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Cultures of glass in the late nineteenth-century European novel and contemporary Sinophone film
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Cultures of glass in the late nineteenth-century European novel and contemporary Sinophone film
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Tseng
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Chia-Chieh
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1983-
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CHIA-CHIEH TSENG
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Andrew C.
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Janet A.
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WEIJIE
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WEIJIE SONG
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Yomi
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Yomi Braester
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2013
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2013-05
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eng
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In my dissertation, I compare how the novelists and filmmakers utilize glass as a material, medium, and artistic trope to explore the relations between the city and the urban dweller, the public and the private, the perceiver and the things perceived in Western and Chinese modernity. I analyze at length the following English and French novels: Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Émile Zola’s The Lady’s Paradise, Henry James’s The Princess Casamassima, Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, and Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day, Mrs. Dalloway, and To the Lighthouse, as well as Sinophone films: Xia Gang’s As Light as Glass, Ning Ying’s I Love Beijing, and Edward Yang’s Yi Yi: A One and a Two. In these novels and films, glass changes the urban fabric that it also reflects, unsettles existing conceptions of domestic and public spaces, and helps to define urban dwellers’ identity, spectatorship, affects, and desires. I associate the appearance of a glass-soaked culture with urban modernity in the West, arguing that the Sinophone world’s relatively late use of glass manifests a desire to take on a Western modernity in its own cities. Glass is also frequently evoked as a trope to reflexively examine how these cultural productions are structured in relation to reality. The novel is often compared to a mirror that honestly reflects the real world; and film, through the lens-framed images, shows life in a series of transitory windows. While the nineteenth-century novel paints one portrait of urban reality in the West, film performs a similar task in the late twentieth-century Sinophone world. We currently lack a comprehensive and cross-cultural scholarship on glass culture and its representation in literary and film studies. My dissertation fills this gap by demonstrating the significant role of glass in shaping both urban experiences and cultural productions in Europe and Asia.
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Comparative Literature
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vii, 192 p.
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Ph.D.
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Includes filmography (p.. 192)
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Chia-Chieh Tseng
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Glass in literature
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Glass in art
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Comparative literature
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Motion pictures--Aesthetics
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Motion pictures, Chinese
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ETD doctoral
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after November 30th, 2013.
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