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Texts and Pretexts : the Unity of the Rasulid State under al-Malik al-Muzaffar
No full textVarisco Daniel Martin. Texts and Pretexts : the Unity of the Rasulid State under al-Malik al-Muzaffar. In: Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée, n°67, 1993. Yémen, passé et présent de l'unité, sous la direction de Michel Tuchscherer . pp. 13-24
John Fowles' Daniel Martin: "Ill-Concealed Ghosts"
No full textJohn Fowles' Daniel Martin can best be viewed in the context of his previous novels, The Collector, The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Magus, as well as his non-fictional work, The Aristos. Fowles is particularly conscious of himself as author and his novels invite the reader to participate in them as co-creator. Therefore, the way in which Fowles develops this self-awareness in his novels and the purpose behind his use of metafiction are central to any discussion of Fowles' works.Master of Arts (MA
A rhetorical analysis of John Fowles\u27s “Daniel Martin”
No full textThis dissertation analyzes a novel to demonstrate how fiction provides strategies to influence its readers. Increasingly, critics have discussed rhetorical elements of fiction, yet what calls for more attention is the development of methods to examine the strategies of novelists and their fictional arguments. To direct more attention to the interrelationship of method and the persuasiveness of fictional worlds, this rhetorical analysis offers an exploratory method to show how one novel, Daniel Martin by John Fowles, seeks to influence readers. Daniel Martin is an ideal work for such an analysis because its author has made clear his rhetorical intent as a writer to use his work as a means to change society. The exploratory method for Daniel Martin is pluralistic in approach as it draws upon ideas from the work of Aristotle, Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Kenneth Burke. Of the six chapters in the dissertation, three through five constitute the application of the exploratory method, which utilizes the concepts of the classical appeals of logos, pathos, and ethos as well as modifications of Bakhtin\u27s idea of voices and Burke\u27s idea of identification. While the exploratory method itself represents a different way to analyze a novel as a source of potential influence, a distinctive feature of chapter three is the appropriation of The New Rhetoric\u27s discussion of informal reasoning in its recognition that values are indispensable to an argument. Developing a position that gains adherence from particular groups, Perelman focuses upon values, hierarchies, and loci of the preferable. Chapter three uses the six loci discussed—quantity, quality, order, existent, essence, person—to serve as elements of the logical appeal. Using pluralism as a feature of the exploratory method to analyze how Daniel Martin seeks to gain adherence from readers results in a number of similarities. On the other hand, the use of different tools yields different emphases and perspectives that one analytical tool used alone cannot provide. In the end, this dissertation\u27s insights point to the need for additional dialogue about Daniel Martin as well as further study about novels as vehicles of persuasion
THE TERMS OF POSTMODERN CHARACTERISTICS IN DANIEL MARTIN NOVEL OF JOHN FOWLES
No full textIn this novel, it is hardly a coincidence that Daniel Martin is reproached for his chauvinism by Jenny McNeill in much of the same way as is Miles Green by Erato. The theme of the complicity of the author or the narrator in the creation and propagation of certain male-biased stereotypes of women had already been foreshadowed in FLW, but it is in these three books that it comes out most clearly. This is because of the fact that it is these three books who concentrate on the act of writing fiction itself. It is shown that while fiction can help to deconstruct certain meta-narratives, the author himself (the pronoun being deliberately masculine here) is at times propagating the very stereotypes he's trying to deconstruct. Finally, in Daniel Martin, Fowles illustrates the literal and metaphorical quest and the self-discovery of his character Daniel Martin (Dan), who struggles to shape his identity and his art, to acquire a sense of unity and to see life and himself totally. In this sense, in the novel, the multiplicity of the fragmented and discontinuous narrators, characters, settings and events, the shift of time and places, simultaneous forward and backward movements, reflect the distinctive characteristics of the postmodern novel. Consequently, in Fowles’s Daniel Martin, the fragments of Dan’s life are portrayed within the fragmented and discontinuous texts in which Dan attempts to capture reality, to realize the connection of his past with his present and to gain whole sight. In this postmodern context, the protagonist’s attempts to discover his identity, to broaden his mind and enlarge his vision through his quest, like the efforts of the protagonist in a Victorian Bildungsroman, contribute to the unique and distinctive structure of the novel, thus at the end the protagonist achieves realizing his unexplored identity through his quest.
 
Daniel Martin’s Multiple Journeys
No full textModern literature modifies the pattern on which most western narration was founded. The hero’s adventures come to exhibit the same dependence on initial conditions as dynamical systems do. In John Fowles’s novel, Daniel Martin, both character and author benefit from multiple journeys, the fractal characteristics of the novel standing in contrast with the wholeness of the vision
Ethnic identity, political identity and ethnic conflict: simulating the effect of congruence between the two identities on ethnic violence and conflict
No full textThis thesis outlines and presents an alternative hypothetical process to the emergence of ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflicts, rather than being dependent upon pre-existing 'ancient hatreds', are instead the result of a congruence between ethnic and political identity which grants individuals the ability to use ethnicity to identify and eliminate political threats. This hypothesis is formed by the examination of three case studies of ethnic conflict: Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Croatia. This hypothesis is then formalised and tested using an agent based simulation in which agent interactions are dependent upon ethnic and political identity and the congruence between the two. As predicted there was a strong positive correlation between how accurately ethnic identity reflected political identity and the level of ethnically motivated violence in the simulation, although the relationship was not linear. Furthermore the effect of a shift in congruence was found to be roughly comparable to the effect of initialising agents with a moderate level of pre-existing ethnic antagonism
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