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Anne as Pagan, Anne as Queer
No full text‘Anne as Pagan, Anne as Queer’ is a critical and creative answer to the question: How do we construct Anne Shirley, and what does she mean to us? This creative research submission is a work of fanfiction, specifically a mash up based on Anne of the Island, L.M.M. Montgomery’s sequel to Anne of Green Gables. In this short work of fiction (under 4 thousand words) Anne is revealed as a changeling, one of the Faerie Folk, and also a being not strictly male or female; sometimes neither, sometimes both. The mash up is based on the last two chapters of Anne of the Island, the scenes in which Gilbert Blythe is seriously ill and Anne realises she loves him. This realisation causes Anne, in this version, to reveal to Gilbert that she is both non-human and not a girl, and to use Faerie magic to save Gilbert’s life. Anne’s revelation causes Gilbert a great relief, as he has been keeping a secret also - that he too is queer. The piece has an accompanying research statement and reflection, that reflects on the ways the contributor/author interprets Anne, as a being troubled by gender, and not strictly gender conforming. The much-loved scene from Anne of Green Gables in which Anne realises she is not wanted by the Cuthberts because she is not a boy is inserted into the mash up (as a memory) as this scene is the principal cause for the contributor’s identification with Anne as a gender non-conforming figure who resists gender expectations. Overall, this creative and critical work and reflection queers both Anne as a character and the Anne of the Island novel.Book chapter - work of fiction with a critical reflective essa
Interview with Anne Russell
No full textInterview with Anne Russell, playwright and author of several books on local history, including Wilmington: A Pictoral History
A sojourn in Paris 1824-25: sex and sociability in the manuscript writings of Anne Lister (1791-1840)
Get PDFThis thesis examines the day to day practices that constituted Anne Lister's (1791-1840) sexuality and sociability within the range of her writings, as well as her society. Anne's writings were a detailed account, spanning her lifetime, of her own love and relationships with the 'fairer sex' (Whitbread 1988, 145). Anne's sociality, seen in her correspondence and plain handwritten journal entries, has been explored by Muriel Green in Miss Lister of Shibden Hall and Jill Liddington in Female Fortune and Nature's Domain (Green 1992; Liddington 1998; 2003). As a gentlewoman of adequate means, Anne has garnered some attention from women's historians interested in her agency within an early nineteenth century social and historical context. Anne's sexual identity has been extensively analysed over the past nearly twenty years by lesbian feminists, queer theorists, women's historians and historians of sexuality concerned with the history and development of modern Western female homosexuality and gender. The source for theorising Anne's sexuality has been the edited selections of the crypted journal entries, published by Helena Whitbread in I Know My Own Heart and No Priest but Love (Whitbread 1988; 1992). However, many analyses deal either with the theorisation of Anne's sexuality or her sociality; the theoretical difficulty with reconciling these categories has troubled the analysis of her complex subjectivity. Drawing upon the archival materials, I have used an interdisciplinary feminist approach to analyse the sexual and social processes of Anne's everyday interactions in her writings. Taking the seven month period of the sojourn to Paris in 1824-25, I have focused upon Anne's textual practices within her journal volume and letters during her residence in Paris, her social practices with the other guests at the guesthouse 24 Place Vendome and her sexual practices with her lover, the widow Mrs. Maria Barlow. The journal volumes and correspondence are a valuable historical record of one gentlewoman's engagement with early nineteenth century British culture
Editor's inscription in Valentine Duval : an autobiography of the last century
No full textEditor Anne Manning's gift inscription to author William Stebbing (1832–1926), "To William Stebbing from his affectionate friend the editor Nov. 2, 1860".Manning, Anne, 1807-1879
Dr. Anne Koch
No full textDr. Anne Koch, author of the book It Never Goes Away: Gender Transition at a Mature Age, meets with students Kolby Nelson after a speech at PCOM.https://digitalcommons.pcom.edu/pa_2020_photos/1065/thumbnail.jp
Réécritures bibliques chez Paul Claudel, André Gide et Albert Camus : Une étude intertextuelle sur dix oeuvres littéraires
No full textThe focus of this study is on textual links between ten fictional works by three French writers and the Bible. The text-orientated study illuminates how palimpsestuous writing has been actualised in the works of Paul Claudel (1868 1955), André Gide (1869-1951) and Albert Camus (1913-1960). In this dissertation, the biblical hypotext, an earlier text that the author s text imitates or transforms, is considered one of the most significant features in their works, opening up whole new interpretations of their stories. The study concentrates more precisely on the analysis of ten fictional oeuvres, narratives or plays. Some of the works are more hypertextual than others but all are in a paratextual relation to a biblical story: their titles build the first link to the writings of the Bible. Furthermore, the authors form unique, precise and opposite relationships between their text and the biblical text. Each refers to a text, a character, or an event in the Bible, or points out a question which a specific part of the Old or the New Testament evokes.
The dissertation describes the differences between diverse theories of intertextuality, which examine the presence of an earlier text in another text but approach the relation in a different manner. The research shows how the intertextual concepts of Julia Kristeva, Gérard Genette and Kiril Taranovsky differ from one another. To examine textual relations and the palimpsestuous nature of literary discourse, the research utilizes the various hypertextual categories defined by Genette in Palimpsestes Literature in the Second Degree (1982). The study favors the notion of transposition and demonstrates how it can be used even to explore literary texts that are only modestly hypertextual. Unlike Genette, this study does not prefer massively hypertextual works to implicitly hypertextual works but pays attention in addition to diverse techniques of allusion to show links to other texts.
The detailed analysis of the authors rewrites allows not only for the examination of the literary text itself but also the consideration of the religious, political, aesthetic and ethical matters that are present in the texts as well as their significance in the writers worldviews. One of the key findings of this investigation is that a writer s interpretation of a biblical text depends on existing biblical interpretations, such as institutional interpretations (Catholic or Protestant) or ones based on the works of the Church Fathers (Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas). In fact, the selected literary texts reveal critical re-readings of the Bible and characteristics of Christian apology.
Each author featured in this study has a very different relation to Christianity: Paul Claudel is a practicing Catholic; André Gide who comes from a Protestant background is anti-religion; Albert Camus is an agnostic from a Catholic background. The case of Claudel is interesting: in his oeuvre, the biblical re-writing integrates the Catholic dogma and the influence of Saint Thomas. The writing of Gide proves the influence of the French Protestantism of his era; whereas Camus interpretation of the biblical text is a consequence of a personal and selective reading containing reflections of Saint Augustine s notions.
The significance of this study for literary research is to demonstrate that it is possible to apply precise theoretical models and exegesis in order to create interpretations that establish new meanings. The study also points out the relationship between literature and religion from a text-orientated perspective.Ranskan 1900-luvun kirjallisuutta koskevassa väitöskirjassani tutkin raamattuviitteitä kolmen kansainvälisestikin merkittävän ranskalaiskirjailijan tuotannossa. Työssäni osoitan tekstianalyysin keinoin, miten intertekstuaalinen kirjoittaminen toteutuu Paul Claudelin (1868-1955), André Giden (1869-1951) ja Albert Camus'n (1913-1960) tuotannoissa. Näiden kolmen kirjailijan valinta on kiinnostava, koska heillä kaikilla on erilainen suhde kristinuskoon: Gide on saanut tiukan protestanttisen kasvatuksen; Camus on agnostikko; Claudel on tunnustuksellinen katolinen kirjailija. Kirjailijoiden erilainen lähtökohta vaikuttaa siihen, miten he lukevat ja uudelleenkirjoittavat Raamattua ja miten he peilaavat ajatteluaan kristinuskoon. Hyvin usein raamattuviitteet ovat yhteydessä myös yhteiskunnallisiin ja sosiaalisiin kysymyksiin.
Väitöskirjani korpuksessa on kymmenen teosta, jotka ovat joko kokonaisvaltaisia muunnelmia raamatunkertomuksista ja/tai jotka sisältävät runsaasti yksittäisiä raamattualluusioita. Myös tutkimieni teosten nimissä on jo selkeä viittaus Raamattuun. Tällaisia teoksia ovat esimerkiksi Giden La Porte étroite (1909, suom. Ahdas portti), Camus'n La Chute (1956, suom. Putoaminen)ja Claudelin L'Annonce faite à Marie (1910). Gérard Genetten hypertekstuaalisuuteen ja kertomuksen teoriaan eli narratologiaan liittyvät käsitteet muodostavat tutkimukseni teoreettisen viitekehyksen. Myös eksegetiikkaa hyödyntäen väitöskirjani osoittaa, että Gide käyttää Raamattua kuvatessaan sitä, miten tiukka uskonnollisuus on este minuuden ja yksilöllisyyden kasvulle; Claudel hakee Raamatusta tukea ajattelulleen, jonka mukaan maallistumisen ja tunnustuksellisuudesta luopumisen seurauksia ovat henkinen köyhtyminen ja mielen raaistuminen; kun taas Camus etsii Raamatusta syvyyttä eksistentiaalisille mm. vapauden sekä syyllisyyden teemoilleen.
Tutkimukseni sijoittuu niiden muiden tutkimusten rinnalle, jotka ovat havainnoineet Raamattua jonkin kaunokirjallisen tekstin intertekstinä ja jotka ovat siten pohtineet kristinuskon ja kirjallisuuden suhdetta. Se rinnastuu myös ranskalaisen yleisen kirjallisuustieteen emeritusprofessorin Anne-Marie Pelletier'n tutkimuksiin, joissa tarkastellaan kirjallisuudentutkimuksen (analyse du récit, les théories de l' intertextualité) ja nykykielitieteen (les théories de l'énonciation) menetelmin raamatunkertomuksia. Väitöstyöni osoittaa, kuinka kirjallisuudentutkimuksessa on mahdollista soveltaa sekä selkeitä teoriamalleja että eksegetiikkaa systemaattisen ja uusia merkityksiä avaavan tulkinnan luomisessa. Tulkitessani näin juutalais-kristillistä kulttuuriperintöä kirjallisuudentutkimuksen keinoin haluan korostaa kulttuurin ja uskonnon välistä sidettä onhan länsimainen kulttuuri rakentunut suurilta osin juutalais-kristillisten arvojen pohjalle. Väitöskirjatutkimukseni antaa mahdollisuuden verrata Ranskan 1900-l. alkupuolen kirjailijoiden ajatuksia siihen keskusteluun, jota nyt käydään uskonnon roolista yhteiskunnassa. Camus ja Gide ovat esimerkkejä tunnustuksettomista kirjailijoista, jotka kuitenkin tunsivat ja osasivat tarkasti nimetä sen mihin eivät uskoneet.ei saavutettav
Dr. Anne Koch and Kolby Nelson
No full textDr. Anne Koch, author of the book It Never Goes Away: Gender Transition at a Mature Age, meets with student Kolby Nelson after a speech at PCOM.https://digitalcommons.pcom.edu/pa_2020_photos/1064/thumbnail.jp
Prairie Gate Literary Festival Welcomes Author Anne Panning
Get PDFMorris will welcome author Anne Panning on Friday, November 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the McGinnis Room of Briggs Library. Panning will read from her new novel, Butter
'The cracked mirror': Anne Sexton's poetics of self-representation
No full textThis thesis re-evaluates the work of the poet Anne Sexton (1928-1974), concentrating, in particular, on the indeterminacies, contradictions and aporia which it finds to be characteristic of her ostensibly frank and self-revelatory writing. The study is based on a close textual
analysis of Sexton's writing, is informed by oststructuralist theories, and is sustained by an
examination and discussion of archive collections of her previously unpublished papers. In seeking an understanding of Sexton's poetics, the thesis identifies and interrogates the strategies of denial and obfuscation apparent in her own explication of her work - principally, by scrutiny of the unpublished, and previously unresearched, drafts of a series of lectures
which she delivered in 1972. Chapters One and Two consider the origins of `confessional' or - Sexton's preferred term - 'personal' poetry and reassess her place within contemporary poetry. They suggest that
Sexton's writing is engaged in a process of negotiation and contestation, both with the boundaries and expectations of confessionalism, and with the strictures of T. S. Eliot's theory of `impersonality'. In support of these arguments, Chapter Two offer a reading of Sexton's
little-known poem, `Hurry Up Please It's Time', alongside its intertext, Eliot's The Waste Land. Chapter Three reassesses received views of the supposedly beneficial interrelationship between confessional speaker and reader. It examines Sexton's appropriation of dramatic
masks and personae and her use of metaphors of striptease and prostitution, and suggests that these are employed simultaneously to appease and to repel an intrusive audience. Similarly, Chapters Four and Five trace Sexton's problematisation of two previously-accepted tenets of confessional poetry: its status as autobiography and its truthfulness, drawing attention to the techniques employed in order to give the impression of both. Chapter Six considers Sexton's
problematic engagement with a language which is not malleable, transparent, and referential but, rather, is experienced as uncooperative and occlusive. Finally, the thesis recuperates Sexton from the common charge of narcissism, arguing that it is the writing, rather than the poet, which is self-reflexive and self-conscious. In this respect, it concludes that her work - perhaps unexpectedly - anticipates many of the tendencies of postmodernist writing
Greenmount Smiling Anne
Get PDFThe beauty of Anne and the love between her and a manhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_ire/1059/thumbnail.jp
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