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Zamboni, Fausto José da Fonseca [UNESP]. "Literatura, ensino e educação liberal." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103630.
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zamboni_fjf_dr_assis.pdf: 916721 bytes, checksum: d41937b99a032bd0c579d93a4223f032 (MD5)L’educazione letteraria, nelle scuole e università, si trova ad affrontare oggi innumerevoli difficoltà, soprattutto a causa di un grande contingente di alunni senza interesse negli studi. Ortega y Gasset credeva che ogni studio non motivato da un interesse vitale fosse una falsità, e questo è il caso di molti alunni della scuola di massa che, negli ultimi secoli, si è trasformata profondamente, diffondendosi ampiamente e proponendosi come valido ausilio per la formazione professionale e l’Ingegneria Sociale. Le scienze umane, dall’altra parte, sono state fortemente influenzate da un’ondata di studi critici che hanno messo in difficoltà l’autorità della Tradizione e dei valori fondanti della nostra civiltà. La crisi dell’educazione è, in fondo, il risultato di una crisi ancor maggiore, dentro la quale l’uomo ha perduto la fede nei valori, su cui ha edificato la propria cultura. Ora il suo compito è trovare una propria centralità in questo universo confuso in cui riconoscere se stesso e poter ordinare l’ammasso di informazioni e conoscenze che la nostra epoca continua a produrre abbondantemente. Non ci sono alternative che non emergano direttamente dalla Tradizione, anzi diciamo pure dalle tradizioni che la Tradizione stessa ci offre. Dobbiamo conoscerle per poter scegliere quelle che ci servono, per realizzare “l’esame del moderno in faccia all’eterno” (CARPEAUX, 1999, p. 203). Questo è l’obiettivo dell’Educazione Liberale, basata sullo studio dei classici – specialmente delle opere letterarie – poiché la letteratura è la base su cui si edificano le culture e tutti i tipi di discorsi e conoscenze umane. Essa può aiutarci a vincere le deficienze di un’educazione utilitaristica, guidandoci nella ricerca del Sapere e del senso della vita; insomma, di un nuovo stile di esistenza
A educação literária, nas escolas e universidades, enfrenta inúmeros problemas, e o principal é a falta de motivação profunda dos alunos. Ortega y Gasset dizia que todo estudo que não se funda num interesse vital é uma falsidade, e essa é a situação geral do ensino massificado da nossa época. A escola e a universidade se transformaram enormemente nos últimos séculos, passando a atender outros propósitos, como a preparação profissional e a modelagem de atitudes e mentalidades em vista de objetivos políticos. As humanidades, por sua vez, foram tomadas por uma onda de estudos críticos que combatem a autoridade da Tradição e dos valores que fundaram a nossa civilização. A crise da educação é, no fundo, uma crise muito maior, na qual o homem perdeu a fé nos valores que edificaram o Ocidente, sem que pudesse encontrar um centro em que reconhecesse a si mesmo e pudesse ordenar a massa de informações e conhecimentos que a nossa época produz em abundância. Não há, porém, alternativas que não emerjam diretamente da Tradição, ou melhor, das tradições que a Tradição oferece. Devemos conhecê-las para escolher aquelas que nos servem, para fazer “o exame do moderno em face do eterno” (CARPEAUX, 1999, p. 203). É nisso que consiste a Educação Liberal, que se baseia no estudo dos clássicos – especialmente as obras literárias – pois a literatura é a base na qual se fundam as culturas e os outros tipos de conhecimentos. Ela pode nos auxiliar a suprir as deficiências de uma educação utilitarista, guiando-nos na busca da sabedoria e da realização do sentido da vida; em suma, de um novo estilo humano de existência
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Zamboni, Fausto José da Fonseca. "Literatura, ensino e educação liberal /." Assis : [s.n.], 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103630.
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Orientador: Benedito AntunesBanca: Paulo Elias Allane Franchetti
Banca: Maria do Rosário Longo Mortatti
Banca: Odil José de Oliveira Filho
Banca: João Luís Cardoso Tápias Ceccantini
Resumo: A educação literária, nas escolas e universidades, enfrenta inúmeros problemas, e o principal é a falta de motivação profunda dos alunos. Ortega y Gasset dizia que todo estudo que não se funda num interesse vital é uma falsidade, e essa é a situação geral do ensino massificado da nossa época. A escola e a universidade se transformaram enormemente nos últimos séculos, passando a atender outros propósitos, como a preparação profissional e a modelagem de atitudes e mentalidades em vista de objetivos políticos. As humanidades, por sua vez, foram tomadas por uma onda de estudos críticos que combatem a autoridade da Tradição e dos valores que fundaram a nossa civilização. A crise da educação é, no fundo, uma crise muito maior, na qual o homem perdeu a fé nos valores que edificaram o Ocidente, sem que pudesse encontrar um centro em que reconhecesse a si mesmo e pudesse ordenar a massa de informações e conhecimentos que a nossa época produz em abundância. Não há, porém, alternativas que não emerjam diretamente da Tradição, ou melhor, das tradições que a Tradição oferece. Devemos conhecê-las para escolher aquelas que nos servem, para fazer "o exame do moderno em face do eterno" (CARPEAUX, 1999, p. 203). É nisso que consiste a Educação Liberal, que se baseia no estudo dos clássicos - especialmente as obras literárias - pois a literatura é a base na qual se fundam as culturas e os outros tipos de conhecimentos. Ela pode nos auxiliar a suprir as deficiências de uma educação utilitarista, guiando-nos na busca da sabedoria e da realização do sentido da vida; em suma, de um novo estilo humano de existência
Astratto: L'educazione letteraria, nelle scuole e università, si trova ad affrontare oggi innumerevoli difficoltà, soprattutto a causa di un grande contingente di alunni senza interesse negli studi. Ortega y Gasset credeva che ogni studio non motivato da un interesse vitale fosse una falsità, e questo è il caso di molti alunni della scuola di massa che, negli ultimi secoli, si è trasformata profondamente, diffondendosi ampiamente e proponendosi come valido ausilio per la formazione professionale e l'Ingegneria Sociale. Le scienze umane, dall'altra parte, sono state fortemente influenzate da un'ondata di studi critici che hanno messo in difficoltà l'autorità della Tradizione e dei valori fondanti della nostra civiltà. La crisi dell'educazione è, in fondo, il risultato di una crisi ancor maggiore, dentro la quale l'uomo ha perduto la fede nei valori, su cui ha edificato la propria cultura. Ora il suo compito è trovare una propria centralità in questo universo confuso in cui riconoscere se stesso e poter ordinare l'ammasso di informazioni e conoscenze che la nostra epoca continua a produrre abbondantemente. Non ci sono alternative che non emergano direttamente dalla Tradizione, anzi diciamo pure dalle tradizioni che la Tradizione stessa ci offre. Dobbiamo conoscerle per poter scegliere quelle che ci servono, per realizzare "l'esame del moderno in faccia all'eterno" (CARPEAUX, 1999, p. 203). Questo è l'obiettivo dell'Educazione Liberale, basata sullo studio dei classici - specialmente delle opere letterarie - poiché la letteratura è la base su cui si edificano le culture e tutti i tipi di discorsi e conoscenze umane. Essa può aiutarci a vincere le deficienze di un'educazione utilitaristica, guidandoci nella ricerca del Sapere e del senso della vita; insomma, di un nuovo stile di esistenza
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Forment, Costa José María. "Destino y libertad en los romances de Thomas Hardy." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Abat Oliba CEU, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/457768.
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El tres romanços de Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Trumpet–Major y Two on
a Tower- han estat inclosos com a exemples d’ obres pessimistes I fatalistes. Aquesta
tesi pretén mostrar que aquestes obres no s’ ajusten a aquest patró, sinó que els
personatges son lliures i que la tragedia final es conseqüència dels seus propis actes.
Al mateix temps, la tesi exemplifica la relació mimètica entre literatura i realitat a través
dels vincles amorosos dels protagonistes de les obres.
Així, amb tot, aquesta investigació amplia coneixements en l'obra de Hardy en llengua
castellana, especialment en relació amb les seves obres menors.Los tres romances de Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Trumpet–Major y Two on a Tower- han sido incluidos como ejemplos de obras pesimistas y fatalistas. Esta tesis pretende mostrar que estas obras no se ajustan a este patrón, sino que los personajes son libres y que la tragedia final es consecuencia de sus propios actos. A la vez, la tesis ejemplifica la relación mimética entre literatura y realidad a través de los vínculos amorosos de los personajes principales de las obras. Así, con todo ello, esta investigación amplía el conocimiento en lengua castellana de la obra de Hardy, especialmente en relación a sus obras menores.
Thomas Hardy's three romances - A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Trumpet–Major and Two on a Tower- have been included as examples of pessimistic and fatalistic works. This thesis aims to show that these works do not conform to this pattern, but the characters are free and that the final tragedy is a consequence of their own acts. At the same time, the thesis exemplifies the mimetic relationship between literature and reality through the love links of the main characters of the works. Thus, this research expands the knowledge in Spanish of Hardy's work, especially in relation to his minor works.
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Visser, Liezel. "The contextual compass : a literary-historical study of three British women’s travel writing on Africa, 1797 – 1934." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2673.
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Thesis (MA (English Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Texts by women travellers describing their journeys date back almost as far as those produced by their male counterparts, yet women’s travel writing has only become an area of academic interest during the past ten to fifteen years. Previously, women’s travel writing was mostly read for its entertainment value rather than its academic merit and – as Sara Mills notes in her Discourses of Difference – appeared almost exclusively in the form of coffee table books or biographies offering romanticized accounts of heroic, eccentric women who undertook epic journeys to Africa (4). The growing interest in women’s travel writing as part of colonial discourse coincides with the emergence of gender studies and related subjects. The emergence of these areas of academic enquiry can be attributed to the systematic dismantling of the patriarchal structures, which previously dominated social and academic domains. The aim of this study is to examine European women’s travel writing as a subversive discourse which, while sharing some characteristics with traditional male-produced travel texts from the colonial era, was informed by the discursive constraints of femininity. These texts thus differ from male-produced texts in the sense that, because of the different discursive constraints informing women’s travel writing, they offer commentary on aspects of Africa and its peoples which men had omitted in their travel accounts. Three specific texts by British women who recorded their travels in Africa form the basis of the discussion in this dissertation: the travel writing of Lady Anne Barnard (South African Cape Colony, 1797 – 1801), Mary Kingsley (West Africa: Gabon and the Congo, 1896 – 1900) and Barbara Greene (Liberia, 1935). Since, as Mills argues, “feminist textual theory has restricted itself to the analysis of literary texts and has been concerned with analysis of the text itself” (12), which limits the extent to which one can provide interesting, discerning, and relevant comment on women’s writing, the readings of these texts are not limited to feminist theory of women’s travel writing. Social expectations until as recently as the early twentieth century located women firmly in the domestic sphere. It was almost unthinkable for women to undertake travels other than the traditional Grand Tour. To attempt to venture into the predominantly male territory of travel writing was to expose oneself to harsh criticism and to risk being labelled as eccentric and unfeminine. Thus women had to find a way of making both their travels and writing seem acceptable by social standards, while still presenting as true as possible a picture of Africa in their writing. These constraints of the discourse of femininity on their texts necessarily make women’s writing seem concerned almost exclusively with matters of feminine interest. Mills attributes this to women travel writers’ “problematic status, caught between the conflicting demands of the discourse of femininity and that of imperialism.” (Mills, Discourses of Difference 22)
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Reisbeskrywings deur vroue dateer byna so ver terug as dié wat deur mans geskryf is. Tog het vroue se reisbeskrywings eers in die afgelope tien tot vyftien jaar akademiese belangstelling begin ontlok. Voorheen is vroue se reisbeskrywings meestal vir vermaak eerder as akademiese meriete gelees, en – soos Sara Mills in haar Discourses of Difference opmerk – het dit byna uitsluitlik verskyn as koffietafelboeke of verromantiseerde biografieë van heldhaftige, sonderlinge vroue wat epiese reise na Afrika onderneem het (4). Die toenemende belangstelling in vroue se reisbeskrywings as deel van koloniale diskoers val saam met die verskyning van gender-studies en verwante vakgebiede. Die ontstaan van hierdie akademiese vakgebiede kan toegeskryf word aan die stelselmatige aftakeling van die paternalistiese strukture wat sosiale en akademiese arenas voorheen oorheers het. Die doel van hierdie studie is om Europese vroue se reisbeskrywings te ondersoek as ‘n ondermynende diskoers wat, hoewel dit sekere eienskappe van tradisionele reisbeskrywings deur manlike skrywers uit die koloniale tydperk toon, gegrond is in die beperkende diskoers van vroulikheid. Hierdie tekste verskil dus van tekste deur manlike skrywers in die opsig dat dit, as gevolg van die verskillende diskoersbeperkinge waarin dit gegrond is, kommentaar lewer op aspekte van Afrika en sy bevolking wat mans in hul reisbeskrywings uitgelaat het. Drie spesifieke tekste deur Britse vroue wat hul reise beskryf het vorm die grondslag van hierdie verhandeling; dit is die reisbeskrywings van Lady Anne Barnard (Suid-Afrikaanse Kaapkolonie, 1797 – 1801), Mary Kingsley (Wes- Afrika: Gaboen en die Kongo, 1896 – 1900) en Barbara Greene (Liberië, 1935). Mills voer aan: “Feminist textual theory has restricted itself to the analysis of literary texts and has been concerned with analysis of the text itself” (12). Dít beperk die mate waartoe interessante, skerpsinnige en toepaslike kommentaar oor vroue se reisbeskrywings gelewer kan word; dus is die interpretasie van hierdie tekste nie beperk tot feministiese teorie met betrekking tot vrouereisbeskrywings nie. Tot so onlangs as die vroeë twintigste eeu het die samelewing se verwagtinge vroue streng tot die huishoudelike sfeer beperk. Afgesien van die tradisionele Grand Tour was dit bykans ondenkbaar vir vroue om te reis. As ‘n vrou inbreuk sou probeer maak op die tradisioneel manlike gebied van die skryfkuns sou sy haarself blootstel aan skerp kritiek en onwenslike etikettering as eksentriek en onvroulik. Dus moes vroue ‘n manier vind om sowel hul reise as hul skryfwerk sosiaal aanvaarbaar te maak en terselfdertyd so ‘n egte beeld as moontlik van Afrika te skets in hul skryfwerk. Die beperkinge wat die diskoers van vroulikheid op hul tekste plaas, lei noodwendig daartoe dat vroue se skryfwerk as byna geheel en al beperk tot sake van vroulike belang voorkom. Mills skryf dít toe aan vroue-reisbeskrywers se “problematic status, caught between the conflicting demands of the discourse of femininity and that of imperialism.” (Mills, Discourses of Difference 22)
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Pereira, Luís Miguel da Cruz. "In sexu veritas: a erótica libertina de Luiz Pacheco." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/16379.
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Mestrado em Línguas, Literaturas e CulturasO presente trabalho propõe-se explorar as modalidades de inscrição erótica na obra de Luiz Pacheco, de modo a salientar o seu alcance estético, ideológico e ético-filosófico, em estreita articulação com a noção de marginalidade literária. A análise da expressão multímoda do erotismo dissidente ou transgressor será desenvolvida a partir de exercícios de leitura intensiva de um corpus textual representativo, propondo-se uma filiação aproximativa do autor numa linhagem estético-literária libertina, no que especificamente diz respeito aos processos de tematização do erotismo. A dissertação compreende, assim, dois momentos de indagação: partindo da caracterização do diálogo crítico que Luiz Pacheco desenvolve com a tradição, e em particular com os modelos literários libertinos franceses setecentistas, propõe-se, num segundo momento, a leitura crítica de um conjunto seleccionado de textos do autor considerados ilustrativos da diversidade de concretizações semântico-formais da escrita erótica. Pretende-se, deste modo, contribuir para a caracterização de uma erótica libertina, segundo Luiz Pacheco.
This dissertation aims to examine the modes of erotic representation patent in Luiz Pacheco’s work with the purpose of characterizing its aesthetic, ideological, ethical and philosophical scope, in close connection with the experience of literary marginality. The multifarious expression of erotic dissidence and sexual transgression will be highlighted through literary analysis of representative texts, enabling us to define, albeit provisionally, the libertine literary lineage the author can be associated with. The structure of this dissertation is two-fold: after looking into Pacheco’s critical appropriation of literary tradition, particularly libertine 17th century French models, close literary reading of selected texts will be carried out, so as to illustrate the semantic and formal diversity of erotic discourse. We ultimately aim at outlining an erotics of the libertine, as defined by Pacheco.
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Dover, Richard J. "E.M. Forster and the English liberal tradition." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260225.
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Arnold, Jonathan W. "The doctrines of sin and human freedom in best-selling evangelical non-fiction from 1994-2004." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Abrahão, Thiago Henrique de Camargo. "Liberdade e literatura : percursos que se cruzam em Les chemins de la liberté, de Jean-Paul Sartre /." São José do Rio Preto, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/180954.
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Orientador: Arnaldo Franco JuniorBanca: Márcio Scheel
Banca: Pablo Simpson Kilzer Amorim
Banca: Márcio Roberto do Prado
Banca: Edison Bariani Junior
Resumo: Ao longo da primeira metade do século XX, a humanidade assistiu à derrocada traumática da razão. Muitas das utopias modernas, pautadas nos ideais de progresso técnico e tecnológico, resultaram em reais distopias com a ascensão, na Europa e em outros continentes, de regimes ideológicos totalitários. Aos poucos, o desvanecimento dos últimos resquícios de uma belle époque deu espaço a uma crise moral que perturbou as fronteiras da liberdade - e os limites da arte, o que levou artistas e intelectuais, dentre os quais Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), a repensarem o seu papel na sociedade. Na produção romanesca de Sartre, encontramos a trilogia Les chemins de la liberté (1945-1949), ao longo da qual acompanhamos os eventos da Segunda Guerra Mundial a partir da consciência de personagens que discutem a liberdade em face de sua situação no mundo. Paradigmática para a literatura engajada, a trilogia sartriana apresenta muitos dos aspectos formais defendidos por Sartre em seus textos teórico-críticos: contextualizando a narrativa ao longo da guerra, a ideia de "liberdade" se encontra nos elementos composicionais das histórias e nos dilemas das personagens, livres da onisciência narratorial - o que requisita o leitor para a criação de hipóteses a respeito do que pensam (a partir de como agem) as consciências semilúcidas que interagem no universo romanesco criado por Sartre. Notamos, pois, uma relação entre a liberdade e a literatura (e a sua recíproca influência), relação que objetivamos...
Abstract: Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, humanity witnessed the traumatic overthrow of reason. Many of the modern utopias, based on the ideals of technical and technological progress, have resulted in real dystopias with the rise, in Europe and elsewhere, of totalitarian ideological regimes. Gradually, the fading of the last remnants of a belle époque gave way to a moral crisis that disturbed the frontiers of freedom - and the limits of art, prompting artists and intellectuals, including Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), to rethink their role in society. In Sartre's romanesque production we find the trilogy Les chemins de la liberté (1945-1949), along which we follow the events of World War II from the consciousness of characters who discuss freedom in the face of their situation in the world. Paradigmatic for engaged literature, Sartre's trilogy presents many of the formal aspects defended by the author in his theoretical-critical texts: contextualizing the narrative throughout the war, the idea of "freedom" is found in the compositional elements of the stories and in the dilemmas of the characters, free of narrative omniscience - which requires the reader to create hypotheses about what they think (from how they act) the semilucidal consciousnesses that interact in the romanesque universe created by Sartre. We therefore note a relation between freedom and literature (and its reciprocal influence), a relation that we aim to investigate from the philosophical, political and literary texts of the author, and then to show how and why Sartre's thought and his production influenced and were influenced by freedom (or, rather, by its absence)
Résumé: Tout au long de la première moitié du XXe siècle, l'humanité a témoigné la débâcle traumatique de la raison. Beaucoup d'utopies modernes, basées sur les idéaux du progrès technique et technologique, ont entraîné de véritables dystopies avec l'ascension, en Europe et ailleurs, des régimes idéologiques totalitaires. Peu à peu, la disparition des derniers restes d'une belle époque a cédé la place à une crise morale qui a perturbé les frontières de la liberté - et les limites de l'art, ce qui a conduit les artistes et les intellectuels, y compris Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), à repenser leur rôle dans la société. Dans la production romanesque de Sartre, nous trouvons la trilogie Les chemins de la liberté (1945-1949), dans laquelle nous suivons les événements de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale à partir de la conscience des personnages qui discutent la liberté face à leur situation dans le monde. Paradigmatique pour la littérature engagée, la trilogie sartrienne présente plusieurs des aspects formels préconisés par Sartre dans ses textes théoriques et critiques : en contextualisant le récit pendant toute la guerre, l'idée de « liberté » se retrouve dans les éléments de composition des histoires et dans les dilemmes des personnages, libres de l'omniscience narrative - ce qui oblige le lecteur à créer des hypothèses sur ce que pensent (à partir de la façon dont agissent) les consciences semi-lucides qui interagissent dans l'univers romanesque créé par Sartre. Nous notons donc une relation entre la liberté et la littérature (et son influence réciproque), une relation que nous cherchons à étudier à partir des textes philosophiques, politiques et littéraires de l'auteur, pour montrer comment et pourquoi la pensée sartrienne et sa production romanesque ont influencé et ont été influencés par la liberté (ou plutôt par son manque)
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Heinrich, Hans. "Zur Geschichte des "Libertin" in der englischen Literatur : Verführer auf der Insel /." Heidelberg : C. Winter, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38997426c.
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Wise, Julie M. "The lamp and the ledger Victorian poetry and liberal thought /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3330822.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 22, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-10, Section: A, page: 3965. Adviser: Andrew H. Miller.
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Boyer, Pierre. "Absurde, révolte et liberté : essai sur la pensée d'Albert Camus." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5517.
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Harding, Trina Hansen. "Understanding English Literature and Composition Graduates' Experiences Entering the Workforce Following Graduation." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2021. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8959.
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As college degrees become more common and the cost of these degrees increases, so does the debate about the worthwhileness and value of a college education, and of specific college degrees. One side of the debate uses statistical data about starting salaries and unemployment rates to claim that degrees within the humanities and liberal arts do not provide a good return on investment while the other side claims that a liberal arts education fosters the broad so-called "soft skills†that employers value most. However, both sides of the debate have neglected the perspectives of the graduates themselves, particularly as they transition from the university environment to the workforce. In this exploratory mixed-methods study I sought to understand this transition and English graduates' perceptions of their degree, first through semi-structured interviews with 8 participants who graduated between 2010 and 2019, and then through the responses of 338 graduates from the same time frame who participated in a validation survey used to determine the pervasiveness of the themes identified in the interviews. I learned that, while the initial transition from degree to employment is challenging for many English graduates, most eventually found work that they are satisfied with. Perceptions of the English degree vary over time, but most participants recognized the skills they gained in the English major and appreciate the professional value of these skills, especially later on in their careers. Participants identified some factors, such as networking, prior internship and work experience, and completing a minor that made for a more positive transition to employment. They also pointed to ways that the English department could better prepare students for and support them during this transition including encouraging more applied experiences, helping students recognize their English skills, and better identify and talk about potential career paths open to English majors.
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Reid, Joshua. "Romance of Translation: Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata in the Elizabethan Twilight." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2855.
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The translations of Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata by Richard Carew (1594) and Edward Fairfax (1600) import the hybrid genre of the Italian romance epic into the evolving literary polysystem of the English Renaissance. These two significant translations present an intriguing struggle between fidelity to the source text and freedom, which mirrors the friction between epic and romance at the heart of the Gerusalemme liberata. This friction takes shape most clearly in the treatment of the power dynamics of the crusaders vis-à-vis Godfrey and in the translation of the ‘forma altera’ of Armida. While Carew attempts an ‘epic’ translation conforming to the source text, creating a Gerusalemme conquistata-type of translation, Fairfax submits to the allure of Armida and to the romance of translator errancy. To translate this unique hybrid genre is to encounter translation’s process double; in a fundamental sense, translation is romance, and the romance epic is translation.
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Griffiths, Jane. "'The liberty to speak' : authority in the poetry of John Skelton." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365450.
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Reznick, Scott M. ""TheVision of Principles": Liberal Democracy and the Roots of Moral Experience in Antebellum American Literature." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107958.
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Thesis advisor: James WallaceThesis advisor: Christopher P. Wilson
This dissertation analyzes the way in which antebellum writers participated in and helped shape the tradition of political liberalism. Emphasizing the dynamics of moral deliberation that are central to democratic life, "The Vision of Principles" puts US literature into conversation with moral and political philosophers not routinely encountered in Americanist literary scholarship to reveal how antebellum US writers routinely responded to moments of profound political conflict by interrogating the nature of moral belief itself. By ranging not only between literature, history, and philosophy, but also across literary forms, from gothic, picaresque, and sentimental novels to slave narratives, essays, and political oratory, this dissertation argues that amidst such textual diversity, we nevertheless find a consistent preoccupation with the individual endeavor for perspective-for vision-into the realm of moral value and moral ideas. It traces that concern as writers responded to three important moments of political conflict in the antebellum era: the debates over the ratification of the Constitution, the "nullification" controversy of the 1830s, and the fallout over the "compromise" of 1850. In doing so, it reconsiders the emergence of American Romanticism and argues that the "inward" turn of U.S. literature towards the self during this era was not an evasion of political life, but an imaginative examination of how individuals come to understand the moral ideas and principles at the heart of political existence
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Salisbury, Tonya. "Using globally significant children's literature to increase fourth-grade students' global attitudes and intercultural sensitivity." ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/797.
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It is vital for future generations to clearly grasp what it means to be global citizens in order for them to be successful and for America to maintain its status as a world leader. The purpose of this mixed-method study was to measure and describe the growth of global attitudes and intercultural sensitivity that fourth-grade students acquire through reading and discussing globally significant children's literature which honors and celebrates diversity worldwide, in terms of culture, race, language, religion, and social status. According to Rosenblatt's transactional theory, readers experience aesthetic transactions with the text leading to an understanding of the world around them. The research question involved whether the use of globally significant children's literature created aesthetic transactions and would result in significant changes in fourth-grade students' intercultural sensitivity and global attitudes. Using literature as a catalyst for group discussions and personal responses related to global issues, 23 fourth-grade students participated in a 12-week study. Qualitative data included participants' personal reading response journals and audio taped group literature circle discussions, which were reviewed and coded for evidence of growth in intercultural sensitivity based on Bennett's developmental model of intercultural sensitivity. Two surveys were developed by the researcher to gather quantitative data. A dependent samples, two-tailed, t test at the p < .05 level was used to test the hypothesis that students' global attitudes and intercultural sensitivity would increase after participating in these literature circles. The statistical data gathered showed gains in both areas. It is recommended that teachers at all grade levels utilize globally significant literature and encourage literary exchanges to promote cultural understandings among their students. Developing a mindset of cultural sensitivity in elementary students can have a positive impact on the relationships between individuals and groups representing diverse cultures.
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Djiffack, Andre. "La quête de la liberté chez Mongo Beti, écrivain africain." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22393.
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Mongo Beti, whose real name is Alexander Siyidi Awala, was only 22 years old when he developed his own concept of "freedom". His ideas became public by way of his contribution to the African journal Présence Africaine, published in Paris in the 1950s. Mongo Beti is of the opinion that Africans could enjoy freedom only once independent of their colonial masters. According to Mongo Beti, the colonial masters exploited Africans economically, dominated them politically, and alienated them generally. This work is an analysis of "the quest of freedom by Mongo Beti, an african writer". As regards the approach taken in this work, I will not be following the prevailing mode wherein the author is divorced from his work; rather, I will focus on Mongo Beti as a writer and as an activist. I believe that the knowledge of the life details of an artist can only enrich one's comprehension of his work. The dissertation comprises three parts. The first part focuses on Mongo Beti as a writer and dissident; on his militancy in various organisations such as Amnesty International. It also considers censorship of his works. The second part is a study of Beti's Journal Peuples Noirs - Peuples Africains (PN-PA), a radical Journal with readership and contributors in both France and Africa. PN-PA, owing to its ideological stance, proved a source of irritation to powerful Western nations like France and United States of America. Journals have, traditionally, not been the subject of study in their own right; rather, they were considered a platform for expressing opinions. In this work, I make an attempt to treat PN-PA as an object of study in its own right. The approach is a sociological one. It will enable me to clarify the position of the novelist. The third part of the dissertation analyses Mongo Beti's ten novels, published between 1954 and 1994. The major themes of the novels, namely: the role of missionaries during the colonial period; the conflict between Western and African cultures; analysis of the "myth of Ruben"; and the criticism of dictatorships, are covered in four chapters. It is further argued in part three that there is a clear connection between Beti's writings and the social and political destiny of Africa. The various themes from his works can be divided into four periods: colonial; postcolonial; "the Guillaume" series of novels, and lastly the novel L'Histoire du fou, which indicates a new tendency. The concluding part of the dissertation examines the question of the Institution of African literature, with Beti as a case study. The expression "'Institution of African literature" includes, amongst others, situations whereby African writers are compelled to publish their works outside their native lands, or to rely on foreigners for resources to get their works published. It is argued that such dependence has a marked impact on, among others, the content and accessibility of works by African writers. By focusing on Mongo Beti as an example, it is shown that the activist and the writer are brought together when the question of the Institution of African literature is raised. It is not the purpose of this work to render an apology for Mongo Beti, or to equate him with Francophone Africa or Africa; rather, Beti is merely a case study: an example to illustrate the quest for freedom.
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Niafas, Konstantinos. "Liber Pater and his cult in latin literature until the end of the Augustan period." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1998. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267211.
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Vallée, Jean-François. "Le discours d'un réformiste : les essais de Jacques Godbout dans Liberté de 1959 à 1995." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10251.
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Mapa, Carmela Consejo. "Language, literature and the liberal arts : a study of the University of Asia and the Pacific's language programme." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2003. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10019807/.
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Malan, Adrianne Gardner. "Libertas Reborn: A Legend of Florence and Leigh Hunt's Literary Revival." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1963.pdf.
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Brekaa, Naglaa Ali Ali Saleh. "Liberté de parole, parole de liberté : étude de quelques oeuvres dramatiques d'Albert Camus et de Tawfik Al-Hakim." Thesis, Grenoble, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011GRENL011.
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Cette étude montre comment Albert Camus et Tawfik Al-Hakim, deux dramaturges appartenant à deux cultures différentes, se sont servi, chacun à sa manière, de la parole, pour défendre la liberté dans leurs théâtres. La thèse comprend quatre parties. Partant d'un panorama biographique qui permettra de situer les deux dramaturges dans le contexte social et littéraire de leur temps, nous passerons, dans la deuxième partie, à une analyse du thème de la liberté dans le corpus. A travers une analyse textuelle des pièces traitées, nous découvrirons, dans la troisième partie, comment la parole a été instituée en système de tyrannie. En dénonçant une telle stratégie des régimes totalitaires, les deux dramaturges ont défendu la liberté de parole délibérément écrasée par les tyrans de tous les temps. Nous réfléchirons enfin sur le double jeu de la parole dans les deux théâtres. En y examinant le cas des personnages-prisonniers, nous mettrons en évidence comment la parole peut être aussi bien un moyen de liberté qu'un moyen d'enfermement. Se servir des ressources du théâtre pour être la voix des sans-voix ; plaider en faveur de tous les opprimés sur la terre pour leur rendre la justice et la liberté qu'ils ont perdues, c'est le souci commun de Camus et d'Al-HakimThis study shows how Albert Camus and Tawfik Al-Hakim, two playwrights belonging to two different cultures, used speech, each to his manner, to defend freedom in their theatres. The thesis includes four parties. Starting with a biographical panorama that will allow situating the two playwrights in their social and literary time, we shall pass, in the second party, to an analysis of the theme of the freedom in the corpus. Through a textual analysis of studied plays, we shall discover, in the third party, how speech was instituted in totalitarian systems. By a denouncing such strategy of totalitarian regimes, the two playwrights defended the freedom of speech crushed by the tyrants of all the times. We shall reflect finally on the double set of speech in the two theatres. By examining the case of the figures-prisoners, we shall show how speech can be both a means of freedom that one way of confinement. Use the resources of the theater to be the voice of the voiceless, to plead in favor of all the oppressed on the earth to do them justice and freedom that they have lost, is the common concern of Camus and Al-Hakim
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Chibinda, Peter. "Perec ou la Liberté d'un Bohéme Tentative de Lecture en Dyptique de Quelques Livres de Perec." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1022880295.
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Joyce, Parisa. "Lady Liberty intertextual performances of gender and nation /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1213635875.
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Curley, Patrick Gerard. "William Drennan and the young Samuel Ferguson : liberty, patriotism, and the Union in Ulster poetry between 1778 and 1848." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.317109.
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Gibbs, Jenna Marie. "Performing the temple of liberty slavery, rights, and revolution in transatlantic theatricality (1760s-1830s) /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1554940031&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Berek, Mathias. "David Aberbach: The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State 1789-1939. A Study of Literature and Social Psychology." HATiKVA e.V. – Die Hoffnung Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur Sachsen, 2015. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A34921.
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Kindler, Michael. "Human literacy : liberal neglect in A Statement on English for Australian Schools /." View thesis, 1996. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030902.170901/index.html.
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Hester-Williams, Kim D. "(Re) making freedom : representation and the African American modernist text /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9945691.
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Barrile, Matthew J. "Thinking patria: Figurations of the in Discourses of the Liberal Spanish State, 1859-1906." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1497982796374111.
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Frey, Joshua Caleb. "Courage, Patriotism, Liberty, and Greatness: The political teachings of Shakespeare's Rome." Ashland University Ashbrook Undergraduate Theses / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=auashbrook1493826530278054.
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Sharples, Bridget. "Cultures sans frontères : cultures et résistance; authenticité et liberté. Césaire, Tchicaya, Achebe, Solaar, N'Dour, Makeba et les ouvriers culturels Sud-Africains." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8083.
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Jacobson, Alice. "Planning in higher education : a review of the literature and a proposed system for a state-supported liberal arts college /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1985. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10518228.
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Schillace, Brandy L. "“The Alphabet of Sense”: Rediscovering the Rhetoric of Women’s Intellectual Liberty." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1264189942.
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Ribeiro, Ana Claudia Romano. "Sou do país superior : utopia e alegoria na libertina Terra Austral conhecida (1676), de Gabriel de Foigny : tradução e estudo." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269938.
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Orientador: Carlos Eduardo Ornelas BerrielTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Conteudo: v.1. Estudo ; v.2. Tradução
Resumo: Analisar e traduzir La Terre Australe connue são os objetivos desta tese de doutorado. Segundo "G. de F", narrador do prefácio, La Terre Australe connue é a tradução do relato da viagem de Nicolas Sadeur ao último continente ainda desconhecido no século XVII, chamado nos mapas da época de terra australis incógnita, um lugar aprazível, habitado e totalmente planejado - em todos os seus aspectos - por hermafroditas perfeitamente racionais. Este pseudodocumento é uma utopia literária que foi, em realidade, escrita por Gabriel de Foigny e publicada em Genebra, em 1676, sob falso nome de editor e de cidade. O trabalho está dividido em dois volumes. O volume 1 é dedicado à análise da obra e contém dois capítulos principais. O primeiro trata da definição da utopia como gênero literário partindo do texto paradigmático de Thomas Morus, A Utopia. No segundo capítulo, apresento uma biografia de Gabriel de Foigny, faço uma revisão bibliográfica da crítica já publicada sobre sua utopia para, em seguida, desenvolver minha interpretação da figura do hermafrodita como alegoria da hibridização 1) do poder real absoluto, 2) do Estado absolutista e 3) do panorama religioso francês desta época. Passo em seguida à análise da figura do hermafrodita tal como ela é descrita pelo autor, percebendo que ela se insere na tradição menipéia e luciânica. Na parte seguinte, estudo outros temas relevantes para a compreensão desta utopia: a questão religiosa no capítulo VI ("Da religião dos austrais"), a ciência e a técnica na Terra Austral, o prefácio e o narrador-editor, a temática das línguas e da tradução nesta utopia e, por fim, o libertinismo. Um apêndice é dedicado ao estudo das fontes gregas da utopia. No volume 2 está a tradução para o português, organizada numa edição bilíngue acompanhada de notas.
Abstract: The aim of this doctoral thesis is to analyze and translate La Terre Australe connue. According to "G. de F. ", the narrator of the preface, La Terre Australe connue is the translation of Nicolas Sadeur's voyage account to the last continent still unknown in the 17th Century, called terra australis incognita on the maps of the period, an inhabited place, in all aspects pleasing and totally planned by perfectly rational hermaphrodites. This pseudodocument is a literary Utopia. It was, in fact, written by Gabriel Foigny and published in Geneva in 1676, under a false name of city and editor. The work is divided into two volumes. Volume 1 is dedicated to the analysis of the text and contains two main chapters. The first one deals with the definition of Utopia as a literary genre starting from the paradigmatic text of Thomas More, Utopia. The second brings a biography of Gabriel de Foigny, a review of the published criticism about his Utopia with the purpose of, afterwards, presenting my personal reading of it, based on the figure of the hermaphrodite as an allegory of the hybridization of 1) the absolute royal power, 2) the absolutist state and 3) the religious panorama of 17th Century France. I examine, then, the figure of the hermaphrodite as it is described by the author, observing that it continues the menippean and lucianic tradition. After that, I study other relevant subjects to the understanding of this Utopia: the religious question in Chapter VI ("The religion of the Southern"), science and technology in the Southern Land, the preface and the narrator-editor, the thematics of language and translation in this Utopia and, eventually, the philosophical libertinism. An appendix is devoted to the study of Greek sources of Utopia. In volume 2 we present the Portuguese translation, organized in a bilingual edition, accompanied by notes.
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Historia e Historiografia Literaria
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Gomes, Livia Cristina. "O corpo por fazer: Sade e a equivocidade enunciativa nas três versões de Justine." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-25102017-160314/.
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Estuda-se aqui a escrita do marquês de Sade, sobretudo as três versões de sua personagem virtuosa: Os infortúnios da virtude [Les infortunes de la vertu] (1787), Justine ou as infelicidades da virtude [Justine ou les malheurs de la vertu] (1791) e A Nova Justine ou as infelicidades da virtude [La Nouvelle Justine ou les malheurs de la vertu] (1799). Nelas, investiga-se o modo pelo qual a escrita produz equívocos, campos de ressonância e compossibilidades entre os pares conceituais com os quais trabalha (a saber, virtude/vício; infelicidade/prosperidade; etc). A dramatização dos conceitos e das normas simbólicas que os orientam configura, assim, uma cenografia equívoca, cujo funcionamento consiste em sabotar a univocidade de sentido dos termos que aciona. Essa equivocidade constitutiva da escrita sadiana deixa então em suspenso o próprio posicionamento enunciativo, não se subsumindo à particularização das intenções do Autor e, tampouco a uma determinação unívoca do contexto. Propõe-se, entretanto, singularizar sua indeterminação, ou melhor, a sobredeterminação das torções perspectivas que efetua e os seus equívocos, bem como os reenvios que fabrica e encena em uma rede de enunciações. Para tanto, dramatizam-se aqui dois eixos de análise, nos quais a virtude se faz fundamental: a discussão setecentista sobre a função moralizadora das artes e a política jacobina de Robespierre. Na passagem de uma a outra, é a equivocidade enunciativa de Sade que entrelaça a performatividade do texto literário e a instituição da lei.This thesis aims to study the writing of Marquis de Sade, especially the three versions of his virtuous character: Les infortunes de la vertu (1787), Justine ou les malheurs de la vertu (1791) and La Nouvelle Justine ou les malheurs de la vertu (1799). In them, the object of inquiry is the way that writing produces equivoques, fields of resonance and compossibilities between conceptual pairs in which it works upon (namely, virtue/vice; infelicity/prosperity, etc). The dramatization of the concepts and symbolic norms that guide them sets an equivocal cenography, whose operation consists in sabotage the univocity of the terms\' meanings that it triggers. This constitutive equivocity of the sadian writing leaves suspended the whole enunciative positioning, not subsuming itself to the particularizations of the author\'s intentions, neither to a univocal determination of the context. However, it is proposed to singularize its indetermination, or better put, the overdetermination of the perspective torsions that it performs and its equivoques, as well as the resends that it fabricates and stages in a network of enunciations. Therefore, this thesis dramatizes two axes of analysis, in which the virtue is fundamental: the discussion in the Eighteenth century about the moralizing function of the arts and Robespierre\'s jacobin politics. In the passage from one to another, it is Sade\'s enunciative equivocity that tangles the literary texts\'s performativity and the institution of the law.
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Kindler, Michael, of Western Sydney Nepean University, and Faculty of Education. "Human literacy: liberal neglect in A Statement on English for Australian Schools." THESIS_FE_XXX_Kindler_M.xml, 1996. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/272.
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This thesis critiques A Statement on English for Australian Schools (1994) for what it does, and what it does not, say in respect of literature education. It argues the need to reconceptualise the way literature education is thought to benefit adolescent readers. The initial discussion identifies the issues which are raised in that document. This yields the need to redefine literature education as Human Literacy. It does so on the basis of a theoretical exploration of reader and text. Human Literacy is able to define reader response to show certain orientations which have either been left out, misunderstood or inadequately portrayed in A Statement. This thesis places Human Literacy within real world educational aims of homo economicus as well as homo sapiens sapiens. Such a context recognises liberal and utilitarian value positions, and is able to balance these in a manner which A Statement does not. In placing Human Literacy within educational philosophies of competing models of practice, literature education becomes nested within a more comprehensive understanding of education. Human Literacy provides a way by which educational value of literature is maximised. However, this projects a paradigm shift for A Statement, by identifying a liberal neglect through flawed assumptions, omissions, and contradictions. The presence of these in A Statement inhibit literature from working to best advantage. Human Literacy provides a more comprehensive way by which current theory is accommodated within an English curriculumDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Ransome, Elizabeth. "Il Paradosso Dello Spirito Russo: Piero Gobetti and the Genius of Liberal Revolution." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493339.
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This dissertation examines Piero Gobetti’s activity as a student of Russian language and culture, and proposes that it be understood as a formative phase in a larger process of self-construction, through which Gobetti attempted to incarnate the ideal figure of the Genius.
Gobetti, an icon of the Italian antifascist resistance, has long been known to have nurtured a particular interest in Russian culture, but the details of his engagement with Russian language, literature and history have generally been left aside in discussions of his accomplishments, or presented as a response to the October revolution. Examination of Gobetti’s personal library, his published writings and correspondence, and the personal papers and correspondence left by his wife, Ada, reveals that Gobetti’s interest in Russia and Russian culture began before the October revolution, however, sparked by the discovery of literary heroes in whom he could see himself reflected. From these beginnings the dissertation traces the development of Gobetti’s Russian studies through language learning, literary translation and criticism to the historical study of the Russian revolutionary tradition, and proposes that the stages of Gobetti’s pursuit of the Russian spirit were driven by a search for images of genius which contributed, in turn, to a larger process of imaginative self-construction. Viewed in this light, Gobetti’s Russian studies appear integral to his life and work, and open a new perspective on his achievements and his heroic myth.Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Robinson, Emma Louise. "Liberty compromised? : George Orwell, English Law and the Second World War." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7329/.
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This thesis considers George Orwell’s response to the emergency legislation of the Second World War. Considering legal and historical sources alongside his biography and corpus it reassesses the impact of Orwell’s works in the context of his patriotism, Englishness and views on the law. This thesis argues that Orwell’s experiences in Burma and Spain established his expectations – as an Englishman – for the law during a crisis. It juxtaposes Orwell’s pre-war anxiety regarding potentially ‘fascising measures’ to his relative silence when emergency powers were introduced in England, suggesting Orwell tacitly endorsed controversial measures, including internment, in the unique context of the early war. The thesis considers wartime compromises Orwell felt were necessary, noting his complicity in curtailing freedom of speech at the BBC, before his critical voice re-emerged regarding the normalisation of emergency powers. New readings of 'Animal Farm' and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' highlight both their resonance with the English wartime regime and the dangers implicit in emergency legal systems, drawing out Orwell’s concern that eroding English values and legal traditions removed a bulwark against totalitarianism. Given his changing positions concerning individual freedoms this thesis consequently argues for a more nuanced appraisal of Orwell’s reputation as an unwavering defender of civil liberties.
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Kim, Hyangmi. "L'esprit de liberté dans la création poétique de Baudelaire." Villeneuve d'Ascq, France : Presses universitaires du septentrion, 2002. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/49325850.html.
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Ozea, Matthew J. "Thai Literature at the Crossroads of Modernity: Advancing a Critique of Neo-liberal Development through the Writings of Khamsing Srinawk and Chart Korbjitti." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1219337090.
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Elliot, Natalie Janet Forde Steven. "Letters, liberty, and the democratic age in the thought of Alexis de Tocqueville." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12120.
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SILVA, Lívea Pereira Colares da. "Trilha das letras no Pará: o caminho percorrido pela literatura no jornalismo paraense." Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016. http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/8843.
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Este trabalho tem como objetivo entender de que forma os jornais paraenses Folha do Norte (1896 – 1974) e O Liberal (1946 – atual) atuaram na cobertura de temas do universo literário, sejam eles nacionais ou regionais. A partir da Análise de Conteúdo, a pesquisa, de cunho exploratório, envolveu 110 anos de produção jornalística desses periódicos, desde 1896 até 2006, com recortes de dez em dez anos, nos meses de janeiro e julho. Para a análise, foi utilizado um protocolo com categorias relativas à temática literária e ao fazer jornalístico, a fim de possibilitar a captura de dados nas edições a serem analisadas e permitir que se entendesse melhor a atuação dos jornais. A procedência da obra é um dos focos da pesquisa, ao lado dos recursos utilizados pela imprensa para tratar dos assuntos do cotidiano. Foram analisadas 175 edições da Folha do Norte e 189 edições de O Liberal. O levantamento deu origem a um corpus composto por 588 textos jornalísticos sobre literatura, sendo 201 publicados pela Folha do Norte e 387 por O Liberal. Esses textos passaram por um processo de codificação a partir da aplicação do protocolo. Logo após, os dados gerados foram interpretados e contextualizados, tendo como base o histórico dos períodos analisados. Os contextos foram compreendidos a partir dos estudos realizados por autores como Geraldo Mártires Coelho e Vicente Salles, no âmbito regional, e Nelson Werneck Sodré e Marialva Barbosa, no panorama nacional. Para interpretar os aspectos ligados ao fazer jornalístico, como a noção de acontecimento e os gêneros utilizados pela imprensa, a pesquisa teve como base os estudos de autores como Adriano Duarte Rodrigues, Jorge Pedro Sousa, Nelson Traquina, Mauro Wolf e José Marques de Melo. A intenção foi compreender o que é pauta e valor-notícia quando se trata de cobrir assuntos literários e perceber como isso se dá, que formatos e gêneros são mais empregados e o que eles dizem a respeito da importância dada à literatura, pela imprensa. A justificativa para este estudo consiste em entender um aspecto da história da imprensa paraense ainda pouco explorado, a sua relação com a literatura ao longo do tempo, tendo em vista a escassa produção acadêmica com abordagem longitudinal, como este mapeamento.
This study wants to understand how the newspapers Folha do Norte (1896 - 1974) and O Liberal (1946 - present) make their journalistic coverage about the nacional and regional literature. The research is a Content Analysis, an exploratory analyze on 110 years of journalistic production of these journals, from 1896 until 2006, with cutouts for ten years, and only in January and July. For the analysis, we used a protocol with the items that will help to understand how the newspapers works. That analysis will observe the origin of the books and the way how journalism acts in the routine. The survey resulted in a corpus of 588 newspaper articles about literature, and 201 published by Folha do Norte and 387 belonging to the Liberal. The protocol resulted in datas, this datas was analyzed by the historical context of the periods studied. These contexts were understood from the studies by authors such as Geraldo Martires Coelho, Vicente Salles, Nelson Werneck Sodre and Marialva Barbosa. To interpret the aspects of the journalism, such as the notion of event and genres used by the press, the research brings the study authors as Adriano Duarte Rodrigues, Jorge Pedro Sousa, Nelson Traquina, Mauro Wolf and José Marques de Melo. The intention is to understand what is the agenda and news-value when it comes to covering literary subjects and understand how this happens, what formats and genres are more used and what they say about the importance given to literature, by the press. The relevance of this study is to understand
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Passaro, Joseph Sebastian. "Raising Italy: National Character and Public Education During the Liberal Era (1876-1888)." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375158712.
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Parrish, Sonya Christine Lawson. "“HAVING THE LIBERTY OF MY MOUTH”: SPEECH ACTS, POLITICAL AGENCY AND THE TROPE OF FEMALE CAPTIVITY IN THE BRITISH ATLANTIC, 1634-1832." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1334298486.
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Batista, Ana Carolina Rosa. "Filosofia da natureza em os 120 dias de Sodoma: uma leitura da estética da destruição em Marquês de Sade." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2018. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/8987.
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Donatien-Alphonse François, the Marquis of Sade is one of the great names of the French libertine literature of the eighteenth century. He was a compulsive writer, being his bibliography characterized between diverse literary genres like novels, short stories, tales, and even theatrical plays. His texts were symptomatic, reflecting the problems and criticisms of his time. Sade criticized the absolutist political model in crisis of the French of the eighteenth century. The interference of religious morality and the Catholic Institution in this period, as well as criticism of a declining aristocracy. All this backed up by a philosophical thought, its philosophy of the nature, of materialistic influence. Sade links philosophical discourses with sexual practices in his texts, where everything is allowed and the imagination knows no bounds. And here, it Will be to the good marquis, this unique spirit, whether in his time or in the history of western thought, that we will look for in the present reflection, taking his work as object – about everything: the novel The 120 Days of Sodom – in order to understand how this author makes use of a destructive aesthetics, protected in the philosophy of nature, to propose a dechristianized social practice. To achieve this objective, contextual discussion of the eighteenth- century France Will be necessary, from Christian religious morality to materialistic philosophy. We Will also talk about the life and work of the marquis, as well as a study of the concept of literature, characterization of the novel, and the language of the grotesque, which is so used by Sade. Finally, we shall come to the analysis of the concept of aesthetics, and to think how Sade Will make of this aesthetic a destructive system, proposing a new social practice, exempt from a religious morality.
Donatien-Alphonse François, o Marquês de Sade é um dos grandes nomes da literatura libertina do século XVIII francês. Foi um escritor compulsivo, sendo sua bibliografia caracterizada entre diversos gêneros literários como romances, contos, novelas, e até mesmo peças teatrais. Seus textos foram sintomáticos, refletindo os problemas e as críticas de seu tempo. Sade criticou o modelo político absolutista em crise do século XVIII francês. A interferência da moral religiosa e da Instituição Católica nesse período, além da crítica a uma aristocracia decadente. Tudo isso respaldado por um pensamento filosófico, sua filosofia da natureza, de influência materialista. Os textos de Sade intercalam discursos filosóficos com práticas sexuais, onde tudo é permitido e a imaginação desconhece limites. E será justamente ao bom marquês, este espírito ímpar, seja em seu próprio tempo, seja na história do pensamento, que pretendemos aqui revisitar e tomar por objeto – tendo por enfoque principal o romance Os 120 dias de Sodoma – para assim, compreendermos como este autor faz uso de uma estética destrutiva, resguardada na filosofia da natureza, para propor uma prática social descristianizada. Para alcançarmos tal objetivo discussões contextuais da França do século XVIII serão necessárias, desde a moral religiosa cristã, até a filosofia materialista. Falaremos também da vida e obra do marquês, além de um estudo do conceito de literatura, caracterização do romance, e a linguagem do grotesco, sendo esta tão utilizada por Sade. Para for fim, chegarmos à análise do conceito de estética, e pensarmos como Sade fará dessa estética um sistema destrutivo, propondo uma nova prática social, isenta de uma moral religiosa.
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Anderson, Daniel Paul Jr. "The Ivory Shtetl: The University and the Postwar Jewish Imagination." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1333727480.
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Kunkel, Aspen R. "Rebecca Rush and challenging ideals of independence through post-revolutionary women's roles in education, marriage, and motherhood." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594498511&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Elliot, Natalie J. "Letters, Liberty, and the Democratic Age in the Thought of Alexis de Tocqueville." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12120/.
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When Alexis de Tocqueville observed the spread of modern democracy across France, England, and the United States, he saw that democracy would give rise to a new state of letters, and that this new state of letters would influence how democratic citizens and statesmen would understand the new political world. As he reflected on this new intellectual sphere, Tocqueville became concerned that democracy would foster changes in language and thought that would stifle concepts and ideas essential to the preservation of intellectual and political liberty. In an effort to direct, refine, and reshape political thought in democracy, Tocqueville undertook a critique of the democratic state of letters, assessing intellectual life and contributing his own ideas and concepts to help citizens and statesmen think more coherently about democratic politics. Here, I analyze Tocqueville's critique and offer an account of his effort to reshape democratic political thought. I show that through his analyses of the role of intellectuals in democratic regimes, the influence of modern science on democratic public life, the intellectual habits that democracy fosters, and the power of literary works for shaping democratic self-understanding, Tocqueville succeeds in reshaping democratic language and thought in a manner that contributes to the preservation of intellectual and political liberty within the modern democratic world.
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Johnstone, Michael. "Liberty or death : a practical and theoretical exploration of alternatives to free will and determinism in contemporary historical fiction." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2011. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/2009/.
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The thesis combines creative and critical work integrated into a single text. The text is presented as the work of a PhD student whose project has been supervised by the disillusioned Professor Thrib. The student plans to write the fictionalised biography of Elsie Stewart, a working class Belfast woman whose life intersected with the defining dramas of twentieth century history. His research diary describes how he and his translator, Lempi, began to reconstruct Elsie's life from archive sources scattered across Europe, and his early output is literary prose of the sort one would expect to find in a historical novel. However, Professor Thrib has built his career on an eccentric form of post-structuralism, and pushed to breaking point by the bureaucracy and double-speak of the university, Thrib demands his student desists from using personal pronouns or any other grammatical structures that imply originative action. As the conclusion of Elsie's story is told in increasingly bizarre fragments, the student looks for answers through close readings of recent historical fictions (In Country, Libra, Midnight's Children, The Passion, Philadelphia Fire, Possession, Star Turn, and Waterland), in the theories of selected modern philosophers (Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, and Baudrillard), and in the eccentric publications of Professor Thrib and other imaginary academics. Unable to account for human agency theoretically, he seeks a new writing that effaces the subject as originator of action; at the same time, however, he obsesses over the human drives of emotion, desire, and corporeal experience. As the student struggles with the bureaucracy of the university and his unrequited infatuation with his translator, what emerges is a novel approach to the question of free will and determinism that goes beyond 'death of the subject' literature. Additionally, the thesis uses skills from a range of disciplines including Creative Writing, English Literature, History, Philosophy, and Social Science, and in its interdisciplinary ambition it argues for the value of art and theory in an increasingly mercantile Higher Education sector.