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Tolf, James Stephen. "Patterns of imagery in Ciceronian invective /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11474.
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Morganti, Bianca Fanelli. "Invective contra medicum de Francesco Petrarca : tradução, ensaio introdutorio e notas." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270227.
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Orientador: Antonio Alcir Bernardez PecoraTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo oferecer a primeira tradução para o português da obra latina Invective contra Medicum, de Francesco Petrarca, acompanhada de comentários, de um estudo sobre o texto, e de dois anexos que compreendem a tradução do prefácio escrito pelo então bispo de Paris, Etienne Tempier, ao Sílabo condenatório de 1277, e a tradução dos artigos referidos por Petrarca nestas Invectivas. O estudo introdutório, intitulado O homem e o cão, propõe uma interpretação da construção ética da personagem do médico e, conseqüentemente, do próprio ethos do poeta, definido em oposição ao caráter do seu adversário. A partir da caracterização do médico, Petrarca combate o aristotelismo dos mestres de artes de Paris, reafirma o valor de uma sabedoria moral cristã, fundada num costume filosófico que define a filosofia como meditação sobre a morte, e estabelece a si mesmo como modelo de virtude
Abstract: This research intends to offer the first Portuguese translation of Francesco Petrarch¿s Latin work Invective contra medicum, followed by notes from a study about the text, and two appendices that comprise the translation of the preface written by the Paris¿ bishop at the time, Etienne Tempier, to the Condemnation Syllabus of 1277, and the translation of some articles mentioned by Petrarch in these invectives. The introductory study, named The man and the dog, proposes an interpretation of the physician¿s ethical construction and, consequently, of the poet¿s ethos itself, defined in opposition to his adversary¿s character. From the physician¿s characterization, Petrarch attacks the aristotelism of the art masters of Paris, restates the value of a Christian moral wisdom founded on a philosophical usage of defining philosophy as meditation about death, and establishes himself as a virtue model
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Teoria e Critica Literaria
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Trankner, Mark Andrew. ""Laceratio famae" : invective as facework in Cicero's "In Pisonem"." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43906.
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Recent discussions of Cicero’s In Pisonem have approached the functioning of invective in the speech mainly in terms of the orator’s ability to fashion rhetorical weapons from the audience’s social biases and, consequently, have focused on evidence of his success in injuring his opponent’s reputation and dignity. That Piso, his opponent, had an equal opportunity and success in fighting back against Cicero’s attacks is, as I will argue, a crucial factor in determining the possible outcomes of this contest.
I argue that when the In Pisonem is viewed as a 'character contest', the conflict between Piso and Cicero appears to have been both unavoidable and yet inconclusive, despite evidence of Cicero's victory in the speech itself. While Cicero's attack on Piso displays superior rhetorical skill, humour and poise, the fact that Piso responded to the publication of the In Pisonem by publishing his own speech demonstrates that he was able to continue his side of the battle beyond Cicero's apparent victory. Although Cicero can claim a victory as the 'manifest outcome' of the Senate debate, it is clear that 'interpretological outcomes' came into play on both sides. Piso's persistence in the quarrel permits him a secondary claim to victory when Cicero, believing he has already won, decides not to respond. Comparison with Cicero's handling of Clodius' victory in the Bona Dea scandal, reinforces the importance of interpretation in determining the outcomes of invective contests. Win or lose, Roman orators will put the best face on their performance and emerge relatively unscathed from the 'character contests' in which their careers seem to hang in the balance. Piso's success in the conflict is seen as well in his continuation as Caesar's father-in-law, a role that Cicero clearly attempted to put in jeopardy in his attack. In this regard, Goffman's account of 'character contest' proves a reliable guide to understanding the grey areas which obscure the outcome of the conflict.
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Rossi, Daniella Julia. "Illicit literature and invective in the academy of Domenico Venier." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608431.
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Agnolon, Alexandre. "Uns epigramas, certas mulheres: a misoginia nos \"Epigrammata\" de Marcial (40 d.C - 104 d.C)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8143/tde-10012008-112116/.
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O presente trabalho tem por objetivos: em primeiro lugar, arrolar, traduzir e analisar epigramas de Marcial em que a mulher é objeto de invectiva; em segundo lugar, visa a rastrear, na tradição anterior ao poeta, o tema da misoginia, desde Hesíodo, no célebre episódio de Pandora (Teogonia, vv. 570- 612), passando pelos poetas iâmbicos arcaicos (Arquíloco, Hipônax e Semônides), até o uso que poetas latinos, como Catulo, Horácio e Juvenal, fizeram do tema, entendido agora como tópos. Em terceiro lugar, o presente trabalho pretende observar de que maneira o epigrama, ou melhor, sua possibilidade invectiva, se apropriou da misoginia, adequando-a às características principais do gênero, a saber, brevidade e agudeza, e, finalmente, tentar demonstrar que o vitupério a mulheres em Marcial é regulado e percebido mediante práticas retóricas (como os progymnásmata) e alguns trópoi (como a écfrase), que à época do poeta participavam da formação educacional do cidadão. Nesse sentido, pretendemos estudar particularmente as relações que a invectiva mantém, nos epigramas de Marcial, com a construção de imagens viciosas de mulher e suas relações com o gênero epidítico.The aims of the present work are first, to list, translate and analyse Martial\'s epigrams in which women are the object of invective; second, to try to investigate, in the former tradition, the theme of misogyny, both in Greece (from Hesiod, in the celebrated episode of Pandora (Teogony, vv. 570-612), to the archaic iambic poets, Archilochus, Hipponax and Semonides), and in Rome (how misogyny, as a tópos, is treatead by Catullus, Horace and Juvenal). In the third place, the present research intends to study in what manner epigram, or more precisely, its vituperative possibility, appropriated the theme of misogyny, adapting it to the main characteristics of the genre, such as conciseness and acuteness. Finally, we attempt to demonstrate that the vituperation against women, in Martial, is regulated and perceived through various rhetorical practices (such as the progymnásmata) and trópoi (such as ekphrasis) that at the poet\'s time were an important part of the citizen\'s education. Therein, we intend to study, in particular, the analogies that the invective maintain, in Martial\'s epigrams, non only with the construction of images in which women are corrupted, but also with the relationship between these images and the epidictic genre.
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Thompson, Rachel. "ETHNOPRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVES ON ONLINE POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN GHANA: INVECTIVE AND INSULTS ON GHANAWEB." Thesis, Griffith University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/388151.
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The study explores the practice, meaning and significance of invective and insults in political discourse among Ghanaians. It examines the use of such language forms against people of higher social status in online discourse in Ghana, a country where it is traditionally unacceptable to openly criticize the elderly and authority figures, let alone insult them. Data was sourced from GhanaWeb [www.ghanaweb.com], the most patronized online news website in Ghana that ensures anonymous citizen participation in issues of national interest.
The data involved invective and insult-filled online reader comments on news reports about the presidential candidates and the electoral commissioner involved in the 2016 general election in Ghana. Metapragmatic comments (reader reactions) which portray Ghanaian sociocultural perspectives on the use of abusive language against these individuals were also gathered. These two sets of comments were used to build the Corpus of GhanaWeb Comments on Ghana’s 2016 Election (CGCGE16). In addition to CGCGE16, the data for the study included comments from social media platforms, native speakers’ intuitions and the views of Ghanaian anthropological linguists and cultural specialists obtained from interviews, and evidence from scholarly works. The qualitative meaning analysis method is used along with the quantitative discourse analysis method. The study adopts an ethnopragmatic approach, combining corpus-based searches with semantic explications and cultural scripts, following the principles of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach (Wierzbicka, 1992, 1996; Goddard & Wierzbicka, 2014).
The findings indicate that most of the comments in CGCGE16 are personal attacks that violate the Ghanaian communicative norms towards the elderly and people in authority and, furthermore, do not conform to the expected displays of verbal respect. Instead of expressing their views on on-going socio-political issues, the commenters often draw on past socio-political occurrences, their public and sociocultural knowledge to engage in negative emotional characterizations and evaluations of the presidential candidates and the electoral commissioner, thereby, showing disapproval of them. By means of name-calling expressions, derogatory adjectives, and derogatory interjections, these commenters attack the intellectual abilities, moral behaviour, social competence, and physical characteristics of their targets.
This negative communicative behaviour is attributed to the fact that on GhanaWeb, like on many online communities, interactants are not obliged to uphold communicative norms. The anonymity of GhanaWeb shields commenters from the repercussions such speech behaviours would otherwise necessitate. It is also attributed to the right to freedom of speech, the repeal of the criminal libel law, and the fact that traditionally, there are some specific settings that allow the use of insults against authority. The study demonstrates that although the practice of using insults against political leaders in online commentary appears to be “normal” in the online context, it is a transgression when one considers the Ghanaian sociocultural norms of communication. Consistent with this, although the interaction on GhanaWeb is asynchronous, some commenters play the role of regulatory figures and traditional gatekeepers of appropriate communicative behaviour by posting disapproving metapragmatic comments.
The study identifies many ways in which interactions on GhanaWeb are culturally shaped. These include first, commenters do not only rely on English slang terms and swearwords, they also employ some local language insulting expressions (e.g. kwasea ‘fool’, yaka gbɔmɔ ‘worthless person’) due to the ‘weight’ such expressions carry for Ghanaians. Secondly, the metapragmatic comments do not employ certain key terms such as “offensiveness” that can be found in the literature on online studies related to the speakers of Inner Circle Englishes. Instead, they highlight the clear position of the Ghanaian culture on respect for elders and people in authority. These metapragmatic comments also stress the fact that the exchange of invective and insults in politics can result in violence which may have adverse effects on the development of the nation.
Overall, the study is inclined towards the view that instead of generalizing the results of studies on abusive language use in online interactions, there is a need to draw out what distinguishes Ghanaian online interactants from, let’s say, Western countries, Asian countries, African countries, or from interactants elsewhere. The key claim is that understanding the sociocultural backdrop for the speech practices of online interactants is crucial to understanding their language use, as interactants draw on existing communicative repertoires which influence their language choices. Also, the study draws attention to news websites in Ghana as a platform where the use of unmitigated invective and insults against people of higher social status is increasingly becoming the norm, despite the fact it violates Ghanaian communicative values. Thus, this study serves as a springboard for future research into abusive language use in online interactions among Ghanaians.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Griffin, Melody Marie Adler-Baeder Francesca M. "The beliefs about PVA harm survey testing the factor structure, validity, and relationship to use of parental verbal aggression and stress /." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1476.
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ʻAjlān, ʻAbbās Bayyūmī. "al-Hijāʼ al-Jāhilī ṣuwaruhu wa-asālībuhu al-fannīyah /." al-Iskandarīyah : Muʼassasat Shabāb al-Jāmiʻah, 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/39820544.html.
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Cleary, Nicole. "Jerome on the attack : constructing a polemical persona." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10661.
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This thesis argues that Jerome’s polemics against Helvidius, Jovinian, and Vigilantius were tailored to boost Jerome’s status within the Christian community, and were carefully constructed pieces of abusive rhetoric, rather than the result of his famed curmudgeonly character. These treatises are studied in light of both the ancient rhetorical tradition within which Jerome was trained, and modern theories of abusive rhetoric. This thesis is demonstrated in six chapters. Chapter 1 demonstrates that past scholarship focused on ‘Jerome the man’, his self-invention, and his academic and spiritual qualities, without giving adequate attention to how Jerome used these qualities in his compositions. Chapter 2 focuses on ancient and modern theories of rhetoric in order to set out a methodology of abusive rhetoric that highlights Burkean identification. In addition, this chapter studies how rhetoric can define and challenge social hierarchies. Chapter 3 discusses Jerome’s awareness of social standing through discussion of his interactions with three of his contemporaries: Augustine, Rufinus, and Ambrose. It examines how Jerome altered his rhetoric to reflect his perception of the relative social status of his correspondents. Part 2 studies three of Jerome’s treatises in light of the conclusion of Part 1. Chapter 4 analyzes Jerome’s Adversus Helvidium, and argues that Jerome’s rhetoric serves to contrast himself with Helvidius, whose heretical, fame-seeking character illuminates Jerome as a humble and conservative Christian. It argues that Jerome’s rhetoric in this treatise aimed for episcopal authority. Chapter 5 studies Jerome’s Adversus Iovinianum and argues that the polemic sought to extend Jerome’s views on asceticism to a wider audience, and potentially secure favor for himself following his expulsion from Rome. He presents Jovinian as a deceptive sinner with a dissolute lifestyle, and himself as an authoritative savior. Although Jerome attempted to connect to the elite in the Christian community, his tract was a failure due to an inability to identify successfully with the audience on the topic of virginity. Finally, Chapter 6 discusses Jerome’s Contra Vigilantium. Jerome presents Vigilantius as a boorish Gallic innkeeper, in contrast to himself as an urbane, albeit snobbish, orthodox Christian. Jerome’s rhetoric carefully identifies himself with upper class Christians, as well as the Emperor, apostles, and martyrs, thereby claiming their agreement with his view of orthodoxy. In sum, I argue that Jerome’s rhetoric served to construct a polemical persona that he attempted to use to further his Christian career, and shape his own image. While this was not entirely successful in his own day, Jerome’s rhetoric did ultimately succeed in crafting an image of himself as an orthodox and authoritative father of the Church.
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Applauso, Nicolino. "Curses and laughter: The ethics of political invective in the comic poetry of high and late medieval Italy." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10874.
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xiv, 479 p. : ill. (some col.) A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.My dissertation examines the ethical engagement of political invective poetry in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy. Modern criticism tends to treat medieval invective as a playfully subversive but marginal poetic game with minimal ethical weight. Instead, I aim to restore these poetic productions to their original context: the history, law, and custom of Tuscan cities. This contexts allows me to explore how humor and fury, in the denunciation of political enemies, interact to establish not a game but an ethics of invective. I treat ethics as both theoretical and practical, referring to Aristotle, Cicero, and Brunetto Latini, and define ethics as the pursuit of the common good in a defined community. Chapter I introduces the corpus, its historical and cultural background, its critical reception, and my approach. Chapter II discusses medieval invective in Tuscany and surveys the cultural practice of invective writing. Chapter III approaches invectives written by Rustico Filippi during the Guelph and Ghibelline wars. Chapter IV explores invectives by Cecco Angiolieri set in Siena, which polemicize with the Sienese government and citizenry. Chapter V examines invectives in Dante's Commedia (Inf. 19, Purg. 6, and Par. 27), focusing on his unexpected humor and his critique of the papacy, the empire, and Italian city governments. My conclusion examines the ethical function of slanderous wit in wartime invective. These poems balance verbal aggression with humor, claiming a role for laughter in creating dialogue within conflict. Far from a stylistic or ludic exercise, each invective shows the poet's activism and ethical engagement. This dissertation includes previously published material.
Committee in Charge: Regina Psaki, Chairperson, Romance Languages; Massimo Lollini, Member, Romance Languages; David Wacks, Member, Romance Languages; Steven Shankman, Outside Member, English
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O'Brien, Karen. "Female verbal crime in Northwest England, c.1590-1675, with special reference to cursing /." [Campbelltown, N.S.W. : The Author], 2000. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030711.152050/index.html.
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Douglas, Emily A. "The effects of verbally aggressive messages on women's self-concepts within romantic relationships." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1365177.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of verbally aggressive messages on women's self-concepts within romantic relationships. Through a qualitative methodological approach, this study examined the effects of such messages in the role of control negotiation, effects on women's self-concepts, and effects on future communication patterns. Through one-on-one interviews, women who have previously been in verbally abusive relationships were given the opportunity to share their individual stories through a narrative analysis. In addition, the theories of Communication Theory of Identity and Relationship Scripts were applied to understand the relationship between the effects of the messages on attitudes, behaviors, sense of identity, and communication patterns of the participants.The results indicated negative effects on victims who have experienced verbally abusive relationships. The need for control exemplified by the male aggressors resulted in compliance by the participants. The participants also experienced lower self-esteem and change or loss of personal identity, which affected communication in subsequent romantic relationships.Department of Speech Communication
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Barkhuizen, Merlyn. "Professional women as victims of emotional abuse within marriage or cohabitating relationships a victimological study /." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2004. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01172005-105235.
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Kanzler, Katja, and Marina Scharlaj. "Between Glamorous Patriotism and Reality-TV Aesthetics: Political Communication, Popular Culture, and the Invective Turn in Trump’s United States and Putin’s Russia." De Gruyter, 2017. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A38600.
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This article proceeds from the observation that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin—two politicians frequently correlated and compared since Trump’s bid for the Presidency—have been remarkably successful in mobilizing support for their politics and in seemingly immunizing their rhetorics against vernacular critique. To work toward an understanding of this phenomenon, we propose to look at how political communication by and around the two politicians draws on forms and venues of popular culture. Both contexts, we will argue, have developed new strategies for the instrumentalization of popular culture, strategies that, while actualized differently in the two settings, revolve around an ‘invective turn’ in political communication—a radicalization of the familiar nationalist rhetoric of ‘us versus them’ that seems specifically fueled by pop-cultural forms. To explore this traffic between pop and politics, this article puts into conversation two case studies: On the one hand, of Trump’s campaign speeches which, we contend, symbolically organize around the logic of agôn—of the competitive game—as it has coagulated in the reality-tv genre of the gamedoc. On the other hand, we look at (state-controlled) pop music in the Russian genre of Ėstrada which, thus our argument, advertises a distinct form of patriotism through the principle of ‘glamour.’ Glamour, in Putin’s Russia, operates simultaneously as a style and as an ideology of self-glorification. The article will outline how reality tv’s logic of agôn and patriotic pop music’s aesthetics of glamour each fuel a qualitatively new orientation of political discourse toward the aesthetically charged, affect-saturated denigration of others and valorization of self.
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Johnson, Scott Gregory. "Verbal agression [i.e. aggression] in military communication genetics vs. environment /." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007. http://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2007m/johnson.pdf.
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Motoi, Gabriela. "The escalation of aggression in people as measured by the progression of insult severity." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Psychology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3480.
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Research investigating the underlying causes and factors involved in violence and aggression has suggested there is a tendency for aggression to escalate as a means to justify prior aggression. In addition, past research has also examined the effect of perceived similarity towards the target of aggression on intensity and escalation of aggression. This study looked at the relationship between initial level of aggression and the escalation of aggression and at perceived similarity to the target of aggression as a possible factor influencing this escalation. Individuals engaging in severe initial aggression who experience higher perceived similarity to their targets of aggression should be more prone to justifying their actions and so might escalate more. To examine this, subjects could administer any of 10 levels of negative reinforcement (insults) to a learner for incorrect responses. Half of the subjects were required to practice this procedure with a mild and half with a severe insult. Results indicated that an effect of perceived similarity emerged, with individuals using less severe insults when perceived similarity to the learner was high. Contrary to predictions, high-perceived similarity to the learner stemmed escalation for participants insulting the learner with a severe insult initially. Moreover, participants who insulted with a mild insult initially escalated in their aggression when perceived similarity was high. In addition, an interaction effect of gender and perceived similarity was found, with men engaging in more severe subsequent aggression than women when perceived similarity to the target of aggression is high. The limitations, further directions, and implications of this study are discussed.
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Alexander, Karl R. "Honor, Reputation, and Conflict: George of Trebizond and Humanist Acts of Self-Presentation." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/14.
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The present study investigates the verbal strategies of self-presentation that humanist scholars employed in contests of honor during the early fifteenth century. The focus of this study is George of Trebizond (1395-1472/3), a Cretan scholar who emigrated to Italy in 1416, taught in Venice, Vicenza, and elsewhere, served as an apostolic secretary in Rome, and composed the first major humanist treatise on rhetoric, his Rhetoricorum libri quinque, in 1433/34. Trebizond feuded with many prominent humanists during his career, including Guarino of Verona (1374-1460) and Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459). His quarrels with both men illustrate how humanist conflicts were the sites upon which Quattrocento scholars won or lost honor via literary activities designed to appeal to a public audience of peers and patrons. Humanists wrote to denigrate publicly their competitors, casting them as ignorant and morally corrupt, and to praise themselves as eloquent and virtuous. Although Renaissance scholarship has long acknowledged the humanist pursuit of glory, the linguistic means by which humanists contested honor remains understudied. The present study contends that Quattrocento contests of honor were conducted using standard sets of oppositional categories, themes, and literary models. Additionally, I argue that an analysis of the linguistic strategies of self-presentation provides a more complex and complete picture of Quattrocento humanism and of individual humanists as historical figures.
Following an introductory discussion of George of Trebizond and Quattrocento humanism in Chapter One, the next three chapters of this dissertation address individual themes evident in Trebizond’s correspondence. Chapter Two examines the anti-Greek language that dominated Trebizond’s dispute with Guarino in 1437. Chapter Three explores the language of restraint and rational self-control in Trebizond’s feud with Poggio between 1452 and 1453. Chapter Four evaluates humanist concepts of masculinity in Trebizond’s feuds with both men. Chapter Five steps back from a deep thematic reading of Trebizond’s correspondence to consider invective as a literary genre that was a preferred vehicle for humanist self-presentation. This final chapter studies two additional feuds, between Guarino and Niccolò Niccoli, and Poggio and Lorenzo Valla, to understand better Trebizond’s experiences as a reflection of the broader culture of which he was a part.
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Grewell, Greg. "Rhetoric of Ridicule." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/312568.
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Ridicule is a means of affecting change. Issuing an interpretation of a subject's relation to an ideological formation or social norm as an argument to change behavior, language-use, belief, or the like, ridicule can be used both to affirm and to contest prevailing hierarchies. As a discursive function, this dissertation theorizes, ridicule can be either monological or dialogical. Monological ridicule often takes the form of a demand or directive and usually commands its subject to comply with some ideological formation or social norm. Used in this way, it is a norming tool. In contrast, dialogical ridicule generally invites or encourages negotiation or mediation. As such, it is often used to contest or challenge prevailing hierarchies, with the ultimate aim of creating conditions that can allow for transformation. In six chapters, this dissertation offers a theory of ridicule, traces conceptions of it through western history, examines both monological and dialogical applications of it, and, lastly, explores its use on the Internet, where it has flourished. If the aim of rhetoric is to please, to instruct, or to entertain, then ridicule may be the master rhetorical trope as it can achieve all three simultaneously.
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O'Brien, Karen. "Female verbal crime in northwest England, c. 1590-1675, with special reference to cursing." Thesis, [Campbelltown, N.S.W. : The Author], 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/54.
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Broad changes in early-modern English society were often reflected in the community via a 'war of words'. A close investigation of the social circumstances of individuals and of the relationships between individuals who were caught up in verbal crime provides a detailed context or 'micro-history' of this phenomenon, which in turn sheds light on the socio-economic changes occurring in the Northwest during this period. Since crimes associated with speech increased fourfold between 1580-1680, an investigation of the symbolic domain of speech is important to an understanding of early-modern society. This includes an investigation of chiding, cursing and scolding. In this thesis, the sources of female power in the early-modern community are examined, as well as the dynamics of ill-will behind female verbal crime. Such crimes are researched from manuscripts of proceedings in the local church courts and quarter sessions, which often provide insights into the popular politics of early-modern towns. By examining such texts, we may access a 'micro-history' of gossip that contributes to the debate over such micro-historical questions as gender, social politics and female social space. Networks of power and factional divisions with the community are revealed by exploring the attitudes of those involved in cases of female verbal crime, since individuals from every walk of life appeared in order to give evidence
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Yavuz, Alper. "The phrasal implicature theory of metaphors and slurs." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13189.
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This thesis develops a pragmatic theory of metaphors and slurs. In the pragmatic literature, theorists mostly hold the view that the framework developed by Grice is only applicable to the sentence-level pragmatic phenomena, whereas the subsentential pragmatic phenomena require a different approach. In this thesis, I argue against this view and claim that the Gricean framework, after some plausible revisions, can explain subsentential pragmatic phenomena, such as metaphors and slurs. In the first chapter, I introduce three basic theses I will defend and give an outline of the argument I will develop. The second chapter discusses three claims on metaphor that are widely discussed in the literature. There I state my aim to present a theory of metaphor which can accommodate these three claims. Chapter 3 introduces the notion of "phrasal implicature", which will be used to explain phrase-level pragmatic phenomena with a Gricean approach. In Chapter 4, I present my theory of metaphor, which I call "phrasal implicature theory of metaphor" and discuss certain aspects of the theory. The notion of phrasal implicature enables a new conception of what-is-said and a different approach to the semantics-pragmatics distinction. Chapter 5 looks into these issues. In Chapter 6, I compare my theory of metaphor with three other theories. Finally, in Chapter 7, I develop a phrasal implicature theory of slurs, which I argue outperforms its rivals in explaining various uses of slurs.
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Lalli, Alessio. "L'obscènité rituelle en Grèce ancienne." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020STRAG027.
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Cette étude porte sur l’obscénité rituelle en Grèce ancienne aux époques archaïque et classique, avec une attention particulière à Athènes. Par « obscénité » nous désignons tout mot et tout geste qui portaient atteinte au sentiment commun de pudeur. Si l’obscénité se trouvait normalement tabouisée dans la vie quotidienne, sanctionnée par la loi, stigmatisée par la philosophie et par la morale populaire, elle était, au contraire, attendue, intégrée et encouragée au sein de célébrations religieuses, particulièrement en l’honneur de Déméter et de Dionysos. Nous utilisons dans cette étude l’adjectif « rituel » associé à « obscénité » pour nous référer à la pratique obscène qui s'inscrivait dans un cadre religieux. En outre, on sait que l’iambe ionien et plus tard la comédie attique accordèrent aussi à l’obscénité une place significative. On s'interroge donc ici sur le rapport entre l’obscénité rituelle et ces deux genres littéraires. L'examen des sources littéraires, épigraphiques et iconographiques permet non seulement de vérifier l’hypothèse d’une origine cultuelle de l’iambe ionien comme de la comédie attique, mais aussi de comprendre plus précisément le rapport entre ces deux genres littérairesThis study focuses on ritual obscenity in ancient Greece in the archaic and classical periods, with particular attention to Athens. « Obscenity » includes any word or gesture undermining the common sense of modesty. If obscenity was usually a taboo in everyday life, sanctioned by law, stigmatized by philosophy and popular morality, it was, on the contrary, expected, integreted and encouraged within religious celebrations, especially in honor of Demeter and Dionysus. In this study, we use the adjective “ritual” associated with « obscenity » related to the obscene practice which took place within the religious context. In addition, we know that both the Ionian Iambos and later the Attic Comedy also gave a significant place to obscenity. We questioned therefore the relationship between ritual obscenity and these two literary genres. The examination of literary, epigraphic and iconographic sources makes it possible not only to verify the hypothesis of a cultic origin of the Ionian Iambos as of Attic comedy, but also to understand more precisely the relationship between these two literary genres
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Parish-Meyer, Erin Justine. "The Role Of The Augustan Family Legislation In Establishing The Princeps." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1226697947.
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Armelie, Aaron P. "The Impact of Verbal Victimization on Psychopathology in LGB Youths who have Experienced Trauma: The Roles of Self-Criticism and Internalized Homophobia." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1259614088.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Apr. 22, 2010). Advisor: Douglas Delahanty. Keywords: LGB youth; trauma; PTSD; depression; self-criticism; internalized homophobia. Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-77).
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O'Brien, Karen, of Western Sydney Macarthur University, and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. "Female verbal crime in northwest England, c. 1590-1675, with special reference to cursing." THESIS_FARSS_XXX_OBrien_K.xml, 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/54.
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Broad changes in early-modern English society were often reflected in the community via a 'war of words'. A close investigation of the social circumstances of individuals and of the relationships between individuals who were caught up in verbal crime provides a detailed context or 'micro-history' of this phenomenon, which in turn sheds light on the socio-economic changes occurring in the Northwest during this period. Since crimes associated with speech increased fourfold between 1580-1680, an investigation of the symbolic domain of speech is important to an understanding of early-modern society. This includes an investigation of chiding, cursing and scolding. In this thesis, the sources of female power in the early-modern community are examined, as well as the dynamics of ill-will behind female verbal crime. Such crimes are researched from manuscripts of proceedings in the local church courts and quarter sessions, which often provide insights into the popular politics of early-modern towns. By examining such texts, we may access a 'micro-history' of gossip that contributes to the debate over such micro-historical questions as gender, social politics and female social space. Networks of power and factional divisions with the community are revealed by exploring the attitudes of those involved in cases of female verbal crime, since individuals from every walk of life appeared in order to give evidenceDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Ben, Mansour Mohamed. "Le poète et le Prince : couleurs de l'éloge et du blâme à l'époque abbasside (750 - 965)." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSEN086.
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En partant de l’une des périodes les plus riches dans l’histoire de l’Islam en termes de créativité et de production poétiques, notre projet vise à mettre au jour les formes qu’a revêtues le rapport entre le poète et le Prince. Pour élucider ce rapport aussi complexe que protéiforme, nous ferons appel à un corpus riche et varié, et on tentera alors d’examiner la question de l’éloge et du blâme à travers trois prismes : la rhétorique, l’éthique et la politique. Le discours encomiastique mobilise la rhétorique afin d’emporter l’adhésion d’un auditoire sur une matière qui n’est pas encore établie. Mais l’effort déployé par l’orateur afin de convaincre l’auditoire ne peut se passer de la toile de fond éthique et du système commun de valeurs dont il procède pour arriver à la persuasion. Quant à la dimension politique, elle se reflète dans la fonction du poète comme « arme verbale » au service du Prince et instrument de légitimation de sa position politique contre ses adversaires réels ou potentiels. Par-delà la fonction de panégyriste officiel, la performativité du discours politique s’étend également à la parole, d’éducation, de réforme voire de critique ouverte qui pourrait évoquer la parrêsia antique. Grâce à un fonds sapiential, la poésie apporte sa contribution au processus de formation de l’homme politique et lui offre un excellent manuel de gouvernement. Quant à la veine contestataire, l’invective, la caricature et la mobilisation de la parole polémique constituent ses principaux ressorts. La veine contestataire traverse le regard que le poète jette sur l’univers de la cour, la politique du Prince ou le rapport entre gouvernants/gouvernés. Qu’il s’agisse de nominations, de projets politiques ou de l’ethos même de l’homme du pouvoir, le poète est toujours présent pour donner son avis. L’injustice d’une décision prise par un juge, le népotisme d’un gouverneur ou la dureté d’un général sont autant d’aspects qui témoignent de la vivacité de la critique du pouvoir par le poète, et du rôle que ce dernier endosse en tant que moralisateur de cette sphère. Le conseil se présente alors comme le moyen de rectifier les décisions ou les orientations générales du Prince et témoigne de l’existence d’une véritable rationalité poétique. Aussi, la rhétorique de l’éloge et du blâme témoigne-elle de l’existence d’une rationalité poétique qui arrive à maturité à l’époque abbasside et parvient à un degré d’efficience oratoire sans précédent en raison d’une conscience accrue du poète de la nécessité de s’impliquer dans la vie politique et de peser sur le cours de l’HistoireBased on one of the richest periods in the history of Islam in terms of poetic creativity and production, our project seeks to revise the forms that characterized the relationship between the poet and the prince. To elucidate this relationship as complex as it is protean, we will call on a rich and varied corpus, and then examine the question of praise and blame through three prisms: rhetoric, ethics and politics. The encomiastic discourse uses rhetoric to gain an audience’s support for a matter that is not yet established. But the effort required by the orator to convince the audience necessitates the ethical backdrop and common system of values, from which he proceeds to persuade. As for the political dimension, it is reflected in the poet’s function as the “verbal arm” serving the prince and as an instrument legitimizing his political position against real or potential opponents. Beyond the function of official panegyrist, the performativity of political discourse also extends to speech, education, reform, even open criticism that could evoke the antique parrêsia. By virtue of its sapiential substance, poetry contributes to the process forming the politician and offers him an excellent manual to government. As for the dissenting vein, invective, caricature and the mobilization of polemical speech constitute his main resources. The dissenting vein passes through the poet’s gaze on the universe of the court, the prince’s politics and the relationship between governor/governed. Whether it involves nominations, political projects or the very ethos of the man of power, the poet is always present to give his opinion. The injustice of a decision made by a judge, the nepotism of a governor or the harshness of a general are all aspects that demonstrate the poet’s vivacious criticism of power, and the role that the latter assumes as the moralizer of this sphere. The counsel is then presented as a means to rectify the prince’s general decisions or orientations and attests to the existence of a veritable poetic rationality. Furthermore, the rhetoric of praise and blame indicates the existence of a poetic rationality that reached maturity in the Abbasid period and attained an unprecedented degree of oratory efficiency, due to the poet’s growing consciousness of the necessity to be involved in political life and to influence the course of history
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Toscano, Reinat. "Invectives contre les faux pasteurs : des troubadours a petrarque." Nice, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993NICE2009.
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Poetes occitans et italiens du moyen-age denoncent avec virulence les errements du clerge, blamant surtout la conduite ponfiticale et celle des moines. Les clercs cupides et hypocrites veulent par tous les moyens regenter le monde, reniant leurmission ecclesiastiques et donnant le mauvais exemple a des chretiens qu'ils entrainent avec eux vers la perdition. Un chatiment exemplaire semble alors ineluctable aux yeux des poetes qui vouent les faux pasteurs a l'enfer. Dans ces invectives, pla platitude cotoie divers effets de style qui tendent a allier traditions et originalite dans une critique depassant le pur stereotype litteraire et rhetorique et prenant ses racines dans la realite d'une crise d'envergure qui ebranle l'eglise et la divise. Au-dela de la simple reutilisation de themes rebattus, les auteurs etayent leurs accusations par une connaissance certaine d'une doctrine religieuse qu'ils respectent profondement. Certains sont personnellement engages dans cette defense d'une rectitude oubliee par les religieux, et les textes de ces invectives, s'ils n'ont pas toujours eu une resonnance immediate, nous ont neanmoins transmis le temoignage emouvant d'un apre combat pour la droitureOccitan and italian poets of the middle-ages virulently denounce the priests' deviations, reproving above all the popes' behaviour and the monks. Covetous deceitful ecclesiastics will use any means to rule the world, abjuring their religious mission and setting a bad example to christians whom they drag down into dammation in their wake. These poets think that such priests can't but undergo an exemplary chastisement and that they are - and must be - doomed to hell. In these invectives, flatness and a flourished style can both be found, weaving tradition and creativeness into a criticism which outdoes mere literary stereotypes and rhetoric and feeds on a genuine momentous crisis shaking and dividing the church. Beyond the simples repeated use of hackneyed themes, the authors back up their accusations with a real knowledge of a doctrine they are profoundly respectful of. Some of them are personnally engaged in this defence of an uprightneses the clergy has forgotten, and the texts of these invectives, although they aven't always had an immediate repercussion, give nevertheless a moving evidence of a fierce fight in favour of rectitude
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Garambois-Vasquez, Florence. "Les invectives de Claudien : une poétique de la violence." Lyon 2, 2002. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2002/garambois-vasquez_f.
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Dans un contexte politique extrêmement troublé, à l'intérieur comme à l'extérieur, fait de tensions entre les deux Cours devenues rivales, Claudien compose, dans les années 395-404, les invectives dirigées contre les ministres d'Arcadius, Rufin et Eutrope, qui ont fait l'objet d'une attention particulière de la part des critiques, parce qu'elles étaient directement liées à l'histoire. Toutefois, la verve de l'invective politique ne se limite pas à ces deux poèmes, elle concerne d'autres textes de Claudien qui n'ont pas été considérés comme appartenant à ce genre. Ainsi le poème contre Gildon, adversaire déclaré du régent Stilicon, des épigrammes variées, des lettres Avec ces formes d'écriture, Claudien, par l'emploi du vers, par des œuvres dont l'enjeu est d'ordre national, historique, métaphysique et patriotique, réhabilite le genre de l'invective, tombé en désuétude, et le renouvelle en profondeur. Cette invective d'un type nouveau permet à l'imagination du poète de s'exprimer pleinement par l'insertion d'éléments appartenant à des genres littéraires différents, particulièrement l'épopée, la satire et le théâtre. Le mélange des genres, qui rejoint l'une des lignes esthétiques majeures de l'art du IVe siècle, entraîne, par la libération du potentiel de chacune de ces formes littéraires, une dénonciation plus efficace et surtout l'explosion de la violence. La violence qui envahit l'œuvre de Claudien n'est pas seulement liée à l'invective dont elle est une donnée inhérente. Elle est propre à Claudien et rencontre sa conception du monde, fondée sur une lutte titanesque entre les forces des ténèbres et celles de la lumière, toutes deux représentées à différents degrés d'interprétation, lutte qui prend une dimension symbolique où se lit la foi en l'avenir de Rome. De ce combat entre le Bien et le Mal naît une violence destructrice et négative qui inonde le monde. Mais Claudien refuse ce tragique et transforme cette violence en fascination sublime où se mêlent beauté et jubilation. Il y a donc une véritable esthétique de la violence, une recherche de sa beauté pour que surgisse le plaisir, un plaisir qui trouve sa source dans l'écriture profondément chromatique du poète, or et rougeDuring the years 395-404, a very troubled time inside and outside the Roman Empire, Claudian wrote his famous invectives against Arcadius's governement, In Eutropium and In Rufinum who drew attention form the critics because the poems were linked with the historical setting. But, those two poems were not the only way for Claudian to write a political invective, and many epigramms or letters and the unfinished poem concerning the Count of Africa, Gildo must be considered as invectives, even if they seem so much different. With those, the poet has created an another type of invective, an another way of writing invective, deeply renewing a dying literary form, by using verses and by considering the poem as a historical, national, metaphysical symbol. But the invective is also enriched by others literary genres such as epics, satire and comedy which allows the poet a free creation and makes the denunciation of the vices of the tyrants more powerful and striking. Consequently, violence is liberated and increases. Violence does not only follow from the genre of invective itself, but is reveals Claudian's way of thinking the world, based on the representation of the conflict between evil and good forces which are symbolised by different levels of interpretation. This conflict produces also a negative and destroying violence which surrounds the world. But Claudian refuses the fact that there is no issue to it and his poetic skilfulness changes this violence into beauty
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Garambois-Vasquez, Florence Sabbah Guy. "Les invectives de Claudien une poétique de la violence /." Lyon : Université Lumière Lyon 2, 2002. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/sdx/theses/lyon2/2002/garambois-vasquez_f.
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Racine, Sylvain. "Analyse thématique de L’hiver de force : Déterminisme social et invectives." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Franska, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-26345.
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Le roman à l’étude dans cette analyse littéraire est L’hiver de force de Réjean Ducharme, publié chez Gallimard en 1973. L’objectif de ce travail a consisté à chercher à comprendre pourquoi les personnages principaux André et Nicole, des mécontents intelligents et éduqués, ont choisi de vivre une vie les menant à rien, le tout en invectivant à peu près tout autour d’eux. Nous suggérons également une réponse, dans le contexte du récit, à la question « pourquoi l’hiver débute un 21 juin? » Pour réaliser ce travail, nous nous sommes intéressés à l’invectif, théorie littéraire développée par Marie-Hélène Larochelle, ainsi qu’à la notion de déterminisme social.The novel studied in this literary analysis is L’hiver de force written by Réjean Ducharme and published by Gallimard in 1973. The objective of this work was to reach an understanding as for why the main characters André and Nicole, two clever and educated malcontents, chose to live a life leading to basically nothing, all this while insulting just about everyone and everything. Furthermore, we suggest an answer, in the narrative context, to the question « why does the winter begin a 21st of June? » In order to realise this study, we looked into the invectif, a literary theory developed by Marie-Hélène Larochelle, as well as the notion of social determinism.
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Sakr, Michel. "Le sévère Sauveur : lecture pragmatique des sept "O'uaí" dans Mt 23, 13-36 /." Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb402216918.
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Novokhatko, Anna A. Sallustius Crispus Gaius Cicero Marcus Tullius. "The invectives of Sallust and Cicero critical edition with introduction, translation, and commentary." Berlin New York, NY de Gruyter, 2003. http://d-nb.info/993135714/04.
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Sigayret, Lucien. "L'imaginaire de la guerre et de l'amour chez Claudien." Perpignan, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PERP0509.
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A la veille de l'effondrement définitif, Rome aurait peut-être eu l'occasion de retrouver sa vitalité et son rayonnement en dépit du partage de l'empire et des menaces extérieures : un général vandale, récemment romanisé, Stilichon, incarne aux yeux d'un poète grec, né à Alexandrie et brusquement élevé au rang de poète officiel de la cour impériale, cette force salvatrice qui remet à l'honneur les vieilles vertus romaines en les adaptant à la situation de l'heure. La création poétique de Claudien, d'une rare beauté et digne héritière de celle de Virgile, fut longtemps admirér dans l'Europe classique avant de tomber peu à peu dans l'oubli ; c'était peut-être négliger la richesse d'une inspiration qui, au-delà du principe d'imitation, rv́èle une originalité surprenante et offre bien des pistes d'interprétation à explorer, notamment en raison de l'ambiguité entre les options religieuses du pouvoir impérial et l'apparent paganisme affiché par le poète. Les deux divinités tutélaires de Rome, Mars et Vénus, sont constamment sollicitées comme vecteurs de la Roma Aeterna.
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Audet, Marilyne. "Les Epistres familieres et invectives de ma dame Hélisenne (1539) d'Hélisenne de Crenne ou Le simulacre de l'épistolarité." Thèse, [Rimouski, Québec] : Université du Québec à Rimouski, 2006.
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Thèse (M. A.) - Université du Québec à Rimouski, 2006.Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 1er novembre 2007). Mémoire présenté à l'Université du Québec à Rimouski comme exigence partielle de la maîtrise en études littéraires. CaQRU CaQRU Bibliogr.: f. 128-140. Publié aussi en version papier. CaQRU
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Manoel, Rodrigo Garcia. "Teoria e prática: estudo e tradução das epístolas e invectivas de Pseudo-Salústio e Pseudo-Cícero à luz dos Progymnásmata." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8143/tde-28052014-115342/.
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Com a pesquisa busca-se descobrir quão estreita é a relação entre a teoria das prescrições retóricas feitas pelos progymnásmata de Élio Teão, Hermógenes, Aftônio e Nicolau e as produções escritas que nos restaram de alunos na iminência de praticar a oratória a partir do primeiro século d.C. Deste modo, pela análise dos documentos esperase, primeiro, produzir mais informações sobre como se dava o ensino de tal disciplina entre os romanos, a) indentificando os temas de que se serviam os professores, a relevância de tais produções escritas para a aprendizagem de gêneros textuais, os lugarescomuns e os autores que eram modelo a imitar ou evitar e o modo como tal ação se dava por meio das palavras; b) fornecendo tradução da invectiva de (Pseudo-)Cícero e da invectiva e das epístolas a César de (Pseudo-)Salústio.This research aims to find out how close is the relationship between the theory of rhetorical prescriptions of Aelius Theon, Hermogenes, Aphtonius the Sophist, and Nicolaus the Sophist and remaining texts of students who were about to go on public speaking on first century A.D. Thus, the analysis of such documents is expected to give more information about rhetorical teaching among the Romans: identifying themes that served teachers, the relevance of such written productions for learning text genres, the common places and authors that were model to imitate or avoid and how such action took form through words. At last, there is a translation of the invective by (Pseudo -)Cicero and the invective and the epistles to Caesar by (Pseudo-)Sallust.
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Ferchichi, Yosra. "Écrire le féminin dans les œuvres d’Hélisenne de Crenne : Les angoysses douloureuses qui procedent d’amours, Les epistres familieres et invectives et Le songe de Madame Helisenne." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021SORUL004.
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Notre étude consiste à mettre l’accent sur l’avènement d’Hélisenne de Crenne-écrivain et sur la genèse d’une trilogie, variée, par sa diversité discursive, générique et énonciative. La première partie de ce travail porte essentiellement sur l’hétérogénéité du triptyque hélisennien. Pour mettre en garde les lecteurs contre les dangers du désir charnel, Dame Hélisenne imite, expérimente et innove les textes-sources (la Flammette de Bocace, le Peregrin de Caviceo, les Ad familiares de Cicéron, le Opus de Conscribendis epistolis d'Erasme et le Songe de Scipion). Elle cherche constamment de nouvelles formes d’écrire (roman sentimental, épîtres, allégorie) pour séduire le lecteur et confirmer son elegantia et son érudition. La deuxième partie se focalise, quant à elle, sur l’analyse des variations de l’amour et ses répercussions sur le personnage féminin. Pour ce faire, Dame Hélisenne recourt à l’emphase pathétique (le style piteux), juxtapose les genres et les registres, multiplie les figures de pensée et les exempla et s’exerce en « œuvres viriles » afin de défendre la cause féminine, revaloriser le statut de la femme-écrivain ; et prouver son savoir et son évolution intellectuelle, dans une culture humaniste dense et riche. La troisième partie est enfin centrée sur la production, la publication et la réception de ces textes singuliers, révélateurs d’une double quête identitaire et unitaireOur study focuses on the advent of Hélisenne de Crenne-écrivain and the genesis of a trilogy, varied in its discursive, generic and enunciative diversity. The first part deals with the heterogeneity of the Hélisenne triptych. To warn readers against the dangers of carnal desire, Dame Hélisenne imitates, experiments and innovates the source texts (the Flame of Bocace, the Peregrin of Caviceo, the Ad familiares of Cicero, the Opus de Conscribendis epistolis of Erasmus and the Dream of Scipio). She is constantly looking for new forms of writing (sentimental novels, epistles, allegory) to seduce the reader and confirm her elegantia and erudition. The second part focuses on the analysis of the variations of love and its circumstances on the female character. In order to do this, Dame Hélisenne resorts to pathetic emphasis (the pitiful style), juxtaposes genders and registers, multiplies figures of thought and exempla, and exercises herself in "virile works" in order to defend the feminine cause, revalue the status of the woman-writer; and prove her knowledge and intellectual evolution, in a dense and rich humanist culture. Finally, the third part focuses on the production, publication and reception of these singular texts, revealing a double quest for identity and unity
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Vachon, Christian. "Les violences verbales à Manosque au tournant du XIVe siècle (1284-1330)." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/29376.
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Wheeler, Michael Ian Hulin. "Meter in Catullan invective: expectations and innovation." Thesis, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/15640.
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This dissertation examines the place of Catullus' poetry in the iambic tradition and its innovation within that tradition. By the Classical period, the genre iambos had been distilled down to invective content in iambic meters, despite the much greater variety of features found in the canonical Archaic iambographers (particularly Archilochus and Hipponax, 7th-6th C BCE). Catullus, familiar with these poets not only in their own right but also through the lens of Hellenistic authors such as Callimachus, partakes in and expands this tradition in novel ways.
Catullus affirms the connection between invective and iambic meters in some of his poems (25, 29, 37, 39, 52, 59, 60). In others, he subverts his readers' expectations, creating mismatches between meter and content. He employs iambic meters without invective content once in iambic trimeters (4) and in half of his choliambic poems (8, 22, 31, 44). Conversely, he uses unaccustomed meters for invective, including hendecasyllables and elegiac couplets. Scholarly efforts to explain the mismatch of meter and content in Catullus' invective-free iambic poems and in his invective poems in other meters have largely been piecemeal; this study represents a more sustained approach to the problem.
I argue in Chapter One that the speed of the skiff in poem 4 enables it to outpace obstacles representing iambos' traditionally dominant feature, invective; against generic expectations, Catullus introduces speed as a pointed alternative to abusive content. Chapter Two demonstrates that Catullus employs his non-abusive choliambic poems in the diagnosis of literary-critical and medical problems, tapping into a strain of aesthetic criticism and complaint found in Callimachus' Iamboi and in Hipponax himself. Chapter Three presents Catullus' hendecasyllables as a flexible meter without a strong ethos, allowing Catullus to link it to both the iambic tradition and love poetry. Finally, Chapter Four explores Catullus' use of elegiac epigram as an open form primarily for invective, matching the longstanding but uneasy coupling of hexameter and pentameter to vignettes of unbalanced relationships. With carefully considered mismatches of form and content, Catullus extends iambos beyond tradition.
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Miner, Jessica Lynn. "Crowning Thersites : the relevance of invective in Athenian forensic oratory." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/29640.
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This dissertation examines the function and relevance of invective in late 4th century oratory. I bring together recent approaches to performance, humor, and legal studies in order to reevaluate the role of character depiction, and especially character assassination, in forensic rhetoric. Both on the comic stage and in the courts, evoking derisive laughter from the audience was an important mechanism for effecting social control. I demonstrate how the orators draw from Old and Middle Comedy to depict opponents as character types, like braggarts (alazones), flatterers (kolakes), and comic prostitutes (male hetairai/pornoi). I argue further that speakers do not use invective to skirt legal issues; rather, they tailor their arguments about character to the legal charge. In the Athenian system, the concept of legal relevance was broad and subject to manipulation. The only mechanism of restraint on a speaker was the threat of being shouted down (thorubos) by the jury. Invective, therefore, was not automatically “out of bounds”. Moreover, issues of character and morality were of increasing public concern in 4th-century Athens (as evidenced by Xenophon, Middle Comedy, and oratory alike). To the minds of Athenian jurors, information about character provided important evidence for reaching a just verdict.text
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Alvarez, Juan. "La palabra y el fuego. Insulto, política y cultura en la historia de Colombia." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D88W3BG1.
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This dissertation examines the discomfort around the insult in different specialized languages, analyzing the relationship between insult, politics, and culture in the history of Colombia. When viewed as an element of discourse, the insult illuminates certain critical events and subjects in the history of the nation. The insult is understood in a wide variety of ways --as direct enunciation of offending words, as the imminent failure of communication, as the staged claim of being offended, or as verbal and performative tool for electoral purposes. This dissertation analyzes a heterogeneous corpus of political, historiographic, journalistic, religious, legal, literary, proselytizing, pamphleteering, and digital primary sources. It spans the period from the Independence crisis at the beginning of nineteenth century to the digital architecture that enables online comment sections of mass media site in the twenty-first century. Each chapter reflects on one or two specialized language that, according to certain individuals or events, develop mechanisms to relegate the insult, and, from them, strategies and tactics are detailed in terms of its exploitation, containment, control, revitalization, overflow, and even involuntary stimulus.
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Oparinde, 'Kunle Musbaudeen. "A comparative socio-semiotic perspective of invectives in isiZulu and Yoruba languages." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10321/1547.
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Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Technology: Language Practice, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2016.The diversified ways of language use in different geographic areas of the world present valid reasons for the study of various usages of language. Invectives are a major aspect of language that have been greatly neglected in intellectual discourse. Motivated by the paucity of academic literature on invective-related studies and other stereotypes in human communication, the thrust of this work is to discuss the socio-cultural factors embedded in the two cultures in their approach of invectives. The study examines a comparative taxonomy of invectives in isiZulu and Yoruba languages from a socio-semiotic perspective. Drawing examples from the two languages, the study explores instances of semiotic analysis that are created by the assumption that signs, utterances and messages are situated within the context of social relations and processes. The study indicates that invectives are context and culture-dependent and may be perceived differently in line with the field of discourse, tenor of discourse and mode of discourse. The research tools included observation, interviews, and archival materials. Our research also identified and classified pre-assigned invectives, ritualized insult chants, innovative songs and visual insults. Adeosun’s (2012) proposed model of analyzing written poetry in Yoruba was used in analyzing the insults. The following typologies of insults (among others) were observed in the two languages: ethnophaulism, dehumanization, sexotypes and body parts. The study reveals striking similarities and differences in the invective-related discourses of isiZulu and Yoruba.
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Nappert, Nadia. ""AD INJURIAM REPUTAVIT" : les délits injurieux devant la justice en Provence au XIVe siècle." Mémoire, 2008. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/1056/1/M10449.pdf.
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Le présent mémoire propose une enquête sur les délits injurieux présentés devant les cours de justice royale du comté de Provence au XIVe siècle. L'objectif de cette étude est de relever -quantitativement et qualificativement -la nature des comportements offensants afin de dégager les valeurs, les codes et l'éthique qui régissaient cette société. Dans ce dessein, nous avons mis à contribution un fond d'archive provençal, soit les comptes de clavaires de la viguerie de Draguignan où ont été notamment enregistrées des revenus de condamnation pour la période de 1327 à 1378. Le premier chapitre est subdivisé en deux parties, soit un bilan historiographique et un portrait de la source appréhendée. Dans un premier temps, nous exposons brièvement l'éventail des recherches portant sur l'injure en dressant notamment un portrait des tendances et perspectives de recherche ayant trait à cette problématique, et ce tant chez les linguistes, les sociologues, les ethnologues que les historiens. Le présent mémoire, en analysant à la fois le langage et la société dans laquelle fut proférée ou perpétrée l'injure, se situe ainsi au carrefour des approches interdisciplinaires. Nous concluons le présent chapitre en présentant ledit fond d'archive dans lequel furent enregistrés ces assauts. Le second chapitre est consacré à la présentation des résultats de notre dépouillement. Nous abordons notamment la nature des agressions enregistrées, le lieu et le décor de l'agression, le profil socio-économique des deux protagonistes pour finalement analyser la valeur du délit par le biais des amendes pécuniaires. Notre recensement sur l'injure dracénoise a ainsi révélé la présence de plusieurs attaques verbales, invectives, outrages, paroles diffamatoires et également des gestes inopportuns visant à porter ombrage à l'honneur de la victime. Une corrélation tend dès lors à se dessiner où les délits perpétrés dans un décorum particulier -soit devant de nombreux auditeurs ou en présence de magistrats -furent plus lourdement sanctionnés. Le troisième et dernier chapitre trace entre autres les pourtours de l'injure qui piquèrent au vif les Dracénois. Dans un premier temps, nous avons étudié les notices de condamnation avec l'intention d'analyser l'articulation des délits en examinant la terminologie et la lexicographie des condamnations injurieuses telles qu'elles furent consignées par les officiers de la justice. Notre catégorisation de l'injure dracénoise a par ailleurs révélé la place prépondérante qu'occupent les menaces et les injures sexuelles dans l'inventaire de condamnations recensées. Ces dernières données exposent dès lors le pire cauchemar des Dracénois, celui de la mise en doute de sa bonne foi et d'une aliénation de la renommée de son lignage. Les agressions injurieuses poussent ainsi les Dracénois à obtenir une reconnaissance publique des dommages causés à l'honneur des victimes car l'honneur - celui qui s'octroie par ses faits et gestes et par le regard de l'autre -est un «bien» à entretenir et à préserver en Provence au XIVe siècle; levant dès lors le voile sur l'univers des sociabilités et des relations interpersonnelles des Dracénois. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Moyen âge, Provence, Draguignan, Justice, Injure, Honneur.
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Couture, Rachel. "Le règlement judiciaire de l'injure à Paris au XVIIIe siècle : collaboration entre la justice conciliante et les justiciables avertis." Mémoire, 2008. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/832/1/M10184.pdf.
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L'injure, consignée dans les archives judiciaires, est un observatoire privilégié des relations de pouvoir entre la justice qui juge cette parole délinquante et les justiciables qui la profèrent. À travers les interrogatoires d'accusés pour injures, traces de cette rencontre judiciaire, il est permis de découvrir les deux facettes de cette interaction, tant du côté de l'institution que des justiciables. Loin de confirmer la thèse d'une soumission ou d'une révolte de la population face à la justice, l'examen des usages de la justice parisienne au second tiers du XVIIIe siècle en fait ressortir au contraire leur association. Il est ainsi soutenu que le règlement de l'injure, traité à l'aide d'une approche narrative, sérielle et du croisement de la pratique avec la théorie, relève une collaboration entre une justice conciliante et des justiciables avertis selon des objectifs divergents. L'institution judiciaire, alors dans un contexte de concurrence avec d'autres modes de résolution de conflits, cherche à promouvoir son recours. La flexibilité conséquente de la procédure et la marge de manoeuvre qui est laissée aux justiciables permettent alors de faire sortir de l'ombre leurs possibilités d'action dans ce cadre judiciaire. Les récits d'accusés pour injures témoignent dans ce contexte de la capacité de négociation des justiciables avec une institution qu'ils détournent à leur avantage en fonction de leurs intérêts personnels (réparation d'honneur, dommages et intérêt, objectifs particuliers). Ainsi, leur utilisation généralement habile et bien informée de l'appareil judiciaire a laissé sa trace dans les différentes stratégies procédurales (telle la stratégie de porter plainte en premier) et discursives (aveux nuancés, discrédit du plaignant, portrait favorable de soi) employées. L'appui indispensable de l'institution sur la communauté et sur la participation des justiciables pour résoudre les conflits d'injures lors d'un contexte concurrence, explique sans doute que la latitude laissée aux utilisateurs débouche sur une collaboration, sans quoi l'injure ne pourrait être poursuivie judiciairement. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Injure, Interrogatoire, Justice, Police, Justiciable, Paris, XVIIIe siècle.
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Lemieux, Lefebvre Geneviève. "La qualification péjorative dans le discours politique en campagne électorale." Mémoire, 2009. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/2242/1/M10936.pdf.
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Dans notre mémoire de maîtrise, nous avons analysé les différentes formes de qualification péjorative présentes dans le discours politique de la campagne électorale provinciale de l'hiver 2007. Afin de réaliser cette analyse, nous nous sommes constitué un corpus à partir d'extraits vidéo diffusés lors des bulletins de fin de soirée. Une classification minutieuse des données recueillies nous a permis de distinguer sept types d'actes de langage dépréciatifs distincts, à savoir plus précisément l'insulte, l'ironie, la moquerie, l'avertissement, le reproche, l'accusation et la critique. Après avoir élaboré une définition détaillée pour chacune de ces formes de qualification péjorative, nous avons analysé plus attentivement quelques extraits afin d'exposer les différents contextes dans lesquels sont utilisés les actes de langage dépréciatifs. Par ailleurs, notre étude nous a permis de constater qu'il existait une grande différence entre la fréquence d'utilisation de la critique et du reproche et celle de l'insulte, de l'avertissement et de la moquerie. Alors que la critique et le reproche sont utilisés régulièrement, l'avertissement et la moquerie n'apparaissent que dans des contextes spécifiques et l'insulte est presque complètement exclue de nos données. Ces résultats nous en apprennent beaucoup sur les stratégies discursives choisies par le candidat pour discréditer leurs vis-à-vis politiques. Ainsi, plutôt que d'opter pour des actes de langage dépréciatifs s'attaquant à la vie personnelle ou à des ouï-dire, les chefs préfèrent avoir recours à des formes permettant de porter des jugements vérifiables, pouvant s'appuyer sur des déclarations ou des faits connus de tous. De fait, le discours politique reste courtois, courtoisie qui peut s'expliquer par le désir de chaque candidat de préserver leur image publique, en évitant de dénigrer trop sévèrement leurs adversaires. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Discours politique, Pragmatique, Qualification péjorative, Critique, Reproche, Moquerie, Ironie, Avertissement, Insulte.
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Côté, Maja. "Chroniques de maux (de l’extrême ordinaire) ; suivi de Attaques à vide : bousculer la situation théâtrale au confluent de l’humour et de l’invective dans la pièce Rouge Gueule d’Étienne Lepage." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/13466.
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Alice au pays des merveilles et Nietzsche n'ont en commun ni la dentelle ni la chanson. Quelque chose de beaucoup plus fort les unit toutefois; nous le découvrirons peut-être ce jour où voleront les cochons. Ou à la fin de cette pièce, selon le bon vouloir des principaux-ales intéressé-e-s. Pendant ce temps, du fin fond de leur enclos, ils et elles n'en peuvent plus d'attendre. Leur salut ? L'heure du glas ? Leur heure de gloire ? Grands incapables, pugilistes décadents qui se tuent à ne pas se tuer, se déchaînent dans le verbiage, s'érigeant malgré eux contre toute forme de verve. Combattre cet Autre qui s'immisce insidieusement en soi et qui conduit à la perte du moi. C'est dans une folle lucidité que les égos se dérangent sans échanger, s'attaquent sans s'atteindre, hurlent sans être entendus, dans l'espoir, peut-être, de se réveiller in the land of Nod. Comme l’indique le titre, Chroniques de maux (de l’extrême ordinaire) met en scène une suite de chroniques dans lesquelles les principaux-ales intéressé-e-s témoignent de leur mal-être, et ce, à travers l’exploration de lieux communs. La dramaturgie tente, entre autres, de mettre en place une poésie de l’invective et de l’humour; une esthétique du trash-talking et de la logorrhée. Une importance particulière est accordée au rythme et au langage. L’atmosphère alterne résolument lourdeur et ludisme.
La pièce Rouge Gueule, d'Étienne Lepage, présente une mécanique visant manifestement à
« attaquer » l'Autre, qu’il s’agisse d’un personnage ou du lecteur-spectateur. Les attaques se perpètrent d'une part par un humour cru, influencé par la culture populaire, le trivial; un humour qui fonctionne de manière plutôt classique en convoquant des procédés aisément repérables et sans cesse réutilisés par l'auteur. D’autre part, la mécanique de « combat » se manifeste par l'invective, ainsi que par une violence caractérisée, du début à la fin, par un manque dans la motivation des actions. Ainsi, l’étude Attaques à vide. Bousculer la situation théâtrale au confluent de l’humour et la violence s’intéresse à Rouge Gueule, aux relations qu'entretiennent l’humour et l'univers brutal de la pièce, dans la perspective où l’humour est inextricablement lié à la violence. Une attention particulière est portée sur le personnage type de Lepage de même que sur l’esthétique de « l'arsenal » trash. Cette dernière est analysée afin de mieux circonscrire les attaques : sont-elles des moyens, et le cas échéant, pour parvenir à quelle fin puisque la fable, et donc la « quête », dans le théâtre contemporain est souvent remise en question. Cette étude verra comment les attaques « à vide », sont, chez Lepage, la force motrice de ce que Hans-Thies Lehmann nomme la « situation théâtrale ».Alice in wonderland and Nietzsche have in common neither the lace nor the song. However, something much stronger unites them; we shall discover it maybe this day when pigs will fly, or at the end of this play, according to the goodwill of the characters within. Meanwhile, by the very depths of their enclosure, they can’t wait anymore. For what ? Their salute ? The hour of the knell? Their hour of glory? Tremendous incapables, decadent pugilists who kill themselves trying not to kill themselves, who burst out in verbosity, setting themselves up in spite of themselves against eloquence. Fighting this Other who interferes insidiously in itself and who drives to the loss of the me. It is in a crazy lucidity that egos disturb each other without exchanging, attack without reaching, roar without being heard, in the hope, maybe, of waking up in the land of Nod. As indicated in the title, Chroniques de maux (de l’extrême ordinaire) stages a series of chronicles among which the characters are testifying their ill-being. The language and the situation of utterance of this play without acts, falls within resolutely "poetic-trash" esthetics, and the atmosphere aims to alternate heaviness with playfulness. Rouge Gueule, by Étienne Lepage, presents a structure aiming obviously at "attacking" the Other, whether it is about a character or about a reader-spectator. Attacks commited on the one hand by raw humor, influenced by the popular culture, the trivial; a humor which works in a rather classic way by using processes easily identifiable and ceaselessly reused by the author. On the other hand, the structural design of "fight" shows itself by the invective, as well as by the violence characterized, from the beginning to the end, by a lack in the motivation of the actions. So, this study, Attaques à vide. Bousculer la situation théâtrale au confluent de l’humour et la violence, looks into Rouge Gueule, by being interested in the relations that maintain the humor and the brutal universe of the play, in the perspective where the humor is inextricably connected to the violence. A particular attention is dedicated to the typical character of Lepage as well as the esthetics of the trash "arsenal". The latter is analyzed to better circumscribe the attacks: are they the means, and, if so, to what end considering that the fable, and thus the "quest", in contemporary theater is often questioned. This study will see how, in Lepage’s play, the "vacant" attacks are the driving strength of what Hans-Thies Lehmann appoints the "theatrical situation".
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Patane, Alessio. "Laurentii Valle Secundum antidotum in Pogium. Edizione critica e commento." Doctoral thesis, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/2158/1277102.
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Seydell, Emanuel. "El vocabulario de invectiva en el libro I de Sátiras de Juvenal." Bachelor's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11086/6500.
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Este trabajo estudia cómo Décimo Junio Juvenal, en las primeras cinco sátiras de su obra, se vale del lenguaje de invectiva para denunciar el comportamiento desviado y la inmoralidad de los individuos que conformaban la sociedad romana de su época, específicamente los que pertenecían a la aristocracia. El vocabulario utilizado por el satírico tiene su principal fundamento en la indignatio que le producen estos sujetos con comportamientos tan inadmisibles para el mos maiorum y la gravitas romana. Juvenal observa cómo el código moral antiguo se desmorona y, a partir de una transculturación sin freno, la capital imperial se sumerge en un debilitamiento nefasto. En este aspecto, Juvenal matizará siempre su presente contrastándolo con el pasado republicano, un pasado que recuerda con anhelo y nostalgia, aunque su foco siempre es su época contemporánea, el siglo I d.C., donde encuentra los blancos de su invectiva.
La sátira era una herramienta extraordinaria de denuncia social, política, cultural e incluso económica. Sin embargo, a diferencia de las sátiras de poetas como Horacio o Persio, Juvenal no propone soluciones morales, ya que los vicios y la corrupción han alcanzado un grado tan elevado que el poeta considera incorregibles. De esta manera, el lenguaje de invectiva es el único φάρμακον posible para arremeter contra las prácticas tan aberrantes de su tiempo. Mordaz, crudo, cruel y despiadado, el lenguaje de este primer libro expone en un tono altamente retórico la inversión de los valores romanos tradicionales. Este es un tópico que recorre toda la obra juvenaliana, pero donde se evidencia con mayor agudeza es en este primer libro, ya que se puede decir que la principal finalidad del lenguaje de invectiva en estas cinco sátiras es arrojar luz sobre la Roma viciada de su tiempo.
Las herramientas de las que se servirá el poeta para demostrar su indignatio son la parodia, la burla, la ironía, el sarcasmo, etc., pero particularmente implementará el lenguaje abusivo y explícito como método para embestir contra todo aquello que ha violado el statu quo de la antigua y proba sociedad romana.
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Brown, Nancy Eileen. "The 1901 Fort Wayne, Indiana City Election: A Political Dialogue of Ethnic Tension." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3658.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)In 1901, three German American candidates ran for the office of mayor in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The winner, Henry Berghoff, had emigrated from Germany as a teenager. This thesis examines the election discourse in the partisan press for signs of ethnic tension. The first chapter places Fort Wayne in historical context of German immigration and Indiana history. The second and third chapters investigate the editorial pages for evidence of ethnic tension. I also reference a few articles of an editorial nature outside of the editorial pages. The second chapter provides background information about the election and examines indications of the candidates’ ethnicity and references to the German language papers. The third chapter considers the editorial comment about Germany, the intertwining of ethnicity and the issues, and ethnic name-calling. In order to identify underlying bias for or against Germany and to better understand the context of the references to German ethnicity, the fourth chapter explores the portrayal of Germany in the Fort Wayne papers.