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The Dialogical Keats: Studies In A Bakhtinian Approach To Keats' Narrative Poems, Michael J. Sider
The Dialogical Keats: Studies In A Bakhtinian Approach To Keats' Narrative Poems, Michael J. Sider
Digitized Theses
A tradition of criticism in Keats studies has constructed a view of the poet as a writer who is entirely disengaged from history and of his poems as completely finished products, self-contained and ahistorical. This view of the poet and his poems dominates our present understanding of Keats. This dissertation, "The dialogical Keats: Studies in a Bakhtinian approach to Keats' narrative poems," is an attempt to develop a reading of Keats' poetry which uncovers those qualities in the poems that have been denied by the tradition of Keats criticism. Bakhtin's view of language as shared social territory provides a tool …
The Divided Text: Intertextual Ambivalence In Timothy Findley's Novels, Anne Elizabeth Bailey
The Divided Text: Intertextual Ambivalence In Timothy Findley's Novels, Anne Elizabeth Bailey
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This thesis examines the ambiguous function of intertexts within Timothy Findley's novels. His fiction is in constant dialogue with other literary texts and conventions as well as numerous social, economic, and political discourses. This intertextual dialogue politicizes Findley's work because the re-presentation of intertexts often subverts and challenges ideological biases, revealing sexist, racist, and totalitarian features. However, the repetition of intertexts not only implies difference but also similarity, a paradox which creates ambiguity within Findley's novels. I propose that this ambivalence is evident in both the form and content of Findley's work, arguing that the relationship between his own texts …
Meaning And Matricide: Reading Woolf Via Kristeva, Miglena I. Nikolchina
Meaning And Matricide: Reading Woolf Via Kristeva, Miglena I. Nikolchina
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The thesis examines the psychoanalytic myth of matricide in its relevance for a feminist understanding of literary history. The first half of the dissertation explores the problem of matricide in the terms offered by Kristeva's theory. My study emphasizes the larger context of Kristeva's work which is not confined to Freud and Lacan only; the effects of its cultural substratum involving such diverse traits as Byzantine iconograpy, East Orthodox dogma, and Bulgarian language and folklore; and the implications of its form as a "polylogue"--i.e. a transmutation of Bakhtin's polyphonic novel into a theory conscious of its fictional and semiotic dimensions.;In …
Commercial Relations In French Farce, 1450-1550, Sharon Lynn Collingwood
Commercial Relations In French Farce, 1450-1550, Sharon Lynn Collingwood
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Although the Farce is filled with marketplace scenes which present merchants and craftspeople engaged in everyday activities, little work has been done on the commercial elements of this bourgeois genre. This thesis studies the language and customs of the marketplace, in order to gain a better understanding of the frequent commercial humour seen in the Farce.;Chapter 1 discusses the thematic importance of money and monetary systems for the Farce, and provides a basis for an understanding of commercial activity in the following chapters. Chapter 2 examines the English manuals of French conversation, which are a rich source for the study …
"His Body Well Be Red": The Politics Of Representing The Body In "The Faerie Queene", David Sean Kinahan
"His Body Well Be Red": The Politics Of Representing The Body In "The Faerie Queene", David Sean Kinahan
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This study explores the representations of the body in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and several other early modern texts. It takes as its premise the Foucauldian notion that the body, born into culture, is never entirely present in itself, but that it is actively produced in discourse; the body is not simply the object on which power operates but the result of a negotiation of its fashionings. The apparent naturalness of bodily presence is used in discursive practice for its authority, and constructions of the body lend formative force to ideological and political ideas and organizations. The regulation of …
Lyric Trials Lyric And Rhetoric In Contemporary Poetry: Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, A R Ammons, John Ashbery, Kevin Vincent Mcguirk
Lyric Trials Lyric And Rhetoric In Contemporary Poetry: Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, A R Ammons, John Ashbery, Kevin Vincent Mcguirk
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Lyric Trials is a comparative study of four contemporary lyric poets: Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, A. R. Ammons, and John Ashbery. Lyric is important in postmodern criticism because it serves as a point of self-definition for both its defenders and its opponents. Yet lyric has itself received little critical attention. This study aims, then, to revise and complicate our received notions about lyric--as expressing pure subjectivity, as autotelic poem--by examining the work of four quite different poets, all of whom have engaged in dialogue with post-Romantic assumptions. My study concerns itself with relations between image and discourse, lyric and the …
Radical Possibilities: Literature In The English Revolution, 1640-1660, Brian Leonard Patton
Radical Possibilities: Literature In The English Revolution, 1640-1660, Brian Leonard Patton
Digitized Theses
This dissertation explores the circulation of radical social and political ideas in the literature of the 1640-1660 Revolution, when England's most fundamental institutions, from the monarchy to the patriarchal family, appeared in danger of annihilation. For students of literature, the period is so rich that its relative neglect seems remarkable. A lapse in government control over the nation's printing presses resulted in a veritable explosion of books, pamphlets and broadsides, and a literature that offers an unprecedented diversity of views and voices. Surveying a wide range of texts, from the familiar to the lesser-known, my study draws upon insights gleaned …