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Gerber, Michael Ryan. "Vichy's New Man: National Regeneration and Historical Revisionism in French Education, 1940-1944." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524501870504622.
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Ndee, Hamad S. "Sport, culture and society in Tanzania from an African perspective : a study in historical revisionism." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2001. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20366.
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Despite the significance of sport in the modern evolution of the societies of Africa, until recently, there has been a lack of academic interest in the extent of its assimilation into the fabric of these societies. In contrast, this is a cultural history of sport in Tanzania. It involves both cultural continuity and change, of shifting ideologies over time in response to political stimuli, and of the social processes of diffusion, assimilation, alienation, rejection, adaptation and restoration of culture. The thesis examines the place of sport in Tanzanian society in precolonial, colonial and post-colonial periods. Underlying this approach is a revisionism that permits the exploration of sport from a Tanzanian and an African perspective. The consideration of the pre-colonial period traces the different types of physical activities of early eastern Africa and explores their functions in the lives of the indigenous peoples. Then follows a discussion of the arrival of the Arabs and t heir role in the spread of Islam in later eastern Africa and considers the negative attitudes towards sport that resulted from this Islamisation. Next is the review of the German colonisation of the country and the Teutonic introduction of Western education into German East Africa. Hand in hand with this education went marching drills, parades and German gymnastics which have become significant components of school sport in contemporary Tanzania. The crucial contribution of the British imperialist to modern Tanzanian sport in the form of team games, athletics and gymnastics in the shape of 'adapted Athleticism', is then described and analysed. Finally, sport in independent Tanzania and its association with nationalism, modernisation and globalisation is scrutinised. The central argument of this thesis is that modern sport in Tanzania has been a consequence of a multifaceted evolution embracing three distinct periods of the country's history and three disparate legacies: indigenous, Islamic and European, but that it was the British middle class colonial educationalists, more than others, who were responsible for the sport of modern Tanzania. Thus, in independent Tanzania, as in many other developing countries in Africa, modern sport has become clearly associated with Western culture but now, in addition, is linked to nationalism, modernisation and globalisation. The thesis concludes with the argument that Tanzania keenly aspires to integration into the world of global sport but at the same time searches for a distinctive identity by utilising Tanzanian 'sport', past and present, as an integral part of education and as an important ingredient in her culture.
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MacDonald, David Bruce. "Balkan holocausts? : comparing genocide myths and historical revisionism in Serbian and Croatian nationalist writing, 1986-1999." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2001. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1652/.
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This thesis explores, from both a theoretical and practical basis, how and why Serbian and Croatian nationalist elites used victim centred propaganda to legitimate new state creation during the collapse of Communist Yugoslavia (1986-1999). This often involved applying imagery from the Jewish Holocaust, with overt comparisons between Jewish suffering and the imagined genocides of Serbs and Croats. Chapters 'One' and 'Two' discuss why a rhetoric of victimisation and persecution has been an enduring aspect of national identity, from the ancient Hebrews onwards. This theoretical section develops a model for analysing nationalist teleology, comprising a Golden Age, a Fall from grace, and a Redemption. It also provides a critique of nationalism theory, analysing its successes and failures in understanding the importance of victim centred propaganda and the Holocaust in nationalism writings. Chapters 'Three' to 'Nine' examine how a fear of genocide was used by Serbian and Croatian nationalists to push their people into wars of "self defence". Through a detailed examination of primary source material, these chapters dissect many of the arguments advanced during the conflicts in, Kosovo, Croatia, and Bosnia-Hercegovina. Important comparisons can be made about how history was revised and what purpose these revisions served. Serbian and Croatian propaganda is divided into specific time periods. The time periods examined include the earliest eras, from the 3rd to the 15th centuries AD, followed by the medieval era, and the 19th century. The 20th century is divided into several periods, beginning with the first kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918), World War II, Communist Yugoslavia, the breakdown of the Federation, and the rise of nationalism and violence. A chapter on Bosnia-Hercegovina and the Bosnian Moslems demonstrates how effectively Serbian and Croatian propaganda was applied to a third party.
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Birdwhistell, Benjamin P. "Manipulated Museum History and Silenced Memories of Aggression: Historical Revisionism and Japanese Government Censorship of Peace Museums." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2312.
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The Japanese government has a vested interest in either avoiding discussion of its war-torn past or arguing for a revisionist take. The need to play up Japanese victimization over Japanese aggression during World War II has led to many museums having their exhibits censored or revised to fit this narrative goal. During the 1990’s, Japan’s national discourse was more open to discussions of war crimes and the damage caused by their aggression. This in turn led to the creation of many “peace museums” that are intended to discuss and confront this history as frankly as possible. At the beginning of the 21st century, public discourse turned against these museums and only private museums have avoided censorship. Some museums, like the Osaka International Peace Center, have been devastated by the censorship. This museum and other museums with similar narrative issues raise questions about appropriate narrative on display. What is appropriate to censor for the sake of respect for the dead? What must be included for the sake of historical accuracy and honesty about the past? These questions are investigated at four different peace museums throughout Japan.
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Dunlop, Richard Noel. "Signs of Still Life." Thesis, Griffith University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366633.
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The research question under investigation is: Working within the genre of still life, how can my current work represent a ‘radical revision’ of selected aspects of this traditional genre? The issues and art historical knowledge informing the creation of my contemporary still lifes is the central subject of this project – involving a selfeffacing, metacognitive process of ‘radical revisionism’ (see Butler, 2005), reflecting contemporary practices among artists and art historians alike. The ancient genre of still life, stemming from Pompeian frescoes and mosaics to the current day, will be exposed to an openly subjective historical narrative, compelled in directions associated with the creation of my own artwork. My own processes of art making will likewise be questioned in terms of the way they might be historically understood against the scholarship of art historians and critics, and where they may find a place within the broad intellectual and academic framework under construction by a range of international artists and art historians. The contribution to be made to new knowledge will by the nature of the subject under investigation and result in an analysis of the continual interaction of making and theorising about art. New theoretical knowledge linked to the creation of my own artworks will be partially constructed through and by the artwork, so that the completed artworks and their making are theorised themselves (Macleod and Holdridge, 2006: 2) against a backdrop of considerable existing writings on the origins, contexts and meanings of still life. The contemporary theorising of Rex Butler (2005) on ‘radical revisionism’ will be important to this endeavour. Butler (2005:9) summarises the difficulties and preferences of the contemporary art historian in bringing to bear present knowledge and values to any study of the past, the subject of an enduring debate in historiography: It is a history, therefore, that sees the artists of the past speaking across what we might like to call ‘time-separated’ areas to contemporary issues. In other words – and we should try to remain aware of just what is so extraordinary about this – it is a history that conceives of the artists of the past as though they were already post-modernists, already reacting in their work to the same concerns that artists of today do. It is a theoretical position which is well-suited to the present study because Butler (2005) seeks to displace a straightforward dichotomy between analysing objects, people or actions on their own past terms and their work and behaviour in relation to contemporary reference points. It is an analytical stance which automatically dismisses claims for an ‘impartial’, ‘objective’ or ‘singular’ history and locates the interpreter as a person who is wilfully intervening in the recasting of the motives and meanings linked to objects, people and actions. The notion of ‘radical revisionism’ will be applied to an historical account of members of the genre of still life as well as to the developmental processes of my own artworks. The work of a range of contemporary artists who have sought to rejuvenate the language and conventions of still life will be examined, followed by the discussion of my own work. Any emerging divide in operation between theory and practice will be viewed as mutable. Central to the written research output was the creation of a major body of works on paper and paintings, and this research includes an analysis of the deliberations involved in the development of my artworks. The works on paper and paintings reveal the application of relatively instinctual artistic decisionmaking processes in conjunction with more reflective theoretical and art-historical considerations. Other mediums such as video or installation could equally have been used by me (or preferred by other artists) in subsequent related investigations to explore similar concerns. Likewise, genres other than still life could be viewed by others as suitable vehicles for reflecting on the interaction between theorising and art making against the long backdrop of an historical genre.Thesis (Professional Doctorate)
Doctor of Visual Arts (DVA)
Queensland College of Art
Queensland College of Art
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Yeste, Piquer Elena. "Revisionisme històric i negacionisme. La persecució política de la llengua catalana (1874-2011)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/32014.
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Aquesta tesi doctoral documenta els actors principals i secundaris del fenomen del revisionisme històric i del negacionisme en relació a la història de la persecució política de la llengua catalana i analitza els arguments del revisionisme des de la transició democràtica espanyola fins als nostres dies, amb especial èmfasi en la relativització de la política lingüística de la dinastia borbònica en els segles XVIII i XIX, l’edulcorament de la repressió cultural de la dictadura de Miguel Primo de Rivera i la minimització de l’intent de genocidi cultural franquista. Aquesta anàlisi del discurs revisionista finalitza amb unes conclusions que expliquen el rerefons profund d’aquest fenomen en l’actualitat.Esta tesis doctoral documenta los actores principales y secundarios del fenómeno del revisionismo histórico y del negacionismo en relación con la historia de la persecución política de la lengua catalana y analiza los argumentos del revisionismo desde la transición democrática española hasta nuestros días, con especial énfasis en la relativización de la política lingüística de la dinastía borbónica en los siglos XVIII y XIX, el edulcoramiento de la represión cultural de la dictadura de Primo de Rivera y la minimización del intento de genocidio cultural franquista. Este análisis del discurso revisionista finaliza con unas conclusiones que explican el trasfondo profundo de este fenómeno en la actualidad.
This thesis documents the leading and supporting protagonists of the historical revisionism and denial phenomenon regarding the history of political persecution of the Catalan language and analyzes the arguments for revisionism from the transition to democracy in Spain until the present day, with special emphasis on the playing down of the language policy of the Bourbon dynasty in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the easing of the cultural repression of the Miguel Primo de Rivera dictatorship and the minimization of the attempted cultural genocide of the Franco regime. This revisionist discourse analysis reaches conclusions to explain the deep background of this phenomenon.
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Stevens, Jennifer. "Faith, fiction and the historical Jesus : theological revisionism and its influence on fictional representations of the Gospels (c. 1860-1920)." Thesis, University of London, 2006. http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/355/.
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This thesis is concerned with the stimulus and influence of studies of the historical Jesus on literary depictions of Christ. It examines imaginative reconstructions of the Gospels, alongside significant works of Biblical scholarship, and seeks to establish the role played by fiction in promulgating ideas of the Higher Criticism in Britain. At the same time, it considers how far the demands of working with a sacred source encouraged or restricted literary innovation. The contextual aspects of the study underline how advances in disciplines such as psychology, anatomy, and archaeology informed writers’ conceptions of the New Testament. The Introduction traces changing perceptions of the relationship between fiction and faith in the light of contemporary developments in Biblical interpretation. Chapter One examines a representative selection of Lives of Jesus, looking specifically at their affinities with fiction. The following chapter explores the kind of prose-fiction writing that developed in response to these Lives and to theological revisionism generally. The second part of the thesis focuses on two Anglo-Irish writers: Oscar Wilde and George Moore. Their transformations of the Gospels are analysed in the context of some of their other literary works, their attitudes to Christianity, and their engagement with theology. Chapter Three considers Wilde’s New Testament oral tales, looking especially at their treatment of current theological debates. Chapter Four considers the reappearance of these tales in the writings of Wilde’s contemporaries, and links the study’s two major authors through its discussion of Frank Harris, an acquaintance of them both. The final two chapters deal with Moore’s abiding interest in the religious temperament, following through the development of his drama, The Apostle, into the novel, The Brook Kerith. The Conclusion considers the aesthetics of Biblical fiction and its contribution to the religious discourses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Quinteros, Marcela Cristina. "Juan Natalicio González (1897-1966): um intelectual plural." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-07022017-151430/.
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Esta tese procura identificar quais eram os principais objetivos intelectuais e políticos de Juan Natalicio González (1897-1966), um escritor paraguaio que desempenhou um amplo leque de atividades jornalista, ensaísta, editor, político, militante do Partido Colorado e diplomata. A partir da análise de suas biografias, de seus próprios textos (autobiografia, ensaios e a revista Guarania) e do resgate feito pela historiografia, consideramos que González atingiu parcialmente suas ambições políticas, na medida em que chegou a ser presidente de seu país, foi derrubado e já não pôde voltar a ocupar um papel protagonista na cena política nacional. Por outro lado, teve grande sucesso na difusão e na consolidação da interpretação revisionista da história paraguaia, ao articular-se em diversos grupos de intelectuais latino-americanos que reproduziram amplamente sua versão da história.This thesis seeks to identify the main intellectual and political objectives of Juan Natalicio González (1897-1966), a Paraguayan writer who played an extensive variety of activities (journalist, essayist, editor, politician, Colorado Partys member and diplomatic). From the analysis of their biographies, their own texts (autobiography, essays and magazine Guarania) and the study done by historians we consider that Gonzalez partially achieved his political ambitions, because he became president of his country but he was deposed and did not return to play a leading role in the national political scene. He succeeded in spreading and consolidation of the revisionist interpretation of Paraguayan history, after participating in various groups of Latin American intellectuals who widely reproduced his version of the history.
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Sablayrolles, François. "La biographie historique et son influence sur la fiction réaliste de l'entre-deux-guerres en Irlande : l'exemple de Sean O'Faolain." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030131.
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Tandis qu’elle accède à son indépendance, l’Irlande voit émerger une nouvelle génération d’écrivains soucieux de promouvoir une littérature dite « réaliste ». Ce réalisme, qui peut d’abord s’appréhender comme une forme d’anti-idéalisme, est inspiré par des motivations certes littéraires, mais également politiques et identitaires. Par là, sa démarche rejoint celle d’un mouvement, plus tard qualifié de révisionniste, qui se dessine en histoire au même moment avec l’ambition de rééquilibrer les représentations d’une historiographie nationaliste. Ainsi, parallèlement à leurs ouvrages de fictions, nombre de ces écrivains réalistes, parmi lesquels Sean O’Faolain, choisissent-ils d’aborder l’histoire par le biais de la biographie historique. Située à la frontière de l’histoire et de la littérature, celle-ci répond tant à des enjeux littéraires, permettant à des auteurs frustrés par une censure institutionnelle de laisser libre cours à leur sensibilité artistique, qu’à des considérations historiographiques. S’infiltrant dans les biographies, imposant son propre tempo, la fiction participe de la révision de l’histoire. En retour, les biographies, par-delà leur fonction de refuge, constituent de véritables laboratoires dans lesquels le biographe élabore des antidotes aux maux qui rongent la fiction en même temps qu’il y forge les pièces maîtresses de son réalisme. Ainsi, alors que le personnage biographique constitue le vecteur privilégié de toutes les tensions politiques et littéraires dont l’auteur tâche de se défaire, l’esthétique réaliste mûrit au fil de paysages biographiques densifiés par l’histoire. Après avoir dû cohabiter avec la fiction et avec le témoignage, la biographie reprend ses droits et conditionne la fiction réaliste de façon décisive, jusqu’à en redéfinir les thèmes, le fonctionnement et la formeThe period after independence in Ireland saw the emergence of a new generation of writers eager to promote a literature described as ‘realist’. This realism, which can be understood as a form of anti-idealism, was inspired by literary motivations, but also by motives that were both political and identity driven. In this, it was in tune with the approach of a historiographical movement of the same period, later qualified as revisionism, which aimed at nuancing the dominant nationalist narrative of history. In parallel to their works of fiction, a number of realist writers, including Sean O’Faolain, chose to approach history from the angle of historical biography. Situated at the frontier between history and literature, these biographies were at once historiographical and literary in their intentions, thus giving authors, who were hampered by the censorship regime in place, an avenue of expression in which they could give free rein to their literary sensibilities. On the other hand, fiction, by infiltrating the biographies, and by imposing its tempo, contributed to some extent to the revising of history. Beyond their function as refuge, the biographies can be seen as a laboratory in which the biographer elaborates antidotes to the ills that afflict fictional writing of the period while at the same time perfecting key set pieces of his realist fiction. The biographical character concentrates within him the political and literary tensions of which the author is seeking to divest himself. His realist aesthetic matures as the realist landscapes become ever more steeped in history and bring more realist representations to his fiction. Biography having accommodated fiction and memory in turn permeates the realist fiction in a decisive way, to the point of redefining its themes, its functioning and its form
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Fernández, Presa Mariana Elizabeth. ""¡A la carga Mis Valientes!" Historia, identidad(es) y Estado nacional en la Argentina después de la crisis del 2001." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UNILA, 2017. http://dspace.unila.edu.br/123456789/3343.
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Pós-Graduação Interdisciplinar em Estudos
Latino-Americanos da Universidade Federal da
Integração Latino-Americana, como requisito
parcial à obtenção do título de Mestra em
Estudos Latino-Americanos.
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A comienzos del siglo XXI, la sociedad y el gobierno argentinos se encuentran bajo un conflicto; la deslegitimación del Estado-Nación. Esto se da a través de la crisis económica, política y social que tuvo su momento cúspide en el año 2001. A partir de aquí, les esperaba a los gobernantes un ardúo trabajo, ya que debían hacer que la población volviera a creer en los “beneficios” de ser parte del Estado argentino. Por lo mismo, la identidad de ser argentino también queda cuestionada en este proceso, ya que el Estado no consigue garantizar los derechos mínimos de los ciudadanos. Por otro lado, los ciudadanos dejaron de confiar en la clase política, por lo tanto no ven un beneficio en ejercer su ciudadanía para elegir a sus gobernantes. La población pedía una salida inmediata a la crisis, dejando a los gobernantes en jaque ya que no fueron capaces de encontrar salidas a la misma. Todo esto se demuestra por el poco tiempo que duraron los presidentes en su cargo desde diciembre de 2001 hasta la asunción Néstor Kirchner en 2003. Este adoptó una serie de medidas que fue restaurando las relaciones entre la sociedad civil y el Estado-nación argentino, siendo estas continuadas por su sucesora Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Entre estas reformas encontramos la aprobación de la Ley 26.522 de Servicios de Comunicación Audiovisual en 2009, marcando un quiebre en la regulación de los medios de comunicación. Se da también a partir de aquí una re-configuración de los contenidos de la Televisión Pública, entre estos encontramos el diseño animado La Asombrosa Excursión de Zamba, siendo éste nuestro objeto de estudio. Por lo tanto, nos proponemos aquí algunos objetivos; analizar aquí si éste se propone hacer una relectura de la identidad argentina luego de la crisis del 2001; estudiar si en este proceso el diseño, combina diferentes tradiciones historiográficas; establecer cómo son representados los pueblos originarios y la categoría de pueblo en el diseño; analizar los símbolos nacionales, entre éstos encontramos los “próceres nacionales” y la bandera argentina. Para esto, hicimos una breve exposición de las distintas corrientes historiográficas argentinas, lo que significó la crisis y el diseño para la sociedad argentina, por último el poder de los medios de comunicación y lo que generó la Ley de Medios argentina en éstos. Ya en los otros capítulos veremos cómo son representados los pueblos originarios y el pueblo en Zamba. Y por último, analizamos las representaciones de San Martín, Belgrano y lo que significa la Bandera Nacional para la reconstrucción del Estado. Concluímos que al mismo tiempo que Zamba reivindica las identidades que afloraron con la crisis del 2001, éstas continúan subordinadas al Estado nacional
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Collares, Maria Teresa. "Revisions of brazilian gaucho identity in contemporary productions." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2012. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/96128.
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This dissertation analyzes the reformulations of Brazilian gaucho identity in three contemporary Brazilian productions that retell the history of Farrapos War: the films Anahy de las Misiones (1997) and Netto Perde sua Alma (2001), as well as the television series A Casa das Sete Mulheres (2003). The importance of historical fiction in the discussion of cultural identities becomes clear in Hall#s description of identity as our continuous repositioning in relation to the narratives of the past. The revision of history in the films and the series is investigated in relation to the diverse views of postmodern fiction in the works of Fredric Jameson and Linda Hutcheon. The analysis of the television series also takes into account the different positions about the contemporary impulse of nostalgia theorized by Andrew Higson and Andreas Huyssen. Finally, the analyses draw on Àngel Rama#s concept of transculturation, as the revision of regional content in the light of a new proposal to compose a renewed heritage that can be identified with the past, for the examination of cultural identities. Based on the readings in this study, the productions discussed are regarded as loci of intercultural dialogue; and the reformulations of Brazilian gaucho identity in those productions are understood as transcultural ones
Esta dissertação analisa as reformulações da identidade do gaúcho brasileiro em três produções contemporâneas que recontam a história da Guerra dos Farrapos: os filmes Anahy de las Misiones (1997) e Netto Perde sua Alma (2001), e a série de televisão A Casa das Sete Mulheres (2003). A importância da ficção histórica para a discussão das identidades culturais fica clara na descrição que Hall faz de identidade como o contínuo reposicionamento em relação às narrativas do passado. A revisão da história nestas obras é investigada em relação às discrepantes visões sobre a ficção pós-moderna no trabalho de Fredric Jameson e Linda Hutcheon. A análise da série televisiva também leva em conta o impulso nostálgico na contemporaneidade, discutido por Andrew Higson e Andreas Huyssen. Finalmente, as análises lançam mão do conceito de transculturação de Ángel Rama: a revisão de conteúdos regionais à luz de novas propostas, compondo uma nova herança cultural que ainda pode se identificar com o passado. Com base nas leituras apresentadas nesta dissertação, as produções analisadas são consideradas um lugar de relações interculturais; e as reformulações da identidade do gaúcho brasileiro nestes filmes e na série de televisão são vistas como transculturais
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Gil, Davi da Silva San. "Novos olhares sobre Viena: um estudo sobre o recente trabalho de reavaliação do positivismo lógico." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2008. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4856.
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A pesquisa que ora se apresenta consiste em uma investigação sobre o recente trabalho de reavaliação das obras de membros do chamado Círculo de Viena, que foi o primeiro e principal grupo representativo da perspectiva filosófica conhecida como positivismo lógico. Nossa pesquisa compreende três partes: a primeira parte voltada para a reconstrução histórico-conceitual do período entre o alvorecer das idéias neopositivistas e os primeiros momentos posteriores à recepção norte-americana da imigração intelectual vienense; na segunda parte do trabalho, por sua vez, lançaremos luz propriamente à natureza de tal perspectiva contemporânea, a partir de uma descrição sobre o método e o escopo temático de tal projeto revisionista; à terceira parte, por fim, além de tecer uma avaliação geral sobre o que foi feito nas duas partes que a antecedem, coube conjecturar as possibilidades de se encontrar em tal trabalho uma agenda filosófica e política própria.The present work consists on an inquiry concerning the recent re-evaluation in the works of members of the so-called Vienna Circle, which became the first and main representative of the philosophical movement known as Logical Positivism. Our research comprises three parts: the first one is devoted to a historical-conceptual reconstruction of the period between the uprising of the first Neopositivist ideas and the years immediately following the North-American reception of the intellectual immigration from Vienna; the second part of the work concerns the nature of such contemporary reappraisal researches on the positivists legacy, through a description of the method and scope of such re-evaluation project; finally, the third part comprises a general review of the previous parts, and was worked out in order to conceive conjectures about the possibility of finding out in this re-evaluation project a philosophical and political agenda of its own.
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Kapp, W. "The treatment of Historical space in selected works by Thomas Pynchon." University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8199.
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Magister Artium - MAThe focus on space and spatiality is relatively new in literary studies and also not unproblematic. Problems arise from the way in which these concepts are constructed, described, defined and interpret~. It is possible to derive numerous kinds of space, such as historical space, physical space, metaphysical space and religious space, to name a few, from the structure or thematics of a novel. This in itself presents a problem, since the literary scholar must differentiate between these spaces in order to determine which will be most useful for study of a particular aspect. There does not seem to be a coherent theoretical position in literary scholar regarding space, and thus various views of theorists will be considered. Gullon (1975:21), in a seminal article on space entitled On Space in the Novel provides a possible definition of space, with reference to another seminal article, this time by Joseph Frank when he states that "Frank calls 'spatial' the form of those works that at a given instant in time concentrate actions that can be perceived, but not related, simultaneously". This definition denotes a further complication engendered by space, namely the notion that different spaces intersect and interrelate with each other, and consequently that it is very difficult - if not impossible - to separate the various kinds of literary spaces in order to analyse the occurrence of a single space in a text. It also seems bound to time, but in a sense bridges the temporal gaps in a novel since it brings together parts that are not necessarily adjacent to each other temporally. Time becomes spatialized by treating events in the novel as separate chunks which can be rearranged and linked to each other. 1bis creates a more coherent and comprehensive picture of events in a text. namely the notion that different spaces intersect and interrelate with each other, and consequently that it is very difficult - if not impossible - to separate the various kinds of literary spaces in order to analyse the occurrence of a single space in a text. The main point in this regard seems to be creating patterns. This brings together more elements for the reader to be viewed at once, allowing him or her to attain a broader perspective on the text.
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Borges, Elisa de Campos. "O projeto da via chilena ao socialismo do PC chileno: nem revisionismo,nem evolucionismo, nem refornismo, nem cópias mecânicas." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2005. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12725.
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This work have as purpose to know, to comprehend and to attend the effort for the introduction of the project the chilean way to socialism idealized by the Communist Party of Chile. This project has purposed the passage from chilean capitalist regime to socialism based on the maintance of the establishment, without insurrections or armed conflicts. Such formulation had a great repercussion in the political project of the Popular Unity, wich had conducted Salvador Allende to Presidency of the Republic in 1970. To accomplish this research it was made use of a bibliography as source about the Popular Unity and about the subject of our research, many documents from the Communist Party, and personal witness by the same way, which constitutes oral source for the studies in History. In the Introduction, we had made a characterization from the Communist Party and from the original project of this research, that will be separated into the first and the second chapters, such as a chilean political and economical contextualization. In Chapter I we had upraised some arguments occurred about the peaceful way to socialism. We had tried even to identify the political development of the Comunist Party along it s policy of alliances and it s fundaments in several presidential elections. In Chapter II we looked forward to reflect how the mentioned questions from the past Chapter will influence the formulation of The Chilean Revolution, it s repercussions among the left-side parties and the for the Popular Unity consolidation to face the 1970´s elections. In Chapter III then we looked forward to analyze, from the Communist Party documents written between 1970 and 1973, the political behavior of the Party in the Alludes government quotidian
Este trabalho tem como proposta conhecer, compreender e acompanhar o esforço para a implantação do projeto via chilena ao socialismo , idealizado pelo Partido Comunista do Chile. Este projeto propunha a passagem do regime capitalista chileno para o socialista a partir da manutenção da institucionalidade, sem insurreições ou luta armada. Essa formulação teve uma grande repercussão no projeto político da Unidade Popular que levou à Presidência da República Salvador Allende em 1970. Para realizar essa pesquisa foram utilizadas como fonte uma bibliografia sobre a Unidade Popular e sobre o nosso objeto de pesquisa, diversos documentos do PC, assim como depoimentos pessoais que se constituem fonte oral para estudos da História. Na introdução, realizamos uma caracterização do PC e do projeto que se desdobrará no primeiro e segundo capítulo, assim como uma contextualização do sistema econômico e político chileno. No Capítulo I levantamos algumas discussões realizadas sobre a via pacífica ao socialismo. Também procuramos identificar o desenvolvimento político do Partido Comunista através da sua política de alianças e seus fundamentos em diversas eleições presidenciais. Procuramos no Capítulo II refletir como as questões apontadas no capítulo anterior vão influenciar na formulação da Revolução Chilena, sua repercussão entre os partidos de esquerda e a consolidação da Unidade Popular para disputar as eleições de 1970. No Capítulo III procuramos então, analisar a partir dos documentos partidários do PC escrito entre 1970 e 1973, o comportamento político desse partido no cotidiano do governo Allende
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Mellquist, Magnus. "Förintelsen: Vad ska jag tro på? : En jämförelseanalys mellan argumenten från de som tror på att förintelsen har hänt och de som inte gör det." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-75343.
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After World War II some people from all over Europe started to say that the destruction of the European Jews never happened. This article is written to compare the argument the Holocaust deniers are using against science document. The materials that have been used for this comparison are the books “Dog verkligen 6 miljoner? Sanning till sist” and ”En tom säck kan inte stå” which are the Holocaust deniers material. From the other side I have been using the Swedish states internet side Forum för levande historia, the site of Världens historia and the documentary of Auschwitz from BBC. The arguments will be studied from post fact theory specters, were I will compare the facts from the two sides and put them together. I will do that by look how the arguments from the two sides are built. I have also made questions that I have been asking by email the two sides. The Holocaust denier’s sides are the Swedish party called Nordiska Motståndsrörelsen (Nordic resistance movement) and the other side is Forum för levande historia (Forum of living history). The result that this study will show are when you put all the arguments from the Holocaust deniers together, their argument will not be as strong as when they are by them self.
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Odjo, Aboudou-Lassissi. "Historical revisionism and the future of black literary theory." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/16003.
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The future of the literary theories of Black Africa and the Black Diaspora lies in Africa's distant past. It lies in the discourses of origination, and in ontology that conceived subjectivity in significantly different terms from Hegelianism, Cartesianism, postmodernism, and Derridian deconstruction, for example. There is an ongoing crisis in Black critical theory regarding the parameters within which it should be articulated in order to remain responsive to its distinct historical consciousness. It is a twentieth-century problem, carried into the twenty-first, and it is mainly a crisis in philosophic discourse: This crisis of articulation is mainly a legacy of Western epistemological and political hegemony, and puts Black critical theory in the paradoxical position of being embedded in the very epistemological modality it seeks to overcome. In order for the crisis to be clearly seen as a philosophical one, a new Black subjective agency must emerge to elucidate the partiality of Western historiography, recast the history of philosophy, and formulate a more adequate metaphysics and art-theory. Such a theory will, for example, point out that the often nihilist horizon of subjectivity proffered by postmodernism is, in significant ways, inimical to the formulation or representation of this new Black subjectivity. For the first time in critical theory, the Black subject can see itself whole. It can now tell its story from the emergence of the first humans in Africa to the present, as a relatively unbroken continuum. The epistemological conditions for the emergence of a new Black subjectivity have never been better than in what I tentatively call the Dakar-Brazzaville-Stanford 'Conversation' (DBSC) about Black Africa and ancient Egypt. The DBSC stands for a number of major Black scholars (Cheikh Anta Diop, Theophile Obenga, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and St. Clair Drake) in those parts of the world, and the common denominator I identify in their historical, anthropological, and philosophic theorisations of Africa. My aim is to extend the 'conversation' by examining what it means for literary theory. The extent of Western historiography's misrepresentation of Africa's significance in civilisation is only now being openly acknowledged in Western intellectual discourse. It is, ultimately, a problematics that has to do with the status of language in relation to truth and history and, at a deeper level, embraces the ontological status of writing. African and Black foundational, philosophic, historical, and literary texts, shaped by particular systems of signs that are a clue to the African and Black mental worlds, require a particular kind of reading. Therefore, as part of the effort to represent Africa more adequately, a shift of perspective and form now enables Black fiction and literary theory to posit an alternative understanding of the idea and history of literature itself. And this involves recovering and redeploying ancient Egypt in its connection to Black Africa. Though there is increasing evidence in world scholarship that the first inhabitants of ancient Egypt were a negroid people, that their mystical beliefs laid the foundation for ancient Egyptian civilisation, and that philosophic speculation is, ultimately, Egyptian in origin, I do not know of any study that has systematically teased out the consequences of this flourishing scholarship for Black literary theory. The ultimate purpose of my thesis, therefore, is to deconstruct two figures (Hegel and Derrida) who have cast a shadow on Black literary theory. I do this by re-reading and, especially, re-contextualising them, to show that their philosophies are ancient Egyptian in origin. As a result of this re-historicisation, I argue that Black African and ancient Egyptian philosophies remain the most viable paradigms within which Black literary theory has a bright future. But it is a future that re-places Hegelian and Derridian philosophies in their originary Egyptian contexts in order to pare them of the unhelpful accretions Hegel and Derrida brought to them.Arts, Faculty of
English, Department of
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Weiser, Frans-Stephen. "Con-scripting the masses: False documents and historical revisionism in the Americas." 2011. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3445197.
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Dominick LaCapra argues that historians continue to interpret legal documents in a hierarchical fashion that marginalizes intellectual history, as fiction is perceived to be less important. This dissertation analyzes contemporary literary texts in the Americas that exploit such a narrow reading of documents in order to interrogate the way official history is constructed by introducing false forms of documents into their narratives. This type of literary text, or what I label “con-script,” is not only historical fiction, but also historicized fiction that problematizes its own historical construction. Many critics propose that the new historical novel revises historical interpretation, but there exists a gap between theory and textual practice. Adapted from E.L. Doctorow's notion of “false documents,” the con-script acts as an alternative that purposefully confuses fiction and nonfiction, providing tools to critically examine the authority maintained by official narratives. By revealing the fictive nature of these constructions, the con-script alerts readers to the manipulation of documents to maintain political authority and to misrepresent or silence marginalized groups. The recent revision of American Studies to include a hemispheric or Inter-American scope provides a context for applying such political claims within a transcultural framework. I compare texts from English, Spanish, and Portuguese America in order to identify shared strategies. After a survey of the historical novel's development across the Americas and a critical theory overview, I analyze three types of con-script. “The Art of Con-Fessing” juxtaposes texts from the three languages via Jay Cantor's The Death of Che Guevara, Augusto Roa Basto's Yo el Supremo, and Silviano Santiago's Em Liberdade. These false documents present themselves as apocryphal diaries written by revolutionary leaders or activists. The authors demythologize untouchable public figures through the gaps in their “own” personal writing. “Mediations of Media” features Ivan Ângelo's A Festa, Tomás Eloy Martínez's La novela de Perón, and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo. These journalists interrogate the role of media and political corruption within the construction of national identity; the false documents appear as newspaper clippings, magazine articles and media images. Finally, the subjective process of archiving is examined in “Con-Centering the Archive” via Aguinaldo Silva's No País das Sombras, Francisco Simón's El informe Mancini, and Susan Daitch's L.C.
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Weiser, Frans. "Con-Scripting the Masses: False Documents and Historical Revisionism in the Americas." 2011. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/347.
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Dominick LaCapra argues that historians continue to interpret legal documents in a hierarchical fashion that marginalizes intellectual history, as fiction is perceived to be less viable. This dissertation analyzes contemporary literary texts in the Americas that exploit such a narrow reading of documents in order to interrogate the way official history is constructed by introducing false forms of documents into their narratives. These literary texts, or what I label "con-script," are not only historical fiction, but also historicized fiction that problematize their own historical construction. Many critics propose that the new historical novel revises historical interpretation, but there exists a gap between theory and textual practice. Adapted from E.L. Doctorow's notion of "false documents," the con-script acts as an alternative that purposefully confuses fiction and nonfiction, providing tools to critically examine the authority maintained by official narratives. By revealing the fictive nature of these constructions, the con-script alerts readers to the manipulation of documents to maintain political authority and misrepresent or silence marginalized groups. The recent revision of American Studies to include a hemispheric or Inter-American scope provides a context for applying such political claims within a transcultural framework. I compare texts from English-, Spanish-, and Portuguese America in order to identify shared strategies. After a survey of the historical novel's development across the Americas and a critical theory overview, I analyze three types of con-script. "The Art of Con-Fessing" juxtaposes texts from the three languages via Jay Cantor's The Death of Che Guevara, Augusto Roa Basto's Yo el Supremo, and Silviano Santiago's Em Liberdade. These false documents present themselves as apocryphal diaries supposedly written by revolutionary leaders or activists. The authors demythologize untouchable public figures through the gaps in their "own" personal writing. "Mediations of Media" features Ivan Ângelo's A Festa, Tomás Eloy Martínez's La novela de Perón, and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo. These journalists interrogate the role of media and political corruption within the construction of national identity; the false documents appear as newspaper clippings, magazine articles and media images. Finally, the subjective process of archiving is examined in "Con-Centering the Archive" via Aguinaldo Silva's No País das Sombras, Francisco Simón's El informe Mancini, and Susan Daitch's L.C.
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Friedenthal, Andrew J. "Heroes of the past, readers of the present, stories of the future : continuity, cultural memory, and historical revisionism in superhero comics." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/24947.
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This dissertation is a study of cultural memory, exploring how superhero comic books, and their readers and creators, look back on and make sense of the past, as well as how they use that past in the creation of community and stories today. It is my contention that the superhero comics that exist as part of a long-standing "universe," particularly those published by DC and Marvel, are inextricably linked to a sense of cultural memory which defines both the organization of their fans and the history of their stories, and that cultural memory in comics takes the twinned forms of fandom and continuity. Comic book fandom, from its very inception, has been based around memories of past stories and recollections about favorite moments, creators, characters, etc. Because of this, as many of those fans have gone on to become creators themselves, the stories they have crafted reflect that continual obsession with the histories -- loosely termed "continuity" by creators, fans, and comic book scholars -- of these fictional universes. Often, this obsession translates into an engagement with actual events from the past. In many of these cases, as with much art and ephemera that is immersed in cultural memory, these fans-turned-creators combine their interest in looking at the history of the fictional universe with a working out of actual traumatic events. My case studies focus on superhero comic books that respond to such events, particularly World War II, the Vietnam War, and 9/11.text
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BELAVUSAU, Uladzislau. "Freedom of expression : European and American constitutional models for Central and Eastern Europe." Doctoral thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/18410.
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Defence date: 30 May 2011Examining Board: Professor Wojciech Sadurski, University of Sydney / EUI (Supervisor); Professor Giovanni Sartor, EUI / Università degli studi di Bologna (Co-Supervisor); Professor Jiří Přibáň, University of Wales, Cardiff; Professor Michel Troper, Université Paris X Nanterre
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This doctoral thesis inquires into the role and perspectives of the ‘European’ (mandatory) and ‘USA’ (persuasive) constitutional models of the right to freedom of expression for the constitutional debate in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). This survey is based on the study of socio-legal developments in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, embracing the period of post-communist transition until 2010. The research focuses on three controversial issues in the realm of freedom of speech, namely (1) hate speech, (2) historical revisionism, and (3) pornography, before the U.S. Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights. The essential novelty of the project is an assessment of European standards of free speech and non-discrimination beyond the mechanisms of the Council of Europe, encompassing the relevant aspects of EU law (judgements of the European Court of Justice and harmonised instruments) as mandatory standards for courts and legislators, including those in CEE. The research methodology transcends a standard case law assessment (comparative constitutional, public international, and EU law), normative jurisprudence and analytical philosophy, incorporating critical approaches stemming from post-structuralist scrutiny, rhetoric, sociology, legal history, history of ideas, and art criticism.
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Hall, Stephen Gilroy. "Alrutheus Ambush Taylor pioneering revisionist historian of the Reconstruction, 1893-1954 /." 1993. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/28833088.html.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1993.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 164-170).
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"Rewriting Columbus: Revisions in sixteenth- and twentieth-century historical and literary discourse." Tulane University, 1999.
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Columbus's texts of discovery and exploration initiate the written articulation of a European colonizing experience and the supposedly 'foundational' nature of these documents has led to the canonization of Columbus as the origin of the corpus of Latin American literature. Even today, as a cultural icon, Columbus remains an unavoidable figure, an indispensable trope, in short, the ineradicable symbol with which any inquiry into Latin American historical identity must come to terms. However, while Columbus may be seen as the foundation of a tradition of fixing American reality in discourse, he also remains elusive and masked: the Admiral's documents and biography have been vigorously debated and rewritten---copied, edited, arranged and falsified---by other historical figures The broad aim of this work is to investigate how and why a figure like Columbus and his historical experiences are textually constructed, by himself in his own private and public documents, and then reexamined and reconfigured by others not only in the context of the early period of colonial expansionism in Latin America but also in the context of contemporary fiction. The first two chapters offer an exploration into Columbus's strategies of self-representation and an analysis of the re-writings of Columbus's image by his contemporaries against the background of political and historical events and agendas of imperial expansion. The later chapters seek to establish how the historical figure of Columbus has been reappropriated and reinterpreted in contemporary fiction and how Columbian texts have been rewritten with revisionist, satirical, and political intentions By considering their own historical context of production, I examine how today's re-writings manipulate and give new meaning to Columbus's texts. In other words, these analyses address the question of how and why Columbus---or, indeed, other colonial figures---need to be reconstructed in a contemporary, post-colonial cultural context. What is the political, historiographic or cultural purpose of keeping these colonial figures alive in a state of animated dialogue and debate? By means of textual analysis of a selection of novels, I consider the critical practice of re-writing (and thereby reinterpreting) Columbus as a historical figure and the necessity of recreating and reevaluating the cultural significance of his life and achievements. There is a particular focus on the textual practice of re-writing in its various forms of quotation and imitation, parody and carnivalization, i.e. the recontextualization of Columbus in dialogic, anachronistic or comic contexts. Notions of intertextuality, metafiction, postmodernity and palimpsest give theoretical support to this inquiry. Furthermore, as we examine the juxtaposition of 'fictional' and 'historical' texts, both of these terms will require a critical evaluation: how do they differ, how are they related, and has a hegemonic form of historical discourse always provided the paradigm upon which Latin American fiction has been founded?acase@tulane.edu
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Jones, Elizabeth L. "Revisioning the Virgin Queen : changing images of a woman in power, 1955-2006." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:45642.
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This thesis examines and analyses a number of depictions of Queen Elizabeth I in film and television between 1955 and 2006. As it is becoming increasingly apparent that historical films and television series are among the dominant media through which the general public is gaining a sense of historical knowledge, a means through which to study and assess these forms of history is necessary. This thesis argues that this must involve a serious study of the media itself. In using representations of Elizabeth I as a case study, I apply both historical and film analysis to investigate how they, as films and television series, communicate a specific interpretation of the Virgin Queen through their form as well as their content, and how they function as works of history. I examine four examples, The Virgin Queen (1955), Elizabeth R (1971), Elizabeth (1998), and The Virgin Queen (2006). Particular attention is paid to how these films and series interpret Elizabeth I’s virgin status and how they reflect their contemporary contexts, especially in regard to how their representation of Elizabeth I engages with the gender contexts at the time of production. Each of these examples independently and together, demonstrates how these audio-visual media are used by filmmakers to re-examine both the past and their contemporary situations, how they are able to interpret and communicate history through the particular techniques of their media, and how these relate to academic history. In an increasingly postliterate time, it is crucial that we can understand and learn from the different ways that history is being communicated and interpreted outside of the academic history book.
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Moodie, Noreen Charlotte. "Liszt's songs : a reflection of the man and a microcosm of his musical style." Diss., 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17503.
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"Liszt's music, unlike that of Mozart, projects the man.
With rare immediacy, it gives away the character
of the composer. ... "
(Brendel 1986, 3)
The purpose of this study is to examine Liszt's song genre from an historical and
stylistic standpoint as a reflection of Liszt's ongoing personality and style development.
this end the following will be presented:
- an overview of Liszt's life circumstances which reflect his personality development
- a chronological classification ofLiszt's song genre
- the songs viewed historically as a reflection of the man
- characteristics in the revisions of the songs which reveal Liszt's ongoing developing
style
- a study of the development ofLiszt's harmonic and tonal language as agents of
colour and textual imagery.
Liszt's song oeuvre will be studied in relation to the man himself in order to revtal his
motives, his values, the experiences that moved him, and the ways in which he
reproduced them in music.Department of Musicology
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