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"India, The New Myth--A Collective Fiction": The Construction Of History In British And Indian Fiction About India's Independence Movement, Teresa Dawn Hubel
"India, The New Myth--A Collective Fiction": The Construction Of History In British And Indian Fiction About India's Independence Movement, Teresa Dawn Hubel
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This dissertation is a study of imperialist and nationalist constructions of modern Indian history, encompassing Indo-Anglian and Anglo-Indian fiction written between 1880 and the year of India's political independence, 1947. Its theoretical approach is feminist and new historicist, and consequently it engages not only the fiction that sought to define the nationalist/imperialist moment in India but other public documents that contributed to this definition, such texts as British accounts of India's social life and moral problems, speeches, articles, and books by Indian nationalists, and analyses of the political situation written by British and Indian historians. This thesis is committed to …
The Mystical/Political Poetry Of Denise Levertov, Dorothy Nielsen
The Mystical/Political Poetry Of Denise Levertov, Dorothy Nielsen
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I examine the complex and untheorized relationship between mysticism and politics in Denise Levertov's poetry and poetics. Levertov's reputation began to suffer during the sixties when she wrote about the Vietnam War, partly because of the idea--a vestige of the New Criticism--that poetry should transcend its political and social contexts. In the case of Levertov criticism, the preference for a timeless "poetic" plane has been reinforced by the prevalent assumption that her pre-war poetics was grounded in a celebratory mysticism that precluded political commentary. In reality, Levertov's mystical poetics--which shows traces of diverse influences, including Hasidism, the Romantic lyric, objectivism …
Authority And Interpretation In Chaucer's "Tale Of Melibee", Dominick M. Grace
Authority And Interpretation In Chaucer's "Tale Of Melibee", Dominick M. Grace
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Although Chaucer's concern with problems of authority is widely recognized by scholars, the Tale of Melibee, which he assigned to his persona in the Canterbury Tales, is equally widely regarded as an unambiguous assertion of moral authority. The allegory is transparent, its moral clear, and the tale a slavishly literal translation of Renaud de Louens' Livre de Mellibee et Prudence, critics argue. Though its placement in the Canterbury context raises questions of interpretation--Chaucer prefaces the tale with overt stress on the matter of the tale's sentence, and the tale is followed by Harry's misreading of it--most critics accept the view …
"Operating From Bastard Territory": Attitudes Toward The Motherland And The Colonial Self In Four Australian And Canadian Novelists, Elisabeth J. Koster
"Operating From Bastard Territory": Attitudes Toward The Motherland And The Colonial Self In Four Australian And Canadian Novelists, Elisabeth J. Koster
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This thesis explores the question, inherent to the fiction of both Canada and Australia as settler colonies, of what images are used to depict the motherland, and how this depiction affects the new colony's ability to create its sense of distinctiveness.;Examining critical studies of these national fictions in conjunction with those novels by four prominent Australian and Canadian authors which most closely examine the relationship between colony and Britain, this study uncovers four recurrent themes related to establishing a distinctive sense of self: the conception of opposing images of Britain and the new home; the experience of exile as a …