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Hunt, Amanda. "Investigating smara : an erotic dialectic." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33290.
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This thesis is an investigation of smara. Smara is a Sanskrit word and means memory and desire. It has no equivalent in the English language and so the attempt to understand smara becomes both a linguistic and an ontological task.The reader is introduced to the similarities and idiosyncrasies between Western and Indian notions of memory and desire and then invited into the search for the junction between memory and desire in Indian thought.
Analysis of anthropological and philosophical texts as well as a semantic mapping of Kalidasa's masterpiece entitled Sakuntala: The Ring of Recollection, reveals not only the co-existence of memory and desire in smara but also the notion of smara as a process.
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Vejvoda, Kathleen M. "The dialectic of idolatry : Roman Catholicism and the Victorian Heroine /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Smith, James Gregory. "The Dostoevskyan Dialectic in Selected North American Literary Works." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278268/.
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This study is an examination of the rhetorical concept of the dialectic as it is realized in selected works of North American dystopian literature. The dialectic is one of the main factors in curtailing enlightenment rationalism which, taken to an extreme, would deny man freedom while claiming to bestow freedom upon him. The focus of this dissertation is on an analysis of twentieth-century dystopias and the dialectic of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor parable which is a precursor to dystopian literature. The Grand Inquisitor parable of The Brothers Karamazov is a blueprint for dystopian states delineated in anti-utopian fiction. Also, Dostoevsky's parable constitutes a powerful dialectical struggle between polar opposites which are presented in the following twentieth-century dystopias: Zamiatin's Me, Bradbury's Farenheit 451, Vonnegut's Player Piano, and Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. The dialectic in the dystopian genre presents a give and take between the opposites of faith and doubt, liberty and slavery, and it often presents the individual of the anti-utopian state with a choice. When presented with the dialectic, then, the individual is presented with the capacity to make a real choice; therefore, he is presented with a hope for salvation in the totalitarian dystopias of modern twentieth-century literature.
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Santos, Oscar de los. "The concealed dialectic : existentialism and (inter)subjectivity in the postmodern novel /." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487843314695495.
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Robson, Julia Caroline. "The dialectic of self and other in Montaigne, Proust and Woolf." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4372/.
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This thesis investigates the construction of identity in relation to an other. It considers three writers who, working at moments when the nature of selfhood was an urgent issue, conduct profound and original enquiries into the question of self- construction, and seeks both to reassess their contributions to this debate, and, in bringing their preoccupations and methods to bear upon each other, to open up new ways of approaching and reading their work. Considering a range of socio-cultural and religious forms of otherness -- the cannibal, the witch, the Jew, the aristocrat, the woman, the divine -- it embraces material from a number of important modem critical fields, and suggests how these topics might be combined to offer a coherent statement about the enduring issue of s elf- fashioning. The thesis seeks to map out a trajectory of decreasing investment in external communities, and an increasing perception of the self as a source and agent in the construction of identity. Looking in turn at the work of Montaigne, Proust and Woolf, it argues that where the Essais construct complex orders which appropriate the other to reinforce the identity of the self, Proust and Woolf increasingly, although gradually, and by no means always successfully, attempt to negotiate a less precisely- engaged relationship between other and self, and to assign the other a less constitutive role in the realization and expression of identity. The thesis also considers more briefly contexts in which this trajectory is reversed. To the extent that they examine modernist subjectivity, Proust and Woolf articulate an anxiety about the separation of self and world which leads to an attempted recuperation of the integrated orders depicted by Montaigne.
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Malcomess, Bettina. "The aesthetics of radical critique : Kant or the dialectic and revolution." Thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6748.
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Bibliography: leaves 100-108.This dissertation attempts to account for the paralysis of Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment, and thus of radical critique in relation to practice in general. It begins by demonstrating that there is a methodological problem in the connection of the dialectical method to Adorno and Horkheimer's philosophy of history, which posits Enlightenment both as break with the history of reason, and as ahistorical concept of that history. The dissertation takes as its point of departure their discussion of Kant, as exemplary Enlightenment thinker. I will use Martin Jay's The Dialectical Imagination and Axel Honneth's Critique of Power- Reflective Stages in a Critical Social Theory here. The strategy of the next section is to rehistoricise Kant's thought and thus the Enlightenment within its historical moment. This follows a close reading of Kant's political philosophy in his' An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?' and 'Contest of the Faculties' to show that Kant poses the problem of the morality versus politics in terms inseparable from his historical context: the emergence of the Modem state, and the French revolution. Two solutions to this problem present themselves within Kant's separation of public and private uses of reason. Public and private anticipates the Modem separation of state and civil society: 'moral-political' problem is thus solved by 'publicity', which plays a mediating role. A subtextual reading however, proposes that the public/private split refers to an internalisation of the political principle in what Etienne Balibar calls the 'citizen subject'. We will use Balibar's paper, ""Citizen Subject"", to show that the 'citizen subject' of Modernity emerges with the French revolution. Finally, these two possible solutions to the Kantian moral-political problem will be mapped to the political philosophical models of power of Hannah Arendt and Jürgen Habermas, and Michel Foucault respectively. Foucault's model of 'disciplinary' power will be connected to the 'citizen subject' while Habermas and Arendt's normative conceptions of publicness in their juridico-political models of power will be mapped to the first solution based on the dualism state/civil society. I will make use of Cohen and Arato's Civil Society and Political Theory, as well as various other secondary texts on political philosophy here. The last section will work out more clearly the relationship between Foucault's genealogical critique, the 'citizen subject' and the French revolution. It will show the similarity between Foucault's genealogy and the dialectical method in relation to Kant's historical reflection on his own present. To work out the conditions of this mode of what we will call radical critique of the present by Kant, and its basis on a Modern philosophy of history we will turn to Hannah Arendt's reading of Kant's political philosophy from his Aesthetics. Here Reinhart Koselleck' s Futures Past - On the Semantics of Historical Time will prove instructive on the link between Kant's philosophy of history, based on the metahistorical concept of revolution and Kant's judgement of the French revolution as historical event. The main thesis of this dissertation is that the radical critique of the present, in this case that of Foucault's genealogy and the dialectical philosophy of history of Adorno and Horkheimer are caught up in the same contradictions as Kant's radical judgement of the French revolution; and that this problem takes on an aesthetic form .
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Sproat, Ethan McKay. "Dialectic, Perspective, and Drama." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2441.pdf.
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Woodrow, Kristina L. "Dialogue of the sphinx and the chimera : the dialectic of Gautier's poetics in "Emaux et camees" /." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487864986611507.
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Anderson, Erich R. "A Window to Jim's Humanity: The Dialectic Between Huck and Jim in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1729.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, YEAR.Title from screen (viewed on August 26, 2009). Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Jane E. Schultz, Jonathan R. Eller, Robert Rebein. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-83).
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Degirmencioglu, Nesrin. "Uneven cities : the dialectic of urban modernity and literary form in Dos Passos, Tanpınar, Auster and Pamuk." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/61918/.
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The twentieth century saw capitalist growth accelerating the pace of urban life and transforming cities ever more clearly into sites of uneven and combined development. The result, for novelists, was an intensification of the problem of representing urban form – both as unmappable totality and as subjective experience of fragmentation, distraction and unexpected connection. In line with David Harvey's thesis concerning the 'space-time compression' endemic to modernity, I claim that not only are technological advances in urban transport and communications reflected in the shifting registers of novelistic characters' perception of their environment, but that this change in perception embodies a break with the unilinear logic of sequence and setting to encompass what Ernst Bloch terms 'the synchronicity of the non-synchronous,' or an uneven spatial simultaneity, characteristic of modern fiction. In Part I, by comparing the New York of John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer (1925) with the Istanbul of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar‘s Huzur (1949), I elucidate the differential stakes of modernist representations of the city, the core and the periphery, as the conjoining of contemporary and archaic forms. In both novels, I argue, the motifs of music and transport function in analogous ways – fragments of song intersect with details of urban journeys to point up the sharply variegated and unequal terrain of the twentieth century metropolis. In Part II, I examine Paul Auster‘s and Orhan Pamuk's postmodern city novels of the 1980s, which diverge from the experimental realism Dos Passos and Tanpınar adopted in the 1920s and 1930s. The economic transformation that both cities underwent from the 1950s on increasingly served to undermine the coordinates of historical memory within the new urban environment, widening the subjective gap between past and present. In this context, I argue that the conflict between the apparent freedoms of globalization and the increasing entrapment of the postmodern subject constitutes the main dilemma of postmodern aesthetics. Auster's City of Glass and Pamuk's The Black Book register this postmodern dilemma in their respective forms through recourse to the metaphor of the 'city as illegible text' and to the broken signifying systems of postmodern allegory. Focusing on these two literary techniques, I examine their differential appropriations in the core and the periphery of the world literary system in order to gauge how the experience of urban modernity – as shaped by particular cultural, social and economic developments – contributes in turn to the shaping of literary form.
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Svensson, Fredrik. "“Some third and other destiny” : The Unresolved Dialectic of Agency in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-61765.
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Many critics have conceded that Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian is an ambiguous novel; however, the very same critics have often argued also that the novel’s contradictions are eventually resolved. It will be argued in this essay that the multiplicity of McCarthy’s text primarily regards a problematic of agency—a question as to whether or not humanity is a force to be reckoned with in the world. It will also be argued that this question takes the form of a dialectic that the novel leaves unresolved, and that this, in its turn, is an important feature of the text—a feature originating from contemporary ideology, from late capitalism’s contradictory-ridden relation to the ”Real”. Blood Meridian portrays atrocities resulting from the 19th century Westward expansion of the United States unsparingly; the reader gets to witness a violent subsumption of the indigenous population, and is informed about a nascent extinction of the buffalo. The text also implicitly discusses the difficulties of representing violence and suffering aesthetically; however, Blood Meridian offers no final conclusion regarding whether or not humanity—and especially the Western World—is ultimately to blame for these phenomena. Via an unresolved dialectic of agency, then, McCarthy’s text renders history both alterable and reified, mankind both agent and powerless instrument. The following essay traces this feature to late capitalism’s exhaustion of the Earth’s resources and animal life, its Western-centric subjugation of other cultures, and its tendency to interpellate Western “man” as the centered subject of the Earth, while simultaneously liberating this subject from the responsibilities that come with such a position. It will eventually be proposed here that Blood Meridian’s contradictions is the result of a text that seeks redemption, both by an evasive attempt to write humanity back into harmony with nature, and by expressing a declaration of Western guilt.
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Morton, Matthew Travis. ""Improvisation without Accompaniment" and "What Passes Here for Mountains"." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703355/.
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"Improvisation without Accompaniment" is a lyric investigation into the ways that an awareness of mutability and death can clarify or distort our experience of the world. The poems in this collection draw upon the speaker's small-town Texas upbringing to explore broader questions that arise as a consequence of his burgeoning awareness of mortality: What are the moral imperatives for an individual citizen in a larger political community? What are the bidirectional effects of our relationship with place and the environment? Given the painful transience of human experience, what does it mean to live a good life? The book is characterized by psychological poems that illustrate the mind's movement, poems that use syntactic variation and tonal shifts to indicate an openness to changes of heart and mind. "What Passes Here for Mountains," an in-progress poetry manuscript, is driven by a similar impulse to explore the precise ways that our beliefs and opinions affect our immediate experience. These newer poems address anxieties about climate change, the effects of childhood trauma on the adults those children become, and the obstacles to self-actualization.
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Major, Julia. "Purity, translation and dialectical rhetoric in Spenser's "Well of English Undefyled" /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3061957.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 480-510). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Nakasa, Dennis Sipho. "The dialectic between African and Black aesthetics in some South African short stories." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22394.
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Most current studies on 'African' and/or 'Black' literature in South Africa appear to ignore the contradictions underlying the valuative concepts 'African' and 'Black'. This (Jamesonian) unconsciousness has led, primarily, to a situation where writers and critics assume generally that the concepts 'African' and 'Black' are synonymous and interchangeable. This study argues that such an attitude either unconsciously represses an awareness of the distinctive aspects of the worldview connotations of these concepts or deliberately suppresses them. The theoretical and pragmatic approach which this study adopts to explore the distinctive aspects of the worldview connotations of these concepts takes the form, initially, of a critique of such assumptions and their connotations. It is argued that any misconceptions about the relations between the concepts 'African' and 'Black' can only be elucidated through a rigorous and distinct definition of each of these concepts and the respective world views embodied in them. Each of the variables of these definitions is also examined thoroughly through an application of, inter alia, Frederick Jameson's 'dialectical' theory of textual criticism, Pierre Macherey's 'theory of literary production' and also through the post-colonial notions of 'hybridity' and 'syncreticity' propounded by Bill Ashcroft et.al (eds). In this way the study examines the dialectical interplay between, for instance, such oppositional notions as 'African' and 'Western' (place-conscious), 'Black' and 'White' (race-conscious), and other forms of ideological 'dominance' and 'marginality' reflected in the 'African' and/or 'Black' writers' motivations for the acquisition, appropriation and uses of the language of the 'other' (i.e. English) and its literary discourse in South Africa, Africa and elsewhere in the world. A close textual reading of the stories in Mothobi Mutloatse's (ed) Forced Landing, Mbulelo Mzamane's (ed) Hungry Flames underlies an examination of the processes of anthologisation and their implications of aesthetic collectivism, reconstruction and world view monolithicism which repress the distinctive world outlooks of the stories in these anthologies. The notions of aesthetic monolithicism implicit in each of these anthologies are interrogated via the editors' truistic assumptions about the organic nature of the relations between the concepts 'African' and 'Black'. The notion of a monolithic 'African' and 'Black' aesthetic is further decentred through a close textual reading of the uses of the 'African' and 'Black' valuative concepts in the short story collections The Living and the Dead and In Corner B by Es'kia (formerly Ezekiel) Mphahlele. The humanistic pronouncements in Mphahlele' s critical and short story texts suggest various ways of resolving the racial demarcations in both the 'Black' and 'White' South African literary formations. According to Mphahlele, a predominant racial consciousness inherent in the racial capitalist mode of economic production has deprived South African literature and culture an opportunity of creating a national humanistic and 'Afrocentric' form of aesthetic consciousness. The logical consequence of such a deprivation has been that the racial impediments toward the formation of a single national literature will have to be dismantled before the vision of a humanistic and 'Afrocentric' aesthetic can be realised in South Africa. The dismantling of both the 'Black' and 'White' monolithic forms of consciousness may pave the way toward the attainment of a synthetic and place-centred humanistic aesthetic. Such a dismantling of racial monolithicism will, hopefully, stimulate a debate on the question of an equally humanistic economic mode of production.
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McCormick, Casey J. ""Now There's No Difference": Artificial Subjectivity as a Posthuman Negotiation of Hegel's Master/Slave Dialectic." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/105.
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This thesis examines the theme of robot rebellion in SF narrative as an incarnation of Hegel’s Master/Slave dialectic. Chapter one analyzes the depiction of robot rebellion in Karel Capek’s R.U.R. Chapter two surveys posthuman theory and offers close readings of two contemporary SF television series that exemplify ontologically progressive narratives. The thesis concludes that posthuman subjectivity sublates the Master/Slave dialectic and encourages practical posthuman ethics.
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Silva, Rogério de Souza [UNESP]. "Cultura e violência: autores, polêmicas e contribuições da literatura marginal." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99002.
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O presente trabalho realiza analise sócio-literária da literatura marginal. Produção textual oriunda de setores tradicionalmente excluídos do sistema literário brasileiro, a literatura marginal possui como característica geral o fato de seus autores terem nascido e crescido nas periferias das grandes cidades brasileiras e produzido obras que têm como tema central a violência que assola todo o país e principalmente as periferias das metrópoles.
This work analyzes the social-literary of literature marginal. Derived literary production of traditionally excluded sectors of the Brazilian literary system, literature marginal possess as characteristic general the fact of its authors to have been born and grown in the peripheries of the great Brazilian cities and produced workmanships that have as central subject the violence that devastates the country all e mainly the peripheries of metropolis.
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Prescott, Gina Henderson. "Satirical Inquiry." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-08072007-133241/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.Title from file title page. Mary Hocks, committee chair; Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Elizabeth Sanders Lopez, committee members. Electronic text (68 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Nov. 7, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-68).
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Younis, Raymond Aaron. "Language, anology and dialectic : studies in modern poetics (with particular reference to W.B. Yeats's byzantine poems, Dylan Thomas's 'In Country Heaven' and Wallace Stevens's 'The Idea of Order at Key West'." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314579.
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Silva, Rogério de Souza. "Cultura e violência : autores, polêmicas e contribuições da literatura marginal /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99002.
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Resumo: O presente trabalho realiza analise sócio-literária da literatura marginal. Produção textual oriunda de setores tradicionalmente excluídos do sistema literário brasileiro, a literatura marginal possui como característica geral o fato de seus autores terem nascido e crescido nas periferias das grandes cidades brasileiras e produzido obras que têm como tema central a violência que assola todo o país e principalmente as periferias das metrópoles.
Abstract: This work analyzes the social-literary of literature marginal. Derived literary production of traditionally excluded sectors of the Brazilian literary system, literature marginal possess as characteristic general the fact of its authors to have been born and grown in the peripheries of the great Brazilian cities and produced workmanships that have as central subject the violence that devastates the country all e mainly the peripheries of metropolis.
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Wels, Volkhard. "Triviale Künste : die humanistische Reform der grammatischen, dialektischen und rhetorischen Ausbildung an der Wende zum 16. Jahrhundert. - [2. Aufl.]." Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5143/.
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Die Arbeit beschreibt die humanistische Reform des 'Triviums', also der grammatischen, dialektischen (logisch-argumentativen) und rhetorischen Ausbildung, wie sie sich in dem Zeitraum von 1480 bis 1540 an Schulen und Universitäten durchsetzte. Die Arbeit ist dabei sowohl historisch wie systematisch angelegt, indem sie die Lehrinhalte der jeweiligen Kunst an ausgewählten Lehrbüchern darstellt, gleichzeitig aber unter ständigem Rückbezug auf die scholastisch-mittelalterliche Tradition die humanistischen Neuerungen davon abgrenzt. Im Zentrum stehen Werke von Lorenzo Valla, Rudolf Agricola, Erasmus, Juan Luis Vives und Philipp Melanchthon. Es stellt sich dabei heraus, daß die humanistischen Neuerungen in erster Linie die Praxisbezogenheit des Triviums betreffen, erst aus dieser ergeben sich dann die inhaltlichen Neuerungen. Unter Praxisbezogenheit ist dabei sowohl die Ableitung von Grammatik, Dialektik und Rhetorik aus der Beobachtung ihrer immer schon vorgängigen Anwendung zu verstehen, als auch ihre Anwendung zum Zweck der sprachlichen, argumentativ-logischen und rhetorischen Analyse. D.h. das grammatische, dialektische und rhetorische Regelwerk wird auf deskriptivem Wege gewonnen, um wiederum in der Analyse auf die Praxis zurückgewendet zu werden. Dieser Analyse werden dabei von alltäglichen Äußerungen, politischen, religiösen oder sonstigen sachlichen Texten bis hin zu literarischen Werken alles unterzogen. In einem letzten Teil stellt die Arbeit drei solcher Analysen vor und versucht sich schließlich selbst an einer dialektisch-rhetorischen Analyse dreier dramatischer Bearbeitungen der Parabel vom verlorenen Sohn.
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Santos, Neto Artur Bispo dos. "A palavra e a imagem no poema "o navio negreiro" de Castro Alves." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2007. http://repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/519.
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Our thesis sails through the Castro Alves' poem The slave ship, that incorporates
itself in a romantic tradition by means of the dialog established with Heinrich Heine,
Gonçalves Dias, Pedro Luiz and a minor poets pleiad, manifesting the poetry epos
vicissitudes dedicated to the cause of the slaves freedom. The dialectic nature from this
poetic reveals itself as in the antagonist relations that delays the way that the lyric subject
understands the world under the approximation and removal perspective, as in the tragic
scene representation that the figures of the scenic picture mimetic the world under a
Benjamin interpretative way of a mourned game. The literature genders configure
themselves as optical artifacts that allow to understand the literature text as images
profusion which every figure appear drunkard inside the ship fog marked by the imperative
of the whip violence and the bodies dancing movement. In the fruition of the translator
task, as Flávio Kothe points, we try to understand the allegoric nature of the words and
images that inscribe themselves in the deep fog of the libertarian rhetoric of Castro Alves's
romanticism.Nossa tese navega pelo poema O navio negreiro de Castro Alves, que se incorpora tradição romântica mediante o diálogo estabelecido com Heinrich Heine, Gonçalves Dias, Pedro Luiz e uma plêiade de poetas menores, manifestando as vicissitudes do epos da poesia dedicada à causa da libertação dos escravos. A natureza dialética dessa poética se revela tanto na manifestação das relações antagônicas que perpassam a forma como o sujeito lírico compreende o mundo sob a perspectiva da aproximação e do distanciamento, quanto na representação da cena fatídica em que as figuras do quadro cênico mimetizam o mundo sob a forma interpretativa benjaminiana de um jogo de enlutados. Os gêneros literários configuram-se como artefatos ópticos que permitem entender o texto literário como uma profusão de imagens em que todas as figuras aparecem ébrias no interior dos nevoeiros de um navio marcado pelo imperativo da violência do chicote e do movimento dançante dos corpos. No usufruto da tarefa de tradutor, como aponta Flávio Kothe, procuramos entender a natureza alegórica das palavras e das imagens que se inscrevem nos densos nevoeiros da retórica libertária do romantismo de Castro Alves.
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Rae, Allan. "The age of the screen : subjectivity in twenty-first century literature." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24044.
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The screen, as recent studies in a number of fields indicate, is a cultural object due for critical reappraisal. Work on the theoretical status of screen objects tends to focus upon the materialisation of surface; in other words, it attempts to rethink the relationship between the supposedly 'superficial' facade and the 'functional' object itself. I suggest that this work, while usefully chipping away at the dichotomy between the 'superficial' and the 'functional', can lead us to a more radical conclusion when read in the context of subjectivity. By rethinking the relationship between the surface and the obverse face of the screen as the terms of a dialectic, we can ‘read’ the screen as the vital component in a process which constitutes the Subject. In order to demonstrate this, I analyse productions of subjectivity in literary texts of the twenty-first century — in doing so, I assume the novel as nonpareil arena of the dramatisation of subjectivity — and I propose a reading of the work of Jacques Lacan as hitherto unacknowledged theorist par excellence of the form and function of the screen. Lacan describes, with the function of desire and the formation of the screen of fantasy, the primary position this ‘screen-form' inhabits in the constitution of the Subject. Lacan’s work forms a critical juncture through which we must proceed if we are to properly read and understand the chosen texts: The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber; The Tain by China Miéville; Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood; and Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald. In each text, I analyse the particular materialisations of the screen and interrogate the constitution of the subject and the locus of desire. By analysing the vicissitudes of subjectivity in these texts, I make a claim for the study of the screen as constituting a central question in the field of contemporary literature.
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Neel, Paul Joseph. "The Rhetoric of Propriety in Puritan Sermon Writing and Poetics." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1352580869.
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Re, Henrique Antonio. ""Mundo da desordem", "homem cordial" e a ordem contemporanea do capital : uma analise do esquema interpretativo de Roberto Schwarz." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/281956.
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Orientador: Fernando Antonio LourençoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: Este trabalho procura discutir a interpretação do andamento histórico da sociedade brasileira, apresentada por Roberto Schwarz, a partir de duas de suas fontes: o livro RaÍzes do Brasil, de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda e alguns ensaios de Antonio Candido, com destaque para a "Dialética da malandragem". Este procedimento permitiu compreender de que modo algumas contribuições desses dois autores foram incorporadas ou recusadas quando da construção daquela interpretação. Possibilitou ainda compreender essas divergências como contribuições ao processo de fonnação do pensamento social brasileiro, uma vez que foram analisadas através do debate intelectual no qual surgiram
Abstract: The present dissertation strives to discuss the interpretation of the historical process of the Brazilian society presented by Roberto Schwarz, from two sources: the book Raizes do Brasil, by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and some essays by Antonio Candido, chiefly the "Dialética da malandragem". The procedure enabled the comprehension of how the contributions of both authors were accepted or refused when that interpretation was made. It also enabled the comprehension of the divergences as contributions to the process of formation of the Brazilian social thought, since they were analyzed through the intellectual debate from which they came u
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Bachorz, Stephanie Vanessa. "Dialectics of postcoloniality : Adorno and 20th-century Irish literature." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517204.
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Campos, Gabriel Alves de. "Cultura na trincheira: literatura marginal e o chão da fricção." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-02072013-105838/.
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De Lima Barreto a Ferréz, surge e se consolida no país uma linhagem literária que faz frente aos valores estéticos que regem a formação da literatura brasileira. Suas formas artísticas coincidem com as formas sociais do trabalho e estão circunscritas ao universo do favor, do assalariamento e do trabalho precarizado. Diante desse quadro, não fica difícil imaginar a intersecção que anima suas formas literárias calcadas em um estilo de classe e em uma determinada situação ficcional. A investigação da natureza política dessa nova linhagem literária que propõe uma formalização das relações de classe no Brasil é também a mesma que pretende verificar se o sistema literário proposto por Antônio Cândido diz respeito às novas configurações culturais que surgem pelas periferias brasileiras. Sabe-se que o princípio mediador entre obra literária e sociedade se dá através da forma, em que a realidade é vista por meio da ficção e a ficção por meio da realidade, e que ambas fundam um pêndulo temático que pende ora para um lado, ora para outro, de modo a atingir seu teor de verdade social. Mas também podemos analisar o valor de uma obra pela tríade Literatura-História-Política, nesse caso, essa última funcionando como base do triângulo, denotando a intenção do autor. Seja qual for o ponto de partida (ainda que cada método de leitura tenha seu ponto de chegada), no meio do caminho podemos notar que existe uma íntima correspondência entre a realidade objetiva e a figurada, em que uma tenciona a outra, e o mundo pode ser visto através da literatura e a literatura através do mundo. Se o tema das obras em estudo passa necessariamente pelas feições da barbárie que atravessam a miséria e a violência dos contos estudados, o projeto tem importância na medida em coloca para exame a forma das obras de Lima Barreto, João Antônio e Ferréz, a formação do público que lê essas obras e por ele é influenciado, dando continuidade a esse tipo de literatura, bem como a relação entre forma e formação constituindo um sistema cultural articulado que se convencionou chamar de literatura marginal.From author Lima Barreto to Ferréz, a literary lineage emerges and is consolidating in the Country confronting the aesthetic values that governed the formation of Brazilian literature. Its artistic forms reflect the social forms of labor and are enveloped by a context of the favor culture, of wage labor and of precarious work conditions. Given this situation, it is not difficult to imagine the intersection that animates its literary forms modeled on a class aspect and on a particular fictional situation. The investigation of the political nature of this new literary lineage that proposes a formalization of the class relations in Brazil also aims to verify if the literary system proposed by Antonio Candido really applies to the new cultural configurations which rise in the Brazilian poor areas. It is well known that what mediates the relations between literary work and society arises via the form, in which reality is seen through fiction and fiction through reality, both creating a theme pendulum that hangs sometimes to one side, sometimes to another in order to achieve its content of social truth. But we can also analyze the value of a work by the triad Literature-History-Politics, in this case, the latter serving as the base of the triangle, revealing the author\'s intention. Whatever the starting point (although each reading method has its own conclusions), in the middle of the way we can note that there is a close relation between objective reality and literary reality, in which one influences the other, and the world can be seen through literature and vice-versa. If the theme of the works under consideration necessarily includes the features of barbarism of the poverty and violence in the stories studied, the studys importance is in the examination of the form of Lima Barretos, João Antônios and Ferrézs works, of the formation of the readers of those works that are by them influenced, following up this kind of literature, and of the relationship between form and formation that constitutes an articulated cultural system known as marginal literature.
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Zsembery, Celeste Lloyd. "Rhetoric in Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Healing Minds Through Argumentation." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3093.
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The fields of psychology and rhetoric share the goal of improving human mental health and behavior through persuasion. This thesis traces the history of rhetoric and psychology theory, focusing on the parallel theories of Nienkamp's internal rhetoric and Herman's dialogical self. Both theories model the human mind as having multiple psyches that actively interact to interpret human experience and project human behavior. I conclude with a case study of anorexic patients using ethos, pathos, and logos in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), arguing that principles of rhetoric can help patients with mental disorders cognitively realign their thinking more effectively than drug treatments can.
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Redmond, Dennis Robert. "Global storm : Theodor Adorno's Negative dialectics /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978596.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 377-380). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Salveson, P. S. "Region, class, culture : Lancashire dialect literature 1746-1935." Thesis, University of Salford, 1993. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/14672/.
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The thesis looks at the origin and development of Lancashire dialect literature between the publication of John Collier's ('Tim Bobbin') A View of the Lancashire Dialect in 1746, and the death of Allen Clarke ('Teddy Ashton') in 1935. The thesis is partly chronological, paying particular attention to the largely unexplored period of dialect writing between the 1890s and the 1930s, which suggests that earlier assessments of dialect literature need revision. The period before the First World War witnessed the development of a dialect literature closely linked to the labour movement in Lancashire, and contributed to the development of a distinctive socialist culture. For a time at least, dialect literature escaped from the middle class patronage which characterised it in the 1850s and 1860s, aided by the existence of an independent, Lancashire-based, press. Dialect literature was never a pure, unadulterated 'voice of the people', and it was used both by middle and working class social forces to support rival value systems. An argument in dialect suggested a practical, common sense, wisdom, regardless of the actual message. Dialect poetry was used by different writers to support imperialist adventures, Irish home rule, left-wing socialism, and to oppose strikes, women's suffrage, and restrictions on access to the countryside. The literature represented divisions within the working class, as well as attempts from the middle class to influence it. Differing class and political standpoints were, on occasions, transcended by a wider regional consciousness in which dialect had a prominent place. Particular themes within dialect literature are explored, contributing to current debates on class, identity, and gender. The treatment of women, war and imperialism, work, and the 'Cotton Famine' of 1861-4 are examined in separate chapters. Selfcriticism, and defences of dialect writing, are looked at in Chapter 6 on "Defending Dialect".
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Hanna, Kátia Regina Vighy. "Tradução do dialeto literário de Burma Jones, da obra \'A Confederacy of Dunces\', de John Toole." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-08082007-155011/.
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Este trabalho tem por objetivo traduzir os diálogos do personagem Burma Jones, do romance A Confederacy of Dunces, de autoria do norte-americano John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969). A caracterização da fala do personagem remete-se ao inglês não-padrão Black English Vernacular (BEV), fato que levanta questões acerca dos dialetos literários e da problemática de sua tradução. A obra de Toole é praticamente desconhecida dos brasileiros, senão por uma tradução restrita aos leitores do Círculo do Livro, feita por Cristina Boselli, na qual a fala de Jones não apresenta nenhum marcador dialetal, apenas registra um nível coloquial. Na introdução do trabalho, no Capítulo I, demonstro a relevância de se manter na tradução uma diferenciação entre os níveis de fala de cada personagem, em especial do negro Jones, ao examinar como o autor empregou a heterogeneidade lingüística a favor da caracterização dos personagens e da posição social que cada um ocupa na sociedade ficcional do livro. Estabelecida essa relação, considero, no Capítulo II, os dialetos literários em sua construção formal e nas implicações representativa, ideológica e humorística que resultam da presença desse recurso na obra literária. Nessa análise, destaco momentos de nossa literatura em que personagens negros receberam tratamento diferenciado nos diálogos, a fim de verificar como tem sido a representação ficcional da fala dos negros na literatura brasileira. No Capítulo III, no que concerne à teoria da tradução, aproveito a questão da tradução dialetal para enfatizar a intervenção \"violenta\" do tradutor na produção de sentido estético, ideológico e político, processo que se repete também na tradução em geral e sustenta-se nas teorias contemporâneas da tradução, em que os conceitos de \"original\" e \"fidelidade\" são questionados. Como conclusão, apresento a tradução comentada dos diálogos mais relevantes de Burma JonesThis paper aims to translate the dialogues of Burma Jones, a character from John Kennedy Toole\'s book A Confederacy of Dunces. This character\'s speech is a representation of the Black English Vernacular (BEV) style, which raises questions about the literary dialects and the problems involved in their translation. Toole\'s work is almost unknown to Brazilian readers, except for a translation by Cristina Boselli, distributed only to members of Círculo do Livro and therefore available to a limited readership. In that translation, Jone\'s speech is not presented with any trace of dialectal variation, being only marked as belonging to a colloquial register. Chapter I advocates for the relevance of preserving the translation of the different literary dialects, especially Burma Jones\'. This is done through examining how the author employed the linguistic heterogeneity to stress the characters\' peculiarities and the social position they occupy in the fictional society of the book. This relation being established, Chapter II considers the literary dialects in their formal construction and the representative, ideological and humorous effects they create in a fictional work. This analysis highlights works from Brazilian literature in which black character\'s speeches have received a different treatment, in order to verify how the authors have portrayed them. Chapter III addresses translation theory and emphasizes the translator\'s violent intervention, as s/he creates aesthetic, ideological and political meaning in any act of translation, and specially when translating literary dialects. This concept is supported by to some authors on contemporary translation theory, who challenge the concepts of \"fidelity\" and \"original work\". In conclusion, I present a dialectical translation of the most relevant dialogues of Burma Jones, followed by comments on my decisions
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Roberts, Jamie Quasar Social Sciences & International Studies Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "The stakes involved in Emancipatory Acts." Awarded By:University of New South Wales. Social Sciences & International Studies, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44523.
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The thesis develops a comprehensive account of human political ontology through the discussion of Plato, Rousseau, Lacan, Lyotard, Hugo, Conrad, Tolstoy and Nietzsche. At the heart of this account lies the dialectical struggle between an individual's need to belong and their fidelity to an intuitively recognisable, yet difficult to define good (or set of goods), that has, over the millennia, been conceptualised as, amongst other things, the form of the good, self interest, compassion, love, friendship, the event, conscience, reason and truth. Through the development of this account of human political ontology the thesis will elucidate the stakes involved in emancipatory acts, be they broad social movements or individual transformations. Its most important argument is that people almost always fail to recognise that to which they belong; the consequence of this being that they mistake the acts which function to reaffirm their belonging for acts that are indicative of their sovereign being. This phenomenon becomes particularly troubling once we recognise that the acts which function to reaffirm an individual??s belonging can depend upon the individual sacrificing both themself and others.
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Ettari, Gary. ""That within which passeth show" : the dialectics of early modern subjectivity /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9383.
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Skelley, Steven J. "Yeats, Bloom and the dialectics of theory, criticism and poetry." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1992. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13628/.
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This thesis begins by showing how a strong and subtle challenge to poetry and theories of poetry has been recently argued by writers like Paul de Man and J. Hillis Miller—critics whose ironic linguistic "disfigurations" of lyrical voice have thrown poem and poet into an anti-mimetic free fall, an abyss of bewilderment or undecidability. To its credit, de Manian deconstruction strongly misreads various mimetic approaches to William Butler Yeats, as its corrosive irony empties out theories of imitation. Chapter two explains how New Criticism, biographical, psychoanalytic, and philosophical criticism, all treat Yeats's poetry as a reflection or imitation of some prior being, text, or doctrine; and chapter three how, most recently and energetically, various new historicisms treat his poems as ideological artifacts determined by the world or history, but as artifacts that must seek to change the world in order to have value. Harold Bloom's theory meets such challenges. It enacts deconstruction's misreading of poem and poet without reducing them to a linguistic abyss; and it re-envisions mimetic approaches by reading poems in terms of genealogical influence, without moralizing. Chapter four investigates Bloom's vision of strong poetry as a "supermimesis" or in terms of gnostic figures of "negative transcendence." Bloom's work, however, also needs Yeatsian creative correction. As the fifth and sixth chapters show, it needs, like Yeats's poetry, to hold itself more open to the chaos of history. Invoking instruction from the very poetry that has so influenced Bloom's theory of influence, yet from which Bloom has turned away, this thesis re-interprets Yeats's poems and Yeats criticism generally. Using Yeats's openness to history to revise Bloom and his pragmatic theory of misreading to re-interpret Yeats, the thesis attempts to advance dialectically both Yeats criticism and Bloomian theory.
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O'Connor, Daniel. "Burning the foxes : the dialectics of Ted Hughes." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2012. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/8393/.
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This thesis examines the dialectics at the heart of Ted Hughes’s work. There is no single dialectic that forms a master-narrative, but they are all nonetheless structured around Hughes’s idea of man as divorced from his ‘true nature’. This divorce establishes oppositional ideas such as intellect against instinct, man against nature, man against woman and language against truth. I argue that Hughes critiques these oppositional tendencies throughout his career, either by taking sides or trying to find a synthesis between ostensibly oppositional stances. One of these dialectics, intellect against instinct, poses a direct challenge to the act of literary criticism in the form of the foundational myth of Hughes’s poetic career. This is his dream of the ‘burnt fox’, where the fox leaves a bloody paw print on his undergraduate essay as a warning to the damaging effect that such ‘rational’ thinking has on the creative spirit. Part of my purpose in this thesis is to show that, on the contrary, the mode of thinking that Hughes dismisses (including what he calls the ‘tyrant’s whisper’ – Continental Theory) is not only conducive to reading his work, but parallels the kind of thinking that takes place in his poems. As such, the work of Jacques Lacan plays an important role in this thesis in regards to the structuring Hughes’s delineation of the split subject in relation to language and the other. This thesis is not a Lacanian reading of Hughes per se, but finds congruities in their work as a means of addressing Hughes’s poems. Accordingly, Followers of Lacan such as Slavoj Žižek, Eric Santner and Teresa Brennan prove similarly useful in this regard, as each offers ways of thinking that are correlative to Hughes. The chapters of this thesis follow the progression of Hughes’s career. Chapter One investigates his early interest in how man’s relationship with nature can be represented in language through animal symbolism. Chapter Two examines Crow (1970/1) at length, arguing that the collection is the crux of Hughes’s work in that it contemplates almost all of the dialectics that emerge from his understanding of man as divorced from his ‘true nature’. The third chapter follows his poetry of mourning and melancholia during the early to mid 1970s, as Hughes goes from abandoning English altogether in his experiments with Orghast (1971) to creating a vision of the Goddess in the mystical sequences of Gaudete (1977) and Cave Birds (1978). This is followed in Chapter Four by a discussion of how Hughes resolves some of his dialectical thinking by returning to animal and landscape poetry in Remains of Elmet (1978), Moortown (1979) and River (1983). Chapter Five takes advantage of his appointment as Poet Laureate in 1984 and publication of his parable of Englishness, Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being (1992), to take a slight diversion and address his dialectic of nationhood. Finally, Chapter Six examines how Hughes’s final collection, Birthday Letters, relates back to his poetry of mourning and melancholia (looking at Crow in particular) and ultimately to the central concern of this thesis: Hughes’s dialectical idea of the ‘true self’.
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Baur, Marie-Florence [Verfasser], and Walter [Akademischer Betreuer] Göbel. "The dialectics of transculturation in Chicano/a literature / Marie-Florence Baur. Betreuer: Walter Göbel." Stuttgart : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Stuttgart, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1034823000/34.
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Bådagård, Elsa. "Dialectal Speech in Literature and Translation : Bachelor Degree Thesis in English Linguistics." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-10126.
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This essay studies how dialectal speech is reflected in written literature and how this phenomenon functions in translation. With this purpose in mind, Styron's Sophie's Choice and Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are analysed using samples of non-standard orthography which have been applied in order to reflect the dialect, or accent, of certain characters. In the same way, Lundgren's Swedish translation of Sophie's Choice and Ferres and Rolfe's Spanish version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are analysed. The method consists of linguistically analysing a few text samples from each novel, establishing how dialect is represented through non-standard orthography, and thereafter, comparing the same samples with their translation into another language in order to establish whether dialectal features are visible also in the translated novels. It is concluded that non-standard orthography is applied in the novels in order to represent each possible linguistic level, including pronunciation, morphosyntax, and vocabulary. Furthermore, it is concluded that while Lundgren's translation intends to orthographically represent dialectal speech on most occasions where the original does so, Ferres and Rolfe's translation pays no attention to dialectology. The discussion following the data analysis establishes some possible reasons for the exclusion of dialectal features in the Spanish translation considered here. Finally, the reason for which this study contributes to the study of dialectology is declared.
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Tew, Philip. "Accepting the known? : dialectical thematics in B.S. Johnson." Thesis, University of Westminster, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362677.
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Campos, Adriana Juliano Mendes de. "Abordagem intersemiótica da literatura na educação básica: desafios e perspectivas /." São José do Rio Preto : [s.n.], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/106326.
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Orientador: Carlos DaghlianBanca: José Luiz Fiorin
Banca: Elêusis Mirian Camocardi
Banca: Sérgio Vicente Motta
Banca: Susanna Busato Feitosa
Resumo: Esta tese tem como objetivo refletir sobre resultados educacionais recentes relativos à formação leitora, observando a adequação das concepções de Literatura expressas nos documentos oficiais e manuais didáticos do final do século XX. O estudo tem início problematizando, a partir da LDB/71, a oposição central entre o conhecimento formal, linear e fragmentado e os desafios para superação deste modelo pela práxis dialética e interdisciplinar. Analisa o paradigma da transição que a LDBEN/96 estruturou para a esfera escolar, no século XXI, explicitando pressupostos teóricos da semiótica, implícitos na versão original dos PCNEM/99 e textos complementares. Confrontando códigos verbais e não-verbais como a literatura, a pintura, a música e o cinema, propõe uma perspectiva de abordagem intersemiótica do conteúdo estético, a título de referencial de operacionalização docente para a Educação Básica. Sistematiza traços específicos, estabelecendo relações de divergência formal e de isotopia temática, interpretando gêneros de diferentes suportes, ao utilizar ferramentas e recursos, inclusive tecnológicos, com vistas à dinamização das atividades de leitura e escrita escolar, em consonância com o paradigma pós-moderno.
Abstract: This dissertation deals with the adequacy of conceptions with regard to the teaching of Literature outlined in Brazilian public documents, guidelines and handbooks that deal with the preparation of readers in the field of Basic Education. Based on the "Law of Educational Policies and Support" (LDB/71), this study problematizes the central opposition between formal, linear and fragmented knowledge and points to the challenges for overcoming such a model by means of dialectic and interdisciplinary praxis. The paradigm in the transition that the "National Law of Educational Policies and Support"(LDBEN/96) established for schools in the course of the present century is also analyzed in this study as well as the more recent PCNEM/99 (National Curricular Parameters for High School) guidelines including complementary texts that argue for the presence of semiotics in the school curriculum. Confronting verbal and non-verbal codes such as literature, painting, music and cinema, the document proposes an intersemiotic approach to aesthetic content, as a mark of reference for the teaching of literature at the secondary school level. It systematizes specific characteristics and establishes relations of formal divergence and thematic isotopy when interpreting genres of different types, uses tools and resources, including technological ones, contributing to the dynamization of school reading and writing activities in accordance with the post-modern paradigm.
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Anley, Maxwell Lydston. "The wisdom of brainless knights : paradox, dialectics and literature's conditions of possibility." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11003/.
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This product of doctoral labour is a reappraisal of Russian Formalism. It establishes the convergences between the thought of key Formalists Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, Yury Tynianov and German Idealist Philosophers Immanuel Kant and Georg Hegel. The Formalists’ conceptualization of literary art is shown to be consistent with Kant’s programme of practical critique and Hegel’s objective dialectics, albeit without the reductive closures which Kant and Hegel programme into aesthetic theory. On this basis, the Formalists’ dialogue with the Bakhtin School is reconsidered, along with the utility of Formalist critique for how we are to understand the cultural environment of the Soviet 1920s, and the practice of theory in the present context of its own death.
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Kiff, Alexis Aileen. "Argument and the novel : the dialectical fiction of W.H. Mallock." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253834.
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Campos, Adriana Juliano Mendes de [UNESP]. "Abordagem intersemiótica da literatura na educação básica: desafios e perspectivas." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/106326.
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Esta tese tem como objetivo refletir sobre resultados educacionais recentes relativos à formação leitora, observando a adequação das concepções de Literatura expressas nos documentos oficiais e manuais didáticos do final do século XX. O estudo tem início problematizando, a partir da LDB/71, a oposição central entre o conhecimento formal, linear e fragmentado e os desafios para superação deste modelo pela práxis dialética e interdisciplinar. Analisa o paradigma da transição que a LDBEN/96 estruturou para a esfera escolar, no século XXI, explicitando pressupostos teóricos da semiótica, implícitos na versão original dos PCNEM/99 e textos complementares. Confrontando códigos verbais e não-verbais como a literatura, a pintura, a música e o cinema, propõe uma perspectiva de abordagem intersemiótica do conteúdo estético, a título de referencial de operacionalização docente para a Educação Básica. Sistematiza traços específicos, estabelecendo relações de divergência formal e de isotopia temática, interpretando gêneros de diferentes suportes, ao utilizar ferramentas e recursos, inclusive tecnológicos, com vistas à dinamização das atividades de leitura e escrita escolar, em consonância com o paradigma pós-moderno.
This dissertation deals with the adequacy of conceptions with regard to the teaching of Literature outlined in Brazilian public documents, guidelines and handbooks that deal with the preparation of readers in the field of Basic Education. Based on the Law of Educational Policies and Support (LDB/71), this study problematizes the central opposition between formal, linear and fragmented knowledge and points to the challenges for overcoming such a model by means of dialectic and interdisciplinary praxis. The paradigm in the transition that the National Law of Educational Policies and Support(LDBEN/96) established for schools in the course of the present century is also analyzed in this study as well as the more recent PCNEM/99 (National Curricular Parameters for High School) guidelines including complementary texts that argue for the presence of semiotics in the school curriculum. Confronting verbal and non-verbal codes such as literature, painting, music and cinema, the document proposes an intersemiotic approach to aesthetic content, as a mark of reference for the teaching of literature at the secondary school level. It systematizes specific characteristics and establishes relations of formal divergence and thematic isotopy when interpreting genres of different types, uses tools and resources, including technological ones, contributing to the dynamization of school reading and writing activities in accordance with the post-modern paradigm.
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Konik, Adrian. "Apollo, Dionysus, dialectical reason and critical cinema." Thesis, University of Port Elizabeth, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/295.
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The contemporary era is dominated by an Apollonian visual language, i.e. the visual language of mainstream cinema and the mass media, and this study concerns the role that critical cinema, as Dionysian subverter, plays under such conditions. I argue that critical cinema should not be viewed as something completely ‘new’ but rather as a new, or at least the latest, manifestation of an older subversive ‘Dionysian’ voice that has made its presence felt since the dawn of the hegemony of an Apollonian disposition in Homeric epic. (I maintain that the history of western culture can be understood in terms of the persistent tension between Apollonian and Dionysian dispositions, and I use the distinction Derrida makes in Différance, between restricted and general economies, to distinguish between them, respectively.) I begin by considering the Dionysian echoes within Homer’s Iliad and then consider the way in which they became a ‘roar’ in the tragedies of Aeschylus. After Aeschylus a predominantly Apollonian voice asserted itself once again (to various degrees) through the work of Sophocles and Euripides. This was in keeping with the trend towards a more (Apollonian) restricted economy that is reflected in the writings of Homer’s literary successors, and which reached a crucial stage in Plato’s valorisation of ‘dialectics’, or what I term ‘dialecticis m’, which saw the birth of ‘dialectical language’. Through Plato dialecticism, or dialectical language, became instantiated as the ‘language’ of western philosophy and this predisposed western culture to develop along predominantly Apollonian lines. This continued from Plato, through the Middle Ages, until in the 17th century this Apollonian trend became manifest in the concept of the stable, integral, autonomous and self -transparent Cartesian ego, which is inextricably linked to dialectical language that promises certainty of ‘truth’ and maintains the possibility of representing the world in its entirety (as a system). In the contemporary ‘age of a world picture’, the hegemonic (Apollonian) visual language of mainstream cinema and the mass media propagates and perpetuates the belief in the possibility of representing the world in its entirety through the image, and insofar as it caters to audiences’ needs for stability and certainty (of ‘truth’) through providing such ‘complete’ representations, shapes their subjectivity along the lines of the Cartesian ego. According to Baudrillard, in contemporary society and culture the hyperreal realm of visual language has become far more significant for individuals than their immediate, empirical experiences, and that, as a result, they are far less predisposed to discussion and reflection and far more prone to passive ‘watching’. Also, Adorno maintains that it is impossible to have a form of critical cinema because of the way in which features inherent to cinema predispose it towards being an ideological apparatus. However, if both Baudrillard and Adorno are correct then the future appears increasingly bleak as it involves nothing other than the continuation and propagation of the hegemony of the visual language of mainstream cinema and the mass media, with no possibility for critical resistance. I argue instead that critical cinema is possible because the move towards a more restricted economy, motivated by an Apollonian disposition, did not develop from Homer to the contemporary era without meeting Dionysian resistance. I trace the presence of a subversive Dionysian voice through Homer’s Iliad, through Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, and through Plato’s Dialogues, where it echoes in the sentiments of some of Plato’s interlocutors, such as Callicles. In addition, I maintain that a ‘Dionysian’ voice resonates through both Nietzsche’s and Heidegger’s respective criticisms of ‘dialectical language’ and the ‘validity’ of the Cartesian ego. I argue that critical cinema, particularly Aronofsky’s postmodern critical cinema, parallels their similar epistemological and ontological perspectives in the way in which it engages with the (Apollonian) visual language of mainstream cinema and the mass media, and thereby, potentially, facilitates a more porous and protean subjectivity.
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Brandist, Craig Steven. "Dialectics and dialogue : the politics of ideological struggle in the works of the Bakhtin school." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239545.
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Thomas, Daniel. "Spatial dialectics : poetic technique and the landscape of Old English verse." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b5a24b89-9912-40fa-a5f1-9ef55e5433d4.
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This thesis examines the role of spatial representation in Old English poetry. Focusing on the presentation of setting and spatial relationships in narrative poetry, it argues that sensibility towards the creative potential of spatial representation within a conventional tradition constitutes a significant element of Old English poetic technique. It emphasizes the importance of intertextual reading practices which recognize the dialectics of text and tradition underlying spatial representation in individual examples. Chapter one introduces the subject, outlining the relevant critical contexts in which the thesis stands and describing the methodology that is followed in the subsequent chapters. It also describes the connection between the representation of space and critical assumptions regarding vernacular poetic composition. Chapter two focuses on poetic accounts of the angelic rebellion. The presentation of this event as a territorial and spatial conflict establishes a contrast between vertical and horizontal spatial relationships which relates to concerns prevalent throughout the Anglo-Saxon period over conflicting models for power relationships. The prominence of vertical spatial relationships in these accounts serves to legitimize hierarchical power structures. Chapter three considers territorial conflict in Old English battle poetry. Similarities in the use of setting and the construction of a sense of place in these texts suggest the influence of established poetic conventions. However, poetic artistry is evident in the ways in which spatial representation contributes to the wider thematic and artistic concerns of these texts. Chapter four examines poetic representations of the prison. Whilst such representations do partially reflect conceptualizations of the prison current in Anglo-Saxon England, they also demonstrate a deeper interest in the valence of enclosed space. The chapter extends the intertextual approach of the thesis to consider the possibility of direct borrowing between poems. Chapter five clarifies the argument of the thesis regarding the relationship between spatial representation and poetic technique and identifies some directions for further work.
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Snyman, Jacobus Wilhelmus Otto. "A life worthy of being lived : dialectics in Svevo and Michelstaedter." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/69085.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 1991.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to point out and elaborate the affinities, culturally as well as textually, between the two Italian authors, Italo Svevo and Carlo Michelstaedter. Furthermore, it is the object of this study to demonstrate how, implicitly, the two authors provide an answer, each in his own way, to the question of "una vita degna di essere vissuta" - "a life worthy of being lived". The central theme in this regard concerns the distinctive notions that each author has in respect of 'Ihealth" and "disease", and "life" and "death", as well as how these notions correspond to the implicit search in their respective writings for "perfection", "authenticity" and "liberty".
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie het ten doel am die kulturele en tekstuele affiniteite tussen die lwee Italiaanse outeurs, Ital0 Svevo en Carlo Michelstaedter, uit te wys en uitvoerig te bespreek. Daarbenewens, is die voorneme van hierdie studie om te wys hoe elk van die tv:ee outeurs, implisiet, '0 aotwoord verskaf op die kwessie van "una vita degna di essere vissuta" - II 'n lewe wat waardig is om geleef te word". Die sentrale tema in hierdie verband het betrekking op die onderskeidelike opvattings wat elke auteur se werk bevat ten opsigte van "gesondheid" en "siekte", en "Iewe" en "dood". Daar word ook getoon hoe hierdie opvattings betreffende die implisiete soeke ten opsigte van "volmaaktheid", "outentisiteit" en ''vryheid" in hul onderskeidelike tekste korrespondeer.
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Wolck, Wolfgang. "Un problema ficticio : ¿lengua o dialecto quechua?" Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/101472.
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Ryder, Paul H. "Re-thinking mythological interpretation| A dialectical reading of Cupid and Psyche." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3746296.
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This dissertation applies what David Miller has called “the third wave of Jungian thought” to a favorite depth psychological story: “Cupid and Psyche.” Through close examination of previous efforts to interpret Apuleius’ text, the dissertation displays the essential syntax and assumptions of textual interpretation practiced by “first” and “second” wave Jungians. Mythological interpretation from a Depth Psychological perspective has long relied on two assumptions to justify its efforts: first, myths can be interpreted as “collective dreams” in which character and plot can be searched for clues to the meaning of the composite dream-myth and secondly, that there is a deep link between the “meanings” discovered in such examinations and the everyday world in which we live. In this view, myths are archetypal lessons. The leading proponent of the third wave, Wolfgang Giegerich, explicitly challenges both of these assumptions. With respect to character and plot, Giegerich believes we need to see through not only to the archetype that guides a character or action but rather “all the way” through to the structure or syntax of the entire tale as the positions displayed by the characters move along their trajectories. He applies Hegel’s dialectical logic of position-negation-sublation-restoration to the logical structure of a tale under examination. This move results in interpretations that are less about theories, morals, or advice on psychological issues and more about aesthetics and the artistic expression of a truth. The final section of this dissertation is a performance of a “third-wave” interpretation that views the “Cupid and Psyche” tale as a portrait of beauty in which Venus, Psyche, and Proserpina’s box of beauty represent positions in a dialectic displaying the notion of Beauty refining and developing itself. Rather than seeking a tidy conclusion or supporting a specific theory, this reading attempts to satisfy on aesthetic grounds. It is a tale, after all, about Beauty. In the way that the development and display of art refines both the artist and its viewer, this style of mythological interpretation, by avoiding the concretizing reduction common to imagistic readings, deepens the subtlety of thinking in both performer and audience.
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Travis, Christopher Michael. "The dialectical voice of Enrique Lihn and the metapoetics of twentieth-century Latin American literature." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3035990.
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Brown, David. "Voicing imperial subjects in British literature : a corpus analysis of literary dialect, 1768-1929." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2016. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/80662/.
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This study investigates nonstandard dialect as it used in fictional dialogue. The works included in it were produced by British authors between 1768 and 1929 – a period marking the expansion and height of the British Empire. One of the project’s aims is to examine the connections among dialect representation and the imperial project, to investigate how ventriloquizing African diasporic, Chinese, and Indian characters works with related forms of characterization to encode ideologies and relations of power. A related aim is to explore the emergence and evolution of these literary dialects over time and to compare their structures as they are used to impersonate different communities of speakers. In order to track such patterns of representation, a corpus was constructed from the dialogue of 126 novels, plays, and short stories. That dialogue was then annotated for more than 200 lexical, morphological, orthographic, and phonological features. That data enable statistical analyses that model variation in the voicing of speakers and how those voicings change over time. This modeling demonstrates, for example, an increase in the frequency of phonological features for African diasporic dialogue and a countervailing decrease in the frequency and complexity of coded features generally for Indian dialogue. Trends like these that are surfaced though quantitative methods are further contextualized using qualitative, archival data. The analysis ultimately rests on connecting patterns of representation to changes in the imperial political economy, evolving language ideologies that circulate in the Anglophone world, and shifts in sociocultural anxieties that crosscut race and empire. The combined quantitative and qualitative analyses, therefore, expose representational systems – the apparatuses that propagate structures and the social attitudes that accrue to those structures. It further demonstrates that in such propagation, structures and attitudes are complementary.
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Hurst, Darin S. "El AMOR, LA BELLEZA, Y EL ARTE EN LA NOVELA DECADENTE HISPANOAMERICANA: LA DIALECTICA DE LA DECADENCIA." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1051278715.
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