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Writing Gender In Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction, Li Guo

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Women’s tanci, or “plucking rhymes,” are chantefable narratives written by upper-class educated women from seventeenth-century to early twentieth-century China. Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction offers a timely study on early modern Chinese women’s representations of gender, nation, and political activism in their tanci works before and after the Taiping Rebellion (1850 to 1864), as well as their depictions of warfare and social unrest.

Women tanci authors’ redefinition of female exemplarity within the Confucian orthodox discourses of virtue, talent, chastity, and political integrity could be bourgeoning expressions of female exceptionalism and could have foreshadowed protofeminist ideals …

Nation(S) And Narrative(S) In Forms Of Chinese Culture, Angela Chun Ling Wei

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation aims to explore the difference in "forms" between literary works and their adapted films, and then examine the relationships between the narrative and subject matter both in written and motion-picture form. In the process, the artistic relationship to life narratives and changes in national culture and government will be explored, employing the backdrop of four important national crises in history: the cultural revolution in mainland China, post-civil war Taiwan, Japanese hegemony in Shanghai, and the 1997 return of Hong Kong. The works covered are novels from Modern Chinese literature and their adapted films, King of Children, A …

Object Expression: Diligent Realism In The Works Of Roland Barthes, Elena Ferrante, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Valeria Luiselli, And W. G. Sebald, John Knight

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In the past twenty years, ambiguous yet meaningful encounters with objects have become a trope in contemporary fiction. Collections and archives, found objects and commonplace articles of modern life have especially substantiated literature that engages themes of displacement and selfhood. The method of incorporating objects into these works ranges from explicit cabinets of curiosities to more subtle appearances, but in each case material reality is the conduit for fundamental expressions of character. These authors draw the reader’s gaze toward an object as a way to indirectly articulate subjective experience, conspicuously displacing the central concerns of a text. This study examines …

Critical Climates: Stimmung, Voice And Mythopoesis In German Literature From 1950–1989, Marc Cesar Rickenbach

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Critical Climates examines the interest in myth among a number of literary figures from 1950 to 1989 in relation to the concurrent re-emergence of the German aesthetic concept of Stimmung. At once referring to atmosphere, milieu, mood, disposition and harmony, while carrying along its root Stimme, or voice, this dissertation shows how Stimmung informed a literary practice among German-language authors that engaged the relationship between narrative, ideology and collective moods in a way that can be spoken of in terms of a mythopoesis. This project builds upon contemporary scholarship that focuses on Stimmung as a way to refigure …

Prophecy, Emanation, And The Mediterranean Middle Ages, Alberto Gelmi

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation explores the notion of prophecy as a semiotic construct in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on a chronological span that runs from Late Antiquity to the 14^th century. It argues that theories of prophecy offer useful insights in the domain of rhetoric and not just in epistemology, as scholarship has predominantly contended. The first two chapters survey the trendsetting work of Augustine, al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, and Maimonides, arguing that their semiotic angle on prophecy depends on a structural affinity with the metaphysical template of emanationism as formulated by Plotinus and Proclus, whose teachings went often misrepresented or …

The Features Of The Idiostyle Of Zulfia, Victoria Anatolyevna Gudzina

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Introduction. This article examines the poetic heritage of the outstanding Uzbek poetess Zulfiya, who is the brightest figure in Uzbek poetry. The 30-90s of the XX century, when Zulfiya made her debut and became famous for her poems, was a time of intense search in the artistic life of Uzbekistan. Description of the specifics of the individual style of the Uzbek poetess of the XX century Zulfiya is an urgent task of modern literary criticism. It should also be recognized that Zulfiya's connections with the previous tradition are insufficiently studied in revealing the inner world of the lyric heroine. Research …

The Problem Of Family And Family Values In "Women's Prose» Of Victoria Tokareva And Zulfiya Kurolboy Kizi, Feruza Rashidovna Murtazaeva, Lola Rakhimovna Babaeva

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Abstract. The article is devoted to the understanding of family relationships in "women's prose". The material for studying the problem was the works of Victoria Tokareva and Zulfiya Kurolboy kizi, the study of this problem on the example of Russian and Uzbek "women's prose" allows us to deepen the understanding of the modern literary process, which notes that in the current world there has been a replacement of positions in the interaction of three different-level subjects: society, family and individual. The phenomenon of an inverted pyramid can be traced: if earlier it was based on an individual, and at the …

Peculiarities Of Modern Uzbek Children`S Literature (On The Example Of Khudoiberdi Tokhtaboyev`S Works), Akhtam Rajabov, Lola Jalilovna Jalilova

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Introduction. In the Uzbek children's literature of the period of independence, the influence of national pedagogy, oral folk art is traced, which leads to the strengthening of the national color in the works, the awareness of folk wisdom, the upbringing of positive qualities, the enrichment of the speech of children with national concepts and terms. The coverage of spiritual and educational problems of the socio-political environment with the help of human emotions and experiences is observed in the works of Uzbek fiction. Research methods. In order to create fiction, it is necessary to study the child's psyche in depth. In …

Interpretation Of Stylistic Devices And Methods In ''The Hobbit'', Sokhiba Zaripova

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Background. The origin, popularity and importance of high fiction in English literature are directly linked to Tolkien's work. Tolkien’s novels were the reasons for the critical rise of English fiction to some extent. His “Hobbit” achieved great success at that time and it was the most popular work among readers. When L. Baum created examples of the fantasy genre, detailed historical events, settings and landscapes were considered as the part of the such genre. On the contrary, Tolkien, refined and elevated these concepts. Tolkien set out to associate the roots of his ideas, which embodied location and time, in the …

Color Symbols And Ethnolinguistic Aspects In English And Uzbek Folk Tales, Aziza Choliboyevna Nusratova

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Background. The article provides a lot of information about the commonalities between the genres of English and Uzbek folklore. In addition, in English and Uzbek fairy tales, many writers have expressed their views on the harmony of colors. There is also information about the differences between English and Uzbek fairy tales. Methods. From time immemorial, man has not only fought for his own survival, but also for the longevity of his tribe. Consequently, the content of alla, rubbish, fairy tales and riddles is primarily aimed at shaping a conscious, strong, agile and agile human upbringing. People's perceptions of the world …

Interconnection Of Language And Culture In The World Literature, Ikbol Komiljonovna Kozieva, Dilnora Zokirdjanovna Chorakulova

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Background. The language, reflecting the originality of the people, the national spirit, the national vision of the world, the national culture, represents the united spiritual energy of the people, which is imprinted in certain sounds. The "national spirit" is the driving force behind the development of the language. "Language is a constantly renewed work of the spirit to make the articulated sound suitable for the expression of thought." The concept of "internal form" is considered in connection with the concept of "national spirit". The most important attribute of language, Humboldt singles out the "linguistic internal form", which means the totality …

Nicknames In Fiction: On The Example Of Abdulla Kahhar`S Stories, Yulduz Yusuf Qizi Tursunova

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Abstract. As you know, the semantic and functional types of Uzbek anthroponymy are the names of people, surnames, patronymics and nicknames. The creator of a fictional work applies overwhelming number of concepts in terms of anthroponomy. Nicknames play a particularly significant role in representing the stylistic aspects of the work. In addition, nicknames also perform functional tasks. The author carries out their transition from the appellative level to the onomastic level. The article provides a linguistic analysis of the nicknames presented in the stories of Abdullah Kahhar. We will briefly focus on the anthroponymic units of onomastics of the Uzbek …

The Genre Of Fantasy And Its Characteristic Features (The Novel "The Lord Of The Rings" By J.R.R. Tolkien), Khalimakhon Khakimova

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Introduction. This article analyzes the genre of fantasy and its peculiarities in THE NOVEL "THE LORD OF THE RINGS" by J.R.R. Tolkien. Modern literature is replete with works in the genre of fantasy. The twentieth century gave birth to an abundance of genre varieties of fantasy, far removed from the classic works of the last century. In the second half of the century, such kind of works written by different authors became most actively developing. It can be argued that fantasy is a genre of its own. Research methods. Fantasy works have been among the most popular in modern literature …

The Paradox Of The European Discourse About The Moors: A Reading Of Gorge Peel’S The Battle Of Alcazar, Limame Barbouchi

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The European literature is fraught with the stories of the Moorish villains and the dark side of their presence in the west as the Other and a threat. The post-colonial writers, critics and even some commentators have tried to reevaluate these works and shed lights on the canonical orientation for the sake of correcting and refraining these misconceptions and representations. In this article, the aim is to analyze texts and stories to dismantle the European discourse on race and to understand the extent to which the European canonized texts canbe taken for granted as a haven of European cultural discourse …

Robert Challe, Ou Mutanabbi Réincarné, Driss Aissaoui

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This article is about making parallel between two different personality,different in origins and culture different in the historical period where theylived,

The poet Al Mutanabbi andthe philosopher Robert Challe lived in verry different time and space and culture but they had almost the same life.

this parallelism is interesting in the way that the two man had similarities lntheirlivesand destiny and faced similar circumstances and difficulties.

Entre Le Mirage Et La Réalité : L’Histoire D’Une Migration Au Canada, Irène Oore

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Having a better life is the reason why most people leave their country to Canada

This story is about a Moroccan family who has a comfortable life in Casablanca ,but the husband choose to immigrate to Canada to secure his children future and to seek the Canadian dream, at first they were fascinated by everything in this country , then comes the reality problem of integration in the new world , cultural conflicts, financial problems and family problems at the end they lost each other’s ,most Moroccan immigrants loose the control of their lives and the control of their families.

La Quête D’Une Dialectique De L’Occident Et De L’Orient Dans La Civilisation, Ma Mère !... De Driss Chraïbi, Abderrahim Bentaibi

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The contact between oriental and occidental world is always presented as problematic and conflicts but in “la civilization ma mère”DRISS CHRAIBI presented this relationship as favorable and positive.

In this article we are presenting how the writer pacifies these two worlds, in the story the mother which symbolizes the orient (traditional -ignorance) makes a first contact with the occident world by two means radio and television (two important symbols of occidental civilization), a perfect harmony is created between two different worlds bytaking what is good and benefit from the occidental civilization and keeping contact with traditions and origins.

Translational Stages: Chinese Theatrical Modernism, Annelise Finegan Wasmoen

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Translation in relation to theater is understudied and seldom theorized. This dissertation shows that connecting the two practices through historical examples promotes new ways of looking at what is conventionally called intercultural theater. By translation in relation to theater, I refer to the complex and related processes of the interlingual translation of scripts, the intersemiotic translation of script to stage, and the intrasemiotic translation between theatrical forms. The Chinese genre of theater known as huaju 话剧 in the decades studied here, the 1910s to 1930s, has been described as borrowed from the Western naturalist or realist stage, but I recast …

Petrofiction In America: From The 1970s To The Present, Wenjia Chen

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Situated within a consensus in petroculture studies about the absence of oil in American novels, which dates back to Amitav Ghosh’s 1992 article “Petrofiction,” my dissertation aims to reexamine oil’s literary blockages as well as articulations in American fiction. By analysis of selected texts from the 1970s to the present, in which our oil ontologies are either significantly articulated or manifestly suppressed, I hope to expand the archive of petrofiction and thus to redefine the genre in a way that moves beyond Ghosh’s too restricted definition. A defining feature of petrofiction is what I call the “oil unconscious”, which stresses …

How Bojack Horseman Got Too Real: Audience Engagement And A Critique Of Capitalism, Camille Le Pioufle

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

What can a cartoon tell us about the state of capitalist societies? This study examines the case of Netflix adult animated TV show BoJack Horseman (2014-2020) with the aim of understanding the mechanisms at play in the formation of the critique of capitalism. It investigates the narrative and cinematographic devices employed by the show to construct a realistic portrayal of American capitalist system and its harmful consequences on individuals and society in general.

Through the analysis of realism, self-referentiality and intertextuality, the star system, and processes of subsumption and commodification, this work comes to the conclusion that BoJack Horseman ‘got …