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Costes, Anne. "La métamorphose Fonctions et investissements sémantiques au sein de cent et un contes européens et africains. Thèse, Université Toulouse le Mirail, juillet 1998 /." Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/43984176.html.
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Ott, Claudia. "Metamorphosen des Epos Sīrat al-Muğāhidīn (Sīrat al-Amīra D̲āt al-Himma) zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit /." Leiden, The Netherlands : Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Universiteit Leiden, 2003. http://books.google.com/books?id=FrPZAAAAMAAJ.
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Bargouti, Husain Jameel. "The other voice : an introduction to the phenomenology of metamorphosis /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6684.
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Norris, Stephanie Latitia. "Flesh in flux: narrating metamorphosis in late medieval England." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1372.
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My dissertation reevaluates medieval concepts of body and identity by analyzing literary depictions of metamorphosis in romance. Focusing on examples such as the hag-turned-damsel in the Wife of Bath's Tale, the lump-turned-boy in The King of Tars and the demon-saint of Sir Gowther, I take as my starting point the fact that while those texts pivot on instances of physical transformation, they refrain from representing such change. This pattern of undescribed physical metamorphosis has broad implications for recent work on evolving notions of change and identity beginning in the high Middle Ages. While Caroline Walker Bynum has read the medieval outpouring of tales about werewolves and hybrids as imaginative responses to social upheavals, I consider why such medieval writings ironically focused on shape-shifters but avoided metamorphosis itself. I argue that we can understand why Chaucer and other writers resisted imagining bodies in the process of transforming by examining the history of ideas regarding metamorphosis in the medieval west. While the foremost classical writer on transformation, Ovid, reveled in depictions of metamorphosis, by the late Middle Ages a new religious discourse on change enjoyed prominence, the doctrine of transubstantiation. In its effort to separate substance and accidents, Eucharistic theory strove to detach identity from physical change and exhibited a certain level of repugnance over images of physical transformation. I argue that medieval secular writings address that anxiety over bread-turned-God in moments such as the close of the Wife of Bath's Tale. In a scene that recalls the place of veiling in Eucharistic ritual, the hag uses the bed curtain first to cloak then reveal her newly young and beautiful physique. Ultimately, the corpus of medieval literature on change--a body of work that engages both Ovidian and Eucharistic writings--suggests that identity intertwines with physical metamorphosis in a productive, if problematically unstable, manner.
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Gallagher, David. "The theme of metamorphosis in nineteenth- and twentieth century German-speaking literature." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.497628.
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Marubbio, M. Elise 1963. "The edge of the abyss: Metamorphosis as reality in contemporary Native American literature." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291692.
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The edge of the abyss: Metamorphosis as reality in contemporary Native American literature, approaches the concept of metamorphosis from a metaphysical and philosophical perspective as a culturally defined reality. It focuses on the works of contemporary Native American writers: Leslie Silko, Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich, who address the metamorphic properties of Time and the metamorphic abilities of Man as a continuing link to the supernatural and natural worlds through stories which descend from a history of oral traditions. The Edge of the Abyss explores the use of language and stories as a cultural survival technique for the retention of tribal ideology and world view. It addresses the fine line which exists between Western and Native American concepts of reality in order to re-define metamorphosis within a cultural context. This thesis uses an interdisciplinary approach utilizing anthropological, sociological, shamanistic, literary, and cultural materials in a comparative analysis.
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Chappell, Shelley Bess. "Werewolves, wings, and other weird transformations fantastic metamorphosis in children's and young adult fantasy literature /." Doctoral thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/226.
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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2007.Bibliography: p. 239-289.
Introduction -- Fantastic metamorphosis as childhood 'otherness' -- The metamorphic growth of wings : deviant development and adolescent hybridity -- Tenors of maturation: developing powers and changing identities -- Changing representations of werewolves: ideologies of racial and ethnic otherness -- The desire for transcendence: jouissance in selkie narratives -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix: "The great Silkie of Sule Skerry": three versions.
My central thesis is that fantastic motifs work on a metaphorical level to encapsulate and express ideologies that have frequently been naturalised as 'truths'. I develop a theory of motif metaphors in order to examine the ideologies generated by the fantastic motif of metamorphosis in a range of contemporary children's and young adult fantasy texts. Although fantastic metamorphosis is an exceptionally prevalent and powerful motif in children's and young adult fantasy literature, symbolising important ideas about change and otherness in relation to childhood, adolescence, and maturation, and conveying important ideologies about the world in which we live, it has been little analysed in children's literature criticism. The detailed analyses of particular metamorphosis motif metaphors in this study expand and refine our academic understanding of the metamorphosis figure and consequently provide insight into the underlying principles and particular forms of a variety of significant ideologies.
By examining several principal metamorphosis motif metaphors I investigate how a number of specific cultural beliefs are constructed and represented in contemporary children's and young adult fantasy literature. I particularly focus upon metamorphosis as a metaphor for childhood otherness; adolescent hybridity and deviant development; maturation as a process of self-change and physical empowerment; racial and ethnic difference and otherness; and desire and jouissance. I apply a range of pertinent cultural theories to explore these motif metaphors fully, drawing on the interpretive frameworks most appropriate to the concepts under consideration. I thus employ general psychoanalytic theories of embodiment, development, language, subjectivity, projection, and abjection; poststructuralist, social constructionist, and sociological theories; and wide-ranging literary theories, philosophical theories, gender and feminist theories, race and ethnicity theories, developmental theories, and theories of fantasy and animality. The use of such theories allows for incisive explorations of the explicit and implicit ideologies metaphorically conveyed by the motif of metamorphosis in different fantasy texts.
In this study, I present a number of specific analyses that enhance our knowledge of the motif of fantastic metamorphosis and of significant cultural ideologies. In doing so, I provide a model for a new and precise approach to the analysis of fantasy literature.
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Janzen, Janet. "Modernity gazing on metamorphosis: representations of plants in German language film and literature at the beginning of the 20th century." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=123104.
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This dissertation explores representations of plants in German-language film and literature at the beginning of the twentieth century. Five examples serve as case studies, demonstrating the widespread preoccupation with the motif of the "dynamic plant" at the turn of the century. I argue that the preoccupation with the motif of the "dynamic plant" demonstrates the interconnectedness of two broad cultural transformations that helped to change the public's perception of plants from one that viewed plants as nearly inanimate objects to a world view that that saw plants as living, dynamic life forms similar to animals and humans. The first transformation was intellectual, characterized by a reaction to materialist, positivist and mechanistic explanations of the natural world that helped revive aspects of Vitalism and Romanticism. The second, based in media technologies, directly transformed the representation of plants through time-lapse photography, speeding up their movements to the pace of animals. These transformations helped to challenge the hierarchy of humans, animals and plants, introducing instability and fluidity into categories of being. The changing perception of plants was met with a variety of reactions that ran along a spectrum from acknowledgement and anxiety in Gustav Meyrink's short story "Die Pflanzen des Doktor Cinderella" (1905) and in the films, Nosferatu (1921) and Alraune (1928), to celebrating this new dynamism and fluidity in Paul Scheerbart's "Flora story, "Mohr: eine Glasblumen-Novelle" (1909) and the Kulturfilm, Das Blumenwunder (1926).The close readings of the films and short stories are supported by other examples of the dynamic plant motif from archival sources, in addition to the work of such naturalists as Raoul Heinrich Francé from the turn of the century and scientists and philosophers from the mid nineteenth century such as Gustav Fechner. This specific historical topic, the motif of the dynamic plant, shows the relevance of questions regarding life and ecology for a rereading of German modernism, in addition to the relevance of a grounding in German language and literature for a historical understanding of how thinking about life changed in relation to media. In this sense, the dissertation contributes to growing interests in media and ecology, as well as the growing field of Ecocriticism in German studies and all literary studies.Cette thèse explore la représentation des plantes dans la littérature et le cinéma de langue allemande au début du XXe siècle. Par le biais de cinq études de cas, ce projet s'intéresse au motif de la "plante dynamique" dans la modernité allemande, une préoccupation bien répandue à cette époque. Mon projet soutient que ce regain d'intérêt pour le mouvement de la plante dans les domaines de la littérature et du cinéma est étroitement lié à deux grandes transformations culturelles interdépendantes qui ont contribué à changer la perception populaire de la nature, à savoir la transition qui a permis de passer d'une perception basée sur la taxonomie et les hiérarchies rigides, à une nouvelle se rapprochant désormais au domaine de la vie et dans laquelle les forces dynamiques rattachées aux plantes, aux animaux et aux humains y trouvent leur juste valeur. La première transformation, d'ordre intellectuel, était caractérisée par un mouvement réactionnaire s'opposant au matérialisme, au positivisme et aux explications mécanistes de la nature qui ont su alimenter un regain d'intérêt pour la philosophie romantique de la nature et le vitalisme. La seconde, étroitement liée à l'émergence des nouveaux médias, transforma la façon d'observer les plantes. Grâce à la chronophotographie, une technique photographique novatrice, il était désormais possible d'observer la croissance et le mouvement des plantes de façon accélérée, voire au même rythme que celui des animaux. Ces transformations ont eu pour effet de relancer le débat portant sur la hiérarchie divisant les êtres humains, les animaux et les plantes, tout en introduisant la perception d'instabilité et de fluidité au sein des catégories de l'être. Ce changement de perception des plantes a été accueilli de manière mitigée, entraînant avec lui une variété de réactions. Passant de la reconnaissance à l'anxiété dans l'histoire courte de Gustav Meyrink "Die Pflanzen des Doktor Cinderella" (1905), dans les films Nosferatu (1921) et Alraune (1928), c'est avec grand enthousiasme que l'on s'intéressa à ce nouveau dynamisme et à la fluidité dans l'histoire courte "Flora Mohr : eine Glasblume - Novelle" (1909), par Paul Scheerbart et dans le « Kulturfilm », Das Blumenwunder (1926). Une analyse approfondie de ces films et de ces histoires courtes est appuyée par d'autres sources d'archives dans lesquelles on retrouve le motif dynamique des plantes, de même que dans les ouvrages scientifiques d'écrivains tels que Gustav Fechner, Maurice Maeterlinck et Raoul Heinrich Francé. Ce sujet historique spécifique, le motif de la plante dynamique, démontre la pertinence des questions reliées à la vie et à l'écologie dans le contexte d'une relecture du modernisme allemand. Par ailleurs, de même que l'importance de reconnaître le rôle historique qu'ont joué les médias dans la perception de la vie, autant dans la langue que dans la littérature allemande. En ce sens, la thèse a pour objectif de contribuer aux intérêts grandissants pour l'histoire de la pensée écologique et des médias, ainsi que le champs croissant de l'écocritique, autant en études allemandes que dans les autres les études littéraires.
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Bettini, Jessica Lynne. "The Rage of the Wolf: Metamorphosis and Identity in Medieval Werewolf Tales." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1302.
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The metamorphosis of man to beast has fascinated audiences for millennia. The werewolves of medieval literature were forced to conform to the Church's view of metamorphosis and, in so doing, transformed from bestial and savage to benevolent and rational. Analysis of Marie de France's Bisclavret, the anonymous Arthur and Gorlagon, the Irish tale The Crop-Eared Dog, and the French roman d'aventure Guillaume de Palerne reveals insight into medieval views of change, identity, and what it meant to exist in the medieval world. Each of these tales is told from the werewolf's point of view, and in each the wolf undergoes a fury or madness where he cannot seem to help turning savage and harming people. This 'rage of the wolf' lies at the root of the identities of these werewolves, reflecting the conflict between good and evil, the physical and the spiritual, and Church doctrine and a rapidly changing society.
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Estes, Darrell Wayne. "Physical and Ontological Transformation: Metamorphosis and Transfiguration in Old French and Occitan Texts (11th –15th Centuries)." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1500553664939406.
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Hess, Erika E. "Cross-dressers, werewolves, serpent-women, and wild men : physical and narrative indeterminacy in French narrative, medieval and modern /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9963445.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 245-255). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9963445.
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Kanekar, Aarati. "The geometry of love and the topography of fear : on translation and metamorphosis from poem to building." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23286.
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Mera, Ewerton de Oliveira. "Cíniras e Mirra : as figuras do incesto em Ovídio (Metamorfoses, X, 298-502) /." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/141901.
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Esta pesquisa apresenta a proposta de investigar a figuratividade poética no texto latino, valendo-se do instrumental teórico que nos fornecem a Poética e a Semiótica Literária, tendo como corpus o episódio de “Cíniras e Mirra”, que integra a obra Metamorfoses (livro X, 298-502) de autoria de Ovídio (43 a.C. - 17 d.C.), considerado um dos maiores poetas da Roma Antiga. As Metamorfoses são um longo poema em versos hexâmetros, composto de quinze livros, que trata do surgimento dos elementos que compõem o mundo e da transformação ocorrida com diversos seres mitológicos em uma narrativa contínua. No trecho selecionado para a análise, conta-se a transformação de uma bela jovem na árvore da mirra, após cometer incesto com o próprio pai, Cíniras, rei de Chipre. Em um trabalho desenvolvido como pesquisa de IC intitulado “Poética e Figuratividade: uma análise de ‘Io’ (Ovídio, Metamorfoses, I, 583-747)”, procurou-se concentrar na primeira etapa dos processos de figuratividade, isto é, na figuração do discurso, quando um tema é revestido por figuras semióticas. Tomando os efeitos de sentido captados pela percepção e apreendidos por meio da leitura como dados de base, pretende-se investigar no corpus o arranjo particular da linguagem. Como resultado dessa investigação produziu-se um discurso metalinguístico a fim de reconhecer os recursos da figuratividade poética determinantes da expressão. Ainda, como base para o desenvolvimento do trabalho, será produzida uma tradução de estudo (literal) acompanhada de notas de referência, com comentários concernentes a dados gerais de cultura (mitologia, história, geografia, filosofia, etc.).
This research is a proposal to investigate the figurative poetics in the Latin text, drawing on the theoretical tools provided by Poetics and Literary Semiotics, with the corpus of the episode "Cinyras and Myrrha", integrating part of the Metamorphoses (Book X, 298-502), by Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD), regarded as one of the greatest poets of Ancient Rome. The Metamorphoses is a long poem in hexameter verses, separated into fifteen books. It depicts the creation of elements of the world and the transmutations of several mythological beings, with a narration that takes place in a continuous form. The selected passage for analysis recounts the transformation of a beautiful young woman into the myrrh tree, after committing incest with her own father, Cinyras, the king of Cyprus. In an already developed undergraduation research entitled “Poetics and Figurativity: an analysis of ‘Io’ (Ovid, Metamorphoses, I, 583-747), we have focused on the first step of the figuration process, that being the figuration of speech, when a subject is covered with semiotic figures. Considering the effects of meaning captured by perception and seized by careful reading as database, we intend to investigate in the corpus particular arrangements of language. The result of this research has produced a metalinguistic discourse to recognize the features of poetical figurativity that are determinants to the expression. Furthermore, as a basis for the development of this work, we will produce a literal study translation, accompanied by background notes, and comments concerning general data culture, such as mythology, history, geography, philosophy, etc.
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Fisher, Elizabeth A. "Planudes' Greek translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses." New York : Garland Pub, 1990. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/21077839.html.
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Bohnet, Christine. "Der metafiktionale Roman Untersuchungen zur Prosa Konstantin Vaginovs /." München : O. Sagner, 1998. http://books.google.com/books?id=6FRgAAAAMAAJ.
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James, Paula. "Unity in diversity a study of Apuleius' Metamorphoses : with particular reference to the narrator's art of transformation and the metamorphosis motif in the Tale of Cupid and Psyche /." Hildesheim ; New York : Olms-Weidmann, 1987. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/15604421.html.
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Apanomeritaki, Eirini. "Transforming narratives : subjectivity and metamorphosis in Franz Kafka, Vladimir Nabokov, Alejo Carpentier, Vassilis Vassilikos, Virginia Woolf, and Marie Darrieussecq." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/23243/.
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This doctoral project explores the narrative representations of transforming subjectivity in modernist and post-modernist texts that deploy the trope of metamorphosis. Subjectivity is explored within a psychoanalytic framework and from a comparative lens, through the juxtaposition of selected short stories and novels of metamorphosis from different literatures, produced in different languages and under different geocultural and historico-political conditions from 1915 to 1996. Chapter One explores subjectivity as sacrificial and in conflict with a symbolic father-authority, through a close reading of insect metamorphosis in Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” (1915) and Vladimir Nabokov’s “The Aurelian” (1931). Chapter Two addresses the postcolonial dimension of subjectivity and its collective construction in terms of the loss of home in Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World (1949) and Vassilis Vassilikos’s ... and dreams are dreams (1988). Chapter Three pairs two feminist writers and their stories of metamorphoses, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography (1928) and Darrieussecq’s Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust and Transformation (1996), to explore subjectivity as hybrid: androgynous and human-animal like. Metamorphosis, as this project suggests, allows us to explore an array of subjectivities, both individual and collective: it points to the issues of death, rebirth, sacrifice, the subject’s position within a nation and the processes of nation-formation, and creative writing as negotiating loss, while it also challenges the established boundaries of gender and animal representation. This thesis argues that the twentieth-century stories of metamorphosis which are being examined here articulate a certain metamorphosis in our very conception of subjectivity, namely, the reconceptualization of subjectivity as hybrid, metamorphic, and bound to individual and collective transformations.
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Hellman, James. ""As Mind to the Body": Prudence and Artificial Memory in the Illustrations and Commentary of George Sandys' Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished (1632)." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/506.
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This thesis is an analysis of an English verse translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, published in 1632 by the Englishman George Sandys. This book included a full English commentary and was illustrated by several full-plate engravings. This study examines the edition's elaborate utilization of the rhetorical practices of artificial memory and related concepts of rhetorical invention. It demonstrates that these rhetorical practices were chosen and implemented for their inherent structural appropriateness for the cultivation of prudence, or practical wisdom. It reveals that the lessons in practical wisdom encoded in the work through the techniques of artificial memory were particularly aimed at political issues and the concerns of rulers. From the work's preoccupation with prudence as appropriate for a ruler, and from the dedication and prefatory texts, it becomes clear that it was intended to provide a means of counsel, or advice, to the King Charles I in an elaborate poetic format.
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Merçon, Francisco Elias Simão. "Uma leitura analítica da novela \"A Metamorfose\", de Franz Kafka." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8139/tde-19042007-211258/.
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Este trabalho é uma análise da novela A Metamorfose, do escritor tcheco Franz Kafka, sob a perspectiva da teoria semiótica francesa, tal qual construída desde os estudos de Algirdas J. Greimas até estudos recentes, mais conhecidos como semiótica tensiva. A análise se dedica sobretudo a elementos decorrentes da metamorfose de Gregor, em especial às transformações que estão em torno do drama familiar vivido pelos Samsa, resultantes da metamorfose do personagem Gregor em um inseto, pois que parece residir aí toda a problemática da novela. É a partir dessa perspectiva que foi dada atenção a relações contratuais, a transformações actanciais e modais, a elementos tensivos que subjazem à noção de \"metamorfose\" e que interferem na relação entre os actantes, condicionando os diferentes modos de presença de Gregor no espaço, bem como a outros elementos secundários, porém imprescindíveis para a boa condução da análise. Desse modo, esperamos acrescentar uma contribuição tanto para os estudos semióticos, na medida em que a análise repousa sobre uma obra bem diversa da origem proppiana da semiótica de Greimas, como para os estudos sobre a obra de Kafka (mais especificamente, A Metamorfose), que, ao que parece, ainda não foi objeto de uma análise estritamente semiótica.This master dissertation is an analysis of Franz Kafka short story \"The Metamorphosis\", based on the scope of French semiotics, as it was built since Algirdas J. Greimas studies until the recent ones, most called as tensive semiotics. The analyses focuses especially some elements proceeded from Gregory\'s metamorphosis, basically transformations involving Samsa\'s familiar drama because of Gregory\'s transformations to an insect. This seems to be real matter involving Kafka\'s short story. In according to our standpoint, this work concentrates in: contractual transformations, actantial relations and modal arrangements, tensive elements that concern the metamorphosis concept, the actantial bonds that determine some ways of Gregory\'s condition in the family, and finally, others secondary but indispensable elements for the analysis. Thus, we expect to contribute to semiotics studies, insofar as Kafka\'s work \"The Metamorphosis\" is quite different from the most ones that have their origin in the Proppean branch of Greimas semiotics. Furthermore, we expect to contribute also to Kafka\'s studies that, as far as we know, do not have yet a semiotic approach.
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Pizano, Mariana Peixoto. "Expressividade poética nas Metamorfoses de Ovídio : o episódio de Níobe (Metamorfoses, vi. 146-312) /." Araraquara, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/139531.
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Orientador: João Batista Toledo PradoBanca: Elaine Cristina Prado dos Santos
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Resumo: Esta pesquisa apresenta três objetivos principais: 1) refletir criticamente sobre as diferentes opiniões de autores do século XX que se debruçaram sobre a produção literária de Ovídio, destacando dela os defeitos e o engenho; 2) oferecer uma tradução do relato mitológico de Níobe, narrado no sexto livro das Metamorfoses de Ovídio (v. 146-312), sem a preocupação de recriar a poeticidade do texto original latino, mas oferecendo equivalência lingüística bastante para a compreensão do texto - seguir-se-ão à tradução notas de cultura sempre que houver necessidade de esclarecer algum termo (mitológico, geográfico, histórico, etc); 3) realizar um estudo semiótico do episódio narrado nas Metamorfoses, que permita ao leitor compreender de que maneira a história (fabula) e sua expressão poética - o modo como o texto foi composto por meio do arranjo das palavras em verso, com todos os recursos permitidos pelo sistema linguístico do latim, reapropriado pelo(s) sistema(s) da poesia - unem-se a fim de construir sentidos que se valem (mas ao mesmo tempo ultrapassam) a mera gramaticalidade. O episódio mitológico de Níobe relata a audácia da esposa do lendário rei de Tebas, Anfião, ao ousar comparar-se à Latona, mãe dos gêmeos Febo (Apolo) e Febe (Diana). A mortal se julgava mais merecedora de receber os incensos e as preces ofertados pelas tebanas que aquela deusa, porque julga sua linhagem e sua numerosa prole (ao todo são quatorze filhos) superiores às da outra. Tamanha heresia rendeu-lhe... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: This research has three main goals: 1) to reflect critically on different opinion of twentieth century's authors who have studied Ovid's literature, highlighting its faults and cleverness; 2) to provide a translation of Niobe's mythological account, reported in the sixth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses (v. 146-312), without concerning to recreate the poeticity of the original Latin text, but offering linguistic equivalence enough to the text understanding - the translation will be followed by culture notes whenever it's necessary to elucidate any term (mythological, geographical, historical, etc.); 3) to perform a semiotic study of the episode reported on the Metamorphoses, which allows the reader to comprehend how the story (fabula) and its poetic expression - the way the text was composed by the arrangement of words in verse, with all resources allowed by the linguistic system of Latin language, reappropriated by the Poetic system - unite in order to create valid meanings, but at the same time go beyond the mere grammaticality. The mythological episode of Niobe reports the audacity of the wife of the Thebes' legendary king, Amphion, by daring to compare herself to Latona, mother of Phoebus (Apollo) and Phoebe (Diana) twins. The mortal was thought worthier of receiving incense and prayers offered by the Theban than the goddess since she judges her ancestry and her numerous offspring (together they are fourteen) higher than the other. Such heresy earned her a terrible punishment... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Pagotto, Sara Cristina. "ANIMALIDADE E METAMORFOSES NOS CANTOS DE MALDOROR: A LITERATURA TRANSGRESSIVA DE LAUTRÉAMONT." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2017. http://tede2.pucgoias.edu.br:8080/handle/tede/3658.
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This dissertation aims to analyze the animality and the metamorphoses in the work the corners of Maldoror of Lautréamont, which manifests itself through a surreal and bestiary also present transgressive literature as language event, which runs through violently in the six corners of this poetry incandescent. To conduct this research, the theoretical basis will be Gaston Bachelard, that, in his book Lautréamont (2013), indicates the energy complex and vital, the time devourer and the poetry of aggression present in the corners, foundations that sediment and illuminate the inquiries of animalism, metamorphosis and primitive. On principles, inherent to the status of life and language, fundamental concepts to dialogue with the work lautreamontiana, support us in As palavras e as coisas and Ditos e escritos III (Prefácio à Transgressão) of Michel Foucault (2007, 2015). In addition, you will need the theoretical foundations of the work O Corpo Impossível (2012) of Eliane Robert Moraes, to correlate the construct of desanthropomorphism in the surreal bestiary of Maldoror.
Esta dissertação tem como objetivos, analisar a animalidade, as metamorfoses e a construção da poesia ardente, na obra Os Cantos de Maldoror de Lautréamont, que se manifesta através de um bestiário surreal. Também é imprescindível apresentar a literatura transgressiva enquanto acontecimento da linguagem, que percorre violentamente os seis cantos desta poesia incandescente. Para conduzir esta investigação, a base teórica será Gaston Bachelard, que em seu livro Lautréamont (2013) indica o complexo energético e vital, o tempo devorador e a poesia de agressão presente nos Cantos, alicerces que sedimentam e iluminam as indagações da animalidade, metamorfose e primitividade. Sobre princípios inerentes ao estatuto da vida e da linguagem, conceitos fundamentais para dialogar com a obra lautreamontiana, nos apoiaremos no livro As palavras e as coisas e Ditos e escritos III (Prefácio à Transgressão) de Michel Foucault (2007, 2015). Serão também necessários os fundamentos teóricos da obra O Corpo Impossível (2012) de Eliane Robert Moraes, para correlacionar ao construto da desantropormofização do bestiário surreal de Maldoror.
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Casagrande, Gilmara Maria Rodrigues. "O povo Xacriab?: luta, hist?ria, mito e literatura." UFVJM, 2016. http://acervo.ufvjm.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/1432.
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O presente trabalho tem por objetivo contextualizar a hist?ria de lutas e conquistas dos povos ind?genas no Brasil e, em especial, dos Xacriab?. O interesse em compreender os povos Xacriab?, situados em S?o Jo?o das Miss?es ? Norte de Minas Gerais ? Brasil, ? pertinente, visto que, ao tecermos considera??es da esfera macro (ind?genas no Brasil) para a micro (ind?genas em Minas Gerais), conseguimos compreender os desafios pelos quais eles passaram. Desse modo, tendo em vista que os Xacriab? possuem uma rica literatura materializada na escrita, cujas obras de autoria coletiva permitem entrever os embates hist?ricos e a produ??o de mitos, pode-se perceber como estes sujeitos lidaram com o processo escolar. Nesse sentido, busca-se, tamb?m, atrav?s da an?lise de duas obras liter?rias escritas em l?ngua portuguesa: O tempo passa e a hist?ria fica (1997) e Com os mais velhos (2005), i) identificar como os Xacriab? incorporam o discurso m?tico dentro da aldeia e fora dela; ii) entender como esses ?ndios se apresentam socialmente por meio da obra liter?ria e do mito; e iii) compreender o mito estudado sob as classifica??es metam?rficas, uma vez que se detectou, na constitui??o das narrativas, o processo de metamorfose. Com base nisso, ao final, torna-se poss?vel analisar o mito da On?a Iai? Cabocla, considerada o principal ser m?tico pelos Xacriab?.
Disserta??o (Mestrado Profissional) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Ci?ncias Humanas, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2016.
This study aims to contextualize the story of struggles and achievements of indigenous peoples in Brazil, in particular the Xacriab? people's story. The interest in understanding the Xacriab? people, located in S?o Jo?o das Miss?es ? North of Minas Gerais ? Brazil, is relevant because we can understand the challenges by which they have been through, when we make considerations which go from the macro sphere (indigenous in Brazil) to the micro (indigenous in Minas Gerais). Thus, given that the Xacriab? people have a rich literature materialized in writing, whose works of collective authorship allow a glimpse of the historical conflits and the production of myths, it is possible to see how these people dealt with the school process. In this sense, through the analysis of two literary works written in Portuguese, O tempo passa e a hist?ria fica (1997) and Com os mais velhos (2005), the aim is also i) identify how the Xacriab? people embody the mythic discourse within the village and beyond; ii) understand how these Indians present themselves socially through the literary works and through the myth; and iii) understand the myth which was studied under the metamorphic classifications, once it was detected, in the constitution of the narratives, the process of metamorphosis. Based on that, at the end, it becomes possible to analyze the myth of On?a Iai? Cabocla, considered the main mythical being by the Xacriab? people.
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Tronchet, Gilles. "La métamorphose à l'oeuvre recherches sur la poétique d'Ovide dans les "Métamorphoses /." Louvain ; Paris : Peeters, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36709145t.
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Grivel, Ian. "Psyché, le mythe et l’idéal : ou les métamorphoses d'une figure antique dans les littératures de langue anglaise." Thesis, Perpignan, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PERP0039.
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Comment une figure antique comme celle de Psyché a-t-elle su trouver une place dans les littératures de langue anglaise? La réponse est multiple car les auteurs anglophones ont multiplié les approches, mais souvent en rapport avec la notion d'idéal. En effet, au fil des siècles, le mythe de Psyché s’est peu à peu inscrit dans une tradition idéaliste faisant de cette déesse une figure à la fois idéalisée, et à laquelle on a fait correspondre différents idéaux. Mais à l’inverse, Psyché a aussi vu son image être ternie. De nombreux auteurs ont voulu rompre avec la tradition idéaliste en cherchant à détourner l’histoire. Cette lecture nouvelle est souvent fondée sur une décomposition physique et morale du personnage. Cette dégradation lui permet alors de s’extraire du carcan que lui imposaient ses formes trop idéalisées, et d’investir de nouveaux champs littéraires plus modernes, dans des versions anti-idéalisées de ses aventures et de son mariage avec CupidonHow did an antique character such as Psyche, with a Mediterranean background, find a place within English-language literatures? English-writing authors have in fact multiplied the ways in which they have approached and ceaselessly reinvented the myth, generally around the notion of ideal. Indeed, throughout the centuries, the myth gradually brought about an idealistic tradition whereby this goddess became a figure both idealised and which was made to fit into various ideals.But conversely, Psyche also had this perfect image tarnished. Many writers decided to part with this idealistic tradition, looking for ways in which to distort the story. This rewriting is often based on a physical and moral decomposition of the character. This degradation thus releases her from her previous idealised and constraining forms, and enables her to enter new literary and modern fields, with anti-idealised versions of both her adventures and her marriage to Cupid
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Schmitzer, Ulrich. "Zeitgeschichte in Ovids "Metamorphosen" Mythologische Dichtung unter politischem Anspruch /." Stuttgart : B. G. Teubner, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35488106p.
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Sukle-Zanone, Therese. "La métamorphose dans l'oeuvre de Steven Millhauser." Thesis, Grenoble, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013GRENL016/document.
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La fiction de Steven Millhauser est caractérisée par le mouvement perpétuel : un mouvement générique du réalisme au fantastique, avec des intrigues qui résistent aux dénouements et des personnages, des lieux et des objets en transformation constante. Son œuvre nous présente exploration de la métamorphose littéraire, qui se manifeste à la fois comme style d'écriture et comme motif. Enracinée dans une conception typiquement américaine de la métamorphose, née de la philosophie Ralph Waldo Emerson, la métamorphose millhauserienne attire l'attention du lecteur sur le pouvoir transformateur de l'art et plus spécifiquement de la littérature. Utilisant la relation entre l'art et l'identité culturelle comme point de départ, notre thèse montre que la fiction de Millhauser développe la nature métamorphique de l'expérience esthétique. Au cœur de la dynamique de la métamorphose littéraire se trouve la relation entre lecteur, texte et auteur, relation transformatrice que Millhauser met en scène à plusieurs reprises, afin d'explorer les possibilités et les limites du language. Si sa fiction illustre le potentiel destructeur de la métamorphose linguistique, et manifeste aussi une certaine angoisse concernant les limites du langage, son œuvre est néanmoins dominée par un sentiment d'émerveillement et d'espoir dans la valeur régénératrice de la fiction, et son pouvoir de faire resurgir la beauté d'un monde devenu ordinaireSteven Millhauser's fiction is characterized by perpetual movement: a transition from realism to the fantastic, with plots which resist denouement and characters, places and objects in constant transformation. Millhauser's work offers the reader a literary metamorphosis which is both stylistic and thematic. The millhauserien metamorphosis is typically American, the offspring of Emersonian philosophy, and it highlights the transformative power of art and, specifically, of literature. Using the mutually transformative relationship between art and cultural identity as a starting point, this thesis demonstrates the ways in which Millhauser's fiction develops the metamorphic nature of the esthetic experience. The relationship between the reader, the text and the author is at the heart of literary metamorphosis, and this transformative relationship, which often appears in Millhauser's work, sets the stage for an exploration of the possibilities and limits of language. If Millhauser's fiction illustrates the destructive potential of linguistic metamorphosis, and articulates a certain anxiety concerning the limits of language, his work is nonetheless dominated by the sentiment of wonder and hope in the regenerative value of fiction and its power to reveal the unusual beauty of a world which has become ordinary
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Nussbaumer, Julia. "Métamorphoses du conte, métamorphoses dans le conte : modèles et avatars formels du merveilleux, des origines à nos jours." Thesis, Paris 10, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA100109.
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Ce travail porte sur les origines et les évolutions du conte merveilleux et de sapoétique, à travers l’étude privilégiée de la métamorphose. Le genre, issu de lalittérature orale, se caractérise en effet par une histoire littéraire tout particulièrement faite de transformations, de récritures et d’appropriations diverses, au gré du changement des mentalités, d’un élargissement des modes de diffusion et d’une ouverture aux littératures étrangères. En outre, les transpositions du conte à d’autres domaines que celui de l’écrit, tels que l’image et la scène, participent de l’évolution d’une poétique merveilleuse qui se définit en premier lieu comme poétique démonstration. Dans cette perspective, un deuxième versant de notre travail s’intéresse à la manière dont le cinéma – en prise de vues réelles et, surtout, d’animation (graphique) – a pu s’emparer du conte dès le tournant du XXe siècle, et met en lumière un certain nombre d’apports figuratifs (relevant principalement de la métamorphose et d’un jeu sur le voir et le non voir) à la poétique d’un genre dont il perpétue par ailleurs la structure narrative forteThis work retraces origins and developments of fairy tales and its poetic, focusing on the metamorphosis. The history of this literary genre, born trough oral tradition, is especially composed of numerous changes, re-writings and various appropriations,according to mentalities, development of mass dissemination methods and study of foreign literatures. In parallel, fairy tales transpositions to others non-written domains,like theatre and pictures, confirms that the fairy tales poetic is primarily pictureoriented.In this perspective, the second part of our work focuses on how cinema(through live-action images and, especially, graphically animated images) has been inspired from fairy tales since early 20th century, and highlights a couple of figurative contributions (mostly based on metamorphosis and a game between visible and non visible) to the poetic of this genre, while it also perpetuates its strong narrative structure
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Gunutzmann, Pricila. "A identidade do poeta contemporâneo à luz do sintagma identidade-metamorfose-emancipação." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2012. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/16989.
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This dissertation investigates the metamorphosis of the poet's contemporary identity and the meaning they attribute to their art as well as the perceived political positions in his role. For this, we start from the social psychology, with the main category of identity, seen from the syntagma identity-metamorphosisemancipation, to understand the phenomenon not only in its instrumental aspect, but the whole context in which the contemporary poet is inserted. Through the analysis of the life story of two poets of today, it was possible to understand the processes of transformation and emancipation of human identity in contemporary societies, which occurs in contexts permeated by the dialectic regulation/emancipation. This study examined the poet as a contemporary subject, able to interpolate opening times and disruptions so their reader can fill it in with their own experiences, providing metamorphoses. We went through the construction of the role of the poet in our society and their different historical characters: artist, politician and guardian of metamorphoses, verifying its relations with the present. Thus, this study sought to weave reflections about the different possibilities of emancipation in contemporaneity as well as provide insight to discuss the meanings of metamorphosis and post-conventional identities
Esta dissertação busca investigar as metamorfoses da identidade do poeta contemporâneo e o sentido que estes atribuem a sua arte bem como os posicionamentos políticos percebidos em seu papel. Para isto, partimos da Psicologia Social, tendo como categoria central a identidade, vista a partir do sintagma identidade-metamorfose-emancipação, propondo entender o fenômeno não apenas no seu aspecto instrumental, mas em todo o contexto no qual o poeta contemporâneo está inserido. Por meio da análise da história de vida de dois poetas da atualidade, foi possível compreender os processos de transformação e emancipação da identidade humana nas sociedades contemporâneas, que se dá em contextos permeados pela dialética regulação/emancipação. O estudo em questão analisou o poeta enquanto sujeito contemporâneo, capaz de interpolar tempos e abrir rupturas para que seu leitor as preencha com as próprias vivências, proporcionando metamorfoses. Percorremos a construção do papel do poeta em nossa sociedade e suas diferentes personagens históricas: artista, político e guardião de metamorfoses, verificando suas relações com a atualidade. Deste modo, este trabalho buscou tecer reflexões acerca das diferentes possibilidades de emancipação na contemporaneidade bem como oferecer subsídios para discutir os sentidos da metamorfose e as identidades pós-convencionais
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Favicchia, Lisa. "Daughter Of." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1491306364942036.
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Lani, Soraya. "L'hybridité dans l'oeuvre de l'écrivain brésilien Moacyr Scliar (1937-2011) : judéité, imaginaire et représentations." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012BOR30053/document.
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L’œuvre de l’écrivain Moacyr Scliar témoigne de la transposition de son héritage culturel juif à sa création littéraire, créant un « entre-lieu » propice à la formation de représentations hybrides issues de sa double inscription identitaire : juive et brésilienne. Le présent travail se propose d’étudier les mécanismes de son univers hybride, comprenant autant la forme (hybridité générique) que le fond (hybridité culturelle) de dix-sept récits de fiction publiés entre 1968 et 2008. La première partie de cette étude s’attache à analyser la formation d’un espace judaïco-brésilien en mouvement constant et aussi la spécificité de ses représentations métamorphiques animales. La seconde partie, réservée au genre hybride des métafictions historiographiques, est consacrée à l’analyse des stratégies de traduction culturelle concernant le rapport entre personnages juifs et personnages historiques mythiques. Dans le troisième volet, nous proposons une réflexion sur l’évolution des pratiques intertextuelles bibliques, allant de l’ « impli-citation » à la parodie postmoderneThe work of author Moacyr Scliar is a living testimony to the transposition of his Jewish cultural legacy to his literary creation, which gave life to a “place in between” favourable to the inception of hybrid representations coming from his twofold identity, Jewish and Brazilian. The present work intends to study the mechanisms of his hybrid world including both the form – generic hybridism – and the content – cultural hybridism – of seventeen fictional narratives published between 1968 and 2008. The first part of this study will analyse the formation of a Judeo-Brazilian space which is in constant motion but also the specificity of its animal metamorphic representations. The second chapter is devoted to the hybrid type of historiographic metafictions and to the scrutiny of the strategies dealing with cultural translation in the case of mythical Jewish and historical characters and their relations. The third part proposes to reflect on the evolution of biblical intertextual practices, ranging from implicitation to postmodern parody
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Izarra, Salomon de. "L'écriture de l'enfermement : de la narration de de l'incarcération aux perspectives et illusions d'évasion et de métamorphose." Thesis, Tours, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOUR2020/document.
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Cette thèse a pour but d’analyser les caractéristiques d’une métamorphose dans la littérature carcérale, à travers l’analyse d’oeuvres de Jean Genet, de Victor Hugo, de Jack London et d’Oscar Wilde. Elle consiste donc à mettre en valeur les différentes étapes de ce processus, d’en comprendre les causes et les conséquences. Nous nous intéressons donc à l’histoire des systèmes carcéraux en Californie, en Angleterre et en France, puis aux clichés qui sont légion dans la littérature carcérale. Nous nous attardons ensuite sur les causes de la métamorphose à travers les méfaits de la prison et la réponse en conséquence des détenus. Enfin, notre dernière partie concerne les aspects plus inattendus de la carcéralité et le difficile retour à la vie civileThe goal of this thesis is to analyze caracteristics of a metamorphosis in the prison literature, by the analysis of works by Jean Genet, Victor Hugo, Jack London and Oscar Wilde. Therefore, it consists in highlighting the different stages of this processus, of understanding its causes and consequences. We focus on the history of prison systems in California, England and France, then to the clichés, which are numerous into the prison literature. Then we look at the causes of the metamorphosis through the mischiefs of prison and the answer accordingly of the detainees. Finally, our last part concerns the unexpected aspects of the imprisonment, and the difficult return to civil life
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Adriano, Geisy Nunes. "Das sereias ao canto do jaguar em “Meu tio o Iauaretê”, de Guimarães Rosa." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2017. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20626.
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This dissertation investigates the presence of the song of the sirens by Homer in "Meu tio o Iauaretê ", by Guimarães Rosa, using as theoretical reference the studies of Blanchot (2005), Oliveira (2008),), Agamben (2014) and Nogueira (2014), among others. In the wake of the interpretation of Blanchot, which traces an analogy between the song of the sirens and the literature making, every writer repeats the deed of Homeric’s character, since the narrative is an unpredictable and infinite searching movement, which makes present the navigation from the actual song to the imaginary song. We question whether there is a resumption of the song of the sirens in the studied narrative, with the goal of specifying how it happens and what its significance is, assuming that the jaguanhenhém song erupts from the threshold experience of metamorphosis between human and inhuman voice/song; portuguese, tupi and animal noise; articulated and unarticulated language. After analysis, we have come to the conclusion that this narrative stages the act of narrating itself, using a language between human-inhuman, in the process of enchantment, seduction and perdition of the triad author-narrator-reader
Esta dissertação investiga a presença do canto das sereias homéricas em “Meu Tio o Iauaretê”, de Guimarães Rosa, tendo como referencial teórico os estudos de Blanchot (2005), Oliveira (2008),), Agamben (2014) e Nogueira (2014), dentre outros. Na esteira da interpretação blanchotiana, que traça uma analogia entre o canto das sereias e o fazer literário, todo escritor repetiria o feito da personagem homérica, uma vez que a narrativa é um movimento imprevisível e infinito de busca, que presentifica a navegação do canto real ao canto imaginário. Questionamos se há uma retomada do canto das sereias na narrativa estudada, com o objetivo de elencar como isto se dá e qual o seu significado, partindo da hipótese de que o canto jaguanhenhém irrompe da experiência liminar de metamorfose entre voz/canto humano e inumano; português, tupi e ruído animal; língua articulada e não articulada. A conclusão a que chegamos, após a análise, é a de que, nesta narrativa roseana, encena-se o gesto do próprio ato de narrar, em uma linguagem entre humano-inumano, no processo de encantamento, sedução e perdição da tríade autor-narrador-leitor
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Jonsson, Höök Malin. "Midnattssol : Metamorfoser och medvetandefilosofi i The Hidden Oracle och Midnight Sun." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-179659.
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The aim of this work is to examine how physical and mental metamorphoses affect the perception of the self. To do this I study the literary characters Apollo (The Hidden Oracle, by Rick Riordan) and Edward Cullen (Midnight Sun, by Stephenie Meyer), both of whom experience these different kinds of metamorphoses. I approach this problem with the help of philosophy of mind and, more specifically, the mind-body problem as well as the problem of personal identity. Amongst other things, I find that the physical metamorphoses are what enable and initiate the mental ones. I also discover that one of the biggest impacts on personal identity and the self comes from whether the characters are immortal or not.
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Bathgate, Michael R. "The shapeshifter fox : the imagery of transformation and the transformation of imagery in Japanese religion and folklore /." 2001. 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:3006475.
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Knight, William. "Scriblerian Ethics: Encounters in Satiric Metamorphosis." Diss., 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/1612.
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"Scriblerian Ethics" proposes that the aesthetic and ethical standpoint of the writings of the Scriblerians (Pope, Swift, Gay, Arbuthnot, Oxford, Parnell) can be better understood through an attunement to their orientation towards the Longinian sublime and to the metamorphic poetics of Ovid. The project holds the negative and critical features of the group's writing in abeyance, as it attempts to account for the positive, phenomenological concepts and features of Scriblerian satiric and non-satiric writing. The intensities and affiliations of Scriblerian writing that emerge from this study gesture aesthetically and ethically beyond historical subjectivity to an opening to alterity and difference. This opening or hope for the achievement ethical dimension of writing is divulged as the intimate motivation of the literary or aesthetic components that accompany the negative, referential, and critical features of Scriblerian writing.
Examining closely the major writings of Pope and Swift in conjunction with the collaborative writings of the Scriblerus club, the project describes the concern with temporality that emerges from Longinian and Ovidan influence; the Scriblerian reflexivity that culminates in a highly virtual aesthetics; and the ethical elaboration of an orientation toward hospitality that emerges from this temporal and virtual aesthetic orientation. A "Scriblerian ethics" is an affinity for a hospitality not yet achieved in political, economic, and cultural life. Finally, the project analyzes throughout its readings of Scriblerian writing the violence that nevertheless accompanies Scriblerian aesthetics, examining the figures of modernity, criticism, and sexual violence (rape) that permeate Scriblerian texts as barriers or resistances to the achievement of an ethical orientation to alterity.
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"Metamorphosis in the Chinese narrative: a comparative study." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1988. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5885946.
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Fernandes, Ana Raquel. "What about the Rogue? : survival and metamorphosis in contemporary british literature." Doctoral thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/594.
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Tese de doutoramento em Estudos Literários (Literatura Comparada), apresentada à Universidade de Lisboa através da Faculdade de Letras, 2008The present dissertation aims at giving an account of the significance of the rogue in contemporary British literature, focusing on this character's survival and metamorphosis particularly from the second half of the 20th century onwards. The thesis is divided into five sections, comprising three main chapters. The opening section is a general introduction showing the main steps in my approach to the subject under discussion and the attending methodology. In the first chapter I deal with the origins of the literature of roguery and the development of the rogue. Starting with the analysis of six previously selected novels, the second chapter studies the revival of the rogue mainly in the 1950s, adopting a comparative perspective. For this purpose I analyse and contextualise the following works: Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth (1944) and Iris Murdoch's Under the Net (1954); John Wain's Hurry on Down (1953), Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1954), John Braine's Room at the Top (1957) and Allan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958). This section closes with an analysis of the transformations undergone by Bill Naughton's radio play, Alfie Elkins and His Little Life (1962), making manifest the multiple possibilities inherent in a character such as the rogue. My third chapter deals with fiction produced in Britain in the last decades of the second millennium and the beginning of a new one, focusing on Martin Amis' and Irvine Welsh's literary works. In their novels, especially Amis's Money: A Suicide Note (1984), London Fields (1989) and Yellow Dog (2003), and Welsh's trilogy Trainspotting (1993), Glue (2001) and Porno (2002), the rogue is an effective vehicle for both the depiction and the questioning of the society we live in. The conclusion brings together the main ideas developed in the thesis, concentrating on the characteristics of the rogue and the literature of roguery in the present. The dissertation closes with a section containing attachments and bibliography.
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"Metamorphosis as metaphor: The animal images in six lays of Marie de France." Tulane University, 1988.
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The relationship between the works of Marie de France and ancient and medieval literary influences has been well documented in the critical literature. Few critics, however, have addressed the importance of nature, and specifically animal imagery, in the Lais. The twelfth century witnessed, in all realms of human intelligence and endeavor, an unprecedented effort to systematize knowledge and rationalize human experience. Animal imagery, a traditional form of representation, was prevalent in diverse treatments in the Bible, in the works of the ancients, in Ovid, and in the matiere de Bretagne that was so much in vogue during the time of Marie de France The present investigation proposes a critical analysis of the role of animal imagery in six lays. Depiction of animals varies throughout the lays, but one constant unites the images: they are all presented in a state of metamorphosis, either physical or profoundly symbolic transformation. Metamorphosis is intimately associated with metaphor, which is intrinsic to thought and generative of language and literature, therefore the metamorphic animal characters can be interpreted metaphorically on generic, textual and socio-cultural levels Because genre is by nature both representational and transformational, the textual metamorphic animal images are validated by Marie's choice of the lay, a flexible and evolving narrative form, as a basis for her artistic recreation of the oral Bretannic tales. Choices made by the author from the available literary, social, political and cultural paradigms of her era produce new metaphorical readings along the syntagmatic axis of metamorphic animal imagery. This transformative process becomes a literary metaphor for the medieval compositional theory of translatio studii plus inventio The dependence of metaphor upon the receiver makes the Lais especially open to re-creation, indeed co-creation, through the glosses of succeeding generations of readers who interpret the metaphors of metamorphic animal imagery in light of their own paradigmatic experience. The animal images reveal metamorphosis to be the governing metaphor of the laysacase@tulane.edu
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Radin, Darlene Melville. "The human and computer relationship: A vehicle for character metamorphosis in fictive literature." 1992. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9233137.
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This dissertation analyzes the human and computer relationship in the novel. The database for this study consists of thirty-nine novels, selected for their depiction of anthropomorphized computers who engage in intimate and/or intense ties with humans. Two primary organizational schemas are used to categorize the human/computer interactions in these works. Kenneth Burke's rhetorical pentadic model is used as the principal structuring device. Within this framework, the fictional bonds are subdivided into three stages: the initial phase (transformation), the post-introductory phase (transmutation), and the transcendental phase (transfiguration). The findings of this research indicate that in popular-genre novels, personified computers are never regarded simply as tools for enhancing the efficiency of one's work. In these stories, the machines are converted from objects into intelligently conscious entities who are perceived as parents, children, friends, teachers, and/or gods. The communicative messages that are exchanged between fictive people and computers contain powerful potential for character metamorphosis. Ultimately, these works function as cautionary tales, warning that in interactions with computers, humans must be sensitive to the same issues that would arise in attachments to other people.
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Feng, Chiung-yi, and 馮瓊儀. "Metamorphosis of Sherlock Holmes: On Taiwan Dong-Fang Publisher's Translation of Sherlock Holmes Stories into Children's Literature." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27054018323198736368.
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In 1960, Taiwan Dong-Fang Publisher (台灣東方出版社) translated all Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Stories, and published the Complete Sherlock Holmes for Young Readers (福爾摩斯探案全集), which comprised 20 books in the first edition. This essay draws on Zohar Shavit's theory on translation of children's literature to analyze the transformations of characterization, plot and language in this series of books. In addition, the essay analyzes the transformation of one important element of detective stories, suspense. It also discusses the reasons, results, advantages and disadvantages of these transformations.
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Leite, Cátia Esmeralda Vaz. "The metamorphosis of the american sublime: nature, technology and the individual in young adult trilogy The Hunger Games." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/56173.
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Dissertação de mestrado em English Language, Literature and CultureAt this moment in time, Western civilization lives greatly absorbed by technological devices which continuously shape its perception of the world. Although the domain of literature has undergone constant renovation, it has nevertheless, suffered from a lack of interest in reading. In the beginning of the 21th century, a fresh wave of interest regarding literature has arisen by the hand of Young Adult Literature. Primarily due to the resounding success of the Harry Potter saga, literature seemed to have redrawn the interest of the tender minds in search of adventures and characters with whom to find a connection. Though deemed as of lesser literary quality in comparison to the so-called “serious” literature, Young Adult Literature is frequently posited by publishing companies as a mass culture phenomenon responsible for recuperating the reading tradition and beating canonical literature in the market. A particular segment within Young Adult Literature gaining momentum at the end of the first decade of the century was that dealing with dystopic societies. Some connect this interest for dystopic societies to 9/11 attacks, an appalling proof of the human capacity for destruction, and see it as a warning call for an approaching uncertain future. The Hunger Games trilogy may very well be recognized as the epitome of the genre, presenting Katniss Everdeen as an unconventional hero who journeys through the death threating places and circumstances viciously imposed by the Capitol, the corrupt and technology– driven government of Panem. This dissertation examines Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy and attempts, firstly, to analyze the concept of literature and the literary canon with the aid of critical texts while establishing connections between the trilogy and classical texts, namely those of the Romantic period, in hopes of justifying the study of texts which have been invariably positioned outside the academic realm. Secondly, it attempts to analyze the concepts of wilderness, sublime and Nature, exploring their portrayal in the trilogy and how they evolve through the eyes of the first-person narrator. The relationship between the American individual, Nature and technology will be addressed with the purpose of establishing comparisons with the real world while aiming at a new approach to the American Adam myth.
Presentemente, a civilização ocidental vive extremamente absorvida por aparelhos tecnológicos que moldam continuamente a sua perceção do mundo. Apesar de o domínio da literatura ter passado por uma constante renovação, tem contudo sofrido uma falta de interesse pela leitura. No início do século XXI, uma nova onda de interesse pela literatura surgiu pela mão da literatura juvenil. Tendo como principal motor o sucesso retumbante da saga Harry Potter, a literatura parecia ter atraído o interesse das mentes sensíveis que procuravam aventuras e personagens com as quais se pudessem identificar. Embora considerada de menor qualidade literária em comparação com a literatura “séria”, a literatura juvenil é frequentemente apresentada pelas editoras como um fenómeno de cultura de massas responsável pelo recuperar da tradição da leitura e tem batido a literatura canónica no mercado. Um segmento particular dentro da literatura juvenil que ganhou tração no final da primeira década do século lida com sociedades distópicas. Alguns associam o interesse por sociedades distópicas aos ataques do 11 de Setembro, uma prova chocante da capacidade de destruição do ser humano, e vêem-no como um aviso sobre um futuro incerto que se aproxima. A trilogia Os Jogos da Fome pode ser reconhecida como o epítome do género, apresentando Katniss Everdeen como uma heroína fora do comum que enfrenta situações que atentam à vida e circunstâncias maldosamente impostas pelo Capitólio, o governo corrupto e tecnologicamente dependente de Panem. Esta dissertação examina a trilogia Os Jogos da Fome, de Suzanne Collins, e pretende, primeiramente, analisar o conceito de literatura e do cânone literário com ajuda de textos críticos e simultaneamente estabelecer conexões entre a trilogia e textos clássicos, nomeadamente os do período Romântico, na esperança de justificar o estudo de textos que foram invariavelmente posicionados fora do domínio académico. Em segundo lugar, a dissertação almeja analisar o conceito de território selvagem, sublime e Natureza, explorando a sua representação na trilogia e como evoluem através dos olhos do narrador. A relação entre o indivíduo Americano, a Natureza e tecnologia será discutida com o propósito de estabelecer comparações com o mundo real e ao mesmo tempo sugerir uma nova abordagem ao mito do American Adam.
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Chiu, Szu Chieh, and 邱思潔. "Translation Strategies of Cultural Metamorphosis in Chinese-American Literature---On Chinese Translations of Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club" and Maxine Hong Kingston's "The Woman Warrior"." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46654269566800434011.
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Summary Intertexts are an obvious characteristic of Chinese American literature, which means English-speaking authors using English to describe stories related to Chinese culture or history. Proverbs, stories, or folktales told in these works are often different from the cognition of ordinary Chinese readers. In this thesis, I named this kind of difference as “cultural metamorphosis”. As a translator, how to deal with this kind of “cultural metamorphosis” in back translation? Should we render the text word for word to show respect for the authors? Or, should we modify the text to cater to the tastes of readers? No matter the answer is the former or the latter, what are the reasons of choosing a specific translation strategy? How do Taiwanese translators deal with the problem? The thesis tries to discuss the translation strategies of “cultural metamorphosis” through the Chinese translations of Amy Tan’s “Joy Luck Club” and Maxine Hong Kinston’s “The Woman Warrior”, both of which are classics of Chinese American literature. The Chinese translation of “Joy Luck Club” was translated by Yu Ren-rui and published in 1990. As to “The Woman Warrior”, two translations are available. One is Zhang-Shi’s version, and the other is Wu Qi-ping’s. Both of them were published in 1977. By utilizing Peter Newmark’s and Hans J. Vermeer’s translation theories, I explored the translation strategies of cultural metamorphosis through three aspects: authors, readers, and texts. It is hoped that the conclusions can serve as references for translators rendering similar texts. The conclusions are as follows: If the cultural metamorphosis belongs to the metamorphosis of information and facts, that is, “unconscious” metamorphosis, and the author is positioned as a popular writer who serves the general public, translators should modify the texts regarding the cultural metamorphosis, so as to fulfil the readers’ expectations. Amy Tan’s “The Joy Luck Club” is a case in point. On the contrary, if the cultural metamorphosis is the expressive creation of the author, that is, “conscious” metamorphosis, and the author’s position is more academic, serving the academic circles or educated people rather than the general public, translators should keep the original texts intact, so as to convey the messages of the author. Maxine Hong Kingston’s “The Woman Warrior” is a case in point. Key words: Chinese American literature, cultural metamorphosis, Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston, translation.
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NĚMCOVÁ, Alžběta. "Vampire Figures in Anglo-American Literature and Their Metamorphosis from Freaks to Heroes/Charakteristika a příčiny posunu vnímání postav upírů v Anglo-americké literatuře, tj. literární přeměna negativní zrůdy v hrdinskou postavu." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-175047.
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Bissonnette, Lise. "Maurice Sand, un créateur fantastique méconnu : la transversalité, brisant d’une œuvre au 19e siècle." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11986.
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Sauf par des regards fugitifs et distraits sur son travail d’illustrateur et son théâtre de marionnettes, l’histoire culturelle et littéraire n’a en général retenu de Maurice Sand que son état de fils bien-aimé de la plus célèbre écrivaine du 19e siècle. Étudiée pour elle-même, son œuvre multidisciplinaire - qui allie peinture, dessin, illustration, théâtre, histoire de l’art, sciences naturelles - se propose pourtant avec cohérence, marque d’une création soutenue plutôt que du dilettantisme où son souvenir s’est incrusté. Maurice Sand apparaît alors comme un de ces individus situés aux interstices des récits majeurs de la littérature et des arts qui, bien qu’ayant figure de minores, amènent à des réflexions nuancées sur la constitution de ces récits. Explorer son cas permet ainsi de scruter de plus près les mécanismes de la méconnaissance qui a pu et peut encore affecter un créateur et une œuvre soumis aux arbitrages mémoriels. Discrets angles morts de l’histoire, certains de ces mécanismes jalonnent clairement son parcours et les aléas de sa trace posthume. D’une part le vaste corpus des études sur George Sand, notamment des écrits biographiques et autobiographiques, fait voir à l’œuvre le mode déformant de la constitution de la mémoire d’un être saisi à partir des positions d’autrui : son existence devient cliché, elle se réduit peu à peu au rôle d’adjuvant dans des débats, passés ou actuels, qui font l’impasse sur le cours autonome de sa carrière, voire de sa vie. D’autre part la mise au jour de son œuvre, enfin vue comme un ensemble, dévoile une cause encore plus déterminante de sa méconnaissance. Presque tous les travaux de Maurice Sand sont traversés par une ligne de fantastique, au surplus connotée par son intérêt pour les sciences liées à la métamorphose, de l’ethnogénie à l’entomologie. Réinvention constante du passé, sa démarche cognitive et créatrice ignore les frontières disciplinaires, son objet est hybride et composé. L’œuvre se constitue ainsi par transversalité, trait et trame irrecevables en un siècle qui n’y perçut que dispersion, mais paradoxalement marque supérieure de qualité dans le champ éclaté où se déploient les arts de notre temps.Aside from fleeting, inattentive glances at his illustration work and his puppet theatre, cultural and literary history has generally taken little notice of Maurice Sand except as the beloved son of the most famous woman writer of the 19th century. Yet considered on its own merits, his multidisciplinary work—in painting, drawing, illustration, theatre, art history, natural science—forms a very coherent whole, indicative of sustained creativity, rather than the dilettantism of which he is often accused. From this perspective, Maurice Sand appears to be one of those individuals whose work lies in the interstitial space between major literary and artistic narratives and who, though seemingly minor figures, prompt nuanced reflection on how those narratives are constructed. An exploration of his case is an opportunity for a closer examination of the mechanisms of misappreciation that affected, and can still affect, a creator and oeuvre that have fallen victim to the arbiters of memory. Some of those mechanisms have clearly turned various points in his career and posthumous traces into discrete blind spots of history. First, the extensive corpus of studies on George Sand, especially biographical and autobiographical writings, demonstrates how the recollection of someone constructed from the positions of others can be distorted: his existence becomes a cliché, gradually reduced to a mere adjunct to past or current discussions of his mother, which overlook his independent career and life. Second, bringing his oeuvre to light, so it can at last be seen as a whole, reveals an even more significant cause of history’s misappreciation of him. Virtually all Maurice Sand’s works are not only shot through with the fantastic, but also marked by his interest in the sciences of metamorphosis, from ethnogeny to entomology. Constantly reinventing the past, his cognitive and creative processes ignored boundaries between disciplines, embracing hybrid, composite subjects. The inherently transversal nature of his work, which made it totally unacceptable in a century that saw it as indicative of a lack of focus, is now paradoxically viewed as a mark of superior quality in the fragmented field of the arts today.
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Stašová, Ema. "Ozvěny Ovidiových Proměn." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-328608.
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The aim of this study is to compare selected episodes of Ovid's Metamorphoses with three works of modern literature containing the theme of metamorphosis, and to follow their intertextual relations, dependency and innovation of Ovidian themes. On the basis of a comparison of the ancient and the modern text it is examined which motives remain constant during centuries and which, on the contrary, are evolving and shifting their meanings. Through the perspective of the Metamorphoses an attempt is made to interpret the works from a less usual angle. The most significant Ovidian characters that are examined in this study are Teiresias, Daphne, Hyacinth, Orpheus, Ceres, Icarus, Callisto and Io.