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LIMA, CICERO ANTONIO. "PANORAMA OF WASTE SORTING IN RIO DE JANEIRO CITY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=35696@1.
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O Panorama da Coleta Seletiva de resíduos domiciliares na cidade do Rio de Janeiro apresenta alguns aspectos atuais do Sistema de Coleta Seletiva e das Cooperativas de Catadores, na perspectiva da Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos (PNRS), através de seu instrumento, o Plano Municipal de Gestão Integrada de Resíduos Sólidos (PMGIRS). Baseadas em dados de coleta de resíduos da COMLURB e de outras fontes, foram feitas avaliações de desempenho da coleta seletiva, assim como, a partir de informações, contatos e visitas a alguns participantes do Sistema de Limpeza Urbana do Rio de Janeiro foi feita a avaliação de desempenho da gestão municipal da coleta seletiva e das organizações de catadores de coleta seletiva, utilizando-se de metodologia com indicadores e índices de Sustentabilidade. Apesar do destaque e da visibilidade histórica da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, na questão do Desenvolvimento Sustentável o desempenho da coleta seletiva é muito modesto, se comparado com o de outras cidades brasileiras. Embora haja inúmeros instrumentos legais e estratégias, na prática este serviço não está devidamente implantado na Cidade, apesar do reconhecimento da sua importância.<br>The general objective of this dissertation, as a panorama of waste sorting of household waste, is to present the legal compliance of the City of Rio de Janeiro with the guidelines, targets and first results of the Municipal Solid Waste Management Plan (PMGIRS 2013-2016) and (PMGIRS 2017-2020). Then, through the use of indicators of waste sorting of household waste in the City of Rio de Janeiro, to present a performance evaluation of waste sorting of household waste from the city of Rio de Janeiro, from 2014 to 2016. As a specific objective of the panorama is to make an evaluation of the management of waste sorting as well as organizations of waste sorting collectors, based on data, information and observations of qualitative research, through unstructured interviews and visits to stakeholders and companies, applying indicators and sustainability indexes for the management of waste sorting and waste scavengers organizations.
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TAVEIRA, CARLOS VINICIUS DA SILVA. "IN SEARCH OF A NEM MIRAGE: LITERARY PANORAMA IN BRAZIL IN THE 1870S." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=21423@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>Esta dissertação busca realizar uma análise do romance os retirantes de Jose do Patrocinio tendo com critério principal a relação entre cultura e literatura em um contexto de transição da ideia de realidade. A obra foi publicada em 1879 em forma de de folhetim no jornal gazeta de noticias e teve com inspiração uma cobertura jornalistica realizada por Patrocinio da seca que atingiu a província do Ceara no ano de 1878. Dito isto, argumenta-se como o autor cira uma narrativa incorporando elementos históricos e imaginários em uma ora de ficção que apresenta traços remanescentes do romantismo, mas que também apresenta inovações em aspectos com da representação da natureza e na construção dos personagens.<br>This dissertation searchs to carry through an analisys of the romance Os retirantes of Jose do Patrocinio having as main criterion the relation between culture and literature in a context of transition of the reality idea. The workmanship was published in 1879 in serial form in the periodical gazeta the noticias and had as inspiration a journalistic covering carried thought by Patrocinio of dries that it reached the province of the Ceara in the year of 1878. Said this, it is argued as the author creates incorporating historical and imaginary elements in a fiction workmanship that presents traces of the romantismo, but that also it presents innovations in aspects as of the represantation of the nature and in the construction of the personages.
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Jones, Megan Elizabeth. "Constructing the city : literary representations of Johannesburg, 1921-2006." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608486.
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Chan, Carolyn Wei Ji. "Literary topos and topography the city as symbol in Kafka." Göttingen Sierke, 2008. http://d-nb.info/99447587X/04.
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Melodia, Festa Beatrice <1990>. "Walking the Walk: How Literary Walkers sketched New York City History." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/7182.
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Questa tesi ha lo scopo di analizzare la figura del flaneur Americano e la sua evoluzione nella città di New York. Inizieremo concentrandoci sul concetto di camminare urbano. Procederemo analizzando poi l'origine del flaneur letterario attraverso il paragone dei principali fondatori del termine: Baudelaire e Benjamin. Una volta chiarito il contesto e le origini del concetto di camminare urbano, porteremo alla luce le caratteristiche dell'atto di camminare a New York ripercorrendo così i passaggi che hanno portato il flaneur Americano sino ai nostri giorni. Considereremo brevemente esempi letterari di camminatori nella città di New York, analizzando l'evoluzione del camminare urbano ed i suoi cambiamenti. Arriveremo così all'obiettivo principale di questa tesi, paragonando ed analizzando quattro romanzi ambientati nella città di New York che rappresentano la figura del flaneur, passando dalla sua origine letteraria, il 1800, al periodo contemporaneo, a seguito dell'11 Settembre.La contrapposizione di diversi periodi storici ci permetterà di tracciare i cambiamenti del flaneur Americano dimostrando quindi che questa figura letteraria varia a seconda del tempo, degli eventi e del paesaggio. Concluderemo dimostrando che il flaneur Americano cambia attraverso il tempo e che la sua evoluzione è profondamente influenzata dalle conseguenze sociali in cui viene a formarsi. Così facendo, la figura del camminatore urbano è in grado di influenzare e ricostruire la storia della città di New York.
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Pizzi, Katia. "A city in search of an author : the literary identity of Trieste." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.627499.
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Docherty, Paul J. "Developing literary Glasgow : towards a strategy for a reading, writing and publishing city." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/28083.
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Since the 1990s, urban cultural policy in the UK has been bound to the cause of urban regeneration. Much has been written in examination and critique of this relationship, but what happens when the direction of strategic attention is reversed and civic leadership seeks to regenerate culture itself? The city of Glasgow, having made capital of culture over many decades, has moved towards a strategy for the development of literary Glasgow. This thesis documents a search for those factors crucial to that strategy. The research focuses on literary Glasgow as one aspect of the city’s cultural sector; identifies and examines gaps in the relationship between the civic cultural organisation and literary communities; and highlights those elements vital to the formation of a strategy for development of the literary in Glasgow. An extended period of participatory ethnographic research within the Aye Write! book festival and Sunny Govan Community Radio, is supplemented with data from interviews conducted across the literary sector and analysis of organisational documentation. Through these a gap has been identified between the policies and operations of a civic cultural organisation, and the desires of those engaged within the literary community. This gap is caused, in part, by the lack of a mechanism with which to reconcile contrasting narratives about the cultural essence of the city, or to negotiate the variations in definitions of value in relation to cultural engagement. The interdisciplinary approach builds upon insights from existing work within publishing studies, cultural policy, complexity theory and organisational studies to construct an understanding of the dynamics of Glasgow’s literary sector. This reveals the need for a framework in support of a landscape of practice, a desire for the placement of boundary objects to facilitate engagement, and the significance of value in relation to participation in literary activity. This work informs a strategy for literary Glasgow and contributes to conversations on strategies for cultural development in other cities.
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Nagy, Krisztina. "Cultural and literary geographies of the city in the fiction of Martin Amis." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/4d2a1b36-5d8b-44e9-8308-bdca3d4e7e26.
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Day, Leanne M. "Civilising the City: Literary Societies and Clubs in Brisbane during the 1880s and 1890s." Thesis, Griffith University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365426.
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The central argument of this thesis is that, for all their differences of membership, affiliation, and program, the various literary organisations formed in Brisbane in the 1880s and 1890s variously contributed to the definition, creation and promotion of what we would now call 'civility' in a colonial society that was widely perceived, even by its own inhabitants, as raw, rude and 'un-civil'.<br>Thesis (PhD Doctorate)<br>Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>School of Arts, Media and Culture<br>Arts, Education and Law<br>Full Text
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Visser, Robin Lynne. "The urban subject in the literary imagination of twentieth century China." online access from Digital dissertation consortium access full-text, 2000. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9985970.
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Granville, Scott. "Mapping the Geographical and Literary Boundaries of Los Angeles: A Real and Imagined City." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2359.
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In Los Angeles, the influence of Hollywood and the film industry, combined with a non-stop barrage of media images, has blurred the line between the real and imaged. The literature reveals a city exploding with cultural, racial and social differences, making Los Angeles a confusing and alienating place. The literature of Los Angeles reflects the changing face of the city. Los Angeles was always a city with a promising future, economic booms and optimism seemed to suggest that here was a place where the American Dream really could come true. Thousands travelled west in search of sunshine, oranges and a life that formerly, they could only dream of having. Yet, the literature of Los Angeles has highlighted the city's actual history together with a realization of undercurrents of violence, prejudice, depression and shattered dreams. The past, present and future is used to reveal a city that is in stark opposition to the Los Angeles, waves of immigrants came to find. This thesis explores the idea of the dreamer coming west to Los Angeles within the literature and the variety of ways in the travellers' romantic notions of Los Angeles as a city of promise, is betrayed, leaving a desperate people in its wake. The literature shows that beneath the shiny surface of a city founded on sunshine and prosperity, corruption reached all levels of society and the 'mean streets' abound. Later, influenced by an overwhelming feeling of powerlessness caused by Post-war nuclear depression, McCarthyism, loss of identity, and living in a city fragmented by racial tension and an ever growing gap between the very rich and the very poor, the literature of Los Angeles reflects not only the fears of that city, but of American society as a whole. The collision of technology, rapid progression and population explosion turned Los Angeles into a disconnected city, where the real and imagined merge in a cityscape that demonstrates a conflicting combination of historical replication, original design and movie-set inspiration. Nothing is ever what it appears to be in Los Angeles.
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Smith, Jared. "Beyond the inferno : literary representations of New York City before and after 9/11." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14270.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-82).<br>From its founding, New York City has served as the gateway to the New World and, as such, has been the impetus behind the American Dream. As the city grew in size and importance, though, so the levels of antagonism rose among its inhabitants, for, like any large-scale urban environment, it was filled with what Georg Simmel labels 'overwhelming social forces' (1950:410). These forces became even more relevant within the context of what Fredric Jameson calls the 'postmodern hyperspace' (1984:83) of urban society which emerged during the latter half of the twentieth century. Thus, by focusing on the real-world example of New York, this dissertation examines how the dialectical negotiation between a postmodern city's form and its function has a profound impact on the identities of that city's inhabitants, producing alienating and antagonistic experiences of city life which, in turn, places increasing pressure on both the conception and perception of an individual's status within the boundaries of that cityscape. The terrorist attacks that occurred on 11 September 2001 functioned as yet another overwhelming force that greatly affected New York's inhabitants. The dedicated media coverage of the event effectively burned the image of a 'wounded' New York into people minds. This emotional imprinting occurred not only because of the horrifying destruction wrought upon the city, leading to the loss of the spectacle that was the World Trade Centre, but also because of the change that this destruction brought about in the mindset of everyone who watched those buildings fall, leading to the establishment of a 'before' and 'after' dialectic. Two literary texts that highlight this dialectic were chosen to provide the basis of this dissertation's analysis. These are Salman Rushdie's Fury (2001) and Don DeLillo's Falling Man (2007). Written and set in 2000, Fury provides an insightful and provocative account of life in New York at the turn of the twenty-first century and, through a retrospective reading of this novel, one can identify its prescience in depicting a New York in which the escalating antagonism, both within and without the city, seems to herald impending disaster. Indeed, that disaster was the 9/11 attacks, which Falling Man takes as its subject, providing individualised, albeit 3 fictional, accounts of the trauma that was experienced by those who were in the towers and their families, as well as those who witnessed it. By offering an analysis of Rushdie and DeLillo's narrative strategies in these novels, specifically in light of Michel Foucault's theory of the heterotopia, Italo Calvino's conception of the 'infernal city' in his Invisible Cities (1974), and the work of key 9/11 theorists this dissertation will plot the trajectory of the 'before' and 'after' dialectic in order to ascertain how effectively these novels function as (re)presentations of the real-world city of New York.
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Santos, Suely Maria Bispo dos. "A importância da obra de Solano Trindade no panorama da literatura brasileira: uma reflexão sobre o processo de seleção e exclusão canônicos." Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2012. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/6462.
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Previous issue date: 2012-03-30<br>Esta dissertação se propõe investigar um estranho silenciamento e desconhecimento em torno do nome e da obra de Solano Trindade, um dos nomes pioneiros e mais representativos da literatura afro-brasileira. A discussão acerca da emergência de uma literatura negra no Brasil, a partir da necessidade de dar voz e visibilidade a muitos escritores ignorados pelos setores dominantes são questões relevantes apontadas e analisadas ao longo de todo o trabalho. Além de conhecer e analisar a vida e a obra de Solano Trindade, este projeto ainda propõe uma reflexão sobre o processo de seleção e de exclusão dos diversos grupos sociais, étnicos e sexuais do cânone literário<br>This research investigates the silence and lack of acknowledgement surrounding the name and work of Solano Trindade, one of the pioneers and most important representatives of Afro-Brazilian literature. The discussions on the appearance of Black literature in Brazil, stemming from the need to give voice and visibility to the many writers ignored by dominating sectors, are relevant issues identified and analyzed throughout this study. The present project not only aims to better understand and perceive the life and work of Solano Trindade, but also reflects on the process of selection and exclusion of diverse social, ethnic and sexual groups defined by the literary canon
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Neculai, Catalina. "'Some fanatical New York promoting' : literary economies of urban regime transformation in New York City, 1970s-1980s." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2733/.
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The project is an inter-disciplinary intervention into a field that may be largely called New York Studies or, more explicitly, the uses of urban, human and cultural geography for a cultural-materialist history of New York between the fiscal crisis years of the mid-1970s through to the Market Crash of October 1987. My concern is to offer a critique of urban regime transformation in New York, the kind of private-public coalitions taking shape in response to the advent and consolidation of the FIRE (finance, insurance and real estate) industries and their socio-spatial implications, through the lenses of cultural production. I am interested in the ways in which representation - the literary, the cinematic (more sparsely and tangentially), the documented and the archival in an analytically productive conjunction - encodes and arbitrates the changes in the production of urban space in New York City. Thus, the project underlines the heightened significance of literary economies for understanding the experiential structures of urban transformation in 1970s and 1980s New York. Driven by the belief that written culture, just like visual art, may prefigure and telescope urban change, a handful of New York writers dared to tread (both literally and symbolically) where the sociologist, the urban geographer or the documenter does so by professional default, and thus engaged head-on with the hard city of socio-economic networks. This kind of ‘urbanisation of [literary] consciousness’ calls for refreshed modes of enquiry, proposed in Chapter 1, at which point fetishist and aestheticist constructions of the city in the postmodernist key become inadequate, insufficient and politically ineffectual interpretative strategies. The following three-fold case study analysis of counterculture and the underground economy, of homesteading and ‘low rent’ fiction, of the finance industry, publishing and ‘financial writing’ may offer radical opportunities for revisiting both the space of representation and the represented space of urban decline and growth through a geocultural reading for the unevenness of urban space.
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Peterle, Giada. "Enacting Literary Geographies: Urban Narratives from Space Representation to Spatial Practices." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3425306.
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This work aims to address the emerging field of geohumanities, with particular attention to the approaches and methodologies developed in the field of literary geography. The six chapters focus on different urban contexts (North-eastern Italy's polinucleated city, international metropolises such as New York and Berlin, the Po Delta region) and disparate literary works and genres (novels, short stories collections, graphic novels and comic books) to analyse the representation and experience of contemporary urban life from a mobile geocritical perspective. Particular attention is paid to the narrative representation of urban practices, as well as to the exploration of interdisciplinary research methods informed by both urban/cultural geography and literary theory and criticism.<br>Il lavoro si rivolge all'ambito delle geohumanities, facendo particolare riferimento agli approcci e alle metodologie della geografia letteraria. I sei capitoli si concentrano su diversi contesti urbani (la città polinucleare del Nord est, metropoli internazionali come New York e Berlino, il delta del Po) e su opere letterarie appartenenti a generi letterari differenti (romanzi, raccolte di racconti, graphic novel) per analizzare la rappresentazione e l'esperienza urbana contemporanea da una prospettiva geocritica mobile. Particolare attenzione è quindi rivolta alla raffigurazione narrativa delle pratiche urbane, ma anche all'esplorazione di metodi di ricerca interdisciplinari tra geografia urbana e culturale e teoria e critica letteraria.
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Xia, Si. "Hong Kong in chinese literary sources : perceptions of urban history of daily life, 1945-1949." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2585599.
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Taunton, Matthew William. "Envisioning the city, envisioning the home: Literary and filmic representations of mass housing in nineteenth and twentieth century London and Paris." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500316.
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Duda, Cynthia M. "The city, the girls, the composer--the phenomenon influences on the performance of Vivaldi's bassoon concertos at the Ospedale della Pietà /." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1249490783.
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Thesis (M.Mus.)--University of Akron, School of Music, 2009.<br>"August, 2009." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 11/11/2009) Advisor, Brooks A. Toliver; Faculty Reader, Galen S. Karriker; School Director, William K. Guegold; Dean of the College, James M. Lynn; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.
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Krol, Natalie Isabel. "Islands within the Island : the implications of Islandness, the literary city and the dialectics of identity and exile in post-Soviet Cuban narrative." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610136.
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Holliday, Penny. "The shifting city : a study of contemporary fictional representations Of Melbourne's inner and outer suburban spaces." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/103101/4/Penelope_Holliday_Thesis.pdf.
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This project explores the complexity of Melbourne’s inner and outer suburban spaces as portrayed within contemporary Melbourne fiction. The study is a textual analysis of the works of several Melbourne writers whose writings feature their city’s suburbs as significant sites in the exploration of the relationship between identity and place. I argue that Melbourne, as a city of suburbs, is a paradigm worthy of writerly and critical attention. The fictional texts are Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap (2008), Sonya Hartnett’s Butterfly (2009), Steven Carroll’s novel The Time We Have Taken (2007) and Wayne Macauley’s novel Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe (2004).
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Engstrand, Cecilia. "Can chick-lit be canonical? : a feminist reading och Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Candace Bushnell's Sex and the city." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-6197.
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By using Austen’s and Bushnell’s two novels as my primary sources I hope to find out whether what has been seen as typically female themes, plots and settings are perceived as less important from a canonical viewpoint. Do the terms “chick-lit” and “women’s literature” determine the status of a novel? I hope to find out what made Austen an esteemed writer and if the same criteria of evaluation can be applied to Bushnell. Are there any similarities between today’ most famous “chick-lit” author who gained her fame by writing about women and their sex lives in an unromantic and shocking fashion, and a pre-Victorian author whose works are part of the literary canon?
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Rosa, Vanda Cristina Antunes dos Santos Fernandes. "A cidade de Lisboa no jornalismo literário de Fialho de Almeida." Doctoral thesis, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19107.
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Tese de Doutoramento em Ciências da Comunicação<br>O século XIX foi um período de grandes mudanças no mundo. A Revolução Industrial trouxe aspetos positivos ao jornalismo devido à introdução de novas tecnologias que permitiram baixar os custos de produção e acelerar a transmissão de informação entre jornalistas / repórteres e a redação dos periódicos. Por outro lado, o desenvolvimento industrial acarretou consigo transformações sociais profundas, fruto da enorme afluência de pessoas aos centros industriais em que se tornaram algumas cidades. Urbes repletas de seres vistos como decadentes moralmente, que sobrevivem em espaços físicos também eles decadentes, são objeto de estudo de investigadores sociais, entre os quais jornalistas literários, homens que penetraram nos espaços mais recônditos das cidades e transmitiram as suas impressões sobre o que observavam.
Fialho de Almeida escreveu apenas sobre a cidade de Lisboa, espaço que começou a desbravar desde os tempos da sua adolescência. As suas experiências pessoais e o interesse pelos locais ‘outros’ da capital portuguesa levam-no a descrever as habitações, as pessoas, os hábitos e a fornecer sugestões de resolução dos problemas.
Partindo da imagem da cidade que Fialho de Almeida nos deixou nos seus textos de jornalismo literário, é pertinente a comparação com a imagem que outros jornalistas literários seus contemporâneos veicularam sobre Lisboa, mas igualmente sobre Londres ou Paris, com o objetivo de mostrar as semelhanças encontradas por vários jornalistas literários contemporâneos relativamente a Lisboa, Londres e Paris.
Não tendo sido Fialho de Almeida um autor consensual ao longo dos seus anos de escrita, este trabalho incide sobre o jornalismo literário, uma disciplina das Ciências da Comunicação também ela geradora de diferentes opiniões relativamente ao seu balizamento: se no campo do jornalismo, se no campo da literatura.<br>The nineteenth century was a period of great changes in the world. The Industrial Revolution brought positive aspects to journalism due to the introduction of new technologies that allowed lowering the costs of production and increasing the speed of the transmission of information between journalists / reporters and the newspapers’ redaction. On the other hand, the industrial development boosted deep social transformations, caused by the huge affluence of people to cities that had become industrial centres. Metropolises filled with morally decadent beings who survive in also decadent physical spaces are studied by social researchers, among whom literary journalists, men who entered the most hidden spaces of the cities and transmitted their impressions on what they observed.
Fialho de Almeida wrote only about the city of Lisbon, a space that he started to know since he was a teenager. His personal experiences and his interest in ‘other’ places of the Portuguese capital make him describe the houses, the people and the habits and give suggestions for the resolution of problems.
Having as the starting point the image of the city given by Fialho de Almeida in his texts of literary journalism, it is important to make the comparison with the image that other Portuguese literary journalists of the late nineteenth century provided about Lisbon, but also about London or Paris, with the aim of showing the similarities that some contemporary literary journalists found about Lisbon, London and Paris.
Fialho de Almeida was not a consensual author and this work is equally about literary journalism, a subject of Communication Sciences that creates several opinions on its edges: whether it belongs to journalism or to literature.<br>N/A
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Le, Naour Nelly. "(D)écrire La Havane : les représentations de la ville dans la littérature cubaine de fiction (XIXe-XXIe siècles)." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014CERG0725/document.
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Cette étude a pour ambition d'analyser les descriptions littéraires de La Havane dans la diachronie. Il s'agit d'appréhender la ville comme une entité narrative à part entière, dans les nouvelles et les romans cubains du XIXème siècle à nos jours. Occupant une place privilégiée dans la littérature nationale, la capitale cubaine s'est chargée de représentations et de fonctions multiples qui ont évolué au fil des décennies, variant selon les points de vue esthétiques ou les partis pris descriptifs. Notre projet consiste à mettre en évidence les différentes manières d'appréhender l'espace urbain dans notre corpus mais aussi d'établir des ponts entre les époques pour ainsi faire dialoguer les œuvres entre elles. En étudiant les caractéristiques de La Havane littérarisée, nous prétendons assembler les différentes pièces d'un puzzle encore en construction afin de dresser le portrait kaléidoscopique d'une ville devenue espace littéraire. Envisagée comme un cadre référentiel renvoyant à une réalité géographique et socio-historique précise, la cité mise en fiction est aussi un espace symbolique fortement connoté. En tant qu'objet d'écriture, elle est également un espace poétique qui, en se détachant complètement de son référent réel, fait naître de multiples imaginaires urbains<br>The object of this study is to present a diachronic analysis of the descriptions of Havana in Cuban literature. We have defined the city's status as a narrative object among Cuban novels and short stories from the 19th century to the present day. Central to the national literature, the Cuban capital city had gradually been endowed with multiple functions and representations, which vary depending on the aesthetic viewpoints or descriptive stances adopted by different authors. Our project consists not only in analysing the ever-changing physiognomy of this particular urban landscape within the scope of our corpus, but also in drawing bridges between different eras in order to outline the dialectic dynamics which exist between these stories. By paying close attention to the characteristics of literary Havana, we have begun assembling the pieces of a puzzle that is still in the making, thus reflecting the kaleidoscopic image of a city which has become a literary landscape. Used as the frame of reference for a precise geographical and socio-historical reality, the Havana of Cuban fictions also bears a strong and complex symbolic quality. As the object of these writings, it is also a poetic space which, by detaching itself from its actual referent, creates a multiplicity of imaginary urban landscapes
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Souza, Vanusa de. "Sequência Expandida em Leitura Literária na construção das cidades de Porto Alegre e Cascavel Da ficção à realidade." Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Parana, 2016. http://tede.unioeste.br:8080/tede/handle/tede/954.
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Previous issue date: 2016-11-09<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>This dissertation presents a Pedagogical Intervention Project, implemented in the 9th grade of elementary school , a public school in Cascavel City, Paraná. It was used the theoretical assumptions of Rildo Cosson were used on the Expanded Sequence, in which we reflect on the spatial configuration in the book "Mistérios de Porto Alegre" by Moacyr Scliar (2004) and contributed to the perception of the building symbolic place where students / readers live. Regarding to the methodology were outlined the proposals by Michel Thiollent in Action Research, applied to Literary Reading practices in school settings. This study considers the city and its spatial configuration and to analyze them, elaborations by Michel de Certeau, Sandra Jatahy Pesavento, Néstor García Canclini, and others are mentioned because they are considered as the materialization of speech, which is why, under this perspective, it cannot be seen as a reality in itself, but as a process of social production. The power relationships established in this movement of organization, planning and performance in urban space, aimed at construction and reconstruction of places. This dynamic, which moves the interactions to which students are immersed, could be studied through the intervention made between the teacher / researcher, teachers / staff, teaching staff, the librarian, the family and the local community with favorable finding, which confirmed the significance of the research<br>Esta dissertação apresenta um Projeto de Intervenção Pedagógica, implementado no 9º ano do Ensino Fundamental II, numa Escola Pública da Cidade de Cascavel, Paraná. Foram utilizados os pressupostos teóricos de Rildo Cosson, acerca da Sequência Expandida, na qual refletimos sobre a configuração espacial na obra ―Mistérios de Porto Alegre‖, de Moacyr Scliar (2004), bem como contribuímos para a percepção da construção simbólica do lugar onde residem os alunos/leitores. No que concerne à metodologia, foram esboçadas as proposições de Michel Thiollent, em Pesquisa-Ação, aplicadas às práticas de Leitura Literária em ambientes escolares. Este estudo considera a cidade e a sua configuração espacial e, para analisá-las, são mencionadas as elaborações de Michel de Certeau, Sandra Jatahy Pesavento, Nestor García Canclini, entre outros, pois consideram-nas como a materialização de discursos, razão pela qual, sob tal perspectiva, elas não podem ser vistas como uma realidade em si mesmas, mas como um processo de produção social. As relações de poder estabelecidas nesse movimento de organização, planejamento e atuação no espaço urbano visam à construção e reconstrução dos lugares. Essa dinâmica, que move as interações, nas quais os alunos estão imersos, pôde ser estudada por meio da intervenção efetuada entre a professora/pesquisadora, os professores/colaboradores, a equipe pedagógica, a bibliotecária, os familiares e a comunidade local, com constatação favorável, que confirmou a significação da pesquisa
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Trpělková, Lena. "Radnice Brno – Sever." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-216143.
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The building site is situated on the interesection of Třída Genrála Píky and Provazníkova streets in Brno. In the neighboring building there are commercial and administrative spaces. The main crossroad was redesigned to minimize the residual traffic areas. Based on urbanistic study we designed the corner high-rise dominant. We create a point of view at the skyline of Brno. By pushing back the volume we have a small square. Central comunication core allows transparent facade.
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Fazzolari, Davi. "Olhares sobre Lisboa: o \'Livro do desassossego\' e \'O que o turista deve ver\'." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8150/tde-24082007-145007/.
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A cidade de Lisboa, que se lê nas páginas do Livro do Desassossego: composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa, de Fernando Pessoa, confirma-se como criação artística e se faz cidade literária, pelos olhos elaborados por Fernando Pessoa para o seu semi-heterônimo Bernardo Soares. Aproximar essa leitura de Lisboa de outra, também produzida por Fernando Pessoa para o guia de viagem Lisboa: o que o turista deve ver, ou seja, para uma obra de outra natureza que não a literária, permite, em nosso trabalho, uma abordagem estética e antropológica da percepção visual exercitada pelo autor. De um lado, no Livro do Desassossego, a construção de uma estética citadina particular e original a revelar uma cidade conformada pelo contraste espaço habitado e paisagem interior. De outro, um lugar tecido na memória do autor mais próximo do homem aparentemente real, a partir de sua identificação histórica com a cidade.<br>The city of Lisbon depicted in the pages of the Book of Disquiet: composed by Bernardo Soares, keep-book assistant in the city of Lisbon, written by Fernando Pessoa, is confirmed as an artistic creation and it is transformed into a literary city, by the eyes of Fernando Pessoa to his \"semiheteronym\" Bernardo Soares. Comparing this view of Lisbon to another one, also produced for Fernando Pessoa for the traveller\'s guide Lisbon: what the tourist should see - a not literary it -, allows, in our research, an aesthetic and anthropological approach of the visual perception attempted by the author. On one hand, in the Book of Disquiet, the building up of a certain original aesthetic city revealing a city conformed by the contrast inhabited space and interior landscape view. On the other hand, a place woven in the memory of the author, closer to the apparent real man, starting from his historical identification with the city.
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Salomón, Esaúl. "An experiment in visitation a growing church in Hispanic ministry /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p079-0085.
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Bendjeddou, Mohamed Yazid. "Two literary responses to American society in the early modern era : a comparison of selected novels by Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair in relation to their portrayal of the immigrant, the city, the business tycoon, women, and the problem of labour, 1900-1929." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1985. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3845/.
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This thesis analyses the responses of Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair to American society in the early modern era through their treatment of the immigrant, the city, the business tycoon, women, and the labour problem. The role of Dreiser and Sinclair as critics of American society has often been dealt with and highly praised. Although the thesis also discusses this particular aspect, its main purpose lies with the comparison of Dreiser's and Sinclair's ideological and literary responses to these socio-economic issues. The study starts with an account of the literary climate of the time. It shows that American literature at the close of the nineteenth century and in the early beginning of the twentieth century stems from the socio-economic and political unrest of the Gilded Age. American writers demonstrated an increasing concern with the evil consequences of the new technological development and felt it was their duty to record the prevailing conditions and express their reactions. They used the realist technique to describe things as they were and adopted naturalism to give a scientific study of their society. As a mirror of American society at the outset of the twentieth century, American fiction reflected the unrest and contradictions of this period and gave a clearer insight into the inner responses of American writers to the new order. It revealed that in spite of a general feeling of anxiety and disillusionment among American writers, individual reactions against the current events were diverse. They varied from an attitude of resignation and pessimistic speculations about America's future to an active desire to break rising capitalism and to reform American society. This analysis of Dreiser's and Sinclair's responses to some of the problems of America has been placed to a large extent in this divided socio-economic and literary climate. Thus while the comparison shows the two writers' strong indictment of American society, it also shows two distinct ideological and literary responses to its upheavals. Then the main body of the study divides into six chapters. Chapter one compares the socio-political and literary views of Dreiser and Sinclair and gives, thus, an idea about the spirit with which they treated their subject matter and the course of their literary works. This chapter also deals with the relationship between Dreiser and Sinclair in an attempt to find traces of a debate between the two writers on the socio-economic and literary situations in America. The following chapters focus on Dreiser's and Sinclair's treatment of the immigrant, the city, the business tycoon, women, and the labour problem. Each of these chapters starts with a brief historical account of the subject of study as a background to the fiction. Then it shows Dreiser's and Sinclair's respective concern with, and experience of, the problem, and moves onto the analysis of their literary treatment of it. The aim of this thesis has been to show that no matter what their artistic, ideological, and philosophical beliefs, American writers in the years of unrest which followed the large-scale industrialisation in their country, were called to assume their social responsibilities and contribute to the cause of social improvement.
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Noguchi, Yu. "La vuelta al mundo en 70 años: itinerario de la poética de Julio Cortázar —Arte, fotografía y tecnología urbana—." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672531.
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El objetivo de esta tesis es entender la totalidad de la poética de Julio Cortázar a través del análisis comparatista, y se desarrolla de acuerdo con los siguientes cuatro ejes: 1) la poética romántica, 2) la tecnología, 3) la tendencia nostálgica de la postguerra,
4) el compromiso político y la Segunda Vanguardia.
En lo que concierne al primer eje, se lleva a cabo una revisión del Romanticismo literario a partir de la labor de varios críticos, entre los que destaca Paul de Man. En particular, se analizan tres poemas de Cortázar explícitamente inspirados en «Oda a una urna griega» de Keats, que muestran las características de la experiencia romántica ante el deseo de eternizarse. En cuanto al segundo eje, se centra en el cambio paradigmático que causó la fotografía, con la ayuda de los textos de Walter Benjamin y Susan Sontag. También se analiza la tecnología consecutiva de la fotografía: la cinematografía. A continuación, se explora otra vertiente de la experiencia tecnológica: la velocidad frenética, con la que se entusiasmaron los futuristas. Respecto al tercer eje, se analizan la tecnofobia que prevaleció en la postguerra y la nostalgia poética por un estado original, que se puede adjetivar de «pre-apolínea». Desde este punto de vista, se interpretan varios cuentos de Cortázar donde dicha nostalgia se expresa en la forma del delirio dionisíaco. En cuanto al cuarto eje, se propone una hipótesis sobre los motivos que incitan al compromiso político a los artistas adscritos al género fantástico, como Cortázar. Las claves para conectar el arte fantástico y la Revolución son los pensamientos de Freud, Herbert Marcuse y Sartre. Pero esta inclinación hacia la política conlleva un descontento paradójico con la Revolución misma. Por eso, al final del estudio, se analiza el viraje que dio Cortázar hacia la poética suburbana, cuya teoría plantea Bruce Bégout en busca de otra posible Revolución. A este respecto, se exploran las obras de Cortázar sobre el nomadismo suburbano, como Los autonautas de la cosmopista, en relación con el experimento de Robert Smithson.<br>This paper aims to understand Cortázar’s poetics in its totality by means of comparative analysis. The research is developed according to the following four topics: Romantic poetics, technology, the nostalgic tendency of the post-war period, political commitment and the Second Avant-garde.
Regarding the first topic, a revision of the literary Romanticism is carried out from critical works of various critics, like Paul de Man. Specifically, Cortázar’s three poems, which are explicitly inspired by Keats’ «Ode to a Grecian Urn», are read in respect to the Romantic experience of desiring to eternize. With regard to the second topic, the focus is put on the paradigmatic change caused by photography. Walter Benjamin and Susan Sontag’s texts offer some keys in this respect. Photography’s parallel, film, is also analysed. Then, the other side of the technological experience, velocity, about which the Futurists were enthusiastic, is explored. As for the third topic, post-war technophobia and its correlative, poetical nostalgia for the origin, which can be described as «pre-apollonian», are discussed. From this point of view, some of Cortázar’s short stories, which express them as Dionysian delirium, are analysed. As for the fourth topic, a hypothesis is proposed to explain why and how artists of the Fantastic genre like Cortázar committed to politics. The keys to connect Fantastic art to the Revolution are found among the thoughts of Freud, Marcuse and Sartre. This development towards politics implies an inherent paradox however, in that the committed artists feel unsatisfied with the Revolution itself. Finally, the suburban poetics, a theory that Bruce Bégout established, comes into focus in search of other possibility of Revolution. In this respect, Cortázar’s works about suburban nomadism, such as Los autonautas de la cosmopista, are explored in respect to Robert Smithson’s experimental art.
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Gamba, Ana Paula Foloni. "Eça De Queiroz, Leitor de Luciano de Samósata? A presença luciânica nos textos O mandarim, A relíquia e A cidade e as serras /." Assis : [s.n.], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103648.
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Orientador: Rosane Gazolla Alves Feitosa<br>Banca: Suely Fadul Villibor Flory<br>Banca: Jacyntho Lins Brandão<br>Banca: Odil José de Oliveira Filho<br>Banca: Sílvia Maria Azevedo<br>Resumo: A presente tese de doutorado visa a um estudo das obras de Eça de Queiroz O Mandarim, A Relíquia e A Cidade e as Serras e das obras do escritor Luciano de Samósata (sírio helenizado do século II d.C.) com o objetivo de verificar possíveis marcas deste no ideário estético de Eça. A escolha do corpus deve-se ao fato de os supracitados textos queirosianos apresentarem uma estrutura discursiva particular e produzirem certa estranheza no leitor e na crítica, uma vez que diferem do discurso realista-naturalista utilizado por Eça em obras como O Primo Basílio e O Crime do Padre Amaro. Eça de Queiroz criou, como Luciano em suas sátiras, um verdadeiro "hipocentauro", causando no leitor e na crítica, além de estranheza, até mesmo certa dúvida quanto à qualidade estética desses textos, sendo, por isso, considerados obras "menores" e pouco críticas quando comparados às demais obras da fase predominantemente realista-naturalista do escritor. Como base de sustentação teórica deste trabalho, tomam-se, além do estudo de Jacyntho Lins Brandão A Poética do Hipocentauro: literatura, sociedade e discurso ficcional em Luciano de Samósata, textos de estudiosos da obra de Luciano como A. Peretti, E. Bignone, V. Longo, B. McCarthy, B. Baldwin, M. Caster, M. Croiset e outros, bem como textos sobre literatura comparada de autores como Wellek e Warren, T. Carvalhal, E. Coutinho, G. R. Kaiser, S. Nitrini e L. Perrone-Moisés. O capítulo 1 é dedicado a Luciano de Samósata. Nele, são abordadas a vida e a obra do escritor, além da apresentação e diferenciação... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)<br>Abstract: The present PhD doctoral dissertation aims to study the novels of Eça de Queiroz, The Mandarin, The Relic and The City and the Mountains, as well as the works of Luciano de Samósata - Syrian writer from second-century a.C. - with the objective of verifying possible marks of the latter in Eça's aesthethic system. The corpus was chosen due to the fact that Queiroz's pieces present a particular discursive structure and produce some surprise in the reader and the critics, once they differ from the realistic-naturalistic discourse used by Queiroz in novels such as The Cousin Basílio and The Crime of Father Amaro. By adopting for the composition of such works a structure that is based on the unusual junction of apparently incompatible elements such as reality and fantasy, humor and philosophical seriousness, Eça de Queiroz created as Luciano in his satires, a true "hippocentaur", provoking in the reader and the critics, beyond surprise, certain discomfort and even certain doubt about the aesthetic quality of these texts and about his intentions while critical of his time, for they would lack the explicit components of the acrid social criticism by the Portuguese writer, thus being considered minor and less critical novels when compared to others from the predominantly realistic-naturalistic phase of the writer. As basis for theoretical support of this dissertation there had been used, besides the precious study by Professor Jacyntho Lins Brandão - The Poetic of Hippocentaur: literature, society and fictional speech by Luciano de Samósata-, texts from Samósata's novels' researches such as A. Peretti, E. Bignone, V. Longo, B. McCarthy, B. Baldwin, M.Caster, M. Croiset and others... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)<br>Doutor
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Gamba, Ana Paula Foloni [UNESP]. "Eça De Queiroz, Leitor de Luciano de Samósata? A presença luciânica nos textos O mandarim, A relíquia e A cidade e as serras." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103648.
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gamba_apf_dr_assis.pdf: 628179 bytes, checksum: 614a689fe06997476fcebee7a09a82c5 (MD5)<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>A presente tese de doutorado visa a um estudo das obras de Eça de Queiroz O Mandarim, A Relíquia e A Cidade e as Serras e das obras do escritor Luciano de Samósata (sírio helenizado do século II d.C.) com o objetivo de verificar possíveis marcas deste no ideário estético de Eça. A escolha do corpus deve-se ao fato de os supracitados textos queirosianos apresentarem uma estrutura discursiva particular e produzirem certa estranheza no leitor e na crítica, uma vez que diferem do discurso realista-naturalista utilizado por Eça em obras como O Primo Basílio e O Crime do Padre Amaro. Eça de Queiroz criou, como Luciano em suas sátiras, um verdadeiro “hipocentauro”, causando no leitor e na crítica, além de estranheza, até mesmo certa dúvida quanto à qualidade estética desses textos, sendo, por isso, considerados obras menores e pouco críticas quando comparados às demais obras da fase predominantemente realista-naturalista do escritor. Como base de sustentação teórica deste trabalho, tomam-se, além do estudo de Jacyntho Lins Brandão A Poética do Hipocentauro: literatura, sociedade e discurso ficcional em Luciano de Samósata, textos de estudiosos da obra de Luciano como A. Peretti, E. Bignone, V. Longo, B. McCarthy, B. Baldwin, M. Caster, M. Croiset e outros, bem como textos sobre literatura comparada de autores como Wellek e Warren, T. Carvalhal, E. Coutinho, G. R. Kaiser, S. Nitrini e L. Perrone-Moisés. O capítulo 1 é dedicado a Luciano de Samósata. Nele, são abordadas a vida e a obra do escritor, além da apresentação e diferenciação...<br>The present PhD doctoral dissertation aims to study the novels of Eça de Queiroz, The Mandarin, The Relic and The City and the Mountains, as well as the works of Luciano de Samósata – Syrian writer from second-century a.C. – with the objective of verifying possible marks of the latter in Eça’s aesthethic system. The corpus was chosen due to the fact that Queiroz’s pieces present a particular discursive structure and produce some surprise in the reader and the critics, once they differ from the realistic-naturalistic discourse used by Queiroz in novels such as The Cousin Basílio and The Crime of Father Amaro. By adopting for the composition of such works a structure that is based on the unusual junction of apparently incompatible elements such as reality and fantasy, humor and philosophical seriousness, Eça de Queiroz created as Luciano in his satires, a true “hippocentaur”, provoking in the reader and the critics, beyond surprise, certain discomfort and even certain doubt about the aesthetic quality of these texts and about his intentions while critical of his time, for they would lack the explicit components of the acrid social criticism by the Portuguese writer, thus being considered minor and less critical novels when compared to others from the predominantly realistic-naturalistic phase of the writer. As basis for theoretical support of this dissertation there had been used, besides the precious study by Professor Jacyntho Lins Brandão - The Poetic of Hippocentaur: literature, society and fictional speech by Luciano de Samósata-, texts from Samósata’s novels’ researches such as A. Peretti, E. Bignone, V. Longo, B. McCarthy, B. Baldwin, M.Caster, M. Croiset and others... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Potkalitsky, Nicolas J. "Refracted Realism and the Ethical Dominant in Contemporary American Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563283222402333.
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Lundberg, Johanna. "A crítica social em Os Transparentes: A construção daspersonagens de Ondjaki." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Portugisiska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-35760.
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A tese focaliza na construção de personagens do autor angolano Ondjaki no seuromance Os transparentes (2012). Um tema literário importante no romance é a injustiça socialque prevalece na vida das personagens na Luanda fictícia e é fortemente criticado por Ondjaki.O objetivo da tese é discutir como a construção das personagens contribui a realçar a críticasocial no romance. Portanto a construção das personagens ricas e pobres são comparadas, bemcomo a sua contribuição em enfatizar o tema.A tese utiliza teoria da narrativa para investigar a construção das personagens literárias esobretudo um método desenvolvido por James Phelan e Peter J. Rabinowitz, que argumentaque todas as personagens literárias são compostas de três aspetos: mimético, temático esintético. Os três aspetos orientam a análise e formam o quadro metodológico para poderdiscutir a construção de personagens de Ondjaki. Os resultados mostram que a construção depersonagens ajuda a Ondjaki enfatizar a sua crítica social através de manifestar as diferenças entre as classes sociais, realçar os problemas experimentados pela classe baixa e apresentar asconsequências possíveis da injustiça social e as possibilidades para melhorar a situação atual.<br>The thesis focuses on the character construction of Angolan author Ondjaki in hisnovel Os transparentes (2012; Transparent City). An important literary theme in the novel isthe social injustice, which prevails the life of the characters in the fictitious city of Luanda andis heavily criticized by Ondjaki. The objective of the thesis is to discuss how the constructionof the literary characters contributes to highlighting the social critique in the novel. To do sothe construction of the rich and the poor characters are compared, as well as their contributionin asserting the theme.The thesis deploys narrative theory to investigate the construction of the literary characters andespecially a method developed by James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz, which argues that allliterary characters are composed of three aspects: mimetic, thematic and synthetic aspects.These aspects guide the analysis of the characters and are used as a methodological frameworkfor discussing Ondjaki’s character construction. The results show that the construction of thecharacters help Ondjaki to emphasize his social critique by showing class differences,highlighting the problems experienced by the lower classes and presenting potentialconsequences of social injustice as well as the possibilities for improving the current situation.
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Charles-Nicolas, Stéphanie. "Saint-Pierre de la Martinique : géographie littéraire d'une ville coloniale des Antilles françaises. Représentations de la cité créole avant sa destruction le 8 mai 1902 (1635-2012)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA082.
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Lors de l’éruption de la Montagne Pelée, le volcan de l’île de la Martinique, la ville de Saint-Pierre et ses trente mille habitants ont été anéantis par une nuée ardente le 8 mai 1902. Surnommée le « Paris des Antilles », ou encore la « Venise tropicale », la ville incarnait la France aux Amériques, ce qui suggère son statut particulier au sein des colonies françaises à cette époque. L’éclat qu’a eu la ville de Saint-Pierre dans la littérature aurait-il été le même sans l’éruption de la Montagne Pelée ? Notre recherche a pour but de proposer un examen des diverses facettes de la ville de Saint-Pierre à partir de la géographie littéraire, prolongée par les apports de la géopoétique et de la géocritique. La notion de « paysage » chère à Michel Collot, constituera une entrée plus vaste que nous privilégierons dans le champ de l’étude qui nous intéresse, dans la mesure où elle semble combler les lacunes des outils théoriques précédemment cités. Le cadre d’une géographie de la littérature nous sera utile pour étudier le contexte spatial dans lequel sont produites les œuvres. Cet angle d’attaque sera l’occasion de s’interroger sur les particularités dues à l’écriture en contexte postcolonial. Nous entendons le terme « géocritique » au sens large comme étude des représentations de l’espace dans les textes eux-mêmes. Il s’agira alors de tracer les contours d’une ville non pas réelle mais telle que l’auteur l’imagine et telle qu’elle se dessine par le langage. À partir de la géopoétique, nous analyserons les relations entre l’espace et les formes littéraires. Nous comparerons les images proposées par différents écrivains. Nous chercherons à retrouver une certaine image de la ville de Saint-Pierre, selon la vision de différents auteurs<br>During the eruption of Mount Pelee, the volcano on the island of Martinique, the city of Saint-Pierre and its thirty thousand inhabitants were wiped out by a volcanic cloud on May the 8th 1902. Known as "The Paris of the Antilles", or the "tropical Venice", The town personified France to America, suggesting its special status within the French colonies at that time. Would Saint-Pierre’s glow in literature have been the same without the eruption of Mount Pelee? Our research aims to provide a review of various aspects of the city of Saint-Pierre from literary geography, extended by the contributions of geopoetics and Geocriticism for. The concept of "landscape" dear to Michel Collot, will be a larger entry we will focus in the field of study that interests us, insofar as it seems to fill the gaps of the aforementioned theoretical tools. As part of a geography of literature will be useful to study the spatial context in which the works are produced. This angle of attack will be an opportunity to reflect on the peculiarities due to writing in postcolonial context. We understand the term "Geocriticism" broadly to study the representations of space in the texts themselves. It will then trace the outline of a real but not such a city that the author imagines and as it emerges through language. From geopoetics, we analyze the relationship between space and literary forms. We will compare the representations offered by various writers. We will try to find a specific image of the city of Saint-Pierre, according to various authors
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Blair, Paul S. "Figura rerum : 'the pattern of the glory' : the theological contributions of Charles Williams." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6364.
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This thesis seeks to show that Charles Williams makes a significant contribution to theology, and it demonstrates the nature of that contribution. A pattern of theological themes centering on the Incarnation, emphasizing the humanity of Christ, is repeated throughout his works. For Williams, human beings are images of the coinherent Godhead. His theological anthropology further develops through his understanding of imaging, as shown for instance in the Incarnation, and in Dante's characterization of Beatrice as a God bearer. His view of images is built from Coleridge's understanding of the nature of a symbol. This picture of imaging is widely applied, first and foremost to relationships of love, seen as potential incarnate images of grace. Williams seeks to extend his picture to all relationships and, further, to whatever man must do to go beyond himself to an encounter with God. He believes that man is responsible for his brother, in practice by bearing his brother's burdens, with substitutionary acts of vicarious love. A further part of his thinking then views people as living in coinherent relationships, and the universe as a web of coinherent relations. He draws his examples of natural coinherent relations from the world of commerce with its exchange and substitution of labors and from the child living within its mother, and builds a picture of what he calls the City, a broader coinherent society. Coinherence begins and flows from the Trinity and the Incarnation and then is found in relationships between God and man: in the Church, in the future City of God, and in all Creation. The Fall brings about the breakdown of the coinherence of God and man and man and man, and that breakdown is a central characteristic of sin. Williams believes that a regenerated coinherence in Christ brings about a renewal of mankind.
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Dujarric, Florence. "La ville de Rebus : polarités urbaines dans les romans d'Ian Rankin (1987-2007)." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01015364.
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La présente étude analyse les représentations de la ville dans la série policière d'Ian Rankin dont l'inspecteur John Rebus est le protagoniste. La polarité étant l'un des principes organisateurs de l'écriture rankinienne, notre analyse s'articule autour de plusieurs couples de notions antinomiques. Nous remettons d'abord en cause la légitimité de l'antinomie qui oppose la littérature à la " littérature de masse ", dans laquelle est souvent classé le roman policier. Cela nous conduit à redéfinir le roman policier, et mettre en perspective la série dans le contexte du monde littéraire et artistique écossais contemporain. Puis nous étudions l'articulation entre topographie réelle et lieu imaginaire dans l'Edimbourg de Rankin. Toute une géographie urbaine se dessine dans les romans ; l'arpentage incessant de l'espace par le protagoniste fournit l'occasion de références très spécifiques à la topographie et à la toponymie, et la sérialité tisse peu à peu un dense réseau de points nodaux ainsi qu'une multiplicité de trajets potentiels que nous avons représentés par des cartes fournies en annexe. Mais dans d'autres cas, l'espace se fait générique, se réfère plus à des conventions cinématographiques qu'à la carte de la ville. Nous envisageons enfin la ville d'Edimbourg comme un personnage ambivalent dans la lignée des personnages du roman gothique. La filiation gothique est perceptible dans l'esthétique de la ville, et la surface de la carte est compartimentée suivant un ensemble d'axes polarisants. Toutefois, cette carte se déploie elle-même par-dessus un double souterrain et non cartographiable d'Edimbourg, à la fois mémoire et inconscient de la ville.
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Particelli, Brice. "The Spectral City: Walking the Literary Landscapes of New York City." Thesis, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8PC30HW.
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This dissertation focuses on the intersections of theories of place, space, and story. It is part ethnographic, part literary studies, and dives deeply into American history and literature, beginning with the industrial revolution in the 19th Century. It steps into theories and literature surrounding how we story ourselves into the world, focused in large part on the literary archetype that grows from the concept of the flâneur--Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin's urban wanderer who walks both the city streets and art and literature to explore meaning and purpose of city and story, and to fight against a sometimes alienating place. My dissertation expands some of those notions, and explores the ways we expand and investigate our own literary geographies.
Each chapter merges theory and practice in various ways of reading and writing space and story--from a walk across the city and its waterfront where I chronicle the history of the flâneur alongside the history of the economic and physical development of New York City; to a sit in a neighborhood café where I theorize how we layer (or "write") history, personal experience, and literature into familiar places; to a 24-hour ride along the 1-line subway, which becomes an extended metaphor that problematizes "meaning" in literature as I loop through a supposedly static space, barely moving from my seat from 8am to 8am. Each of these investigations intentionally blurs the lines between reading and writing, space and story, and theory and practice, in order to expand theoretical approaches to place and literature.
Through this dissertation I hope to add to the theoretical body of work in studies of place, literature, and urban studies, and to challenge the ways that we discuss literary theory by offering approaches to these discussions in ways that situate them in a different sort of action.
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McNulty, Niall. "Reading the city : analysing literary space in selected postapartheid urban narratives." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3800.
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Space can be read through text. Space is also constructed through text. Literary and critical theory has, however, emphasised time over space. However, space, place and location are crucial determining factors in any literary study. Through reference to theories of construction of place as well as writings on spatial history and the city I will discuss how place is created through text and how the urban environment affects literary production. Using the work of Michel Foucault (1986, 2002) on space and power, Michel de Certeau's approach to cities (2002) and WaIter Benjamin's (2002) theories on space, time and the city, as well as South African theoretical approaches to space and the city, I will attempt an analysis of place in chosen pieces of literature set in the postapartheid city by selected writers. I have chosen to focus on the cities of Durban and Johannesburg, and in particular the innercities, because it is here that major transformation in the use and representation of space has occurred. By looking at selected apartheid and postapartheid texts I will be able to analyse how the representation of literary space has altered with political and socio-economic changes. The time period I will look at primarily will be the postapartheid period. The interdisciplinary nature of this project means I will draw from literary criticism, critical theory, geography, sociology and economic history as well as elements of postcolonial and postmodem theory. The South African city today is a post-city; postcolonial and postapartheid. So too, the texts I have selected are post-texts, postmodem and post-struggle and I will conduct my analysis with this in mind. The concept of 'city' in literature is much more than just buildings and streets. It exists also in social relationships and links between people, both in the city and places outside of the city. The city is a set of social, political and cultural conditions that manifests itself in space and it is this aspect of 'city' which is represented in these texts that I will investigate. Through focusing on the autobiography Man Bitch (2001) by Johan van Wyk together with Never Been At Home (2001) by Zazah P. Khuzwayo and No Way Out (2001) by Zinhle Carol Mdakane all set in Durban, and Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001) by Phaswane Mpe and the short story "Autopsy" (1996) by Ivan Vladislavic set in Johannesburg, I will investigate the representation of urban space in these texts of postapartheid literature. By way of introduction, I will examine relevant selected apartheid texts that deal with the cities of Durban (Lewis Nkosi's novel Mating Birds (1987)) and Johannesburg (selected poems of Mongane Wally Serote) and I will attempt to construct a literary image of the space of these cities under apartheid. A close reading of the texts selected will construct a clear picture of the current (and past) urban space through the medium of literature. It will be seen that major issues affecting South Africa's city inhabitants emerge as themes: AIDS, crime, migration and architectural degradation drive these narratives as does access to once restricted space.<br>Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2005.
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SONG, SU-FENG, and 宋素鳳. "Donald barthelme's city life as a "literary object":a postmodernist reading." Thesis, 1989. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92373247245816463931.
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Kaskar, Amina. "Abandoned pages _ Unsettled space: an urban dialogue created through literary practice in contemporary Doornfontein." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/17871.
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Report submitted to the Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Architecture 2014<br>Architecture is the appreciation for story-telling; fiction and literature, history, culture and conversation. It entails the unfolding of a plot, unfamiliar places and eccentric characters. These do not merely exist on dusty old pages in books but are an integral part of our imagination - our subconscious design. This report explores the role of the architect as the reader; and so, this thesis forms what I have ‘read’ this year.
This thesis aims to interpret literature as a design methodology in order to understand site and develop a suitable architectural language. The process of oral traditions, written text and digitalised technology are used to deconstruct systems and principles that document change in architecture and the city.
This project, The Doorn Paperback Project is located in a contested area set within the in-between yard spaces of New Doornfontein. The unsightly nature of the site gives rise to ephemeral slumming. The cracks that exist within the formal urban fabric are atypically inhabited by the marginalised. These hidden narratives of the people living on the site create new meaning to these abandoned and derelict spaces. The way in which people ‘hack’ the site and use it in ways opposed to what was originally intended forms the reality for which the architecture exists. The architecture needs to ‘tear down’ and ‘dismantle’ formal conditions on the site in order to mediate a space in which ‘life’ can be reinvigorated into the space. Thus the introduction of a literary program responds well to the educational and industrial conditions on the site.
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"Reading the modern city, reading Joyce and Eliot: a study of flânerie in literary representation." 2004. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896374.
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Lau Kin-wai.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-109).<br>Abstracts in English and Chinese.<br>Abstract --- p.ii<br>論文摘要 --- p.iii<br>Acknowledgements --- p.iv<br>Introduction: Reading Joyce and Eliot with Baudelaire in View --- p.1<br>Chapter Chapter One： --- The City in Literary Representation<br>Chapter 1. --- The City and its Streets in a Literary and Cultural Context --- p.8<br>Chapter 2. --- "Writing (about) the Modern City: ""Joycity"" and Eliot's Cities" --- p.15<br>Chapter Chapter Two： --- The City and the Flaneur<br>Chapter 1. --- Origins and Characteristics of the Baudelairean Flaneur --- p.21<br>Chapter 2. --- From Baudelaire to Joyce and Eliot --- p.25<br>Chapter Chapter Three： --- In Search of the Joycean/ Eliotian Flaneur<br>Chapter 1. --- Voices in the City: Personae and Their Perspectives --- p.31<br>Chapter 2. --- Literary Reincarnation and the Tradition of Flanerie --- p.33<br>Chapter a. --- Stephen and Daedalus --- p.35<br>Chapter b. --- Prufrock and Dante --- p.39<br>Chapter c. --- Bloom and Odysseus --- p.43<br>Chapter d. --- Tiresias as Ancient and Modern --- p.46<br>Chapter Chapter Four： --- Flanerie and Two Faces of Unreality of the City<br>Chapter 1. --- Cities as States of Mind --- p.49<br>Chapter a. --- Eliot's Unreal City 1 --- p.50<br>Chapter b. --- Joyce's Unreal Dublin 1 --- p.56<br>Chapter 2. --- Wandering in the City with the Dead --- p.61<br>Chapter a. --- Eliot's Unreal City II --- p.63<br>Chapter b. --- Joyce's Unreal Dublin II --- p.68<br>Chapter Chapter Five: --- Flanerie in a Wider Context of the Society<br>Chapter 1. --- Flanerie as an Asocial Act --- p.72<br>Chapter 2. --- The Flaneur and the Familiar Stranger --- p.82<br>Chapter 3. --- The Erotic as Sociality --- p.85<br>Conclusion： Flanerie and the Emergence of a Critical Vision --- p.95<br>Works Cited --- p.101
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Cheng, Xiaomeng. "Performing the everyday life in ruined city: wife, mistress, and housemaid of a literary celebrity." Thesis, 2018. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/9977.
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This thesis presents a study of “performing the everyday life” in the writer Jia Pingwa’s well-known novel Ruined City (Feidu 废都). By adopting the sociologist Erving Goffman’s idea of dramaturgical interactions in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, this thesis contends that the social interactions in Ruined City are all performed. I particularly pay attentions to the relationships involving the novel’s central character, the celebrity-writer and one of the four “cultural idlers” in Xijing, which is the ancient capital Xi’an the author lives in real life, Zhuang Zhidie, and the three women in his life— the wife Niu Yueqing, the mistress Tang Wan’er, and the housemaid Liu Yue. Considering Goffman’s idea, I consider Zhuang Zhidie performs various roles when he encounters with each of the women, and they in turn perform the corresponding role to fit in the performance environment Zhuang has regularized with his role and his definitions of situations. In a novel notorious for its graphic descriptions of sex, these relationships are also performed in sexual encounters, and presented with symbolic objects relevant to the characters' roles.<br>Graduate
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HOLMES, Jennifer Frances. "'A futurism of place' : representations of the city and the rejection of domesticity in vorticism and Italian futurism, c.1909-1918." Doctoral thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5838.
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Defence date: 13 December 2004<br>Examining board: Prof. Robert Lumley, University College London ; Prof. Anthony Molho, European University Institute ; Prof. Luisa Passerini, Università di Torino (Supervisor) ; Prof. Kevin Repp, Yale University<br>PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017
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Oliveira, Guilherme Delgado. "A crónica no panorama literário cultural cabo-verdiano : da crítica social a uma preocupação humanitária : Salústio e Medina : dois casos paradigmático." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/3383.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos de Língua Portuguesa: Investigação e Ensino apresentada à Universidade Aberta<br>Esta dissertação visou compreender o caráter temático e discursivo de algumas crónicas literárias de dois autores cabo-verdianos, Dina Salústio e Daniel Medina, e provar o carácter pedagógico e humanitário das composições. Fez-se, num primeiro momento, um estudo de conteúdos teóricos sobre a cronística portuguesa, visando recensear aspetos relacionados com a evolução do género ao longo dos tempos, desde a Idade Média até à Contemporaneidade, sempre numa perspetiva pragmática, e discutiram-se as características enformadoras do género, sendo assinaláveis a subjetividade, versatilidade, objetividade, estilo entre o oral e o literário, quotidianidade e dialogismo. De seguida, em termos metodológicos, optou-se por convocar o ethos de Amossy e Maingueneau para o estudo das composições. Num segundo momento, através de dez crónicas literárias cabo-verdianas, sendo cinco de cada autor, procedeu-se à análise crítica das quais se confirmou, a partir da análise temática, uma preocupação pedagógica e humanitária uma vez que se notou uma certa inquietação com problemas que envolvem a idiossincrasia do homem cabo-verdiano, como a perda de valores em termos educacionais e instrucionais, quer no seio familiar como escolar, a preocupação com os mais desfavorecidos materialmente, onde se destacam crianças órfãs de pais vivos, o descaso com os doentes mentais e as crianças de rua, a gravidez precoce, a prostituição infantil, entre outros. O modo, como os cronistas se posicionam face à abordagem dos temas, permitiu-nos projetar o ethos discursivo de duas personalidades sensíveis, sérias e comprometidas com os valores mais nobres que enformam o ser humano. Do mesmo modo, pôde constatar como características relevantes das composições a subjetividade e pessoalidade discursivas, a brevidade, o diálogo no estilo indirecto livre, a quotidianidade e literariedade aliados a alguns recursos retóricos que nos permitiram apurar os tons sério e irónico do sujeito enunciador ao tratar as questões temáticas.<br>The aim of this essay was to understand the thematic and discursive aspects of some literary chronicles of two Cape-Verdean authors, Dina Salústio and Daniel Medina and to prove the humanitarian and pedagogical aspects of the their writings. At first we did a study of theoretical contents about Portuguese chronicles with the aim to survey aspects concerning the evolution of this style throughout time, since the Middle Ages until Contemporary Era, always in a pragmatic perspective and we have discussed the characteristics which formed the style with emphasis on subjectivity, versatility, objectivity, style between oral and literary, everyday life and dialogism. Then, in methodological terms we opted to convoke the ethos of Amossy and Maingueneau to study the writings. Secondly, through ten Cape-Verdean literary chronicles, being five from each author we went on with the critical analysis from which we confirmed, from a thematic analysis, a humanitarian and pedagogical concern, once we noticed some troubles with problems concerning the idiosyncrasy of the Cape-Verdean people, such as the loss of values in terms of education and instruction whether in the bosom of the family or at school, a concern with the underprivileged, where we highlight orphan children whose parents are alive, the abandon of mental sick people and children who live in the streets, premature pregnancy, juvenile prostitution among others. The way the writers of chronicles positioned themselves concerning the approach of the themes allowed us to project the discursive ethos in these two sensitive personalities, sober and committed with the noble values which affect the human being. The same way, we have realized as relevant aspects of the writings, subjectivity, individuality and discursive personality, brevity, the dialog in a free indirect style, everyday life and literature combined with some rhetorical resources which allow us to verify the serious and ironic tones of the subjects which deal with thematic matters.
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Korpysz-Wiśniewska, Aleksandra. "Potencjał literacki miast europejskich w kontekście wizerunkowym i turystycznym." Doctoral thesis, 2022. https://depotuw.ceon.pl/handle/item/4153.
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Problem badawczy niniejszej rozprawy dotyczy oddziaływania potencjału
literackiego na wizerunek miasta oraz na turystykę. Pierwszym celem, jaki postawiła sobie autorka było zidentyfikowanie literackiego potencjału wybranych miast europejskich, następnie rozważenie, w jaki sposób literatura oddziałuje na wizerunek miast i na turystykę oraz wskazanie dobrych praktyk w tym zakresie. Dodatkowo sformułowano cel metodyczny polegający na weryfikacji różnych metod badania potencjału literackiego w kontekście wizerunkowym i turystycznym. Główne studia przypadku objęły dziesięć
miast europejskich: Paryż, Barcelonę, Sztokholm, Warszawę, Londyn, Pragę, Amsterdam, Frankfurt nad Menem, Edynburg oraz Dublin. Z przeprowadzonych badań autorka wysnuła wniosek, że literatura sprawdza się bardziej w odniesieniu do turystyki niż wizerunku miasta.<br>The research issue of this thesis concerns the influence of literary potential on the image of the city and on tourism. The author’s first objective was to identify the literary potential of selected European cities, and then to consider how literature affects the image of cities and tourism, and to indicate best practices in this regard. In addition, a methodological objective was formulated, consisting in verifying different methods of studying literary potential in the contexts of image and tourism. The main case studies covered ten European cities: Paris, Barcelona, Stockholm, Warsaw, London, Prague, Amsterdam, Frankfurt am Main, Edinburgh and Dublin. The author concluded from her research that literature is of greater importance for tourism than for city image.
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Tsai, Hung-chia, and 蔡宏嘉. "Spatial Representation of Literary in City Tourism Marketing－Taking Pai Hsien-yung’s “Taipei People” as Example." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04530580969331392245.
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碩士<br>國立屏東商業技術學院<br>休閒遊憩創意產業經營管理研究所<br>98<br>City can accumulate resources and accelerate the circulations of information and it plays an important role on almost every field. Thus to increase city competitiveness is an important lesson for city managers. Moreover, one of the effective ways is to develop tourism industry. Referred to previous studies, the image of the destination has been the critical factor to attract tourists, thus knowing how to shape the image of destination and further to develop local tourism marketing has become the top priory to city managers.
Among the parts of cultural industry, music, media, and literature etc could be applied to shape the place image, however, only literature is the unavailable in previous research. This paper uses Taipei People which is written by Pai Shien-Yung as the text. Based on the scenery represented in the novel, we try to find Taipei city image, space structure and symbols. Finally we seek the meaning under literature landscape and used Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to analyze the relative importance of landscape elements, and further to provide suggestion to city managers for local tourism marketing.
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Liu, Wen-fang, and 劉文放. "A Study of Literary Landscape Narrating to Ci-Jun and Gu-Shan Areas in Kaohsiung City." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76049114528823976622.
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碩士<br>國立中正大學<br>台灣文學所<br>98<br>Either by an act of local narrating or through the mechanism of literary awards to narrate place, creating a sense of place, with no doubt, could be said to be a main concern of literary landscapes. Besides, even more importantly, every literary award enables people to see the social meanings behind a process of creating local subjectivity in terms of efforts of Bureau of Cultural Affairs and Government of Kaohsiung City: for example, literary awards not only promote creative writing of freshmen, but in some instance also make quality and quantity of local narrating rise, which in a multi-perspective, fashions Kaohsiung City with a particular oceanic images embodied in literature, and through these efforts above, helps this city away a danger of placelessness in the global context. In other words, these landscapes are the inspiration of literature writing, visible and signified symbols reminding natives of the importance and necessity of cultural preservation and experiencing a place by direct and in-person senses. Due to Ci-Jun and Gu-Shan areas become tourist spots recently, values and meanings of literary landscapes, ways of local narrating and narrating place, subjectivity of a place, and cultural marketing strategies are intensely close to a discourse of a “place,” and in this regard, this discourse is hence a depth delve worth re-examining and re-exploring.
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Chang, Chih Fan, and 張志帆. "The Literary Writing Research of "Living Space" in Taipei City from 80's and 90's." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gs393m.
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博士<br>中國文化大學<br>中國文學系<br>105<br>"City writing" is one of many modern literary genres, which is characterized by applying urbanology to literary writing. Through the discussion of a theme, it is hoped that the multi-cultural styles of a contemporary city can be reflected. Based on the "space" theory in urbanology, this paper explores the connotation of "living space" written by the writers in the 1980s and the 1990s so as to understand the issues that those writers were concerned about and their care for the society.
Using the theories of urban development, urbanology and urban spaces, this paper first discusses the "background" of the theme. The discussion of "background" includes two aspects, namely time and space. The author first uses "timelines" to understand the development process of literary writing of "living space" in Taipei City and then fills in the "spaces" with their respective political, economic and social situations in the 1980s and the 1990s. Through this study on the “external” edges, the author then deepens his understanding of the “inherent” meaning of the "text" authored by a particular writer.
In the study of the "text" of the writers, the author first explores the literary writing about the "city landmarks." Taipei is not only the economic and political center of Taiwan, but also the hub for transportation and arts. For each "city landmark," the author picks up a representative literature book and then make an in-depth study on it, hoping to first understand the city life in general in the 1980s and the 1990s and then the details of the "living spaces" in terms of food, clothing, living, traveling, education, and recreation. It is meanwhile found that love and lusts are narrated in many of the books written in the 1980s and the 1990s. Considered as an important feature in the literary writing of the times, the author sets up a separate chapter to discuss this topic. Finally, every writer's writing strategy is discussed to understand his or her intention.
In summary, this paper first clarifies the characteristics and connotation of "living spaces" of Taipei City described by writers in the 1980s and the 1990s and then further explores the "text" or “city imagery” in their books so as to accurately convey those writers' humanistic care and spirit toward Taipei City.
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Argent, Angela Maree Dr. "Saunter (a novella) ; and, Girl on the City Streets (an essay)." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10453/137138.
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University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.<br>Pavla moves uncertainly through Prague, a city on the brink of revolution in 1989. On November 17, she is on the streets with her lover Charlie and best friend Milena, along with tens of thousands of students, demanding freedom. That night, as the protest reaches fever pitch, Pavla and Charlie are cornered in a narrow side street and truncheoned. Pavla is taken to hospital where she gives birth to a baby daughter and sleeps for weeks. When she wakes, she has missed seeing the revolution unfold and Charlie has disappeared. Eleven years later, Pavla returns to Prague and needs to relearn how to move through the city in order to make sense of it.
The theoretical essay mirrors the novella by examining questions of mobility and flânerie/flâneuserie, understood as a ‘way of reading the street.’ Flâneuserie is invoked as a literary metaphor for the mobile urban observer that is also connected with the influence of surrealism and questions of gender difference. The term has been used in a range of literatures to signify issues of changing city life, irrespective of time and place.
Together, the novella and essay suggest that the protagonist/flâneuse, while sauntering through the flux of bodies, encountering the vitality of the city, as well as the exclusionary and disorienting practices enacted within it, grows and accumulates the power to transgress and re/write her own city narrative.
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Simões, Daniela Filipa Teixeira. "Entre " A Cidade e as Serras" : o azulejo arte nova português no panorama artístico dos primorios do século XX." Master's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/14654.
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A presente dissertação debruça-se sobre o estudo do azulejo arte nova português, procurando relaciona-lo com o panorama artístico e cultural em vigor nos anos finais do século XIX e primeiros do século XX. O modo como o fenómeno da Arte Nova foi entendido em Portugal influenciará a interpretação que este terá ao nível do suporte azulejar, em particular no processo de “aportuguesamento” de muitos dos motivos e formas empregues, numa solução de compromisso entre uma necessidade de actualização estética e uma vontade de salvaguarda do que se considerava ser a essência da arte portuguesa, ligada a valores pitorescos e cenários ruralizantes.
A compreensão do azulejo arte nova português implica igualmente uma análise da sua relação com a arquitectura coeva, com a qual este estabeleceu um diálogo de grande proximidade, bem como dos processos e técnicas utilizadas para o seu fabrico e de quais as principais fábricas responsáveis pela sua produção. A distribuição geográfica das composições artenovizantes pelo território nacional é outra das vertentes abordadas, devendo ainda salientar-se a questão da autoria, frequentemente dificultada pelo anonimato da maioria dos exemplares azulejares.
Entre tradição e modernidade, cidade e campo, terra e mar, o azulejo arte nova português assume-se como um dos diversos fenómenos artísticos capazes de materializar as aspirações, mas também as contradições e anseios de um século que, tal como apontado por José-Augusto França, se definiu como o mais longo da História da Arte portuguesa.