PHD theses : Arts
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Item A Comparative Study of Marianne Moore’s and Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetic Style with Reference to Selected Poems(Al-Neelain University, 2020) Abdulgaffar Mohammed Saeed AbdellahAbstract Stylistics – nowadays, is considered one of the most important fundamentals of objective interpretation and appreciation of literary texts and that is due to its great concern with the writers’ style. The present study investigates the salient stylistic devices in Marianne Moore’s and Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry and their role in crystalizing the poems meanings and subject matters. It seeks to stylistically analyse Moore’s and Bishop’s poems and compare their poetic technique. To accomplish this goals, the researcher adopts the stylistic analysis method as well as statistical analysis approach in which eight poems from each poetess’ oeuvres are examined. The selected poems are equally categorized into two groups: the first one focuses on investigating the lexico-syntactic level while the other is concerned with exploring the phonological level. The study has reached a conclusion that there is small differences between Moore’s and Bishop’s poetic techniques. Moreover, meaning intensifiers such as simile, metaphor, mental images, personification, and oxymoron are lavishly employed in both poetesses’ works to intrigue readers and help them grasp the intended meanings. In other words, they are the most salient stylistic devices in the poems under investigation. Furthermore, the employment of musical devices such as alliteration, assonance, and consonance is also evidently shown in both poetess’ works. In addition, the study has found that Bishop tends to use these stylistic devices more than Moore does with insignificant variation, though. Finally, the investigation has also revealed that both poetesses have influence by the modernist poetic technique from which they derive their condensed language and precise images. المستخلص Abstract (Arabic Version) يعتبر علم الأسلوب من أهم المعايير التي يستند عليها التفسير الموضوعي للنص الأدبي في العصر الحالي، و يعود ذالك إلى الاهتمام الكبير الذي يوليه هذا العلم بإسلوب الكتابة عند المؤلف. تتقصى هذه الدراسة السمات الأسلوبية البارزة في شعر ماريان مور وإليزابيث بيشوب و دورها في بلورة موضوع القصيدة وإيصال معانيها الي المتلقي، كما تقارن الدراسة النصوص، مع المقارنة بين الأسلوب الشعري لكلٍ من الشاعرتين مور و بيشوب. ولتحقيق تلك الاهداف، إعتمد الباحث كل من منهج التحليل الاسلوبي و منهج التحليل الاحصائي كوسيلتين لجمع وتحليل البيانات واللذان تم من خلالها دراسة ثماني قصائد لكل شاعرة. تم تقسيم القصائد المختارة بشكلٍ متساو إلى مجموعتين: سلطت الدراسة الضوء علي المستوي التركيبي الدلالي في قصائد المجموعة الأولى بينما اهتمت بدراسة المستوى الصوتي \ الموسيقي في قصائد المجموعة الثانية. وقد أسفر تحليل البيانات عن جملة من النتائج أهمها: يوجد إختلاف طفيف في الأسلوب الشعري لكل من مور و بيشوب، كما ان كلتا الشاعرتين قد قامتا بإستخدام أداوات تعزيز المعاني النصية من تشبيهٍ وإستعارةٍ و صورٍ ذهنيةٍ وتجسيدٍ إلخ.. بصورة وافرة لإلهام القارئ و مساعدته علي سبر أغوار القصيدة. بعبارة أخرى، توصلت الدراسة الي أن الصور البلاغية من تشبيهٍ، وإستعارةٍ، و صورٍ ذهنيةٍ، وتجسيد،ٍ من أكثر السمات الإسلوبية شيوعا في قصائد ماريان مور وأليزابيث بيشوب موضوع البحث، كما كشفت الدراسة أيضا عن شيوع إستخدام الأجراس الموسيقية كالجناس الإستهلالي، والتناغم والسجع في أعمال الشاعرتين مع إفضلية نسبية لبيشوب توصلت الدراسة أخيرا إلي تأثر كل من ماريان مور وأليزابيث بيشوب بإسلوب الشعر الحديث والذي إستمدتا منه لغتهما المعتقة وتصاويرهما الدقيقة.Item The Wandering Modern World: The Pessimistic Vision of Evelyn Waugh A Study of Selected Novels(Al-Neelain University, 2019-02) Jameel Ahmed KhalafThis research aims at discussing beyond the insights of the critics views regarding the wandering modern world and the causes behind the pessimistic vision of the novelist, Evelyn Waugh, about the future of Modern life. After analyzing what other critics have seen in the different novels of Waugh, efforts have been made to research upon the modern generations. In fact, the research examines the effect of the two World Wars on humanity and literature that leads to the decline of values, faith, anxiety, loss, despair and death. The writer brings out the history and destiny of the common man and mocks at the behaviour of the English people, especially the upper and the middle class, their ways of life, decline of moral values, corruption, chaos, loss of faith and identity. He reflects the conflict between order and chaos, in which brutality and incivility or discourtesies are allowed to proceed uncontrolled by authority.Item In Search of the Self: A Critical Study of Female Migrants in the Novels The Grapes of Wrath, The Namesake and The Joy Luck Club(Al-Neelain University, 2019-03) Reem Nasser Abdullah Al-AulaqiThe aim of this thesis is to explore, analyze and evaluate the condition of women migrants in three significant novels The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. This dissertation consists of six chapters; the first and second chapters include the introduction, the theoretical framework and the literature review. The third chapter traces the lives of four Chinese women in The Joy luck Club (Suyuan Woo, An- mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying) who had escaped the injustice and cruel actions practiced against women in China during the 1940s and had therefore migrated to America in search for their rights and a better life for them and their children. The forth chapter evaluates the genuine character of Ashima in The Namesake, the young Indian lady, who had accompanied her husband in his scholarship to America but who could never adapt to the life in America. Her nostalgia for her country and her love to her roots and backgrounds had prevented her from coping with the life in America and thus had decided to go back to India after decades of life in America. To Ashima, migration is a sort of an everlasting wait, a persistent burden, an endless feeling out of sorts. After that comes the fifth chapter which explores the striking strength of the character of Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath who is a great example of a strong determined woman who was able to keep the unity of her family during the hard times of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression in America when the whole country seemed to be in flight towards California; the land of plenty. Then is the conclusion which is the sixth and last chapter. This dissertation aims mainly to concentrate on the main female characters on those works and the challenges they face during their life journeys in general and during migration years in particular. To do so, the researcher investigates the lives of the main female characters in the three novels before migration, the hardships, backgrounds, struggles and the reasons behind those women’s decision of migration. In relation to that, the researcher studies those women’s lives before and after migration and considers the obstacles they face in the migration land and whether migration had fulfilled those women’s dreams, hopes and expectations. Moreover, the researcher explores the impact of migration on those women’s personalities and behaviours as well as that on their children. Furthermore the researcher studies whether migration had helped those female migrants to reconcile with their lives before migration or whether their inability of reconciliation with that past was the burden that prevented them from living peacefully after migration.