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Fletcher, Jonathan. "Violence and civilization in the work of Norbert Elias." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284000.
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Machcinski, Kathryn F. ""Civilization is Going to Pieces": Crime, morality, and their role in The Great Gatsby." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1386665184.
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Leonard, Bradley. "How the apes saved civilization: Antropofagia, paradox and the colonization of "La Planete des singes"." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28414.
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The 1968 Hollywood film Planet of the Apes is an adaptation of the 1963 French novel La Planet des singes and the strategy used to transform the book into an American film reveals some contradictory tendencies. On one hand, the film effaces any evidence of the story's French roots, thus suggesting colonialist objectives. On the other hand, its subversive message, a reflection of the tumultuous political and social climate of the U.S. in the 1960s, seems to support the theory of antropofagia, a radical Brazilian approach based on the metaphor of cannibalism developed to counteract economic and cultural colonialism in Brazil. The inclusion of certain aspects of each of these two translation strategies creates a paradox that says a great deal about American hegemony, Hollywood's treatment of foreign works and marginalization.
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Hemming, Ann J. McBride Lawrence W. Holt Niles R. "The evolution and dissemination of the modern concept of civilization." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9720806.
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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1996.Title from title page screen, viewed May 30, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Lawrence W. McBride, Niles Holt (co-chairs), Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, John Freed, William Archer. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 260-283) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Trejling, Maria. "Discontent with Civilization in D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för språk och kultur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-111778.
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The essay examines the concept of revolt in D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover through an analysis of its portrayal of society, oppression, and violence, as well as love, tenderness, and the body. Sigmund Freud's essay Civilization and Its Discontents is used as a theoretical framework.
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Lima, de Sousa Helen Marie. "Beyond Indianism : the different faces (and races) of civilization and primitiveness in Brazilian romanticism." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608115.
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Pang, Lai-kei, and 彭麗姬. "History as a form of narrative dreaming from war and peace to one hundred years of solitude." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951090.
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Barker, Elaine M. "Civilization in the wilderness : the homestead in the Australian colonial novel, 1830-1860 /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1989. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armb255.pdf.
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Elhefnawy, Nader. "D.H. Lawrence and civilization: a study of D.H. Lawrence's "leadership" novels, Aaron's rod, Kangaroo and the plumed serpent." FIU Digital Commons, 2002. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3135.
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D.H. Lawrence's "leadership" novels, namely Aaron's Rod, Kangaroo and The Plumed Serpent, dealt with the ramifications of industrial civilization. This thesis uses a "Tofflerian" approach, drawing on the works of the futurist Alvin Toffler's "trilogy" of noted books on the rate, direction and consequences of "civilizational" change, Future Shock, The Third Wave and Powershift. This thesis argues that Lawrence recognizes the demise of the "love-urge" that had sustained civilization in Aaron's Rod; seeks and fails to find a solution in the political movements of his time in Kangaroo, demonstrating the impossibility of a modem solution to inherently modern problems; and in The Plumed Serpent, seeks an answer in a way of life apart from industrial civilization entirely.
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Jensen, Anna M. "Modernity and the Good Death : Heidegger and Jose Clemente Orozco's Epic of American Civilization /." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1905.
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This thesis will analyze José Clemente Orozco's mural The Epic of American Civilization in terms of the problem of suffering. It will focus specifically on two panels, “Human Sacrifice in Ancient Times” and “Human Sacrifice in Modern Times.” This analysis will comprehend not only the works of art within their historical context, but also within Martin Heidegger's philosophical discussion of the question of suffering. Heidegger presents a unique perspective on the question of human suffering when he writes that Western humans have forgotten how to “dwell.” This dwelling is defined by Heidegger's novel conception of ontology as relational rather than individualistic. According to this theory, humans must identify themselves through their associations, both with other people and with things. Without these associations, humans are not be able to escape the anxiety associated with suffering and death brought about by the isolating effects of Western modernity. A discussion of Mexico provides a practical example of the complexities of the question of dwelling in Western thought. At the time Orozco was painting his mural, Mexican identity was rapidly fragmenting. In the decades after the Mexican Revolution, many artists wrestled with the concept of Mexican identity, and it was in this time of flux that Orozco offered his interpretation of the cyclical progress of humanity. The two paintings depict two forms of suffering, which this paper will refer to as a “good” and a “bad” death. This nomenclature is not strictly accurate as neither form could be said to be desirable in any concrete way. Consequently a Rivera painting (“Revolution – Germination”) will also be presented that suggests an ideal death. However, the focus will remain on Orozco's paintings. Of course, in his own paintings Orozco is not endorsing the act of human sacrifice. However, because of differences in their composition, they suggest not only a cyclic pattern to human history, but also a downward progression where the persistent problems of violence and suffering in human societies have grown more difficult and complicated since the advent of modernity. As Orozco's paintings seem to suggest and Heidegger will argue, the solution to the isolating ‘bad death’ is learning to live relationally. These relationships comprehend the social and the cultural, but the focus will be on the ecological and the divine, because, as several critics will argue, these are the greatest deficiencies in modernity.
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Haman, Brian. "Perpetuum mobile? : literature, philosophy, and the journey in German culture around 1800." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/55510/.
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Scholarly interest in travel literature has increased substantially in recent years. However, there has been a lack of sustained, cohesive commentary on the journey motif in German Romantic culture, particularly its origins and manifestations in literature and philosophy. My doctoral research fills this gap through a philosophically- and historically-informed reading of German Romanticism. The thesis examines 1) the paradigmatic template of the literary journey established by Goethe in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, 2) metaphors of movement and mobility within the Idealist philosophy of Kant and Fichte and their role, 3) the manner in which these metaphors migrate into the theoretical and prose writings of Novalis, 4) Tieck’s notion of the sublime and its relevance for the Romantic journey, and 5) the late Romantic satirization of the journey motif within Eichendorff’s prose. Additionally, the thesis serves to show how philosophical discourse of the Enlightenment had reached something of an impasse in its use of the journey motif, with the subject unable to evolve and renew itself beyond the strictures of particular models of subjective cognition. The Romantics thought literary practice was to supersede philosophy and it was mobility in the form of the journey as both metaphor and process, which helped bring about this transition and created a flexible self-authoring and self- renewing model of the subject. The study also recounts a particular history of Romanticism which charts, via the history of the journey, the movement’s youthful idealism, the fear of the pitfalls of human subjectivity, and its eventual self-distanciation through parody.
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Olivier, M. "Ghosts in the machine : nostalgia and technology under the Ancien Régime /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8290.
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Souza, Karla Beraldo de. "A tradição legitimada : um estudo sobre o suplemento literário sabático, do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo /." Bauru : [s.n.], 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/89422.
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Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem por finalidade o estudo do universo temático e editorial do suplemento literário Sabático, do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo. Nossa proposta é investigar o jornalismo cultural - entendido enquanto instância de difusão e consagração, que atua nos mecanismos de criação de consensos sobre o valor da cultura e da arte -, intrigados pelo surgimento de um novo produto editorial e cujo nascimento propõe o resgate de um periódico lendário - Suplemento Literário - em um cenário aparentemente adverso a publicação realizadas sob seus moldes. Para tanto, dividimos nossa pesquisa em duas etapas: discussão teórica e análise do objeto. Iniciamos o trabalho abordando o desenvolvimento histórico dos sentidos de cultura e a combinação da mesma enquanto campo autônomo. Discorremos sobre o mecanismo de produção de valor da obra de arte e sobre a formação, estrutura e funcionamento do mercado de bens simbólicos, além de questões referentes à esfera cultural no contexto da pós-modernidade. Em seguida, relacionamos a prática jornalística observada no suplemento literário Sabático aos processos de configuração do campo cultural, buscando compor um conjunto de conceitos, práticas e dilemas a cerca do jornalismo cultural a fim de fundamentar uma proposta de análise do corpus desta pesquisa
Abstract: This essay's purpose is to study the thematic and editorial universe from O Estado de S. Paulo literacy supplement, Sabático. Our purpose is to investigate cultural journalism - understood as an instance of propagation and dedication that operates on the gears of consenso's creation about the value of culture and art -, as we're intrigued by the appearance of a new editorial product which birth proposes the rescue of a legendary journal - Suplemento Literário - in a scene apparently unfavorable to publications of its form. Therefore, we divide our research in two: theoretical discussion an objects' analysis. We begin this work by approaching the historical development of the meanings of culture and its constitution as an independent field. We discourse about the mechanisms of value production of a work of art, and about the formation, structure and operation of the market of symbolic goods, and also about questions related to the cultural sphere in the context of Postmodernity. Next, we connect the journalistic practice observed in the literacy supplement Sabático with the cultural field's configuration processes, in a way to compose a series of concepts, practices and dilemmas about the cultural journalism, in order to justify the analysis' purpose of this essay
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Grimes, Jodi Elisabeth Upchurch Robert K. "Rhetorical transformations of trees in medieval England from material culture to literary representation /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12130.
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Todorov, Boris Atanassov. "The Bulgarians between the two Romes the discourse of power in medieval Bulgaria /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1397899921&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Zamaron, Alain. "Représentation des civilisations disparues dans la littérature d'aventures fantastiques de la fin du XIXe siècle et du début du XXe." Villeneuve d'Ascq, France : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 1998. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/40674686.html.
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Rosenqvist, Mathias. "Waiting for “the black flower of civilization to bloom” : Shades of Modernity in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of English, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8233.
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Huntsman, L. F. "In margins and in longings ...: the beach in Australian life and literature." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12333.
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Urbano, Arthur P. "Lives in competition : biographical literature and the struggle for philosophy in late antiquity /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3174686.
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Pang, Lai-kei. "History as a form of narrative dreaming from war and peace to one hundred years of solitude." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13787317.
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Arcara, Stefania. "Constructing the south : Sicily, Southern Italy and the Mediterranean in British culture, 1773-1926." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36389/.
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In the past few years a number of critical studies have been entirely or partly devoted to an analysis of the role played by the Mediterranean in British literature and culture during the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. These studies include Robert Aldrich's The Seduction of the Mediterranean (1993), James Buzard's The Beaten Track (1993), and John Pemble's The Mediterranean Passion (1987). In Paul Fussell's Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars (1980), which may be considered a precursor to these, the author observes that "to sketch the history of the British imaginative intercourse with the Mediterranean in modern times is virtually to present a survey of modern British literature"; he goes on to stress that "the Mediterranean is the model for the concept south, and it is a rare Briton whose pulses do not race at the mention of that compass direction". It is the concept "south" in this statement, situated in the area of literary and cultural studies, which constitutes the focus of this thesis.
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Schulz, Ulrike-Marianne. "Liebe, Ehe und Sexualität im vorreformatorischen Meistersang Texte und Untersuchungen /." Göppingen : Kümmerle, 1995. http://books.google.com/books?id=6L1bAAAAMAAJ.
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O'Brien, Nanette R. "Culinary civilization : the representation of food culture in Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:14ef9741-fc4a-48d2-aacd-69ff74735b91.
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This thesis addresses the literary representation of food in the period from 1900 through 1945 in the work of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf. Taking up nineteenth-century fascinations with sensual and aesthetic taste, these authors explore the implications of food preparation and consumption in Britain, America and France. They use representations of everyday culinary practices as a way to examine articulations of anxiety about the state of civilization, a fear that is amplified and altered by both World Wars. The thesis approaches the question of the significance of food to literary modernism in two ways. The first is a theoretical analysis of modernist ways of thinking about the dialectic between the concepts of civilization and barbarism. The second is grounded in material history, establishing the contexts and conditions of food culture in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on sociological thinking from Norbert Elias's conception of the civilizing process and Pierre Bourdieu's theory of distinction, and using a combined methodology of close reading, biographical and historical analysis, I show that food acts as a lens for these authors' ideas about civil society and modernity. My original contribution to knowledge is threefold. The first is my interpretation of 'culinary Impressionism' as an extension and repositioning of current scholarly thinking about Ford's literary Impressionism. The second is my reading of Stein's and Toklas's jointly-authored cookbook draft as evidence of their collaboration. This forms the crux of my argument about Stein adapting domestic culinary techniques into her other writing. The third is in my chapter on Virginia Woolf. My original archival research shows that in A Room of One's Own Woolf's representation of the financial and culinary difference between men's and women's dining in colleges at the University of Cambridge is justified and the material inequality was in fact worse than previously understood. I argue that the disparity in institutional food intensifies Woolf's later reimagining of the term 'civilization' in Three Guineas. While drawing on the work of modernist studies scholars on modernism and the everyday, civilization, and food, my project is unique in demonstrating that food reflects modernist conceptions of civilization and barbarism. My thesis contributes to the understanding of transatlantic aesthetics and gendered productions of modernism by illuminating the centrality of agriculture, cookery, domestic work and institutional dining to modernist authors.
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Hauenstein, Hanne. "Zu den Rollen der Marke-Figur in Gottfrieds "Tristan" /." Göppingen : Kümmerle-Verl, 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0710/2006483030.html.
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Hemingway, Ben. "The dream in classical Greece : debates and practices." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d0d272ee-e293-44bf-b8c2-02b68304d22f.
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This thesis aims to address the Greek attitude to their dream experience in the classical period, as it was conceived in theories and engaged with in dream practices. The emphasis is on the relationship between these elements and the wider cultural frames which surrounded them, in order both to illustrate the manner in which culture influences the conception of dreams, and also to use dreams themselves as a mirror to reflect parts of Greek culture. As a study it has been heavily shaped by the approaches to dreams developed by anthropologists, outlined in Chapter 2, who have emphasised the importance of studying dreams intra-culturally. In Chapter 3 I analyse the language that the Greeks used to express their dreaming experience, drawing from it the important way in which language was both determined by, and determined, the Greeks' understanding of the phenomenon. This forms a base for engaging with dream theories in Chapter 4, both the implicit allusions in literature and explicit explanations proposed by philosophers and medical writers. I then explore the theories at work within Greek culture via dreams as we see them active in the lived religion of the polis: I examine in Chapter 5 the dedications set up by individuals on account of spontaneous dreams, and in Chapter 6 the practice of incubation. I then turn to examine specific relationships: in Chapter 7, the association of dreams with status, i.e. the possibility that powerful people would have equally powerful dreams; in Chapter 8, dreams and gender, assessing the possibility that women considered their dreams to be more important than their male counterparts. In Chapter 9, I position dreams within the context of the other divinatory practices of the period, which allows us to see the unique ways in which dream practices functioned in comparison to the other divinatory forms.
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Squires, Todd Andrew. "Reading the Kōwaka-mai as Medieval myth story-patterns, traditional reference and performance in Late Medieval Japan /." Full text available online (restricted access), 2001. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/squires.pdf.
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Tatum, Ronald E. "Celtic studies in higher education : the construction of interdisciplinarity in academe /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3136449.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 232-241). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Olivetti, Paola. "Uses and interpretations of ritual terminology : goos, oimoge, threnos and linos in ancient Greek literature." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3009/.
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The purpose of my thesis is to study the lament in ancient Greek culture, and to show how its ritual meaning is interpreted by literature. The terms goos, oimoge, threnos and linos not only indicate the presence of different ritual attitudes to death but also the existence of different interpretations for each of them. The goos and the oimoge mirror an archaic religiosity and consist of sinister utterances aimed at summoning ghosts, requesting for divine revenge, etc. Aeschylus introduces them as aischrologic acts as he implies the presence of a god or a daimon. Sophocles and Euripides use them as dysphemic elements and censure an approach to death which implies that gods are vindictive, deceitful and unjust. However, they also introduce an euphemic goos consisting in an expression of feelings. The threnos only appears in funerary contexts in Homer while is often introduced as dysphemic in drama. The linos-song is mentioned as a vintage-song in Homer, it appears as a lament and then as a song for some hero’s apotheosis or return to life in drama. The poetic use of these terms serves to understand how the social and political meaning of the ritual was understood and codified by literature.
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Souza, Karla Beraldo de [UNESP]. "A tradição legitimada: um estudo sobre o suplemento literário sabático, do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/89422.
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This essay's purpose is to study the thematic and editorial universe from O Estado de S. Paulo literacy supplement, Sabático. Our purpose is to investigate cultural journalism - understood as an instance of propagation and dedication that operates on the gears of consenso's creation about the value of culture and art -, as we're intrigued by the appearance of a new editorial product which birth proposes the rescue of a legendary journal - Suplemento Literário - in a scene apparently unfavorable to publications of its form. Therefore, we divide our research in two: theoretical discussion an objects' analysis. We begin this work by approaching the historical development of the meanings of culture and its constitution as an independent field. We discourse about the mechanisms of value production of a work of art, and about the formation, structure and operation of the market of symbolic goods, and also about questions related to the cultural sphere in the context of Postmodernity. Next, we connect the journalistic practice observed in the literacy supplement Sabático with the cultural field's configuration processes, in a way to compose a series of concepts, practices and dilemmas about the cultural journalism, in order to justify the analysis' purpose of this essay
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Hall, Alaric Timothy Peter. "The meanings of elf and elves in medieval England." Connect to electronic version, 2004. https://dspace.gla.ac.uk/handle/1905/607.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Glasgow, 2004.Ph. D. thesis submitted to the Department of English Language, University of Glasgow, 2004. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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Avis, Robert John Roy. "The social mythology of medieval Icelandic literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2837907c-57c8-4438-8380-d5c8ba574efd.
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This thesis argues that the corpus of Old Norse-Icelandic literature which pertains to Iceland contains an intertextual narrative of the formation of Icelandic identity. An analysis of this narrative provides an opportunity to examine the relationship between literature and identity, as well as the potency of the artistic use of the idea of the past. The thesis identifies three salient narratives of communal action which inform the development of a discrete Icelandic identity, and which are examined in turn in the first three chapters of the thesis. The first is the landnám, the process of settlement itself; the second, the origin and evolution of the law; and the third, the assimilation and adaptation of Christianity. Although the roots of these narratives are doubtless historical, the thesis argues that their primary roles in the literature are as social myths, narratives whose literal truth- value is immaterial, but whose cultural symbolism is of overriding importance. The fourth chapter examines the depiction of the Icelander abroad, and uses the idiom of the relationship between þáttr (‘tale’) and surrounding text in the compilation of sagas of Norwegian kings Morkinskinna to consider the wider implications of the relationship between Icelandic and Norwegian identities. Finally, the thesis concludes with an analysis of the role of Sturlunga saga within this intertextual narrative, and its function as a set of narratives mediating between an identity grounded in social autonomy and one grounded in literature. The Íslendingasögur or ‘family sagas’ constitute the core of the thesis’s primary sources, for their subject-matter is focussed on the literary depiction of the Icelandic society under scrutiny. In order to demonstrate a continuity of engagement with ideas of identity across genres, a sample of other Icelandic texts are examined which depict Iceland or Icelanders, especially when in interaction with non-Icelandic characters or polities.
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Collares, Marco Antonio Correa. "Nas fronteiras entre civilização e barbárie: as narrativas dos ciclos de Conan, de Robert Howard." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2017. http://guaiaca.ufpel.edu.br:8080/handle/prefix/4182.
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A presente dissertação versa sobre as representações de civilização e barbárie nas narrativas dos Ciclos de Conan, de Robert Ervin Howard. As aventuras do personagem Conan, o Bárbaro foram produzidas entre os anos de 1932 e 1936, constituindo-se em vinte e um textos de cunho literário e ficcional que fazem parte de um gênero específico denominado de “Espada e Feitiçaria”. Tal gênero literário aborda mundos fabulosos caracterizados pela presença do sobrenatural e onde personagens igualmente fantásticos se aventuram em tramas de ação e fantasia. As aventuras de Conan foram publicadas nas chamadas pulp magazines (ou pulp fictions), revistas de baixa qualidade gráfica, normalmente processadas a partir da polpa do papel e que eram muito populares nos EUA entre os anos 1920-1950. Apesar de Howard situar seu mais famoso personagem no gênero da “Espada e Feitiçaria”, ele igualmente traçou aspectos de cunho filosófico em suas tramas, na medida em que o tema central destas narrativas vincula-se a oposição entre civilização e barbárie. Normalmente Conan representa uma conduta humana violenta, sanguinária e rústica, porém honesta e honrada frente às ações corruptas e gananciosas dos homens civilizados, sendo, portanto uma expressão da barbárie, um tanto necessária na visão de seu criador, principalmente diante de uma determinada crise civilizacional. Além disso, Conan e outros personagens de suas tramas possuem traços dos chamados homens da fronteira do oeste dos EUA, homens que representariam os desbravadores americanos, tão cultuados pelo criador do personagem, muito em razão de suas rusticidades serem consideradas basilares para a formação do país. Natural do Texas, Howard estava muito preocupado com seu contexto histórico de crise econômica e social, aquele da primeira metade do século XX e mais especificamente, da Grande Depressão dos anos 1930. Conan expressa, portanto alguns aspectos de uma conduta mais rústica e verdadeira, mais próxima das condutas idealizadas dos homens que fizeram o oeste e os EUA, significando que as narrativas dos Ciclos de Conan fazem parte da chamada literatura da fronteira, não sendo aqui um estudo somente sobre civilização e barbárie, mas também sobre a própria concepção de fronteira nos EUA no contexto histórico de Robert Howard.
This dissertation discusses the representations of civilization and barbarism considering the narratives of Conan Cycles by Robert Ervin Howard. The adventures of the character Conan the Barbarian were produced between 1932 and 1936. There are twenty-one literary and fictional texts that are part of a specific genre called "Sword and Witchcraft." Such literary genre approaches fabulous worlds characterized by the presence of the supernatural, where fantastic characters venture into action and fantasy plots. Conan's adventures were published in the so-called pulp magazines (or pulp fictions), low-quality graphic magazines - usually processed from paper pulp - that were very popular in the US between the 1920s and 1950s. Despite Howard placed his great famous character in the "Sword and Witchcraft" genre, he drew philosophical aspects in his plots, insofar as the central theme of these narratives is linked to the opposition between civilization and barbarism. Conan usually represents a violent, bloodthirsty, and crude human conduct, but honest and honorable in the face of the corrupt and greedy actions of civilized men, so an expression of barbarism would be somewhat necessary in his creator eyes, especially in the face of a Civilizational crisis. In addition, Conan and other characters have traces of the so-called western frontier men: the men who would represent the American trailblazers, so much worshiped by the creator of the character, largely because their rusticities were considered to be the basis for the formation of the country. Howard, a Texan native, was very concerned about the historical context of the economic and social crisis of the twentieth century, and more specifically, the Great Depression of the 1930s. Conan, therefore, expresses some aspects of a more rustic and truthful conduct, closer to the idealized manners of the men who made the West and the US, meaning that the narratives of the Conan Cycles are part of so-called frontier literature. This is not just a study of civilization and barbarism, but it is also about the conception of the US border in Robert Howard's own historical context.
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Wright, Michelle. "Time, consciousness and narrative play in late medieval secular dream poetry and framed narratives." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2017. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/time-consciousness-and-narrative-play-in-late-medieval-secular-dream-poetry-and-framed-narratives(7cbf5e12-c655-4177-84f8-1445f1ffef85).html.
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This thesis considers time and narrative play in dream poems and framed narratives. It begins with a chapter on the history of time perceptions and time-telling, and explores how ideas about time influenced medieval writers. It also surveys some modern views on the history of time-measurement a nd its influences on culture and the collective consciousness. Chapter two, after analysing the treatment of time in the Roman de la Rose, surveys some of the ways in which modern criticism has evaluated and conceived the genre of secular dream literature that developed from the Roman de la Rose. Chapter three examines the innovative use of the convention of beginning a poem with a seasonal opening and theorises that this becomes a `language' open to adaptation and variation. Chapter four looks in detail at Froissart's L`Orloge amoureus and discusses the clock as a new object which, contrary to the views of cultural historians, was embraced by medieval writers, religious and secular, to symbolise a range of virtues, qualities and ideas. I argue that the clock inspired creativity rather than heralding a rationalisation of the mind that would stifle imaginative responses to this new technology. Chapter five explores metafictional and self-reflexive devices in Froissart's Joli Buisson de Jonece and Chaucer's House of Fame. I consider how these texts play with narrative time and sequence by writing the genesis of the text into the poem. Finally, chapter six examines ideas of closure in medieval dream poetry and looks specifically at the reciprocity and inconclusiveness of the Judgement poems of Guillaume de Machaut. Because the second poem reverses the decision of the first poem, it brings into question the authority of the text and the unity of the authorial voice.
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Andersen, Flemming Gotthelf. "Commonplace and creativity the role of formulaic diction in Anglo-Scottish traditional balladry /." [Odense] : Odense University Press, 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/13492485.html.
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Cameron, Peter Scott. "Approaching death in the classical tradition /." St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/495.
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Vidović, Ferderbar Dragica. "In limine : writers, culture and modernity in interwar Japan." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27985.
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‘Everybody who writes history has a bone to pick with the past’ said George
Wilson. Perhaps not so much with the past itself as with the images of the past created
by other historians. The images and concepts are created, moulded not only by the
practical needs and expectations of the time and place that produced them, but also
coloured by the theory fashionable at the time. They seem to be useful for a period of
time, but at a certain stage they become a hindrance rather than a help, as they tend to
limit rather than expand our knowledge of the past. One such concept is that of
nationalism.
Although it is far from clear what exactly constitutes nationalism, the immediate
association is that of some sort of selfish claim by a group which calls itself a nation or
aspires to become one. If it is for the self, it must necessarily be against somebody else,
so goes our reasoning. Anything that excludes has a particularly bad press right now and
this is reflected in the amount of scholarship on nationalism. This renewed interest in the
subject is due to the break-up of the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries
in the last decade or so, because of the scale and viciousness of nationalist struggles
between various ethnic groups. However, in Western studies of Japanese history the
subject of nationalism never went out of fashion, so to speak. While most of modern
Japan’s history is viewed, judged and understood, or misunderstood, through the prism of
nationalism, this is particularly true of the interwar period. Not only are the military
adventures on the continent seen as an example of nationalism, but most, if not all,
intellectual discourse of the period is labelled ‘cultural nationalism’.
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McCrady, Matthew B. "The influence of seventeenth century Anglo-Saxon scholarship on Milton's prose works, The history of Britain and Paradise lost." [Morgantown : West Virginia University Libraries], 1998. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=106.
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Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 1998.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 90 p. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-88).
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Hill, Peter. "Utopia and civilisation in the Arab Nahda." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9f6e0ac9-04c9-4f50-b4da-8a933b0c069f.
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This doctoral thesis explores the contexts of utopian writing and thinking in the Nahda, the Arab 'Awakening' of the long nineteenth century. Utopian forms of social imagination were responses to fundamental changes in the societies of the Arab-Ottoman world brought about by integration into a capitalist world economy and a European-dominated political system. Much Nahda writing was permeated by a sense of a 'New Age' opening and of wide horizons for future change - and this was not simply illusory, but a direct response to actual and massive changes being wrought in the writers' social world. My study focusses on Egypt and Bilad al-Sham in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, from the early 1830s to the mid-1870s. An initial chapter offers a definition of the social classes and groups which contributed to the Nahda in these years - such as the Beiruti bourgeoisie and the Egyptian-Ottoman official class - drawing on the work of Arab Marxists such as Mahdi 'Amil and social historians such as Bruce Masters. The following chapters deal in detail with writings produced by three distinct cultural formations within the Nahda movement, and with different aspects of their social imagination. Chapter 2 examines the discourse of civilisation (tamaddun) through the work of the Beiruti writers Khalil al-Khuri and Butrus al-Bustani in the 1850s and 1860s. Chapter 3 deals with Nahda writers' sense of their place within the European-dominated world, mainly through translations of geography books made by Rifa'a al-Tahtawi in Mehmed Ali's Egypt in the 1830s and 1840s. Chapter 4 examines the utopian aspirations of the Nahda, through a close study of the major utopian literary work of the period, Fransis Marrash's Ghabat al-Haqq (The Forest of Justice, 1865). Finally, a conclusion places my study in relation to other recent work in the field of 'Nahda studies'.
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Grimes, Jodi Elisabeth. "Rhetorical Transformations of Trees in Medieval England: From Material Culture to Literary Representation." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12130/.
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Literary texts of medieval England feature trees as essential to the individual and communal identity as it intersects with nature, and the compelling qualities and organic processes associated with trees help vernacular writers interrogate the changing nature of this character. The early depiction of trees demonstrates an intimacy with nature that wanes after the tenth-century monastic revival, when the representation of trees as living, physical entities shifts toward their portrayal as allegorical vehicles for the Church's didactic use. With the emergence of new social categories in the late Middle Ages, the rhetoric of trees moves beyond what it means to forge a Christian identity to consider the role of a ruler and his subjects, the relationship between humans and nature, and the place of women in society. Taking as its fundamental premise that people in wooded regions develop a deep-rooted connection to trees, this dissertation connects medieval culture and the physical world to consider the variety of ways in which Anglo-Saxon and post-Norman vernacular manuscripts depict trees. A personal identification with trees, a desire for harmony between society and the environment, and a sympathy for the work of trees lead to the narrator's transformation in the Dream of the Rood. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Junius 11 manuscript, illustrated in Genesis A, Genesis B, and manuscript images, scrutinizes the Anglo-Saxon Christian's relationship and responsibility to God in the aftermath of the Fall. As writers transform trees into allegories in works like Genesis B and Geoffrey Chaucer's Parson's Tale, the symbolic representations retain their spontaneous, organic processes to offer readers a visual picture of the Christian interior-the heart. Whereas the Parson's Tale promotes personal and radical change through a horticultural narrative starring the Tree of Penitence and Tree of Vices, Chaucer's Knight's Tale appraises the role of autonomous subjects in a tyrannical system. Forest laws of the post-Norman period engender a bitter polemic about the extent of royal power to appropriate nature, and the royal grove of the Knight's Tale exposes the limitations of monarchical structures and masculine control and shapes a pragmatic response to human failures.
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Mano, Olivia Hatsue. "Hawthorne's defense of nature against civilization." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2013. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/106099.
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Klinck, Anne L. (Anne Lingard). "Women's songs and their cultic background in archaic Greece." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26286.
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This thesis applies to Archaic Greek literature the medievalist's concept of "women's songs," that is, love-poems given to a female persona and composed in a popular register. In the Greek context a distinct type can be recognised in poems of women's affections (not necessarily love-poems as such) composed in an ingenuous register and created for performance, choral or solo, within a women's thiasos. The poems studied are those of Sappho, along with the few surviving partheneia of Alcman and Pindar. The feminine is constructed, rather mechanically by Pindar, more subtly by the other two, from a combination of tender feeling, personal and natural beauty, and an artful artlessness.It is not possible to reconstruct a paradigmatic thiasos which lies behind the women's songs, but certain characteristic features merge, especially the pervasiveness of homoerotic attachments and the combination of a personal, affective, with a social, religious function. In general, women's groups in ancient Greece must have served as a counterbalance to the prevailing male order. However, while some of the women's thiasoi provide a vehicle for the release of female aggression, the function of the present group is essentially harmonious and integrative.
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Bak, John Steven. "Tennessee Williams and the southern dialetic : in search of androgyny." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/862289.
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Blanche DuBois marked the most significant literary achievement of Tennessee Williams. Though her rape functions dramatically as a powerful climax which has troubled critics and bothered audiences, it is more a thematic culmination of Blanche's inability to sequester her sexuality. In fact, nearly everything Williams wrote prior to 1947 was building toward Blanche's rape; nearly everything that came after was a thematic attempt to resolve that issue left incomplete in her character--the southern dialectic, the preponderant theme and unsolved riddle of Williams's long career.The southern dialectic--a model developed from the joint theories of southern historian W. J. Cash, theorist Allen Tate, novelist William Faulkner, literary critic C. Hugh Holman, and playwright Tennessee Williams--is the internalization of opposites virulent in human nature which seeks to synthesize its disparate traits. Williams juxtaposed onto most of his characters this metaphysical debate between antinomies, most notably flesh and spirit, past and present, and miscegenation. Although he explored each with precise attention to balance, Williams returnedto flesh and spirit and its teleological (as opposed to theological) assessment of the human condition as his thematic touchstone.From his first performed play in 1935 to his last works of-the Eighties, Williams harnessed the dialectic in himself --between his innate desire for flesh and his learned duties to spirit--and generated from it the art that was as much his career as it was his exercise in psychotherapy. By placing both traits in his characters and dramatizing their interaction through two key images--the cat and the bird, whose own timeless battle reflected the same attraction/ repulsion nexus of the flesh-spirit dialectic--Williams could search for the one-androgynous hero who, like Christ, would successfully integrate them.Androgyny, for Williams, was not strictly hermaphroditism, though he was drawn to the asexual, but the ideal state of human existence--the integration of paradoxically repellent and attractive forces created by the dialectic. Though his Grail-like pursuit led him to discover different ways to end or survive this dialectic (denial, then death, then endurance), Williams's search for his androgynous hero would ultimately be in vain.Department of English
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Bermúdez, González María Antonia. "El proyecto intelectual de la narrativa nicaragüense: de la utopía a la paradoja (1970-2020)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672522.
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El campo cultural nicaragüense se desarrolla en una modernidad dependiente en donde conviven formas económicas y sociales pre-modernas y modernas, hecho que sitúa a la sociedad en la paradoja de convivir entre dos mundos, el de la aldea global posmoderna y el de la local, periférica, alejada de las metrópolis rectoras de los hábitos, gustos, y modas culturales. Ello genera la carencia de una cultura democrática que facilita la instauración de regímenes de carácter dictatorial frente a los cuales los intelectuales han de tomar posición: en la medida en que la coyuntura se aboca a una situación límite, mayor es la responsabilidad de los escritores y artistas, que, ejerciendo una actitud crítica, se comprometen en aras de exigir justicia y libertad. En el ejercicio de la cultura de la resistencia, las formas narrativas expresan las contradicciones vitales del ser humano y la búsqueda permanente de la comprensión de la evolución social e histórica del país.The Nicaraguan cultural field develops in a dependent modernity where pre-modern and modern economic and social forms coexist, which places society in the paradox of coexisting between two worlds, that of the global postmodern village and that of the local, peripheral, away from the governing metropolises of cultural habits, tastes, and fashions. This generates the lack of a democratic culture that facilitates the establishment of dictatorial regimes which intellectuals have to take a position against: to the extent that conjuncture reaches an extreme situation, the greater the responsibility of writers and artists who, exercising a critical attitude, commit themselves in order to demand justice and freedom. In the exercise of the culture of resistance, narrative forms express the vital contradictions of the human being and the permanent search for the understanding of social and historical evolution of the country.
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El-Mouelhy, Mossino Lauretta. "Tra magia, incantesimo e immaginario : (an tra masche, mascheugn e mistà) : la figura della masca dall'antichità celtica alla letteratura piemontese odierna." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85159.
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Questa dissertazione e imperniata sulla parola masca, che denota un personaggio popolare e antichissimo di genere femminile, riscontrabile esclusivamente nel folclore e nella letterature della regione italiana del Piemonte. Si attribuisce a questo personaggio la facolta rarissima di esercitare tanto il bene che il mate, a seconda de¡ casi.La tesi si basa su ricerche storiche e linguistiche che traggono i loro dati dai recessi piu remoti della civilta celtica in territorio piemontese, dove essa e prosperata dall'inizio del 4° secolo a.C. fino al 1° secolo della nostra era, epoca alta quale questa regione fu inglobata dall'impero romano.
Basandosi su dati storici e archeologici, la ricerca prende atto di un substrato celtico persistente e profondo nella cultura e nella tradizione piu antiche del Piemonte. In modo particolare si concentra l'attenzione sulla derivazione dei personaggio della masca da una figura religiosa dei Druidi, venerata fervidamente dai Celti, i quali attribuivano a questa divinita il dualismo tipico (bene-male) che si riscontra nel personaggio oggetto di questo studio.
In seguito si traccia il discrimine tra la masca e le streghe demoniache con cui la prima e spesso e del tutto erroneamente confusa ed associata. Una volta tracciata questa distinzione si possono riallacciare i legami tra la masca e il suo sacrale pristino ove ('equilibrio sotteso tra bene e mate e permanente e inestricabile dagli attributi fondamentali della dea celtica centrale, la Grande Madre.
Le ricerche etimologiche per appurare l'origine della parola masca non fanno che confermare la dualita e l'equilibrio tra il bene e il mate inevitabilmente compresente in questa parola e nel personaggio ch'essa denota.
Si passa in rassegna la tradizione orale e la letteratura del Piemonte (tanto in lingua piemontese che in lingua italiana) per, inventariare i diversi significati che possono assumere questa parola e questo personaggio. Si perviene a dimostrare che la dicotomia di valori e di poteri contrastanti insiti nella religione dei druidi rimane ad un dipresso la stessa nel personaggio delta masca. Ci si puo imbattere in questo dualismo di valori opposti e antitetici anche in altri personaggi del folclore piemontese, strettamente connessi alta masca, quali il mascon, i1 setmin o anche in personaggi mitologici, come la faja, il faunet e il servan.
La somma di queste prove letterarie, folcloriche, archeologiche e filologiche avalla l'attribuzione di un carattere unico, non demoniaco, al personaggio della masca, che riannoda strettamente la letteratura e la tradizione orale del Piemonte alta religione dei druidi e al passato celtico, fornendo altresi scorci preziosi su uno dei capitoli piu oscuri del passato delle etnie europee.
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Hassouna, Ghounem El Sayed. "La recepción de la literatura española e hispanoamericana en la cultura árabe." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671077.
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El presente trabajo hace una aproximación a la recepción de obras de la literatura española e hispanoamericana en el mundo árabe. A través de una labor de rastreo de las obras traducidas del español al árabe, desde el inicio de la traducción en la era moderna. De los datos recopilados en la presente investigación es posible extraer un balance objetivo de las obras traducidas, los autores, los traductores, su profesión, el país árabe que más ha traducido obras de literaturas hispánicas y la obra más traducida en el mundo
árabe, con los apartados estadísticos relacionados con el volumen de las obras traducidas. Este estudio considera el periodo comprendido entre los años 1952 y 2018, hace una visión panorámica de los cambios en las tendencias en la literatura escrita en español según el número de obras traducidas.This paper proposes an approach to the reception of works of Spanish and Latin American literature in the Arab world. Through a work of tracking the works translated from Spanish to Arabic, since the beginning of the translation in the Modern era. From the data collected in the present investigation it is possible to extract an objective balance of the translated works, the authors, the translators, their profession, the Arab country that has most translated works of Hispanic literatures and the most translated work in the Arab world, with the statistical sections related to the volume of translated works. This study considers the period between the years 1952 and 2018, gives a panoramic view of the changes in trends in literature written in Spanish according to the number of translated works.
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Fonseca, Josevânia Souza de Jesus. "Antônio José da Silva e o labirinto da mística judaica : religiosidade e resistência na literatura cristã-nova no inicio do século XVIII." Pós-Graduação em História, 2014. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5646.
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The work that the reader now has in hand corresponds to a story about the Sephardic culture that spread after the Atlantic Diaspora in the 15th century. He was drafted from the yarn left by Antônio José da Silva, nicknamed "the Jew", in four of his operas, Vida de D. Quixote de La Mancha, Esopaida, ou Vida de Esopo, Os Encantos de Medéia e Anfitrião, ou Júpiter, e Alcmena, presented between 1733 and 1736 at the Teatro do Bairro Alto in Lisbon. The operas are in tune comedies that bring, between the lines, marks the time when the French lived, as well as the previous temporalities stays, mixed to established models of literature and mythology. Through them, the author suggests his dissatisfaction with society in which was inserted, by means of the criticism of the Inquisition, to justice, to customs and, especially, to religion, leaving evidence of cryptic religiosity subtext practiced by Jewish cabalists. The
objective of this work is to analyze the escamoteados cabalistic aspects in these texts, because we understand that they are constituent part of the worldview of the new Christians judaizers. To this end, resorted to the categories of analysis of the Cultural history, making use of changes in scales of observation, indicting and method of comparison of elements present in the texts with the more general aspects of law and Jewish mysticism. The research reveals that, in addition to the primary intention of the comedies of the Jew, to laugh at the Lisbon society through satire of customs and institutions, there is a message of resistance directed to new Christians judaizers. The research is structured in three chapters: Antônio José da Silva: um Cavaleiro Andante na Lisboa do Século XVIII; A Religião da Cavalaria Andante; e Os Recônditos Arcanos da Cavalaria Andante. In the first chapter, we sought to relate the character Don Quixote to the figure of the knights errant Kabbalists, as well as introduce
customs and references to Jewish mystical elements present in the Opera Vida de D. Quixote de La Mancha, the first comedy of the harvest of the Jew. The second chapter reflects on the Religion of the Cavalry Andante in allusion to the "law of Moses", as she was known the cryptic form practiced religiosity by new Christians, constantly identified in inquisitorial documents and, consequently, in the literature of centuries of prohibition of Jewish worship. Finally, Os Recônditos Arcanos da Cavalaria Andante which made an interpretation of evidence identified in the operas in the light of Jewish mysticism, still little explored aspect of Sephardic culture.O trabalho que o leitor agora tem em mãos corresponde a uma história sobre a cultura sefardita que se difundiu após a Diáspora Atlântica no século XV. Ele foi elaborado a partir dos fios deixados por Antônio José da Silva, cognominado O Judeu , em quatro de suas óperas, Vida de D. Quixote de La Mancha, Esopaida, ou Vida de Esopo, Os Encantos de Medéia e Anfitrião, ou Júpiter, e Alcmena, apresentadas entre os anos de 1733 e 1736 no Teatro do Bairro Alto em Lisboa. As óperas são comédias musicadas que trazem, nas entrelinhas, as marcas do tempo em que o comediógrafo viveu, bem como as permanências de temporalidades anteriores, misturadas aos modelos já consagrados da literatura e da mitologia. Através delas, o autor deixa transparecer sua insatisfação com a sociedade em que estava inserido, por meio das críticas à inquisição, à justiça, aos costumes e, especialmente, à religião, deixando subentendidos indícios de uma religiosidade críptica praticada pelos judeus cabalistas. O objetivo do trabalho é analisar os aspectos cabalísticos escamoteados nesses textos, por entender que eles são parte constituinte da cosmovisão dos cristãos-novos judaizantes. Para tal, recorreu-se às categorias de análise da História Cultural, fazendo uso da variação de escalas de observação, do método indiciário e da comparação dos elementos presentes nos textos com os aspectos mais gerais da lei e da mística judaica. Desvenda-se com a pesquisa que, para além da intenção primordial das comédias do Judeu, de fazer rir à sociedade lisboeta através da sátira dos costumes e das instituições, existe uma mensagem de resistência direcionada aos cristãos-novos judaizantes. A pesquisa está estruturada em três capítulos: Antônio José da Silva: um Cavaleiro Andante na Lisboa do Século XVIII; A Religião da Cavalaria Andante; e Os Recônditos Arcanos da Cavalaria Andante. No primeiro capítulo, buscou-se relacionar o personagem D. Quixote à figura dos cavaleiros andantes cabalistas, assim como apresentar costumes e referências a elementos da mística judaica presentes na ópera Vida de D. Quixote de La Mancha, primeira comédia da seara do Judeu. O segundo capítulo reflete sobre a Religião da Cavalaria Andante em alusão à Lei de Moisés , como era conhecida a religiosidade praticada de forma críptica pelos cristãos-novos, constantemente identificada nos documentos inquisitoriais e, consequentemente, na literatura dos séculos de proibição do culto judaico. Por fim, Os Recônditos Arcanos da Cavalaria Andante no qual se fez uma interpretação de indícios identificados nas óperas à luz do misticismo judaico, aspecto ainda pouco explorado da cultura dos sefarditas.
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Eberhard, Nicole Joanne. "Narrating alternative histories : an exploration of Jamal Mahjoub's The carrier and Amitav Ghosh's In an antique land." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86699.
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Thesis (MA)-- Stellenbosch University, 2014.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die verhouding tussen die verlede en die hede soos uitgebeeld in Jamal Mahjoub se The Carrier (1998) en Amitav Ghosh se In an Antique Land (1992). Hierdie tekste herverbeel die geskiedenis met die doel om 'n ander toekoms te dink. Hulle vertel alternatiewe geskiedenisse en lewer sodoende kritiek op die Westerse historiografie en die uitbeelding van die Ooste en die Suide daarin. Hierdie tesis sal uit Edward Said se Orientalism (1978) put as 'n manier om die dominante Westerse houdings teenoor die Ooste sowel as die Suide, verteenwoordig deur Afrika, te konseptualiseer soos die liminale karakters in Mahjoub en Ghosh se tekste oor die Indiese Oseaan- en Mediterreense wêrelde beweeg. Beide Mahjoub en Ghosh versplinter hulle verhale in 'n historiese en 'n kontemporêre draad, en verweef hierdie fragmente om sodoende kommentaar te lewer op die dinamiese verhouding tussen die verlede en die hede. Hierdie verhouding sal gekonseptualiseer word deur te put uit Walter Benjamin se konsep van 'n konstellasie verbindingspunte in tyd. Die kartering van verbindings word moontlik gemaak deur die skrywer se verkenning van 'n geskiedenis van verbindings tussen diverse mense in hierdie gebiede. Die alternatiewe geskiedenisse wat hier voorgestel word, onthul pre-koloniale Mediterreense en Indiese Oseaan-handelsnetwerke gebou op uitruiling, wat gelei het tot kosmopolitiese samelewings waarin die klem op verbindings eerder as geopolitiese binêre geval het. Gesprekke tussen verskillende kulture, gelowe en denkskole dryf hierdie verbindings in die historiese verhaallyne. Deur hierdie vergange wêreld en 'n meer vyandige twintigste-eeuse wêreld naas mekaar te stel, wil Mahjoub en Ghosh bevraagteken of die herkonseptualisering van die verlede die herverbeelding van die hede en toekoms moontlik maak, in terme van hoe mense in staat is om oor verskilgrense heen met mekaar te verbind.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis interrogates the relationship between the past and the present, as represented in Jamal Mahjoub's The Carrier (1998) and Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land (1992). These texts re-imagine history in order to think a different future. They narrate alternative histories and in the process critique Western historiography and its representation of the East and South. This thesis will draw on Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) as a way of conceptualising dominant Western attitudes towards the East, as well as the South, represented by Africa, as the liminal characters in Mahjoub and Ghosh's texts move across the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean worlds. Mahjoub and Ghosh both fracture their narratives into a historical and a contemporary thread, interweaving these fragments in order to comment on the dynamic relationship between the past and the present. This relationship will be conceptualised drawing on Walter Benjamin's notion of a constellation connecting points in time. The mapping of connection is enabled by the authors’ exploration of a history of connection between diverse people in these regions. The alternative histories proposed reveal precolonial Mediterranean and Indian Ocean trading networks built on exchange, resulting in cosmopolitan societies emphasising connection rather than geopolitical binaries. Conversations across differences — of culture, religion, and schools of thought — drive these connections in the historical plotlines. By juxtaposing this past world with a more hostile twentieth century world, Mahjoub and Ghosh seek to question whether reconceptualising the past enables the re-imagining of the present and future, in terms of how people are able to connect across boundaries of difference.
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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "Book Review of Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2663.
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Review of Anthony F. D’Elia. Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. x + 355 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-08851-1.
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Wu, Tong. "Imágenes transpacíficas: los descendientes del dragón en la literatura latinoamericana (2000-2020)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671101.
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En este trabajo se analiza la imagen de los personajes chinos en la literatura latinoamericana en el siglo XXI, que es un tema novedoso y poco estudiado hasta ahora. Esta investigación no toma el país de China o su cultura como objeto de estudio, como se ha llevado a cabo, tradicionalmente, en otras investigaciones, sino la imagen de los sujetos o individuos chinos. Se pretende, por un lado, analizar la representación de los perfiles chinos y, por otro, resumir las similitudes y diferencias entre las imágenes de los personajes, así como la función y posible razón de tales imágenes.
Para conseguir este objetivo, hemos elegido seis obras para considerar estas cuestiones y las hemos dividido en dos clases: la de los chinos percibidos por otro sujeto desde dentro o desde fuera de la cultura china. Al final, se añade una reflexión, previa a las conclusiones finales, para presentar tres obras recientes, con que extendemos el corpus hasta el presente año, justo antes de que se desatara la pandemia de la COVID- 19 en China.
En esta tesis doctoral se han introducido varios marcos teóricos: el del orientalismo, el de la imagología y el del estereotipo, siendo estas dos últimas aproximaciones raramente utilizadas para estudiar este tema. Y algunos conceptos relativamente nuevos en el análisis, como, por ejemplo, el del auto-orientalismo y la idea de la heterotopía de Michel Foucault.
La investigación muestra que todavía existe una gran cantidad de estereotipos orientalistas sobre los chinos en la literatura latinoamericana. Consideramos que algunos escritores crean un mundo oriental, y las repetidas características estereotipadas de los personajes chinos demuestran sus estrategias orientalistas para atraer y satisfacer los valores de los lectores latinoamericanos. Por otra parte, algunos escritores, a través de exagerar la imagen caricaturesca de los chinos o exponer directamente los prejuicios sobre ellos, reducen o se burlan, en cierta medida, los estereotipos. Pero lo más importante es revelar los problemas de su propia sociedad: como señala la imagología, la reflexión sobre uno mismo, a menudo, se lleva a cabo a partir de la descripción del Otro.The aim of the present research is to analyze the image of the Chinese in Latin American literature in the 21st century. It’s a novel topic which is little studied until now. The innovation of this research is not taking the country of China or its culture as the object, but the image of Chinese subjects or individuals. It is intended, on the one hand, to analyze the representation of the Chinese profiles and, on the other hand, to summarize the similarities and differences among the images of the characters, as well as the function and possible reason of such images. To achieve this objective, we have chosen six works in our corpus and divided them into two classes: that of the Chinese perceived by another subject from within or outside the Chinese culture. In the end, a preliminary reflection is added, prior to the final conclusions, to present three recent works, with which we extend the corpus to the present year, just before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in China. In the present thesis, we have introduced several theories: orientalism, imagology and stereotype, the last two are rarely used to study such topics. And some relatively new concepts are also included in the analysis, such as, the concept of auto-orientalism and the idea of Michel Foucault's heterotopia. The research shows that there still is a great number of orientalist stereotypes about the Chinese in Latin American literature. We believe that some writers create an oriental world, and the repeated stereotypical characteristics of Chinese characters demonstrate their orientalist strategies to attract and satisfy the values of Latin American readers. On the other hand, some writers, by exaggerating the caricatured image of the Chinese or directly exposing the prejudices about them, reduce or mock, to a certain extent, the stereotypes. But the most important thing is to reveal the problems of their own society: as the imagology indicates, the reflection on oneself is often carried out from the description of the Other.
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簡漢乾. "兩晉南北朝南北文化文流的途徑及其對文學的影響 = A study of cultural exchanges of the southern and northern culture during the two Jin, and the Southern and Northern dynastics and their influence in literature." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2012. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1370.
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