to Zen Buddhism enlightenment.
Subjects/Keywords: BQ Buddhism; PS American literature
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Cowe, J. (2016). Killing the Buddha: Henry Miller's long journey to Satori. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7105/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Cowe, Jennifer. “Killing the Buddha: Henry Miller's long journey to Satori.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7105/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Cowe, Jennifer. “Killing the Buddha: Henry Miller's long journey to Satori.” 2016. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Cowe J. Killing the Buddha: Henry Miller's long journey to Satori. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7105/.
Council of Science Editors:
Cowe J. Killing the Buddha: Henry Miller's long journey to Satori. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2016. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7105/
University of Nottingham
13.
King, Daniel Robert.
"Your side of the street" : Cormac McCarthy's collaborative authorship.
Degree: PhD, 2013, University of Nottingham
URL: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14309/
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► In this thesis I investigate the relationship between contemporary author Cormac McCarthy and his editors: Albert Erskine at Random House and Gary Fisketjon and Dan…
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▼ In this thesis I investigate the relationship between contemporary author Cormac McCarthy and his editors: Albert Erskine at Random House and Gary Fisketjon and Dan Frank at Alfred A Knopf. In investigating these relationships I attempt to give insight into the working practices of McCarthy, and by doing so examine the changing world of publishing at Random House. I also explore the implications for established critical understandings of McCarthy's work of the significant changes which were made during the re-writing and editing of McCarthy's novels. In mapping relationships between author, editor and agent I conduct a study of the changing modes and models of author-editor and author-editor-agent relationships within Random House and its subsidiary Alfred A Knopf. Taking each of McCarthy's novels in turn as a case study I construct an examination of the relationships between this tightly knit core group and the various specialist collaborators who appear at scattered but significant moments during McCarthy's literary career. It is in this web of collaboration and interdependence in concert with established understandings of the author-role and author-function that this thesis builds its understanding of McCarthy's authorship practices. In this thesis I draw intensively upon archival material held at both the University of Texas at San Marcos, where McCarthy's own papers are held following their sale to the Witliff South Western Writers Collection, and the papers of Albert Erskine, currently held at the University of Virginia as part of their Small Special Collections Archive. Between the two archives, this body of material contains personal and professional correspondence between McCarthy and his various collaborators, as well as McCarthy's handwritten notebooks in which he made copious notes from his various source books and, most significantly, the various typewritten drafts and redrafts of all of McCarthy's novels. These drafts include handwritten notes from both McCarthy himself as he altered the typescripts during the redrafting process and those of his editors, who annotated the various drafts McCarthy sent them in order to suggest changes or ask questions about various aspects of the drafts. Through an engagement with these valuable sources of unpublished primary material I attempt in this thesis to resituate the input of McCarthy's editor and other collaborators into an understanding of McCarthy's work.
Subjects/Keywords: 813.54; PS American literature
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King, D. R. (2013). "Your side of the street" : Cormac McCarthy's collaborative authorship. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Nottingham. Retrieved from http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14309/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594600
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
King, Daniel Robert. “"Your side of the street" : Cormac McCarthy's collaborative authorship.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Nottingham. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14309/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594600.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
King, Daniel Robert. “"Your side of the street" : Cormac McCarthy's collaborative authorship.” 2013. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
King DR. "Your side of the street" : Cormac McCarthy's collaborative authorship. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Nottingham; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14309/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594600.
Council of Science Editors:
King DR. "Your side of the street" : Cormac McCarthy's collaborative authorship. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Nottingham; 2013. Available from: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14309/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594600
University of Nottingham
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Foster, Tim.
Escaping the split-level trap : postsuburban narratives in recent American fiction.
Degree: PhD, 2012, University of Nottingham
URL: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12636/
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► My PhD engages with a number of recent works of fiction in order to understand how American literature has commented on the emergence of a…
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▼ My PhD engages with a number of recent works of fiction in order to understand how American literature has commented on the emergence of a postsuburban environment – that is to say a cosmopolitan landscape in which the previous city/suburb binary is no longer evident. Whilst the term 'postsuburban' is resistant to easy categorisation, I use it as a mode of enquiry both to reassess what fiction has to tell literary criticism about the foundational concept of suburbia, as well as to assess contemporary writing free from the assumptions of an inherited suburban imaginary. It is my thesis that these postsuburban environments are seen by the writers who set their fictions there as places that are far more than white middle-class dystopias, and that it is a fallacy to attribute to them, as certain literary critics do, the negative cultural clichés associated with postwar suburban fictions. After offering revisionist readings of Sloan Wilson's The Man in the The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955) and Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road (1961), I consider Richard Ford's trilogy The Sportswriter (1986), Independence Day (1995), and The Lay of the Land (2006) as a representation of a classic postwar suburb that has been overtaken by development and sprawl. I focus next on T. C. Boyle's The The Tortilla Curtain Curtain (1995), and Junot Diaz's Drown (1996), which both suggest the postsuburban landscape as a place of cross-cultural exchange and re-invention. An analysis of Douglas Coupland's Microserfs (1995) follows and proposes that the physical postsuburban spaces of innovation that exist in Silicon Valley, the novel's setting, are paralleled by the changing virtual spaces of the Internet. Lastly, I explore The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2007) by Dinaw Mengestu, and Richard Price's Lush Life (2008), two novels that deal with one of the corollaries of the breakdown of the city/suburb binary and the emergence of a postsuburban environment: inner-city gentrification. An earlier version of chapter 4 was published as, Tim Foster, “‘A kingdom of a thousand princes but no kings’: The Postsuburban Network in Douglas Coupland's Microserfs,” Western American Literature 46:3 (2011).
Subjects/Keywords: 808.80358209733; PS American literature
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Foster, T. (2012). Escaping the split-level trap : postsuburban narratives in recent American fiction. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Nottingham. Retrieved from http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12636/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.559655
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Foster, Tim. “Escaping the split-level trap : postsuburban narratives in recent American fiction.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Nottingham. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12636/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.559655.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Foster, Tim. “Escaping the split-level trap : postsuburban narratives in recent American fiction.” 2012. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Foster T. Escaping the split-level trap : postsuburban narratives in recent American fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Nottingham; 2012. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12636/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.559655.
Council of Science Editors:
Foster T. Escaping the split-level trap : postsuburban narratives in recent American fiction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Nottingham; 2012. Available from: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12636/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.559655
University of Nottingham
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Thornhill, Christopher John.
Trying the stuff of creation : biblicism, tragedy, and romance in the southern fiction of Cormac McCarthy.
Degree: PhD, 2017, University of Nottingham
URL: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41314/
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► This essay presents an analysis of the religious and philosophical ideas present in the early fiction of the contemporary American writer, Cormac McCarthy. It is…
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▼ This essay presents an analysis of the religious and philosophical ideas present in the early fiction of the contemporary American writer, Cormac McCarthy. It is intended as an intervention into the controversial debate within McCarthy scholarship concerning how the perceptibly ‘religious’ nature of the author’s fictions may be described according to recognised and coherent confessions or perspectives. I argue that McCarthy’s fictions cannot be shown to conform to any particular theological or metaphysical system without significant remainder on account of their being essentially heterogeneous in their construction; and that their religious ‘significance’ lies not in their communication of a positive message, but in the presentation of what is at stake in the contrary interpretations that they uphold. I argue that the essential heterogeneity of McCarthy’s fiction is a development of the author’s reception of the complex aesthetic of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and the posture of serious and searching scepticism which that touchstone of American literature presents. The peculiar aesthetic of Moby-Dick alloys the Hellenic and Hebraic imagination, creating a synthesis of the concrete images of mythical and biblical literature, and of the narrative patterns that are native to tragedy and to romance. The effect of this complex is a literary mode that performs a suspension or opposition between a shapeless, circular, mythical world, and the created and teleological worldview declared by the biblical religions. I demonstrate how McCarthy takes up and imaginatively revises this complex of ideas in three novels (Outer Dark, Child of God, and Blood Meridian) in terms of their relation to the motifs and tropes of tragedy and romance, with a particular concern for their relation to the literature of katabasis, or spiritual and metaphysical ‘descent’. The three novels I have selected demonstrate a consistent and developing approach to McCarthy’s examination of various accounts of the material and physical nature of the world. My analysis sets out how the author’s aesthetic and narrative strategy describes an opposition between a view that is attributable to a broadly defined atheistic naturalism on the one hand, and notions of a teleologically orientated creation that is concordant with the transcendent God of the biblical religions on the other. In providing this description, I interpret how McCarthy uses this Melvillean pattern to test the viability of such oppositions, and in doing so, argue that the author’s distinctive vision should be understood as an apophatic mode that is appropriate to a faith ‘beyond the forms of faith’.
Subjects/Keywords: 813; PS American literature
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Thornhill, C. J. (2017). Trying the stuff of creation : biblicism, tragedy, and romance in the southern fiction of Cormac McCarthy. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Nottingham. Retrieved from http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41314/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722472
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Thornhill, Christopher John. “Trying the stuff of creation : biblicism, tragedy, and romance in the southern fiction of Cormac McCarthy.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Nottingham. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41314/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722472.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Thornhill, Christopher John. “Trying the stuff of creation : biblicism, tragedy, and romance in the southern fiction of Cormac McCarthy.” 2017. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Thornhill CJ. Trying the stuff of creation : biblicism, tragedy, and romance in the southern fiction of Cormac McCarthy. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Nottingham; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41314/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722472.
Council of Science Editors:
Thornhill CJ. Trying the stuff of creation : biblicism, tragedy, and romance in the southern fiction of Cormac McCarthy. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Nottingham; 2017. Available from: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41314/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722472
University of Nottingham
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Assella, Shashikala Muthumal.
Contemporary South Asian American women's fiction : the "difference".
Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Nottingham
URL: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29786/
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http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680250
► This thesis critically explores the “difference” of contemporary South Asian American women’s fiction and their fictional narratives of women’s lives, away from the ethnic postcolonial…
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▼ This thesis critically explores the “difference” of contemporary South Asian American women’s fiction and their fictional narratives of women’s lives, away from the ethnic postcolonial depictions of diasporic women. The selected novels of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Amulya Malladi, Bharti Kirchner, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Nayomi Munaweera, Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi and Shaila Abdullah studied here interrogate the depiction of South Asian women characters both within diasporic American locations and in South Asian settings. These writers establish individual identities that defy homogeneity assigned to regional identities and establish heterogeneous characters that are influenced through transnational travel. This dissertation’s engagement with exotic identities, foodways, ethno-social identities and diasporic and native socio-cultural pressures for women, offers a “different” reading of contemporary South Asian women’s fiction. The identities that are being reinvented by the selected Indian, Sri Lankan and Pakistani American women writers destabilise established boundaries for women’s identity in South Asian American women’s fiction by using old and new tropes such as folkloric myths, nostalgia, food and ethnic relationships. The transnational cosmopolitan locations that enable the re-negotiation of identities enable the women characters to fashion their own uniqueness. I argue that a “difference” in South Asian American women’s contemporary writing has emerged in recent times, that looks beyond ethno-social diasporic identities. These changes not only advance the already established tropes in women’s literature, but also address important issues of individuality, personal choices and societal pressure affecting self-reinvention and reception of these women within their societies. The analysis of under-researched yet powerful contemporary women writers makes this an important addition to the existing literary debates on varied women’s identities in fiction. I identify existing trends and evolving trends which help to map the emerging changes, making it a significant contribution to the understanding of the development of contemporary South Asian American women’s literature as a distinct body of work.
Subjects/Keywords: 813.009; PS American literature
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Assella, S. M. (2015). Contemporary South Asian American women's fiction : the "difference". (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Nottingham. Retrieved from http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29786/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680250
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Assella, Shashikala Muthumal. “Contemporary South Asian American women's fiction : the "difference".” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Nottingham. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29786/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680250.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Assella, Shashikala Muthumal. “Contemporary South Asian American women's fiction : the "difference".” 2015. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Assella SM. Contemporary South Asian American women's fiction : the "difference". [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Nottingham; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29786/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680250.
Council of Science Editors:
Assella SM. Contemporary South Asian American women's fiction : the "difference". [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Nottingham; 2015. Available from: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29786/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680250
University of Nottingham
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Monkman, James.
John Cheever's relationship with the American magazine marketplace, 1930 to 1964.
Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Nottingham
URL: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31066/
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► John Cheever published over two hundred short stories in an array of small-, mid-, and large-circulation magazines between 1930 and 1981. One hundred and twenty…
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▼ John Cheever published over two hundred short stories in an array of small-, mid-, and large-circulation magazines between 1930 and 1981. One hundred and twenty of these stories appeared in The New Yorker. During Cheever’s career and since his death in 1982, many critics have typically analysed his short stories in isolation from the conditions of their production, lest Cheever’s subversive modernist tendencies be confused with the conservative middlebrow ethos of The New Yorker, or the populist aspect of other large-circulation magazines. Critics, including Cheever’s daughter and his most recent biographer Blake Bailey, also claim that Cheever was a financial and, ultimately, artistic victim of the magazine marketplace. Drawing on largely unpublished editorial and administrative correspondence in the New Yorker Records and editorially annotated short story typescripts in the John Cheever Literary Manuscripts collection, and using a historicised close-reading practice, this thesis examines the influence of the magazine marketplace on the short fiction that Cheever produced between 1930 and 1964. It challenges the critical consensus by arguing that Cheever did not dissociate his authorship from commerciality at any point during his career, and consistently exploited the magazine marketplace to his financial and creative advantage, whether this meant temporarily producing stories for little magazines in the early 1930s and romance stories for mainstream titles in the 1940s, or selling his New Yorker rejections to its rivals, which he did throughout his career. Cheever also developed strong working relationships with his editors at The New Yorker during the 1940s and 1950s. This thesis re-evaluates these relationships by analysing comparatively the drafts, archival materials that have hitherto been neglected by critics, and published versions of some of Cheever’s best known New Yorker stories. In so doing, this thesis demonstrates the crucial role that editorial collaboration played in Cheever’s writing process.
Subjects/Keywords: 813; PS American literature
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Monkman, J. (2015). John Cheever's relationship with the American magazine marketplace, 1930 to 1964. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Nottingham. Retrieved from http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31066/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.682665
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Monkman, James. “John Cheever's relationship with the American magazine marketplace, 1930 to 1964.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Nottingham. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31066/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.682665.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Monkman, James. “John Cheever's relationship with the American magazine marketplace, 1930 to 1964.” 2015. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Monkman J. John Cheever's relationship with the American magazine marketplace, 1930 to 1964. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Nottingham; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31066/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.682665.
Council of Science Editors:
Monkman J. John Cheever's relationship with the American magazine marketplace, 1930 to 1964. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Nottingham; 2015. Available from: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31066/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.682665
University of Warwick
18.
Whitehouse, Paul Charles.
Violence and frontier in twentieth century Native American literature.
Degree: PhD, 2016, University of Warwick
URL: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/85416/
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http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.704096
► The central argument of my work is that authors Leslie Marmon Silko, Louis Owens, and Gerald Vizenor, working in the latter half of the twentieth…
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▼ The central argument of my work is that authors Leslie Marmon Silko, Louis Owens, and Gerald Vizenor, working in the latter half of the twentieth century, use violence as a literary device (literary violence) for exposing and critiquing modes of systemic violence inherent in the formative originary myths of dominant US culture, specifically the mythic frontier and West. I argue that they engage with questions arising out of the systemic and normative violence required to sustain exceptionalist and supremacist Euramerican myth, which in turn sanitise the unspeakable violence of settler colonialism. This sanitising effect produces a form of transcendent violence, so called because the violence it describes is deemed to be justified in accordance with dominant ideology. In addressing this, Silko rewrites the mythic legacies of frontier and the West, rearticulating the unspeakable violence of conquest and domination, resulting in an anti-Western, pre-apocalyptic vision that turns away from European modernity and late twentieth century capitalism, looking instead to an Indigenous worldview. Owens similarly proposes an alternative reading of frontier where binaries of racial and cultural difference become malleable and diffuse, producing unexpected breaks with established ideology and narratives of dominance. The unseen systemic violence of the provincial town, in many ways the American societal idyll in microcosm, emerges during key confrontations between Native and non-Native characters in the liminal spaces and boundaries of the provincial town. Bringing these different threads together, Vizenor critiques systemic and institutionalised violence in his fiction and non-fiction work. His breakthrough novel Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart shares key characteristics with the work of Silko and Owens in this regard. Transgressing borders of taste, binaries of simulated Indianness, and notions of Euramerican cultural dominance, Vizenor’s mocking laugh destabilises the notion of completed conquest and closed frontiers as the final word on Euramerican supremacy.
Subjects/Keywords: 810.9; PS American literature
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Whitehouse, P. C. (2016). Violence and frontier in twentieth century Native American literature. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Warwick. Retrieved from http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/85416/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.704096
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Whitehouse, Paul Charles. “Violence and frontier in twentieth century Native American literature.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Warwick. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/85416/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.704096.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Whitehouse, Paul Charles. “Violence and frontier in twentieth century Native American literature.” 2016. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Whitehouse PC. Violence and frontier in twentieth century Native American literature. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Warwick; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/85416/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.704096.
Council of Science Editors:
Whitehouse PC. Violence and frontier in twentieth century Native American literature. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Warwick; 2016. Available from: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/85416/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.704096
University of Nottingham
19.
Pickford, Benjamin.
Double writing : Ralph Waldo Emerson's theoretical poetics.
Degree: PhD, 2014, University of Nottingham
URL: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14537/
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http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.639890
► This thesis considers Ralph Waldo Emerson’s compositional process of ‘double writing’ as a distinctly theorised and intellectually coherent practice that generated discrete bodies of text:…
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▼ This thesis considers Ralph Waldo Emerson’s compositional process of ‘double writing’ as a distinctly theorised and intellectually coherent practice that generated discrete bodies of text: his private journals and notebooks; and the public essays, lectures, and poems. Throughout Emerson scholarship, critics tend to quote the two bodies without differentiation, often either neglecting the issue of their coexistence or asserting the priority of one form over the other. I contend instead that principles of self-reading, accretive reinscription, and a perpetuated relation to his own text condition Emerson’s ideas of poetic agency and the role of literature in broader socio-cultural contexts, to the extent that they become the preeminent factor in shaping his philosophical and literary aspirations. Focusing on the period 1836-50, from the beginning of the coexistence of public and private corpuses to the point at which he finalises his theory of textual relation, I trace the way in which Emerson’s ongoing textual investment first echoes—and later disrupts—aspirations to realise a philosophy of the subject steeped in the romantic tradition. The first part of the thesis examines the two textual bodies insofar as they reflect upon each other and on theories of composition, finding that Emerson gradually loses faith in the function of his public works up to 1842. In the second section of the thesis, I illustrate the continual revision his relation to text undergoes in the major works of the 1840s, as his compositional theory adapts to first conceptualise and then fulfil certain ethical obligations of the scholar and poet. I end by examining the poetic apotheosis figured by Poems (1847) and Representative Men (1850), which has little in common with his youthful aspirations, but which explains the ‘sage’-like mantle he accepted in American life and letters from the 1850s until his death in 1882. As well as revising conceptions of Emerson’s literary agency and the structure of his canon, this thesis offers an original reading of the theory of an author’s socio-cultural role in the mid nineteenth-century through the example of one of the era’s major figures.
Subjects/Keywords: 818; PS American literature
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Pickford, B. (2014). Double writing : Ralph Waldo Emerson's theoretical poetics. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Nottingham. Retrieved from http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14537/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.639890
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Pickford, Benjamin. “Double writing : Ralph Waldo Emerson's theoretical poetics.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Nottingham. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14537/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.639890.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Pickford, Benjamin. “Double writing : Ralph Waldo Emerson's theoretical poetics.” 2014. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Pickford B. Double writing : Ralph Waldo Emerson's theoretical poetics. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Nottingham; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14537/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.639890.
Council of Science Editors:
Pickford B. Double writing : Ralph Waldo Emerson's theoretical poetics. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Nottingham; 2014. Available from: http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14537/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.639890
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
20.
Dávila Sulbarán, María de Los Angeles.
Síntesis y caracterización de complejos de Ni(II), Cu(I) y Ag(I) con diferentes ligandos hemilábiles P,S, y posteriores aplicaciones en catálisis homogénea.
Degree: Departament de Química, 2016, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10803/400223
► En los últimos años los ligando hemilábiles P,X (X= S,O), han sido de gran interés en el ámbito de la catálisis homogénea debido a que…
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▼ En los últimos años los ligando hemilábiles P,X (X= S,O), han sido de gran interés en el ámbito de la catálisis homogénea debido a que posee diversos heteroátomos en su estructura, con distinta capacidad coordinante. El objetivo de la presente tesis doctoral ha sido en el estudio de la reactividad de una serie de ligandos hemilábiles mono y difosfina con diferentes metales de transición y la evaluación de los correspondientes complejos en diversos procesos catalíticos.
Se han obtenido diversos ligandos hemilábiles, siguiendo los procedimientos de síntesis desarrollados en nuestro grupo de investigación con anterioridad. Los ligandos obtenidos han sido el ligando bis-(2-difelnilfosfino)feniltioéter (DPTphos) y sus derivados monosulfurado P=S (DPTS) y disulfurado P=S,P=S (DPTS2),el compuesto bis(2-((difenilfosfino)metil)feniltioeter (DPTm) y la (2-fenilfosfino)-difeniltioéter (MPT). En el caso del ligando DPTm se han hecho ciertas mejoras en la síntesis ya descrita, y para la MPT se ha encontrado una ruta sintética alternativa, lo cual ha mejorado considerablemente los rendimientos de dichas reacciones.
Se ha estudiado la reactividad de los ligandos DPTphos, DPTS1, DPTS2, DPTm y MPT con Ni(II) y los ligandos DPTm y MPT con Cu(I), Ag (I), obteniéndose diversos compuestos de coordinación. Dichos compuestos de coordinación han podido ser aíslados y caracterizados por las técnicas habituales de espectroscopía IR, RMN de 1H, 13C{1H} y 31P {1H}, microanálisis elemental, espectrometría de masas de alta resolución, y en los casos en que ha podido obtener cristales de cálidad adecuada, se ha hecho la resolución de la estructura cristalina mediante difracción de rayos X.
Los compuestos de Cu(I) y Ni(II) obtenidos se han evaluado como agentes catalíticos para la formación de diariltioéteres por medio de reacciones de condensación de Ullmann. En el estudio de los blancos correspondientes a los ensayos anteriores, se ha podido observar la elevada efectividad catalítica de los sistemas consistentes en sales de Ni(II) y en ausencia de ligando, en el medio NaOH-DMF. En este caso, es posible obtener rendimientos de más del 99% en media hora de reacción. Estos estudios se han extendido a sales de Cu(I) con muy resultados.
Se ha desarrollado nuevos métodos de obtención de diariltioéteres a partir de los correspondientes ariltiolatos y yodoarilos, utilizando NiCl2 como catalizador. La principal ventaja de estos procesos, es la ausencia de ligandos añadidos en el sistema catalítico. También podemos destacar, la obtención de altos rendimientos en cortos tiempos de reacción, a temperaturas no muy elevadas y con proporciones de catalizador inferiores a muchos de los procesos descritos en la bibliografía.
Advisors/Committee Members: [email protected] (authoremail), true (authoremailshow), Flor Pujadas, Mª Teresa (director), Real Obradors, Juli (director), true (authorsendemail).
Subjects/Keywords: Catàlisi; Catálisis; Catalysis; Lligands PS; Ligandos PS; Ligands PS; Compuestos de coordinació; Compuestos de coordinación; Coordination compounds; Ciències Experimentals; 546
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Dávila Sulbarán, M. d. L. A. (2016). Síntesis y caracterización de complejos de Ni(II), Cu(I) y Ag(I) con diferentes ligandos hemilábiles P,S, y posteriores aplicaciones en catálisis homogénea. (Thesis). Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10803/400223
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Dávila Sulbarán, María de Los Angeles. “Síntesis y caracterización de complejos de Ni(II), Cu(I) y Ag(I) con diferentes ligandos hemilábiles P,S, y posteriores aplicaciones en catálisis homogénea.” 2016. Thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10803/400223.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Dávila Sulbarán, María de Los Angeles. “Síntesis y caracterización de complejos de Ni(II), Cu(I) y Ag(I) con diferentes ligandos hemilábiles P,S, y posteriores aplicaciones en catálisis homogénea.” 2016. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Dávila Sulbarán MdLA. Síntesis y caracterización de complejos de Ni(II), Cu(I) y Ag(I) con diferentes ligandos hemilábiles P,S, y posteriores aplicaciones en catálisis homogénea. [Internet] [Thesis]. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10803/400223.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Dávila Sulbarán MdLA. Síntesis y caracterización de complejos de Ni(II), Cu(I) y Ag(I) con diferentes ligandos hemilábiles P,S, y posteriores aplicaciones en catálisis homogénea. [Thesis]. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10803/400223
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
NSYSU
21.
Yang, Hong-ying.
The Arrangement and Application of Gold Nanoparticles in Polystyrene-block-Polybutadiene Epoxidation.
Degree: Master, Materials and Optoelectronic Science, 2010, NSYSU
URL: http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0728110-175353
► This study uses the combination of block copolymer and metal nanoparticles to array ordered structure and specific physical properties such as optics, electricity and magnetism.…
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▼ This study uses the combination of block copolymer and metal nanoparticles to array ordered structure and specific physical properties such as optics, electricity and magnetism. In this first part, 2-phenylethanethiol was used as the monolayer-protected gold nanoparticles (nps) and dispersed in block copolymer
PS-b-PB-E thin film. Two different methods are compared, the first method was
PS-b-PB-E thin film by partial crosslinked treatment then the 2-phenylethanethiol of monolayer-protected gold nanoparticles soaked into
PS-b-PB-E thin film. The second method was blended gold nps within
PS-b-PB-E directly. We found that the first method was better than second method which had arrangement dispersedly. The analyses of UV-VIS, TEM, and SAXS measurement are able to provide the positive evidence to characterize the dispersion of gold nps in diblock copolymer thin film.
In the second part, we design to manufacture the multi-nanoholes golden electrode, which has many application in catalysis, selective transit function and fuel cell electrode. We use the
PS-b-PB-E copolymer as the spherical micelle, which is the templates and then micelle surface reaction in mercaptane (S-H) function. Gold nps will use the exchange stabilizing ligands method in the micelle surface layer, and the porous gold electrode material by way of the heat treatment step.
Advisors/Committee Members: Ming Chen (chair), Shao-wei Guo (committee member), Jin-long Hong (chair), You-wang Jiang (chair).
Subjects/Keywords: gold nps; PS-b-PB-E
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Yang, H. (2010). The Arrangement and Application of Gold Nanoparticles in Polystyrene-block-Polybutadiene Epoxidation. (Thesis). NSYSU. Retrieved from http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0728110-175353
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):
Yang, Hong-ying. “The Arrangement and Application of Gold Nanoparticles in Polystyrene-block-Polybutadiene Epoxidation.” 2010. Thesis, NSYSU. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0728110-175353.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Yang, Hong-ying. “The Arrangement and Application of Gold Nanoparticles in Polystyrene-block-Polybutadiene Epoxidation.” 2010. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Yang H. The Arrangement and Application of Gold Nanoparticles in Polystyrene-block-Polybutadiene Epoxidation. [Internet] [Thesis]. NSYSU; 2010. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0728110-175353.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Yang H. The Arrangement and Application of Gold Nanoparticles in Polystyrene-block-Polybutadiene Epoxidation. [Thesis]. NSYSU; 2010. Available from: http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0728110-175353
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University of Otago
22.
McLeod, Felicity Susanna Aurelius.
Entry of antisense oligonucleotides into Streptococcus mutans
.
Degree: 2013, University of Otago
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/3753
► Infectious disease accounts for the highest percentage of preventable deaths worldwide and today’s health care systems are predominately reliant upon antibiotics to treat bacterial infections…
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▼ Infectious disease accounts for the highest percentage of preventable deaths worldwide and today’s health care systems are predominately reliant upon antibiotics to treat bacterial infections bacterial strains. Serious infection caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria has become a major global healthcare issue and there is a rapidly growing need for the development of new antimicrobials. Antisense oligonucleotides (AS-ODN) target genes in a sequence specific manner and inhibit gene function. However, barriers such as peptidoglycan, cell surface proteins such as teichoic acids and lipopolysaccharide membranes are thought to currently prevent the use of AS-ODN from becoming an effective treatment option for microbial disease as effective antisense inhibition in bacteria requires the delivery of the antisense agent across these bacterial cell barriers. Other reasons such as antisense size, charge and hydrophobicity and the Gram classification of the bacterial strain are also implicated in contributing to uptake difficulty.
Streptococcus mutans is frequently implicated as the primary etiological agent in the development of dental caries - Severe dental disease can lead to a number of serious health problems, including cardiac disease and septicaemia. In a previous study done in 2008 the ability of the combined use of zoocin A, a bacteriolytic enzyme, and two targeted
PS-ODN sequences (targeted towards fab-M and fba) to produce a synergistic inhibitory effect upon closely related streptococcal species was examined and showed that a combination of zoocin A and
PS-ODN could be used to achieve a dose-dependent inhibitory response upon bacteria that were A) susceptible to zoocin A, and B) contained the
PS-ODN target site, and it was concluded that the zoocin A was indeed causing damage to the susceptible bacterial cell walls and thus allowing the
PS-ODN entrance to the bacterial cell interior. However the large size of zoocin A precludes its possible use in clinical settings.
The current study examines a further variety of lytic antimicrobial agents for their ability to deliver
PS-ODN into S. mutans OMZ175 and produce a synergistic inhibitory effect upon growth, viability and target mRNA production. The overall hypothesis of this work was that the combined use of antisense and clinically relevant lytic agents would cause a target specific decrease in bacterial growth. This hypothesis was examined by three different experimental approaches that aimed to examine A) The down regulation of target mRNA, B) The measurement of intracellular
PS-ODN and C) The effects of different lytic agents and
PS-ODN’s on growth rates.
A RNA extraction and RT-qPCR method was developed to analyse gene expression levels in S. mutans OMZ175, including that of the fba target. Whilst a protoplasting protocol was unable to be successfully developed (in order to analyse membrane permeability), radiolabelled γ32 P-AP-ODN was used to determine which antimicrobial delivery mechanism allowed the greatest amount of
PS-ODN delivery into S. mutans OMZ175 in…
Advisors/Committee Members: Simmonds, Robin (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Streptococcus mutans;
Zoocin A;
Antisense;
PS-ODN
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McLeod, F. S. A. (2013). Entry of antisense oligonucleotides into Streptococcus mutans
. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/3753
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
McLeod, Felicity Susanna Aurelius. “Entry of antisense oligonucleotides into Streptococcus mutans
.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Otago. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10523/3753.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
McLeod, Felicity Susanna Aurelius. “Entry of antisense oligonucleotides into Streptococcus mutans
.” 2013. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
McLeod FSA. Entry of antisense oligonucleotides into Streptococcus mutans
. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Otago; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/3753.
Council of Science Editors:
McLeod FSA. Entry of antisense oligonucleotides into Streptococcus mutans
. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Otago; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/3753
University of Glasgow
23.
Redgate, Jamie Peter.
Wallace and I : cognition, consciousness, and dualism in David Foster Wallace's fiction.
Degree: PhD, 2017, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8635/
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https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.739208
► Though David Foster Wallace is well known for declaring that “Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being” (Conversations 26), what he…
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▼ Though David Foster Wallace is well known for declaring that “Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being” (Conversations 26), what he actually meant by the term “human being” has been quite forgotten. It is a truism in Wallace studies that Wallace is a posthuman writer whose characters are devoid of any kind of inner interiority or soul. This is a misreading of Wallace’s work. My argument is that Wallace’s work and his characters—though they are much neglected in Wallace studies—are animated by the tension between materialism and essentialism, and this dualism is one of the major ways in which Wallace bridges postmodern fiction with something new. My project is itself part of this post-postmodern turn, a contribution to the emerging field of cognitive literary studies which has tried to move beyond postmodernism by bringing a renewed focus on the sciences of mind to literary criticism. As yet, this field has largely focused on fiction published before the twentieth century. I expand the purview of cognitive literary studies and give a rigorous and necessary account of Wallace’s humanism. In each chapter I discuss a particular concern that Wallace shares with his predecessors (authorship; selfhood; therapy; free will), and explore how Wallace’s dualism informs his departure from postmodernism. I begin by setting out the key scientific sources for Wallace, and the embodied model of mind that was foundational to his writing and his understanding, especially after Barthes’s “Death of the Author,” of the writing process. In chapter 2, I unravel the unexamined but hugely significant influence of René Descartes on Wallace’s ghost stories, showing that Wallace’s work is not as posthuman as it is supposed to be. In chapter 3, I discuss the dualist metaphors that Wallace consistently uses to describe an individual’s experience of sickness. Focusing on the interior lives of both therapist and patient in Wallace’s work, I show that Wallace’s therapy fictions are a critical response to postmodern anti-psychiatry. Finally, in chapter 4, I reconcile Wallace’s dualist account of material body and essential mind by setting his work against both the history of the philosophy of free will and postmodern paranoid fiction. If Wallace’s fiction is about what it is to be a human being, this thesis is about the human ‘I’ at the heart of Wallace’s work.
Subjects/Keywords: 813; PR English literature; PS American literature
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Redgate, J. P. (2017). Wallace and I : cognition, consciousness, and dualism in David Foster Wallace's fiction. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8635/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.739208
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Redgate, Jamie Peter. “Wallace and I : cognition, consciousness, and dualism in David Foster Wallace's fiction.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8635/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.739208.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Redgate, Jamie Peter. “Wallace and I : cognition, consciousness, and dualism in David Foster Wallace's fiction.” 2017. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Redgate JP. Wallace and I : cognition, consciousness, and dualism in David Foster Wallace's fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8635/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.739208.
Council of Science Editors:
Redgate JP. Wallace and I : cognition, consciousness, and dualism in David Foster Wallace's fiction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2017. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8635/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.739208
University of Glasgow
24.
Naito, Hiroaki.
Vietnam fought and imagined : the images of the mythic frontier in American Vietnam War literature.
Degree: PhD, 2014, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5101/
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http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601595
► This thesis seeks to examine how a particularly American ideological formation called the frontier myth has been re-enacted, challenged, and redefined in the literary works…
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▼ This thesis seeks to examine how a particularly American ideological formation called the frontier myth has been re-enacted, challenged, and redefined in the literary works written by several American authors. Existing researches about the pervasiveness of the frontier mythology in American culture written by scholars such as Richard Slotkin, Richard Drinnon, and others demonstrate that, as the myth of the frontier–––the popular discourse that romanticizes early white settlers’ violent confrontation with American Indians in the New World wilderness–––has been deeply inscribed in America’s collective consciousness, when they faced with the war in a remote Southeast Asian country, many Americans have adopted its conventional narrative patterns, images, and vocabulary to narrate their experiences therein. The word, Indian Country–––a military jargon that US military officers commonly used to designate hostile terrains outside the control of the South Vietnamese government–––would aptly corroborate their argument. Drawing upon Edward Said’s exegesis of a structure of power that privileged Europeans assumed when they gazed at and wrote about the place and people categorized as “Oriental,” I contend that the images of the frontier frequently appearing in US Vietnam War accounts are America’s “imaginative geography” of Vietnam. By closely looking at the Vietnamese landscapes that American authors describe, I intend to investigate the extent to which the authors’ view of Vietnam are informed, or limited, by the cultural imperatives of the myth. At the same time, I will also look for instances in which the authors attempt to challenge the very discourse that they have internalized. I will read several novels and stories of American Vietnam War literature in a loosely chronological manner––from earlyier American Vietnam novels such as William Lederer’s and Eugene Burdick’s The Ugly American (1958), through three notable Vietnam–vet writers’ works published between the late ’70s and ’90s that include Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato (1978) and The Things They Carried (1990), to Denis Johnson’s Tree of Smoke (2007), a recent novel produced after 9/11. Hereby, I aim to explain the larger cultural/political significances that underlie the images of the frontier appearing in American Vietnam War narratives, and their vicissitude through time. While the authors of early US Vietnam War narratives reproduced stereotypical representations of the land and people of Vietnam that largely reflected the colonial/racist ideologies embedded in the myth, the succeeding generations of authors, with varying degrees of success, have undermined what has conventionally been regarded as America’s master narrative, by, for instance, deliberately subverting the conventional narrative patterns of the frontier myth, or by incorporating into their narratives the Vietnamese points of view that have often been omitted in earlier US Vietnam War accounts.
Subjects/Keywords: 810.9; E11 America (General); PS American literature
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Naito, H. (2014). Vietnam fought and imagined : the images of the mythic frontier in American Vietnam War literature. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5101/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601595
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Naito, Hiroaki. “Vietnam fought and imagined : the images of the mythic frontier in American Vietnam War literature.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5101/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601595.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Naito, Hiroaki. “Vietnam fought and imagined : the images of the mythic frontier in American Vietnam War literature.” 2014. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Naito H. Vietnam fought and imagined : the images of the mythic frontier in American Vietnam War literature. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5101/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601595.
Council of Science Editors:
Naito H. Vietnam fought and imagined : the images of the mythic frontier in American Vietnam War literature. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2014. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5101/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601595
University of Glasgow
25.
Kamran, Shezra.
Fantastic languages : C.S. Lewis and Ursula K. Le Guin.
Degree: PhD, 2014, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5749/
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► This thesis explores the nature and function of language as it is used in twentieth-century fantastic fiction, as represented by the work of C. S.…
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▼ This thesis explores the nature and function of language as it is used in twentieth-century fantastic fiction, as represented by the work of C. S. Lewis and Ursula K. Le Guin. In it I argue that the anti-mimetic impulse behind the language of fantasy makes it a polemical, contentious mode, which situates itself against discourses (religious and scientific) that assume the existence of a reality to which language may be said to correspond in certain clearly understood, conventional ways. Both Lewis and Le Guin suggest, by contrast, that experiential reality is an arbitrary and shifting construct, although each writer has a very different attitude towards the category of the ‘real’ and the question of how it may best be articulated. Despite the fact that Lewis uses the language of authority and Le Guin the language of liberation, they both interrogate fundamental ethical, social, political and theological evaluative assumptions embedded in language, disrupting the rigidity that conventional usage confers upon words and the concomitant human tendency to submit unquestioningly to cultural conventions. Lewis challenges the modern, secular, materialist understanding of reality, contending that metaphor has the power to undermine post-secular fixed notions and reveal new semantic fields pertaining to what he understands as the ‘spiritual’. Le Guin celebrates human and non-human embodied existence, with its possibilities and limitations, refuting any transcendent reality. The thesis is divided into two parts. Part One deals with the ‘reactionary’ school of fantasy represented by Lewis. My contention is that Lewis’s Narnian Chronicles dramatise Owen Barfield’s theory of the concomitant evolution of human consciousness and language in relation to the phenomenal world. The three chapters in this part demonstrate that in the Narnia books Lewis represents initial forms of mythical, ‘participatory’ consciousness (as Barfield calls it) – that is, a world in which no linguistic or imaginative distinction is made between the human, animal, material and spiritual dimensions; followed by the loss of participation and the consequent alienation of human beings both from immaterial things and the environment; and concluding with the renewal of participation through a new use of language. Part Two is concerned with Le Guin’s sequence of fantasy novels about the imaginary world of Earthsea. Following Darko Suvin, I divide the sequence into two trilogies, which embody two contrasting responses to the conservative fantasy represented by the Narnia books. For me, the difference between these responses can best be understood through a close examination of Le Guin’s changing attitude to language in the First and Second Trilogies, which I undertake in four chapters. The first chapter explores Le Guin’s initial collusion with Lewis’s patriarchal politics, a collusion signalled by the rigid linguistic conventions and unchanging cultural practices of her imaginary world. The three final chapters deal with the Second Earthsea Trilogy, with particular…
Subjects/Keywords: 813; PR English literature; PS American literature
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Kamran, S. (2014). Fantastic languages : C.S. Lewis and Ursula K. Le Guin. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5749/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.631052
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kamran, Shezra. “Fantastic languages : C.S. Lewis and Ursula K. Le Guin.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5749/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.631052.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kamran, Shezra. “Fantastic languages : C.S. Lewis and Ursula K. Le Guin.” 2014. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Kamran S. Fantastic languages : C.S. Lewis and Ursula K. Le Guin. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5749/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.631052.
Council of Science Editors:
Kamran S. Fantastic languages : C.S. Lewis and Ursula K. Le Guin. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2014. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5749/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.631052
26.
Atteh, Abdalkareem.
The sites of uncertainty : the politics and poetics of place in short fiction by James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner.
Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Essex
URL: http://repository.essex.ac.uk/15365/
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► This thesis is a study of the poetics and politics of place in the short stories of James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner. In…
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▼ This thesis is a study of the poetics and politics of place in the short stories of James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner. In an introduction, three chapters, each examining the short fiction of a writer, and a conclusion this thesis explores various aspects of understanding and representing place. Focusing on these writers’ short story cycles and drawing on short story theories, I argue that the main characteristic of the modernist short story cycle is the creation of interiorly diversified chronotopes. My main argument is that these writers create uncertain fictional places that could be described as dialogic. This representation of place as heterogeneous, conflicting, and uncertain reflects the changed conception of and attitude towards place in modernism. The introduction contextualizes the discussion and presents some relevant theoretical frameworks. The first chapter concentrates on the representation of place in Joyce’s Dubliners (including the interior, the exterior, the public place of the street and the space of home and country); it is argued that Joyce’s short story cycle generates a polyphonic world. In the second chapter, focusing on Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, I examine Anderson’s place, a small Midwestern town in the region of Ohio, USA, and show how an image of heterotopic place is created out of the counterbalance between grand narratives of the pastoral Midwest and the fragmentary form of the short story cycle. The third chapter deals with William Faulkner’s fictional place, his imaginary county of Yoknapatawpha and argues that Faulkner’s place is heteroglossic. The conclusion summarizes the findings in a comparative fashion, arguing that the meaning of place is not fixed and stable but rather personal and momentary reflected in the writerly texts and that the narratives these writers develop allocate an important role to the reader: to co-construct the text and thus also its image of place.
Subjects/Keywords: 823; PR English literature; PS American literature
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Atteh, A. (2015). The sites of uncertainty : the politics and poetics of place in short fiction by James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Essex. Retrieved from http://repository.essex.ac.uk/15365/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669375
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Atteh, Abdalkareem. “The sites of uncertainty : the politics and poetics of place in short fiction by James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Essex. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://repository.essex.ac.uk/15365/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669375.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Atteh, Abdalkareem. “The sites of uncertainty : the politics and poetics of place in short fiction by James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner.” 2015. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Atteh A. The sites of uncertainty : the politics and poetics of place in short fiction by James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Essex; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://repository.essex.ac.uk/15365/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669375.
Council of Science Editors:
Atteh A. The sites of uncertainty : the politics and poetics of place in short fiction by James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Essex; 2015. Available from: http://repository.essex.ac.uk/15365/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669375
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Stannard, James.
The influence and subversion of the Southern folk tradition in the novels of William Faulkner.
Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Essex
URL: http://repository.essex.ac.uk/15250/
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► I argue that the Southern folk tradition is William Faulkner’s strongest influence. Faulkner experienced both a black and white folk culture in childhood through his…
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▼ I argue that the Southern folk tradition is William Faulkner’s strongest influence. Faulkner experienced both a black and white folk culture in childhood through his Aunt Alabama and his nurse, Caroline Barr. I cover many of Faulkner’s ‘Modernist’ novels but examine their folk and vernacular elements, such as Jason Compson’s vernacular consciousness, the storytelling in Absalom, Absalom! or the trickster figure in the Snopes novels. I will be using Ed Piacentino’s The Enduring Legacy of Old Southwest Humor for secondary research and Mikhail Bakhtin’s The Dialogic Imagination and Rabelais and his World to provide a theoretical framework regarding the text as an interaction of competing discourses, and the ‘grotesque.’ I examine several writers to provide a folk ‘context.’ Augustus Baldwin Longstreet’s ‘The Horse-Swap’ uses vernacular traders, but a refined observer passes judgment on their actions. George Washington Harris brings vernacular culture to the forefront. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an entire novel written in folk speech which invests the folk narrator with a conscience. I argue Faulkner also bestows his writing with folk morality, such as V.K. Ratliff’s stand against the rapacity of Flem Snopes. I also examine the conjure tales of Charles Chesnutt. Uncle Julius exemplifies black folk wisdom being used to outsmart the white northerners, demonstrating how many use folk culture to further their own ends. The third chapter examines the grotesque, through an examination of Harris, Chesnutt and Erskine Caldwell, along with Faulkner, and Bakhtin and Rabelais’ discussion of the ‘physical’ and ‘psychological’ grotesque, the damage caused by mental illness or obsession with the past. I examine how the psychological state manifests in the physical in Faulkner’s writing, and how he humanises those society deems ‘grotesque’ through psychological insight, emphasising the cruelty in simply regarding such beings as ‘spectacle.
Subjects/Keywords: 813; PN Literature (General); PS American literature
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Stannard, J. (2015). The influence and subversion of the Southern folk tradition in the novels of William Faulkner. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Essex. Retrieved from http://repository.essex.ac.uk/15250/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669371
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Stannard, James. “The influence and subversion of the Southern folk tradition in the novels of William Faulkner.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Essex. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://repository.essex.ac.uk/15250/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669371.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Stannard, James. “The influence and subversion of the Southern folk tradition in the novels of William Faulkner.” 2015. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Stannard J. The influence and subversion of the Southern folk tradition in the novels of William Faulkner. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Essex; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://repository.essex.ac.uk/15250/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669371.
Council of Science Editors:
Stannard J. The influence and subversion of the Southern folk tradition in the novels of William Faulkner. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Essex; 2015. Available from: http://repository.essex.ac.uk/15250/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669371
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Turner, Helen M.
Gender, Madness and the Search for Identity in selected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Essex
URL: http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16820/
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► In this thesis I engage with the subject of identity and how it is formed and undermined in the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. In…
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▼ In this thesis I engage with the subject of identity and how it is formed and undermined in the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. In many of the novels and short stories a tension exists between two opposing forces. The first is the pursuit of a social identity which values inherited wealth and familial connections, mirroring in the values of the Old European World. In opposition to this is the protagonists’ personal identity that is not dependent on these long established connections to others. In characters such as Jay Gatsby and Dick Diver the latter is sacrificed in order to pursue the former. However, such an act of self-betrayal is shown to have significant, indeed disastrous consequences resulting in alcoholism, narcissism and melancholia. Alongside this study of Fitzgerald’s male characters is a consideration of women in his work and the manner in which they are used as symbols of masculine success. I chart the development of these female characters from his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in which women are primarily used to demonstrate the fears, desire and indeed character of the protagonist to more complex representations in the mature novels The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. In Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan demonstrates a growing awareness of the female voice, even as, at times, Nick Carraway’s narration attempts to suppress it. In Tender is the Night, I suggest that there are two distinct stories evident in one narrative. In this novel “her” story is as significant as “his” story. I argue that this dialogism is, in part, a product of the author’s biography at the time of the novel’s composition. The depiction of these masculine acts of self-betrayal result in locating the most important aspects of identity in work. Or, as Fitzgerald wrote in 1936, “I have at last become a writer only.”
Subjects/Keywords: 813; PR English literature; PS American literature
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Turner, H. M. (2015). Gender, Madness and the Search for Identity in selected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Essex. Retrieved from http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16820/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.688057
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Turner, Helen M. “Gender, Madness and the Search for Identity in selected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Essex. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16820/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.688057.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Turner, Helen M. “Gender, Madness and the Search for Identity in selected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.” 2015. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Turner HM. Gender, Madness and the Search for Identity in selected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Essex; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16820/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.688057.
Council of Science Editors:
Turner HM. Gender, Madness and the Search for Identity in selected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Essex; 2015. Available from: http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16820/ ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.688057
University of Glasgow
29.
Cowe, Jennifer.
Killing the Buddha : Henry Miller's long journey to Satori.
Degree: PhD, 2016, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7105/
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► The aim of this thesis to is explore the relationship between Henry Miller, Zen Buddhism and how this may offer new ways of reading Miller.…
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▼ The aim of this thesis to is explore the relationship between Henry Miller, Zen Buddhism and how this may offer new ways of reading Miller. By exploring the life-long interest of Miller in Eastern Philosophy I hope to show that far from being the misogynistic, sexual miscreant of legend, he was in fact a deeply spiritual man who wished his work to inspire and motivate readers rather than be a form of titillation. My attempt here is not to rehabilitate Miller’s reputation in regards to race, religion or gender, but rather to examine his work through a more spiritual lens. In the process I will attempt to use a more complete selection of Miller’s works than is commonly utilized by critics, although particular attention will be given to Tropic of Cancer, I will show how later, more spiritual works illuminate Miller’s Zen Buddhist beliefs. By using novels, essays, letters and pamphlets I hope to provide a wide-ranging examination of Miller’s oeuvre both chronologically and spiritually. Two key words that will be found to re-occur throughout the thesis are ‘journey’ and ‘progression’. Journey in the sense that Miller saw his own life in Zen Buddhist terms; he existed to evolve and gain awareness though his life experiences through the writing and re-writing them until he could move beyond them. Progression in the sense that movement is crucial to the development of spirituality, the mind and heart must be open to new knowledge and understanding. I will show that Miller came to conceptualise both his life and work through the Zen Buddhist teaching of The Four Noble Truths and Miller’s daily implementation of The Eight Fold Path. I will start by arguing that it is impossible to understand Miller’s journey without first examining the process by which he came to shape his own life narrative. The Zen peace of Miller’s later years was hard fought and gained at considerable price to both him and those close to him. Miller first had to develop a conceptualisation of creativity before he could be open to meaningful spiritual change. This thesis will examine the lasting influence of both Otto Rank and Henri Bergson on Miller’s idea of what it meant to be a writer, how reality in relation to his life experiences was malleable and how this provided Miller with the foundation on which to explore his spirituality. I will show how Miller’s close relationship to Surrealism caused him to re-think some of his positions in relation to language, style and freedom, yet ultimately why he felt impelled to continue on his journey to Zen Buddhism enlightenment.
Subjects/Keywords: 813; BQ Buddhism; PS American literature
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Cowe, J. (2016). Killing the Buddha : Henry Miller's long journey to Satori. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7105/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.681868
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Cowe, Jennifer. “Killing the Buddha : Henry Miller's long journey to Satori.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7105/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.681868.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Cowe, Jennifer. “Killing the Buddha : Henry Miller's long journey to Satori.” 2016. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Cowe J. Killing the Buddha : Henry Miller's long journey to Satori. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7105/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.681868.
Council of Science Editors:
Cowe J. Killing the Buddha : Henry Miller's long journey to Satori. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2016. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7105/ ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.681868
University of Glasgow
30.
Klotz, Kurt.
'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': Edgar Allan Poe, Native Americans and property.
Degree: PhD, 2011, University of Glasgow
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2647/
► This thesis investigates depictions of male dismemberment at Anglo and Native American contact sites in the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. It argues for Poe’s…
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▼ This thesis investigates depictions of male dismemberment at Anglo and Native American contact sites in the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. It argues for Poe’s subscription to a traditional theology that posits Neoplatonic concepts of the soul as mandatory for the constitution of rational humanity, and contends that he looks critically from this perspective at the contingency of national citizenship on property ownership in Jacksonian America. This investigation therefore involves an analysis of the link between property and national subjectivity, with emphasis on the recurrent trope in contemporary literature of the male body dismembered by ‘Indian warfare’, and how this body represents early America’s uncertain claim to its national territory and, by extension, the constituting condition of property. This thesis also assesses epistemological and religious formations in Poe’s fiction. Poe’s tales often express a theological anxiety, with tensions created as the knowledge systems that define Poe’s subjectivities subordinate spirituality to empirical mensuration and representation. Dramatizing this shift from teleology to epistemology and its disarticulating effect on the self are Poe’s ‘married women’ stories. Keeping in mind links between soteriological paradigms and identity construction, methodologies are partially organized around Poe’s presentation of women in his essays and tales, with particular emphasis on ‘The Poetic Principle’ and ‘Berenice’. The interpretive apparatus gained by historical contextualization and the assessment of Poe’s epistemological and religious formations is then mobilized towards reading the disarticulate male body as a nexus of Poe’s concerns about property ownership, epistemology and theology, and analyzing his tales pertaining to colonial contact, particularly: ‘The Masque of the Red Death’, ‘Morning on the Wissahiccon’, ‘The Man That Was Used Up’, ‘The Journal of Julius Rodman’, and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
Subjects/Keywords: PS American literature; PR English literature
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Klotz, K. (2011). 'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': Edgar Allan Poe, Native Americans and property. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2647/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Klotz, Kurt. “'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': Edgar Allan Poe, Native Americans and property.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Glasgow. Accessed April 12, 2021.
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2647/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Klotz, Kurt. “'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': Edgar Allan Poe, Native Americans and property.” 2011. Web. 12 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Klotz K. 'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': Edgar Allan Poe, Native Americans and property. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 12].
Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2647/.
Council of Science Editors:
Klotz K. 'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': Edgar Allan Poe, Native Americans and property. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Glasgow; 2011. Available from: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2647/
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